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    President Trump, increasingly concerned that his summit meeting in Singapore next month with North Korea’s leader could turn into a political embarrassment, has begun pressing his aides and allies about whether he should take the risk of proceeding with a historic meeting that he had leapt into accepting, according to administration and foreign officials. Trump was both surprised and angered by a statement issued Wednesday by the North’s chief nuclear negotiator, who declared that the country would never trade away its nuclear weapons capability in exchange for economic aid, administration officials said. The statement, while a highly familiar tactic by the North, represented a jarring shift in tone after weeks of conciliatory gestures. On Thursday and Friday, Trum...

    Melania Trump listens as President Donald Trump speaks President Trump misspelled first lady Melania Trump's name in a tweet welcoming her back to the White House on Saturday. Great to have our incredible First Lady back home in the White House. Melanie is feeling and doing really well, Trump tweeted. Melania Trump had spent several days at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., recovering from a kidney procedure before she returned to the White House on Saturday. Twitter users were quick to point out the error.

    At least eight people are dead and a number of people have been injured in a shooting at a Texas high school on Friday, according to local reports. Students evacuated Santa Fe high school, about 35 miles south-east of downtown Houston, amid a heavy presence of law enforcement and medical first responders. This morning an incident occurred at the high school involving an active shooter. The situation is active, but has been contained. There have been confirmed injuries the Santa Fe school d istrict said in a statement. An assistant principal said the shooter has been arrested and secured, according the Associated Press. Local media reported by Friday mid-morning that at least eight people were dead, a local law enforcement source told ABC TV. The shooter was report...

    First lady Melania Trump was expected to remain hospitalized for the rest of the week following a long-planned procedure to treat a benign kidney condition, White House officials said. Mrs. Trump, 48, had an embolization procedure Monday morning at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington, her staff said. President Donald Trump visited her later Monday and tweeted that the procedure was successful and that his wife was in good spirits. The White House did not offer any additional details on Mrs. Trump's condition, though Vice President Mike Pence described the procedure as long planned as he opened a speech at a Monday evening event celebrating Israel's independence. Melania is already on the mend, Pence said. In the Senate, Minority Leader C...

    President Trump hailed a decision by North Korea on Saturday to dismantle a nuclear test site, calling it a very smart and gracious gesture. North Korea has announced that they will dismantle Nuclear Test Site this month, ahead of the big Summit Meeting on June 12th, Trump tweeted. Thank you, a very smart and gracious gesture! The president's tweet follows North Korea's announcement that it would dismantle the test site by the end of May, ahead of a planned summit between Trump and the country's leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12. The dismantling is expected to take place between May 23-25, the North Korean foreign ministry said. North Korea first announced last month that it planned to decommission the nuclear site ahead of the meeting with Trump. The mo...

    Robert Downey Jr was paid more than $1 million a minute for his role in Spider-Man: Homecoming. The 53-year-old Hollywood actor who has played Iron Man since 2008 appeared in the Marvel movie for eight minutes, but raked up a profit of $10 million, according to figures released by Variety. On filming the movie, Downey Jr previously said: I genuinely had a blast. I just love Spider Man so to me being able to participate in reintroducing Spider-Man to a new generation or giving kind of a really back to, that's why it's called homecoming. The Iron Man star who was the first of the Marvel characters to hit the big screen is one of the movie industry's most in-demand performers, and it was previously reported he made $40 million for his supporting role in Captain Americ...

    Kristen Black took a semester off from college to have her baby. She was determined to go back and continue her studies to become an optometrist, her dream job. Black, 21, did just that when she re-enrolled at Arkansas State University this spring as a biology major. She and her boyfriend found a daytime sitter for their little girl, Izzy, now 8 months. As a requisite, Black had to take an introductory physics course. Her professor, Bruce Johnson, was known for holding extra study hours twice a week to help students with their homework. Most of the 80 students who took the class attended the study hours, because the subject matter is challenging. He booked a big room for the sessions. I was like, I’m struggling with this section, but I can’t come because I have to...

    Three prisoners being held by North Korea are heading back to America with the US Secretary of State, Donald Trump has said. The president tweeted to say he would meet them when they land at 2am. He said: I am pleased to inform you that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in the air and on his way back from North Korea with the 3 wonderful gentlemen that everyone is looking so forward to meeting. They seem to be in good health. Also, good meeting with Kim Jong Un. Date & Place set. Mr Trump added: Secretary Pompeo and his guests will be landing at Andrews Air Force Base at 2:00 A.M. in the morning. I will be there to greet them. Very exciting! The prisoners Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song and Tony Kim were accused by North Korea of anti-state activities. Mr Pompe...

    Moments after he declared the U.S. was pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, President Trump seemed to abruptly switch topics to announce that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was on his way to North Korea to prepare for Trump’s meeting with the nuclear armed despot Kim Jong Un. What seemed to be a jarring aside was actually part of Trump’s decision to reimpose U.S. sanctions against Iran. Over the past two months, Trump has come to see his policy toward North Korea as a success and believes his unusual combination of insults and biting economic sanctions appears to have brought Kim to the table. Now, Trump wants run the same playbook against Iran. Foreign policy experts have warned for months that if Trump backs out of the Iran deal, it will make it harder to convin...

    A self-driving Uber may have spotted the pedestrian killed in the first fatal crash with a driverless car but ignored her anyway. The self-driving car which killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg in Phoenix, Arizona in March saw the pedestrian as a false positive, causing its on-board system to decide to ignore her rather than swerve to avoid the crash, according to The Information. The car's sensors detected the pedestrian, but according to Uber's internal investigation into the crash, the self-driving car had been tuned to ignore obstacles it didn't deem a risk. Self-driving cars have been having problems with so-called false positives avoiding small objects that human drivers would normally ignore or drive over. The car had been programmed to ignore more of these w...