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Updated 3 days, 5 hours ago

Soap Lake looking to seat salary commission

SOAP LAKE — The City of Soap Lake is seeking residents to serve on its newly reactivated Salary Commission, a citi…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Russia arrests over 4,500 at wide protests backing Navalny

MOSCOW (AP) — Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, tens of thousands took to the streets Sunday across Russia to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up nationwide pr…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Russia arrests over 4,000 at wide protests backing Navalny

MOSCOW (AP) — Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, tens of thousands took to the streets Sunday across Russia to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up nationwide pr…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
GOP lawmakers urge Biden to meet with them on virus relief

WASHINGTON (AP) —

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Russia arrests 3,800 during wide protests backing Navalny

MOSCOW (AP) — Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, tens of thousands took to the streets Sunday across Russia to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up nationwide pr…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
GOP lawmakers seek tougher voting rules after record turnout

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican lawmakers in statehouses across the country are moving swiftly to attack some of the voting methods that fueled the

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Russia arrests 3,300 during wide protests backing Navalny

MOSCOW (AP) — Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, tens of thousands took to the streets Sunday across Russia's vast expanse to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping u…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Russia arrests 3,200 during wide protests backing Navalny

MOSCOW (AP) — Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, tens of thousands took to the streets Sunday across Russia's vast expanse to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping u…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Russia arrests 3,000 during wide protests backing Navalny

MOSCOW (AP) — Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, thousands of people took to the streets Sunday across Russia's vast expanse to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
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,

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Russia arrests 2,700 during wide protests backing Navalny

MOSCOW (AP) — Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, thousands of people took to the streets Sunday across Russia's vast expanse to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Russia arrests 2,300 during wide protests backing Navalny

MOSCOW (AP) — Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, thousands of people took to the streets Sunday across Russia's vast expanse to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Biden could change course in high court health care case

WASHINGTON (AP) — The

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Russian hack brings changes, uncertainty to US court system

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Trial lawyer Robert Fisher is handling one of America’s most prominent counterintelligence cases, defending an MIT scientist charged with secretly helping China. But how he’ll handle the logisti…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Deal or no deal: Virus aid tests Biden 'work together' plea

WASHINGTON (AP) — He was an arm-draping pol as a senator. He hung out in the Senate cloakroom chatting up legislators as vice president. He pitched himself during the presidential campaign as someone who could “get…

Updated 5 years, 3 months ago
Over 1,600 arrested as Russians rally in Navalny's support

MOSCOW (AP) — Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, thousands of people took to the streets Sunday across Russia's vast expanse to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping…