10 things you need to know today: May 25, 2018

Trump cancels his summit with Kim Jong Un, Harvey Weinstein surrenders to face sexual assault allegations, and more

South Korean activists protest the cancellation of the Trump-Kim summit.
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1. Trump cancels summit with Kim Jong Un

President Trump on Thursday sent a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un canceling their planned June summit in Singapore. Trump called the collapse of the June meeting a "tremendous setback" for peace that he blamed on the "tremendous anger and open hostility" expressed by Pyongyang recently. North Korea had shown outrage after Vice President Mike Pence compared it to Libya, a country whose leader was overthrown and killed years after giving up his nuclear program. Trump said the U.S. would continue exerting "maximum pressure" to get Pyongyang to curb its nuclear weapons program. North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan said Friday his country remained ready to meet with the U.S. "at any time."

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.