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• Democratic-led states divided over approach on abortion

  27-05-2019 16:27
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Abortion opponents in Republican-led legislatures have had a highly successful year, passing measurers that would ban or significantly limit abortions beginning early in a woman’s pregnancy. So what about the states controlled politically by Democrats?
  The answer is mixed and reflects how the abortion debate has not played out neatly in the Democratic Party, much to the disappointment of abortion-rights supporters.
  While some Democratic-led states are moving f
  
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• Spotlight on Oklahoma for start of trial for opioid makers

  27-05-2019 16:22
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is poised to become the first state to go to trial in a lawsuit against the makers of pharmaceuticals blamed for contributing to the nation’s opioid crisis.
  Several states have reached settlements with drugmakers. But the trial set to begin Tuesday in Norman against consumer products giant Johnson & Johnson and several of its subsidiaries could bring to light documents and testimony that show what the companies knew, when they knew it and how they re
  
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• Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is ousted by parliament in no-confidence vote

  27-05-2019 16:20
  BERLIN (AP) — Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is ousted by parliament in no-confidence vote.
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• Preparing to sue, ex-Boy Scouts recall abuse by unit leaders

  27-05-2019 16:16
  NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of men across the U.S. are signing up with lawyers to sue the Boy Scouts for damages related to sex abuse they claim to have suffered at the hands of scout leaders.
  The expected wave of litigation poses a financial threat to the Boy Scouts that could trigger bankruptcy.
  For some of the men, it’s an emotional challenge to recall the abuse and the decades of psychological damage that resulted.
  The BSA has repeatedly apologized and says it now has policies to cu
  
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• EU rejects US demand that agriculture be part of trade talks

  27-05-2019 15:54
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top trade official insists that the agricultural sector cannot be included in negotiations on a new trade agreement the United States, as the U.S. has demanded.
  After receiving the backing of EU ministers in Brussels Monday, Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom told reporters that “there is absolutely no possibility to include agriculture in these discussions.”
  Malmstrom said the Europeans are ready to start negotiations on industrial
  
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• Report: Syrian air raids hit crowded residential area

  27-05-2019 15:51
  BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s White Helmets say at least six people were killed and 10 remain under rubble following government air raids on a town in the rebel’s last stronghold.
  The first responders known as White Helmets said Monday that rescue workers were still searching for survivors under the rubble after the airstrikes hit a crowded residential street in the town of Ariha. They said five women and a child were killed.
  The airstrikes hit the town amid intense government bombardm
  
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• George, Barbara Bush’s absence noted at Memorial Day parade

  27-05-2019 15:48
  KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) — Maine’s Memorial Day celebrations are absent a prominent veteran who died last year.
  The American Legion has two empty chairs in Kennebunkport’s Dock Square on Monday in memory of all of the times former President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara watched the Memorial Day parade from that spot.
  Mark Matthews from American Legion Post 159 said organizers wanted to acknowledge the absence of Bush, a long-time summer resident and a Navy veteran. He
  
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• Hifter’s forces push toward Libyan capital city’s center

  27-05-2019 15:41
  CAIRO (AP) — A Libyan official and residents say heavy clashes are slowly nearing the center of Libya’s capital, Tripoli, as forces loyal to the military commander Khalifa Hifter battle to seize power.
  Hifter’s self-styled Libyan National Army launched an offensive last month to take Tripoli from militias loosely allied with a U.N.-supported government.
  Saraj al-Majbri, an aid to the LNA’s chief of staff, said Monday its forces had made gains in the area of Salah al-Deen,
  
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• Annual Memorial Day ceremony being held at Evergreen Memorial Park

  27-05-2019 15:31
  Memorial Day: Monday, May 27, 2019 / Courtesy: Bill Bahmer
  TUCSON – Evergreen Mortuary, Cemetery & Crematory will be holding its annual Memorial Day Service, “Heroes Remembered” on Monday.
  The service will start at 9 a.m., featuring a Walk of Honor ceremony.
  Councilman Richard Fimbres is expected to speak during the ceremony.
  Statement from Evergreen Mortuary, Cemetery & Crematory:
  “Memorial Day remembers those who died while serving our country in the Armed Force
  
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• Lithuania’s new president vows to fight power structures

  27-05-2019 15:15
  VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — The winner of Lithuania’s presidential elections says fighting elitist power structures will be among his top priorities.
  Gitanas Nauseda says that “oligarchy is very dangerous not only because it takes over control of mass media and starts controlling people’s minds but also interferes in politics brutally. That is not acceptable.”
  The 55-year-old former bank analyst grabbed 66% of votes while his rival got 33% in Sunday’s runoff.
  Na
  
