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US and Iran hold separate meetings in Qatar and agree to continue discussions

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. and Iranian negotiators met separately on Wednesday with Qatari and Pakistani mediators, with “positive progress made,” and they agreed to continue discussions, host Qatar said. The next meeting will be scheduled “at the earliest possible time” after the funeral of Iran’s previous supreme leader, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Majed al-Ansari, a spokesman for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, said on X. The funeral is set to start Saturday in Tehran. U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s ...

Republican revolt against Johnson halts business in U.S. House

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U.S. House lawmakers have left town early for the July 4th holiday after legislative business in the chamber ground to a halt, the second time in weeks that Republican House leaders lost control of the floor. That leaves the chamber eight business days when it reconvenes on July 13 to tackle ...

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Amendment meant to help Delphi pensioners rejected

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A renewed effort to aid salaried Delphi retirees obtain pension benefits was thwarted Tuesday. The Dayton Daily News reported U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina., prevented the advancement of an amendment to a $1 billion spending package. Foxx chairs the House Rules Committee, where the amendment required its approval. The amendment was tied to a defense spending and policy bill. President Trump had pushed for its passage. Foxx, in an exchange with U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Dayton, said a lawmaker had objected to the measure. The lawmaker was not named. “There’s a ...

2 civil lawsuits filed in crash that killed trooper on Route 11 in Mahoning County

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YOUNGSTOWN (WKBN) – Two civil lawsuits have been filed in connection with a crash that killed a local trooper on State Route 11 in Mahoning County. Trooper Nicholas Cayton was killed in October 2025 when his cruiser was rear-ended by a Mack truck driven by a Canfield man. Cayton had stopped to assist a disabled tractor-trailer along Route 11, just south of Route 224, when the crash happened. Cayton’s estate filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court against the driver of the Mack truck and his employer, Leetonia-based Quaker City Concrete Products, their ...

Wellsville school board approves final permanent appropriations for FY26

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WELLSVILLE – During the finance portion of Monday’s Wellsville school board meeting, board members voted in favor of a motion to approve the final permanent appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and gave the approval to amend the final certificate of resources for fiscal year 2026. Board members approved the financial report including transfer and modification of funds and then and now certificates as presented to them. Other approvals under finance included a statement of compliance for federal programs regarding conflict of interest and mandatory disclosures, temporary ...