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• Laughing Stock: What Will Millennials Do?

  21-03-2019 23:45
  Internet Sensational Grandma“Granny gone viral” is Jeanne Robertson’s handle these days.…
  
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• How Did Edbuild Get Arizona's Per-Student Funding Numbers So Wrong?

  21-03-2019 21:51
  I have a column in the print edition of the Weekly discussing Edbuild's national study on per student funding. The fact is, Arizona does a reasonably good job of balancing its funding across districts, but Edbuild's study says Arizona's funding gap between predominantly white and nonwhite districts is the worst in the country — a $7,613 difference.…
  
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• Donny and Marie Osmond announce end of Las Vegas residency

  21-03-2019 19:06
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Donny and Marie Osmond say they will end their Las Vegas show later this year, concluding an 11-year run on the Strip.
  The brother-sister duo made the announcement during an appearance on “Good Morning America” on Thursday.
  Their final performance at the Flamingo Las Vegas is scheduled for Nov. 16.
  According to the casino, the duo launched their residency in September 2008, planning for just a six-week concert engagement.
  The casino says the residency was exten
  
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• Top US general to meet with Google on China security worries

  21-03-2019 19:05
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. military officer plans to meet with Google representatives next week amid growing concerns that American companies doing business in China are helping its military gain ground on the U.S.
  Gen. Joseph Dunford says efforts like Google’s artificial intelligence venture in China allow the Chinese military to access and take advantage of U.S.-developed technology.
  He told an audience at the Atlantic Council on Thursday that it’s not in America’s
  
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• Monkey birth a step to saving fertility of boys with cancer

  21-03-2019 19:04
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists are testing a possible solution to help boys undergoing cancer treatment preserve their future fertility — and it worked in a monkey.
  More people are surviving childhood cancer but nearly 1 in 3 will be left infertile from chemotherapy or radiation. Young adults sometimes freeze sperm, eggs or embryos before cancer treatment. But children diagnosed before puberty can’t do that because they’re not yet producing mature eggs or sperm.
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• Chicago alderman pleads guilty in federal corruption case

  21-03-2019 18:55
  CHICAGO (AP) — A prominent Chicago alderman who told a judge last year that he wasn’t going to accept a plea agreement that was planned for his federal corruption case has changed his mind again and pleaded guilty.
  Alderman Willie Cochran entered his plea Thursday to one felony count of wire fraud for spending campaign funds on personal purchases including gambling and his daughter’s college tuition.
  Federal prosecutors dropped 14 felony counts of wire fraud, extortion and brib
  
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• Chiesa pulls out of Italy squad, Florenzi a doubt

  21-03-2019 18:52
  FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Fiorentina forward Federico Chiesa has left the Italy training camp with an injury, while Alessandro Florenzi is also a doubt for the upcoming European Championship qualifiers.
  Chiesa, who has made 11 appearances for Italy, pulled out of Tuesday’s training session after a recurrence of a thigh injury and the Italian football federation confirmed on Thursday that the 21-year-old had returned to his club.
  The FIGC added that Florenzi had interrupted training on T
  
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• Vermont hospital email hack exposes info of more than 72,000

  21-03-2019 18:51
  RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — Officials at a Vermont hospital say the information of more than 72,000 people may have been exposed during an email hack.
  Rutland Regional Medical Center says the email accounts had information such as patient names, medical records and contact information, as well as more than 3,500 Social Security numbers.
  The breach was first discovered in December after an employee noticed a large number of spam emails sent from their account.
  Affected patients received letters fro
  
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• Phoenix police: Officer struck by vehicle dies

  21-03-2019 18:51
  PHOENIX (AP) – The Latest on a Phoenix police officer (all times local):
  10:25 a.m.
  A Phoenix Police Department spokesman says an officer has died after being struck by a vehicle at a collision scene Thursday.
  Sgt. Tommy Thompson says Officer Paul Rutherford was struck while on the roadway and died after being transported to a hospital in extremely critical condition.
  Thompson said Rutherford was 51 years old, had been an officer for nearly 23 years, was married and had two adult children.
  
