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Updated 1 month 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, 5 months ago
French police quiz child apologists of teacher's beheading

LE PECQ, France (AP) — Police in France questioned four 10-year-olds who voiced support for the beheading of a schoolteacher and who said they would kill their own teacher if he lampooned Islam’s prophet, the gover…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Biden edges closer to win as Pennsylvania focus intensifies

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden edged ever closer Saturday to a victory over President Donald Trump as the long, exacting work of counting votes extended into a fourth day after the election.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Trump faces tough road in getting Supreme Court to intervene

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has repeatedly said there’s one place he wants to determine the outcome of the presidential election: the U.S. Supreme Court. But he may have a difficult time ever getting t…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Lottery State-by-State

The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Saturday:

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Lottery State-by-State-All

The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Saturday:

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Police question children for supporting teacher's beheading

LE PECQ, France (AP) — Police in France questioned four 10-year-olds who voiced support for the beheading of a schoolteacher and who said they would kill their own teacher if he lampooned Islam’s prophet, the gover…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Thousands in Leipzig protest German coronavirus restrictions

BERLIN (AP) — More than 20,000 people demonstrated Saturday in eastern Germany against government-imposed restrictions meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus after a court rejected the city of Leipzig's attemp…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Lebanon's leader challenges US sanctions against son-in-law

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's leader on Saturday asked the United States to offer evidence to back up new sanctions against the former Lebanese foreign minister, who is an important political ally of the Iran-backed Hezb…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Increasingly normal: Guns seen outside vote-counting centers

The most turbulent and norm-breaking presidential election of a lifetime has led to an extraordinary spectacle in the United States over the past three days: armed protesters gathering nightly outside offices where…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Suspended animation: Count drags on as Biden nears victory

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four days after the election, the U.S. presidential race hovered in suspended animation Saturday as the long, exacting work of counting votes brought Democrat Joe Biden ever closer to a victory ov…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
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California: End Diversity Ban (In government policies)

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

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Not waiting: Biden transition team at work amid limbo

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden's transition team isn't waiting for a verdict in the presidential race before getting to work.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Explosion kills former Afghan TV presenter in capital

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A bomb attached to the vehicle of a former presenter on Afghanistan’s TOLO TV exploded early Saturday, killing the journalist and two other civilians, Kabul police said.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Jailed Iranian rights lawyer released, amid health problems

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A leading Iranian human rights lawyer has been released from prison, Iran's state-run news agency reported Saturday, after she was earlier hospitalized amid a hunger-strike conducted from her ce…