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• Talk with North Korea? Recent precedents help.
• Why GOP-run Congress didn’t fund Trump’s wall
• A US president hosts a Palestinian leader. Has anything changed? Maybe.

Talk with North Korea? Recent precedents help. Posted: 02 May 2017 03:13 PM PDT When President Trump says he might be willing to talk to North Korea under certain conditions, his hope may be based on examples of other countries and groups – also known as a nuclear or terrorist threat – that have recently changed their hard positions. Iran is the most obvious recent example. The United States and other countries agreed to talk with Iran, finally reaching a deal in 2015 to curb its nuclear program.

Why GOP-run Congress didn’t fund Trump’s wall Posted: 02 May 2017 12:40 PM PDT What happened to President Trump's wall in this week's bipartisan budget deal is a good way to look at the new political dynamic in Washington. Up to this point – the cabinet confirmations, the Supreme Court justice, the regulatory rollbacks – all could be done with a GOP majority in Congress and a Republican in the White House. For the first time since Mr. Trump took office, Republicans and Democrats actually have to work together to get something done.

A US president hosts a Palestinian leader. Has anything changed? Maybe. Posted: 02 May 2017 12:29 PM PDT Donald Trump is not the first president to believe he can deliver a peace deal in the interminable Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Recommended: How much do you know about the Palestinians? "The Sunni states want the US to be in the region" to put a brake on the ambitions of their archenemy, Shiite Iran, says Dennis Ross, a longtime Middle East diplomat who worked in five administrations on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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