At least one person is dead and several others are injured in a stabbing attack on the University of Texas campus Monday. Austin police say 21-year-old student Kendrex J. White is in custody, but there is no word about a possible motive. Police said White was armed with a hunting knife but did not resist when officers ordered him to the ground at gunpoint. Emergency services said three people were taken to a hospital with “potentially serious injuries.” There also were reports of additional patients with non-life-threatening injuries. Student Rachel Prichett said she was standing in line at a food truck outside a gym when she saw a man with a large knife approach the person standing behind her. “The guy was standing next to me,” Prichett said. “He grabbed him by the shoulder and shoved the knife in it. I just started running as fast as I could.” Authorities …

John Lansing, the CEO of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the parent organization for the Voice of America, told a panel commemorating World Press Freedom Day that there is a war of information happening in the world. The BBG and George Washington University’s (GWU) School for Media and Public Affairs organized the panel in Washington on Monday to discuss the challenges of international journalism, the rise of fake news and how media can establish credibility. Lansing brought up the allegations that Russia interfered in the recent U.S. election and said people should be alarmed by those reports and step up their investment in factual information. If not, he said, “I really fear what the consequences will be.” The acting U.S. Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, D. Bruce Wharton, who serves on the board of the BBG, said it “feels like the media environment around the globe is deteriorating.” …

Oystermen, pirates and police clashed violently more than a century ago over who could collect the Chesapeake Bay’s tasty and lucrative oysters. As the shellfish makes a comeback, a modern-day oyster war is brewing, this time between wealthy waterfront property owners and working-class fishermen. Over the past five years, oyster production has doubled on the East Coast, driven by new farming methods, cleaner water and Americans’ growing taste for orders on the half shell. The resurgence has led to unprecedented resistance from coastal Virginians who want to maintain picturesque views from their waterfront homes and has fueled a debate over access to public waterways. “These people can’t have it all,” said Chris Ludford, an oysterman in Virginia Beach who sells to nearby farm-to-table restaurants.     Ludford said he faces fierce pushback along a Chesapeake Bay tributary from people with “a $2,000 painting in their house of some old bearded …

Just days after reiterating that military options for dealing with North Korea are under consideration, President Donald Trump said he is willing to meet its leader Kim Jong Un. The potential dramatic shift in the U.S. posture toward the Asian adversary comes as Pyongyang continues to conduct ballistic missile launches and is believed poised to conduct its sixth underground nuclear test. “If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be honored to do it,” the president said of Kim in an interview Monday with Bloomberg News. “Most political people would never say that, but I’m telling you under the right circumstances I would meet with him. We have breaking news.” The remark was made during a wide-ranging 30-minute interview in the Oval Office that occurred as a U.S. Navy carrier strike force is off the Korean peninsula. In a television interview aired …

President Donald Trump got decidedly mixed reviews on his first 100 days in office.  But he wasted little time in urging his supporters to expect some accomplishments in the months ahead. To mark his first 100 days in office, Trump held a campaign-style rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, among the supporters who have stuck with him in good times and bad.  Trump told the boisterous crowd it was time to “reflect on an incredible journey together and to get ready for the great, great battles to come, and that we will win in every case, OK?  We will win.” The first 100 days has been a traditional point of assessment for a new president since Franklin Roosevelt moved swiftly to counter the Great Depression in the early weeks of his presidency back in 1933.  While some previous presidents had a more productive start than Trump, early victories or failures are not …

Top Capitol Hill negotiators reached a hard-won agreement on a huge $1 trillion-plus spending bill that would fund the day-to-day operations of virtually every federal agency through September, aides said Sunday night. Details of the agreement were expected to be made public Sunday night, said aides to lawmakers involved in weeks of negotiations. The House and Senate had until midnight Friday to pass a measure to avert a government shutdown. The catchall spending bill would be the first major piece of bipartisan legislation to advance during President Donald Trump’s short tenure in the White House. It denies Trump a win on his oft-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but gives him a $15 billion down payment on his request to strengthen the military. It also rejects White House budget director Mick Mulvaney’s proposals to cut popular programs such as funding medical research and community development grants and adds $1.5 billion …

President Donald Trump is defending his decision not to name China a currency manipulator while, at the same time, reaffirming his determination to put the interests of American workers first. VOA’s Michael Bowman reports, North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs continue to preoccupy a president who regularly bashed China during last year’s campaign, but who has sought Beijing’s cooperation during his first 100 days in office. …