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Updated 1 week, 6 days ago

Gas prices climb across WA through April

MOSES LAKE — Gas prices across Washington continued their upward trajectory throughout April, mirroring national v…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
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TRUMP TAXES — Table. This digital embed shows earnings and federal taxes paid by U.S. presidents from 1989 to 2015. This table is current as of Sept. 28, 2020 and will not update. Sources: White House; efile.com.

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Democrats try to stick to health care in Supreme Court fight

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are confronting the limits of their power as they fight against the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett with a strategy aimed at avoiding costly mistakes that could hurt the pa…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Quebec, Ontario in second COVID-19 wave; restrictions return

TORONTO (AP) — Quebec is returning to a stepped-up lockdown in two of its biggest cities and the premier of Canada’s most populous province said he’s looking at all options after Ontario reported a record number of…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Gunmen on motorcycle kill journalist in Honduras

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot to death a journalist in Honduras who had worked in radio and television before starting his own social media information channel.

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Ethics experts see national security concern in Trump's debt

WASHINGTON (AP) — Revelations that President Donald Trump is personally liable for more than $400 million in debt are casting a shadow that ethics experts say raises national security concerns he could be manipulat…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
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Trump's tax revelation could tarnish image that fueled rise

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
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Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Commerce secretary says 2020 U.S. census will end Oct. 5, despite judge ordering it to continue to end of October

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Commerce secretary says 2020 U.S. census will end Oct. 5, despite judge ordering it to continue to end of October.

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
US official: 2020 census to end Oct. 5 despite court order

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross says the

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Cyberattack hobbles major US/UK hospital chain

WASHINGTON (AP) — Computer systems across a major hospital chain operating in the U.S. and Britain were down Monday due to what the company termed an unspecified technology “security issue.”

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
3 hurt when small plane crashes northwest of Austin, Texas

LAGO VISTA, Texas (AP) — Three people were injured when their single-engine plane crashed in a wooded area northwest of Austin on Monday afternoon, Texas authorities said.

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
More fires in California destroy homes, prompt evacuations

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Northern California's wine country was on fire again Monday as strong winds fanned flames in the already scorched region, destroying homes and prompting overnight evacuation orders involving mo…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
AP launches Looking For America, a road trip across the U.S.

More than 200,000 coronavirus deaths. Economic meltdown. Ongoing protests over racial bias.

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Lawyer for Huawei CFO says US evidence misleading

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Lawyers for a senior executive for Chinese technology giant Huawei Technologies argued in a Canadian courtroom Monday that U.S. authorities used a misleading summary that “cherry …

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Mexico to close prison famous for drug lord escape

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico announced Monday it will close the “Puente Grande” federal prison made famous by the 2001 escape of convicted drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.