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Minor injuries, mobile home destroyed in Moses Lake fire Sunday
MOSES LAKE — One person sustained minor injuries when a mobile home was destroyed by fire in Cascade Valley early …
White House calling out critics of door-to-door vaccine push
WASHINGTON (AP) — “A disservice to the country.” “Inaccurate disinformation.” “Literally killing people.”
Eyeing another run, Grassley shows Iowans he's keeping up
SIOUX CENTER, Iowa (AP) — In dress shirts and pants, Chuck Grassley and Tom Cotton dropped to their knees on stage at a recent Iowa Republican Party fundraiser and began pumping out pushups. The 87-year-old Iowa se…
Seattle officer's overtime case shows gaps in monitoring
SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle civilian police watchdog group has found that an officer repeatedly worked over 90 hours a week and earned so much overtime that he was the highest-paid city employee one year at more than …
Biden fires holdover head of Social Security Administration
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday fired the commissioner of Social Security after the official refused to resign, and Biden accepted the deputy commissioner's resignation, the White House said.
More competition: Biden signs order targeting big business
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday targeting what he labeled anticompetitive practices in tech, health care and other parts of the economy, declaring it would fortify an Ameri…
Police testimony will lead off panel's first Jan. 6 hearing
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol is expected to hold its first public hearing this month with police officers who responded to the attack and custodial st…
Biden signs competition order targeting big business
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday targeting what he labeled anticompetitive practices in tech, health care and other parts of the economy, declaring it would fortify an Ameri…
Colombia describes travel by suspects in Haiti assassination
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Colombians implicated in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse were recruited by four companies and traveled to the Caribbean nation in two groups via the Dominican R…
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here…
FDA head calls for inquiry into Alzheimer's drug review
WASHINGTON (AP) — The acting head of the Food and Drug Administration on Friday called for a government investigation into highly unusual contacts between her agency's drug reviewers and the maker of a controversia…
FDA head calls for probe into Alzheimer's drug review
WASHINGTON (AP) — The acting head of the Food and Drug Administration on Friday called for a government investigation into highly unusual contacts between some of her agency's drug reviewers and the maker of a cont…
Biden tells Putin Russia must crack down on cybercriminals
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call that he must “take action” against cybercriminals acting in his country and that the U.S. reserves the right to “defen…
As frustration mounts, a White House push on voting rights
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a call to “save American democracy,” the Biden administration has unveiled new efforts to protect access to the ballot amid rising complaints from civil rights activists and other Democrats…
More suspects arrested in assassination of Haitian president
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian authorities have made more arrests in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, raiding Taiwan's Embassy where several suspects are believed to have sought refuge, while als…
France to pull more than 2,000 troops from Africa's Sahel
PARIS (AP) — France will withdraw more than 2,000 troops from an anti-extremism force in Africa’s Sahel region by early next year and pivot its military presence to specialized regional forces instead, President Em…