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t in a monotone, Trump kept his head down, propping it on his elbows. After taking some humdrum questions about opioids, he was suddenly asked about North Korea, and, quite as though in stop-action animation, he seemed to come alive. North Korea had been a heavy-on-detail, short-on-answers problem that that

USE_OVERSIGHT_020114 president’s part. The daily discussion among senior staffers, those still there and those now gone—all of whom had written off Tillerson’s future in the Trump administration—was how long General Kelly would last as chief of staff. There was something of a virtual office pool, and the j

believed that the sole upside of being part of the Trump White House was to help prevent worse from happening. In early October, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s fate was sealed—if his obvious ambivalence toward the president had not already sealed it—by the revelation that he had called the president “a fucki

ge Bannon’s ouster by McMaster’s hand from the NSC. With the president promising that he would make up his mind by August, and McMaster, Mattis, and Tillerson pressing for a decision as soon as possible, Bannon- inspired media began a campaign to brand McMaster as a globalist, interventionist, and all aroun

ressman, who has cultivated a close rela- tionship with the president and has taken a harder line than Mr. Tillerson on critical issues like Iran and North Korea. Mr. Tillerson's dismissal, on the heels of Gary D. Cohn's resigna- tion as Mr. Trump's chief eco- nomic adviser after a dispute over steel tariffs,

of Ms. Haspel, now This article is by Mark Landler, Maggie Haberman and Gardiner Harris. WASHINGTON - President Trump ousted his secretary of state, Rex W. Tillerson, on Tues- day, the most dramatic in a cas- cade of personnel moves that sug- gest Mr. Trump is determined to surround himself with loyalists more wil

Trump is determined to surround himself with loyalists more willing to reflect his "Amer- ica First" views. Mr. Trump announced he would replace Mr. Tillerson with Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director and former Tea Party congressman, who has cultivated a close rela- tionship with the president and has taken a

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7M) says the margin of the bipartisan vote for Blinken's confirmation is "particularly notable given" his predecessors under former President Trump, Rex Tillerson "was confirmed 55 to 43," and Mike Pompeo "took the helm of the State Department on a vote of 57 to 42." USA Today notes Senate Minority Leader McCo

the digital sphere, have enough bandwidth to deal with emojis too? EFTA00711487 Illustration by Andrew Rae Photo illustration by Derek Brahne) North Korea Is No Longer Why Is `Politicization' So the Hermit Kingdom — but Partisan? How Long Will China Be 11.NNIi 1.1::, / LAI Its Lifeline? Accusations

ce of a painful reckoning in a discipline struggling to adjust to new standards of evidence. Elsewhere in the magazine, Jason Zengerle writes about Rex Tillerson's State Department adrift in a world where a president can unravel international relationships one tweet at a time. Michael Erard writes about Unicod

he U.S. president with something he can brag about." Anne Gearan Page 17440 EFTA00046951 reports: "Trump has been hoping for a third summit with North Korea, ideally within about three months, to show that his bold effort to befriend and persuade Kim is working. ... Talks have been bogged down for mont

the first place because of his father. A second former senior White House official plainly called it 'a nepotism job.- -- Former secretary of state Rex Tillerson said it's "wrong" to ask another country for personal favors. "If you're seeking some kind of personal gain and you're using — whether it's America

nt to "gift the U.S. president with something he can brag about." Anne EFTA00046984 Gearan reports: "Trump has been hoping for a third summit with North Korea, ideally within about three months, to show that his bold effort to befriend and persuade Kim is working. ... Talks have been bogged down for month

ost in the first place because of his father. A second former senior White House official plainly called it 'a nepotism job.- -- secretary of state Rex Tillerson said it's "wrong" to ask another country for personal favors. "If you're seeking some kind of personal gain and you're using — whether it's American

tion that ... is baseless. ... These are serious allegations ... but if there is no proof, then these things really shouldn't be said"(The Hill). > North Korea: The administration is extending a ban for another year on the use of U.S. passports for travel to North Korea. A State Department notice released

will remain in place until Aug. 31, 2020, unless revoked by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The ban was imposed in 2017 by then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and renewed in 2018 (The Associated Press). > Venezuela: The United States, frustrated after unsuccessful international efforts to oust Maduro fr