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• Donald Trump Jr shares and then deletes tweet questioning Kamala Harris’s blackness

  29-06-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump Jr, the US president’s eldest son, retweeted and deleted a post on Thursday which falsely claimed that Kamala Harris is not “an American black”.Ms Harris is black and of Indian and Jamaican descent, but right-wing conspiracy accounts were quick to spread false information about her lineage and citizenship online.The California senator’s race was a particular target online during Thursday’s Democratic primary debate.“Kamala Harris is *not* an Ameri
  
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• Police don't know how a man escaped federal custody, but they say he soon killed a DJ

  29-06-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Dallas Jones disappeared in April. His name would pop up two months later after a shootout in Indianapolis, Indiana.
  
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• US 2020 election: Who is Democratic candidate Marianne Williamson and what are her policies?

  29-06-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Self-help guru and US presidential candidate Marianne Williamson raised eyebrows at the second Democratic debate on Thursday night, not least for the way in which she bizarrely struck out at New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.Ms Williamson claimed her first act in the Oval Office would be to call Ms Ardern and "tell her, ‘girlfriend you are so wrong’, because the United States of America is going to be the best place in the world for a child to grow up”, taking i
  
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• Biden rejects 'old guy' label at Bay Area fundraiser

  29-06-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Biden, who is 76, is the second oldest Democratic candidate.
  
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• Woman 'who tried to kidnap two children' in Atlanta airport arrested

  29-06-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman who attempted to kidnap two children at the Atlanta Airport has been arrested, police say. Esther Daniels, 26, from Kansas, was detained by police following an incident in which a woman attempted to wrestle a pram containing a baby girl away from her mother. CCTV footage showed a suspect approach a family of five in the terminal building and attempted to grab the stroller, before trying to pick up one of the other children, a 6-year-old boy, and run off. The father was seen tugging the c
  
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• Judge bars Trump from using $2.5B to build border wall

  29-06-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge on Friday prohibited President Donald Trump from tapping $2.5 billion in military funding to build high-priority segments of his prized border wall in California, Arizona and New Mexico.Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. in Oakland acted in two lawsuits filed by California and by activists who contended that the money transfer was unlawful and that building the wall would pose environmental threats.
  
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• The 'most popular' Joe Biden website is a Republican troll

  29-06-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Joe Biden has an SEO problem. The former vice president and current Democratic primary competitor hoping to become the party nominee has an official campaign website where he asks for donations and touts his various legislative accomplishments. There's just one problem: that website has, for some time now, been eclipsed by a troll website lightly masquerading as a pro-Biden page. So reports the New York Times, which notes that "the most popular Joseph R. Biden Jr. website" over the cou
  
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• Biden's Support Slipped 10 Points After Debates, Poll Shows

  29-06-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The poll also showed Harris gaining a significant number of supporters
  
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• Trump: If There Was a Wall, Immigrant Dad and Daughter Who Drowned ‘Would Be Saved’

  29-06-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Kevin Lamarque/ReutersPresident Donald Trump said that if the wall along the southern border with Mexico had been built, the migrant dad and daughter who drowned this week “would be saved.”Speaking at a press conference in Osaka, Japan, where world leaders are gathered at the G20 summit, Trump took a moment to offer his take on the global shock in response to the photo of Salvadorian man Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter, Valeria, who were found fac
  
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• Police in Hampton, Va., arrest mom of missing toddler; child believed dead

  29-06-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Police have arrested the mother of a missing 2-year-old in Hampton, Va., and charged her with three county of felony child neglect, police said.
  
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• Red Sox, Yankees enjoy pregame royal visit

  29-06-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Prince Harry and his American-born wife, Meghan Markle, stopped into the clubhouses of the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox before the two rivals took the field in London.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed the teams to London and exchanged handshakes.In the Red Sox clubhouse, Markle hugged outfielder Mookie Betts, who is her distant relative, The Boston Globe reported.
  
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• Mother arrested amid dayslong search for Virginia toddler

  29-06-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Virginia have arrested the mother of a missing 2-year-old boy who authorities now believe is dead. Hampton Police Chief Terry Sult told news outlets at a Friday night conference that specific charges against 34-year-old Julia L. Tomlin are pending, and the search for Noah Tomlin is intensifying. Sult said the city's Child Protective Services department is working to make sure Julia Tomlin's other children are safe.
  
