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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
AP News Digest 4 a.m.

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France says its forces kill 50 Islamic extremists in Mali

PARIS (AP) — French military forces fighting Islamic extremists in West Africa killed more than 50 jihadists and detained four in an operation last week in Mali, French officials said.

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

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

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Iran's supreme leader, quoting Trump, mocks US election

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's supreme leader mocked America's presidential election Tuesday in a televised address, quoting President Donald Trump's own baseless claims about voter fraud to criticize the vote as Tehra…

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

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

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
The Latest: Britain to trial citywide testing in Liverpool

LONDON — The British government plans to trial a new citywide coronavirus testing program in Liverpool, offering regular testing to everyone who lives and works in the city of 500,000 in an effort to slow the sprea…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
World markets follow Wall Street higher ahead of election

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

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
AP News Digest 3:15 a.m.

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Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
The Latest: Trump predicts he'll 'so easily' win Michigan

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
A weary Puerto Rico prepares for referendum, new leaders

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Voters across Puerto Rico on Tuesday are choosing new leaders they hope can help heal a U.S. territory wracked by corruption, hurricanes, earthquakes and the coronavirus pandemic.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
CORRECTION: Turkish rescuers pull girl out alive from the rubble 4 days after strong earthquake (Deletes word 'baby')

IZMIR, Turkey (AP) — CORRECTION: Turkish rescuers pull girl out alive from the rubble 4 days after strong earthquake (Deletes word 'baby').

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
5 dead in Vienna shooting; Attacker sympathized with IS

VIENNA (AP) — Five people have died, including an assailant, and 17 others were wounded in a shooting in the heart of Vienna hours before a coronavirus lockdown started, Austrian authorities said Tuesday.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
EXPLAINER: Election unprecedented some ways, in others not

The election of 2020 has been called many things: extraordinary, bizarre, unprecedented.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
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New Mexico: Issue Senior Facility Bonds (Improve, create, equip)

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Powerful Hurricane Eta threatens flooding in Central America

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Dangerously powerful Hurricane Eta churned toward Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast with potentially devastating winds, while heavy rains thrown off by its storm bands already were causing river…