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In Grant County Judge debate, Bevier, Chadwick place emphasis on experience and constitutional interpretation
EPHRATA — The two candidates seeking Grant County Superior Court Judge Position 3 highlighted their legal experien…
Orange County beaches closed by California's governor
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The news hit Orange County like a cold wave: California’s governor was shutting down the beaches.
West Virginia lifting stay-home order under eased benchmark
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Thursday said he is lifting the statewide stay-home order next week as part of his plan to ease
Court nixes Trump policy of tying grants to enforcement
CHICAGO (AP) — A sharply worded ruling by a federal appeals court in Chicago on Thursday said the Trump administration policy of threatening to withhold grant money from so-called sanctuary cities to force them to …
Nessel to investigate canceled contract to trace infections
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Thursday her office will investigate how the state awarded a since-canceled contract to a Democratic political firm to help contact and warn people w…
Kansas to lift limits Monday on many businesses but not all
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Laura Kelly announced Thursday that she will allow many Kansas businesses to reopen next week if they can maintain social distancing and said she hopes to lift all coronavirus-inspired stat…
Top diplomats discuss peace plans for eastern Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) — Top diplomats from Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany discussed ways to advance the peace process for eastern Ukraine in Thursday's call, but failed to achieve any tangible progress.
Police: Shooting at Cuban Embassy is ‘suspected hate crime’
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man armed with an assault rifle was arrested after opening fire outside the Cuban Embassy in Washington early Thursday, his bullets tearing holes into the walls and pillars near the front entran…
Top Russian diplomat dismisses Czech claims of poison plot
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's top diplomat on Thursday angrily dismissed media reports alleging a Russian plot to poison the mayor of Prague and another official in the Czech capital amid a tug-of-war over a Soviet milita…
Trump speculates that China released virus in lab 'mistake'
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has speculated that China could have unleashed the coronavirus on the world due to some kind of horrible “mistake,” and his intelligence agencies said they are still examini…
Plan for Arizona Legislature to meet Friday called off.
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Legislature won't meet as planned Friday after Republican leaders failed to reach agreement on whether to adjourn for the year or resume a session interupted by the coronovirus pa…
Navy hospital ships, once thought critical, see few patients
About a month ago, with Los Angeles girding for a potentially crippling surge of coronavirus cases, a massive white Navy hospital ship chugged into port: a powerful symbol of the government's response to the pandem…
Pennsylvania's business shutdown waiver program gets audited
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf's business shutdown waiver program is being audited amid complaints it was managed unfairly, Pennsylvania’s chief fiscal watchdog announced Thursday.
This time, Pence wears mask as he tours Indiana plant
WASHINGTON (AP) — This time, he wore a mask.
Army defends decision to have West Point graduation
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army's top leaders on Thursday defended their decision to bring 1,000 cadets back to the Military Academy at West Point for graduation, where President Donald Trump is slated to speak, saying …
A coronavirus drug seems to work. What's next?
News that an experimental drug seems to be the first effective treatment for the new coronavirus has unleashed a flurry of interest – and a clamor to know how soon it might be available.