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• Trump dismisses Carter's attacks on his legitimacy

  29-06-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump on Saturday dismissed Jimmy Carter's swipe at the legitimacy of his election and said the charge was nothing more than a "Democrat talking point," while offering his own digs at the 94-year-old former commander in chief.Trump said he was surprised by Carter's comments alleging that Russian interference in the 2016 election was responsible for putting Trump in the White House.Carter made his comments during a discussion on human rights at a resort in Leesburg, Virginia on F
  
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• Kamala Harris campaign raises $2M in 24 hours following breakout debate performance

  29-06-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  In total, she received donations from over 63,000 people in the hours after her Thursday night appearance on the debate stage.
  
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• Luis Alvarez, former NYPD cop who advocated for 9/11 responders with Jon Stewart, dies

  29-06-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Luis Alvarez, a retired New York Police Department detective and 9/11 first responder died on Saturday after years battling cancer.
  
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• FBI encourages US universities to monitor Chinese students, report says

  29-06-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The FBI has reportedly urged at least 10 US universities to actively monitor Chinese students and visiting scholars.The institutions, all members of the Association of American Universities, have been asked to closely monitor any students or fellows linked to several Chinese companies and research organisations, according to NPR.“We are being asked what processes are in place to know what labs they are working at or what information they are being exposed to,” said Fred Cate, vice pr
  
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• Washington Post reports there is a rift between Pelosi and Schumer over the border bill

  29-06-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Talk radio host Jimmy Barrett says that asylum laws need to change in order to solve the humanitarian crisis at the border.
  
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• Pete Buttigieg returns to South Bend amid tension over police shooting

  29-06-2019 19:46 via news.yahoo.com
  * Mayor will attend peace walk and event for Eric Logan* Democratic candidate faces questions over race relationsPete Buttigieg speaks to Shirley Newbill, mother of Eric Logan, in South Bend on 19 June. Photograph: Michael Caterina/APPete Buttigieg returned to South Bend on Saturday to attend events in memory of Eric Logan, an African American man shot dead by a white police officer in the small Indiana city.It was the Democratic presidential candidate’s first visit to the city he runs as
  
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• Palestinian forces arrest participant in US Mideast workshop

  29-06-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The Palestinian Authority on Saturday arrested one of the few Palestinian participants in the White House-led Mideast peace conference after he returned to the West Bank.A Palestinian security official said intelligence forces detained businessman Saleh Abu Mayala in the city of Hebron for interrogation, without elaborating on the reason for the arrest.Abu Mayala attended this week's conference in Bahrain with a small group of Palestinian colleagues, led by businessman Ashraf Jabari, who is view
  
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• UPDATE 1-Ball in Europe's court on nuclear deal's future - Iranian state TV

  29-06-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  It is up to Europe to shield Iran from U.S. sanctions and prevent it from further scaling back its compliance with its 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers, Iranian state TV said on Saturday, with only days left on Tehran's ultimatum.Iran's envoy to a meeting of the remaining signatories to the nuclear accord said on Friday that European countries had offered too little at last-ditch talks to persuade Tehran to drop its plan to breach limits imposed by the deal.The United States unilaterally
  
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• Harvey Weinstein's new lawyer says women need to take responsibility for their actions

  29-06-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Harvey Weinstein's new lawyer has said women need to take responsibility for their actions, as she argued the  MeToo movement had done a disservice to the sex.  Donna Rotunno, who specialises in representing men accused of sex crimes, was hired by the disgraced producer along with Damon Cheronis to represent him at his upcoming trial on sexual assault charges. Ms Rotunno has critcised the MeToo movement which began after a string of celebrities came forward to make allegations against
  
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• Progressive Jewish group IfNotNow expands forces for 2020

  29-06-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  IfNotNow said the first 2020 contender it plans on questioning is Bernie Sanders.
  
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• Female candidates challenge electability question in debates

  29-06-2019 18:41 via news.yahoo.com
  For months, the names of white men have sat at the top of early Democratic presidential primary polls.While it's too early in the Democratic nominating process to know if they succeeded on that front, some of the women emerged as dominant forces on the debate stage, driving the policy discussions and insisting on being heard on issues despite the crowded field.Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and California Sen. Kamala Harris led the way and were widely seen as among the top performers.
  
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• Trump appeals U.S. judge's border wall funding ruling

  29-06-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Department of Justice lawyers said in a court filing that they were formally appealing Friday's ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals."[W]e're immediately appealing it, and we think we'll win the appeal," Trump said during a press conference on Saturday at a summit of leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies in Japan."There was no reason that that should’ve happened," Trump said.
  
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• Officer accused of raping 16-year-old homeless girl in city's outreach program

  29-06-2019 18:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The teen says the officer told her she had warrants, but said he would not arrest her in exchange for sexual favors.
  
