Virginia man, 27, uses sledgehammer to behead Iwo Jima statue that will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair

WASHINGTON — The prospects of a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the near future remain slim, U.S. experts said, citing Pyongyang's demands for a shift in Washington's policy toward the North, including its approach to denuclearization. Jenny Town, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center, and Ankit Panda, a nuclear policy expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, offered their assessments during a podcast discussion hosted by Victor Cha, Korea chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, published Thursday. Town said the North has made clear that they reject the notion of any kind of denuclearization agenda. "The question isn't, 'Will North Korea come to the table?' The question is, 'Is the U.S. willing to do those things (change its North Korean policy)?'" she said, referring to North Korea's demands for changes in what it considers Washington's hostile policy. "I think the prospects of meeting, you know, I think are fairly low," she added, putting the likelihood of a meeting at less than 50 percent. Panda o

A Killara man was arrested after his home was raided by heavily armed tactical police on Thursday.

Young Greens, an official Green Party group, shared a post on social media this week rallying support for an 'International Youth Day of Action' on 20 November inspired by demonstrations in Europe.

The PM has faced questions over the file after his office circulated material to journalists shortly after Haines criticised a $6million grant awarded to Marrickville Golf Club.

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Global pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca said on Thursday it would start selling a cancer drug after coming under criticism for failing to bring it to the US market faster, prompting some Americans to fly to Shanghai to procure the potentially life-saving medicine first developed by China. In recent months, desperate Americans have travelled to China to obtain the Chinese-made cancer drug that was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration but remained unavailable in the country for more than...

Ilhan Omar's real name has allegedly been revealed in a new Justice Department filing.

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President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at lowering mortgage payments, as elevated borrowing costs have stifled the housing market. Trump’s order directs Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte to create a pilot program to cancel insurance premiums for government-backed mortgages once a borrower has satisfied equity requirements. The president also...

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Aspen Azalea was one of many concerned locals who attended the Utah County Commission meeting on Tuesday evening in Provo when things quickly turned ugly.

One thing about Wednesday night's backdoor Downing Street summit between union bosses and the Chancellor hadn't changed since the sixties: the barons were apparently in charge.