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Local gas prices fall as summer driving season continues
MOSES LAKE — Drivers in Grant and Adams counties are seeing some relief at the pump after months of steadily risin…
Mutual of Omaha replaces Indian chief logo with African lion
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Mutual of Omaha on Thursday unveiled a new corporate logo depicting an African lion, replacing the Indian chief head that had been the symbol of the insurance and financial services company for 7…
Asia Today: New Delhi cases spike again ahead of Diwali fest
NEW DELHI (AP) — India reported 47,905 new cases of coronavirus infection, with New Delhi setting another daily record Thursday.
Nissan's damages case against absent Ghosn opens in Japan
TOKYO (AP) — A civil court trial began Friday in Japan over Nissan’s demand for 10 billion yen, or $95 million, in damages from its former chairman, Carlos Ghosn.
Trump's diversity training order faces lawsuit
New York (AP) — Three civil rights groups filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging President Donald Trump's executive order that prohibits federal agencies, contractors and grant recipients from offering certain divers…
Volunteers spend Sundays to help Singapore's less fortunate
SINGAPORE (AP) — Fion Phua has been volunteering for so long, she is nicknamed Robin Hood for her efforts helping the poor. Singapore's partial lockdown as the coronavirus was spreading in April left her fretting o…
North Korea waging propaganda-heavy, 80-day labor campaign
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Before fleeing authoritarian North Korea in 2009, Kang Mi-Jin was regularly mobilized by the state for military-like productivity campaigns that were a source of both pride and pain. She w…
7 killed in factory explosion southwest of Beijing
BEIJING (AP) — Authorities say seven people have been killed and one injured in a factory explosion southwest of Beijing.
Biden has room on health care, though limited by Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is unlikely to get sweeping health care changes through a closely divided Congress, but there’s a menu of narrower actions he can choose from to make a tangible differenc…
How the Dow and other indexes fared on Thursday
U.S. stocks pulled back on Thursday, amid increasing worries about worsening coronavirus counts across the country. Markets around the world have taken a pause after galloping higher this month, at first on expecta…
Jaws Acquisition targets primary care with Cano Health deal
Primary care provider Cano Health will receive a nearly $1.5 billion infusion as investors push deeper into a growing form of care delivered to Medicare Advantage patients.
Asian shares mostly drop on worries over surging virus cases
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly traded lower Friday as rising cases of coronavirus infections in the U.S., Europe and Asia add to worries that economies will once again be hamstrung by pandemic restrictions on tra…
The Latest: NZealand mulls masks on Auckland public transit
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s government could soon make wearing masks mandatory on public transit in Auckland and on planes nationwide as it continues to investigate a new community case of the coronavir…
US investor released after 19-month house arrest in Russia
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release, after 19 months of house arrest, of a prominent American investor charged with alleged embezzlement.
US posts $284.1 billion budget deficit for October, a record for the month and double the red ink of a year ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — US posts $284.1 billion budget deficit for October, a record for the month and double the red ink of a year ago.
Critics speak out on Tokyo Olympic costs, pandemic, fairness
TOKYO (AP) — Three-time Olympic champion gymnast Kohei Uchimura wants the postponed Tokyo Olympics to happen next year. But he's also talked openly about the skepticism in Japan where enthusiasm is muted by health …