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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…
Car drives through crowd, protester shot in Colorado
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A car drove through a crowd and a protester was shot in the suburban Denver suburb of Aurora during demonstrations against racial injustice.
Mnuchin: Virus aid package soon, $1,200 checks by August
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Saturday that Republicans were set to roll out the next
Virginia panel recommends Lee statue removal at U.S. Capitol
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia panel has recommended that Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s statue in the U.S. Capitol be replaced with another yet-to-be named Virginian amid national discussions about removing con…
Civil rights icon John Lewis remembered in his hometown
TROY, Ala. (AP) — Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis was remembered Saturday — in the rural Alabama county where his story began — as a humble man who sprang from his family’s farm with a…
Hunger organization pushes out Yoho after Capitol incident
WASHINGTON (AP) — A nonpartisan Christian organization that seeks to end hunger said Saturday it asked for and received the resignation of Rep. Ted Yoho from its board of directors following what it called his “ver…
Georgia's Ossoff quarantines after wife positive for virus
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Democratic Senate candidate
White House sends reinforcements to aid Colorado senator
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. (AP) — As Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner's reelection campaign moves into general election mode, he is getting an assist from the White House.
San Francisco bus driver hit with bat over mask requirement
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco bus driver was beaten with a bat by a passenger who refused to wear a face mask, police said.
State pension fund ends fiscal year with $8.5B
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's public pension fund ended the just completed fiscal year with nearly $8.5 billion in assets under managament despite the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, accordin…
California, Florida, Texas lose House seats with Trump order
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — If President Donald Trump succeeds in getting immigrants in the country illegally excluded from being counted in the redrawing of U.S. House districts, California, Florida and Texas would end u…
US agency vows steps to address COVID-19 inequalities
NEW YORK (AP) — If Black, Hispanic and Native Americans are hospitalized and killed by the coronavirus at far higher rates than others, shouldn't the government count them as high risk for serious illness?
Kentucky reports more than 800 new coronavirus cases
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's surging coronavirus outbreak continued Saturday with more than 800 new cases reported as the state struggles to slow the escalation.
Maricopa County reverses policy on anti-gay adoptions
PHOENIX (AP) — Maricopa County is reversing a five-year policy rooted in opposition to adoptions by same-sex couples.
In-store dancing leads to Hawaii visitor quarantine arrest
HONOLULU (AP) — Investigators with the Hawaii attorney general's office arrested a 20-year-old woman after seeing videos of her dancing in a store and dining out when she was supposed to be obeying a traveler quara…
Trump talks up his rule-cutting, but courts saying otherwise
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is positioning himself as a champion regulation-cutter in the leadup to the Nov. 3 election, but in between his showy red-tape-cutting events, his deregulatory agenda is tak…