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Huskies claim third in districts with home win
OTHELLO — The Othello Huskies (20-4) overcame East Valley Tuesday afternoon to earn a 4-1 victory and claim third …
South Dakota's Noem taking swings at potential 2024 rivals
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Long before the first presidential nomination contest of 2024, most potential Republican candidates are just getting a sense of the political landscape, tiptoeing through early-voting states…
Top Senate Dem sets infrastructure vote, pressures lawmakers
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is pressuring lawmakers to reach agreement by next week on a pair of massive domestic spending measures, signaling Democrats’ desire to push ahead aggressively…
Analysis: How Afghan war showed limits of US military power
WASHINGTON (AP) — It took only two months for U.S. invaders to topple the Taliban in
Biden, Harris: Protect voting rights to honor John Lewis
ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday both marked the one-year anniversary of U.S. Rep. John Lewis' death by urging Congress to honor the legacy of the
European nations impose incentives, penalties to boost shots
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — European nations are scrambling to ramp up vaccination drives, using a carrot-and-stick approach to persuade the reluctant to get their shots as the more transmissible delta variant drives a s…
With virus cases rising, mask mandate back on in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County will again require masks be worn indoors in the nation's largest county, even by those vaccinated against the coronavirus, while the University of California system also said T…
Surgeon general urges US fight against COVID misinformation
U.S. Surgeon General
The Latest: Vaccinated Americans to be able to enter Canada
TORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday Canada could start allowing fully vaccinated Americans into Canada as of mid-August for non-essential travel and should be in a position to welcome fully vac…
GOP eyes Latinos in South Texas in effort to regain Congress
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — In Republicans' bid to retake control of Congress, this traditionally Democratic stretch of South Texas has quietly become a top battleground.
Biden: US will protect Haiti embassy, won't send troops
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that the U.S. will bolster security at its embassy in Haiti following last week's assassination of that country's president, but sending American troops to stabil…
The Latest: Belgium govt raises flood death toll to 20
The Latest on deadly flooding in Europe:
Biden bids Merkel farewell: Friends — with disagreements
WASHINGTON (AP) — Welcoming Angela Merkel to the White House for a final time, President Joe Biden renewed his concerns to the German chancellor Thursday about a major, nearly complete Russia-to-Germany gas pipelin…
Child tax credit starts hitting US families' bank accounts
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
AP PHOTOS: Swollen rivers smash through parts of Europe
SCHULD, Germany (AP) — Torrential rain turned normally placid rivers into raging torrents in parts of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands this week, dragging cars and roads with them, bringing down whole houses an…
3 Texas Democrats who fled elections bill vote get COVID
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three of the Democratic state lawmakers who fled Texas to stymie a Republican-backed effort to impose broad new voting restrictions have tested positive for COVID-19 and are quarantined, the Texas…