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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…
AP Week in Pictures, Latin America & Caribbean
AUG. 21-27, 2020
Anti-government protesters in Thailand tussle with police
BANGKOK (AP) — Anti-government protesters tussled with police in the Thai capital on Friday as 15 leaders of their movement turned themselves in at a police station to answer a summons linked to a demonstration las…
AP Week in Pictures: Asia
AUG. 21-27, 2020
Lottery State-by-State
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Asia Today: South Korea tightens distancing as cases mount
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea is tightening social distancing restrictions in the greater capital area, requiring restaurants to provide only deliveries and takeouts after 9 p.m. and shutting down gyms and …
Reports: Abe expresses intent to step down due to health
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed intention to step down, citing his declining health, according to Japan's NHK television and other media.
Teen charged in Kenosha shootings that killed 2, wounded 1
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors on Thursday charged a 17-year-old from Illinois in the fatal shooting of two protesters and the wounding of a third in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during a night of unrest following the wee…
Israel strikes Gaza after Palestinian militants fire rockets
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military says it struck militant targets in Gaza, including a weapons manufacturing site, after six rockets were fired from the territory early Friday.
Weather slows California wildfires; thousands allowed home
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California wildfires were slowly being corralled Friday as cooler, humid weather and reinforcements aided firefighters and tens of thousands of people were allowed back home after days of death…
Japan’s NHK and other media say Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed his intention to step down, citing his health
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s NHK and other media say Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed his intention to step down, citing his health.
With improving virus data, California looks to reopen again
LOS ANGELS (AP) — California is poised to take another halting step toward normalcy with Gov. Gavin Newsom expected to announce plans for reopening businesses that were shuttered in July amid soaring coronavirus ca…
Trump lashes Biden, defies pandemic on White House stage
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump blasted Joe Biden as a hapless career politician who will endanger Americans’ safety as he accepted his party’s renomination on the South Lawn of the White House. While the …
Thousands expected at March on Washington commemorations
WASHINGTON (AP) — Capping a week of protests and outrage over the police shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin, civil rights advocates will highlight the scourge of police and vigilante violence against Black Americ…
Some Californians didn't get evacuation alerts in wildfires
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Debra DeAngelo went to sleep, she thought the flames chewing through Northern California wine country were too far away to be dangerous. Plus, she had signed up for all the alerts that eme…
The Latest: Reported tornado in Arkansas spins off Laura
The Latest on Laura: