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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
The Latest: WHO chief quarantines after contact is infected

GENEVA — The head of the World Health Organization says he has been identified as a contact of a person who tested positive for COVID-19 and will self-quarantine.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Dubai: Foul play not suspected in dos Santos' husband death

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Police in Dubai say they don't suspect foul play in the death of Sindika Dokolo, the husband of the embattled Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, after his death free diving of…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Cambodia reopens schools after coronavirus shutdown in March

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Schools throughout Cambodia reopened Monday for the first time since March but with class sizes and hours limited by coronavirus precautions.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Gunfire erupts at Kabul University as police surround campus

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Gunfire erupted at Kabul University in the Afghan capital early Monday and police have surrounded the sprawling campus, authorities said.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Barrett to join Supreme Court arguments for the first time

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Amy Coney Barrett is expected to join her Supreme Court colleagues on Monday to hear arguments for the first time.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Legal armies ready if cloudy election outcome heads to court

WASHINGTON (AP) — Signature matches. Late-arriving absentee votes. Drop boxes. Secrecy envelopes.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
2 children rescued in Turkey as quake death toll reaches 81

IZMIR, Turkey (AP) — Rescue teams on Monday brought out two girls alive from the wreck of their collapsed apartment buildings in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir, three days after a strong earthquake centered in t…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Israeli army demolishes home of alleged Palestinian attacker

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israeli military said Monday its troops demolished the West Bank home of a Palestinian accused of killing an Israeli in a stabbing attack earlier this year.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Protests in Brazil support president in anti-vaccine stance

SAO PAULO (AP) — Small groups of protesters gathered in Brazil's two biggest cities Sunday to demonstrate against any mandate for the taking of a coronavirus vaccine, supporting a rejection campaign encouraged by P…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
WHO chief Tedros to quarantine after contact gets COVID-19

GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization says he will self-quarantine after being identified as a contact of a person who tested positive for COVID-19.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Trump threatens to fire Fauci in rift with disease expert

OPA-LOCKA, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is suggesting that he will fire Dr. Anthony Fauci after Tuesday’s election, as his rift with the nation’s top infectious disease expert widens while the nation sees its…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
6 questions going into the presidential election

Election Day is finally upon us.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
AP Explains: The election result may be delayed. That's OK.

Patience, America.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
The Latest: WHO chief quarantines after contact is infected

GENEVA — The head of the World Health Organization says he has been identified as a contact of a person who tested positive for COVID-19 and will self-quarantine.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Iran begins annual air force drill with drones, fighter jets

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's air force began an annual drill Monday, state television reported, with its aging fleet of U.S.- and Russian-made jet fighters taking part alongside locally made drones and other aircraft…