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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…
Italy: Town residents protest housing migrants with virus
ROME (AP) — Residents of a southern Italian town on Monday kept up their protest against more than a dozen rescued migrants with the coronavirus being isolated in a local apartment building.
Coast Guard officials decline to testify on racial incidents
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — A planned congressional hearing on the handling of racial harassment at the Coast Guard Academy has been canceled after the commandant of the Coast Guard declined to testify.
Time to make masks mandatory? It's not just a US debate
PARIS (AP) — Amid pervasive backsliding on social distancing, Britain has made masks mandatory in shops and France is weighing whether to require people to wear them in public places.
UN: Pandemic could push tens of millions into chronic hunger
ROME (AP) — The United Nations says the ranks of the world’s hungry grew by 10 million last year and warns that the coronavirus pandemic could push as many as 130 million more people into chronic hunger this year.
Legal experts review Black Minnesota teen's life sentence
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An independent panel of national legal experts will review the conviction of an African American man sentenced as a teenager to life in prison for the murder of a little girl struck by a stray bu…
Primary voters use unprecedented number of absentee ballots
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine officials called on the state's voters to use absentee ballots as much as possible during this week's primary, and they have responded in overwhelming fashion.
North Macedonia: Ballot boxes carried to quarantined homes
SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Election officials in North Macedonia carried ballot boxes to the homes of voters suffering from COVID-19 or in quarantine Monday, at the start of three days of voting in a general el…
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100,000 mail-in votes went uncounted in California's primary
LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than 100,000 mail-in ballots were rejected by California election officials during the March presidential primary, according to data obtained by The Associated Press that highlights a glarin…
Judge orders new delay in federal executions, hours before 1st scheduled lethal injection; appeal expected
WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge orders new delay in federal executions, hours before 1st scheduled lethal injection; appeal expected.
Moscow police detain people protesting ex-reporter's jailing
MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow police on Monday detained more than a dozen journalists protesting the arrest and jailing of a former colleague on treason charges.
US grapples with pandemic as its origins are traced in China
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) — The United States was grappling with the worst coronavirus outbreak in the world on Monday, as Florida shattered the national record for a state’s largest single-day increase in new c…
Kosovo president visits prosecutors who indicted him
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Kosovo’s president visited prosecutors at The Hague on Monday who have charged him with criminal responsibility for crimes including nearly 100 murders during and after his nation's ba…
4 Azerbaijani troops die in clashes with Armenia
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia and Azerbaijan blamed each other Monday for skirmishes on their volatile border that has left four Azerbaijani soldiers dead and several troops wounded on both sides.
Funeral for Seoul mayor held as allegation details emerge
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Mourners wept and deeply bowed before the coffin of Seoul’s mayor during his funeral Monday, while a lawyer came forward with details about sexual harassment allegations against the late p…