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Grant County primary turnout slips from 2022 levels as officials look ahead to November election
EPHRATA — Grant County's voter turnout in the 2026 primary election finished at nearly 34%, a figure county electi…
2020 Watch: How long can Trump ride 'law and order'?
NEW YORK (AP) — Presidential politics move fast. What we’re watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign:
Trump supporters stage old-fashioned political rally
Supporters of President Donald Trump staged a political rally through downtown Moses Lake – and on Moses Lake – Saturday.
Trump, Biden spar over economy, workers in Labor Day blitz
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Donald Trump spent Monday diminishing each other's credentials on the economy and understanding of the American worker as the president…
AP Explains: US debt will soon exceed size of entire economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government's war against the coronavirus is imposing the heaviest strain on the Treasury since America's drive to defeat Nazi Germany and imperial Japan three-quarters of a century ago.
Sheriff: Five boats sank in Texas Trump parade, no injuries
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Five boats sank in a Texas lake during a nautical parade in support of President Donald Trump as tightly packed boats created large waves, officials said Sunday.
Trump looms large over campaigns for control of Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — The battle for control of Congress
Jill Biden drawing on classroom time for case against Trump
WAUWATOSA, Wis. (AP) — When
Harris' mostly virtual campaign to get Wisconsin road test
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Kamala Harris told a friendly crowd of Hollywood donors on Thursday they'd be surprised by how many states she's visiting daily, if only virtually.
Voting in person Nov. 3? Expect drive-thrus, sports arenas
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Voting will look a little different this November. States are turning to stadiums, drive-thrus and possibly even movie theaters as safe options for in-person polling places amid the coronaviru…
Migrants are moved from overcrowded Italian island facility
LAMPEDUSA ISLAND, Italy (AP) — With the help of a local fishing boat, hundreds of migrants were transferred on Saturday to a ferry from a tiny Italian island to relieve severe overcrowding during the pandemic at a …
QAnon conspiracy emerges in some state legislative races
PHOENIX (AP) — Candidates engaging with the QAnon conspiracy theory are running for seats in state legislatures this year, breathing more oxygen into a once-obscure conspiracy movement that has grown in prominence …
Trump open to inquiry into DeJoy and campaign contributions
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he's open to an investigation of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy following published reports that former employees of DeJoy, a major donor to Trump and other Republicans…
Erdogan raises rhetoric in Greece standoff in Mediterranean
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday warned Greece to enter talks over disputed eastern Mediterranean territorial claims or face the consequences.
Excessive heat in Southwest poses added threat amid pandemic
PHOENIX (AP) — As people around them sat and napped, some sipping water in an air-conditioned shelter on another sweltering day in a summer of record-breaking heat, Gary Goodman and Lena Stewart spoke of the fatal …
Facebook blocks ailing man's planned end-of-life broadcasts
LE PECQ, France (AP) — Facebook on Saturday blocked live broadcasts from a chronically ill bed-ridden man who appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron for a medically-assisted death and who wanted to show what …