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Police in Minersville, Pa., got a letter with $5 in it. According to local TV, a driver identified as Dave paid a parking ticket from 1974. The original ticket was for $2. Dave added $3 for interest.

That's the principle behind government action in Birmingham, England. Authorities seized glasses from an unnamed restaurant chain because they found them to be 8.1 milliliters too small.

At 12:01 ET Friday, the U.S. fired the first shots in the trade war by imposing tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods. China has hit American goods with equivalent tariffs.

Sharif's daughter and son-in-law also got prison terms Friday over the scandal that doomed his premiership last year. It's unclear when the Sharifs, who are in London, would serve their penalties.

Which state really deserves the title of Peach State? The departments of agriculture in Georgia and South Carolina squared off on Twitter this week.

Dan Fesperman's Safe Houses is spy story set in both the present day and the Cold War era. Fesperman speaks with NPR's Linda Wertheimer about the book.

John Heisdorffer, president of the American Soybean Association, tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer he and his fellow farmers are concerned about the tariff war.

Multiple counties have ordered evacuations as crews work to contain fires across the state.

Because his profits are tied to rain and snow, one Oregon rancher will have to pay thousands to haul water and grass to his cattle in the mountains. And the land just continues to become more parched.

"I issue this statement reluctantly, in response to mounting media pressure," the former reporter wrote in a statement on Friday.