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• After deadly collapse, Congo vows to remove illegal miners from Glencore concession

  29-06-2019 18:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Congo's interior minister vowed to remove all illegal miners by Sunday from a copper and cobalt mine run by Glencore following a landslide this week that killed at least 43 of them.Thursday's accident at the Kamoto Copper Company (KCC) concession near Democratic Republic of Congo's southern border with Zambia has focused attention on the dangers run by informal miners, who burrow dozens of meters below ground in search of ore using rudimentary tools.Glencore estimates that some 2,000 diggers ent
  
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• Why the Duchess of Sussex could be barred from entering the US if she wants to cut her tax bill

  29-06-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The Duchess of Sussex could be barred from re-entering the US in the future if she chooses to renounce her citizenship. The US government has started enforcing provisions of 1986 legislation allowing the country to exclude tax “refugees”. The rule targets Americans who drop their citizenship to avoid paying US tax on earnings they make overseas. According to figures released by the State Department, a small number of former Americans have already been barred from re-entering the US.
  
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• Atlanta airport to expand security checkpoint

  29-06-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport plans to expand a security checkpoint within the next year to help alleviate a crowded waiting area, officials said.Officials expect to open five additional lanes at the South Security Checkpoint within the next year, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution .This would provide nine lanes for TSA screening near Delta Air Lines' check-in counters.
  
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• Bernie Sanders calls Trump 'a racist and a bigot' day after Democratic debate

  29-06-2019 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  A day after the Democratic debate, presidential candidate and Sen. Bernie Sanders courted the vote of black Americans in Cincinnati.
  
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• Crater of Doom: Union Soldiers Tried to Tunnel Beneath Confederate Positions (Bad Idea)

  29-06-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The fresh Crater, which would soon become a horrendous death trap for thousands of Union soldiers, first entombed half of Pegram’s guns and crews and entire companies of Elliot’s command, as well as damaging part of the cavalier trench. A total of 278 Confederates were sent to their graves by the huge blast. Great clods of dirt, some as large as houses, littered the floor of the Crater along with the torn bodies of its erstwhile defenders. Some defenders were seen running from the tr
  
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• Trump Push for Hasty DMZ Photo-Op Risks Longer North Korea Problems

  29-06-2019 17:01 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- U.S. President Donald Trump siphoned away attention from the cavalcade of Democrats vying to replace him with an audacious invitation for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to shake hands at the Demilitarized Zone.The offer -- naturally made over Twitter while the president attended the Group of 20 summit in Japan -- was an act of showmanship fraught with risk for U.S. efforts to dismantle Kim’s nuclear arsenal. Despite two historic photo-ops with the North Korean leader over t
  
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• Iran to soon exceed enriched uranium limit under nuclear pact - Fars news agency

  29-06-2019 17:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran will soon exceed an enriched uranium limit under its nuclear deal, after remaining signatories to the pact fell short of Tehran's demands to be shielded from U.S. sanctions, the semi-official Fars news agency cited an "informed source" as saying.Iran's envoy to a meeting of the remaining signatories to the 2015 nuclear accord said on Friday that European countries had offered too little at last-ditch talks to persuade Tehran to back off from its plans to breach limits imposed by the deal."A
  
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• At G20, Putin leads attack on western liberalism

  29-06-2019 16:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian President Vladimir Putin has used a global summit founded on liberal ideas to attack them in a demonstration of Moscow's apparent confidence amid international discord.Kicked out of the G-20's more exclusive cousin G-8 in 2014 for annexing Crimea, Putin is now not the only one defending illiberal views on issues ranging from sexuality to immigration, even winning a vague endorsement from US counterpart Donald Trump.It has come into conflict with the interests of the overwhelming majority
  
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• Trump says he asked Saudis about Jamal Khashoggi killing, claims they are angry about it

  29-06-2019 16:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump had repeatedly refused to say whether the slaying of a journalist would surface at his meeting with the Saudi Crown Prince
  
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• Death on the trail: More Americans visit national parks, but fewer rangers on patrol

  29-06-2019 16:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The National Park Service ranger is a symbol of America's public lands. But budget cuts mean there are fewer today to keep animals and people safe.
  
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• N. Korea says Trump's offer to meet Kim 'very interesting'

  29-06-2019 16:34 via news.yahoo.com
  North Korea said Saturday President Donald Trump's offer to meet leader Kim Jong Un at the Korean Demilitarized Zone is a "very interesting suggestion," brightening prospects for a third face-to-face meeting between the two leaders. Choe still said that North Korea hasn't received an official proposal for the DMZ meeting from the United States.
  
