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Updated 3 weeks, 5 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, 9 months ago
Scientists say Hong Kong man got coronavirus a second time

University of Hong Kong scientists claim to have the first evidence of someone being reinfected with the virus that causes COVID-19.

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
UN cautions that virus plasma treatment still experimental

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization on Monday cautioned that using blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors to treat other patients is still considered an experimental therapy, voicing the concern as a U.S. boo…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
The Latest: Trump says Americans can go to polls amid virus

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on this week's

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
St. Louis couple, in RNC speech, to defend show of weapons

O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A white St. Louis couple criminally charged for waving guns during a Black Lives Matter protest outside their home will make the case in their opening night speech of the Republican National Co…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Professor, NASA researcher accused of concealing China ties

WASHINGTON (AP) — A NASA researcher and Texas A&M University professor has been charged with accepting federal grant money while hiding work he was doing for a university established by the Chinese government as we…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
New federal data: fewer kids in US foster care system

The number of children in the U.S. foster care system has dropped for a second year in a row, and a record number of children in the child welfare system were able to find adoptive homes, according to new federal d…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Police shooting of Black man stirs unrest in Wisconsin city

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Kenosha became the nation’s latest flashpoint city in a summer of racial unrest after police shot and wounded a Black man, apparently in the back, as he leaned into his SUV while his three chil…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Israeli government faces uncertainty ahead of Knesset vote

JERUSALEM (AP) — The fate of Israel’s fractious coalition government was up in the air on Monday, hours before a critical vote on whether to dissolve the alliance and force new elections.

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
The Latest: Spain adds thousands of new coronavirus cases

MADRID — Fearing an even sharper surge in coronavirus infections with the opening of the school year in September, some Spanish regions moved Monday to impose new measures against the spread of the pandemic, includ…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Mali junta insists president did not resign under duress

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The military junta now in charge of Mali insisted Monday that former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita had resigned of his own free will and was not overthrown, as the officers now running the co…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
NY AG probes if President Trump inflated assets for loans

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s Democratic attorney general asked a court Monday to enforce subpoenas into an investigation into whether President Donald Trump and his businesses inflated assets on financial statements.

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Facebook to pay $125 million in back taxes to France

PARIS (AP) — Facebook’s French subsidiary has agreed to pay 106 million euros ($125 million) in back taxes and penalties following persistent government efforts to get online giants to pay more taxes where they mak…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Teen identified as victim in fatal mall shooting, 2 arrested

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The victim of a fatal Kentucky mall shooting was identified Monday as a 17-year-old boy and two people associated with him were arrested and charged with tampering with evidence, authorities …

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
California high court rejects Scott Peterson's death penalty

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Supreme Court on Monday overturned the 2005 death sentence for Scott Peterson in the slaying of his pregnant wife, but said prosecutors may try again for the same sentence i…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Canadian man pleads guilty in human smuggling case on border

A Montreal man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge that he led an organization that smuggled people into the U.S. from Canada along the Vermont and New York borders, court records show.