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• Rio champion Nurudinov DQ’d from London Olympics for doping

  27-05-2019 15:07
  LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — A weightlifting gold medalist at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics has been disqualified from the 2012 London Games for doping.
  The Court of Arbitration for Sport says its new anti-doping chamber stripped Ruslan Nurudinov of fourth place in London in the 105-kilogram weight class.
  Nurudinov, from Uzbekistan, later won the 105-kilogram world title in 2013, Olympic gold in 2016 and the 2018 Asian Games title.
  The CAS anti-doping division says Nurudinov tested posi
  
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• Israel’s parliament looks to dissolve amid coalition crisis

  27-05-2019 14:54
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s newly elected parliament is drafting a bill to dissolve itself. The move comes as a deadline to form a coalition government nears with no progress in sight.
  If the bill passes, Israel would face its second election campaign in a matter of months.
  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to have a clear path to a majority coalition after his Likud party secured 35 seats in April 9 elections. But his prospective government has been thrown into crisis in rece
  
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• Monday Forecast: A cool and breezy Memorial Day

  27-05-2019 14:53
  TUCSON – Southern Arizona will be breezy and cooler this afternoon.This afternoon, a weather system passed to our north. This will bring Southern Arizona gusty winds. Today sustained winds could reach 25 mph and wind gusts could reach 30 mph.
  Behind this system, daytime highs will be cooler today. Today’s forecast high will reach a high of 78 degrees under plenty of sunshine. Temperatures across the Tucson Metro will be 15-20 degrees below normal. The last time Memorial Day saw 70 de
  
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• Late WWII, Korean War veteran finally receives Purple Heart

  27-05-2019 14:52
  TUCSON – Memorial Day is a day to honor our military and the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice defending our freedoms.
  One veteran is finally being honored with a medal years after his passing. Louis Moran fought in World War II and the Korean War. He was injured in Korea but was never awarded his Purple Heart because his records were destroyed in the National Personnel Records Center fire in St. Louis in 1973.
  Moran’s granddaughter made it her mission to get him the med
  
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• German court fines 7 men who claimed to be “Sharia police”

  27-05-2019 14:52
  BERLIN (AP) — A German court has found seven men who formed a self-styled “Sharia police” guilty of violating rules on wearing uniforms.
  German news agency dpa reported that a court on Monday fined the men, aged between 27 and 37, to penalties ranging from 300 euros ($335) to 1,800 euros ($2,015).
  The group took to the streets of the western city of Wuppertal in 2014, dressed in orange vests bearing the words “Sharia police” and handing out leaflets declaring the ar
  
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• Azerbaijan’s Europa League final complex for teams, fans

  27-05-2019 14:40
  Azerbaijan hoped the Europa League final would mark its emergence as an international football power — off the field, anyway. But it has instead found itself in a storm of bad PR.
  Arsenal and Chelsea meet Wednesday in a country that few of their fans have been able to reach, and with one of the leading players ruled out for political reasons.
  Azerbaijan does not lack ambition in global soccer. It also bid for this season’s Champions League final, but lost out to Madrid. Baku is hosti
  
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• Romanians vote overwhelmingly to back anti-corruption effort

  27-05-2019 14:33
  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanians have voted overwhelmingly in support of anti-corruption initiatives in a referendum called by the country’s president.
  According to data released Monday by the Central Electoral Bureau, 80% of voters cast ballots in favor of two questions in the referendum seeking to pressure the governing coalition into abandoning efforts to water down anti-corruption laws and also to prevent amnesties and pardons for those convicted of corruption.
  President Klaus
  
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• A hefty donation to Trump’s inaugural comes under scrutiny

  27-05-2019 14:32
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Real estate mogul Franklin Haney contributed $1 million to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee and all he’s got to show for the money is the glare of a federal investigation.
  The contribution from Haney came as he was seeking regulatory approval and financial support from the government for his long-shot bid to acquire the mothballed Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant in Alabama.
  The donation is being scrutinized by federal prosecutors in New York investi
  
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• Guard F-16s to conduct Memorial Day flyovers in Tucson area

  27-05-2019 14:26
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) – Two F-16 jet fighters from the Arizona Air National Guard will conduct five flyovers of cemeteries and other locations in the Tucson area on Monday as part of Memorial Day observations.
  The jets are part of the 162nd Wing based at Tucson International Airport.
  The flyovers will begin at 9 a.m. at Tucson Estates Park and then East Lawn Palms at 9:05 a.m.
  They will continue at 9:15 a.m. at South Lawn Cemetery, Tucson, 9:10 a.m. and at 9:15 a.m. at Green Valley Mortuary b
  
