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• White man denies saying ‘Go back where you came from’

  20-07-2019 23:43
  MABLETON, Ga. (AP) — A white man has admitted to cursing at a pregnant black Georgia lawmaker for taking too many items into a supermarket express lane but denies telling her, “go back where you came from.” WSB-TV reports Eric Sparkes showed up during an interview with Rep. Erica Thomas of Austell on Saturday, outside the Atlanta-area store where the incident occurred .
  He denied making any racially charged comment.
  Thomas confronted Sparkes in front of reporters and said he ha
  
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• Tucson picks 2 companies for rental scooters pilot program

  20-07-2019 23:39
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Tucson has selected two companies to make electric scooters available for rent under a six-month pilot program.
  The city’s announcement of the selection of Bird Rides Inc. and Razor USA LLC follows City Council’s March authorization of the Shared Electric Scooter Pilot Program.
  The announcement statement released Friday night says the companies will work with city on a timeline for launching the program.
  The statement says the program was designed to &ldquo
  
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• California town leveled by wildfire reopens its public pool

  20-07-2019 23:25
  PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — The public swimming pool in Paradise, California, is reopening for the first time since a catastrophic wildfire destroyed much of the town. CBS13 in Sacramento reports state firefighters used their hoses last week to refill the pool with clean water after the fire left the pool filled with charred debris.
  The pool is set to reopen Sunday. It is another sign of the town slowly rebuilding after the fire killed 85 people and destroyed much of Paradise in November.
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• Johannes leads New York to 83-78 win over Los Angeles

  20-07-2019 23:23
  WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Rookie Marine Johannes scored 17 points, making all six of her shots, to lead the New York Liberty to an 83-78 victory over the Los Angeles Sparks on Saturday.
  The French guard helped New York build a seven-point lead heading into the fourth quarter. The Sparks rallied behind Chelsea Gray and Chiney Ogwumike to get to 79-78 with 17.4 seconds left. Tina Charles hit two free throws to make it a three-point game.
  The Sparks (10-8) had one last chance, but Gray’
  
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• Legislator, superintendent at odds over vouchers backlog

  20-07-2019 23:14
  PHOENIX (AP) — A Republican state representative and Arizona’s Democratic superintendent of public instruction are sparring over a backlog of pending applications from families for private school tuition vouchers.
  Rep. Mark Finchem of Oro Valley accuses the state Department of Education overseen by Superintendent Kathy Hoffman of failing to process numerous applications for vouchers within a 45-day period required under state law, while Hoffman says the Republican-led Legislature has
  
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• ESPN reasserts policy on political talk after attack

  20-07-2019 23:14
  NEW YORK (AP) — ESPN is reminding employees of the network’s policy to avoid talking politics after radio show host Dan Le Batard criticized President Donald Trump and the network itself on air.
  An ESPN employee who requested anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak on personnel matters said Saturday that the reminder went out Friday to all employees, including Le Batard.
  ESPN is not commenting publicly.
  It’s a reminder of former network anchor Jemele Hill, whos
  
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• London subway riders treated after gas is sprayed on train

  20-07-2019 23:13
  LONDON (AP) — British police are searching for two young men suspected of releasing an irritating gas on a London subway train.
  Authorities said paramedics treated a number of people for coughing and shortness of breath when the train stopped at Oxford Circus station.
  British Transport Police say the victims’ symptoms suggested they had been exposed to CS gas, a component of tear gas that U.K. police forces carry to incapacitate suspects.
  They said there were no indications the subwa
  
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• Hot day, hot bats: Yanks torch Rockies 11-5, win 5th in row

  20-07-2019 22:48
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Yankees are as hot as the weather, torching Colorado pitching for the second straight day.
  Edwin Encarnación chased Anthony Senzatela with a two-run double in a five-run second inning, and New York romped over the Rockies 11-5 Saturday for its fifth straight win.
  On an afternoon with a 94-degree gametime temperature, the highest for the Yankees this season, New York went ahead when Aaron Judge doubled in a run on Senzatela’s 10th pitch and took a 9-0 lead b
  
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• Dispute pulls CBS off the air for DirecTV customers

