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Fifth Congressional District candidates discuss their qualifications
SPOKANE — Six of the 12 candidates running for the Fifth Congressional District seat detailed some of their qualif…
'Overwhelm the problem': Inside Biden’s war on COVID-19
WASHINGTON (AP) — The meetings begin each day not long after dawn. Dozens of aides report in, coffee in hand, joining by Zoom from agency headquarters, their homes or even adjacent offices.
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's lawyers and the Constitution
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump stretched beyond the facts when they argued there's an open-and-shut case that the Constitution bars impeaching former presidents. That question is not settled, though the…
EU chief: Bloc was late, over-confident on vaccine rollout
BRUSSELS (AP) — As the European Union surpassed 500,000 people lost to the virus, the EU Commission chief said Wednesday that the bloc's much-criticized vaccine rollout could be partly blamed on the EU being over-o…
Dems attempt to push through school funding, wage increase
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats muscled past Republicans on portions of President Joe Biden's pandemic plan, including a proposed $130 billion in additional relief to help the nation's schools reopen and a gradua…
Trial highlights: Harrowing footage, focus on Trump's words
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats opened their first day of arguments in former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial Wednesday with searing footage of the U.S. Capitol riot as they painted Trump as an “incite…
Surging virus in French African outpost reveals inequalities
MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte (AP) — Mayotte’s main tourist office stands nearly empty, a lonely tropical outpost overlooking a people-less port. Its only hospital, however, is overwhelmed.
Proposed Oregon bill aims to limit bans on homeless camping
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Cities and counties in Oregon aiming to ban homeless people from sitting, sleeping and camping on public property may soon face a barrier under a proposed bill introduced by state lawmakers ea…
Trump trial video shows vast scope, danger of Capitol riot
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors unveiled chilling new security video in Donald Trump’s
Chilling video footage becomes key exhibit in Trump trial
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chilling security video of last month's
In Biden's early days, signs of Trump-era problems at border
HOUSTON (AP) — The day after she gave birth in a Texas border hospital, Nailet and her newborn son were taken by federal agents to a holding facility that immigrants often refer to as the “icebox.”
Biden in call with China's Xi raises human rights, trade
Joe Biden had his first call as president with Xi Jinping, a two-hour conversation in which he pressed the Chinese leader about trade and Beijing's crackdown on democracy activists in Hong Kong as well as other hum…
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Hack exposes vulnerability of cash-strapped US water plants
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A hacker’s botched attempt to poison the water supply of a small Florida city is raising alarms about just how vulnerable the nation's water systems may be to attacks by more sophisticat…
Governor: Transgender athletes will 'destroy women's sports'
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Wednesday that transgender girls should be banned from playing on middle and high school sports teams or they will “destroy women's sports.”
Holocaust scholars ordered to apologize in Polish libel case
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A court in Warsaw ruled Tuesday that two prominent Holocaust researchers must apologize to a woman who claimed her deceased uncle had been slandered in a historical work that suggested he help…