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• Local eighth-graders ‘beautify’ school campus during spring break

  21-03-2019 18:49
  TUCSON – A group of local eighth-graders plans on beautifying their campus during spring break.
  The Tucson Country Day School students are part of the “Empowerment Project,” a program that lets them do something special for their campus before graduating.
  Besides giving back to their school, the mission of the project is to bring more happiness and positivity to the girls at their school.8th grade girls @ Tucson Country Day School are spending part of their break back @ sc
  
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• Interior boss order aims to protect US public land access

  21-03-2019 18:46
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Acting U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt is ordering federal land managers to give more consideration to public access concerns when selling or trading public land.
  Thursday’s secretarial order comes amid longstanding complaints that millions of acres of state and federal land in the American West can be reached only by traveling across private property or small slivers of public land.
  The order requires the Bureau of Land Management to identify alternati
  
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• UN food agency cites progress in Yemen

  21-03-2019 18:45
  CAIRO (AP) — The head of the U.N.’s World Food Program says progress has been made in Yemen, months after he accused Houthi rebels of stealing food from the hungry by diverting aid.
  David Beasley, the executive director of the WFP, nevertheless told The Associated Press in Cairo on Thursday that Yemen is “far from being out of the deep, dark abyss.”
  As the WFP is scaling up its operations in Yemen, covering almost 10 million people described as “severely food insecu
  
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• Sheriff’s Office: 1 dead, 1 held after domestic violence

  21-03-2019 18:38
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Coconino County authorities say one person is dead and that another is in custody following a domestic violence incident Thursday in the Flagstaff area.
  The Sheriff’s Office said the suspect was taken into custody at an unspecified location in Yavapai County about 2½ hours after deputies responded to the scene in the Flagstaff area.
  No additional information was released.
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• Police: Anti-Semitic graffiti worse than at first thought

  21-03-2019 18:37
  FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — Police now say 59 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in Massachusetts were defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti, about twice as many as initially thought.
  Fall River police said Thursday in a Facebook post that they came up with the higher number after a row-by-row inspection of Hebrew Cemetery. Of those 59, two had been knocked over.
  The stones were defaced with swastikas and phrases including “Expel the Jew” and “Hitler was right” in what appe
  
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• The Latest: 5 suspects plead not guilty to terror counts

  21-03-2019 18:34
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Latest on the court appearances of five former residents of a remote New Mexico compound (all times local):
  11:30 a.m.
  Five people arrested at a New Mexico compound where a 3-year-old boy was found dead have pleaded not guilty to new federal charges. The charges include a terrorism-related count that accuses them of supporting a plan to attack law enforcement officers and other government employees.
  The two men and three women living at the compound raided in A
  
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• The Latest: Gov. Evers withdraws Wisconsin from ACA lawsuit

  21-03-2019 18:32
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on a judge blocking Wisconsin Republicans’ lame-duck laws (all times local):
  12:20 p.m.
  Gov. Tony Evers is pulling Wisconsin out of a multistate lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act after a judge blocked lame-duck laws prohibiting him from withdrawing the state from legal actions.
  Evers had promised during his campaign last year to pull Wisconsin out of the ACA lawsuit. Republican lawmakers stopped him cold, though, after passing lame-duck bills
  
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• Officials lift shelter-in-place order for people living near a suburban Houston petrochemicals plant that burned

  21-03-2019 18:32
  DEER PARK, Texas (AP) — Officials lift shelter-in-place order for people living near a suburban Houston petrochemicals plant that burned.
  The post Officials lift shelter-in-place order for people living near a suburban Houston petrochemicals plant that burned appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• Defender Ali Krieger returns to the US women’s national team

