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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…
GOP senator: No evidence to support Trump vote-fraud claims
WASHINGTON (AP) — A key Republican senator said Friday he saw no evidence to support President Donald Trump’s baseless claim that Democrats are trying to “steal” the election and called the president's words “very …
Some in GOP break with Trump over baseless vote-fraud claims
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Republican lawmakers are criticizing President Donald Trump’s unsupported claim that Democrats are trying to “steal” the election, saying Trump's comments undermine the U.S. political process…
2020 Latest: Biden leads Trump in Pennsylvania's vote count
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Biden ahead in Georgia, Pennsylvania; Trump attacks process
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden overtook President Donald Trump in the vote count in Pennsylvania and Georgia Friday morning, closing in on a presidency that hinges on the outcome of tight contests in key batt…
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7 charged with selling virus test documents at Paris airport
PARIS (AP) — Officials in France said Friday that seven people have been arrested for selling false certificates of negative coronavirus tests to travelers at Paris’s largest airport, Charles de Gaulle.
Kansas City man sentenced in death of missionary from China
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City man has been sentenced to 26 years in prison for killing a Christian missionary from China and wounding two others while high on PCP.
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Fast virus tests at French nursing homes as deaths rise anew
PARIS (AP) — Virus pressure is mounting at French nursing homes, where more than 400 people with COVID-19 have died in the past week and some residents are again being confined to their rooms and cut off from their…
Friday prayers held in newly opened Athens mosque
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Friday prayers were held for the first time in the Greek capital’s first state-sponsored mosque, which opened this week after years-long delays.
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Iowa: Hold Constitutional Convention (To propose amendments)
Australia inquiry says police should guard hotel quarantine
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Overseas travelers should be quarantined in hotels guarded by police, an inquiry into an Australian city’s bungled quarantine program reported on Friday.
Ex-Kosovo president Hashim Thaci to appear in court Monday
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Hashim Thaci, who resigned as Kosovo's president to face charges including murder, torture and persecution, will make his first courtroom appearance before a judge at a special court i…
Natan Zach, influential Israeli poet, dies at 89
JERUSALEM (AP) — Natan Zach, an Israeli writer who had a major impact on the development of modern Hebrew poetry, has died, Israel's culture minister said in a statement. He was 89.
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Florida: Raise Minimum Wage (Fifteen dollars by 2026)