Judge in 2020 election meddling trial rejects call to recuse - as it happened
by Chris Stein (now); Léonie Chao-Fong and Maya Yang from US news | The Guardian on (#6F3S0)
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US soldier Travis King, who fled to North Korea in July, is in American custody after being expelled by Pyongyang into China, according to US officials.
North Korea's KCNA state news agency said King had been expelled after he confessed to illegally entering the country. It said the soldier harboured ill feelings over inhumane treatment and racial discrimination within the US army.
This is genuinely new - I don't think it's ever happened before, a president on a picket line. Candidates do it frequently and prominent senators, but not a president.
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