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US charges 3 men with plotting terror attacks, including planned assault on UK airbase
FROM THE AP: As cases surge in US, rural areas seeing increases as well
For many states and counties in the U.S., the dark days of the coronavirus pandemic in April unfolded on their television screens, not on their doorsteps. But now, some places that appeared to have avoided the wors…
FROM THE AP: Portland Police use crowd-control munitions on protesters
Portland police fired crowd-control munitions toward demonstrators near a downtown precinct building Friday night and early Saturday morning.
FROM THE AP: Nurses, doctors feel strain as virus races through Arizona
They saw the ominous photos: Crowded hospitals, exhausted nurses, bodies piling up in morgues. It was far away, in New York, northern Italy and other distant p…
State commission rejects petition to limit killing of wolves
A petition that called for new rules to limit when the state can kill endangered wolves that prey on livestock was rejected Friday by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission
American Airlines will book flights to full capacity
American Airlines said Friday that it will start booking flights to full capacity next week
Police solve case of girl abducted, raped, killed in 1982
Columbus police say they have solved the nearly four-decade-old case of an 8-year-old girl abducted on the way home from school, then raped and killed
States retreat as confirmed virus cases hit all-time high
Texas and Florida clamped down on bars again Friday in the biggest retreat yet amid a surge across the South and West
Montana football coach to keep job after post on protesters
Officials say a high school football coach in Montana will keep his job after suggesting in a social media post that Black Lives Matter protesters in Salt Lake City should be hanged
As COVID cases rise, White House seeks to scrap �Obamacare�
As coronavirus cases rise in more than half of the states, the Trump administration is urging the Supreme Court to overturn the Affordable Care Act
Council advances plan to dismantle Minneapolis Police Dept.
Mayor Jacob Frey doesn’t support abolishing the department, a stance that got him booed off the street by activists
Man runs 218 miles to virus-stricken ‘Nana’s’ nursing home
Cappelloni’s “Run for Ruth” has raised more than $24,000
Crowds tear down statues, attack Wisconsin state senator
Early Wednesday, police in riot gear worked to clear a crowd of about 100 people that remained in the area
Tucson police chief offers resignation after man’s death
Case emerges as Americans around the country protest police brutality
Crowds tear down statues, attack Wisconsin state senator
Early Wednesday, police in riot gear worked to clear a crowd of about 100 people that remained in the area
Mourners pay respects to Rayshard Brooks at Ebenezer viewing
Shooting happened against the backdrop of nationwide protests