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June 22, 2021 8:27 a.m.

How Big Tech created a data 'treasure trove' for police

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — When U.S. law enforcement officials need to cast a wide net for information, they’re increasingly turning to the vast digital ponds of personal data created by Big Tech companies via the devices and online services that have hooked billions of people around the world.

June 22, 2021 8:06 a.m.

The Latest: Turkey announces first local COVID vaccine

ISTANBUL — Turkey’s president has announced the country’s first local vaccine in development against COVID-19 would be called TURKOVAC.

June 22, 2021 6:03 a.m.

EXPLAINER: Ranked choice voting gets big test in NYC

NEW YORK (AP) — Ranked choice voting

June 22, 2021 12:06 a.m.

GOP ready to block elections bill in Senate showdown

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democrats’

June 22, 2021 12:06 a.m.

Ransomware gangs get paid off as officials struggle for fix

BOSTON (AP) — If your business falls victim to

June 22, 2021 12:06 a.m.

Biden and Congress face a summer grind to create legislation

WASHINGTON (AP) — Until recently, the act of governing seemed to happen at the speed of presidential tweets. But now President Joe Biden is settling in for what appears will be a long, summer slog of legislating.

June 22, 2021 12:06 a.m.

Watchdog: Nursing home deaths up 32% in 2020 amid pandemic

WASHINGTON (AP) — Deaths among Medicare patients in nursing homes soared by 32% last year, with two devastating spikes eight months apart, a government watchdog reported Tuesday in the most comprehensive look yet at

June 22, 2021 12:06 a.m.

'Time to play': Michigan reopens 15 months after pandemic

DETROIT (AP) — Michigan is fully open again.

June 22, 2021 12:06 a.m.

Voting debate roils Washington but leaves many voters cold

PLANO, Texas (AP) — Brenda Martinez, a 19-year-old community college student, thinks the government should help immigrant students more. Donald Huffman is worried about turning 50 next week with no work available because the federal government is delaying the pipelines he usually helps build. Binod Neupane, who just moved to Texas to research alternative fuels, wants action on climate change.

June 21, 2021 9:03 p.m.

'Time to play': Michigan reopens 15 months after pandemic

MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Michigan is fully open again.

June 21, 2021 5:06 a.m.

Ransomware gangs get paid off as officials struggle for fix

BOSTON (AP) — If your business falls victim to

Othello girls take first at final event
June 21, 2021 1 a.m.

Othello girls take first at final event

OTHELLO — Local competitors wrapped up the spring season Thursday at Othello High School at the Othello Girls Wrestling 2021 Culminating Event.

June 21, 2021 12:06 a.m.

Paying fortifies ransomware gangs but scant support for bans

BOSTON (AP) — If your business falls victim to

June 21, 2021 12:06 a.m.

Biden and Congress face a summer grind to create legislation

WASHINGTON (AP) — Until recently, the act of governing seemed to happen at the speed of presidential tweets. But now President Joe Biden is settling in for what appears will be a long, summer slog of legislating.

June 21, 2021 12:06 a.m.

Biden's silence on executions adds to death penalty disarray

CHICAGO (AP) — Activists widely expected Joe Biden to take swift action against the death penalty as the first sitting president to oppose capital punishment, especially since an unprecedented spate of executions by his predecessor

June 21, 2021 12:06 a.m.

Voting debate roils Washington but leaves many voters cold

PLANO, Texas (AP) — Brenda Martinez, a 19-year-old community college student, thinks the government should help immigrant students more. Donald Huffman is worried about turning 50 next week with no work available because the federal government is delaying the pipelines he usually helps build. Binod Neupane, who just moved to Texas to research alternative fuels, wants action on climate change.

June 20, 2021 9:27 p.m.

Biden and Congress face a summer grind to create legislation

WASHINGTON (AP) — Until recently, the act of governing seemed to happen at the speed of presidential tweets. But now President Joe Biden is settling in for what appears will be a long, summer slog of legislating.

June 20, 2021 12:03 a.m.

Mistrial halts case on minimum wage for immigrant detainees

SEATTLE (AP) — A trial over whether the GEO Group must pay minimum wage — instead of $1 a day — to immigration detainees who perform tasks like cooking and cleaning at its for-profit detention center in Washington state has ended with a hung jury.

June 20, 2021 12:03 a.m.

Top general 'shocked' by AP report on AWOL guns, mulls fix

Shocked by an Associated Press investigation into the loss and theft of military guns, the Pentagon's top general signaled Thursday that he will consider a “systematic fix” to how the armed services keep account of their firearms.

June 20, 2021 12:03 a.m.

Migrant family's presence on Greek island hints at pushbacks

VATHY, Greece (AP) — Around dawn one recent spring day, an inflatable dinghy carrying nearly three dozen people reached the Greek island of Samos from the nearby Turkish coast. Within 24 hours, refugee rights groups say, the same group was seen drifting in a life raft back to Turkey.