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In this photo released on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un delivers a New Year's speech in North Korea. Kim says he hopes to extend his high-stakes nuclear summitry with President Donald Trump into 2019, but also warns Washington not to test North Koreans' patience with sanctions and pressure. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on the image as provided by the source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

U.S. and North Korean officials meet in Hanoi to discuss Trump-Kim summit: Report

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Colombia's Presidency U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, and Colombia's President Ivan Duque talk during a meeting at the Presidential Guest House in Cartagena, Colombia, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. (Nicolas Galeano/Colombia's Presidency via AP)

US officials head to Mideast amid tension over Syria pullout

By MATTHEW LEE and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

US proposes sale of Patriot missile system to Turkey

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speaks during a joint press conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the Paekhwawon State Guesthouse in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Pyongyang Press Corps Pool via AP, File)

North Korea denuclearization talks ‘sluggish’ with U.S.

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A protester, left, wearing a mask of U.S. President Donald Trump kicks his fellow protester wearing a mask of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a rally to denounce policies of South Korean President Moon Jae-in on North Korea in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Kim's return visit to Seoul appears unlikely to take place this month, a senior South Korean official said last week. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

US NKorea envoy to visit SKorea amid uncertainty over talks

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin looks at a monument to the Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. Solzhenitsyn, whose books exposed the horrors of Soviet prison camps, died in 2008. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

State Department Global Engagement Center targets Russian propaganda, ‘deep fakes’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Nov. 16, 2018, file photo workers at the Broward County Supervisor of Elections office show Republican and Democrat observers ballots during a hand recount in Lauderhill, Fla. As Florida's elections supervisors meet for the first time since the Nov. 6 election, they say that despite some recent problems, the majority of the counties handled things smoothly.. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Florida mailed ballots not counted

By Gary Fineout - Associated Press

US blocks ex-Gambian president, family from entering

Associated Press

Thousands of mailed ballots in Florida were not counted

By GARY FINEOUT - Associated Press

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, directly ordered the Sept. 14 attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities, according to a report by the National Council of Resistance of Iran. (Associated Press/File)

State Department names and shames Iran on global ‘Anti-Corruption Day’

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 2016 file photo, the American Flag flies outside the Justice Department in Washington. The Russian father and son were in a Hungarian jail, charged after an elaborate plot to ship weapons to Mexican drug cartels and cocaine to the U.S. They found a lawyer in New York, anticipating an inevitable extradition and trial. But then the case took an unexpected turn. Instead of being extradited to the U.S., Vladimir Lyubishin senior and junior were sent back to Russia, where, the State Department says, it’s not clear if they will face trial. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

US loses to Russia in case of 2 arms trafficking suspects

By MARIA DANILOVA - Associated Press

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to members of the media after their closed door meeting with Senators about Saudi Arabia at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

Pompeo at NATO as U.S. and allies prepare response to Russian aggression in Ukraine

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Brian Hook, U.S. special representative for Iran, walks past fragments of Iranian short range ballistic missiles (Qiam) at the Iranian Materiel Display (IMD) at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, in Washington, Thursday Nov. 29, 2018. The Trump administration accused Iran of stepping up violations of a U.N. ban on arms exports by sending rockets and other weaponry to rebels in Afghanistan and Yemen. The presentation displays weapons and fragments of weapons seized in Afghanistan, Bahrain and Yemen that it said are evidence Iran is a "grave and escalating threat" that must be stopped. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

U.S. threatens Iran over illegal rocket exports

By Carlo Muñoz and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2017, file photo, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Washington. President Donald Trump says Nauert is “under very serious consideration” to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Trump says he will “probably” make a decision on the nomination next week. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump says State spokeswoman might be next UN ambassador

Associated Press

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert says the foreign service officer was found dead inside the officer's residence in the capital of the Indian Ocean nation off the East Coast of Africa. (Associated Press)

Heather Nauert to be U.N. ambassador: Reports

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

This combination of two file photos shows U.S. President Donald Trump, left, speaking in the State Dining Room of the White House, in Washington on Feb. 26, 2018, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attending in the party congress in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Wong Maye-E, File)

Mike Pompeo plans talks to prepare new Donald Trump-Kim Jong-un summit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Christopher Ford, assistant secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation, said his bureau at the State Department has joined with Los Alamos National Laboratory to put up barriers to Beijing's proliferation of sensitive technologies to build its "China Dream." (Associated Press/File)

Inside the Ring: Christopher Ford, State official, fights China technology theft

By Bill Gertz

Injuries of US diplomats in China differ from those in Cuba

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

Clinton’s security clearance withdrawn at her request

Associated Press

American diplomat death being investigated as homicide

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press