State Department: U.S. Passports to North Korea Restricted Beginning Sept. 1

The Department of State has announced it will restrict all U.S. citizens from traveling into, in, or through North Korea beginning Sept. 1. This warning, issued on Thursday, comes in the wake of the escalating rhetoric between the DPRK and President Donald Trump over the past few days.

Trump administration defends travel ban in Supreme Court brief

President Donald Trump’s administration reiterated arguments defending its temporary travel ban in a filing with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, repeatedly citing the executive’s broad powers to exclude foreigners from the United States.

Obama administration knew about North Korea’s miniaturized nukes

Tuesday’s bombshell Washington Post story that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has determined North Korea is capable of constructing miniaturized nuclear weapons that could be used as warheads for missiles – possibly ICBMs – left out a crucial fact: DIA actually concluded this in 2013. The Post also failed to mention that the Obama administration tried to downplay and discredit this report at the time.

China to Stay Neutral, Unless U.S. Attacks N Korea

If North Korea launches an attack that threatens the United States then China should stay neutral, but if the United States attacks first and tries to overthrow North Korea’s government China will stop them, a Chinese state-run newspaper said on Friday.

Texas House OKs bill to block insurance coverage for abortions

The Texas House of Representatives approved a bill Tuesday — coined as ‘rape insurance”’ by its detractors — that would force women to pay a separate health insurance premium to get covered for a non-emergency abortion.

Hearing loss of US diplomats in Cuba blamed on covert device

The two-year-old diplomatic relationship between the United States and Cuba has been roiled by what U.S. officials are describing as a string of bizarre incidents that left a group of American diplomats in Havana with severe hearing loss attributed to a covert sonic device.

Tillerson, Mattis back up Trump’s stark warning to North Korea

The State and Defense departments provided backup Wednesday to President Trump’s threat a day earlier to rain down ‘fire and fury like the world has never seen’ if North Korea did not curb its nuclear programs, but there was little sign Pyongyang was seeking to ease its threats against the U.S. and its allies in the region.

North Korea releases pastor amid nuclear ICBM threats

Hyeun-soo Lim, the Korean Canadian church leader sentenced to life in prison with hard labour, has been freed today (9 August) ‘on sick bail’, says a North Korean state news agency. Convicted in December 2015 by the country’s Supreme Court of numerous charges, including an attempt to overthrow the government, he had been detained in North Korea since February 2015.

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