Summit Breakdown: President Trump’s second summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un broke down and Trump abruptly left the country.    “Sometimes you have to walk,” Trump said at a news conference in Hanoi, Vietnam. He said Kim had insisted that all of …

The Envelope: “Green Book” won best picture at the Oscars last night, annoying Spike Lee and Jordan Peele, who made BlacKkKlansman.“I’m snakebit. Every time someone’s driving somebody, I lose,” Lee complained later.   That’s a reference to the year his  Do the Right Thing  lost to Driving …

Get Out: President Trump ordered 60 Russian diplomats out of the US, joining western allies in punishing Russia for a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter in England. The “diplomats” are all believed to be …

Meet and Greet: In a stunning and diplomatically risky decision, President Trump has accepted an invitation from North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un to meet and talk directly about the North’s nuclear weapons. It’s a big turnaround for two leaders who …

Happy New Year!: About two million celebrants under close police observation peacefully rang in the new year in New York’s Times Square last night. SWAT teams and snipers watched over the big street parties across the country. In Houston, police …

Borderline: Donald Trump, who has been insulting Mexico for a year, says he’s flying today to Mexico City to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto just hours before he is supposed to deliver a major speech clarifying his policy …

Public Opinion: The majority of Americans are feeling frustrated, helpless, and angry about the presidential election, according to a poll by the Associated Press and the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. Seventy percent say they are …

New Year: Good morning. It’s 2016. Amid heightened security, celebrants rang in the New Year in major cities around the world without incident. A “concrete” terrorism threat in Munich failed to materialize. As many as a million people gathered in …

Box Office: North Korea is directly blaming President Obama for the release of the movie The Interview. A statement from North Korea’s National Defense Commission says, “U.S. President Obama is the chief culprit who forced the Sony Pictures Entertainment to …

Massacre: In a continuing war against education, yesterday’s Taliban attack on a Pakistani school in Peshawar resulted in the death of 141 people, 132 of them just schoolchildren. Authorities say nine Taliban gunmen assaulted the compound of the Army Public …