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Dan Boylan

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Dan Boylan was a former general assignment reporter at The Washington Times.

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President Trump said he would meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the "very near future" and would announce a time and place soon. (Associated Press/File)

North Korean defectors urge Donald Trump to be tough on Kim Jong-un

On a day when President Trump said he was close to agreeing to a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, a group of North Korean defectors said Pyongyang should be forced to address its abysmal human rights record before any more U.S. concessions are granted.

October 9, 2018
This Sept. 4, 2018, file photo, released by an official website of the Office of the Iranian Presidency, shows a part of the Pardis petrochemical complex facilities in Assalouyeh on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf, Iran. Bijan Zanganeh, Iran's oil minister, said the United States will not succeed in its plans to halt Iranian crude exports even as he acknowledged that South Korea has stopped buying oil from Tehran, Iranian media reported on Monday, Sept. 24, 2018. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP, File)

India to buy Iran oil, defy U.S. sanctions

Defying the Trump administration's warning for countries to completely stop buying Iranian oil, two Indian firms have placed orders to import crude from the Islamic Republic, India's minister of petroleum and natural gas announced.

October 9, 2018
Twitter icon on a mobile phone, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Twitter accounts in spreading of ‘fake news’ still active

Despite the efforts of government watchdogs, news organizations and social media sites, the vast majority of Twitter accounts suspected of spreading disinformation and "fake news" in the 2016 presidential election are still operative with just weeks to go before midterm voting.

October 8, 2018
Anti-government protesters march outside the Central American University (UCA) in Managua, Nicaragua, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, before police blocked the march from reaching its planned destination, the local U.N. headquarters. More than 300 people are estimated to have been killed since April in months of anti-government protests and harsh government crackdown. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga)

Treasury warns U.S. banks to watch for corrupt cash from Nicaragua

The U.S. has ratcheted up the pressure on Nicaragua's leftist government for its crackdown on political opponents, with Treasury Department officials warning American banks to be wary of corrupt officials moving cash from the embattled Central American country into the U.S. financial system.

October 5, 2018
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U.S. indicts seven Russians for hacking anti-doping agencies

Russian intelligence hackers ran a massive four-year disinformation campaign in which they obtained sensitive information from targets that included the world's leading soccer organization, the World Anti-Doping Agency and the Democratic Party, the Justice Department said Thursday in a coordinated legal offensive with allied Western governments against Russian cyber operations.

October 4, 2018
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo briefs reporters at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. Pompeo has announced that the U.S. is canceling a 1955 treaty with Iran establishing economic relations and consular rights between the two nations. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

U.S. quietly makes progress toward ‘Arab NATO’

A Trump administration plan to organize friendly Middle East regimes into an "Arab NATO" is gathering unexpected steam, with the State Department on Wednesday confirming that Saudi Arabia and eight other allies plan a meeting soon to start putting the idea into practice.

October 3, 2018
President Trump's tough talk and leadership style are unpopular across the globe, according to a new Pew survey. (Associated Press)

Pew survey: Trump’s ‘America first’ policy plays to rough global reviews

A new Pew global survey released Tuesday finds just a quarter of those polled in 25 countries around the world have confidence in President Trump's leadership, below Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, and way below European leaders such as France's Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Angela Merkel.

October 2, 2018
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., talks to reporters about President Donald Trump's embattled Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

West Virginia takes leap of faith with smartphone app voting plan

This November, West Virginia will be the first state to allow voters to submit federal ballots via a smartphone app that relies on the "blockchain" technology behind cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, along with a selfie video, all in a bid to thwart Russian hackers.

October 1, 2018
FILE - In this April 5, 2018 file photo, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, left, speaks with his press officer Jorge Rodriguez, in Caracas, Venezuela. The Trump administration slapped financial sanctions on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, on four members of Maduros inner circle, including his wife, the nations vice president and Rodriguez, on allegations of corruption. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

U.S. slaps sanctions on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s wife for corruption

The Trump administration escalated its pressure campaign Tuesday on Venezuela's socialist government, imposing new financial sanctions on top officials in Caracas, including Cilia Flores, who is married to President Nicolas Maduro, just hours before President Trump urged members of the U.N. General Assembly to support a "restoration of democracy" in the once-booming OPEC nation.

September 25, 2018
President Donald Trump arrives to speak about Iran from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 13, 2017. Trump says Iran is not living up to the "spirit" of the nuclear deal that it signed in 2015, and announced a new strategy in the speech. He says the administration will impose additional sanctions on the regime to block its financing of terrorism. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Sanctions overuse sapping diplomatic tool’s power, experts fear

Since the start of his term, President Trump has aggressively employed one of the most potent weapons of international statecraft to bolster his "America first" foreign policy, but experts worry that sanctions have been so overused by Democratic and Republican administrations that their effectiveness is blunted.

September 24, 2018