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• Trump on possible Korean DMZ meeting with Kim Jong Un: 'We'll see'

  29-06-2019 16:33 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump, who invited North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to meet him in the Korean Demilitarized Zone on Sunday, said Kim's government seemed receptive to the idea, but he doesn't know for sure if he will accept.
  
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• Republicans start donating to Marianne Williamson to keep her in future Democratic debates

  29-06-2019 16:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Marianne Williamson's off-beat approach has some Republicans giving to her campaign as a way to keep her in future debates to make them less serious.
  
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• Newark Airport reopens after being shut down due to 'airport emergency'

  29-06-2019 16:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Newark Airport has reopened after it was shut down Saturday morning due to an "airport emergency."
  
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• 'Say hello': Trump invites Kim to DMZ meeting

  29-06-2019 15:55 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump on Saturday invited North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to meet for a historic handshake at the demilitarised zone that divides the Korean peninsula, and said he would have "no problem" stepping over the border.The invitation issued on Twitter caught observers by surprise.If Kim accepts, it would be the third meeting between the leaders of the two wartime enemies amid efforts to contain North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
  
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• Stonewall veterans return to New York City to celebrate pride, 50 years after infamous raid

  29-06-2019 15:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Five veterans of the Stonewall riots returned to NYC to discuss their experiences as LGBTQ activists 50 years after the initial raid.
  
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• Trump says Saudi crown prince is 'friend of mine' doing a 'spectacular job'

  29-06-2019 15:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has defended his decision not to confront Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman over the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.Mr Trump praised the Saudi crown prince as “a friend of mine” who was doing “a spectacular job” as they met on the side-lines of the G20 summit in Japan, but ignored reporters’ questions about his alleged role in the 2018 killing.The US president described the murder as “horrible”, but insisted that
  
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• Emergency landing by United flight briefly closes Newark Airport

  29-06-2019 15:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Flight 2098 took off from New York City's LaGuardia Airport bound for Houston and a short time later experienced hydraulic problems, prompting the emergency landing, Scott Ladd, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said in an email.
  
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• Ball in Europe's court on nuclear deal's future: Iranian state TV

  29-06-2019 15:28 via news.yahoo.com
  It is up to Europe to shield Iran from U.S. sanctions and prevent it from further scaling back its compliance with its 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers, Iranian state TV said on Saturday, with only days left on Tehran's ultimatum.Iran's envoy to a meeting of the remaining signatories to the nuclear accord said on Friday that European countries had offered too little at last-ditch talks to persuade Tehran to drop its plan to breach limits imposed by the deal.The United States unilaterally
  
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• Stephanie Grisham's unlikely path from Arizona politics to Trump's White House

  29-06-2019 15:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Stephanie Grisham, Trump's new White House press secretary, had a bumpy ride through Arizona politics before ascending to Washington.
  
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• Iran Strikes Back Against America. Is a War Coming to the Middle East?

  29-06-2019 15:00 via news.yahoo.com
  By most accounts, the United States and Iran came within minutes of armed conflict with each other on June 20, 2019. Around 4:30 AM that morning, a U.S. Navy RQ-4N Global Hawk spy drone flying a routine circuit over international airspace in the Persian Gulf was shot down by an Iranian Ra’ad surface-to-air missile system.Later that day, U.S. forces were ostensibly “ten minutes” away from striking three Iranian bases likely with air- and sea-launched missiles when President
  
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• Trump Bows to Xi Jinping's Huawei Demands at G20

  29-06-2019 14:47 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSThe United States will resume sales of products to Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer, President Donald Trump said in his post-G20 press conference Saturday in Osaka.The action appears to be a surrender to publicly issued Chinese demands.Effective May 16, the U.S. Commerce Department added Huawei, the world’s largest telecom-equipment manufacturer, to its Entity List. As a result, no American company, without prior approval from the Bureau of Industry an
  
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• 18 kidnapping victims found 'enslaved' in Houston home: Police

  29-06-2019 14:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities arrested and charged five people who allegedly kidnapped, smuggled and sexually assaulted multiple people in Houston.
  
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• How to keep your dog calm and safe during the Fourth of July fireworks

  29-06-2019 14:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The Fourth of July means a day off from work, lounging by the pool and barbecues with friends -- but unfortunately, the holiday may not be so relaxing for many pet owners.
  
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• The Latest: K-pop band greets Trump during Seoul visit

  29-06-2019 13:51 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump is being welcomed to South Korea by its president — and one of its biggest K-pop boy bands.Trump's met with President Moon Jae-in (jah-YIHN') at the Blue House, where the South Korean leader has his offices and home.Trump also met EXO, a star pop group whose members gave the president a book.
  
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