Bloomberg The leaders of North and South Korea met for two hours Saturday to discuss the canceled summit with Donald Trump, less than a day after the US leader signaled the meeting may be back on citing “very productive” talks between the two countries. South Korea’s Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, in a surprise move, spent two ...

Bloomberg A federal judge denied a request by Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman for President Donald Trump, to dismiss one of two counts in an indictment as unnecessarily overlapping. Special Counsel Robert Mueller didn’t violate the double-jeopardy clause of the US Constitution by charging Manafort with two crimes based on the exact same facts and circumstances, US District Judge ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump announced plans to nominate a retired foreign service officer affiliated with an organisation that critics call an anti-immigrant hate group to run the State Department bureau overseeing refugee protection and resettlement. Ronald Mortensen, whose postings as a diplomat included Chad, Gabon and Australia, was tapped to be assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Population, ...