Jared Kushner maintains strong financial ties to Israeli companies, despite his role as the White House point man on Middle East peace, the New York Times reports.
Kushner's business dealings "don’t appear to violate federal ethics laws," per the Times, but may raise questions about the ability of the U.S. to be an impartial mediator between Israel and the Palestinians — a debate already fueled by President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
The details: Israeli insurance company Menora Mivtachim has invested $30 million in the Kushner family's real estate business. The Kushners' company has also struck deals with "one of the country’s wealthiest families and a large Israeli bank that is the subject of a United States criminal investigation," the Times reports.
"China has embarked on history’s most expensive foreign infrastructure plan. Under the Belt and Road Initiative, it is building bridges, railways, and ports in Asia, Africa, and beyond."
CIA Director Mike Pompeo told Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace that President Trump's tweet on nuclear buttons is "entirely consistent with what we are trying to communicate."
American intelligence agencies underestimated Kim Jong-un, the New York Times reports. When President Trump took office, intelligence officials predicted North Korea would not build a missile capable of reaching the U.S. until 2020 or 2022, but, in 2017, the regime tested an intermediate-range ballistic missile that could travel as far as Washington, D.C.
The bottom line: Using "a decades-old Soviet engine design," North Korea has expanded its nuclear capabilites years ahead of schedule and, in September, tested a bomb that was roughly 17 times stronger than the nuclear bomb that decimated Hiroshima in 1945.
