Bradley Klapper, Author at Valley News

FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2014 file photo, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted to a helicopter in handcuffs by Mexican navy marines at a navy hanger in Mexico City. According to Mexico's Foreign Ministry, Guzman has been extradited to the United States on Thursday, Jan. 19 2017. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Drug Lord Will Face Charges In U.S. Court

by Tom Hays Associated Press, Peter Orsi Associated Press, and Bradley Klapper Associated PressJanuary 20, 2017

New York — Infamous Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who twice escaped from maximum-security prisons in his country, was extradited at the request of the United States to face drug trafficking and other charges and arrived in New York…

Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen in Nagato, western Japan, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016. The Obama administration suggested Thursday that Putin personally authorized the hacking of Democratic officials’ email accounts in the run-up to the presidential election, which intelligence agencies believe was designed to help Donald Trump prevail. The White House also leveled an astounding attack on Trump himself, saying he must have known of Russia’s interference. (Toru Hanai/Pool Photo via AP)

Putin Said To Order Hacking

by Bradley Klapper Associated Press, and Josh Lederman Associated PressDecember 15, 2016

Making a joint statement on Yemen, with left - right, US Secretary of State John Kerry, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and UN Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, at Lancaster House in London Sunday Oct. 16, 2016. The United States and Britain expressed hope on Sunday that a cease-fire can be reached in Yemen in the coming days, as a flurry of diplomacy focused on the impoverished, war-torn country.
(JUSTIN TALLIS / Pool via AP)

Kerry Says Europe Has No Appetite for Military Action in Syria

by Bradley Klapper Associated PressOctober 16, 2016

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shake hands during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 14, 2016. (Vasily Maximov/Pool Photo via AP)

U.S. Offers Russia New Syria Deal

by Bradley Klapper Associated PressJuly 14, 2016

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2011, file photo, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton checks her Blackberry from a desk inside a C-17 military plane upon her departure from Malta, in the Mediterranean Sea, bound for Tripoli, Libya. The State Department is reopening an internal investigation of possible mishandling of classified information by Hillary Clinton and top aides. (AP Photo/Kevin Lamarque, Pool, File)

State Department Reopens Clinton Email Server Probe

by Bradley Klapper Associated PressJuly 8, 2016

FILE - This Sept. 8, 1945 picture shows an allied correspondent standing in the rubble in front of the shell of a building that once was a movie theater in Hiroshima, Japan, a month after the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was dropped by the U.S. on Monday, Aug. 6, 1945. A movement is growing worldwide to abolish nuclear weapons, encouraged by President Barack Obama's endorsement of that goal. But "realists" argue that more stability and peace must first be achieved in the world. (AP Photo/Stanley Troutman)

Hiroshima Visit Stirs Debate

by Bradley Klapper Associated Press, and Ken Moritsugu Associated PressMay 12, 2016

Iraq Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, right, receives Secretary of State John Kerry in the library at the foreign minister's villa in Baghdad, Friday, April 8, 2016. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP)

Kerry Backs Iraqi Leader; No U.S. Troop Increase

by Bradley Klapper Associated PressApril 8, 2016