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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
The Latest: Trump meets with rap star Lil Wayne in Florida

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Pompeo wraps up anti-China tour of Asia in Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrapped up a five-nation, anti-China tour of Asia in Vietnam on Friday with a call for regional unity to counter Beijing's growing assertiveness, as the fie…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
UN: After 20 years, no equality for women in peace talks

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency promoting gender equality told the 20th anniversary commemoration of a resolution demanding equal participation for women in peace negotiations that its implementat…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
The Latest: Biden wraps up Florida rally because of downpour

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Trump fights headwinds as he and Biden battle over Florida

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Pressing against stiff headwinds from the pandemic, President Donald Trump steered toward what he hoped was safer political ground with the U.S. economy Thursday, as Democratic rival Joe Biden ke…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Zeta soaks Southeast after swamping Gulf Coast; 6 dead

ATLANTA (AP) — Millions of people were without power and at least six were dead Thursday after Hurricane Zeta slammed into Louisiana and made a beeline across the South, leaving shattered buildings, thousands of do…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Philadelphia police face rebuke from city, Wallace family

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police faced rebuke Thursday from both City Hall and the family of Walter Wallace Jr. as an anguished city bemoaned the department's response to a year of extraordinary, and sometim…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Court: Late Minnesota absentee ballots must be separated

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota absentee ballots arriving after Election Day should be separated from other ballots in case they are later invalidated by a court, an appeals court panel said Thursday, in a ruling that…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Guilty plea entered in deadly kidnapping of Chinese national

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California man pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to kidnap a Chinese citizen who was held for ransom but died of his injuries after the abduction, authorities said.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
The Latest: Residents test positive at Kansas nursing home

MISSION, Kan. — A nursing home where every resident has tested positive for the coronavirus in a rural Kansas county with the state’s highest infection rate has been removed from the Medicare program, putting its f…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Tunisian carrying Quran fatally stabs 3 in French church

NICE, France (AP) — A young Tunisian man armed with a knife and carrying a copy of the Quran attacked worshippers in a French church and killed three Thursday, prompting the government to raise its security alert t…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
AP News in Brief at 6:04 p.m. EDT

'So frustrating': Grave missteps seen in US virus response

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Mike Tyson, Roy Jones promise a fight in "exhibition" return

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. got permission from California's athletic commission to return to the boxing ring next month because their fight would be strictly an exhibition of their once-unparal…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Kentucky court won't reduce jury award in Rand Paul attack

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Supreme Court on Thursday upheld an award of nearly $600,000 against Sen. Rand Paul's former neighbor, who attacked the lawmaker in 2017 in a dispute over lawncare, the Lexington …

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
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