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Updated 1 month, 2 weeks 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
Panama's 2nd biggest Indigenous group votes to ban masks

PANAMA CITY (AP) — A cultural body for the Guna Yala people in Panama voted Monday to ban the wearing of face masks used to combat coronavirus infections, arguing “it is not a custom of our people.”

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Bomb at seminary in Pakistan kills 7 students, wounds 112

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful bomb blast ripped through an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday morning, killing at least seven students and wounding 112 o…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Lottery State-by-State

The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Tuesday:

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
UN investigator says Belarus must stop repressing its people

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. human rights investigator for Belarus demanded Monday that the government “stop repressing its own people,” saying at least 20,000 were detained in August and September and hundreds r…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Iran's Zarif urges UN to unite against US unilateral actions

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister used his speech for the 75th anniversary of the United Nations to accuse the United States of initiating or joining eight wars since 200 that displaced 37 million peopl…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EDT

Biden vows to unify and save country; Trump hits Midwest

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Lottery State-by-State-All

The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Tuesday:

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
US Forecast

US Forecast for Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Long prison stint looms for defiant self-help guru

NEW YORK (AP) — Disgraced self-improvement guru Keith Raniere came under harsh attack on Tuesday from former followers during sentencing in his sex-trafficking case.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EDT

Biden vows to unify and save country; Trump hits Midwest

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Pompeo, Esper drive US's anti-China message in India visit

NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense chief Mark Esper are in India to drive the Trump administration’s anti-China message exactly a week ahead of America’s presidential election.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
California braces for more fire danger from winds

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California prepared for another round of dangerous fire weather Tuesday even as crews fought a pair of fast-moving blazes in the south that critically injured two firefighters and left more than …

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Pompeo, Esper drive US's anti-China message in India visit

NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense chief Mark Esper are in India to drive the Trump administration’s anti-China message exactly a week ahead of America’s presidential election.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
California braces for more fire danger from winds

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California prepared for another round of dangerous fire weather Tuesday even as crews fought a pair of fast-moving blazes in the south that critically injured two firefighters and left more than …

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Bomb at seminary in Pakistan kills 7 children, wounds 70

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful bomb blast ripped through an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday morning, killing at least seven children and wounding 70 ot…