U.S. Treasury sanctions North Korea over Sony hack and WannaCry attack

The U.S. government has issued sanctions against a North Korean individual and an entity over historical cyberattacks, which wreaked billions of dollars in damages. In a statement, the U.S. Treasury named North Korean programmer Park Jin Jyok for working on behalf of Pyongyang for his involvement in carrying out several cyberattacks against U.S. and global […]

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US targets 2020 for the creation of a Space Force

In a speech before the Department of Defense at the Pentagon today, Vice President Mike Pence outlined the broad contours of the new Space Force that the Trump administration wants to create as the sixth branch of the U.S. military. Emphasizing the need to both further militarize and privatize space as a new war-fighting domain, […]

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3,000 journalists covering Kim-Trump this week is WTF is wrong with media

Media businesses are in the dumper. Every week, we hear of new layoffs, budget cuts, diminished editorial quality, and more, way more. And yet, somehow, miraculously, more than 3,000 journalists managed to find the funds to travel to Singapore to cover the Kim-Trump Summit Extraordinaire this week. How many journalists got to see the summit […]

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Watch Kim Jong-un’s stunned reaction to Trump’s fat joke

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Most people wouldn’t use an international nuclear weapons summit to try out their latest comedy material.

Most people aren’t President Trump.

At lunchtime during Trump’s Singapore summit Tuesday, the president joked to photographers that they should make him and Kim Jong-un look “handsome and thin.”

“Getting a good picture everybody? So we look nice and handsome and thin? Perfect,” Trump joked.

Watch the North Korean leader’s reaction:

Watch Kim Jong Un’s reaction to Trump’s joke during the lunch of the #TrumpKimSummit #tictocnews https://t.co/MtCk4EZ4lJ pic.twitter.com/2yCnZDkF8u

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Dennis Rodman cries over Trump-Kim summit while hawking PotCoin. This is 2018.

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It was a historic moment many didn’t expect to see: President Donald Trump shaking hands with North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un.

And soon after, another stunner was broadcast live on TV: Dennis Rodman crying over the Trump-Kim summit while wearing a red MAGA hat and a shirt promoting his sponsor, the cryptocurrency PotCoin.

“Today is a great day,” former NBA star Dennis Rodman says in an emotional interview in which he describes his relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un https://t.co/atvQwe7jo0 pic.twitter.com/dEgQf3kBtE

— CNN (@CNN) June 12, 2018

It was A LOT, and left many wondering: Is this real life? Read more…

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Twitter’s emoji for Trump’s North Korea nuclear summit is very weird

As U.S. President Trump preps for a historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Twitter doesn’t want you to forget to tweet about it under the right hashtag. In a choice that seems to make light of a lot of really quite serious things at once, Twitter is promoting its new #TrumpKimSummit emoji for […]

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Whoops, a Fox News host referred to Trump as a dictator

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Okay, it was probably an honest mistake, but it’s still pretty funny to hear a Fox News host inadvertently refer to President Donald Trump as a dictator just ahead of his his historic summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. 

The slip up came from Fox & Friends weekend host Abby Huntsman, covering Trump’s arrival in Singapore and discussing the upcoming summit with guest Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci.

Fox News just called Trump a “dictator”

“Regardless of what happens in this meeting between two dictators…”

You got that one right!!!

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What President Trump Doesn’t Know About ZTE

David Kline Contributor David Kline is a journalist, author and intellectual property strategist. More posts by this contributor A new (old) way for product makers to defeat patent roadblocks After meeting with Chinese Vice Premiere Liu He this week, President Trump is still considering easing penalties on Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE over its violation of […]

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The U.S. secretary of state was fired. On Twitter.

President Donald Trump just fired his embattled secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, via Twitter this morning, replacing him with former Tea Party Congressman and current Central Intelligence Agency chief Mike Pompeo. Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson […]

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