  21-03-2019 18:30
  CHICAGO (AP) — Defender Ali Krieger has returned to the U.S. women’s national team for the first time since 2017.
  Krieger was named to the team’s roster Thursday for exhibition matches against Australia and Belgium as the team prepares for the World Cup in France starting in June.
  She has not played for the United States since a game against Russia on April 6, 2017. Her last call-up to the team was for the Tournament of Nations in the summer of 2017.
  Krieger, a veteran of the 2
  
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• Governor pulls Wisconsin out of lawsuit challenging Affordable Care Act after judge blocks laws limiting his powers

  21-03-2019 18:29
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Governor pulls Wisconsin out of lawsuit challenging Affordable Care Act after judge blocks laws limiting his powers.
  The post Governor pulls Wisconsin out of lawsuit challenging Affordable Care Act after judge blocks laws limiting his powers appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• Claytoon of the Day: The Conway Mood Killer

  21-03-2019 18:28
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• Washington, Mike Hopkins agree to extension through 2025

  21-03-2019 18:25
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Washington has rewarded coach Mike Hopkins for getting the Huskies back to the NCAA Tournament by giving him a contract extension through the 2025 season.
  The ninth-seeded Huskies open the NCAAs on Friday against No. 8 seed Utah State. It’s Washington’s first appearance in the tournament since 2011.
  Hopkins is 47-21 in his two seasons at Washington and has turned around a program that won nine games the year before he arrived. He’s twice been named t
  
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• Atlanta’s Mayor pushes to review evidence in ‘Child Murders’

  21-03-2019 18:21
  ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta’s mayor and chief of police are leading a push to re-examine evidence from a string of murders from 1979 to 1981 that terrorized the city’s black community.
  Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Police Chief Erika Shields announced Thursday that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation will review evidence in the so-called “Atlanta Child Murders” to see if any could be used for further testing.
  Wayne Williams was given two life sentences in 1982 for convi
  
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• Suspect in mob boss slaying could face lethal Mafia justice

  21-03-2019 18:14
  NEW YORK (AP) — A man in jail in New Jersey on murder charges is in a dangerous position, caught between the law and the Mafia.
  Anthony Comello is accused of killing the reputed boss of New York’s Gambino crime family, Francesco “Franky Boy” Cali, and for that, Comello is almost certainly marked for death by the underworld.
  And it makes no difference that the slaying last week may have been unconnected to mob business and stemmed instead from a romantic dispute.
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• American Correa joins F1 Alfa Romeo as a development driver

  21-03-2019 18:13
  HINWIL, Switzerland (AP) — American teenager Juan Manuel Correa has joined the Alfa Romeo Formula One team as its development driver.
  The 19-year-old Correa will also compete in the F2 championship with the Sauber junior team this year. He raced in the GP3 series last year, finishing 12th.
  Alfa Romeo team principal Frederic Vasseur says “we look forward to further advancing his skills in support of his progress as a racing driver.”
  Switzerland-based Sauber rebranded its F1 name
  
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• Call to speed Italian citizenship for boy who made SOS call

  21-03-2019 18:12
  MILAN (AP) — The leader of Italy’s 5-Star Movement says the country should grant citizenship to a 13-year-old Egyptian boy hailed as a hero for alerting police that he and his middle school classmates had been abducted by their bus driver.
  Luigi Di Maio said Thursday that Ramy Shehata “put his life at risk to save that of his classmates,” and that he would ask Italy’s premier to confer citizenship for special merit.
  The boy’s father immigrated in 2001 and Ramy
  
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• Police release surveillance video of skating rink brawl

  21-03-2019 18:08
  GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities have released redacted video of a brawl between teenagers at a Phoenix-area skating rink that sent one person to a hospital.
  The surveillance video shows multiple teens throwing punches at each other during an “all night” skating event Saturday inside and outside Great Skate in Glendale.
  Glendale police say about 200 people were being turned away at around 9 p.m. Police say that’s when fights broke out between the teens in the parking lo
  
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• The Latest: Israel thanks Trump for Golan remarks

