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Updated 1 week, 4 days 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, 7 months ago
Chiefs-Patriots game off amid report Newton has COVID-19

The NFL postponed this week's game between New England and the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs after “positive COVID-19 tests on both teams.” ESPN reported on Saturday that Patriots quarterback Cam Newton wa…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Greek doctors march and measure to promote use of face masks

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Doctors marched with their families and a few friends in Greece's second-largest city Saturday not to protest, but to debunk misinformation about face masks circulating during the corona…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Florida lawyer who became advocate for missing kids dies

VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Don Ryce, a labor lawyer who with his wife became a leading advocate for missing children after their 9-year-old son was abducted, raped and murdered in South Florida, died Saturday. He was …

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
The Latest: Source: Trump vitals were concerning but better

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on coronavirus infections hitting President Donald Trump and others in his circle (all times EDT):

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Package with nails found on German train, no risk seen

BERLIN (AP) — An object containing nails and gunpowder was found on board on out-of-service train in the German city of Cologne and made safe, police said Saturday. Experts later determined that it couldn't have ex…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
White House doctor says Trump doing 'very well' at hospital

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s doctor says he is doing “very well” as he spends the weekend at a military hospital for treatment of COVID-19.

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
The Latest: Doctors: Trump has no fever or trouble breathing

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on coronavirus infections hitting President Donald Trump and others in his circle (all times EDT):

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
The Latest: Indiana schools use $200M federal aid for virus

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana schools are slowly making a dent in more than $200 million of federal aid meant to help local districts manage financial hardships spurred by the coronavirus.

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Many in migrant caravan bused back to Honduran border

POPTUN, Guatemala (AP) — Hundreds of U.S.-bound Honduran migrants who had entered Guatemala this week without registering were being bused back to their country's border Saturday by authorities who met them with a …

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Yemeni officials say clashes kill 23 in Hodeida, Marib

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni officials and tribal leaders said Saturday fighting between government forces and Houthi rebels has killed at least two dozen people in the past three days in Marib province and the key p…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Pope in 1st post-lockdown outing goes to Assisi to sign text

ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis travelled to the tomb of his nature-loving namesake and signed an encyclical Saturday laying out his vision of a post-COVID world built on solidarity, fraternity and care for the e…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Florida man who tried to get ballot for dead wife charged

BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Florida authorities say they've filed a voter fraud charge against a man who said he said he “wanted to test the system" when he tried to obtain a mail-in ballot for his deceased wife.

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
The Latest: GOP Minnesota congressmen criticized for flight

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on coronavirus infections hitting President Donald Trump and others in his circle (all times EDT):

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Cunningham admits sending sexually suggestive texts

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Democratic challenger in North Carolina's closely contested U.S. Senate campaign has acknowledged exchanging sexually suggestive text messages with a woman who's not his wife, but he said h…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Trump's diagnosis shows US vulnerability to the coronavirus

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s startling COVID-19 diagnosis serves as a cruel reminder of the pervasive spread of the coronavirus and shows how tenuous of a grip the nation has on the crisis, heal…