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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…
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.
Eyes turn to Senate after House passes police reform bill
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Critics of a wide-ranging police accountability proposal that passed the House of Representatives after an all-night special session debate Friday, now plan to turn their attention to the sta…
Gov't: New foreign students can't enter US if courses online
A week after revoking sweeping new restrictions on international students, federal immigration officials on Friday announced that new foreign students will be barred from entering the United States if they plan to …
GOP senators offer dueling endorsements on TN campaign trail
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (AP) — Republican Sens. Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz on Friday offered dueling endorsements of the two leading Republicans running for the U.S. Senate from Tennessee, Bill Hagerty and Manny Sethi.
China's consulate in Houston cleared out ahead of eviction
HOUSTON (AP) — Consular officials departed the Chinese consulate in Houston on Friday afternoon after the Trump administration ordered the facility to shut down.
Chilean suspect jailed in French murder case of Japanese
BESANCON, France (AP) — A Chilean man was order jailed in eastern France on Friday while he is investigated in the disappearance nearly four years ago of his ex-girlfriend, a Japanese student, in a case of suspecte…
Montana care home sees 15th death; more virus tests pending
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A senior home in Montana that has been pummeled by
At 88, former Sheriff Joe Arpaio makes 2nd comeback bid
PHOENIX (AP) — Joe Arpaio is trying to win back the sheriff’s post in metro Phoenix that he held for 24 years, facing his former second-in-command in the Aug. 4 Republican primary in what has become his second come…
Despite COVID crisis, Congress seeks to do its day job
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as lawmakers stumble in their quest to pass another coronavirus response measure, both the House and Senate sought to return to some semblance of normal business this week, passing annual mus…
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…
Pence says schools reopenings 'best thing for our kids'
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence kept up the Trump administration’s push for reopening schools and universities, insisting Friday that it can be done safely even amid
Reno schools to reconsider opening amid virus concerns
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Reno-area school trustees are reconsidering plans to reopen Washoe County schools Aug. 12, after the county health officer raised concerns that in-school classes could further spread the coronavir…
Lawyer: All new DACA applications put in 'pending' bucket
PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. government said Friday that it’s putting new DACA applications in a “pending” bucket while officials decide whether to again try to end the program for young immigrants, keeping enrollment s…
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…
Navajo casino employees might stop receiving paychecks
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — More than 1,000 people who work for the Navajo Nation's gambling enterprise have been told to prepare for the possibility they will not receive paychecks while on administrative leave.