Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman says ‘there will be no meetings or negotiations’ with US officials a
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman says ‘there will be no meetings or negotiations’ with US officials at G-7 summit.
Arkansas, home to supremacist groups, weighs hate crimes law
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Long before a mass shooting killed 22 people at a Walmart in Texas, the threat of white supremacy was well known in neighboring Arkansas, where extremist groups over the decades have made their home in the mountains and dense woods of the state’s remote rural …
Report: Farms generated $5.7B for New York economy in 2017
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – A new report from New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli finds that farms generated $5.7 billion for the state’s economy in 2017.
The report released Thursday found that milk continues to dominate as the state’s largest single commodity, with $2.5 billion in sales in 2017.
While …
Time names Comedy Center one of ‘World’s Greatest Places’
JAMESTOWN, N.Y. (AP) – The National Comedy Center in western New York is on Time Magazine’s annual list of must-see destinations.
Time’s 2019 list of the “World’s 100 Greatest Places” includes the center in Jamestown as one of nine sites to visit in the United States. The list is in …
Stephen Goss, appeals judge, found shot dead behind Georgia home
ALBANY, Ga. — An appeals judge in Georgia was found Saturday shot dead behind his Albany home, but officials do not believe it was a homicide.
Albany police were dispatched to the residence and found Judge Stephen Goss, 60, in a wooded area dead from a gunshot wound, news outlets …
Stephanie Grisham: Trump China trade war regrets ‘greatly misinterpreted’
The White House says President Donald Trump’s only regret in escalating the trade war with China was in not being more aggressive.
Press secretary Stephanie Grisham says Trump was “greatly misinterpreted” earlier Sunday when he was asked if he had any second thoughts about escalating the trade war with China. …
G-7 cracks emerge on Iran as Trump contests French role
BIARRITZ, France (AP) – The first fissures emerged among G-7 leaders on Sunday over how to deal with Iran, as U.S. President Donald Trump denied he had signed on to an agreement on giving France a leading role as a go-between with the world’s major democracies.
Trump had tried to …
International Emergency Economic Powers Act fuels Donald Trump China trade ‘order’
BIARRITZ, France — President Donald Trump is threatening to use the emergency authority granted by a powerful but obscure federal law to make good on his tweeted “order” to U.S. businesses to cut ties in China amid a spiraling trade war between the two nations.
China’s announcement Friday that it …
The Latest: Iran: No damage from Israeli strikes in Syria
BEIRUT (AP) – The Latest on the reported crash of two Israeli drones in Lebanon, following Israeli attacks on Iranian targets in neighboring Syria (all times local):
11:15 a.m.
An Iranian general says Israeli strikes in Syria did not cause any damage or casualties among Iranian forces there.
The semi-official …
IS mortar attack on soccer field kills 6 in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) – Police in Iraq say Islamic State militants have fired mortar rounds at a soccer field near a Shiite shrine, killing six civilians and wounding nine others.
The attack occurred late Saturday in the village of Daquq, in Iraq’s northern Kirkuk province, as people were exercising.
Police officials …