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Updated 1 month, 1 week 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
Tradition: 2 New Hampshire towns cast votes after midnight

DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. (AP) — Two tiny New Hampshire communities that vote for president just after the stroke of midnight on Election Day have cast their ballots, with one of them marking 60 years since the traditio…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
EXPLAINER: What's 270? The math game behind the US election

WASHINGTON (AP) — What’s all this hubbub about 270?

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
China regulators summon Ant Group executives ahead of IPO

HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese regulators summoned Ant Group founder Jack Ma and two other senior executives to a meeting just days before the company's shares are due to begin trading following a blockbuster offering ex…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
EXPLAINER: Pandemic to factor into inauguration planning

WASHINGTON (AP) — Every four years at the stroke of noon on Jan. 20, the president-elect or the reelected president of the United States takes the oath of office for a four-year term. The inaugural ceremony at the …

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
EXPLAINER: A long night, or more, before president is known

WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s a fair chance Americans won’t know the winner of Tuesday’s presidential election while it's still Tuesday — or maybe even Wednesday.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
It's here: What to watch on Election Day in America

Election Day is finally here.

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
Afghans mourn those killed in horrific IS university attack

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan declared a national day of mourning Tuesday to honor the 22 mostly students killed in a horrific attack a day earlier on Kabul University, claimed by the Islamic State group. A…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Turkish rescuers pull girl from rubble 4 days after quake

IZMIR, TURKEY (AP) — Turkish rescuers in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir have pulled a young girl out alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building four days after a strong earthquake hit Turkey and Gre…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Aramco earnings up in Q3, but still far less than last year

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia's oil and gas giant Aramco announced Tuesday third quarter profits of nearly $12 billion, a significantly higher net income from its dramatically lower second quarter…

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

VIENNA (AP) — Austria's top security official said that four people have died — including one assailant — and fifteen people were wounded in a shooting in the heart of Vienna late Monday.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Trump, Biden cede stage to voters for Election Day verdict

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a campaign marked by rancor and fear, Americans on Tuesday decide between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, selecting a leader to steer a nation battered by a surging pandemic t…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Ivory Coast electoral commission says Ouattara won 3rd term

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast's electoral commission said Tuesday that President Alassane Ouattara had overwhelmingly won a third term in office after his two main opponents boycotted the election.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Austria's top security official says a third person has died following Vienna shooting

VIENNA (AP) — Austria's top security official says a third person has died following Vienna shooting.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Norway's Larsen resigns as think tank CEO over Epstein link

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Former Norwegian diplomat and politician Terje Rød Larsen, an architect of the Oslo peace accords, has resigned as president and CEO of the International Peace Institute and apologized for his…