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• One and done: Zagster scoots out of ABQ

  04-06-2020 23:54
  
  Zagster’s e-scooters will no longer be available in Albuquerque. (Jessica Dyer/Journal)
  As Albuquerque emerges from a COVID-19 shutdown, its transportation landscape will look a little different.
  Zagster, the first and only company to launch an e-scooter program in New Mexico’s largest city, has decided to cease the operations, according to a city spokeswoman.
  The Boston-based company had suspended Albuquerque service in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, during which its one-yea
  
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• Man in critical condition after officer-involved shooting EXCERPT:

  04-06-2020 23:52
  
  Police investigate after officers were involved in a shooting Thursday afternoon inside Tanoan Country Club. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)
  Copyright © 2020 Albuquerque JournalA man in his mid-20s is in critical condition after he was shot by Albuquerque police in the gated Tanoan community on Thursday afternoon. Officers went to the Tanoan home after the man's father called police. The man who was shot by police had been saying he was afraid he was going to hurt his parents and wanted
  
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• Man in critical condition after officer-involved shooting

  04-06-2020 23:52
  
  Police investigate after officers were involved in a shooting Thursday afternoon inside Tanoan Country Club. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)
  Copyright © 2020 Albuquerque Journal
  A man in his mid-20s is in critical condition after he was shot by Albuquerque police in the gated Tanoan community on Thursday afternoon.
  Officers went to the Tanoan home after the man’s father called police. The man who was shot by police had been saying he was afraid he was going to hurt his parents and
  
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• Family wants answers after state trooper fatally shoots man

  04-06-2020 23:27
  
  PHOENIX — Video shows at least four minutes passed before paramedics could provide medical assistance to an unarmed man fatally shot last week by an Arizona state trooper, drawing outrage from his family.
  “My son was fighting for his life. He was trying to get up and the officer kicked him back down,” Erma Johnson, the mother of Dion Johnson, told reporters Wednesday.
  She said she wondered if her son, 28, would still be alive if the paramedics had been allowed to treat her son
  
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• Ultra Petroleum: 1Q Earnings Snapshot

  04-06-2020 23:09
  
  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Ultra Petroleum Corp. (UPLCQ) on Thursday reported a first-quarter loss of $217.6 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.
  On a per-share basis, the Englewood, Colorado-based company said it had a loss of $1.10. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 12 cents per share.
  The independent oil and gas company posted revenue of $130.1 million in the period.
  In the final minutes of trading on Thursday, the company’s shares hit 3 cent
  
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• Airline stocks soar as American, United add back flights

  04-06-2020 22:56
  
  DALLAS — Airline stocks soared Thursday after American Airlines said it will aggressively add back flights in July — a bet that the slow recovery in air travel will gain speed this summer as states re-open their economies.
  United Airlines also announced plans to add back flights, while taking a more cautious approach that includes resuming about 130 nonstop routes in July that were suspended when travel collapsed as the coronavirus spread rapidly.
  Both airlines will run much smaller
  
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• Confronting the ‘ugly truth’

  04-06-2020 22:51
  
  Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham holds a news conference about racism in New Mexico at the Roundhouse on Thursday, June 4, 2020. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
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  SANTA FE – With protests over race-related issues intensifying around New Mexico and the nation, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Thursday it’s time to address the “ugly truth” of racism embedded in core institutions.
  While New Mexico has one of the nation’s most divers
  
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• Analysis: Trump emulates strongman tactics, tests his limits

  04-06-2020 22:39
  
  WASHINGTON — A phalanx of law enforcement officers and soldiers is positioned on the streets of the nation’s capital to keep protesters at bay. Helicopters circle overhead, sometimes dipping low to buzz the crowd. The country’s leader warns that he’s willing to go further to “dominate” the streets.
  In words and in actions, President Donald Trump is increasingly emulating the strongman leaders he has long admired as he seeks to tamp down protests over police br
  
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• Indianapolis to dismantle Confederate monument in park

