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Bartrand leads assessor race in preliminary results
EPHRATA — Preliminary election results show Grant County Assessor Candidate Anson Bartrand leading over challenger…
Schumer moves ahead on Biden virus aid, GOP talks continue
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that senators will vote Tuesday on a first step toward eventually approving President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus recovery package on a fas…
Study: Russia's Sputnik V vaccine appears safe, effective
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian scientists say the country's Sputnik V vaccine appears safe and effective against COVID-19, according to
Washington House allocates $2.2 billion in COVID funding
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state House late Monday passed a bill that would allocate $2.2 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funding.
Myanmar's Suu Kyi detained again — without her old support
BANGKOK (AP) — A day after Myanmar’s military pulled off a well-choreographed coup, the country’s civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, finds herself right back where she was just over a decade ago — under house arres…
Dems: Trump aimed 'loaded cannon' of supporters at Capitol
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump endangered the lives of all members of Congress when he aimed a mob of supporters “like a loaded cannon” at the U.S. Capitol, House Democrats said Tuesday in making their most detaile…
Correction: Myanmar-Explainer story
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — In Feb. 1 coverage of the military coup in Myanmar, The Associated Press erroneously reported that an announcement of the takeover linked the move in part on the government’s decision to a…
Kremlin foe Navalny slams court that may jail him for years
MOSCOW (AP) — Opposition leader Alexei Navalny denounced a Moscow court hearing Tuesday on whether he should be sent to prison for years, calling it a vain attempt by the Kremlin to scare millions of Russians into …
Correction: Myanmar story
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — In Feb. 1 coverage of the military coup in Myanmar, The Associated Press erroneously reported that an announcement of the takeover linked the move in part on the government’s decision to a…
Hundreds of Myanmar lawmakers under house arrest after coup
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Hundreds of members of Myanmar’s Parliament were under house arrest Tuesday, confined to their government housing complex and guarded by soldiers a day after the military seized power in a co…
Future of Holocaust research in Poland hinges on libel case
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two Polish historians are facing a libel trial for a scholarly examination of Polish behavior during World War II, a case whose outcome is expected to determine the fate of independent Holocau…
Biden expands quick bid to undo Trump’s immigration policies
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday announced steps to address harm to thousands of families that were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, expanding efforts to quickly undo relentless changes to i…
EXPLAINER: How Nobel Peace Prize nominations come about
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Belarusian opposition figures, Hong Kong-pro-democracy activists, the global Black Lives Matter movement, a jailed Russian opposition leader and an American voting rights champion are amo…
Trump loyalists in South Dakota turn on home state senator
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Longtime South Dakota Republican voter Jim Thompson is ready to leave the GOP, hoping that an exodus of Donald Trump supporters like him will punish the state's preeminent politician,
Creator of 'Bernie' mittens partners with teddy bear maker
The teacher who created the recycled wool mittens that U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders wore to the presidential inauguration — engendering countless memes — is partnering with the Vermont Teddy Bear Company to create a wh…
Trump lawyer: Impeachment case 'undemocratic,' ill-advised
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are using the upcoming Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump as a political “weapon” to bar the former president from seeking office again and are pursuing a case that is “undemocrati…