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Seoul's assessment comes as North Korea is preparing to hold its biggest political conference later this month, where Kim is expected to outline his major policy goals for the next five years.

Stolz received his gold for winning the men's 1000 meters at the Milan Cortina Games in an Olympic-record time thanks to a blistering closing stretch. Now Stolz will hope to add to his collection of trophies.

House Republicans rushed to approve legislation on Wednesday that would impose new proof-of-citizenship requirements ahead of the midterm elections, a Trump administration priority that faces blowback in the Senate.

The Trump administration on Wednesday expressed concern that China was costing Peru its sovereignty after a Peruvian court ruling restricted a local regulator's oversight of a Chinese-built mega port.

Police said the suspect in the school shooting in remote British Columbia, Jesse Van Rootselaar, was found dead and had a history of mental health contact with police, and that the suspect's mother and stepbrother were also found dead.

The father of a U.S.-based activist wanted by Hong Kong authorities was convicted of attempting to deal with an absconder's financial assets on Wednesday, in the first court case of its kind brought under a homegrown national security law.

An annual meeting of the nation's governors that has long served as a rare bipartisan gathering is unraveling after President Donald Trump excluded Democratic governors from White House events.

On Tuesday, nearly 3,500 people packed American University's Bender Arena for the monks' first public stop in the nation's capital after completing a 15-week trek from Texas that captivated the country. The monks said their aim was to promote mindfulness and inner peace.

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to block the opening of a new Canadian-built bridge across the Detroit River, in his latest salvo over cross-border trade issues.

Maxwell declined to answer questions from House lawmakers on Monday, but indicated that if President Trump ended her sentence, she was willing to testify that neither he nor former President Clinton had done anything wrong in their connections with Epstein.