  04-06-2020 22:38
  
  INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis will remove from a park a monument dedicated to Confederate soldiers who died at a Union prison camp in the city, the mayor announced Thursday.
  The grave monument, which was relocated to Garfield Park nearly a century ago from its original location in a cemetery, will be dismantled by contractors in the coming days, Mayor Joe Hogsett said.
  “Our streets are filled with voices of anger and anguish, testament to centuries of racism directed at Black Americans
  
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• Study on safety of malaria drugs for coronavirus retracted

  04-06-2020 22:37
  
  Several authors of a large study that raised safety concerns about malaria drugs for coronavirus patients have retracted the report, saying independent reviewers were not able to verify information that’s been widely questioned by other scientists.
  Thursday’s retraction in the journal Lancet involved a May 22 report on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, drugs long used for preventing or treating malaria but whose safety and effectiveness for COVID-19 are unknown.
  The study leaders a
  
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• Vail Resorts: Fiscal 3Q Earnings Snapshot

  04-06-2020 22:22
  
  BROOMFIELD, Colo. — Vail Resorts Inc. (MTN) on Thursday reported fiscal third-quarter earnings of $152.5 million.
  The Broomfield, Colorado-based company said it had profit of $3.74 per share.
  The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $2.67 per share.
  The ski resort operator posted revenue of $694.1 million in the period, which also beat Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks e
  
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• Judge rejects Ponzi king Madoff’s bid for early release

  04-06-2020 21:48
  
  NEW YORK — A dying Ponzi king Bernard Madoff lost his bid for early release from prison Thursday when the judge who sentenced him to 150 years behind bars said he intended for him to die there and nothing has happened in the last 11 years to change his mind.
  Judge Denny Chin, who now sits on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, noted the continuing suffering of Madoff’s thousands of victims who lost $17.5 billion when a decades-long scheme that deceived them into thinking their mon
  
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• Burning of Zozobra to be TV event this year

  04-06-2020 21:46
  
  The burning of Zozobra will be a TV event this year. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
  As always, Zozobra will burn this year. But, due to the coronavirus outbreak, you’ll have to watch it on TV.
  Ray Sandoval, chairman of the Zozobra event that is staged by the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe each year at Santa Fe’s Fort Marcy Park, on Thursday announced a partnership with KOAT-TV to broadcast the event scheduled for Sept. 4.
  He confirmed that it means the Kiwanis Club, which uses the event
  
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• Autopsy report shows Floyd tested positive for coronavirus

  04-06-2020 21:45
  
  MINNEAPOLIS — A full autopsy of George Floyd, the handcuffed black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police, was released Wednesday and provides several clinical details, including that Floyd had previously tested positive for coronavirus.
  The 20-page report released by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office came with the family’s permission and after the coroner’s office released summary findings Monday that Floyd’s heart stopped while he wa
  
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• Killing of Palestinian man with autism draws Floyd parallel

  04-06-2020 21:35
  
  JERUSALEM — Eyad Hallaq liked to watch cartoons. He loved dressing up and wearing cologne. He even dreamed of getting married. But his favorite activity was walking to school, where he volunteered in the kitchen, preparing meals for his fellow special-needs students.
  Early on Saturday, the 32-year-old Palestinian with severe autism was chased by Israeli border police forces into a nook in Jerusalem’s Old City and fatally shot as he cowered next to a garbage bin after apparently being
  
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• Epidemic of wipes and masks plagues sewers, storm drains

  04-06-2020 21:35
  
  PHILADELPHIA — Mayor Jim Kenney kicked off a recent briefing on Philadelphia’s coronavirus response with an unusual request for residents: Be careful what you flush.
  Between mid-March, when the city’s stay-at-home order was issued, and the end of April, most of the 19 sewer and storm water pumping stations in Philadelphia had experienced clogs from face masks, gloves and wipes residents had pitched into the potty, Kenney said.
  “Please do not flush any of these items down
  
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• Top Arizona law official says police reforms needed

  04-06-2020 21:33
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. — Arizona’s Republican attorney general on Thursday called for a series of police reforms he said are needed in the wake of the death of George Floyd.
  Mark Brnovich sent a letter to Republican Gov. Doug Ducey and GOP House and Senate leaders saying he reacted to the video of Floyd’s death at the hands of police “with shock and outrage.”
  “As Arizona’s top law enforcement official, I hope Mr. Floyd’s death will not be in vain but will
  
