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Cost estimates for water source alternatives given to Moses Lake City Council
MOSES LAKE — It’s going to cost a lot of money to provide alternative water sources for the city of Moses Lake, bu…
Experts warn of dangers from breach of voter system software
ATLANTA (AP) — Republican efforts questioning the outcome of the 2020 presidential race have led to voting system breaches that election security experts say pose a heightened risk to future elections.
Slain Marine who cradled baby at Kabul airport loved her job
A woman who cradled a baby in her arms at the airport and posted on social media that she loved her job. A young husband with a child on the way. Another man who always wanted to be in the military. A man who plann…
RFK assassin moves closer to freedom with help of 2 Kennedys
SAN DIEGO (AP) — California’s parole board voted Friday to free Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin after two of RFK’s sons went against several of their siblings' wishes and said they supported releasing him and prosecut…
US aims start to Bali bombing war crimes case at Guantanamo
NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (AP) — Three prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center are expected to get
Anxious tenants await assistance as evictions resume
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Six months after Congress approved spending tens of billions of dollars to bail out renters facing eviction, South Carolina was just reaching its first tenants. All nine of them.
Board says RFK assassin Sirhan changed man; grants parole
SAN DIEGO (AP) — For 15 years, Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin was denied parole by a California parole board that maintained Sirhan Sirhan did not show adequate remorse or understand the enormity of his crime that ro…
Final UK evacuation flight leaves Kabul; troops head home
LONDON (AP) — British troops left Kabul on Saturday, ending the U.K.'s evacuation operation and its 20-year military involvement in Afghanistan.
Biden pays respects to US troops killed in Afghanistan
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AP) — In hushed reverence, President Joe Biden stood witness with grieving families Sunday under a gray sky as, one by one, the remains of 13 U.S. troops killed in the Kabul suicide bomb…
Winds frustrate effort to corral wildfire near Lake Tahoe
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters battling a stubborn California wildfire Friday near the Lake Tahoe resort region faced gusty winds and dry conditions that made vegetation ready to burn.
Supreme Court allows evictions to resume during pandemic
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's conservative majority is allowing evictions to resume across the United States, blocking the Biden administration from enforcing a temporary ban that was put in place because o…
Oregon counties request trucks for bodies as deaths climb
BEND, Ore. (AP) — The death toll from COVID-19 in Oregon is climbing so rapidly in some counties that the state has organized delivery of one refrigerated truck to hold the bodies and is sending a second one, the s…
The Latest: New Zealand has first big case drop in 2 weeks
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The number of new coronavirus cases in New Zealand has fallen significantly for the first time since an outbreak was detected nearly two weeks ago.
The Latest: New Zealand reports 1st virus vaccine death
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand has reported its first coronavirus vaccine death.
EXPLAINER: How wildfire camps keep crews ready for battle
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Empty cow pastures on one day can be bustling with hundreds of firefighters the next as fire camps with colorful tent cities spring up.
US airlifts aid to Haiti to reach areas hardest hit by quake
JEREMIE, Haiti (AP) — U.S. military aircraft are now ferrying food, tarps and other material into southern Haiti amid a shift in the international relief effort to focus on helping people in the areas hardest hit b…