  20-07-2019 22:48
  NEW YORK (AP) — A business dispute has taken CBS off the air for millions of satellite television customers of DirecTV and AT&T U-verse.
  CBS was black on satellite systems owned by AT&T in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and across the United States on Saturday. Both the television network and AT&T hurled accusations at each other for failure to agree on what CBS is paid for programming.
  CBS said that while it didn’t want its customers caught in the middle, it is determine
  
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• New Greek PM emphasizes tax cuts, jobs, security

  20-07-2019 22:38
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has outlined cutting taxes, attracting jobs and tackling rising crime as his top priorities.
  Mitsotakis announced he would immediately implement a reduction in property taxes on Saturday while opening a 3-day parliamentary debate on his new conservative government’s policy statement.
  He says he will stick to the fiscal targets demanded by Greece’s creditors that the previous left-wing government agreed to meet,inclu
  
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• 5 killed in 3-vehicle traffic accident in South Texas

  20-07-2019 22:37
  VICTORIA, Texas (AP) — Authorities say five people have been killed and seven injured in a three-vehicle accident in South Texas.
  The Department of Public Safety says the crash happened around 11 a.m. Saturday on U.S. 59, 5 miles (8 kilometers) northeast of Victoria.
  Sgt. Ruben San Miguel says investigators are trying to determine why a northbound van hit the left rear of a northbound semi pulling a flatbed trailer. The van then struck a southbound pickup truck.
  Five people in the van died
  
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• Netflix loses thousands of subscribers after subscription price hike

  20-07-2019 22:36
  NBC — Netflix has lost paid subscribers for the first time in eight years.
  The popular streaming service says it has lost 126,000 paid subscribers in the United States.
  Analysts had expected Netflix to gain more than 350,000 new subscribers during the second quarter. The company also missed its own forecast for global subscriber growth by more than 2 million.
  Netflix says the loss of customers was most pronounced in regions that saw price increases and not due to competition from other str
  
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• Artists withdraw from NYC museum show over tear gas link

  20-07-2019 22:33
  NEW YORK (AP) — Seven artists have asked New York’s Whitney Museum to remove their work from its biennial showcase of American art over a museum board member’s ties to the sale of law-enforcement supplies including tear gas.
  The artists are protesting Warren Kanders’ role as vice chairman of the Whitney’s board. Kanders is the owner of the Safariland Group, which sells body armor for police officers as well as tear gas. Critics of Safariland say the tear gas has bee
  
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• Team criticized for Spicer throwing out pitch on Pride Night

  20-07-2019 22:21
  PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — A decision to have President Trump’s former communications director Sean Spicer throw out the first pitch at a Rhode Island minor league baseball game on “Pride Night at the Ballpark” is getting pushback.
  Some fans said on Twitter they felt Spicer’s appearance Friday night at the Pawtucket Red Sox game was an insult to the LGBTQ community, given Trump’s policies.
  The decision was called “tone-deaf” and “a garbage move,&
  
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• Poet dropped for laureate job says criticism of poem ‘silly’

  20-07-2019 22:10
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The man whose nomination to become New Hampshire’s next poet laureate was withdrawn amid growing criticism of a sexually suggestive poem about former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says he doubts people have even read it.
  Daniel Thomas Moran said Saturday via email that the 2005 poem is the “imagined musings of an adolescent crush.”
  He says the idea that the poem is “sexually laced or misogynistic is nothing less than silly.”
  The 62-y
  
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• Boxer Dadashev hospitalized with brain swelling after loss

  20-07-2019 22:01
  OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Doctors say boxer Maxim Dadashev had surgery at a Maryland hospital for swelling on his brain after collapsing outside the ring after losing a match.
  Doctors told reporters early Saturday morning that the Russian-born boxer had surgery in a procedure that took about two hours.
  The Washington Post reports that his manager, Egis, Klimas, and his strength and conditioning coach, Donatas Janusevicius, were both at the hospital, where he is expected to remain for days.
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• Police investigate shooting at Delaware nursing home

  20-07-2019 21:24
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Delaware State Police say they are investigating a shooting at a nursing home in Wilmington where two people were shot.
  Police said troopers were sent to ManorCare of Wilmington for a report of a shooting at about 1:12 p.m.
  Police say two people sustained gunshot wounds, but authorities did not elaborate.
  Police say the building has been cleared, and there is no concern about public safety at this time.
  Police asked motorists to avoid the area due to heavy police ac
  
