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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…

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

Federal virus money slow to trickle to local public health

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
EU chief convenes emergency video summit to discuss Belarus elections and post-poll violence

BRUSSELS (AP) — EU chief convenes emergency video summit to discuss Belarus elections and post-poll violence.

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
5 things to know today

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
2020 Watch: Democrats begin their all-virtual convention

NEW YORK (AP) — Presidential politics move fast. What we’re watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign:

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
EU president calls emergency summit on Belarus elections

MINSK, Belarus (AP) — European Council President Charles Michel on Monday convened an emergency summit of EU leaders to discuss the presidential election in Belarus and the crackdown in the wake of the polls.

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Israeli forces shoot, wound deaf Palestinian at checkpoint

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli security guards on Monday shot and wounded a Palestinian who is deaf and couldn't hear their commands to stop at a West Bank checkpoint, police said, while a suspected Palestinian attacker …

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Protests resume in Belarus demanding president to resign

MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Several thousand factory workers took to the streets of Minsk on Monday, demanding the resignation of authoritarian Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. It was the ninth straight day of …

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
3 Texas officers shot by gunman, who holds 3 people in home

Three police officers were shot and a man remained barricaded inside a home with three of his family members in a suburb of Austin, Texas, authorities said.

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Japan's leader goes to hospital, raising health concerns

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe went to a hospital on Monday for what Japanese media said was a regular health checkup, although the visit generated renewed worries about his health.

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
South Korea pastor tests positive amid virus spike at church

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A conservative South Korean pastor who has been a bitter critic of the country's president has tested positive for the coronavirus, health authorities said Monday, two days after he partic…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
The Latest: India's total coronavirus death toll tops 50,000

NEW DELHI — India's number of reported fatalities from the coronavirus has crossed 50,000 after 941 new deaths were reported in the past 24 hours.

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Sons use e-books to help virus-stricken dad, other patients

LONDON (AP) — Geoff Woolf gave his sons a love for literature. When he got sick with COVID-19, they turned to books to help him — and others.

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
German police investigated after pinning youth with knee

BERLIN (AP) — German police have opened an internal investigation of a weekend incident caught on video in which two Duesseldorf police officers pin a young man to the ground, one holding his arms behind him and th…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
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Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Over $700K raised for slain boy's funeral in North Carolina

WILSON, N.C. (AP) — More than $700,000 has been raised for the funeral service expenses of a slain 5-year-old boy in North Carolina whose death has captured national attention.