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• Police seek suspects in customer attack over social distance

  04-06-2020 21:32
  
  AURORA, Colo. — Aurora police were searching for three people suspected of violently attacking a woman in Target after the shopper asked the group to grant her more social distance.
  A man and two women bumped into the female shopper inside the Target in Aurora on May 8 before the shopper then asked the group to give her more space, The Aurora Sentinel reported Wednesday.
  The group began accosting the shopper and threw a box of tissues at her head before continuing to beat her, investigator
  
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• Colorado unemployment claims drop, but totals still high

  04-06-2020 21:32
  
  DENVER — Colorado unemployment claims related to the coronavirus pandemic’s economic blows dropped for a seventh consecutive week, but nearly half a million workers have filed regular claims for benefits since the pandemic’s beginning, the state labor department said Thursday.
  More than 12,000 people filed for regular state benefits the week ending May 30, compared to more than 15,000 the week ending May 23, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment reported. More than 43
  
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• 1 killed, 1 critically injured in Lake Havasu boat collision

  04-06-2020 21:32
  
  LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. — One person was killed and a second critically injured in a nearly head-on nighttime collision between two motorboats on Lake Havasu along the Colorado River, authorities said Thursday.
  Emergency personnel responding Wednesday night to multiple calls about a collision and people in the water found a large debris field and pulled out of the water the man who died, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said.
  A good Samaritan had already pulled the other injured pe
  
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• Influencer Jake Paul faces charges after Arizona mall riot

  04-06-2020 21:31
  
  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Social media influencer Jake Paul faces misdemeanor charges following a riot at a mall outside Phoenix, police said Thursday. Paul, who has 20 million followers, says he was merely trying to find people protesting against the death of George Floyd.
  Paul, 23, was identified as a participant in a riot last Saturday night at Scottsdale Fashion Square and has been charged with criminal trespass and unlawful assembly, the Scottsdale Police Department said in a statement.
  Pol
  
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• Influencer Jake Joseph Paul faces charges after mall riot

  04-06-2020 21:31
  
  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Social media influencer Jake Joseph Paul faces misdemeanor charges following a riot at a mall outside Phoenix, police said Thursday. Paul, who has 20 million followers, says he was merely trying to find people protesting against the death of George Floyd.
  Paul, 23, was identified as a participant in a riot last Saturday night at Scottsdale Fashion Square and has been charged with criminal trespass and unlawful assembly, the Scottsdale Police Department said in a stateme
  
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• Court continues halt on expanding mail voting in Texas

  04-06-2020 21:31
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — A federal appeals court on Thursday continued to keep on hold any expansion of mail voting in Texas, where President Donald Trump has cheered on a fight against relaxing balloting rules amid the coronavirus pandemic.
  The decision by 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is not the last word on the matter, but it stops for now a lower-court ruling that had opened the door for Texas’ 16 million registered voters to cast ballots by mail. The case remains befor
  
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• Former Colorado governor held in contempt by ethics panel

  04-06-2020 21:30
  
  DENVER — The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission held former Gov. John Hickenlooper in contempt Thursday for defying orders to appear at a hearing on a Republican complaint that private plane trips he took while governor violated the state’s gift ban.
  The commission had subpoenaed Hickenlooper to testify after his legal team argued that the hearing’s remote format violates his right to face his accusers. His taxpayer-funded attorney, Mark Grueskin, appeared instead.
  Late in
  
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• Colorado ex-Gov. Hickenlooper is no-show at ethics hearing

  04-06-2020 21:30
  
  DENVER — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Hickenlooper didn’t appear Thursday at a Colorado Independent Ethics Commission hearing, defying orders to do so as the panel considers a Republican complaint that private plane trips he took while governor of Colorado violated the state’s gift ban.
  Mark Grueskin, an attorney for Hickenlooper, logged onto the remote hearing 15 minutes after it started, citing problems with his internet connection. He told commissioners that Hickenl
  
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• Dutch Bros Coffee to open first ABQ location

