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Updated 13 hours, 11 minutes ago

Army takes custody of Gorge shooting suspect

MOSES LAKE — The Army has taken custody of the soldier accused of killing two people and injuring several others d…

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
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…

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
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…

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
'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.

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
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.

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
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…

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
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.

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
Global Forecast-Celsius

Global Forecast as of 23:00 GMT Saturday, January 9, 2021

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
AP News Digest 7 a.m.

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Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
Global Forecast-Fahrenheit

Global Forecast as of 23:00 GMT Saturday, January 9, 2021

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
AP News in Brief at 6:04 a.m. EST

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Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
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.

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
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…

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
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.

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
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.

Updated 5 years, 1 month ago
Deadly siege focuses attention on Capitol Police

WASHINGTON (AP) — The police were badly outnumbered.