Karen DeYoung

June 28, 2020 at 5:30 pm

Russian bounties resulted in deaths of U.S. troops, according to intelligence assessments

WASHINGTON - Russian bounties offered to Taliban-linked militants to kill coalition forces in Afghanistan are believed to have resulted in the deaths of several U.S....

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May 16, 2020 at 3:38 pm

Trump ramps up retaliatory purge with firing of State Department inspector general

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump accelerated his retaliatory purge of public servants by firing the State Department's inspector general, who had played a minor role...

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May 3, 2020 at 5:28 am

North and South Korea exchange fire over heavily guarded border

SEOUL - North and South Korea exchanged gunfire near one of the South's guard post inside the Demilitarized Zone separating the two countries, the South...

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April 19, 2020 at 7:48 am

Americans at World Health Organization transmitted real-time information about virus to Trump administration

More than a dozen U.S. researchers, physicians and public health experts, many of them from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were working full...

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March 26, 2020 at 3:26 am

Traditionally a leader in times of crisis, the U.S. is practicing self-isolation

The United States has retreated into its own form of self-isolation, with its president downplaying the severity of the threat and top American officials squabbling...

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February 12, 2020 at 5:06 pm

Yovanovitch advises college students to ‘fight for what we believe in’

WASHINGTON — Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch on Wednesday advised U.S. diplomats and those considering the profession not to despair over the current...

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February 6, 2020 at 5:20 pm

Russia a clear winner in U.S. embargo of Venezuelan oil

In the year since the Trump administration declared what amounted to economic war against the Venezuelan government of President Nicolás Maduro — an oil embargo...

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November 29, 2019 at 2:56 pm

President Trump’s talk of Afghanistan cease-fire appears to surprise the Taliban, Afghan government

President Donald Trump's confident assertion that the Taliban are ready and even eager for a cease-fire demanded by the United States in Afghanistan's 18-year-old war...

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November 13, 2019 at 10:58 am

Trump hosts Turkey’s Erdogan at White House, offers thanks for tentative cease-fire in northern Syria

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump expressed optimism that the United States and Turkey are on their way to resolving the many differences between them, but...

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November 12, 2019 at 1:35 pm

Trump offers trade deal, sanctions work-around to Erdogan for better U.S.-Turkey relations

WASHINGTON - President Trump has offered Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, due to visit the White House on Wednesday, a package of inducements for better...

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