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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, 5 months ago
Stith named to lead North Carolina community college system

RALEIGH. N.C. (AP) — Thomas Stith III, the head of the U.S. Small Business Administration in North Carolina and a former top aide to then-Gov. Pat McCrory, was hired Monday to lead the state's community college sys…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
GOP leaders to act as electors, cast Kansas votes for Trump

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican party officials picked to serve as Kansas members of the Electoral College were set to meet Monday to cast the state’s six electoral votes for President Donald Trump.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
US blames Iran in abduction, death of ex-FBI agent Levinson

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration for the first time on Monday formally blamed Iran for the presumed death of retired FBI agent

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
AP-NORC poll: America's virus concerns stable as cases spike

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Deaths from

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Election 2020 Today: Electoral College votes, vaccine U-turn

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Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Legislative offices closed due to threats as electors meet

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan legislative offices were closed Monday because of threats of violence as presidential electors prepared to gather in the state Capitol to cast their votes for Democrat Joe Biden.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
EU clinches deal on first-ever defense fund

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union announced Monday that an agreement has been reached on setting up the 27-nation bloc’s first ever fund to support defense research and development.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Missouri presidential electors meeting to vote for Trump

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo (AP) — Missouri's presidential electors are gathering at the state Capitol to officially cast their votes for Republican President Donald Trump.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Biden electors to convene for vote in Pennsylvania's capital

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's 20 members of the Electoral College will convene in a Harrisburg auditorium on Monday to vote for Democrat Joe Biden, whose win in the state last month helped propel him to vic…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
The Latest: Family doctors start offering vaccine in England

LONDON — Family doctors in England are set to start COVID-19 inoculations this week, in the latest stage of the U.K.’s mass vaccination program.

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Germany's heath chief urges EU to approve vaccine faster

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's health minister expressed impatience Monday that the European Union was still waiting for its regulatory agency to approve a coronavirus vaccine, while other officials urged Germans to forgo…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
US Embassy says Sudan no longer on list of terror sponsors

CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum said Monday that President Donald Trump's administration has removed Sudan from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, a move that could help the African country get…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Endangered-species decision expected on beloved butterfly

Trump administration officials are expected to say this week whether the monarch butterfly, a colorful and familiar backyard visitor now caught in a global extinction crisis, should receive federal designation as a…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Biden's Homeland Security pick faces questions on 2015 probe

WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time Alejandro Mayorkas faced Senate confirmation, not a single Republican voted for him because there was an open investigation into his management of the U.S. immigration agency under P…

Updated 5 years, 5 months ago
Iran executes exiled journalist who encouraged 2017 protests

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran on Saturday executed an exiled journalist over his online work that helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017, a little more than a year after authorities tricked h…