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• Man, woman killed in Delaware nursing home shooting

  20-07-2019 21:24
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Delaware State Police say a shooting at a nursing home in Wilmington has left two people dead.
  Police say an 82-year-old man and a 79-year-old woman were pronounced dead at the scene Saturday afternoon at ManorCare of Wilmington. A handgun was recovered at the scene.
  Authorities have not said who the shooter was or released the names of the man or woman.
  Police say the building has been cleared, and there are no concerns about public safety.
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• Lawmaker insists that slavery came from economics not racism

  20-07-2019 21:03
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A Republican lawmaker in New Hampshire is standing by comments made on social media that slavery was motivated by economics rather than racism, even as he was criticized by his own party.
  In a Facebook exchange with a former lawmaker, state Rep. Werner Horn wrote that owning slaves didn’t necessarily make someone a racist. He was responding to the former lawmaker’s comment questioning how President Donald Trump could be the most racist president when other
  
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• Virginia lawmakers spar on reported Trump visit to Jamestown

  20-07-2019 21:00
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia lawmakers are sparring after a report that President Donald Trump will attend the 400th anniversary celebration of the first meeting of the state’s legislative body in Jamestown.
  Democrats have threatened to boycott the event because they say Trump doesn’t represent their values – a reaction the Republican Senate majority leader calls disappointing and embarrassing.
  The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Friday that Trump will attend the July 3
  
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• Bankrupt US coal company secures short-term funding

  20-07-2019 20:50
  CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A U.S. judge has approved funding to allow a bankrupt coal company to maintain basic operations for a few days.
  U.S. District Judge Frank Volk in West Virginia approved $2.9 million in debtor-in-possession financing Friday from two lenders to Milton, West Virginia-based Blackjewel LLC.
  The money in part will allow Blackjewel to pay about 140 employees who remain at work in West Virginia, Wyoming and elsewhere.
  The Casper Star-Tribune reports the move will give the compa
  
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• Clanton, Suwannapura win LPGA Tour team event

  20-07-2019 20:48
  MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) — Cydney Clanton and Jasmine Suwannapura ran away with the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational on Saturday, shooting an 11-under 59 in best-ball play for a six-stroke victory.
  Clanton and Suwannapura took a five-shot lead into the final round after shooting an alternate-shot 63 on Friday at Midland Country Club in the LPGA Tour’s first-year team event.
  Suwannapura won her second tour title, and Clanton her first. They finished at 27-under 253.
  Clanton earned spots th
  
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• Officials: BA suspending flights from London for 2 days

  20-07-2019 20:45
  CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian officials say Cairo’s international airport has been notified by British Airways that the airline is suspending flights to and from London for two days.
  Airport officials say the decision came after British official conducted regular security checks earlier this week at the airport. There were no additional details.
  The officials said all other airlines were operating as usual at the airport. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized
  
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• American crocodiles thriving outside nuclear plant

  20-07-2019 20:40
  MIAMI (AP) — American crocodiles, once headed toward extinction, are thriving at an unusual spot — the canals surrounding a South Florida nuclear plant.
  Last week, 73 crocodile hatchlings were rescued by a team of specialists at Florida Power & Light’s Turkey Point nuclear plant and dozens more are expected to emerge soon.
  Turkey Point’s 168-mile (270 kilometers) of man-made canals serve as the home to several hundred crocodiles, where a team of specialists working fo
  
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• Protest decries plan to detain migrant kids at Oklahoma base

  20-07-2019 20:38
  LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — More than 100 demonstrators are protesting in withering heat outside of an Oklahoma Army base against the Trump administration’s plans to detain migrant children there.
  Japanese Americans and Native Americans are among those taking part in Saturday’s march to Fort Sill and rally in front of one of its entrances. Demonstrators are chanting “Close the camps” and carrying signs with messages including “Human Rights Matter” and “Li
  
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• Israel disperse anti-demolition protesters in West Bank

  20-07-2019 20:38
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces have dispersed several dozen Palestinians protesting the planned demolitions of homes in an east Jerusalem village.
  About 50 Palestinians gathered Saturday at Sur Baher, which straddles Israel’s West Bank separation barrier, in solidarity with owners of homes close to the wall.
  Witnesses say Israeli forces fired tear gas and stun grenades to end the rally.
  Israel says the 10 buildings, located on the West Bank side of the barrier, were erected too clos
  
