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Debra J. Saunders

Review-Journal White House correspondent

Debra J. Saunders joined the Review Journal as White House correspondent in December 2016, after 24 years writing a usually conservative opinion-page column for the San Francisco Chronicle. She has a B.A. in Greek and Latin from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, which may or may not prepare her for covering the Trump White House. She is syndicated with Creators Syndicate.

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Trump cancels summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un

After North Korea again threatened to skip a scheduled June 12 summit in Singapore that would have put President Donald Trump and North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un at the same table to discuss denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, Trump called the whole thing off.

GOP candidate for Senate in West Virginia calls Las Vegas home

Don Blankenship is on probation after spending a year in prison for mine safety violations that contributed to the deaths of 29 West Virginia coal miners in 2010. Nonetheless, the coal baron has a shot at winning that state’s GOP primary Tuesday — even though he’s told probation officials that Las Vegas is his home.

Trump has big week on world stage

German Chancellor Angela Merkel came to the White House for a working lunch with President DonaldTrump. After the pomp and spectacle showered on French President Emmanuel Macron earlier in the week, Friday’s meeting seemed more like homework than a celebration of shared values and bonhomie.