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Updated 2 weeks, 5 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, 8 months ago
Mexico: Foreigner who used racist insult can't re-enter

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico said Friday it has banned a foreign woman from re-entering the country after she was caught on video calling a woman in Mexico City a “horrible Indian.”

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
At least 12 injured in Mexico teachers' college protest

MEXICO CITY (AP) — State police in central Mexico said 11 officers were injured by student protesters Friday, while video circulated on social media showing a police bus hitting and knocking over at least one demon…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
At least 11 injured in Mexico teachers' college protest

MEXICO CITY (AP) — State police in central Mexico said 11 officers were injured by student protesters Friday, while video circulated on social media showing a police bus hitting and knocking over at least one demon…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Judge: Kanye West stays off ballot in battleground Wisconsin

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Rapper Kanye West does not qualify to be on the presidential ballot in battleground Wisconsin after missing a filing deadline, a judge ruled late Friday, upholding a bipartisan decision by the …

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
China announces new restrictions on US diplomats' activities

BEIJING (AP) — China has announced new restrictions on the activities of U.S. diplomats working in mainland China and Hong Kong, in what it called a justified response to similar measures imposed on Chinese diploma…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Tropical depression nears south Florida, set to intensify

MIAMI (AP) — A tropical depression that is expected to reach near hurricane intensity early next week formed Friday off south Florida, threatening heavy rains as it neared the peninsula.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Ex-World Anti-Doping Agency President John Fahey dies at 75

John Fahey, a former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency and a key player in getting the 2000 Summer Olympics for Sydney, has died. He was 75.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Notre Dame COVID-19 protocols bar independent photographers

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — The Associated Press and other news organizations and publishers will not have digital images from Saturday's Notre Dame's home game against Duke because of the school's COVID-19 restriction…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Venezuelan president says US spy captured near refineries

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Nicolás Maduro said Friday that Venezuelan authorities captured a U.S. spy targeting a pair of refineries on the north Caribbean coast as this nation once wealthy from oil is gri…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Amid ashes, California governor fires away on climate change

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Newsom offered some of his most impassioned comments on climate change, denouncing the “ideological BS” of those who deny the danger and vowing Friday to accelerate the sta…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Mexico rights agency faults gov't in migrant COVID-19 death

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission said Friday the country’s immigration agency was to blame in the death of a Salvadoran migrant who died of COVID-19 after a stay at a detention center in…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Collins won't say in debate who she'll vote for in November

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Democrat Sara Gideon sought to link Republican Sen. Susan Collins, of Maine, with President Donald Trump during their first debate Friday night, and she demanded several times that Collins sa…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
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Dozens missing as firefighters battle two large Oregon fires

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Farmers hold out at seized Mexican dam as tensions build

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hundreds of farmers continued to hold a remote dam in northern Mexico on Friday as time was running out for the country to catch up on payments and avoid breaching a 1944 water treaty with the Un…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
The Latest: NYC teachers union will block school reopening

NEW YORK — The New York City teachers union warns it won’t let the nation’s largest school district reopen for in-person classes this month if the city doesn’t issue protective equipment, conduct testing and clean …