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• North Macedonia: Migrants hurt after driver jumps from truck

  20-07-2019 20:35
  SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia say 34 Afghan migrants have been injured in a highway accident after the driver of a truck allegedly carrying them north toward Serbia jumped from the running vehicle while trying to escape a police patrol.
  Police said Saturday that three of the passengers and the truck’s 24-year-old Macedonian driver sustained serious injuries.
  They say that after the driver jumped from the truck on the main highway in central North Macedonia,
  
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• Rays put opener Stanek on IL, send McKay to Triple-A

  20-07-2019 20:25
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Rays have placed opener Ryne Stanek on the 10-day injured list with a sore right hip and optioned two-way player Brendan McKay to Triple-A Durham in a series of moves to help a taxed bullpen.
  Reliever Chaz Roe, out since July 9 with a right flexor strain, was reinstated from the 10-day IL on Saturday and right-hander Hunter Wood was recalled from Durham.
  Stanek has made 27 of his 41 appearances as an opener this season
  McKay lasted just 3 1/3 innin
  
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• British Airways suspends Cairo flights for 7 days

  20-07-2019 20:22
  LONDON (AP) — British Airways says it is canceling flights to Cairo for a week for unspecified security reasons.
  The carrier sent The Associated Press a two-sentence statement Saturday calling the cancellations “a precaution to allow for further assessment.”
  A company spokesperson would not say what motivated the suspensions. They come as Britain weighs its response to Iran’s seizure Friday of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz and rising tensions stemmi
  
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• British Airways, Lufthansa suspend Cairo flights

  20-07-2019 20:22
  LONDON (AP) — British Airways and Lufthansa both said Saturday they were suspending flights to Cairo for unspecified reasons related to safety and security.
  The British carrier said it was canceling flights to the Egyptian capital for a week. The German airline said normal operations would resume Sunday.
  Both carriers delivered two-sentence statements via email.
  British Airways attributed its cancellations to what it called its constant review of security arrangements at all airports, call
  
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• Italy: Missile discovered in hangar leads to more weapons

  20-07-2019 20:21
  ROME (AP) — Police say they have found more weapons in northern Italy following the discovery of an air-to-air missile and other arms days earlier.
  Police said Saturday they had searched a second residence of one of the three suspects connected to the original cache.
  A Turin-based anti-terrorism police squad said the latest search yielded a rifle, machete, a tripod for a machine gun, mortars and other weapons and ammunition.
  A framed portrait of Benito Mussolini, the late Italian fascist d
  
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• Monmouth scraps 6 races amid heat; Haskell to run at night

  20-07-2019 20:01
  OCEANPORT, N.J. (AP) — With oppressive heat draining fans and causing concern about the horses, Monmouth Park canceled six races and pushed back its stakes races, including the $1 million Haskell Invitational, until early evening.
  The announcement came after the track delayed the start of Saturday’s first race by almost 40 minutes and then re-evaluated its 14-race card shortly after the second race.
  The National Weather Service said temperatures were expected to hit 95 degrees with h
  
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• The Latest: Pence marks Apollo 11 anniversary at launch site

  20-07-2019 19:50
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing (all times local):
  2 p.m.
  Vice President Mike Pence is marking the 50th anniversary of humanity’s first moon landing at the Apollo 11 launch site.
  Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin accompanied Pence to Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Saturday and showed him the pad where he began that momentous journey 50 years ago. Aldrin later got a standing ovation during a speech by Pence.
  Mission commander
  
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• Barring of Moscow council candidates draws 12,000 to protest

  20-07-2019 19:42
  MOSCOW (AP) — About 12,000 people have turned out to protest the Moscow election commission’s decision to reject several opposition figures as candidates in the Russian capital’s city council election.
  The commission last week rejected signatures the candidates gathered to get on the fall ballot.
  Demonstrator Maria Semyonova said at Saturday’s rally: “They are making North Korea of our country, depriving us of freedom and rights.”
  Alexi Navalny, Russia’s
  
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• Iran’s poking at West heightens risks of military missteps

  20-07-2019 19:37
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran doesn’t seem to want to tangle with a stronger U.S. military. Instead, Iran is poking and prodding its Western antagonists in ways apparently designed to avoid triggering war.
  Still, that approach holds the prospect of heightening the risk of missteps that could lead to an armed conflict with global consequences.
  The pace of provocation has picked up with Iran reporting it’s seized a British-flagged oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. That came after the U.S.
  
