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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…
Tribes file agreement resolving North Dakota voter ID suit
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Two American Indian tribes filed an agreement Friday with North Dakota resolving a lawsuit over requiring residents of reservations to provide a street address when voting.
Probe: Breakdown in protecting feds during virus evacuation
WASHINGTON (AP) — A management breakdown led to some federal employees being sent to help American evacuees from the coronavirus epidemic in China without proper protective equipment, federal investigators have con…
UK govt under fire over virus advice as deaths pass 20,000
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government on Saturday defended the independence of the scientists advising it on the coronavirus after it emerged that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s controversial chief aide had attended m…
Sizing up Trump's green-card halt: Is it just temporary?
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Pamela Thompson, a recruiter at Adventist Health Bakersfield in California, made seven job offers to foreign nurses in February and just finished a first round of interviews with 12 more candidates…
FDA warns of heart risks with Trump-promoted malaria drug
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday warned doctors against prescribing a malaria drug touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus except in hospitals and research…
Whitmer extends stay-home order through May 15, eases rules
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday lengthened her stay-at-home order through May 15, while lifting restrictions so some businesses can reopen and the public can participate in outdoor activities …
Polish government gets pushback on postal presidential vote
WARSAW (AP) — The Polish government’s determination to move forward with a scheduled presidential election next month by making it an all-postal vote has sparked anxiety and anger amid the coronavirus pandemic, wit…
N.C. Republican leader: We won't seek budget veto override
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Senate Republicans won't try any more to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's budget veto from last summer, the chamber's leader said, citing state government's precarious fisca…
Out of pandemic crisis, what could a new New Deal look like?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The New Deal was really a series of new deals, spread out over more than six years during the Great Depression — a menu of nationally scaled projects that were one part make work and many parts la…
Disinfectant riff is latest of many Trump science clashes
WASHINGTON (AP) — What President Donald Trump says and does often flies in the face of mainstream science. Coronavirus and the idea of injecting disinfectants is only the latest episode.
Bloomberg moves past presidential defeat with virus crusade
NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly two months after
Brazil becoming coronavirus hot spot as testing falters
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Cases of the new
Belarus holds day of civic labor despite rising virus cases
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — More than 2 million Belarusians, including doctors and nurses, took part in a government-decreed national day of civic labor Saturday despite worries about the country's sharply rising coronav…
In Trump's shadow, Congress-at-home eyes reboot during virus
WASHINGTON (AP) — They long for what's being lost: the ability to publicly question officials at committee hearings, to chat across the aisle, to speak from the House and Senate floor for all of America, and histor…
Social distancing urged as sunny weekend tempts Californians
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A spring heat wave drove an uptick of people to California beaches, golf courses and trails on Saturday as authorities warned people not to swarm them for fear of igniting a deadly coronavirus su…