Trump demands 500% more for US forces in South Korea ->
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper landed in South Korea on Thursday to navigate renewed threats from an "enraged" North Korea and newly heightened strain in the alliance with Seoul that congressional aides, lawmakers and Korea experts say has been caused by President Donald Trump.
As experiments go, this one was pretty spectacular -- 19 hours, 17,800 kilometers (about 11,060 miles), 100 metric tons of jet fuel and not one, but two separate sunrises.
As deadly Australia bushfires rage, Sydney may be running out water ->
Australia is reeling from deadly bushfires and the worst drought in decades -- but fears are now growing that things could get worse, as a water shortage in the country's biggest city begins to bite.
Police: Video shows 16-year-old school shooter open fire on classmates, killing 2 ->
At least five people have been injured in a shooting at a high school in the Southern California city of Santa Clarita, and authorities are looking for whoever fired the shots, officials said Thursday morning.
Hear Bill Clinton's message to Trump after school shooting ->
Former President Bill Clinton reacts to the shooting at Saugus High School in California and urged President Donald Trump and Congress to work together on solving gun violence.
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President Donald Trump was supposed to sign a partial trade deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week, but negotiations over the final text have reached a rough patch, according to people familiar with the matter.
Trump takes tax return fight to US Supreme Court ->
President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court Thursday to block a Manhattan grand jury subpoena for copies of his financial records and tax returns, teeing up a test of Trump's expansive claims of immunity.
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