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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
Never flagged as a danger, Nice attacker traveled unimpeded

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The 21-year-old Tunisian behind

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Illinois judge OKs extradition of Rittenhouse to Wisconsin

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois judge on Friday ordered a 17-year-old accused of killing two demonstrators in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to be extradited across the border to stand trial on homicide charges.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Russia's reputation, Olympic status on trial for doping

GENEVA (AP) — Russia’s status as an Olympic team, and its reputation as a serial cheater in international sports, goes on trial next week in more legal fallout from the country's state-backed doping saga.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Poland: Tens of thousands hold new protest over abortion ban

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Tens of thousands of people marched Friday through downtown Warsaw to the house of Poland's ruling party leader in what women's rights activists planned as the largest demonstration in nine da…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Lawyer: Mom, child trapped in crowd when police smashed car

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia officials plan to release the police body camera footage Wednesday of the encounter that led officers to fatally shoot Walter Wallace Jr., the latest in a line of police killings of…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
The Latest: Retailers board up, secure stores for election

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Tanzania's populist leader declared winner of flawed vote

DODOMA, Tanzania (AP) — Tanzania’s populist President John Magufuli has been declared the overwhelming winner of a second term amid allegations of widespread election fraud.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Sno(w)ctober? Early snowfall blankets much of northeast US

BOSTON (AP) — If you had snow in October on your 2020 bingo card, you're a lucky winner.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Polish activists gather for new mass protest on abortion ban

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands of people were converging late Friday on a downtown Warsaw roundabout, for what women's rights activists vowed would be the largest in nine days of mass protests against a near-total…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Crowds protesting virus curbs clash with police in Barcelona

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Clashes erupted Friday in central Barcelona between riot police and dozens of people in a hundreds-strong crowd protesting the mandatory closure of bars, restaurants and other businesses as …

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Georgia governor quarantining; US rep. COVID-19 positive

ATLANTA (AP) — Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and his wife are quarantining after being exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19, his spokesman announced Friday.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
The Latest: San Francisco will not reopen extra activities

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco will temporarily halt the reopening of additional activities and businesses planned for next week because of an increase in coronavirus case rates and hospitalizations, the city’s mayo…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Tanzania's populist President John Magufuli is declared the overwhelming winner of a 2nd term amid alleged vote fraud

DODOMA, Tanzania (AP) — Tanzania's populist President John Magufuli is declared the overwhelming winner of a 2nd term amid alleged vote fraud.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
If 2020 is like 2000, Trump believes he's got the votes

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 86 million Americans have already voted in the presidential election, but President Donald Trump thinks he can count on one hand the votes that will determine the outcome.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
The Latest: Biden tells hard-hit Iowa he has plan for virus

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the