NORTH KOREA TWICE FIRES PROJECTILES
North Korea on Saturday extended a recent streak of weapons display by firing projectiles twice into the sea, according to South Korea’s military.
Its fifth round of weapons launches in less three weeks was likely another protest at the slow pace of nuclear negotiations with the United States and continuance of U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises the North says are aimed at a northward invasion.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the unidentified projectiles were fired from an area on the North’s eastern coast, but did not immediately confirm how many were launched or how far they flew.
President Donald Trump said Friday that he received a “beautiful” three-page letter from Kim Jong Un and predicted that the two leaders would have more talks.
Trump has said he’s not bothered by the flurry of missiles that Kim has launched in recent days.
Twitter reposts McConnell threat video.
Twitter has reposted a video from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign that showed protesters yelling threats in front of his Kentucky home.
The social media giant temporarily locked McConnell’s campaign account Wednesday after his account shared the video. Republican leaders and President Trump’s campaign manager complained of the lockout and threatened advertising boycotts.
Twitter said in a post Friday that “after multiple appeals from affected parties,” they “reviewed this case more closely.”
The National Republican Congressional Committee celebrated the move on Twitter, saying the company had been practicing “partisan censorship.”
Epstein ducked sex-abuse questions in deposition.
Confronted with allegations that he orchestrated a sex trafficking ring that delivered girls to him and his high-profile acquaintances, financier Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly refused to answer questions to avoid incriminating himself, according to court records released Friday.
Epstein’s responses emerged in a partial transcript of a September 2016 deposition stemming from a defamation lawsuit. The transcript was included in hundreds of pages of documents placed in a public file by a federal appeals court in New York.
The deposition happened almost three years before Epstein’s July 6 arrest on sex trafficking charges in a case that has brought down a Cabinet secretary and launched fresh investigations into how authorities dealt with Epstein over the years.
Lawyers who beat Trump team on Census win $2.7 million in fees.
The census case keeps coming back to haunt the Trump administration.
In the latest sting, the Justice Department last week quietly agreed to pay $2.7 million in fees and court costs for the lawyers who sued to block the government from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 survey, according to the terms of a nonpublic settlement agreement.
Biden tells minority voters in Iowa that “poor kids” are as bright as “white kids.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden, who has a history of gaffes, told a group of mostly minority voters in Iowa on Thursday night that “poor kids” are just as bright as “white kids.”
Biden, who has been leading in polling for the Democratic presidential nomination, was speaking on the subject of education at a town hall in Des Moines hosted by the Asian and Latino Coalition.
“We should challenge students in these schools that have advanced placement programs in these schools,” Biden said. “We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”
After a brief pause, he added: “Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids, no, I really mean it, but think how we think about it.”
His remarks prompted a stir on social media, with many focusing on the equivalence he drew, whether intentionally, between poor children and minority children.