  04-06-2020 20:17
  
  A Dutch Bros sign in Rio Rancho.
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  Popular coffee chain Dutch Bros Coffee is preparing to expand into Albuquerque with several new locations.
  The first Albuquerque location is slated to be built at 700 Coors NW, near Fortuna, according to the company spokeswoman Rilynn Davis.
  She said location is scheduled to open in early 2021.
  “We’re so excited to be building more in New Mexico and Albuquerque,” Davis wrote in an email.
  Davis said there
  
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• Ill-considered posts lead to lost jobs amid protests, crisis

  04-06-2020 19:32
  
  LOS ANGELES — A writer from a “Law & Order” spin-off and the play-by-play broadcaster for the NBA’s Sacramento Kings found themselves out of jobs after making social media posts this week that their bosses found too incendiary or insensitive, highlighting an apparent surge in such firings across many lines of work.
  Lost jobs over social media statements that seemed like a good idea at the time have become a common occurrence, but the tense environment of nationwide pr
  
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• Farm-to-table dining takes on new meaning amid pandemic

  04-06-2020 19:31
  
  PORTLAND, Maine — Eric Pray is used to shipping seafood all over the country. But since the coronavirus took hold, he has shifted his focus closer to home — selling lobsters from a homemade tank in his garage.
  Pray, of Portland, Maine, is one of hundreds of fishermen, farmers and food producers who have shifted to a direct-to-consumer model amid the virus outbreak. The pandemic has stressed and sometimes disrupted supply chains, shuttered restaurants and changed the way consumers buy
  
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• Black activists, allies call Lee statue removal a big win

  04-06-2020 19:22
  
  RICHMOND, Va. — Wes Bellamy, a former Charlottesville city councilman, said that when he first started raising the issue of removing Confederate monuments, black and white people alike across Virginia told him he was just causing trouble.
  Several years — and death threats — later, Bellamy said Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s announcement Thursday that one of the nation’s most iconic tributes to the Confederacy would be taken down feels like divine intervention.
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• After protests, Northam orders removal of iconic Lee statue

  04-06-2020 19:22
  
  RICHMOND, Va. — A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee will be removed as soon as possible from Richmond’s Monument Avenue, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said Thursday, pledging the state will no longer “preach a false version of history.”
  The bronze equestrian statue, which sits on an enormous pedestal on state property, will be moved to storage while Northam’s administration works “with the community to determine its future,” the governor sa
  
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• After protests, iconic Lee statue in Virginia to be removed

  04-06-2020 19:22
  
  RICHMOND, Va. — A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee will be removed as soon as possible from Richmond’s Monument Avenue, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said Thursday, pledging the state will no longer “preach a false version of history.”
  The bronze equestrian statue, which sits on an enormous pedestal on state property, will be moved to storage while Northam’s administration works “with the community to determine its future,” the governor sa
  
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• Study: Autonomous vehicles won’t make roads completely safe

  04-06-2020 18:18
  
  DETROIT — A new study says that while autonomous vehicle technology has great promise to reduce crashes, it may not be able to prevent all mishaps caused by human error.
  Auto safety experts say humans cause about 94% of U.S. crashes, but the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study says computer-controlled robocars will only stop about one-third of them.
  The group says that while autonomous vehicles eventually will identify hazards and react faster than humans, and they won’t bec
  
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• 8:46: A number becomes a potent symbol of police brutality

  04-06-2020 17:50
  
  MINNEAPOLIS — All protest movements have slogans. George Floyd’s has a number: 8:46
  Eight minutes, 46 seconds is the length of time prosecutors say Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was pinned to the ground under a white Minneapolis police officer’s knee before he died last week.
  In the days since, outraged protesters, allies and sympathetic companies have seized on the detail as a quiet way to honor Floyd at a time of angry and sometimes violent clashes with police. Even as pros
  
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• Well-coordinated thieves capitalize on protest chaos

