After two days of talks in Pyongyang, Pompeo deemed them "productive"; North Korea, on the other hand, called the meetings "regrettable." 1/14 Interactive tools show which companies in each US state are profiting from ICE. 2/14 The fourth step in thinking of zero—that
Secretary of State Pompeo visits North Korea to talk denuclearization. Kim Jong Un’s program is still going strong. 1/19 Mueller begins to outsource his widening investigation, with surprising court fights tying up resources. 2/19 Alan Dershowitz likens party chatter around Martha's Vineyard this summer to
A New York Times reporter tracked the payments made (and iPhone apps used) on a migrant’s journey from El Salvador to the United States. 1/21 Photographs of items taken from migrants crossing the US border with Mexico. 2/21 Merkel saves her government with an immigration deal, compromising
Tomorrow, Mexico votes for a new president. All four candidates are strongly anti-Trump—and the frontrunner, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is a leftist populist. 1/17 Inside one of the fake news operations—of which hundreds apparently exist—trying to swing Mexico's elections. 2/17
About 575 people, mostly women, were arrested in Washington D.C. while protesting Trump’s immigration policy. 1/20 In the run-up to his new summit with Putin, Trump says once again Russia probably didn’t hack our election in his favor. 2/20 Ten reasons why this is
Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court's swing vote, plans to retire, enabling Trump to establish a conservative court. 1/14 Kennedy has long been considered "the most powerful man in America.†Multiple experts explain why. 2/14 An America after Anthony Kennedy looks significantly different from
President Trump's third version of a travel ban survived the Supreme Court, limiting citizens of eight nations from entering the US. 1/27 One good thing about that: The Supreme Court’s ruling took a very powerful gun—Korematsu—out of Donald Trump’s hands. 2/27 Mitch
US border patrol pauses criminal prosecution referrals—and therefore family separation—for those illegally entering the US with children. 1/16 You know Auschwitz isn't going to be for you. Filipino author Rin Chupeco's Twitter thread on calls for civility amid Marcos's rise to
President Trump issued an executive order to end his policy of separating families, but the government still has no plan for returning the children it has already taken. 1/18 The Guardian printed the names of 34,361 refugees who died trying to make the journey to Europe. 2/18
This week Trump repealed Obama's executive order that protected oceans and the Great Lakes, opening the door to industry and drilling. 1/21 Health and Human Services asks the Pentagon to ready three military bases to house up to 20,000 migrant children. 2/21 It's
