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U.S.-North Korea Talks Stumble as Pyongyang Knocks Pompeo Effort

North Korea’s criticism of the talks in Pyongyang fueled further doubts about whether Trump will ever achieve his goal of “compete denuclearization,” much less on the timeline of one to 2-1/2 years set out by various administration officials. “The U.S. side came up only with its unilateral and gangster-like demand for denuclearization,” an unnamed Foreign Ministry spokesman said in statement published by the state-run Korean Central News Agency a few hours after Pompeo’s departure. …read more […]

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After talks, NKorea accuses US of ‘gangster-like’ demands

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has delivered a dose of harsh reality to Donald Trump, bashing hopes for a quick denuclearization deal in a pointed rebuke to the president’s top envoy while accusing the U.S. of making “gangster-like” demands. After the historic U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore, Trump declared the North was no longer a threat and would hand over the remains of Americans killed during the Korean War. Now, three weeks later, the two sides were still at odds on all issues, including exactly what denuclearization means and how it might be verified, after a third …read more […]

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The newest trend in iPhone rumors is 3D-printed models made out of plastic — and we just got our first look at 'dummy' models of the next iPhone (AAPL)

Apple is expected to launch new iPhones in September. Over the weekend, 9to5Mac, an Apple blog, posted a video of what looks to be physical representations of this year’s upcoming iPhone models. What they depict lines up pretty closely with what analysts and journalists expect from the 2018 iPhone lineup, which will probably be launched in September. …read more […]

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A PR firestorm around Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert's $5.5 billion Detroit project shows that money isn't the biggest challenge he faces in revitalizing the city

Since moving his company, Quicken Loans, to downtown Detroit in 2010, Dan Gilbert has been investing billions of dollars into the city to revive it after decades of decline. Last year, a marketing mistake confirmed many Detroiters’ fears that Gilbert’s project was looking to eliminate the city’s overwhelming black majority, fears built on a history of racial strife in Detroit. Gilbert told us that he thought the “See Detroit As We Do” campaign was terrible and was against his goal of trying to transform the city for not only new business, but lifelong Detroiters. …read more […]