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WASHINGTON — The gulf between President Donald Trump and public health officials over wearing face masks keeps widening, undercutting medical experts who say consistent face covering is one of the best tools — short of a vaccine — to fight the spread of the coronavirus. Trump has gone back and forth on protective masks in […]

PENSACOLA, Fla. — Hurricane Sally lumbered ashore near the Florida-Alabama line Wednesday with 105 mph (165 kph) winds and rain measured in feet, not inches, swamping homes and forcing the rescue of hundreds of people as it pushed inland for what could be a slow and disastrous drenching across the Deep South. Moving at just […]

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve expects to keep its benchmark interest rate pegged near zero at least through 2023 as it strives to accelerate economic growth and drive down the unemployment rate. The central bank also said Wednesday that it will seek to push inflation above 2% annually. The Fed left its benchmark short-term rate […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The city of Louisville will pay millions to the mother of Breonna Taylor and reform police practices as part of a lawsuit settlement months after Taylor’s slaying by police thrust the Black woman’s name to the forefront of a national reckoning on race. A person who has seen the settlement told The […]

LOS ANGELES — For Alicia Flores Gonzalez, Aug. 4 began like any other day. She dropped off her little girl at day care and drove to work at a winery in the Sonoma Valley. But as she was parking her white Toyota Tacoma, she found herself surrounded by armed men. “What happened? What did I […]

Do we need another 672 million people in this country? That’s the argument advanced in Matt Yglesias’s new book One Billion Americans. By accepting a great many more immigrants, and increasing the birthrate with pro-family policy, we might roughly triple our population. The billion-person mark is basically a loose framing device for a discussion of […]

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and SARA CLINE BEAVERCREEK, Ore. (AP) — Nearly all the dozens of people reported missing after a devastating blaze in southern Oregon have been accounted for, authorities said over the weekend as crews battled wildfires that have killed at least 35 from California to Washington state. The flames up and down the […]

BEAVERCREEK, Ore. — Nearly all the dozens of people reported missing after a devastating blaze in southern Oregon have been accounted for, authorities said over the weekend as crews battled wildfires that have killed at least 33 from California to Washington state. The flames up and down the West Coast have destroyed neighborhoods, leaving nothing […]

CLICK HERE if you’re having a problem viewing the photos on a mobile device. Wildfires in Oregon have killed at least six people and all but destroyed the cities of Phoenix and Talent, near Medford. Oregon’s Office of Emergency Management Director Andrew Phelps said thousands of structures have been destroyed in the catastrophic fires and […]

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and SARA CLINE BEAVERCREEK, Ore. (AP) — Nearly all the dozens of people reported missing after a devastating blaze in southern Oregon have been accounted for, authorities said over the weekend as crews battled wildfires that have killed at least 33 from California to Washington state. The flames up and down the […]

WALLINGFORD, Vt. (AP) — The leader of a Vermont branch of the NAACP is selling her home over what she describes as months of racially motivated harassment targeting her and her children. Tabitha Moore, director of the Rutland Area chapter of NAACP, tells the Rutland Herald in a story published Friday she’s already found a […]

By Rebecca Boone and Sara Cline | Associated Press SALEM, Ore. — Fearing one disaster will feed another, relief groups are putting some people who fled their homes during West Coast wildfires into hotels to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, stringing up shower curtains to separate people in group shelters and delivering box lunches […]