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An unpredictable president changes the North Korea script; The awkward timing of Trump's North Korea letter

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Trump cancels N. Korea summit, calls it a 'tremendous setback' President Trump said he based his decision on "open hostility" from North Korea, which had also threatened to walk away from the June 12 summit. South Korea's government seemed blindsided. "It is difficult to deal with these sensitive and difficult diplomatic problems with this current way of communicating," President Moon Jae-in said. By John Wagner, John Hudson and Anna Fifield  •  Read more » The Take | Analysis An unpredictable president changes the North Korea script President Trump dismisses traditional negotiating tactics, but his approach has its own problems. By Dan Balz  •  Read more »   WorldViews | Analysis The awkward timing of Trump's North Korea letter Only hours before President Trump's announcement, North Korea had taken foreign reporters — including two Americans — to an event at which it had demolished its only known nuclear testing site. By Adam Taylor  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Hours earlier, North Korea claimed it had destroyed its nuclear test site Pyongyang had used the remote site in a mountainous area to detonate six increasingly large nuclear bombs over 11 years. By Anna Fifield  •  Read more »   The Fix | Analysis Trump's letter to Kim, annotated The summit's cancellation followed days of wavering by both countries. Then North Korea issued a statement saying the United States should "meet us at a meeting room or encounter us at nuclear-to-nuclear showdown." By Amber Phillips  •  Read more »   The Fix: Trump's weirdly wistful breakup with Kim Jong Un This probably isn't the last we've heard about a Trump-Kim summit. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   Analysis The more the U.S. said 'Libya,' the angrier North Korea got Pyongyang lashed out at Vice President Pence after he said "this will only end like the Libyan model ended if Kim Jong Un doesn't make a deal." By Rick Noack  •  Read more »   Boxer Jack Johnson is posthumously pardoned by Trump The first black heavyweight champion was convicted in 1913 under the Mann Act, federal legislation that Jim Crow-era prosecutors often used as a type of anti-miscegenation law. By Jacob Bogage  •  Read more »   New privacy rules could spell the end of legalese — or create a lot more fine print Silicon Valley companies have been rewriting their privacy policies to make them clearer in time for a Friday deadline as Europe ushers in sweeping new privacy laws that could affect users worldwide. By Elizabeth Dwoskin  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT After day of negotiations, Democrats and Republicans briefed on secret FBI source who aided Russia probe After a day of evolving public messages from the White House, the administration set two separate briefings with lawmakers to discuss the matter. By Matt Zapotosky, Devlin Barrett, Karoun Demirjian and Seung Min Kim  •  Read more »   GOP immigration rebels push forward after Trump promises to veto any bill without wall funding House Republican leaders are aiming to avoid a messy floor showdown over immigration — an issue that has badly split their party for years. By Mike DeBonis  •  Read more »   As a Navy SEAL receives the Medal of Honor, frustrations remain about a related case Britt Slabinski received the award for actions in 2002, but the status of a Medal of Honor case for a U.S. airman who served with him is unclear. By Dan Lamothe  •  Read more »   Two Ebola patients who fled quarantine attended prayer group, possibly exposing others Both patients, who were in an acute phase of the illness, attended a religious gathering with about 50 people and died hours later, a Doctors Without Borders worker said. By Siobhán O'Grady  •  Read more »   A rape victim was just awarded $1 billion. Jurors told her: 'You're worth something.' In 2012, Hope Cheston was sexually assaulted by an armed security guard at an apartment complex near Atlanta while she was visiting a friend, according to court records. She was 14. By Lindsey Bever  •  Read more »   Six months. 5,700 miles. One ocean. Ben Lecomte wants to be first to swim across Pacific. Twenty years ago, he swam across the Atlantic Ocean. This time, he'll have to survive sharks and the world's largest trash collection. By Rick Maese  •  Read more »

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