  04-06-2020 17:49
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. — Police in a small San Francisco Bay Area community were about to help authorities in neighboring Oakland keep the peace during a protest when a more pressing crisis hit home: groups of thieves were pillaging malls, setting fire to a Walmart and storming a car dealership.
  By the time San Leandro officers arrived at the Dodge dealership, dozens of cars were gone and thieves were peeling out of the lot in $100,000 Challenger Hellcat muscle cars. Nearly 75 vehicles were stole
  
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• ‘Strategic’ well-orchestrated heists seen amid protest chaos

  04-06-2020 17:49
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. — Police in a small San Francisco Bay Area community were about to help authorities in neighboring Oakland keep the peace during a protest when a more pressing crisis hit home: groups of thieves were pillaging malls, setting fire to a Walmart and storming a car dealership.
  By the time San Leandro officers arrived at the Dodge dealership, dozens of cars were gone and thieves were peeling out of the lot in $100,000 Challenger Hellcat muscle cars. Nearly 75 vehicles were stole
  
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• Testimony: Shooter used racist slur as Arbery lay dying

  04-06-2020 17:48
  
  BRUNSWICK, Ga. — A state investigator alleged Thursday that a white man was heard saying a racist slur as he stood over Ahmaud Arbery’s body, moments after killing him with three shots from a pump-action shotgun.
  The lead Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent in the case testified that Travis and Greg McMichael and a third man in another pickup, William “Roddie” Bryan, used their trucks to chase down and box in Arbery, who repeatedly reversed directions and ran into a dit
  
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• Prosecutors describe racist slur as Ahmaud Arbery lay dying

  04-06-2020 17:48
  
  BRUNSWICK, Ga. — A special prosecutor for the state of Georgia said Thursday that evidence in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery shows the young black man was repeatedly boxed in by two pickup trucks as he desperately tried to escape.
  The lead Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent in the case testified that the white driver of the first pickup, Travis McMichael, finally got out and shot Arbery in the chest, the first of three shots with a pump-action shotgun that sent Arbery staggering and falli
  
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• UNM health system leader to retire July 31

  04-06-2020 17:29
  
  Dr. Paul Roth
  The leader of the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center last day will be July 31, and an interim executive will take over until candidates can be interviewed on campus.
  UNM President Garnett Stokes announced in an email to the university on Wednesday that Dr. Paul Roth will be stepping down at the end of July.
  Roth wore many hats at UNM. He retired from three positions: dean of the UNM School of Medicine, chancellor of the UNM Health Sciences Center and chief executive of
  
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• US Cardinal at Vatican to lead prayer for Floyd

  04-06-2020 17:17
  
  The Latest on the May 25 death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer pressed a knee on his neck:
  TOP OF THE HOUR:
  — Russia urges US to respect right to protest.
  — Gov. Cuomo: Police in NYC ambush have tough job.
  — Minn Gov. Walz sends National Guard to western border.
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  ROME — The highest-ranking American at the Vatican will lead a prayer service on Friday in Rome to pray for “peaceful coexistence&rdqu
  
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• Thousands in Vienna demonstrate against racism

  04-06-2020 17:17
  
  The Latest on the May 25 death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer pressed a knee on his neck:
  TOP OF THE HOUR:
  — Mayor Garcetti ends curfew in Los Angeles.
  — Generally peaceful protests in Portland, New Orleans.
  — US Cardinal at Vatican to lead prayer for Floyd.
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  VIENNA — Thousands of people have participated in an anti-racism demonstration in Vienna.
  The Austria Press Agency reported police said about 5
  
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• The Latest: Gov. Cuomo: Police in NYC ambush have tough job

  04-06-2020 17:17
  
  The Latest on the May 25 death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer pressed a knee on his neck:
  TOP OF THE HOUR:
  — Minn Gov. Walz sends National Guard to western border.
  — Minneapolis officials estimate damage at $55 million, ask aid to rebuild.
  — Citing virus restrictions, Norway refuses permission for rallies.
  — Police in New Orleans use tear gas on hundreds of demonstrators.
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  NEW YORK — Gov. Andre
  
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• Russia urges US to respect right to protest

