Korean Peace Talks

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s national security adviser warned Palestinians on Wednesday that Israeli settlements will continue to expand because rising anti-Semitism around the world means more Jews will immigrate to Israel. Addressing many hot-button global issues in a speech and discussion with foreign diplomats to the United States,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's national security adviser warned Palestinians on Wednesday that Israeli settlements will continue to expand because rising anti-Semitism around the world means more Jews will immigrate to Israel.Addressing many hot-button global issues in a speech and discussion with foreign diplomats to the United States, Robert…

U.S. President Donald Trump’s third State of the Union address was perhaps his most significant, coming a day after the chaotic Iowa caucuses inaugurated the 2020 election season and a day before his expected acquittal in an impeachment trial over issues that will undoubtedly resonate through to the election in…

Seventy-five years ago, in February 1945, some of the last battles of World War II were still being fought but the Allies—US President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin—knew the defeat of Nazi Germany was not far off. Their next great challenge was to…

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS: Six months ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Japan–North Korea relations remain strained.Since September 2018, the Olympic organising committee withheld North Korea’s request to access the Olympics “extranet”, where national Olympic committees can share information, because it had to consult with the Japanese government with regard to sanctions on North…

Seventy-five years ago, in February 1945, some of the last battles of World War II were still being fought but the Allies—US President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin—knew the defeat of Nazi Germany was not far off. Their next great challenge was to…

Our music critics have already chosen the 46 best music shows this week, but now it's our arts & culture critics' turn to recommend the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks in every genre—from a reading with Garth Greenwell to the grand reopening of the…

On Jan. 28, the House Armed Services Committee held a hearing on U.S. defense policy in the Korean peninsula that examined the administration’s efforts to strengthen America’s alliance with South Korea while deterring and securing the denuclearization of the countries’ shared foe in the north. The hearing comes at a…

The new book Sinking in the Swamp: How Trump’s Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington (Viking) will be published Feb. 11, 2020. Pre-order your copy here.It was the middle of the day on the fourteenth floor of Trump Tower in the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign, where a ragtag…

Coronovirus hits Russia, UK as death toll passes 200. Two cases have been found in Britain, whose government has upgraded the risk from “low” to “moderate”; and two in Russia, where one senior official said there’s no risk that the infection will spread. UN’s WHO declared the outbreak a global public…