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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
AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EDT

Trump visits Kenosha, calls violence 'domestic terrorism'

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
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Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
2 Saudi royals, others officials investigated for fraud

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia's top military commander in its yearslong war in Yemen and his prince son have been removed from their posts along with other officials as part of an anti-corruption …

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EDT

Trump visits Kenosha, calls violence 'domestic terrorism'

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Defying China's wrath, Czech senator delivers Taiwan speech

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Defying anger from China, the president of the Czech Republic’s Senate addressed Taiwan’s legislature on Tuesday, offering a strong rebuke of authoritarian politics and Beijing’s increasingly …

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Facing a coronavirus crisis, Israel calls in the army

RAMLE, Israel (AP) — Over a three-decade military career, Israeli Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin has led commando raids, fought in wars and even earned a degree at Harvard. But he has never seen anything quite like his lates…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Mexico's 'teflon' presidency loses some sheen but survives

MEXICO CITY (AP) — For a president with a plunging economy and the world’s fourth-highest number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths, Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador isn’t doing so badly.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Asian shares edge lower following Wall St retreat

TOKYO (AP) — Major Asian share indexes edged lower Tuesday in mostly muted trading after a retreat overnight on Wall Street.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Australia policeman faces court over Indigenous man's death

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian court began hearing arguments Tuesday in the case of a police officer accused of murdering an Indigenous man during an attempted arrest in an Outback township, including tha…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
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Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Trump wades into racial tensions with visit to Kenosha

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump dove into the latest eruption in the nation’s reckoning over racial injustice on Tuesday, touring the “destruction” left by violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and declaring …

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

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

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Duterte orders customs chief to shoot, kill drug smugglers

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte publicly ordered the country’s top customs official to shoot and kill drug smugglers in one of his most overt threats during a deadly four-year campai…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Strong typhoon sweeps southern Japan, heads to Koreas

TOKYO (AP) — A powerful typhoon blew over Japan's southernmost islands on Tuesday and was headed toward the country's main southern island and the Korean Peninsula.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
UN chief: Virus reversed fragile progress on gender equality

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened inequality between men and women and reversed “decades of limited and fragile progress on gender equality and women’s rights,” the United Nations chief said …