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Updated 1 week, 5 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
AP News in Brief at 9:04 p.m. EDT

Trump, stricken by COVID-19, flown to military hospital

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Autopsy finds LA deputies shot Black man 16 times

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Black man shot and killed by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies was wounded 16 times in the front and back, according to an autopsy that doesn't shed any light on whether he was on the groun…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Radish seeds, meats and cheeses launched to space station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A space station cargo ship rocketed into orbit Friday carrying a 360-degree camera for spacewalking, radish seeds for growing and a smorgasbord of fancy meats and cheeses for feasting.

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Trump, Lee, Tillis: Congress reconsiders testing its own

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders said Friday they are taking a fresh look at requiring virus testing on Capitol Hill after President Donald Trump's virus infection revived fears of an outbreak in the close, …

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
GOP faces reckoning over Trump's virus strategy, diagnosis

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis on Friday was a moment of reckoning for his Republican Party, whose leaders largely adopted his strategy of downplaying the disease but are now confr…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
The Latest: GOP Sen. Tillis of North Carolina tests positive

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Trump, stricken by COVID-19, flown to military hospital

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stricken by COVID-19, a feverish and fatigued President Donald Trump was flown to a military hospital Friday night where he is being given Remdesivir therapy after being injected with an experimen…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
California nears milestone: 4 million acres burned in fires

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California is poised to hit a fearsome milestone: 4 million acres (1.6 million hectares) burned this year by wildfires that have killed 31 people and incinerated hundreds of homes in what is al…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Tropical Storm Gamma forms, headed for Mexico's Yucatan coast resort region with heavy rains

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Gamma forms, headed for Mexico's Yucatan coast resort region with heavy rains.

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
New tropical storm headed for Mexico's Yucatan coast

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Newly formed Tropical Storm Gamma was headed for a Saturday collision with the resort-lined coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, bringing torrential rains to a large swath of southern Mexico.

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
North Korea's Kim wishes Trump recovery from coronavirus

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday sent a message of sympathy to President Donald Trump and his wife Melania, wishing they would recover from the COVID-19 illness, state media rep…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Cavalier White House approach to COVID catches up to Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — Masks were rarely spotted in the West Wing. Crowds of people gathered shoulder to shoulder on the White House South Lawn. And Air Force One streaked across the sky from one massive campaign rally …

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Judge blocks deportation of man detained on church grounds

A federal judge on Friday blocked the deportation of an Indonesian immigrant who was detained last month on the grounds of a Maryland church, a space considered a “sensitive location” in which immigration authoriti…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
An abundance of risk, not caution, before Trump's diagnosis

WASHINGTON (AP) — Standing well apart on the debate stage, President Donald Trump and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden looked out at an odd sight — one section of the room dutifully in masks, the other section fla…

Updated 5 years, 7 months ago
Michigan governor's virus powers upended with court ruling

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A 1945 law repeatedly used by Gov. Gretcher Whitmer to respond to the coronavirus pandemic was declared unconstitutional Friday by the Michigan Supreme Court, a striking decision that puts mon…