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• First Black Female Judge in Arkansas Retiring After 37 Years

  29-12-2020 23:58
  The first Black woman to become a judge in Arkansas is retiring after 37 years on the bench.
  
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• Man Killed on Minnesota Road After Walking Away From Crash

  29-12-2020 23:56
  Authorities say a man crashed his car into trees along a highway near St. Cloud and was fatally run over when he walked from his vehicle into traffic.
  
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• Five Oregon Counties Moved From 'Extreme' to 'High' Risk

  29-12-2020 23:52
  Five Oregon counties will be upgraded from Extreme Risk to High Risk levels, based on the area’s current COVID-19 data.
  
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• SW Georgia Police Chief Faces Aggravated Assault Charges

  29-12-2020 23:47
  The police chief of a Southwest Georgia city has been arrested on three counts of aggravated assault stemming from a 2019 domestic incident.
  
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• White House Wins Ruling on Disclosing Health Care Prices

  29-12-2020 23:45
  
  A federal judge has ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s plan to require hospitals and insurers to disclose the actual prices for common tests and procedures.
  
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• Browns Add 2 More Players to Crowded COVID-19 Reserve List

  29-12-2020 23:45
  
  With their biggest game in years just days away, the Browns added two more players to their lengthy COVID-19 list.
  
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• No federal charges for officers in 2014 fatal shooting of Tamir Rice, DOJ says

  29-12-2020 23:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  Video from the shooting of the 12-year-old in Cleveland was too poor for prosecutors to conclusively establish what happened, the Justice Department announced.
  
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• Public Health Officials Report 106 Deaths Due to COVID-19

  29-12-2020 23:38
  Illinois public health officials are reporting 5,644 newly confirmed COVID-19 infections and 106 new deaths.
  
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• Colorado Reports 1st U.S. Case of New Coronavirus Strain Identified in U.K.

  29-12-2020 23:37
  
  A man in his 20s with no history of travel and no close contacts yet identified was confirmed to have the variant.
  
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• Colorado reports 1st confirmed US case of Britain’s fast-spreading Covid-19 strain, that sparked travel bans & lockdown

  29-12-2020 23:37 via rt.com
  
  The US state of Colorado has reported a first known case of the new mutant Covid-19 variant, that was originally detected in the UK. The strain is said to be far more contagious, although it is not believed to be more lethal.“Today we discovered Colorado’s first case of the [Covid-19] variant B.1.1.7, the same variant discovered in the UK,” Governor Jared Polis tweeted on Tuesday, saying that it was found in a male patient in his 20s with no travel history.
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• Veterans nursing home where at least 76 died of Covid-19 administers its first vaccines

  29-12-2020 23:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The Massachusetts nursing home for US military veterans where at least 76 people died of coronavirus this spring administered its first Covid-19 vaccines Tuesday.
  
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• Trump's $2K Checks Stalled in Senate, GOP Blocks Vote

  29-12-2020 23:34
  
  President Donald Trump’s push for bigger $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks stalled out Tuesday.
  
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• Florida Reports More Than 12K New COVID-19 Cases, 101 Deaths

  29-12-2020 23:34
  Florida officials are reporting 12,075 new cases of coronavirus raising the state’s total to nearly 1.3 million.
  
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• UK-EU Brexit Bill Resolves 'Vexed' European Question -Johnson

  29-12-2020 23:33
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will be able to trade with its European neighbours and keep control of its laws and destiny, Prime Minister Boris...
  
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• Kansas Counties Drop Mask Rules; Arena Hosts COVID-19 Shots

  29-12-2020 23:32
  
  Two northeastern Kansas counties are backing off mask mandates they imposed last month as coronavirus cases surged, and officials set up a clinic in an arena in the state’s largest city to vaccine thousands of health care workers.
  
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• Biden blasts Trump administration for slow pace of Covid vaccinations

  29-12-2020 23:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  The president-elect will be sworn into office in 22 days.
  
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• U.S. Will Not File Charges Against Cleveland Police Over Tamir Rice Shooting

  29-12-2020 23:31
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it had closed its investigation of the 2014 shooting by Cleveland police of...
  
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• Federal Probe Ends Without Charging Cleveland Police in Tamir Rice Shooting

  29-12-2020 23:31
  
  By Eric Beech and Rich McKayWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it has closed its civil rights investigation into...
  
