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New York Democrats are wading into the national redistricting wars — just don’t expect a victory before this year’s midterm elections. Democrats in the state Legislature are taking the first steps toward a plan to give themselves more control over redistricting, introducing a proposal Monday that could open the door to a new set of aggressively gerrymandered congressional lines for the 2028 elections. The measure came as Democrats in New […]

TORONTO (AP) — Canada is calling on the United States and Mexico to renew the free trade agreement between the countries for another 16 years just as U.S. President Donald Trump revives talk of making Canada the 51st state. Dominic LeBlanc, Canada’s minister for U.S. trade, sent a letter Tuesday to United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Mexico’s Secretary of Economy Marcelo Ebrard conveying Canada’s recommendation. “The Agreement is […]

PARIS, June 2 (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame on Tuesday inaugurated a memorial in Paris to honour the victims of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda. Macron said the memorial placed the genocide of the Tutsis “at the heart of our capital and our history”, and that it was “the culmination of a long and painstaking quest for the truth”. • […]

WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he has accepted an invitation to speak at the rescheduled annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on July 24. (Reporting by Daphne Psaledakis and Ismail Shakil) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Curtis Blair spent all day Friday checking his email. And Saturday. And Sunday. The list of referees that were selected to work the NBA Finals was about to be revealed by the league, and the waiting was brutal. “Every two minutes, I’d check,” Blair said. Friday, nothing. Saturday, nothing. Sunday was mostly gone and Blair was driving home from a weekend visit to his parents’ home […]

HONG KONG (AP) — General Mills is selling its Häagen-Dazs ice-cream shops in mainland China to an investor group that includes Chinese tea brand Ningji. Minneapolis-based General Mills said in a statement late Monday that the deal will allow the buyers to exclusively sell the Häagen-Dazs brand in ice cream shops and gifting businesses across mainland China. General Mills will continue to sell Häagen-Dazs ice cream to Chinese retail and […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration proposed 25% tariffs on imports from Brazil, charging that the world’s 10th-biggest economy engages in trade practices that are “unreasonable’’ and that “burden or restrict U.S. commerce.’’ The announcement late Monday came after an investigation by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, charging Brazil with lax anti-corruption enforcement and unfair tariffs of its own, among other things. U.S Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said […]

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — One of Iraq’s most powerful Iran-backed armed groups said Tuesday it would begin putting its weapons under government control, a major step in the new government’s effort to bring militias that have long operated on their own under state command. Asaib Ahl al-Haq said it had formed a committee to oversee the move, including an inventory of its fighters, weapons and equipment, and to coordinate with […]

A court in Bahrain on Tuesday sentenced a member of the Gulf kingdom’s domestic spy agency to life in prison over the in-custody death of a man arrested during the Iran war. Bahrain’s state news agency said the ruling came after investigators concluded that the unidentified National Intelligence Service officer was responsible for the man’s death. Prosecutors filed charges in April including “assault resulting in death.” The public prosecutor’s special […]