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Trump said in a Wednesday interview on Fox News that he wants Cruz to “get some kind of an order” from a court to block any potential lawsuit challenging his citizenship.

President Obama participated in a town hall meeting tonight at George Mason University in an attempt to explain a new wave of executive actions his administration is taking to curb gun violence.

Lieutenant-General Terrence O’Shaughnessy, the deputy commander of the joint United States-South Korean military command, issued a statement after the flight saying the US “remains steadfast” in the defense of South Korea.

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South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, citing an anonymous military source, reported late Saturday that the North had started its own broadcasts, presumably to keep its soldiers from hearing the South Korean broadcasts.

In London, European benchmark Brent North Sea crude oil for February fell 48 cents (1.4 per cent) to $33.75 a barrel.

The U.S. State Department addresses the issue of citizenship at birth by saying “a child born overseas to one U.S. citizen parent and one alien parent acquires U.S. citizenship at birth under Section 301(g) of the Immigaration and Nationality Act”.

(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein). Chinese investors use a computer terminal to check stock prices in a brokerage house in Beijing, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry publicly took issue with China’s policy towards its neighbor North Korea on Thursday and defended the U.S. handling of the crisis sparked by Pyongyang’s nuclear test earlier this week.

Chinese stock markets packed enough drama for a few months into a spectacularly condensed half-hour collapse on Thursday. Investors gather near a display board showing the plunge in the Shanghai Composite Index at a brokerage in Beijing, China, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016.

Trading in China was automatically suspended as a result.

Trading on its stock markets was suspended for the rest of the day, the second time this week, and China’s securities regulator intervened heavily by issuing rules to restrict share sales by listed companies’ major shareholders.

The UN has agreed to draw up new measures against North Korea.

China guides its official exchange rate with the dollar, but allows a freer float of the currency in Hong Kong markets. This led to trading suspension at Chinese stock market through the newly implemented circuit breaker mechanism within half an hour of opening bells. “The...

Trading in China was halted twice this week – on Thursday, the stock markets shut down after just a half hour of trading.