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Trump meets with top Putin envoy at the White House

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump met at the White House on Thursday with a Russian envoy who was on the premises for an event with first lady Melania Trump and suggested that some kind of grand deal about European security was in the works, but said he did not meet with visiting ...

Iran’s leaders say US voters have rejected Trump’s war

Iranians on Wednesday struck a defiant tone, celebrating U.S. voters' rebuke of President Donald Trump in the midterm elections while many in the Middle East waited to see how the results could affect the Iran war. Concerns about the war, particularly frustration over rising prices for ...

Israel’s president takes first steps on building new government

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday accepted the certified results of last week's parliamentary elections as legally binding and began consultations with party representatives on forming a new government. The move dealt a blow to Prime Minister Benjamin ...

Grizzlies may have attacked mother and daughter found dead

(AP) — More than one grizzly may have been involved in a bear attack that relatives say left a mother and daughter dead in Bella Coola along the province's central coast, the Conservation Officer Service in British Columbia said. The service's Inspector Jeff Tyre said in a video ...

Vance says US has had ‘good conversations’ with Iran

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance offered measured optimism on Monday that a deal can still be struck to prevent President Donald Trump from following through on his threat to potentially order new strikes on Iran after the crucial midterm elections in the United ...

Difficult negotiations lie ahead in Israel

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's final election results confirmed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies lost their parliamentary majority and that weeks of difficult negotiations among very different parties, from ultra-Orthodox Jewish to secular to Arab-led, lie ahead. The results ...