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• California Sues Seafood Companies Over Alleged Lead, Cadmium

  29-12-2020 23:31
  California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is suing five seafood companies, alleging they have sold fish that contains lead and cadmium in the state without legally required warnings.
  
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• Vermont Colleges Board Approves 5-Year Sustainability Plan

  29-12-2020 23:29
  The Vermont State Colleges Board of Trustees’ executive committee has unanimously approved a five-year plan for the state colleges system recommended by the chancellor.
  
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• She Had No Idea Marine Son Was About To Surprise Her at Restaurant: Video

  29-12-2020 23:28
  
  The older you get, the more you want gifts that can’t be bought at a box store or shipped from Amazon. Time with loved ones becomes the currency that makes people feel rich in life, and there are few things that warm a mother’s heart as much as having her children gathered around her during…
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• Arizona Tax Agency Head Fired After Defending Education Tax

  29-12-2020 23:23
  The director of Arizona’s tax collection agency has been abruptly dismissed from his job after outside lawyers defending the agency backed a new voter-approved tax on the wealthy that will boost education funding.
  
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• Perdue, Loeffler Find Alliance With Democrats They Attack

  29-12-2020 23:21
  
  President Donald Trump’s call to more than triple pandemic cash relief for individual Americans has scrambled the political calculations for Georgia’s two Republican senators in the closing week of their high-stakes runoff campaign.
  
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• Police: Man Killed in Road Rage Incident Near Coos Bay

  29-12-2020 23:19
  A 28-year-old man was killed in what police described as a road-rage incident near Coos Bay.
  
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• Panel Rejects Proposals for Decertifying Police Officers

  29-12-2020 23:18
  Connecticut’s police accountability task force has rejected proposals to automatically decertify police officers convicted of felonies and drug possession.
  
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• New, More Transmissible COVID Variant Found in Colorado

  29-12-2020 23:17
  
  The first reported U.S. case of the COVID-19 variant that’s been seen in the United Kingdom has been discovered in Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis announced on Tuesday. The variant was found in a man in his 20s who is in isolation southeast of Denver and has no travel history, state health officials said. The Colorado…
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• First Reported US Case of COVID-19 Variant Found in Colorado

  29-12-2020 23:17
  
  The first reported U.S. case of the COVID-19 variant that’s been seen in the United Kingdom has been discovered in Colorado.
  
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• Biden Vows Aggressive Use of Safety Agency to Protect Workers From COVID-19

  29-12-2020 23:13
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden said on Tuesday his administration would seek to determine if an emergency standard was...
  
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• Mississippi Lt. Governor: Teacher Pay a Priority in 2021

  29-12-2020 23:12
  
  Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann says giving teachers a pay raise will be the most important issue he pushes during the 2021 legislative session.
  
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• Padres Finalize Deal Acquiring Ace Blake Snell From Rays

  29-12-2020 23:11
  
  The San Diego Padres have finalized their acquisition of ace left-hander Blake Snell from the Tampa Bay Rays, sending four prospects in exchange for the 2018 AL Cy Young Award winner.
  
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• Minnesota, Washington Had the Highest Self-Response Rates for the 2020 Census

  29-12-2020 23:11
  
  Minnesota and Washington are among the states with the highest self-response rates, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
  
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• First Reported U.S. Case of COVID-19 Variant Seen in Britain Has Been Found in Colorado, Governor Says

  29-12-2020 23:10
  First reported U.S. case of COVID-19 variant seen in Britain has been found in Colorado, governor says.
  
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• Black man in New Jersey misidentified by facial recognition tech and falsely jailed, lawsuit claims

  29-12-2020 23:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  The plaintiff is suing prosecutors and officials in Woodbridge Township over his arrest in 2019.
  
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• First Known U.S. Case of Highly Infectious Coronavirus Variant Found in Colorado

  29-12-2020 23:05
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Colorado has discovered a case of a highly infectious coronavirus variant first detected in the United Kingdom, Colorado...
  
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• Burdened Arizona Hospitals Turn Away Ambulances, Transfers

  29-12-2020 23:05
  
  Arizona's largest hospital chain says some hospitals have stopped accepting patients brought to them by ambulance runs and transfers as they scramble to address a backlog of sick people amid a COVID-19 surge.
  
