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On Sunday morning, President Trump explained why he agreed to halt joint military exercises with South Korea during his meeting in Singapore with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. “Holding back the ‘war games’ during the negotiations was my request because they are VERY EXPENSIVE and set a bad light during a good faith negotiation,” Trump wrote. “Also, quite provocative. Can start up immediately if talks break down, which I hope will not happen!” But Trump’s acknowledgement that talks with North Korea could “break down” conflicts with the line he’s been pushing since he returned from Singapore - that he’s already solved the problem. On Wednesday, Trump tweeted, categorically, that “There is

Bail was denied Sunday for a south suburban man accused of punching a 67-year-old woman aboard a CTA Red Line train so hard that she suffered a severe rupture that will require the removal of one of her eyes, prosecutors told a court. Derrick McMath, 28, stared off into the distance and clutched his right arm behind his back as Cook County prosecutors laid out aggravated battery involving great bodily harm of someone age 60 or older and retail theft charges against him at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in connection to the Thursday attack that was captured on CTA surveillance video. In court, prosecutors recounted how McMath entered the train station by hopping over the turnstile at the Red Line’s Berwyn station and boarded the northbound train. McMath, who prosecutors said wore distinctive clothing the day of the attack, stood near the victim, who sat near a door with her head down reading a Kindle until the train reached the Jarvis stop.

She was unharmed.

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Ashley Dean Fulkerson, 28, broke into a house in Kansas City on Thursday, The Kansas City Star reported. Police confirmed her identity as Ashley Dean Fulkerson on Friday and said they had recovered a sword beside her.

A city in Kansas is reportedly demanding $132,000 from the parents of a 5-year-old boy who knocked over a glass sculpture. The piece of art, “Aphrodite di Kansas City,” was on display at an Overland Park community center when the boy damaged it on May 19, the Kansas City Star reported. He was attending a wedding reception with his parents at the time. “He probably hugged it,” the boy’s mother Sarah Goodman told the paper. “Maybe my son hugged a torso because he’s a loving, sweet nice boy who just graduated from preschool.” Overland Park’s insurance company sent a letter accusing Goodman and her husband of negligence for failing to keep an eye on the boy, the paper reported. “I don’t want to diminish

The Oklahoma City Thunder won't bring back television play-by-play announcer Brian Davis next season, the team announced this week. During that game, against Memphis, Davis said point guard Russell Westbrook was "out of his cotton-pickin' mind" after Westbrook tallied an assist en route to averaging a triple-double for the second consecutive season. Davis is white and Westbrook is black.