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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, 6 months ago
Tear gas fired as thousands mark one year of Iraq protests

BAGHDAD (AP) — Thousands of people took to Iraq’s streets on Sunday to mark one year since mass anti-government demonstrations swept the country, with police firing tear gas in central Baghdad to stop protesters fr…

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
Senate aims to put Barrett closer to a final vote on Monday

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators were poised on Sunday to remove a key hurdle to

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
Clashes over separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh continue

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Fighting over the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region continued Sunday, as Armenia and Azerbaijan reiterated their commitment to a peaceful resolution of their decades-old conflict and blamed…

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
Trump aide says 'we're not going to control the pandemic'

LONDONDERRY, N.H. (AP) — The coronavirus has reached the upper echelons of the White House again, with an outbreak among aides to Vice President Mike Pence just over a week from Election Day. A top White House offi…

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
AP PHOTOS: New virus curfew brings silence to Milan streets

MILAN, Italy (AP) — After 11 p.m., Milan is a ghost town. The piazzas are empty, the streets dark and quiet.

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
Maduro foe joins family in Spain after fleeing Venezuela

MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — After more than six years in confinement, Venezuela’n opposition leader Leopoldo López is a free man and has been reunited with his family in Madrid.

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
British police investigate incident in English Channel

LONDON (AP) — British police are investigating an undisclosed incident aboard an oil tanker in the English Channel.

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
The Latest: Meadows says 'we're not going to control' virus

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Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
Finland shocked by therapy center hacking, client blackmail

HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s interior minister summoned key Cabinet members into an emergency meeting Sunday after hundreds — and possibly thousands — of patient records at a private Finnish psychotherapy center were …

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
Bulgarian leader tests positive for new coronavirus

SOFIA, Bulgaria - Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has tested positive for the new coronavirus as the number of infected with COVID-19 in the Balkan country has been on a steady rise in the two weeks.

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
Polish women bring abortion restriction protests to churches

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Women's rights activists in Poland staged protests during Sunday church services in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation against a tightening of the nation's already restrictive abortion la…

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
Russia coronavirus cases top 1.5 million; no new lockdown

MOSCOW -- Russia’s tally of confirmed coronavirus cases surpassed 1.5 million on Sunday as authorities reported 16,710 new infections amid a rapid resurgence of the outbreak that has swept the country in recent wee…

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
The Latest: Pelosi says she's not giving up on virus relief

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
Pope names 13 new cardinals, includes US Archbishop Gregory

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who would become the first Black U.S. prelate to earn the coveted red hat.

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
Spain's prime minister declares a second nationwide state of emergency amid a surge of new virus infections

MADRID (AP) — Spain's prime minister declares a second nationwide state of emergency amid a surge of new virus infections.