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Adams County election filing open until Friday
RITZVILLE — Adams County opened its 2026 candidate filing period Monday, giving residents five days to declare the…
In fight against virus, Biden looks for path back to normal
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden spent his first 100 days in office
State Legislature adjourns 105-day session, OKs $59B budget
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington lawmakers adjourned their legislative session Sunday after giving final approval to a two-year state budget, a new capital gains tax and a low-carbon fuel standard.
Washington's pandemic session: Remote work, weighty topics
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington lawmakers had no shortage of weighty topics they tackled this session while having to conduct their work amid a pandemic that meant most meetings and votes were done remotely.
Despite racial reckoning, state efforts stall on reparations
LOUISVILLE, Ky (AP) — During last summer’s reckoning over racial injustice, decades-long debates about whether to offer reparations to the descendants of slaves in the U.S. finally seemed to be gaining momentum.
What's behind the growth slump? Takeaways from census data
The first batch of once-every-decade
Sen. Johnson may offer insight into GOP's 2022 positioning
MADISON, Wis. (AP) —
Supreme Court to take up right to carry gun for self-defense
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal to expand gun rights in the United States in a New York case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense.
From scarcity to abundance: US faces calls to share vaccines
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Victor Guevara knows people his age have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in many countries. His own relatives in Houston have been inoculated.
Alaska senator drives, takes ferry after airline suspension
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska state Sen. Lora Reinbold drove through part of Canada and took a ferry to reach the state's capital over the weekend after Alaska Airlines suspended her from its flights for what it cal…
US marks slowest population growth since the Depression
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. population growth has slowed to the lowest rate since the Great Depression, the Census Bureau said, as Americans continued their march to the South and West and one-time engines of growth, Ne…
4 held as French seek motive in deadly police station attack
RAMBOUILLET, France (AP) — French authorities detained a fourth person Saturday as anti-terrorism investigators questioned three others, seeking to establish a motive and uncover any possible ties to extremism afte…
Justice Dept. opens policing probe over Breonna Taylor death
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is opening a sweeping probe into policing in Louisville, Kentucky, over the March 2020 death of
1 verdict, then 6 police killings across America in 24 hours
Even as the Derek Chauvin case was fresh in memory — the reading of the verdict in a Minneapolis courtroom, the shackling of the former police officer, the jubilation at what many saw as justice in the death of Geo…
The big Pentagon internet mystery now partially solved
BOSTON (AP) — A very strange thing happened on the internet the day President Joe Biden was sworn in. A shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank announced to the world’s computer networks…
Biden plan for cleaner power system faces daunting obstacles
NEW YORK (AP) — If the nation is to meet President Joe Biden's goal of cutting America’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade, it will have to undertake a vast transformation toward renewable e…