| Talk with North Korea? Recent precedents help. Posted: 02 May 2017 03:13 PM PDT ![Talk with North Korea? Recent precedents help.]( "Talk with North Korea? Recent precedents help.") 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.
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| Why GOP-run Congress didn’t fund Trump’s wall Posted: 02 May 2017 12:40 PM PDT ![Why GOP-run Congress didn't fund Trump's wall]( "Why GOP-run Congress didn't fund Trump's wall") 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.
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| A US president hosts a Palestinian leader. Has anything changed? Maybe. Posted: 02 May 2017 12:29 PM PDT ![A US president hosts a Palestinian leader. Has anything changed? Maybe.]( "A US president hosts a Palestinian leader. Has anything changed? Maybe.") 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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