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Updated 4 days, 20 hours ago

Gas prices climb across WA through April

MOSES LAKE — Gas prices across Washington continued their upward trajectory throughout April, mirroring national v…

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
Armenia and Azerbaijan announce a new attempt to establish a cease-fire in their conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Armenia and Azerbaijan announce a new attempt to establish a cease-fire in their conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
Stacey Abrams' zeal for voting began with preacher parents

(RNS) — Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia House minority leader who lost a razor-thin race for governor in 2018, voted on Thursday (Oct. 15), driving her ballot to a local drop box.

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
Trump struggling to retain Upper Midwest in his win column

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is making a late reelection pitch to voters Saturday in Michigan and Wisconsin, states in the Upper Midwest that were instrumental to his 2016 victory but may now be slippin…

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
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Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
Officials in Scotland approve another Trump golf course

LONDON (AP) — Authorities in Scotland have approved plans by President Donald Trump’s family business to build a second golf course in Aberdeenshire, despite campaigning from environmental activists.

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
The Latest: Indiana posts record number of new COVID cases

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s daily average of new coronavirus infections continued growing at record levels with Saturday’s update from state health officials, who also added 31 more COVID-19 deaths to the state’s toll.

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
Cuomo: Movie theaters in NY can open Friday, with limits

NEW YORK (AP) — Movie theaters in New York state can reopen beginning Oct. 23 with restrictions on audience size and other precautions in place, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday.

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
Trump lashes back at Nebraska Sen. Sasse after criticism

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump pushed back Saturday at Sen. Ben Sasse on Twitter, calling the Nebraska senator “a liability to the Republican Party, and an embarrassment" to the state.

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
2 killed in Louisiana plane crash

HOUMA, La. (AP) — The bodies of two people were pulled from the wreckage after a single-engine, fixed-wing plane went down in south Louisiana.

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
US judge mulls competency of Mexican man who shot American

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in San Francisco is mulling the competency to stand trial of a Mexican man who shot and killed 32-year-old Kate Steinle, a shooting that figured prominently in President Donald …

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
The Latest: Trump shows new determination to minimize virus

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the week since he emerged from coronavirus isolation, President Donald Trump has demonstrated new determination to

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
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Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
Italy governor eyeing COVID surge blasts "idiotic" Halloween

ROME (AP) — Americans may love Naples for its most famous export, pizza. But the governor of Italy’s southern region had choice words for the exported American holiday of Halloween as Naples buckles under surging c…

Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
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Updated 5 years, 6 months ago
Police in Belarus disperse another protest, detain scores

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Police in Belarus on Saturday detained scores of demonstrators pushing for the resignation of the country's authoritarian leader of 26 years after an August election widely seen as manipulated.