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• Inmates Transferred From St. Louis Jail After Disturbance

  29-12-2020 23:03
  Officials say 56 inmates were transferred from the St. Louis City Justice Center after they refused to return to their cells.
  
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• Feds Decline Charges Against Officers in Tamir Rice Case

  29-12-2020 23:02
  
  The Justice Department says it cannot bring federal criminal charges against two Cleveland police officers for the 2014 fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, whose death became a national symbol in the Black Lives Matter movement.
  
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• DOJ Concludes No Charges Will Be Filed in Infamous Police Shooting of Tamir Rice

  29-12-2020 23:02
  
  The Justice Department announced on Tuesday that it would not bring federal criminal charges against two Cleveland police officers in the 2014 killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, saying video of the shooting was of too poor a quality for prosecutors to conclusively establish what had happened. In closing the case, the department brought to an…
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• Justice Dept. Declines Charges Against Cleveland Officers in 2014 Fatal Shooting of Tamir Rice, Closing Federal Probe

  29-12-2020 23:00
  Justice Dept. declines charges against Cleveland officers in 2014 fatal shooting of Tamir Rice, closing federal probe.
  
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• Harris Receives COVID-19 Vaccine After Suggesting She Would Not on Trump’s Watch

  29-12-2020 22:57
  
  Sen. Kamala Harris, after sowing doubt for months about the efficacy of a COVID-19 vaccine developed under the Trump administration, received her immunization shot on Tuesday. “Let’s do it, I’m ready,” Harris said, as a clinical nurse manager at United Medical Center in Washington, D.C., prepared to inject the vaccine, CBS News reported. “That was…
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• U.S. State Department Approves Potential Sale of 3,000 Smart Bombs to Saudi Arabia

  29-12-2020 22:52
  
  By Mike StoneWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of 3,000 precision guided munitions to the Kingdom of...
  
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• Convictions Reversed Against Former Police Commissioner

  29-12-2020 22:49
  The New Hampshire Supreme Court has reversed convictions against a former Portsmouth police commissioner whose partner shot at a teenager who mistakenly thought the couple’s Portsmouth home was a party venue.
  
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• Biden: Trump Administration’s Coronavirus Vaccine Rollout is Falling Far Behind

  29-12-2020 22:48
  
  Travel during the holidays threatens to result in soaring infections in January and more deaths in February, the president-elect said.
  
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• Lee Calls Special Session to Address Education Issues

  29-12-2020 22:47
  
  Gov. Bill Lee has announced he was calling for a special legislative session to address education challenges that have popped up amid the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Utah Gov. Gary Herbert Gives Farewell Speech

  29-12-2020 22:46
  Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, whose term expires next week, has given his farewell speech as governor in a prerecorded video.
  
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• Minneapolis Officials Outline New Police Disciplinary Plan

  29-12-2020 22:46
  The Minneapolis mayor and police chief announced changes in the city’s disciplinary processes for police officers in an effort to make it easier to hold them accountable for bad behavior.
  
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• Trump slams ‘weak and tired’ GOP leaders for having a ‘death wish’ in blocking $2000 stimulus

  29-12-2020 22:44 via rt.com
  
  US President Donald Trump called out his own party for holding up the coronavirus relief in the Senate, backing a problematic military bill, and refusing to take up his challenges to election problems and social media censorship.“Unless Republicans have a death wish, and it is also the right thing to do, they must approve the $2000 payments” as soon as possible, Trump tweeted on Tuesday afternoon, declaring that $600 is “NOT ENOUGH.” Unless Republicans have a death wish,
  
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• The Latest: Biden Criticizes Pace of Vaccine Rollout

  29-12-2020 22:44
  
  President-elect Joe Biden is criticizing the Trump administration for the pace of distributing COVID-19 vaccines, saying it is “falling far behind.”.
  
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• Lockdowns Extended in Large Swath of California Amid Surge

  29-12-2020 22:43
  
  California has extended its strict stay-at-home orders in areas where intensive care units are running out of beds.
  
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• Waste District to Pay $400,000 Over Glass Disposal

  29-12-2020 22:38
  The Chittenden Solid Waste District has agreed to pay more than $400,000 for disposing of recyclable processed glass on its Williston property.
  
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