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UPDATED: Former Moses Lake doctor arrested after shootout with U.S. Marshals in Florida

STUART, Fla. — Former Moses Lake surgeon Thomas Earl Steffens, 72, has been arrested in Florida after an altercati…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Car hits pedestrians in Germany; 2 killed, several injured

BERLIN (AP) — A car drove into a pedestrian zone in the southwestern German city of Trier on Tuesday, killing two people and injuring several others, police said.

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Sweden: Mother suspected of locking up her son for 28 years

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Police in Stockholm are investigating a woman in her 70s suspected of having kept her son locked up — reportedly for 28 years — in an apartment south of the Swedish capital, investigators said Tues…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Trump headed to Georgia as turnout driver, but also a threat

ATLANTA (AP) — Some establishment Republicans are sounding alarms that President Donald Trump’s conspiratorial denials of his own defeat could threaten the party’s ability to win a Senate majority and counter Presi…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Police: Several injured when car hits pedestrians in Germany

BERLIN (AP) — Several people were injured Tuesday when a car drove into a pedestrian zone in the southwestern German city of Trier, police said.

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Pakistan court resumes appeal hearing in Daniel Pearl murder

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s top court on Tuesday resumed the hearing of an appeal from the family of American journalist Daniel Pearl against the acquittal of a British-born Pakistani man convicted over the 2002 be…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Americans face new COVID-19 restrictions after Thanksgiving

Americans returning from Thanksgiving break faced strict new coronavirus measures around the country Monday as health officials brace for a disastrous worsening of the nationwide surge because of holiday gatherings…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
76 Franciscan nuns test positive at monastery in Germany

BERLIN (AP) — Seventy-six Catholic nuns have tested positive for COVID-19 after an outbreak at a Franciscan convent in northwestern Germany, church authorities said Tuesday.

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope collapses; many mourning

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A huge radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has long played a key role in astronomical discoveries collapsed on Tuesday, officials said.

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
2 killed in small plane crash in northeast Arkansas

FRANKLIN, Ark. (AP) — Two people were killed when a small airplane crashed in rural northeast Arkansas, officials said.

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
'Well-prepared' robbers seize Brazilian city, loot bank

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Dozens of criminals armed with assault rifles invaded a city in southern Brazil overnight and took control of the streets as they launched an assault against a local bank branch.

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
AP News Digest 7 a.m.

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Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
EU border chief faces grilling over migrant pushback claims

BRUSSELS (AP) — The head of the European Union’s border and coast guard agency faces a grilling Tuesday by EU lawmakers as pressure mounts over allegations that Frontex was involved in illegal pushbacks aimed at pr…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Global Forecast-Celsius

Global Forecast as of 23:00 GMT Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
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California: App-Drivers Not Employees (Provide other benefits)

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
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Montana: Allow Marijuana Legal Age (To be set by law)