  04-06-2020 17:17
  
  The Latest on the May 25 death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer pressed a knee on his neck:
  TOP OF THE HOUR:
  — Russia urges US to respect right to protest.
  — Gov. Cuomo: Police in NYC ambush have tough job.
  — Minn Gov. Walz sends National Guard to western border.
  — Minneapolis officials estimate damage at $55 million, ask aid to rebuild.
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  MOSCOW — The Russian Foreign Ministry urged the U.S. autho
  
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• Protesters take to NYC streets after curfew

  04-06-2020 17:17
  
  The Latest on the May 25 death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer pressed a knee on his neck:
  TOP OF THE HOUR:
  — Protesters take to New York City streets after curfew, again.
  — Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms tells protesters they “matter,” urges COVID-19 tests.
  — Heavy rain brings an end to Washington protests before dark.
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  NEW YORK — Protesters stayed on the streets of New York City afte
  
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• Pandemic and racial unrest test black clergy on dual fronts

  04-06-2020 17:17
  
  For black clergy across the United States, the past 10 days have been a tumultuous test of their stamina and their skills.
  For weeks, they had been striving to comfort their congregations amid a pandemic taking a disproportionately heavy toll on African-Americans. Then came a coast-to-coast upsurge of racial tension and unrest sparked by the death of George Floyd, the Minneapolis black man who died after a white police officer pressed his knee into his neck as he pleaded for air.
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• Mayor Garcetti ends curfew in Los Angeles

  04-06-2020 17:17
  
  The Latest on the May 25 death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer pressed a knee on his neck:
  TOP OF THE HOUR:
  — Mayor Garcetti ends curfew in Los Angeles.
  — Generally peaceful protests in Portland, New Orleans.
  — US Cardinal at Vatican to lead prayer for Floyd.
  — Gov. Cuomo: Police in NYC ambush have tough job.
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  LOS ANGELES — The mayor of Los Angeles says he will end the curfew starting Thursday n
  
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• Germany’s Merkel hopes calm protests unify US

  04-06-2020 17:17
  
  The Latest on the May 25 death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer pressed a knee on his neck:
  TOP OF THE HOUR:
  — Generally peaceful protests in Portland, New Orleans.
  — US Cardinal at Vatican to lead prayer for Floyd.
  — Gov. Cuomo: Police in NYC ambush have tough job.
  — Minn Gov. Walz sends National Guard to western border.
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  BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel says U.S. society is “very
  
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• UK vaccine summit calls for freely available virus vaccine

  04-06-2020 16:31
  
  LONDON — A vaccine summit hosted by Britain on Thursday raised billions of dollars to immunize children in developing countries as experts wrestled with the difficult question of how any potential vaccine against the new coronavirus might be distributed globally — and fairly.
  The United Nations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement have urged that “a people’s vaccine” be developed for COVID-19 that would be freely available to everyone, calling i
  
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• UK hosts vaccine summit amid calls for free virus vaccine

  04-06-2020 16:31
  
  LONDON — The British government is hosting a vaccine summitThursday, hoping to raise billions of dollars to immunize children in developing countries and to discuss how any potential vaccine against the new coronavirus might be distributed globally — and fairly.
  The United Nations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement have urged that “a people’s vaccine” be developed for COVID-19 that would be freely available to everyone, calling it a “mor
  
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• Syria’s Assad seeks to control economy, goes after cousin

  04-06-2020 16:30
  
  BEIRUT — On a summer day last year, presidential guards drove out of the charity organization founded by Syria’s wealthiest businessman and a close cousin of President Bashar Assad, carting away boxes of documents and computers. At the same time, the charity’s director was being questioned at the palace on suspicion of corruption.
  The confiscated data included names of thousands of militia fighters who have supported the government in the 9-year-old civil war, including salarie
  
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• Seoul vows to stop border protests after Pyongyang’s threat

  04-06-2020 16:30
  
  SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea said Thursday it planned to push new laws to ban activists from flying anti-Pyongyang leaflets over the border after North Korea threatened to end an inter-Korean military agreement reached in 2018 to reduce tensions if Seoul fails to prevent the protests.
  The South’s desperate attempt to keep alive a faltering diplomacy will almost certainly trigger debates over freedom of speech in one of Asia’s most vibrant democracies.
  Sending balloons acros
  
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