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Updated 3 weeks, 1 day 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
Virtual learning in Miami-Dade halted by cyberattack, glitch

MIAMI (AP) — A cyberattack and a software glitch plagued Florida's largest school district during the first two days of its virtual start to the school year, officials said Tuesday.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
AP Analysis: Trump bets presidency on 'law and order' theme

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — After struggling for much of the year to settle on a clear and concise reelection message, President Donald Trump appears to have found his 2020 rallying cry.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Migrants trying to reach Europe pushed to deadly Atlantic

FUERTEVENTURA, Spain (AP) — The only person who wasn’t crying on the boat was 2-year-old Noura.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Rains hit southern Japan island as Koreas ready for typhoon

TOKYO (AP) — An offshore typhoon brought torrents of rain to southern Japan on Wednesday heading to the Korean Peninsula as another storm in the Pacific was growing stronger.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
5 things to know about Japan's World War II surrender

TOKYO (AP) — World War II ended 75 years ago, but not all countries commemorate it on the same day. Wednesday is the anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States, when documents …

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
US Forecast

US Forecast for Thursday, September 3, 2020

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Lottery State-by-State-All

The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Wednesday:

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer, guilty of war crimes, dies at 77

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer, who admitted overseeing the torture and killings of as many as 16,000 Cambodians while running the regime’s most notorious prison, has died. Kaing Guek Ea…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EDT

CDC tells states: Be ready to distribute vaccines on Nov. 1

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
US agents seize record $27M in cash on ship bound for USVI

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Federal authorities announced Tuesday that they seized $27 million in undeclared cash aboard a ship bound for the U.S. Virgin Islands, the largest such seizure ever in the region.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Decision day: Magnolia or shield for new Mississippi flag?

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A commission on Wednesday is choosing a single proposal to replace a state flag that Mississippi retired because the 126-year-old banner included the Confederate battle emblem that's widely se…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
The Latest: India's daily surges making it world's epicenter

India registered 78,357 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, raising its total over 3.7 million as the government eases pandemic restrictions nationwide to help the battered economy.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
World Bank-funded dam in Lebanon mirrors governance crisis

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's Bisri Valley lies on a green fertile bed, a spot that has cradled civilizations dating as far back as the Bronze Age. Its expansive lands of pine, citrus trees and ancient ruins are threaten…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Swiss authority opens case against Credit Suisse over spying

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland's financial market oversight body said Wednesday that it has opened “enforcement proceedings” against Credit Suisse in the wake of a spying scandal that has marred the image of the elite b…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Migrants trying to reach Europe pushed to deadly Atlantic

CANARY ISLANDS, Spain (AP) — CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN— Migrants are increasingly crossing a treacherous part of the Atlantic Ocean to reach the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago near West Africa, in what has becom…