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• Romania ruling party boss gets 3 ½ years in prison for graft

  27-05-2019 13:36
  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian court has sentenced the country’s most powerful politician to 3 ½ years in prison for official misconduct in a graft case.
  Monday’s sentencing of Social Democratic Party leader Liviu Dragnea comes after a 2018 conviction linked to the employment of two party members at a public agency.
  Dragnea, already blocked from being prime minister because of a 2016 conviction for vote-rigging, is expected to be imprisoned within 24 hours.
  Dragnea
  
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• Germany commits to ensuring security for Jews with skullcaps

  27-05-2019 13:21
  BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman has stressed Germany’s responsibility to ensure security for all Jews wearing skullcaps anywhere in the country without having to fear an anti-Semitic attack.
  Steffen Seibert’s comments came after the government’s anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein, was quoted Saturday as saying he “cannot recommend to Jews that they wear the skullcap at all times everywhere in Germany.” That was criticized strongly
  
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• IS claims responsibility for Bangladesh explosion

  27-05-2019 12:47
  DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A global monitoring group says the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an explosion targeting a police van in Bangladesh’s capital.
  Police said Sunday night’s explosion in Dhaka’s Malibagh area left three people injured, including a police officer, but they were not sure who was behind the blasts.
  U.S.-based SITE Intelligence said in a Twitter post that IS was behind it.
  Dhaka Police Commissioner Asaduzzman Mia said Monday that the
  
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• Prison guards injured in prison riot in Ukraine

  27-05-2019 12:30
  MOSCOW (AP) — Police say four prison guards have been injured in clashes with inmates who have barricaded themselves in a prison in Ukraine’s port city of Odessa.
  Serhiy Shaykhet, chief of the investigative unit at the Odessa police, said in televised remarks Monday that police are negotiating with the inmates.
  Earlier reports indicated that several inmates have been injured and that some prisoners have escaped. Local website Dumskaya carried pictures of people detained just outside
  
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• US lawmaker: east Med cooperation to counter Russia

  27-05-2019 12:17
  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A senior U.S. lawmaker says the U.S. wants to work with Cyprus and ally Israel to buttress peace in the eastern Mediterranean and to head off Russian influence over the region’s energy reserves.
  Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, says the U.S. is looking for friendly nations in the region that share core democratic values in light of what he calls Russia’s “malevolent machinations.”
  After meeting the Cypriot presiden
  
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• Former Liverpool defender Henchoz to coach Sion

  27-05-2019 12:17
  SION, Switzerland (AP) — Former Liverpool defender Stephane Henchoz has been appointed coach of Swiss club Sion for next season.
  Sion says in a statement Henchoz has a one-year contract with an option for a second campaign.
  The former Switzerland center back is still preparing for the post-season relegation playoffs as coach of Neuchatel Xamax, which had already decided not to retain him.
  Henchoz played in the Liverpool team that won five trophies in 2001, including the UEFA Cup and the FA
  
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• Polish police: masked teenager injures 2 in primary school

  27-05-2019 12:15
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish police say a girl and a woman have been hurt when a masked man entered a primary school in central Poland and threw firecrackers.
  The spokeswoman for police in Bydgoszcz, Monika Chlebicz, said Monday that a female student was injured by shrapnel and one of the cleaning staff was attacked by an intruder in Primary School Nr. 1 in Brzesc Kujawski. Their lives are not in danger, she said.
  Chlebicz said an 18-year-old suspect was arrested.
  The post Polish police: m
  
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• Europa League clash kicks off 1st all-English finals week

  27-05-2019 12:14
  Forget Barcelona, forget Real Madrid. This is England’s week.
  After years of Spanish domination in Europe’s top club competitions, England has done what no other nation has done before. Both the Champions League and the Europa League finals are all-English affairs.
  Before Liverpool and Tottenham clash in Madrid for the title of Europe’s best team Saturday, Arsenal and Chelsea fight for the Europa League crown in Azerbaijan on Wednesday. The Premier League’s strength in de
  
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• Kuwait road accident kills 8 in area near country’s capital

