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Kim Hyok Chol was the North's counterpart of US special representative Stephen Biegun in the run-up to the Hanoi summit in February.

It hasn’t been China that has been the source of sudden escalation; nor Iran; nor North Korea; nor Turkey, who admittedly gave it a good go in announcing they may install Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missiles in the area of the Mediterranean they are looking for energy in despite protests from the EU’s Cyprus it’s their naval territory; nor even Italy, where Deputy PM Salvini is threatening new elections that would very likely strengthen his hand further has he prepares for battle with Brussels. No, it was Mexico. (Or rather US President Trump, which is less of a surprise.) Don’t get...

AccuWeather is predicting a significant shortfall in United States corn production for 2019 as a result of continued flooding, wet weather and the upcoming forecast throughout key parts of the U.S. Corn Belt. AccuWeather predicts corn yield will be a significant 9% lower than an earlier U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimate. The USDA predicted 14.96 billion bushels – last year’s corn yield was 14.3 billion bushels -- but a just-released AccuWeather analysis estimates this year’s total at 13.6 billion bushels.

(CARACAS, Venezuela) — The Univision television network said Thursday that it has recovered the video of a contentious interview with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro that was confiscated after he cut it short, angered by critical questions from journalist Jorge Ramos. Ramos said the recovery of the video was “a real triumph against censorship” and that it was returned by “confidential sources” who cannot be named out of concern for their safety. On its website, Spanish-language Univision showed an excerpt of the 17-minute interview in late February in the presidential palace in Caracas. Ramos said the video will be broadcast in...

The irony was that Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn was charged with and plead guilty to making false statements to the FBI. By his own standards Robert Mueller was guilty of making “false statements” in his parting gift to Democrat impeachment seekers. He was not, however, under legal oath which is maybe why Democrats did not want him to be questioned by Congress in a hearing beforehand. Mueller has had to walk back his lie about Office of Legal Counsel policy kept him from indicting a sitting president. In his alleged “farewell” address, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller managed to channel...

May. 31, 2019 - 6:10 - 'The Clinton folks' and Democrats in Congress perpetuated the Russia collusion hoax and need to be held accountable by the press, says California Congressman Devin Nunes, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee.

Since the release of the Mueller report in April, Attorney General Bill Barr has been attacked by the deranged left for refusing to fall in line with their Russian collusion narrative. They panicked when he used the term "spying" to describe the action taken against the Trump campaign in 2016. He's been accused of "protecting the president" and the salty language in Washington D.C. significantly ramped up after he announced an investigation into the origins of the Russia probe. Lamenting his actions, Democrats and their allies in the media have been feigning concern by asking, "But what about Barr's reputation?...

Forget the First Amendment: 41% of college students believe hate speech SHOULD NOT be protected by the constitution as more universities cancel controversial campus speakers Less than half (41%) of college students say hate speech shouldn't be protected under the First Amendment, according to a new surveyJust 58% of college students said that hate speech should be protected under the amendment, which guarantees American's a right to freedom of speech Experts say those attitudes are problematic and illustrate a lack of education and understanding of the Constitution - and why free speech protections exist Some 41 percent of college students say...

Reservists on Duty Fight for Israel on College Campuses “UC-Irvine is the most dangerous place for Jews today.” May 31, 2019 Daniel Greenfield AddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to Facebook 304Share to TwitterShare to More43Share to Print 31 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. It’s Israel Apartheid Week and the Israeli veterans and student activists of Reservists on Duty are reporting to campuses across America. Their mission is fighting back against the lies and the hate. The annual anti-Israel campus events have become...

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President Trump’s job approval rating is the highest it’s been in two years, boosted by voter optimism about the economy, according to the latest Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey. The survey found that 48 percent approve of the job Trump is doing, compared to 52 percent who said they disapprove. That’s up from 45 percent approval in March. The last time the president’s job approval rating reached 48 percent in the Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey was in June of 2017.

Italy’s Matteo Salvini returning to European Union’s ‘Christian roots’: Cdl Mueller ROME, May 30, 2019 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Italy’s rising political star, Matteo Salvini, has been refused audiences with Pope Francis and has been denounced as not being Christian by the pope’s allies for opposing free immigration to Italy. Paradoxically, he is also blasted by the Francis regime for using Christian symbolism during his rallies. However, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Pope Francis former doctrine chief, says the Church should engage with Salvini and those who reject free immigration and believes that the politician is returning to the “Christian roots” of the European Union in...

A radio host told Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) she sounded like "the original Rachel Dolezal" on Friday due to her past claims of Native American ancestry. In an interview on The Breakfast Club, Warren explained she learned from family lore that she was part Native American growing up, but a skeptical Charlamagne Tha God asked when she found out she wasn't Native American. "Well, I'm not a person of color. I'm not a citizen of a tribe, and tribal citizenship is an important distinction and not something I am," Warren replied. She pointed to a Boston Globe investigation showing...

New Baltimore, MICH. — Robert Rasch had never voted for president before 2016. Then Donald Trump came along, and finally there was a candidate he could get excited about. Rasch admired Trump’s business background and political courage. “For somebody to stand up and run for president that has no political background, that’s a set of brass,” he said. Rasch is one of millions of so-called lost voters whom Trump coaxed back to the voting booth in 2016. Rasch has already decided he’ll be voting for Trump again in 2020, based largely on the president’s stewardship of the economy.

Nearly 9-in-10 illegal aliens who have been recently released into the interior of the United States while they await their asylum hearings are not showing up to their court dates, according to a federal pilot program. For almost half a year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ramped up its catch and release of border crossers and illegal aliens, specifically those arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border with children. Since December 21, 2018, DHS has released at least 190,500 border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the United States. Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan told Congress this month...

May 30, 2019 by Msgr. Charles Pope “Just a Little While Longer…” – A Meditation on the Brevity and Urgency of Life 1 There is a passage in John 16 that is unusual for its repetition. This past Sunday it was the assigned Gospel in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. The expression “in a little while” is repeated seven times in the brief passage. Its repetition is almost to the point of being annoying, such that the reader is tempted to say, “All right, already. I get it!” Obviously, John, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit want to drill...

All across America, U.S. farmland is being gobbled up by foreign interests. So when we refer to "the heartland of America", the truth is that vast stretches of that "heartland" is now owned by foreigners, and most Americans have no idea that this is happening. These days, a lot of people are warning about the "globalization" of the world economy, but in reality our own soil is rapidly being "globalized".

AMLO knows there is no way for Mexico to begin retaliating against the U.S. after President Trump demanded they step-up migration travel enforcement or face U.S. tariffs on Mexican imports. [snip] All business interests in Mexico will take a financial hit... (Reuters) The announcement rattled investors who feared that worsening trade frictions could hurt the global economy. The Mexican peso, U.S. stock index futures and Asian stock markets tumbled on the news, including the shares of Japanese automakers who ship cars from Mexico to the United States. [snip] FLASHBACK June 2018 … Interestingly, people now started to take notice because...

*Possible Explanation* Recently, new details have emerged regarding a series of still unexplained encounters that U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet pilots had with unidentified flying objects while conducting training missions off the East Coast of the United States in 2014 and 2015. The War Zone has already explored this new report in detail and looked at how improved radars had played a major role in detecting these objects. But what wasn't immediately apparent was just how ideal the situation could have been during at least some of these incidents for observing and recording the performance and signatures of potentially revolutionary...

The U.S. government is holding 80,000 migrants in custody, says Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary for the Department of Homeland Security. “The situation is both a humanitarian and border security crisis that has become a national emergency,” McAleenan said in a telephone press conference on Thursday night.