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Updated 3 weeks, 4 days ago

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, 4 months ago
Feds: California man ran kidnapping scam from Mexican prison

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man imprisoned in Mexico ran a “virtual kidnapping” scheme that duped dozens of Americans into paying ransoms to free family members who were never actually kidnapped, according to f…

Updated 5 years, 4 months ago
Asia Today: S. Korea starts fining people not wearing masks

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has reported its biggest daily jump in COVID-19 cases in 70 days as the government began fining people who fail to wear masks in public.

Updated 5 years, 4 months ago
The Latest: SKorea sees biggest daily case jump in 70 days

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea has reported its biggest daily jump in COVID-19 cases in 70 days as the government began imposing fines for people who fail to wear masks in public.

Updated 5 years, 4 months ago
AP News in Brief at 9:04 p.m. EST

States ramp up for biggest vaccination effort in US history

Updated 5 years, 4 months ago
UN votes to crack down on Somalia's al-Shabab extremists

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted Thursday to prevent the sale or shipment to Somalia of components of improvised explosive devices if there is “significant risk” they may be used to manufacture…

Updated 5 years, 4 months ago
AP Week in Pictures: Asia

NOV. 6-12, 2020

Updated 5 years, 4 months ago
Top officials: Nov. 3 election most secure in US history

WASHINGTON (AP) — A coalition of federal and state officials said Thursday that they have no evidence that votes were compromised or altered in last week's presidential election, rejecting unsubstantiated claims of…

Updated 5 years, 4 months ago
Trump, stewing over election loss, silent as virus surges

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has publicly disengaged from the battle against the coronavirus at a moment when the disease is tearing across the United States at an alarming pace.

Updated 5 years, 4 months ago
The Latest: Obama troubled by GOP 'going along with' Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on

Updated 5 years, 4 months ago
Texas baby with injection marks, positive heroin test, dies

SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — A 2-month-old girl who tested positive for heroin after being found unresponsive with injection marks at a West Texas home over the weekend has died, police said Thursday.

Updated 5 years, 4 months ago
The Latest: Companies to give Israel 8 million vaccine doses

JERUSALEM -- Pfizer and BioNTech say they have reached a deal to supply eight million doses of their new coronavirus vaccine to Israel next year.

Updated 5 years, 4 months ago
Murder charge filed in 2019 slaying of Albuquerque mother

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities in New Mexico have charged a Mexican national with the 2019 slaying of the mother of two state police officers in a case that drew national attention and spotlighted Albuquerque…

Updated 5 years, 4 months ago
Unwelcome milestone: California hits million COVID-19 cases

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A month ago, Antonio Gomez III was a healthy 46-year-old struggling like so many others to balance work and parenting during the coronavirus pandemic.

Updated 5 years, 4 months ago
Prosecutor reads racist messages by Ahmaud Arbery's killer

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery had previously used racial slurs in a text message and on social media, a prosecutor said Thursday as a judge weighed whether to grant bond for the defen…

Updated 5 years, 4 months ago
EXPLAINER: Is Georgia's upcoming ballot 'audit' a recount?

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia says it’s going to be tallying — by hand — nearly 5 million ballots that were cast in its very close presidential election on Nov. 3. But is it a recount? An “audit"? And why are they doing i…