  27-05-2019 11:41
  KUWAIT CITY (AP) — Officials in Kuwait say eight people were killed and one person was in critical condition after a car accident in an area just outside the country’s capital.
  The state-run Kuwait News Agency and other local media quoting fire department officials say the accident took place early on Monday in the Kabd area, southeast of Kuwait City.
  The Al-Jarida newspaper says a vehicle struck a crowd that was gathered around where an accident involving three cars had occurred, le
  
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• The Latest: Nadal cruises past German qualifier

  27-05-2019 11:29
  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the French Open (all times local):
  4:15 p.m.
  Rafael Nadal has made light work of qualifier Yannick Hanfmann, winning 6-2, 6-1, 6-3 to advance to the second round.
  The 11-time champion at Roland Garros saved four break points in his first service game on Court Philippe Chatrier but was never troubled again by the 184th-ranked German, who was playing for the first time in the French Open main draw.
  Nadal later praised the refurbished showcase court where he won his
  
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• D-Day’s 75th anniversary renews interest in some classrooms

  27-05-2019 11:04
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — As the 75th anniversary of D-Day approaches, historians and educators worry that the World War II milestone is losing its resonance with today’s students.
  In North Carolina and many other U.S. states, D-Day isn’t part of the required curriculum, though some teachers do use the anniversary to spend extra time on the June 6, 1944, battle.
  It’s not a stand-alone topic in France, which was liberated from German occupation. German schools concentrate on th
  
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• Trump meets with families of Japanese abducted by N. Korea

  27-05-2019 11:00
  TOKYO (AP) — Families of Japanese who were abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s have thanked President Donald Trump for his sympathy and for meeting with them while visiting Japan.
  Trump, on a four-day state visit, met the relatives on Monday. He appeared to listen intently to their accounts of their ordeals.
  Shigeo Iizuka, whose sister was abducted in the 1970s, asked Trump for his cooperation with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to get North Korea to return the victims.
  Saki
  
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• Far-right to vote against Austrian leader in parliament

  27-05-2019 10:58
  BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s far-right Freedom Party plans to back a no-confidence vote against the country’s chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, following their coalition break over a video scandal.
  Freedom Party interim leader Norbert Hofer said his lawmakers will back a motion by the opposition Social Democrats that is being voted on Monday afternoon.
  Hofer took over after his predecessor, Heinz-Christian Strache, resigned earlier this month following the publication of a video in which
  
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• France approves of trials in Iraq for French IS fighters

  27-05-2019 10:39
  PARIS (AP) — France’s foreign affairs ministry says the Iraqi court that sentenced three French citizens to death for being members of the Islamic State group has jurisdiction to rule in the case.
  The ministry spokeswoman, Agnès von der Mühll, said on Monday that IS “terrorists must answer for their crimes in court.”
  The three were the first French IS members to receive death sentences in Iraq, where they were transferred for trial from neighboring Syria.
  Von
  
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• No Experience Needed: Japan opts for Women’s World Cup youth

  27-05-2019 10:36
  NARASHINO, Japan (AP) — Jun Endo turned 19 a few days ago and is headed to her first Women’s World Cup.
  The Japan forward has lots of company. Sixteen others on the 23-player roster are also going for the first time.
  “I think age doesn’t matter when it comes to playing football,” Endo said, speaking Japanese at the team’s training camp on the outskirts of Tokyo.
  “I know that I don’t have much experience yet, but I think I’m good at learning q
  
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• Greece: Stock market opens up after PM calls early election

  27-05-2019 10:32
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s stock market has opened up 5 percent, the morning after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called snap general elections following a resounding defeat of his left-wing Syriza party in European elections.
  Official results from 75% of the vote Monday showed the conservative New Democracy party more than 9.5 percentage points ahead of Syriza, with 33.26 percent, compared to the governing party’s 23.75 percent. Tsipras said Sunday he would visit Greece&rsq
  
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• Dane in lead to become mayor of German port city of Rostock

  27-05-2019 10:31
  BERLIN (AP) — A Danish businessman is in the lead to become mayor of Rostock and become the first non-German citizen to head a large city in Germany.
  The German news agency dpa reported Monday that 46-year-old Claus Ruhe Madsen received 34.6% in the first round of voting for the mayor’s post in the northeastern Baltic coast city on Sunday.
  His closest challenger, Left party candidate Steffen Bockhahn, received 18.9%.
  Ruhe Madsen isn’t affiliated with a political party but had t
  
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• Suspect arrested after Lyon bomb attack that wounded 13

