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Updated 2 weeks, 2 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
Italian prosecutor: 'Ndrangheta is top crime group in West

ROME (AP) — Italy’s top anti-mafia prosecutor said Tuesday the country's ‘Ndrangheta mob was “the most important criminal organization in the Western world,” as preliminary hearings in the biggest ever trial agains…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Few resources, old-growth forest allowed for fire's growth

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lack of firefighting resources in the hours after it was sparked allowed a fast-moving wildfire to make an unprecedented run through Southern California mountains and eventually find fuel in ol…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Election 2020, ADVISORY

Here are today’s plans for coverage of Election 2020. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s coverage, visit

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
China, top global emitter, aims to go carbon-neutral by 2060

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country will aim to stop adding to the global warming problem by 2060.

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Jailed Morocco journalist probed by court on rape charge

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A Moroccan journalist and human rights activist held by authorities for weeks on charges of undermining state security, receiving foreign funding and rape, appeared before an investigating jud…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Election 2020-Debate, ADVISORY

The first presidential debate takes place on Sept. 29 at at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. Additional presidential debates are planned for Oct. 15 and Oct. 22. The vice presidenti…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
AP News Digest 2 p.m.

Here are the AP’s latest coverage plans, top stories and promotable content. All times EDT. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s coverage, visit Coverage Plan at

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
As US struggles, Africa's COVID-19 response is praised

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At a lecture to peers this month, John Nkengasong showed images that once dogged Africa, with a magazine cover declaring it “The Hopeless Continent." Then he quoted Ghana's first president, Kwam…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
New Hampshire white nationalist on trial over rape threats

CONCORD, N.H (AP) — A white nationalist who rose to prominence during a deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, went on trial Tuesday on federal charges of threatening to rape the wife of a man who was part…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
The Latest: Canada reaches vaccine agreement with companies

LONDON — Pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi have agreed to provide Canada with up to 72 million doses of their potential COVID-19 vaccine as governments buy up supplies of unproven treatments in hopes…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Some Dems, not yet Biden, talk of expanding Supreme Court

WASHINGTON (AP) — The prospect that President Donald Trump and

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
World's top emitter China aims to go carbon neutral by 2060

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country will aim to stop pumping additional carbon dioxide, the main global warming gas, into the atmosphere by 2060.

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Iran’s president says his country is “not a bargaining chip in U.S. elections and domestic policy.”

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president says his country is “not a bargaining chip in U.S. elections and domestic policy.”

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Iran, criticizing US, compares George Floyd death to “the feet of arrogance on the neck of independent nations.”

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran, criticizing US, compares George Floyd death to “the feet of arrogance on the neck of independent nations.”

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Iran strikes defiant tone at UN under crushing US sanctions

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Grappling with a weakened economy and the Middle East's worst coronavirus outbreak, Iran's president delivered a defiant and fiery speech Tuesday to the U.N. General Assembly as h…