  21-03-2019 18:07
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on the United States and Israel (all times local):
  7:25 p.m.
  Israel’s leader has thanked President Donald Trump for “boldly” recognizing Israel’s control over the Golan Heights.
  Israel captured the Golan, a strategic plateau overlooking northern Israel, from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and annexed the area in 1981. 
  The international community considers the Golan to be occupied territory, and Syria has demanded its return as a cond
  
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• Trump, corporate leaders discuss economic, business issues

  21-03-2019 16:37
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is discussing economic and business issues with some of America’s top corporate titans.
  The closed-door meeting was taking place Thursday at the headquarters of the Business Roundtable near the Capitol. The association, representing leading companies aimed at promoting the economy, is holding its quarterly meeting with an estimated 100 chief executive officers from businesses across the United States.
  Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JP Morgan
  
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• March Madness arrives: Round 1 of NCAA Tournament starts

  21-03-2019 16:36
  Millions of brackets are filled with millions of guesses and it’s time to find out how they fare.
  The crush of March Madness hits Thursday with 16 games in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
  Reigning champion Villanova is playing and so is Michigan, the runner-up from last year.
  Kansas and Michigan State are also in action as two of the more popular picks each March.
  Murray State’s Ja Morant is going up against Marquette’s Markus Howard, giving fans two stars head to head.
  
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• NGOs urge France to ban arm sales to Saudi Arabia

  21-03-2019 16:34
  PARIS (AP) — Twelve Yemeni and international human rights organizations have urged France to stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia and do more to end the war in Yemen.
  The call was issued Thursday in Paris to mark the fourth anniversary of the intervention of a Saudi Arabia-led coalition in neighboring Yemen.
  Organizations including Amnesty International, Action against Hunger and Doctors of the World urged France to use its key position as president this month of the U.N. security council and
  
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• The Latest: Forecasters: ‘historic’ flooding could hit South

  21-03-2019 16:33
  The Latest on the upcoming flood threat in the South (all times local):
  11:25 a.m.
  Officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say flooding could reach unprecedented levels in parts of the U.S. later this spring, as winter snow melts and swollen rivers rise.
  NOAA spokeswoman Lauren Gaches said during a conference call Thursday that existing flooding along the Mississippi River and other waterways is expected to get worse, possibly even worse than historic floods in 1993 an
  
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• Iraqi official says death toll from ferry sinking in Tigris River near Mosul has risen to 71

  21-03-2019 16:31
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi official says death toll from ferry sinking in Tigris River near Mosul has risen to 71.
  The post Iraqi official says death toll from ferry sinking in Tigris River near Mosul has risen to 71 appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• Prosecutors: Clear dead serial rapist of 1983 Florida murder

  21-03-2019 16:28
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida prosecutors want a deceased serial rapist cleared of a 1983 murder, saying DNA evidence shows the killer was actually a man executed for a similar murder.
  Broward County prosecutors asked a judge Thursday to dismiss Ronald Stewart’s 1985 conviction for the murder of 20-year-old Regina Harrison. They say the real killer was Jack Jones, who was executed in 2017 for a 1995 Arkansas murder. Jones also pleaded guilty to a 1991 Fort Lauderdale murder.
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• Trans teen says Georgia school took him off prom king ballot

  21-03-2019 16:26
  GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A transgender student says his Georgia high school removed him from this year’s prom king ballot.
  The Gainesville Times quotes Johnson High School senior Dex Frier as saying he was nominated by the student body as one of six candidates for prom king, but was later informed by school officials that he could only be on the prom queen ballot.
  Hall County Schools Superintendent Will Schofield says the district has never removed students from prom and he doesn&rsqu
  
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• 2 tied to charity-gone-wrong story arrive in Baltimore

