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Adams County ballot features competitive federal, state and local races
RITZVILLE — Filing week has closed in Adams County, and voters will see a crowded and competitive ballot in the 20…
Homeland Security head spars with Congress over border surge
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s head of Homeland Security sparred Wednesday with members of Congress over the surge of migrants at the Southwest border, refusing to concede the situation was a crisis or eve…
Movement for Black Lives opposes George Floyd Justice Act
DETROIT (AP) — The Movement for Black Lives is opposing the
Utah campaign against porn marches on with phone filter plan
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Conservative lawmakers in Utah have fired another salvo in their longtime campaign against online porn with a new requirement that all cellphones and tablets sold in the state automatically bl…
Block a bill? Biden wants old-school Senate filibusters
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden wants the Senate to engage in old-fashioned filibusters, forcing senators who try to block bills to have to stand and talk for hours, as happened in Hollywood movies and during…
Troubled US-China ties face new test in Alaska meeting
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and China will face a new test in their
Florida bill seeks to block trans athletes from girls teams
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Transgender women and girls couldn't play on girls and women's school sports teams under a bill passed by a Florida House committee on Wednesday.
Advocates seek Biden push on gun bills, but prospects iffy
WASHINGTON (AP) — After President Joe Biden’s
EU sets out virus pass plan to allow free travel by summer
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's executive body proposed Wednesday issuing certificates that would allow EU residents to travel freely across the 27-nation bloc by the summer as long as they have been vaccinate…
Collaboration with police divides social workers across US
CHICAGO (AP) —
Lawsuit says deputies shared grisly Bryant photos
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant's widow, Vanessa Bryant, on Wednesday posted the names of four Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies she alleges shared graphic photos from the site of the helicopter crash that kille…
Voter outreach led to big drop in rejected mail ballots
ATLANTA (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic triggered an unprecedented surge in mailed ballots last year, raising concerns that a flood of first-time absentee voters would lead to another record: more ballots tossed ou…
EXPLAINER: What's the Senate filibuster and why change it?
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's not that different from the movies. President Joe Biden said the Senate should operate like it did in the “old days,” with senators forced to stand up and speak all day and night if they plan…
France’s Sarkozy faces new trial over 2012 campaign finance
PARIS (AP) — The trial of French former President Nicolas Sarkozy on charges that his unsuccessful reelection bid in 2012 was illegally financed has been postponed for two months.
China protests over Japan, US statement on human rights
BEIJING (AP) — China has protested to the United States and Japan over a joint statement it said “maliciously attacked” its foreign policy and seriously interfered in China’s internal affairs, the Foreign Ministry …
US prison guards refusing vaccine despite COVID-19 outbreaks
A Florida correctional officer polled his colleagues earlier this year in a private Facebook group: “Will you take the COVID-19 vaccine if offered?”