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Updated 4 weeks 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
Berlin security services: Highway attacker wasn't on radar

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities said Thursday that a 30-year-old man accused of deliberately driving his car into other vehicles along a major Berlin highway wasn't previously on the security services' radar.

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Rappers, activists arrested in crackdown on Thai protests

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai police arrested nine pro-democracy activists, including two rappers, in a crackdown on growing protests that have emerged as the most serious threat to the government led by a former army genera…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
AP News in Brief at 6:04 a.m. EDT

Democrats pound their message: To oust Trump, you must vote

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Mali army Col. Assimi Goita says he's in charge of junta

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A colonel in Mali's army says he's now in charge of the West African country, declaring himself chairman of the junta that forced the democratically elected but unpopular president to resign.

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Video of 2018 police action during detention shocks Belgium

BRUSSELS (AP) — The government has reacted with shock to released images of a fatal 2018 police intervention in which a Slovak man died after he was put in detention. Pictures show an officer sitting on his chest w…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
State TV says Iran unveiled 2 new missiles

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state TV is reporting the country has unveiled two new missiles amid heightened tensions between Iran and the United States.

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
The Nation's Weather

The Nation's Weather for Friday, August 21, 2020

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Global shares retreat after Fed minutes bring reality check

TOKYO (AP) — Global stock markets fell Thursday after minutes to the last meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve laid out the challenges facing the economy during the coronavirus pandemic.

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Islamic State bride sold her wedding present: an AK47

BERLIN (AP) — A German woman who joined the Islamic State group fell on such hard times that she had to sell her wedding present, an AK47 rifle, according to prosecutors in Germany.

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
North Korea sets rare party meeting after economic shortfall

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — With unusual candor, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un admitted that U.S.-led sanctions, the pandemic and devastating floods have hurt his country's dismal economy as his ruling party schedu…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Lottery State-by-State

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

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Russia's Navalny in coma in ICU after alleged poisoning

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is in a coma and on a ventilator in a hospital intensive care unit after falling ill from suspected poisoning that his allies believe is linked to his poli…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Aspiring UK medical students in limbo because of exam fiasco

LONDON (AP) — Chris Byrne and Khadijah E. Olonade worked hard to get into medical school, but the computer said no.

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Lottery State-by-State-All

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

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Science Says: People stoking brew that makes California burn

If you want to build a fire, you need three things: Ignition, fuel and oxygen. But wildfire in California is a much more complex people-stoked witch’s brew.