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OSAKA, Japan (AP) — President Donald Trump is inviting North Korea's Kim Jong Un to shake hands during a visit to the demilitarized zone with South Korea. Trump is scheduled to visit South Korea later Saturday after meetings at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan. Trump tweets that "if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!" Their summit in Vietnam this year collapsed without an agreement for denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.
OSAKA, Japan (AP) — President Donald Trump says he believes the U.S. and China can "do something" that will be "truly monumental" as he and China's Xi Jinping meet on the sidelines of a world leaders' conference in Japan. Trump is urging the Chinese leader to "even it up" on trade at start of talks on tariffs disputes. And he says, "it would be historic" if the sides could reach "a fair trade deal."
OSAKA, Japan (AP) — President Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping are meeting Saturday in Osaka, Japan, as the trade war between two economic titans faces a critical junction. Both the U.S. and China are signaling a desire to de-escalate the year-long conflict, yet seem unwilling to compromise. The meeting will take place on the sidelines of the international Group of 20 summit. Trump is also meeting Saturday with Saudi Arabia's Mohammad Bin Salman and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's attorney general says he expects to appeal a federal judge's ruling blocking a state law that would ban a second-trimester abortion procedure. The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana sued on behalf of two doctors who perform such abortions. Attorney General Curtis Hill says he still believes Indiana "has a compelling interest in protecting the value and dignity of fetal life by banning a particularly brutal and inhumane procedure."
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — An avowed white supremacist who drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters during a white nationalist rally in Virginia has been sentenced to life on hate crime charges. James Alex Fields Jr. of Maumee, Ohio, was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty in March to federal hate crime charges in an attack that killed one person and injured more than two dozen others. Fields apologized before he was sentenced.
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