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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, 7 months ago
Sri Lanka closes key state offices as virus outbreak surges

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Authorities in Sri Lanka closed key government offices and further expanded a curfew Thursday to contain a surging coronavirus outbreak.

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
The Latest: Hurricane warning for stretch of US Gulf Coast

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on Hurricane Delta (all times CDT):

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Rio judge ends Neymar's cybercrime probe linked to rape case

SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian judge has closed an investigation into possible cybercrimes violations involving soccer star Neymar, a case linked to a woman’s rape allegation that led to no charges against him, The A…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Rights group decries Myanmar's camps for displaced Rohingya

BANGKOK (AP) — The de facto detention of 130,000 ethnic Rohingya in squalid camps in Myanmar amounts to a form of apartheid, a human rights group alleged Thursday in urging the world to pressure Aung San Suu Kyi’s …

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
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Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Asian shares mostly higher on hopes for U.S. stimulus

TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher on Thursday on optimism U.S. stimulus may be coming after all, as President Donald Trump appeared to reverse his earlier decision to halt talks on another economic rescu…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Fly on Pence's head generates buzz in VP debate

WASHINGTON (AP) — The

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Drone video shows Australian surfer's close call with shark

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A great white shark circled to within inches of pro surfer Matt Wilkinson's board before darting away in a chilling encounter captured by a drone that is part of an Australian shark warni…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
The Latest: Harris says Breonna Taylor didn't get justice

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 presidential election (all times local):

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Seller of gun used in West Texas mass shooting pleads guilty

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — The man who sold an AR-15-style rifle used in a last year's mass shooting that killed seven people in West Texas pleaded guilty Wednesday to unlicensed firearms dealing.

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Hurricane Delta lashes Mexico's Yucatan, then heads for US

CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Delta emerged into the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday and headed toward Louisiana after making landfall just south of the Mexican resort of Cancun, toppling trees and cutting power to r…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
In VP debate, plexiglass an extra participant on the stage

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — There were three participants in the vice presidential debate: Republican Mike Pence, Democrat Kamala Harris and the plexiglass between them.

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Pence, Harris spar over COVID-19 in vice presidential debate

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Trading barbs through plexiglass shields, Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Kamala Harris turned the only vice presidential debate of 2020 into a dissection of the Trump administration’s hand…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
The Latest: Trump tweets through debate, says Pence 'GREAT'

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 presidential election (all times local):

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
VP Debate Takeaways: Pandemic looms over a more civil fight

WASHINGTON (AP) — In normal times, vice presidential debates don't matter much. But in an election year as wild as 2020, everything is magnified.