  21-03-2019 16:25
  BALTIMORE (AP) — A man who garnered sympathy and media attention after maintaining that a panhandler killed his wife has been returned to Baltimore, along with his daughter, to face murder charges.
  Baltimore police say 52-year-old Keith Smith and his 28-year-old daughter Valeria Smith, both of Baltimore, arrived from Texas early Thursday and were booked on first-degree murder charges. Bail hearings were to be held later in the day.
  The suspects are charged in the death of 54-year-old Jacqu
  
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• Connecticut diocese settles priest abuse lawsuits for $3.5M

  21-03-2019 16:24
  BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A Roman Catholic diocese in Connecticut has agreed to pay $3.5 million to five men who alleged in lawsuits that they were sexually abused as children by priests.
  The settlements involving three priests announced Wednesday by the Diocese of Bridgeport were reached following mediation with the law firm Tremont, Sheldon, Robinson and Mahoney representing the plaintiffs.
  Two of the three accused were diocesan priests and have died. The third was a Maronite who worked a
  
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• Austrian court rejects complaint by expelled Turkish imams

  21-03-2019 16:21
  BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s Constitutional Court has thrown out a complaint by two Turkish imams expelled under a 2015 law that prevents religious communities from getting funding from foreign nations.
  The court said Thursday the so-called “Islam Law” didn’t constitute a disproportionate restriction of religious freedom. It said that protecting religious communities’ independence “from the state, but particularly from other states and their institutions&rdqu
  
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• Germany: Michael Jackson exhibit opening amid revived claims

  21-03-2019 16:20
  BONN, Germany (AP) — An exhibition of art about Michael Jackson is opening in Germany amid fresh controversy over the singer’s alleged abuse of children.
  Curator Nicholas Cullinan said Thursday the show at Bonn’s Bundeskunsthalle was conceived long before the recent broadcast of HBO documentary “Leaving Neverland ,” which details Jackson’s alleged molestation of two boys.
  Some radio stations in North America have since stopped playing Jackson’s music. Ja
  
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• Valencia again targeted by Batman creators for bat logo

  21-03-2019 16:16
  MADRID (AP) — Batman is coming after Valencia’s bat logo.
  The Spanish soccer club is again being targeted by DC Comics over the use of its logo, which serves as the centerpiece of its centennial celebrations this year. The comic book makers, who created the superhero Batman, have made another complaint about how the team is using the bat logo .
  “The parties have requested an extension of the ‘cooling off’ period to negotiate a possible deal,” the law firm repr
  
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• Cristiano Ronaldo fined $22K by UEFA for obscene gesture

  21-03-2019 16:07
  NYON, Switzerland (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo has been fined 20,000 euros ($22,750) by UEFA for making a provocative gesture after Juventus beat Atletico Madrid in the Champions League.
  UEFA says its disciplinary panel found the Juventus star guilty of improper conduct.
  Ronaldo was fined the same sum imposed on Atletico coach Diego Simeone for the same gesture during the round of 16 first-leg game in Spain.
  Ronaldo scored a hat trick in a 3-0 win in the return leg in Turin to send Juventus to
  
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• Poll: More Americans say too little spending on health

  21-03-2019 16:05
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A growing majority of Americans want greater government spending on health care, and the increase is being driven by both Democrats and Republicans.
  Americans want to spend more on many government functions, according to new data from the General Social Survey, a widely respected trend survey that has been measuring views of government spending since the 1970s.
  Seven in 10 consider the government’s spending on improving national health to be too low. About three-qua
  
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• Cleaning the ‘Marie Kondo’ way

  21-03-2019 16:05
  (NBC News) A decluttering craze is sweeping through closets across the United thanks to the Netflix series “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo” and its “KonMari method.”
  The process starts with clothes. Decide what to toss by asking one simple question: Does it spark joy?
  Konmari converts are generating an early influx of inventory to resale shops.
  “Spring cleaning started a lot sooner this year,” says Buffalo Exchange manager Jes Dufresne. “We’ve had pe
  
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• US average mortgage rates fall; 30-year at 4.28 percent

