President Trump joined a rally on Oct. 20 for Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) and other Republican candidates in Elko, Nevada.
It was his third campaign rally in three days. Trump has ramped up his campaign presence now just one month away from the midterm elections, urging large rally crowds to encourage their family, friends, and colleagues to turn out to vote and ensure that Republicans keep the majority in Congress.
Next Trump-Kim Summit Likely Early 2019: Official
The next summit meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is likely to happen early in 2019, a senior administration official said on Oct. 19.
“A meeting is likely sometime after the first of the year,” the U.S. official told a small group of reporters.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Oct. 19 he hopes to meet his North Korean counterpart soon to lay the groundwork for a “big step forward” on denuclearization during the next summit.
US-Bound Migrant Caravan Halted by Mexico Police
A U.S.-bound caravan that once totaled more than 3,000 Central American migrants now looks about a third that size. Its remaining members woke up on a bridge between the borders of Guatemala and Mexico. They were waiting to get past a crossing guarded by hundreds of Mexican federal police.
Mexican officials are refusing to yield to the demands of the migrants that they are allowed to enter the country en masse. The migrants had camped out overnight on the bridge.
Hundreds of migrants have already crossed, some legally, some not.
Mexican officials had earlier said that only those few that had passports and valid visas would be let in.
They said migrants who want to apply for refuge in Mexico were welcome to do so, but any who decide to cross illegally and were caught would be detained and deported.
BepiColombo Spacecraft Starts 7-Year Journey to Mercury
A European-Japanese spacecraft set off on a treacherous seven-year journey to Mercury on Oct. 20 to probe the solar system’s smallest and least-explored planet.
The BepiColombo mission, only the third ever to visit Mercury, blasted off from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 rocket at 10:45 p.m. local time on Oct. 19, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
Few spacecraft have visited Mercury because of the planet’s proximity to the sun—less than 37.3 million miles (60 million kilometers) away compared with almost 93.2 million miles (150 million kilometers) that the Earth is from the sun—which makes any trip there challenging. Surface temperatures on the planet can reach highs of over 400 Celsius (752 Fahrenheit) during the day and drop to minus 170 Celsius (minus 338 Fahrenheit) at night.
