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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
Delta joins United in dropping most change fees for US trips

This could be the final boarding call for the $200 ticket-change fee that has enraged so many U.S. airline travelers over the past decade.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Hamas says deal reached to calm violence with Israel

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s Hamas rulers said Monday they have reached an agreement through international mediators to end the latest round of cross-border violence with Israel.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Liberty University announces independent investigation into school operations during Jerry Falwell Jr.'s tenure

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Liberty University announces independent investigation into school operations during Jerry Falwell Jr.'s tenure.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Venezuelan government says it is pardoning 110 opponents

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Venezuelan government said Monday that it had pardoned more than 100 political opponents, including some who are in prison, took refuge in foreign embassies in Caracas or fled the coun…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Horse racing leaders move to set national safety standards

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Looking to halt doping scandals and horse deaths marring their sport, thoroughbred racing leaders Monday announced the launch of an integrity and safety authority to create national standards …

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
2 shootings, 2 days: In Kenosha, a microcosm of US strife

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A Black man, accosted by police on a domestic dispute call, is left with bullet wounds in his back that will likely keep him from ever walking again. A white 17-year-old, rifle in hand, strolls…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Cheers and fears: Kids yearn for class, teachers are uneasy

BRUSSELS (AP) — In a world turned upside down by the coronavirus pandemic, rarely have so many kids relished the end of their summer vacations — and rarely have so many teachers faced such anxiety as school bells r…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Slain St. Louis officer was eighth shot this year

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis police officer killed over the weekend was among eight officers who have been shot during an extraordinarily violent year in the city.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Some see age-old playbook in new Tennessee protest law

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee now leads the nation in criminalizing common protest tactics, with penalties including the denial of voting rights for pitching a tent on the Capitol grounds. But outrage over raci…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
The Latest: Most Rhode Island schools cleared to reopen soon

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Gov. Gina Raimondo says every public school district in Rhode Island except two has been given the go-ahead to resume in-person classes when schools reopen in September.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Diplomats say US veto likely on UN anti-terrorism resolution

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is voting on a resolution calling for the prosecution, rehabilitation and reintegration of all those engaged in terrorism-related activities, but U.N. diplomats say a…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
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Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Supporters of ex-Ivory Coast president submit his candidacy

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Supporters of Ivory Coast’s ex-president Laurent Gbagbo have submitted his documents to the electoral commission to get him registered as a candidate in the October elections, although h…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
'Antifa hunter' gets 3 years for online racist threats

A Florida man who called himself “the Antifa hunter” as he waged an online campaign to terrorize and harass those who opposed his white supremacist ideology was sentenced on Monday to more than three years in priso…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Pandemic's effect on remittances to Latin America varied

MEXICO CITY (AP) — As the COVID-19 pandemic froze the United States economy, not all Latin American immigrants living there were affected equally, a look at the money they sent back to their birthplaces reveals.