  27-05-2019 10:23
  PARIS (AP) — French Interior minister Christophe Castaner says a suspect has been arrested following a blast in the city of Lyon that wounded 13 people last week.
  Castaner announced the arrest on Twitter but did not say where the suspect was arrested.
  Police had launched a large manhunt after a device exploded Friday on a busy pedestrian street in the central city. An investigation has been opened for “attempted murder in relation with a terrorist undertaking” and “crimin
  
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• Australian cardinal won’t fight sentence if he loses appeal

  27-05-2019 10:03
  SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian court spokesman says disgraced Catholic cardinal George Pell will not fight for a reduced jail sentence if he fails in his appeal of his conviction for molesting two choirboys in the 1990s.
  The 77-year-old Pell — the most senior Catholic convicted of sex abuse — was sentenced in a Melbourne court in March to six years in prison. He must serve at least three years and eight months of the term.
  Pell will appeal his conviction next month. His lawyers ha
  
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• Nadal, Djokovic and Serena play on Day 2 of French Open

  27-05-2019 09:01
  PARIS (AP) — Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams — owners of a combined collection of 55 Grand Slam singles titles — are each in action on Day 2 at the French Open.
  Each is embarking on a bid to achieve a milestone over the next two weeks at Roland Garros.
  Beginning against Yannick Hanfmann (a German qualifier who played tennis at Southern California and whose career Grand Slam record is 0-1), Nadal seeks his record-extending 12th championship in Paris, the most fo
  
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• Candrea & Cats excited about World Series Birth

  27-05-2019 08:07
  TUCSON – Coach Mike Candrea & the Arizona softball team are gearing up for the 2019 College Softball World Series. Zona takes on Washington on Thursday.  Here’s more with the Cats as-seen-on Sunday sportscast:The post Candrea & Cats excited about World Series Birth appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• Fiat Chrysler proposes merger with French carmaker Renault

  27-05-2019 07:50
  PARIS (AP) — Fiat Chrysler is proposing a merger with French carmaker Renault aimed at saving billions of dollars for both companies.
  Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said in a statement Monday that the merged company would be 50 percent owned by FCA shareholders and 50 percent by Renault shareholders.
  Renault’s board is meeting outside Paris on Monday morning about the possible merger.
  The companies have been in discussions for weeks, as major world carmakers seek ways to save money amid t
  
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• UA Football Coach Kevin Sumlin rides at Indy 500

  27-05-2019 07:46
  INDIANAPOLIS – University of Arizona head football coach Kevin Sumlin returned to the city he grew up in to ride during the Indy 500 weekend.  Coach Sumlin, who also suited up at Purdue, got to ride in a race car with legend Mario Andretti.  Here’s more from Sunday’s sportscast on News 4 Tucson:The post UA Football Coach Kevin Sumlin rides at Indy 500 appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• Fiat Chrysler proposes 50-50 merger with France’s Renault amid carmaker consolidation push

  27-05-2019 07:41
  PARIS (AP) — Fiat Chrysler proposes 50-50 merger with France’s Renault amid carmaker consolidation push.
  The post Fiat Chrysler proposes 50-50 merger with France’s Renault amid carmaker consolidation push appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• Afghan officials: 10 wounded in Kabul minibus bombing

  27-05-2019 07:41
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials say 10 people were wounded when a sticky bomb attached to a minibus carrying government workers detonated in the capital of Kabul.
  Police spokesman Ferdus Faramarz says one of the wounded is in critical condition.
  Arab Haidari, from the religious affairs ministry, says all the wounded are ministry’s employees who were on their way to work when the explosion took place on Monday morning.
  No group immediately claimed responsibility for the att
  
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• The Latest: German official: Farage was lazy blowhard at EU

  27-05-2019 07:30
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The Latest on European elections (all times local):
  4:15 p.m.
  A senior German official is criticizing the leader of the Brexit Party that trounced traditional political forces in Britain’s vote for the European Parliament.
  Michael Roth, Germany’s deputy foreign minister, said Monday that Nigel Farage’s past terms as a lawmaker in the EU parliament hadn’t been marked by work “but rather by demagoguery and laziness.”
  Roth told reporters in
  
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• The Latest: Trump enjoys Japanese palace dinner with emperor

  27-05-2019 02:41
  TOKYO (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s visit to Japan (all times local):
  7:30 p.m.
  President Donald Trump is enjoying a six-course state banquet dinner at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo featuring consommé, cote de boeuf and fruit.
  The White House says Monday’s menu includes Consommé a la Royale, Turbot a la Meunière Sauce Tomate, Cote de Boeuf Rotie, Salade de Saison, Glace Mont Fuji and a dessert of melon and grapes.
  Music is being performed by
  
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