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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…
Activists complain of weakened voting security standard
BOSTON (AP) — Leaders of the federal agency overseeing election administration have quietly weakened a key element of proposed security standards for voting systems, raising concern among voting-integrity experts t…
EXPLAINER: How Trump's second impeachment trial will work
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump's historic second
Virus outbreaks stoke tensions in some state capitols
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — After only their first few weeks of work, tensions already are high among lawmakers meeting in-person at some state capitols — not because of testy debates over taxes, guns or abortion, b…
Biden's dilemma in virus aid fight: Go big or go bipartisan
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s push for a
California revises indoor church guidelines after ruling
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office on Saturday issued revised guidelines for indoor church services after the Supreme Court lifted the state's ban on indoor worship during the coronavirus pa…
Biden gives Calif. woman pep talk in weekly address revival
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden gave a pep talk to a California woman who was laid off because of the coronavirus pandemic, during a conversation the White House said is part of an effort to help him en…
5 key questions for Trump's Senate impeachment trial
WASHINGTON (AP) — Arguments begin Tuesday in the
What of 'Individual-1'? Feds' Trump campaign case is 'dead'
NEW YORK (AP) — The federal probe of hush money paid to cover up former President Donald Trump's alleged extramarital affairs hasn’t been restarted, even though he no longer has the legal shield of the presidency, …
Pro-Trump GOP chair steps down in Ohio, may seek Senate seat
CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio Republican linked closely to Donald Trump stepped down Friday as the party’s chair, a signal of her interest in running for the U.S. Senate for the seat being left by the GOP’s Rob Portman.
Washington man charged with entering Capitol during siege
SEATTLE (AP) — A southwest Washington man has been arrested and charged with entering the U.S. Capitol with a pro-Trump mob during the Jan. 6 deadly insurrection.
Things to Know: Pentagon lends military aid to vaccine push
Here’s what’s happening Thursday with the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.:
AP analysis: Federal executions likely a COVID superspreader
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Trump administration was nearing the end of an unprecedented string of executions, 70% of death row inmates were sick with COVID-19. Guards were ill. Traveling prisons staff on the executio…
A fluke or the future? Boebert shakes up Colorado district
DENVER (AP) — Colorado's 3rd Congressional District, a stretch of ski resorts, national forest, ranches, coal towns and desert mesas the size of Pennsylvania, has long bred low-key politicians.
Asylum-seekers stuck in Cyprus' cramped camp want out
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Emmanuel Conteh negotiates the muddy, rutted pathways in shorts and torn plastic flip-flops and says he can’t sleep in his heavy canvas tent at night because of the cold.
Thousands protest army takeover in Myanmar's biggest city
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Thousands of people rallied against the military takeover in Myanmar's biggest city on Sunday and demanded the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, whose elected government was toppled by the army th…