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Hispanic cultures blend at UMANI
MOSES LAKE — The range of cultures represented in downtown Moses Lake was broad: Mexican, Caribbean and South Amer…
Washington Legislature revises 3-strikes sentencing law
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington Legislature has passed a bill to resentence as many as 114 people serving life without parole under the state’s three-strikes law.
Biden orders gun control actions — but they show his limits
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden put on a modest White House ceremony Thursday to announce a half-dozen executive actions to combat what he called an “epidemic and an international embarrassment” of gun violen…
Interior secretary steps into Utah public lands tug-of-war
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — For decades, a public lands tug-of-war has played out over a vast expanse of southern Utah where red rocks reveal petroglyphs and cliff dwellings and distinctive twin buttes bulge from a grass…
Biden seems ready to extend US troop presence in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (AP) — Without coming right out and saying it, President Joe Biden seems ready to let lapse a
West Virginia transgender athlete bill wins Senate approval
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Transgender females in West Virginia would be banned from competing in female sports in middle and high schools and colleges under a bill that narrowly won state Senate approval Thursday.
Italy prosecutors: WHO exec lied about spiked virus report
ROME (AP) — Italian prosecutors say a top World Health Organization official lied to them about a spiked WHO report into Italy’s coronavirus response, revealing private communications Friday that are likely to emba…
Caitlyn Jenner considers run for California governor
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Caitlyn Jenner has been an Olympic hero, a reality TV personality and a transgender rights activist. Her next step could be candidate for California governor.
Gov. Inslee alters criteria for COVID-19 reopening phases
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Friday altered the criteria used to determine whether a county moves from one COVID-19 reopening phase to another, making it easier for counties to remain in t…
Visitors tiptoe through the tulips in Dutch virus test
LISSE, Netherlands (AP) — Finally, after bleak winter months of a coronavirus lockdown, springtime shoots of hope emerged Friday as restrictions were relaxed at a Dutch flower garden and other public venues.
Gaetz vows to fight, tries to stay on offensive amid scandal
MIAMI (AP) — The mere whiff of a scandal once unraveled political careers with stunning speed. Not anymore.
A city wrestled down an addiction crisis. Then came COVID-19
HUNTINGTON, W. Va. (AP) — Larrecsa Cox steered past the used tire shop, where a young man had collapsed a few days before, the syringe he’d used to shoot heroin still clenched in his fist.
Rioters ignore pleas for calm as violence flares in Belfast
BELFAST (AP) — Police in Northern Ireland deployed water cannons for the first time in six years Thursday as they tried to disperse protesters who hurled stones, fireworks and gasoline-filled bottles at officers du…
Biden to unveil actions on guns, including new ATF boss
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will unveil a series of executive actions aimed at addressing gun violence on Thursday, delivering his first major action on gun control since taking office.
Number of kids alone at border hits all-time high in March
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March, authorities said Thursday, the largest monthly number ever recorded and a major test for Pr…
Biden open to compromise on infrastructure, but not inaction
President Joe Biden drew a red line on his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan Wednesday, saying he is open to compromise on how to pay for the package but inaction is unacceptable.