THE WHITE HOUSE — South Korea’s military fired a series of missiles into the Sea of Japan in an exercise Monday meant to simulate an attack on North Korea’s nuclear test site. The exercise came as the U.N. Security Council prepared to hold an emergency meeting later in the day to discuss North Korea’s test of […]
PHOENIX — U.S. President Donald Trump said he is willing to risk a budget crisis in order to honor a campaign pledge to build what he called an “absolutely necessary” wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. “If we have to close down the government, we are building that wall,” Trump said Tuesday night during a campaign-style rally […]
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday told senior officials he has decided to dismiss his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, who from the beginning of the six-month-old tumultuous administration has been his most controversial adviser. Bannon, who is credited with helping Trump get elected, had clashed for months with other powerful West Wing figures. White House […]
WHITE HOUSE — Elected officials in Guam are reassuring constituents that the U.S. territory is safe following North Korea’s claim that it is examining its plan for “making an enveloping fire” around the strategically important Pacific island. In the statement issued early Wednesday in Asia, the North’s Korean Central News Agency said its armed forces were […]