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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…

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Global Forecast as of 23:00 GMT Wednesday, November 25, 2020

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Scotland to make period products freely available to all

LONDON (AP) — Scottish lawmakers have unanimously passed legislation that will make period products freely available to anyone who needs them - a move that leader Nicole Sturgeon says makes Scotland the first count…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
AP News in Brief at 6:04 a.m. EST

'America is back': Biden pushes past Trump era with nominees

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A migrant's odyssey from boat to COVID nursing job in Spain

BILBAO, Spain (AP) — The six migrants listen attentively to Mbaye Babacar Diouf, whose own journey across the Atlantic to a job nursing COVID-19 patients in Spain and giving back to the community through his own no…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Truck hits bus in southern Sudan, killing at least 9

CAIRO (AP) — A head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Sudan’s West Kordofan province killed at least nine people and injured more than three dozen others, the country's state-run news agency reported Wednes…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Analysis: Biden prioritizes experience with Cabinet picks

NEW YORK (AP) — Competence is making a comeback.

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Indonesia Cabinet minister arrested in graft investigation

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s anti-corruption commission said it arrested the country's fisheries minister on Wednesday amid an investigation into exports of lobster larvae.

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
'America is back': Biden pushes past Trump era with nominees

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Declaring "America is back," President-elect Joe Biden introduced his national security team, his first substantive offering of how he’ll shift from Trump-era “America First” policies by

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Election 2020 Today: Biden picks key advisers, Senate silent

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Thai protesters push on despite charges of royal defamation

BANGKOK (AP) — Pro-democracy demonstrators in Thailand took to the streets of the capital again on Wednesday as the government escalated its legal battle against them, reviving the use of a harsh law against defami…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
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Florida: Raise Minimum Wage (Fifteen dollars by 2026)

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Scotland makes period products freely available to all women

LONDON (AP) — Scotland has unanimously passed legislation that will make period products freely available to all women, which according to campaigners makes it the first country to do so.

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Iran's president hopes Biden unravels Trump's Iran policies

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president reiterated his hope Wednesday that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden would return America’s Iran policy to where he left things as vice president four years ago, state TV reported,…