  21-03-2019 16:03
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. long-term mortgage rates fell this week, giving an incentive to potential buyers as the spring homebuying season opens.
  Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the average rate on the 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage declined to 4.28 percent from 4.31 percent the previous week.
  Mortgage rates have fallen substantially since the beginning of the year, after climbing for much of 2018 and peaking at nearly 5 percent in early November. The average rate on the benchmark 30-year loan
  
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• Neo-Nazi website operator ordered to disclose his net worth

  21-03-2019 16:03
  MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A neo-Nazi website operator must disclose his net worth to attorneys for a Montana real estate agent who sued him for orchestrating an anti-Semitic “troll storm” against her family.
  U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch on Tuesday ordered The Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin to turn over a financial statement of his current net worth by March 29 or else the court will impose sanctions against him.
  Tanya Gersh sued Anglin in Montana in April 2017, claimi
  
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• Illinois State Police face 2nd suit over warehouse shooting

  21-03-2019 16:00
  CHICAGO (AP) — A second lawsuit has been filed against the Illinois State Police for issuing a firearm license to the convicted felon who killed five people and wounded several police officers when he opened fire at a suburban Chicago warehouse last month.
  The lawsuit was filed Wednesday by the family of Vincent Juarez, who was a forklift operator at Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora and was killed in the attack.
  Juarez’s family contends that the state police wrongly approved Gary Martin&rsq
  
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• Down syndrome stories: 21 things parents wish they knew

  21-03-2019 16:00
  March 21 is World Down Syndrome Day, a time to celebrate the lives of people with Down syndrome and reflect on the freedoms and opportunities available to them. The cleverly designated date — 3/21 — denotes something unique to people with Down syndrome: three copies of chromosome 21 instead of the usual two.
  It’s common for parents of babies with Down syndrome to experience shock, sadness and fear over the unknowns of raising a child who has intellectual and developmental disa
  
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• Fan group urges UEFA to curb Champions League ticket hikes

  21-03-2019 15:55
  GENEVA (AP) — A group representing European soccer fans has urged UEFA to enforce stricter rules preventing clubs from raising prices for Champions League games.
  Football Supporters Europe criticized “exorbitant pricing” after hikes for visiting fans by Barcelona and Manchester United for their quarterfinal games next month.
  After Barcelona set prices at 118 euros ($134) for visiting Man United fans, the English club retaliated with an equivalent 102 pound price for away fans a
  
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• Cyprus seeks EU intelligence access for migrant screening

  21-03-2019 15:55
  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ interior minister says he has asked the European Union for access to its security intelligence network in order to better screen arriving migrants and avert the risk posed by potentially radicalized individuals.
  Constantinos Petrides said Thursday that rising migrant arrival numbers — especially via the ethnically split island’s breakaway north — have made the situation “very difficult to manage.”
  He said monthly asylum app
  
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• Arrest order issued for ex-President Michel Temer in Brazil

  21-03-2019 15:53
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A judge in Rio de Janeiro has issued an arrest warrant for ex-President Michel Temer, who is being investigated in several corruption cases.
  A spokeswoman for the Prosecutors Office in Rio de Janeiro told The Associated Press Thursday that Judge Marcelo Breitas had issued the order. Per agency protocol, the spokeswoman asked her name not be used.
  Breitas is a Rio judge overseeing part of a sprawling corruption probe involving kickbacks to politicians and public offici
  
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• Escaped wallaby goes on walkabout in Dallas neighborhood

  21-03-2019 15:50
  DALLAS (AP) — A wallaby who apparently escaped his owners went on a walkabout in an east Dallas neighborhood before being recaptured.
  Tim Tiernan said he and his wife were taking a morning walk Wednesday when they saw what they first thought was a dog. The wallaby hopped into the couple’s driveway and up to their back door.
  Dallas Animal Services officers eventually caught the marsupial in the couple’s backyard. The animal was identified as Muggsy and picked up by his owner.
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