North Korea’s Kim says will make ‘deranged’ Trump pay dearly for U.N. speech
SEOUL/NEW YORK (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un blasted U.S. President Donald Trump as “mentally deranged” on Friday and vowed to make him pay dearly for threatening to destroy his country, hours after Trump ordered fresh sanctions over Pyon…
Facebook to overhaul political ads after threat of U.S. regulation
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc on Thursday launched an overhaul of how it handles paid political advertisements, giving a concession to U.S. lawmakers who have threatened to regulate the world’s largest social network over secretive ads that r…
U.S. senator asks FBI if it warned Trump campaign about Russian meddling
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has asked the FBI whether it warned Donald Trump’s presidential campaign about alleged attempts by Russia to infiltrate the campaign.
Trump orders new sanctions against North Korea, Kim calls him ‘deranged’
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump ordered new sanctions against North Korea on Thursday and Pyongyang’s leader defiantly vowed to persist with its nuclear and missile programs and said it would consider measures against the United States…
Facebook to overhaul political ads, share some with U.S. Congress
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc on Thursday launched an overhaul of how it handles paid political advertisements on the world’s largest social network, responding to criticism that it has not done enough to prevent the manipulation of elections…
Facebook to share Russia-linked ads with U.S. Congress
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc said on Thursday it plans to share with U.S. congressional investigators some 3,000 political ads that it says Russia-based operatives ran on Facebook in the months before and after last year’s U.S. presidential …
U.S. judge aims to quickly decide lawsuits over DACA
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday said he wanted to decide quickly lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s decision to end a program that shielded from deportation children brought to the United States illegally by their parent…
State funding changes in spotlight in Republican healthcare bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican leaders sought to nail down the final votes needed to pass what U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday called their “last best chance” to repeal Obamacare while a new analysis underscored how Democratic-leaning sta…
Trump orders new sanctions to tighten screws on North Korea nuclear program
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump ordered new sanctions on Thursday that open the door wider to blacklisting people and entities doing business with North Korea, further tightening the screws on Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs.
Trump to add sanctions on North Korea, but not on oil: U.S.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States will add more sanctions against North Korea, while U.S. allies have called for enforcing existing international sanctions as the best way to get Pyongyang to give up it…
