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Interest rates hold back home sales in the Basin, statewide
MOSES LAKE — High interest rates are slowing down sales in the Basin real estate market. The average monthly ra…
Asia Today: South Korea to let fans watch sports live again
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will allow baseball fans to return to the stands beginning Sunday as health authorities outlined a phased process to bring back spectators in professional sports amid the COVID…
South Africa's excess deaths surge as virus like 'wildfire'
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Global hot spot South Africa is seeing a “huge discrepancy” between confirmed COVID-19 deaths and an unusually high number of excess deaths from natural causes, while Africa’s top health officia…
Review fast tracked for Nevada vanadium mine, 1st in the US
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Invoking President Trump’s executive order streamlining environmental reviews of projects critical to U.S. security, federal land managers have launched an expedited permitting process for the fir…
Southwest, American tighten mask rules; Delta widens testing
DALLAS (AP) — Delta Air Lines will provide at-home coronavirus tests for some employees, while Southwest and American will tighten their rules on face masks by ending exceptions for medical reasons.
Greece will do 'whatever necessary' in dispute with Turkey
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece warned Thursday it will do “whatever is necessary” to defend its sovereign rights in response to plans by neighboring Turkey to proceed with an oil-and-gas research mission south of Gre…
Enbridge contractor vessels may have bumped pipeline support
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Recent damage that prompted the temporary shutdown of an Enbridge oil pipeline in a channel linking two of the Great Lakes may have been done by vessels working for the company, accordin…
Coronavirus impact saps AT&T in 2Q; hit to WarnerMedia
The coronavirus sapped $2.8 billion in revenue from AT&T in its most recent quarter, mostly in its WarnerMedia TV and film division. Its satellite TV business, DirecTV, continued to bleed customers.
California men charged with $10M worldwide fraud scheme
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Three California men were charged with running a phony securities scheme that defrauded investors around the world out of more than $10 million, authorities said Thursday.
Nebraska got lethal injection drugs from Omaha-area pharmacy
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The owner of a pharmacy that provided drugs to Nebraska for use in a 2018 execution expressed remorse Thursday for making the sale, but acknowledged that he knew prison officials wanted them fo…
Man guilty of giving escort employer credit card sentenced
CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois man who claims his 2012 divorce prompted him to go on a binge that included alcohol, prostitutes and giving a woman his corporate credit card used to finance an opulent lifestyle and rack…
Mexico opens anti-monopoly probe amid oxygen price rise
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s anti-monopoly commission said Thursday it looking into possible price-fixing or monopolistic practices in the market for medical oxygen, after pharmacies reported a spike in prices and d…
Enbridge contractor vessels may have bumped pipeline support
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Recent damage that prompted the temporary shutdown of an Enbridge oil pipeline in a channel linking two of the Great Lakes may have been done by vessels working for the company, accordin…
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak slams YouTube for scam videos
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is launching a legal attack against Google's YouTube video site for allowing con artists to use him as a pawn in a Bitcoin scam believed to have heisted milli…
White House drops payroll tax cut after GOP allies object
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday reluctantly dropped his bid to cut Social Security payroll taxes as Republicans stumbled anew in efforts to unite around a $1 trillion COVID-19 rescue package to…
S&P 500 has biggest loss in nearly 4 weeks as tech stumbles
NEW YORK (AP) — Slumping stocks across most of Wall Street sent the S&P 500 to its worst loss in nearly four weeks on Thursday, undercut by a report showing layoffs are picking up across the country with coronaviru…