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Updated 4 hours, 20 minutes ago

Knights claim district win over Okanogan

ROYAL CITY — The Royal Knights (14-1-2) got the best of Okanogan Thursday evening with a 2-1 victory as they move …

Updated 4 years, 8 months ago
Biden eyes tougher vaccine rules without provoking backlash

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the pace of vaccinations in the U.S. first began to slow, President Joe Biden backed incentives like million-dollar cash lotteries if that's what it took to get shots in arms. But as new

Updated 4 years, 8 months ago
US sends 3K troops to Kabul to evacuate some embassy staff

WASHINGTON (AP) — With security rapidly deteriorating in Afghanistan, the United States is sending in an additional 3,000 troops to help evacuate some personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, officials said Thursd…

Updated 4 years, 8 months ago
US sends troops to Kabul to evacuate some embassy staff

WASHINGTON (AP) — With security rapidly deteriorating in Afghanistan, the United States is sending in an additional 3,000 troops to help evacuate some personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, officials said Thursd…

Updated 4 years, 8 months ago
Court: Making homeless man pay truck's towing cost excessive

SEATTLE (AP) — It was unconstitutionally excessive for Seattle to impound a homeless man’s truck and require him to reimburse the city nearly $550 in towing and storage costs, the Washington Supreme Court ruled Thu…

Updated 4 years, 8 months ago
US troops to help evacuate some embassy staff in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON (AP) — With security rapidly deteriorating in Afghanistan, the United States is evacuating some personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, and U.S. troops will be assisting at the Kabul airport, officials…

Updated 4 years, 8 months ago
US official: US troops to help evacuate embassy in Kabul

WASHINGTON (AP) — With security rapidly deteriorating in Afghanistan, the United States is sending additional troops into the country to help evacuate some personnel from the embassy in Kabul, a U.S. official said …

Updated 4 years, 8 months ago
Census shows US is diversifying, white population shrinking

The U.S. became more diverse and more urban over the past decade, and the non-Hispanic white population dropped for the first time on record, the Census Bureau reported Thursday as it released a trove of demographi…

Updated 4 years, 8 months ago
Texas senator ends 15-hour filibuster over GOP voting bill

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas state senator ended a 15-hour filibuster Thursday in the Democrats' latest defiance over new voting restrictions, but it only delayed Republicans who went on to approve the sweeping ele…

Updated 4 years, 8 months ago
Cuomo exit isn't stopping push for answers on nursing homes

Sexual harassment allegations cost New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo his job. Now, many want to see him answer for a scandal that cut to the heart of his reputation as a pandemic hero and may have had life-and-death conse…

Updated 4 years, 8 months ago
Texas senator ends 15-hour filibuster, voting bill passes

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas state senator ended a 15-hour filibuster Thursday morning in the Democrats' latest defiance over a sweeping GOP voting measure, which then passed just minutes after she wearily left the…

Updated 4 years, 8 months ago
HHS joins vaccine trend, orders shots for its health workers

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal Health and Human Services Department is requiring employees who provide care or services for patients to get their COVID-19 shots, officials announced Thursday.

Updated 4 years, 8 months ago
Greek wildfires a major ecological catastrophe, PM says

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday described the devastating wildfires that burned across the country for more than a week as the greatest ecological catastrophe Greece had s…

Updated 4 years, 8 months ago
More than 9,000 anti-Asian incidents since pandemic began

The frequency of anti-Asian incidents — from taunts to outright assaults — reported in the United States so far this year seems poised to surpass last year despite months of political and social activism, according…

Updated 4 years, 8 months ago
Hochul: I'll run for governor after finishing Cuomo's term

NEW YORK (AP) — Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who will serve out the remainder of Andrew Cuomo's term after he

Updated 4 years, 8 months ago
Belarus sprinter feels safe, looks to future in Poland

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — After all the turmoil of the last week, Krystsina Tsimanouskaya finally feels safe.