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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…
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US-JOBS REPORT-INEQUALITY— Chart. This following digital embed compares business sector job losses during the coronavirus pandemic compared to the Great Recession of 2007-2009 This document is current as of Jan. 8,…
Arrested Zimbabwe journalist in prison isolation over COVID
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A prominent Zimbabwean journalist charged with communicating falsehoods has been sent to prison isolation after it emerged that he was likely exposed to people with COVID-19 prior to his arres…
Once again, job losses fall unequally across the US economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten months into America’s viral outbreak, low-income workers are still bearing the brunt of job losses — an unusual and harsh feature of the pandemic recession that flattened the economy last spri…
'Brian did his job': Family remembers fallen Capitol officer
SOUTH RIVER, N.J. (AP) — From his early days growing up in a New Jersey hamlet, Brian Sicknick wanted to be a police officer.
The Latest: India planning to start vaccine drive in 1 week
NEW DELHI — The government of India is planning to kick off a vaccination drive on Jan. 16 to stem COVID-19 in the world’s second-most populous country.
French vaccine rollout slowed by red tape, focus on elderly
PARIS (AP) — The few hours it took to give the first coronavirus vaccine shots to 14 residents of the John XXIII nursing home — named after a pope and not far from the birthplace in eastern France of vaccine pionee…
Albania rescues 50 Syrian migrants heading for Italy by boat
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian military and police ships saved 50 Syrian refugees trapped by bad weather as they tried to reach Italy by boat, police and local media reported Saturday.
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3 killed by avalanche at Siberian ski resort
MOSCOW (AP) — At least three people were killed by an avalanche that hit a ski resort in Siberia, officials said Saturday.
India apprehends Chinese soldier for transgressing border
NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian army said Saturday that it had apprehended a Chinese soldier in the remote Ladakh region, where the two countries are locked in a monthslong military standoff along their disputed mounta…
Indonesian airliner loses contact on domestic flight
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A Sriwijaya Air passenger jet carrying 62 people lost contact with air traffic controllers after taking off from Indonesia's capital on Saturday on a domestic flight, officials said.
The Latest: Twitter hides Iranian vaccine conspiracy post
TEHRAN — Twitter has hidden a post on the account of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on a coronavirus vaccine conspiracy theory.