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President Donald Trump leaves for vacation in Bedminster, N.J., boarding the Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, D.C., United States of America on Aug, 4, 2017. (Ting Shen/Xinhua News Agency/Sipa USA)

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Trump on North Korea: ‘Fire and fury’ may not have been ‘tough enough’

by Philip Rucker Washington Post, and Karen DeYoung Washington PostAugust 10, 2017

President Donald Trump warned North Korea on Thursday that “things will happen to them like they never thought possible” should the isolated country attack the United States or its allies.Trump told reporters here that his Tuesday statement…

Denise Koesterman, right, and Alison Lebrun, left, tie blue-and-white awareness ribbons along Springfield Pike near the family home of Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate student who was imprisoned in North Korea in March 2016, in the Wyoming suburb of Cincinnati on Tuesday, June 13, 2017. Warmbier, serving a 15-year prison term for alleged anti-state acts, was released and medically evacuated from the reclusive country Tuesday and has been in a coma for months, his parents said. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Coma-stricken American released

by Anna Fifield Washington Post, and Karen DeYoung Washington PostJune 13, 2017

In this Tuesday, April 4, 2017 file photo, victims of the suspected chemical weapons attack lie on the ground, in Khan Sheikhoun, in the northern province of Idlib, Syria. Israeli defense officials say Syrian President Bashar Assad still has up to three tons of chemical weapons. The officials delivered the assessment on Wednesday, April 19, 2017, weeks after a chemical attack in Syria killed at least 90 people. (Alaa Alyousef via AP, File)

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U.S. imposes sanctions on Syrians tied to sarin

by Karen DeYoung Washington PostApril 25, 2017

Smoke rises after rebel fighters launch a mortar shell on a residential neighborhood in west Aleppo, Syria, on Monday. The United States is discussing with Syrian rebels their surrender and evacuation from Aleppo, as Russia on Tuesday threatened the imminent “elimination” of anyone who refuses to leave the city.

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Syrian rebels in talks with U.S. about surrender in Aleppo, evacuation

by Karen DeYoung Washington PostDecember 7, 2016

Large display monitor show the result of voting from member states during a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, Wednesday Oct. 26, 2016 at U.N. headquarters. The United States abstained for the first time in 25 years on a U.N. resolution condemning America's economic embargo against Cuba, a measure it had always vehemently opposed. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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In a first in 25 years, U.S. abstains in U.N. vote condemning its Cuba policy

by Karen DeYoung Washington PostOctober 26, 2016

In this photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, Syrians inspect damaged buildings after airstrikes by government helicopters on the rebel-held Aleppo neighborhood of Mashhad, Syria, Tuesday Sept. 27, 2016. A year after Russia waded into the war in Syria, aiming to flex its national security muscles and prop up beleaguered Syrian President Bashar Assad, Moscow appears no closer to one of its military goals: getting the U.S. to coordinate combat operations in the civil war. And prospects of a diplomatic resolution seem dim. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

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Russian air defense raises stakes of U.S. confrontation in Syria

by Karen DeYoung Washington PostOctober 17, 2016

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U.S. abandons efforts to work with Russia on Syria

by Karen DeYoung Washington Post, and David Filipov Washington PostOctober 4, 2016

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump points to the audience after delivering an immigration policy speech during a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)

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After subdued trip to Mexico, Trump talks tough on immigration in Phoenix

by Joshua Partlow Washington Post, Sean Sullivan Washington Post, and Karen DeYoung Washington PostSeptember 1, 2016

President Barack Obama talks before signing the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 and the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 30, 2016. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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White House releases its count of counterterrorism civilian casualties

by Karen DeYoung Washington Post, and Greg Miller Washington PostJuly 2, 2016