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Pastor E.W. Jackson, a Baptist minister, praised the Trump administration for rejecting requests from U.S. embassies to fly the gay pride symbol on their flagpoles this month.

"Not only do we have to continue the economic push against them, but we have to be willing, if necessary, to use the military," Representative Adam Kinzinger said.

"In no way should Huawei be used as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations," U.S. senators Mark Warner and Marco Rubio wrote in a letter, published today.

"When it comes to the American flagpole and American embassies and capitals around the world, having the one American flag fly is the right decision," Pence said.

Prominent Evangelist Franklin Graham thanked President Donald Trump and the State Department for helping deny U.S. embassies from flying the rainbow pride flag.

The director of the foreign ministry's Latin American department said Russian specialists would be sent to Venezuela if requested.

"The U.S. has no credibility to hold the moral high ground," a Global Times editorial claimed in response to a statement by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praised the "heroic protest movement" that was crushed by Chinese troops in 1989.

Pompeo reportedly told a closed-door meeting of Jewish leaders there are "no guarantees that we're the ones that unlock" the conflict.

"I think it's incredibly dangerous," Representative Seth Moulton warned.

"Saudi Arabia is a strategic ally but the crown prince was, in my opinion, involved in the murder of Mr. Khashoggi and he's done a lot of other disruptive things," the Republican senator explained.

The Late Show host made comparisons between current tensions with Iran and the prelude to war with Iraq in 2003.

"Considering that we have met over the past two weeks for two times, that's a reason for some optimism," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

The reports were released one day before Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to Russia on Tuesday.

"Thus far what you've seen this president do is heap praise on Kim Jong Un and kind of revel in the spectacle of these summits, where nothing happens," said Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security adviser to Barack Obama.

"The U.S. government has the incentive to say the things they said whether or not they're true," coup expert Naunihal Singh said.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a meeting of the Arctic Council in Finland that the shrinking Arctic sea ice would offer "opportunity and abundance" for industry.

The president's foreign policy is "totally at odds with what the U.S. intelligence community believes," Jeremy Bash argued.

The North Korean leader also reportedly commanded troops to be at "high alert posture" and to prepare to "defend the political sovereignty and economic self-sustenance of the country."

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggested that President Nicolás Maduro was ready to flee the country following the attempted coup.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro "had an airplane on the tarmac" but changed his mind on the advice of Russia.

"You have seen the Maduros around the world who just cling to their power, no matter how they treated their own people. And it's just time for him to go," said Kellyanne Conway.

At least two of those who were killed were dual nations of the U.S. and the United Kingdom.

North Korea has accused the secretary of state of "talking nonsense" and "fabricating stories."

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's warning came despite President Donald Trump's previously expressed optimism about the "great economic potential" of North Korea.

"You use terrorist groups against the peoples of the region and yet claim to have been fighting terrorism?" President Hassan Rouhani asked.

Analysts are questioning the Trump administration's decision to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a "terrorist group."

Founded in 1979, the IRGC is an elite force that manages Iran's ballistic missile and nuclear programs.

The vice president said that President Donald Trump is considering "a broad range of options."

The president "rejoices over the misery that he thinks he has imposed on ordinary Iranians," Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif wrote on Twitter.