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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2020 photo, Baltimore Police Academy cadets listen to an instructor during an on the field class session learning to direct traffic, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, in Baltimore. As rising murder rates gain attention in U.S. cities, Republicans have ramped up misleading attacks by casting Democrats as anti-police. It's a message they believe helped them stave off greater Democratic gains and one with renewed potency particularly in cities that cut police department budgets amid calls to overhaul policing last year. It's not clear whether the GOP strategy, with roots back to President Nixon's law-and-order message, will be a success for a party that has little support in American cities. But Republicans hope to stem their decline in suburbs with by attacking Democrats' on domestic safety. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
GOP ramps up misleading attack on Democrats' policing policy

By Thomas Beaumont Jun. 13, 2021 08:59 AM EDT

This May 3, 2021 photo shows an intentionally disabled slot machine next to a woman playing a different slot machine while wearing a face mask at the Hard Rock casino in Atlantic City, N.J. On Friday, May 28, New Jersey dropped its indoor mask mandate and Atlantic City casinos turned slot machines that were disabled to create distance between players back on again. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
More states ease lingering virus rules as vaccine rates rise

By David Klepper May. 29, 2021 04:23 PM EDT

A nurse draws up the vaccine of the manufacturer Moderna against the coronavirus with a syringe in a posed situation a the vaccination centre in Bielefeld, Germany, Friday, April 16, 2021. (Friso Gentsch/dpa via AP)
The Latest: Minnesotan charged with attacks over mask demand

By The Associated Press Apr. 17, 2021 10:38 AM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2021 file photo, Michael Lindell, CEO of My Pillow, Inc., waits to go into the West Wing of the White House in Washington. Lindell, is weighing a run for governor in Minnesota. If he follows through on a campaign, it could be an early test of where the Republican Party is headed in the post-Donald Trump era. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert File)
MyPillow Guy among the Trump acolytes picking up the torch

By Steve Karnowski Jan. 23, 2021 09:28 AM EST

Visitors walk around the recently completed Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in November 2020. The memorial is a tribute to the enslaved people whose work building and maintaining the school founded by Thomas Jefferson had long gone unrecognized. Devon Henry's Virginia construction company completed over 350 projects in 2020 but this one, he said, was the most meaningful by far. Henry, a Black man who faced death threats after it came to light that his company also handled this year's removal of Richmond's Confederate monuments, took his family to visit the Charlottesville site in November. He snapped this shot, which he said more than anything else, exemplifies 2020 for him. "This was a year, for me, of reflection," he said. (Devon Henry via AP)
Cellphones offer look back at most personal moments of 2020

By The Associated Press Dec. 29, 2020 11:56 AM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2020, file photo, people wear face masks while walking in front of the carousel at Pier 39 during the coronavirus outbreak in San Francisco. With the coronavirus coming back with a vengeance across the country and the U.S. facing a long, dark winter, governors and other elected officials are showing little appetite for reimposing the kind of lockdowns and large-scale business closings seen last spring. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
Oregon, New Mexico order lockdowns as other states resist

By Michelle R. Smith, Carla K. Johnson And Lisa Marie Pane Nov. 13, 2020 02:33 PM EST

FILE - In this June 23, 2020 photo, Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Mo., speaks during a news conference in Town and Country, Mo. Wagner of Missouri's 2nd District is facing a challenge from Democratic state Sen. Jill Schupp. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
Key Missouri congressional race seen as referendum on Trump

By Jim Salter Oct. 28, 2020 11:59 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials

By The Associated Press Aug. 10, 2020 10:00 AM EDT
The Journal Times of Racine, Aug. 3 If no in-person schooling, then no school sports Nearly three months ago NCAA...

Nurse Manager Betsy Ross inspects a patient room Monday, July 20, 2020, inside the mobile COVID-19 unit at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, Ga. The unit, constructed from modular buildings by the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency went into operation Tuesday, July 21, 2020, amid high numbers of COVID-19 hospitalizations across the state. (Scott Rogers/The Gainesville Times via AP)
The Latest: Hard hit Australian state sees new cases drop

By The Associated Press Jul. 28, 2020 03:08 AM EDT

Malik Harris, left, leads protesters as they march towards the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington on Friday, June 19, 2020, to mark Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that enslaved black people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed from bondage, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
The Latest: Black police chiefs in Calif. call for reform

By The Associated Press Jun. 19, 2020 12:56 PM EDT

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee speaks during a news conference Monday, April 13, 2020, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Inslee, along with California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, announced Monday that they will work together to re-open their economies while continuing to control the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Inslee blasts Trump for 'fomenting domestic rebellion'

Apr. 17, 2020 04:47 PM EDT

The remaining residents are evacuated from Freedom Square of Seminole, Friday, April 17, 2020. in Seminole, Fla. Three nursing home residents have died of the coronavirus in an outbreak that has afflicted Freedom Square of Seminole, a sprawling retirement community that has seen dozens of residents hospitalized because of the virus, officials said. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)
The Latest: South Korea virus cases maintain downward trend

By The Associated Press Apr. 17, 2020 02:58 AM EDT