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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…
Analysis: Mask mandate marks latest Edwards, Landry quarrel
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The timing seemed strange for Attorney General Jeff Landry to challenge Louisiana’s recently enacted mask mandate for the coronavirus outbreak, while he was in quarantine with the virus hims…
Given a chance, Trump would push court pick before election
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have tried to make it clear: Given the chance, they would push through a Supreme Court nominee should a vacancy occur before Elect…
Arizona's rugged individualism poses barrier to mask rules
PHOENIX (AP) — With the coronavirus spreading out of control and Arizona cities beginning just last month to require residents wear masks in public, a few hundred people gathered in Scottsdale to make clear they di…
Social media for Rubio, Sullivan confuses Cummings, Lewis
MIAMI (AP) — Social media of Republican Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Dan Sullivan of Alaska mistakenly posted photos of the late U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings with comments meant to honor the late U.S. Rep. John Le…
14 hours later, Trump says he is 'saddened' by Lewis' death
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the hours after the death of American civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to retweet old missives about Democratic rival Joe Biden and lash out at his form…
Trump talks less about virus, states look inward for answers
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has taken an increasingly hands-off approach to the
Nevada passes cuts to health care, education amid pandemic
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Legislature approved immense cuts to the state's health and education budgets on Sunday in an effort to rebalance the state budget amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and plumm…
UN chief: World 'at the breaking point' due to inequalities
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Saying “we are at the breaking point,” the U.N. secretary-general made a sweeping call Saturday to end the global inequalities that sparked this year’s massive anti-racism protests and have been…
Trump not ready to commit to election results if he loses
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is refusing to publicly commit to accepting the results of
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's alternate reality on COVID-19 threat
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump appears to be living in an alternate reality when it comes to the COVID-19 threat.
Rep. John Lewis remembered for legacy of 'good trouble'
ATLANTA (AP) — Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon and the last of the Big Six civil rights activists led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.,
Taxes still top focus as Nebraska lawmakers resume session
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers will return to their legislative session Monday for the first time in almost four months with most of the same challenges they faced back in March, plus new questions about how…
Son of US District Judge Esther Salas killed, husband shot
NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — A gunman shot and killed the 20-year-old son of a federal judge in New Jersey and shot and injured her husband Sunday at the family home, the state’s chief district judge said.
Trump nominates former SC official for Belize ambassadorship
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump has nominated South Carolina's former lieutenant governor to be the next ambassador to Belize.
Trump offers confusion, contradictions on immigration order
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is promising new executive action on immigration as he returns to the defining issue of his administration. But Trump has offered contradictory and confusing statements abou…