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Thompson leads 13th District race, plans focus on costs, access
EPHRATA — Joshua Thompson led Deanna Martinez by 3,278 votes for the 13th Legislative District’s state representat…
Health experts decry Trump's shunning of virus rules
WASHINGTON (AP) — Public health experts expressed concern Friday about President Donald Trump's largely mask-free, socially un-distanced
Trump surveys Hurricane Laura damage in post-convention trip
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — President Donald Trump got a firsthand look Saturday at the damage from Hurricane Laura on a post-Republican National Convention trip that allowed him to use the trappings of his office to …
Arizona student group slammed for raising money for gunman
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — A Republican student group at Arizona State University is receiving backlash for donating money to the 17-year-old gunman who fatally shot two protesters in Wisconsin.
State TV: 4 migrants die in fire on boat off Italian coast
ROME (AP) — Fire erupted on a migrants’ sailboat off the coast of southern Italy on Sunday, and Italian news reports said at least four perished and others were missing in the sea, the latest drama in the nation’s …
2nd Iowa judge backs GOP, rules ballot requests invalid
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A second Iowa judge has ruled in favor of President Donald Trump's campaign and ordered a county to invalidate at least 14,000 absentee ballot requests.
Trump still faces skepticism in suburbs following convention
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pat Newell backed Donald Trump in 2016.
With the conventions now over, what's next in campaign 2020?
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden have emerged from their presidential nominating conventions with each candidate believing he has a head of steam. Trump’s job approval ratings and sta…
2 Kansas doctors but differing COVID-19 takes in Senate race
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall's audience of about 40 people packed a banquet room in a Kansas City-area bistro. No one wore a mask during his lunchtime remarks about the coronavirus. The Repub…
AP FACT CHECK: Is US great again or dystopian? GOP says both
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican National Convention begged this question: Why are President Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters describing the state of his union as a hellscape?
At D.C. march, families decry 'two systems of justice'
WASHINGTON (AP) — Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. famously laid out a vision for harmony between white and Black people 57 years ago, his son issued a sobering r…
Stitt suggests Native and Black Oklahomans for monument
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt recommended three Native Americans and two Black Oklahomans as national heroes who should be considered for inclusion in a new National Garden of American Heroes.
SC lawmakers prepare to write budget delayed by COIVD-19
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After months of delays because of the COVID-19 pandemic, South Carolina lawmakers are getting ready to write this year's budget.
Some arests, little violence in night of California protests
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Protests against the shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin returned to California's streets with small crowds marching in several cities. But there were few arrests, and no reports of major vi…
Dems seeking to compel in-person election security briefings
WASHINGTON (AP) — Racing the political clock, frustrated Democrats on Sunday searched for a way to force the Trump administration to continue
Lebanon leaders name favorite for PM before Macron's visit
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's ambassador to Germany appeared slated to become the crisis-stricken country's next prime minister after getting the support of senior Sunni politicians on Sunday.