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Today is the final day to file in Grant County
EPHRATA — Grant County’s candidate filing week is underway, with several candidates submitting paperwork for local…
Migrant families freed without court notice or any paperwork
MISSION, Texas (AP) — Overwhelmed and underprepared, U.S. authorities are releasing migrant families on the Mexican border without notices to appear in immigration court or sometimes without any paperwork at all — …
Biden plan would spend $16B to clean up old mines, oil wells
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's
US judge blocks Nevada grazing; sage grouse totals dwindling
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal judge has blocked a Nevada project that would expand livestock grazing across 400 squares miles (1,036 square kilometers) of some of the highest priority sage-grouse habitat in the West …
School plotters often are bullied, suffer from depression
WASHINGTON (AP) — The warning signs are all there.
Oregon Democrats decry legislative slowdown during COVID
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's House of Representatives returned to the Capitol this week after floor sessions had been cancelled due to multiple COVID-19 cases, but Republicans continue to use a stalling tactic th…
Microsoft wins $22 billion deal making headsets for US Army
Microsoft won a nearly $22 billion contract to
G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate mastermind, dead at 90
WASHINGTON (AP) — G. Gordon Liddy, a mastermind of the Watergate burglary and a radio talk show host after emerging from prison, died Tuesday at age 90 at his daughter's home in Virginia.
'Major' pain: Biden's dog involved in 2nd biting incident
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's younger dog Major this week was involved in his second biting incident of the month, the White House said Tuesday.
AP PHOTOS: For migrants at border, both opportunity and risk
For many Americans, the scenes unfolding at the U.S.-Mexico border are visceral and jarring. A 7-year old girl from Honduras walking in the darkness to keep up with strangers she met on the perilous journey from no…
Migrant families freed without court notice or any paperwork
MISSION, Texas (AP) — Overwhelmed and underprepared, U.S. authorities are releasing migrant families on the Mexican border without notices to appear in immigration court or sometimes without any paperwork at all — …
Company at heart of J&J vaccine woes has series of citations
The company at the center of quality problems that led Johnson & Johnson to discard an unknown amount of its coronavirus vaccine has a string of citations from U.S. health officials for quality control problems.
Biden plan would spend $16B to clean up old mines, oil wells
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's
Under pressure, some Ga. corporate leaders slam voting bill
ATLANTA (AP) — Some of Georgia's most prominent corporate leaders on Wednesday began to more forcefully criticize the state's
Hunter Biden details lifelong addiction struggle in memoir
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter details his lifelong struggle with alcoholism and drug abuse in a new memoir, writing that “in the last five years alone, my two-decades-long marriage has dissolve…
New York is latest state to legalize recreational marijuana
New York adults over the age of 21 can now possess and use marijuana — even in public —