Nation/World
Want to follow the latest in world news? Keep reading below for today's national and world news headlines!
Newhouse to retire from Congress
WASHINGTON D.C. — Fourth District Representative Dan Newhouse has announced he will not seek reelection to the US …
US-House-Winners, 3rd Add,400
US-Senate-Sum,100
Dem GOP Oth
US-CitizenshipToVote-All,100
NV-4-VoterRightsAmend-All,100
Nevada: Create List of Voter Rights (Constitutional Amendment)
NE-431-EnactGamingTax-All,100
Nebraska: Enact 20% Tax on Gaming (Requires I-429 to pass)
Two Lebanese youth offer migrant workers a way back home
BEIRUT (AP) — In a damp room with a few rotting pieces of furniture and old mattresses on the floor, seven migrant women sit hugging their belongings, a Kenyan flag hanging behind them on the wall.
Gunmen kill 82-year-old minority Ahmadi man in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen shot and killed an 82-year-old Ahmadi man on the outskirts of Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, officials said Monday, the fourth-such apparently targeted killing of a membe…
Already flooded, South Florida feeling wrath of Eta
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Beaches and coronavirus testing sites were closed, public transportation shut down and some evacuations in place early Monday after Tropical Storm Eta made landfall in the Florida Keys,…
Trump faces calls to work with Biden team on transition
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Donald Trump is facing pressure to cooperate with President-elect Joe Biden's team to ensure a smooth transfer of power when the new administration takes office in January.
Fresh off election victory, Biden turns to virus response
BOSTON (AP) — As he begins his transition to the presidency, Joe Biden is pivoting from a bitter campaign battle to another, more pressing fight: reining in the pandemic that has hit the world’s most powerful natio…
A worried Asia wonders: What will Joe Biden do?
TOKYO (AP) — As Asia comes to terms with the reality of a Joe Biden administration, relief and hopes of economic and environmental revival jostle with needling anxiety and fears of inattention.
AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EST
Biden seeks to move quickly and build out his administration
Already flooded, South Florida braces for Eta's wrath
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida closed beaches and COVID testing sites, shut down public transportation and ordered some evacuations Sunday as Tropical Storm Eta took aim, bringing heavy rains to already flood…
OR-09-LegalMushrm-All,100
Oregon: Legalize Psilocybin (License, regulate, tax)
Eta strikes Florida Keys; expected to become hurricane
HAVANA (AP) — A strengthening Tropical Storm Eta made landfall on Florida's Lower Matecumbe Key on Sunday night, days after leaving scores of dead and over 100 missing in Mexico and Central America.