Barbara Demick –

President Trump answers questions about the summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a press conference at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island Tuesday, June 12, 2018, in Singapore.

Analysis: Singapore summit agreement recycles old deals, defers the hard work

August 22, 2019 at 4:12 a.m.

The diplomatic history of U.S.-North Korean relations is littered with broken promises to denuclearize and deals gone sour. At their meeting in Singapore, President Trump and North Korean leader Kim...

North Korean Minister for Foreign Affairs Ri Yong Ho speaks during the general debate of the 72nd United Nations General Assembly in New York.

North Korea foreign minister says Trump’s insults make rocket attack on U.S. ‘inevitable’

August 22, 2019 at 1:00 a.m.

North Korean foreign minister Ri Yong Ho warned Saturday that it is "inevitable" that his country will launch a missile toward the mainland United States in revenge for the insults...

Carlos Cardona, standing outside a restaurant in the Queens borough of New York, is a Colombian immigrant in the U.S. illegally who helped clean up the World Trade Center after Sept. 11, 2001, is experiencing declining health and facing deportation.

They helped clean up the wreckage of 9/11. Now they face the threat of deportation.

August 22, 2019 at 12:51 a.m.

Within days of the terror attack that destroyed the World Trade Center, word spread in the immigrant neighborhoods of New York that workers were desperately needed to aid in the...

U.S. Air Force A-10 attack aircraft wait to take off from Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on Aug. 10, 2017.

How back-channel negotiations with North Korea devolved into threats of ‘fire and fury’

August 22, 2019 at 12:26 a.m.

Why can't the United States and North Korea just sit down and talk about it? Over the last year, glimpses of a breakthrough in the long impasse between the two...

A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer in July receives fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker during a 10-hour mission from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, into Japanese airspace and over the Korean Peninsula.

North Korea: What happens when the ‘fire and fury’ starts?

August 22, 2019 at 12:25 a.m.

A new round of blustery threats emerged over North Korea on Tuesday, as President Trump warned that any military action by Pyongyang "will be met with fire and fury like...

Passengers wait for a subway train on June 29, 2017, in Manhattan.

The New York City subway system is a hot mess

August 21, 2019 at 11:58 p.m.

"Die Kitties Die!" screamed the headline in the New York Daily News when, in 2013, former Metropolitan Transportation Authority chief Joe Lhota criticized a decision to pause trains in a...

Lynne Patton, vice president of the Eric Trump Foundation, delivers a speech on the third day of the Republican National Convention on July 20, 2016, at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.

Appointment of Trump wedding planner to HUD post draws outcry

November 23, 2019 at 12:17 a.m.

The appointment of Lynne Patton, a wedding planner and longtime Trump family associate, to head the Housing and Urban Development's office for New York and New Jersey is encountering strong...

President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrive at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., in February.

The Trumps’ travel and protection costs, 100 days in: $30 million

August 21, 2019 at 11:16 p.m.

On the Thursday evening before Easter, photographers staking out Palm Beach International Airport in Florida awaiting President Trump were surprised to see not one, but two Air Force planes arriving...

FILE- In this May 6, 2013 file photo, Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam, center, receives applause after her confirmation to serve on the New York State Court of Appeals from Craig Alfred of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's appointments office, left, and Albany City Court Judge Rachel Kretser, in the Senate gallery at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. New York City Police confirmed that Abdus-Salaam's lifeless body was found on the shore of the Hudson River off Manhattan on Wednesday, April 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

New York judge’s death was initially called a suicide. Now, police think it’s suspicious.

August 21, 2019 at 11:03 p.m.

The mystery of how a prominent African American judge came to be found floating dead in the Hudson River has deepened as her family and widowed husband disputed suggestions by...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects a special forces commando operation on April 13.

North Korea: A potential train wreck in motion

August 21, 2019 at 10:58 p.m.

What could possibly go wrong? As North Korea is reported to be preparing for yet another salvo in the form of a nuclear or missile test, diplomats foresee a warn...

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