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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…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
'Vote and get home,' anxious voters say on Election Day

She carefully planned a five-hour drive to the polling place in her Tennessee hometown to vote on Election Day. She considered the traffic, the weather, the surging coronavirus pandemic and — something she never im…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
AP Entertainment Digest for Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020

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Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Evidence deadline looms in case of Epstein's ex-girlfriend

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors and defense lawyers are clashing days before a deadline for evidence to be turned over in the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein’s one-time girlfriend on charges that she recruited girls for…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Austrian minister: No indication of second attacker

VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s top security official said Tuesday that evidence gathered so far shows no indication that there was a second assailant in the attack in Vienna.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
In video interview, Russian MH17 suspect denies involvement

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A suspect charged with involvement in shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 denied involvement in the attack in video interviews played Tuesday in a Du…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Austrian interior minister says evidence gathered so far shows no indication that there was a second attacker

VIENNA (AP) — Austrian interior minister says evidence gathered so far shows no indication that there was a second attacker.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
French president speaks with Egypt, Palestinian leaders

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron spoke to the Egyptian and Palestinian leaders after a week of anti-French protests around the Muslim world and three Islamic extremist attacks on France.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
The Latest: Trump says big rally crowds are 'ultimate poll'

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
EXPLAINER: Long lines to vote on Election Day aren't unusual

WASHINGTON (AP) — Long voting lines on Election Day aren’t unusual or necessarily a sign of that something nefarious is afoot.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
New Russian infections soar; UK, Germany widen testing

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Coronavirus cases hit new daily highs this week in Russia, and Germany and the U.K. announced plans Tuesday to expand virus testing as European countries battled rapidly increasing COVID-19 in…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Attack in Vienna hit nightlife; suspect sought to join IS

VIENNA (AP) — A 20-year-old Islamic extremist armed with an automatic rifle and a fake explosive vest rampaged through a Vienna nightlife district hours ahead of a coronavirus lockdown, fatally shooting four people…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Poland delays implementing abortion ruling amid protests

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s right-wing government is delaying the publication and implementation of a high court ruling that tightens the abortion law and that has triggered almost two weeks of nationwide protes…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
World markets, Wall Street futures rise on US election day

BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets and U.S. futures rose Tuesday on investor hopes that a possible victory by challenger Joe Biden in the American presidential election might lead to more economic stimulus.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Election 2020 Today: America votes, legal challenges loom

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Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Hurricane Eta inches closer to Nicaragua as Category 4 storm

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Hurricane Eta inched closer to Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast with potentially devastating winds Tuesday, while heavy rains thrown off by the Category 4 storm already were causing rivers to o…