AP Headline News May 20 2019 07:00 (EDT)

 

AP Radio News. I'm Rita Foley.

 

President Trump says he doesn't want a war.

"I just don't want them to have nuclear weapons and they can't be threatening us."

President is tweeting a new warning to Iran after a rocket landed near the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. Apparently fired from an area friendly to Iran. AP correspondent Jon Gambrell is overseas.

We're not sure if this is what sparked a tweet from U.S. President Donald Trump but in the hours afterwards Trump tweeted quote "If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again!"

In an interview that aired last night, the President spoke to Fox News Channel.

"With all of everything that's going on and I'm not one that believes, you know, I'm not somebody that wants to go into war."

But congress woman Tulsi Gabbard is among the Democrats wondering about the President and his administration.

"They're setting the stage for a war with Iran that would prove to be far more costly, far more devastating and dangerous than anything that we saw in the Iraq war. A war that I served in."

She was on ABC's This Week.

 

One woman says it's a scary time for everybody. She was among the protestors who marched to Alabama State Capitol yesterday. The protest to new abortion law set to take effect in a few months. The law bans most abortions.

 

A tornado may have hit Ville Platte, Louisiana over the weekend. The bad weather knocked down trees and utility poles. Governor John Bel Edwards has a warning for those who are beginning the clean-up.

"Quite often in these types of natural disasters, when that's the case, we will have a serious accident or even a fatality when individuals go out and start to clean up."

Severe thunderstorms that moved across Michigan spawned a weak tornado that damaged barns and knocked down trees. No injuries in Barry County, Michigan. This is AP Radio News.

 

Game of thrones is over. Well, maybe not.

Even as prople debate how the finale went down, there's already talk about what might be next for Game of thrones. The HBO series is based on the books by George R.R. Martin while the series went beyond the books he's already written. He's working on 2 more. There's a good chance they can be mind for some new material for a possible sequel. For those who wanna look back instead of forward, HBO says there's already a pilot in the works set in the same realm only thousands of years earlier. I'm Oscar Wells Gabriel.

 

A Colorado man who survived the Columbine school shooting in 1999 has died. 37-year-old Austin Eubanks died at his home in Steamboats Springs. There were no signs of foul play says authorities. They're going to do an autopsy today to determine the cause of death. His family has issued a statement saying they're beyond shocked and saddened. Rita Foley, AP Radio News.