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Updated 3 weeks, 4 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
AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EDT

'How dare we not vote?' Black voters organize after DC march

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Trump to head to Louisiana as Hurricane Laura cleanup starts

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — The angry storm surge has receded and the clean up has begun from Hurricane Laura, but officials along this shattered stretch of Louisiana coast are warning returning residents they will fa…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
The Latest: First batch of Beijing students resumes classes

BEIJING — About one-third of students returned to school in the Chinese capital on Saturday in a staggered start to the new school year because of the coronavirus.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Laura victims may go weeks without power; US deaths reach 14

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — The Louisiana coastline devastated by Hurricane Laura began a long and gloomy recovery Friday as hundreds of thousands of people still without water and power confronted the possibility tha…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Kenosha police union gives its version of Blake shooting

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Kenosha police union on Friday offered the most detailed accounting to date on officers' perspective of the moments leading up to police shooting Jacob Blake seven times in the back, saying…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
World leaders praise Japan PM Abe's contributions to ties

World leaders wished Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a rapid recovery and praised his contributions to bilateral relations during his years as Japan's longest-serving leader. Abe announced Friday that he is step…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
The Latest: U of Alabama infections since return top 1,000

ALABAMA — The University of Alabama reported Friday that an additional 481 students have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to more than 1,000 infections since students returned to campus for the fall.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
A wobble, luck and preparations lessened Laura's devastation

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Hurricane Laura was a monster storm that could have, even should have, wreaked much more destruction than it did, except for a few lucky breaks and some smart thinking by Gulf Coast residen…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Shinzo Abe -- aka 'Super Mario' -- loses out on Olympics

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was a star at the closing ceremony of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, parading before a sellout crowd at the Maracana Stadium as Nintendo game character Super Mario.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
For health workers, the pandemic Tour de France is a big ask

NICE, France (AP) — Surely too busy racing to notice, the 176 riders who

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

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

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Prosecutors to seek stiff penalties for cops in Floyd death

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Prosecutors in the case against four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd intend to seek stiff sentences if the men are convicted, saying in court documents…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Health experts decry Trump's shunning of virus rules

WASHINGTON (AP) — Public health experts expressed concern Friday about President Donald Trump's largely mask-free, socially un-distanced

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
UN council approves cut in Lebanon peacekeepers as US sought

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Friday cutting the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon and expanding its mandate to address U.S. and Israeli concerns about …

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Venezuelan politician jailed in 2018 drone attack sent home

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan authorities have released an opposition politician to home detention two years after being jailed on suspicion of taking part in a failed drone attack on President Nicolás Madur…