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• Progress reported as crews work to keep fire from growing

  20-07-2019 19:35
  PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — More firefighters are being assigned to a wildfire in the Prescott National Forest and progress is reported in efforts to keep it spreading, with fire managers on Saturday saying crews have cleared containment lines around 18 percent of the fire’s perimeter.
  The fire has burned nearly 12 square miles (30 square kilometers) of grass, brush and trees since lightning started it July 14 about 16 miles (26 kilometers) south of Prescott.
  The number of firefighters an
  
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• Suspect in shooting of Turkish diplomat arrested

  20-07-2019 19:32
  IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Kurdish security officials say they have arrested the lead suspect in the shooting of a Turkish diplomat in Iraq’s semi-autonomous region.
  The Kurdistan Region Security Council published a picture of the suspect Saturday, saying he was arrested by security and counterterrorism units following a large-scale operation. Kurdish security had identified him as a 27-year-old who hails from Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir.
  A gunman opened fire in a
  
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• Mueller’s testimony poses risk for Trump, but also Democrats

  20-07-2019 19:23
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Mueller’s testimony before Congress will depend not so much on what he says, but that he’s even saying it at all.
  The special counsel’s appearance Wednesday creates a moment many have waited for: Mueller finally speaking out, piercing the public consciousness about President Donald Trump’s response to the Russia investigation and whether anything should be done about it.
  The political stakes are high for the president, but also for congressi
  
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• Taste of the Tour: A festival of lard at high altitude

  20-07-2019 19:16
  LA MONGIE, France (AP) — It’s one of the unwritten rules of the Tour de France. When the riders go uphill, cholesterol levels do, too.
  Up in the Pyrenees where crops can’t grow, meats replace them on the menu: Sausages, cured ham from the southwestern Bigorre region, duck breast, pork pate, duckling filet …
  Starving lard-guzzlers following the race were greeted with this festival of fat at the La Mongie ski resort station lying below the Col du Tourmalet, where Thibaut P
  
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• Ex-Denver coach Mike Shanahan takes in Broncos practice

  20-07-2019 19:14
  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Mike Shanahan attended a Denver Broncos practice for the first time since he was fired as coach on New Year’s Eve 2008.
  Shanahan was a guest Saturday of new head coach Vic Fangio. He also is friends with new offensive coordinator Rich Scangarello, who worked for Shanahan’s son, Kyle, in San Francisco.
  Mike Shanahan spent 14 seasons in charge of the Broncos, guiding them to two Super Bowl titles in the late 1990s with John Elway at quarterback. His 146 wi
  
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• Russian, US astronauts blast off on moon landing anniversary

  20-07-2019 19:01
  BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — A Russian space capsule with three astronauts aboard has blasted off for a fast-track trip to the International Space Station.
  Saturday’s took place on the 50th anniversary of the day U.S. astronauts landed on the moon.
  The capsule entered orbit nine minutes after liftoff from Russia’s launch complex in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
  It is carrying Andrew Morgan of the United States on his first spaceflight, Russian Alexander Skvortsov on his third mission to
  
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• Salvation Army closes shelter in Yuma due to fewer migrants

  20-07-2019 18:55
  YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — A drop in the number of Central American migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in the Yuma area has prompted the Salvation Army to use hotel rooms instead of operating a shelter.
  Capt. Jeff Breazeale told the Yuma Sun that the Salvation Army continues to provide services but is saving on the expense of operating the shelter in a former thrift store in a strip mall.
  The shelter opened in March as the number of families crossing the border soared to more than 300 people
  
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• Glacier officials teed off over tourists’ golf break

  20-07-2019 18:31
  MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Glacier National Park officials are teed off over a report that tourists were hitting golf balls off Going-to-the-Sun Road during a traffic delay. NBC Montana posted a video Thursday taken by a tourist during a road construction delay that shows two men teeing off with golf clubs on the side of the steep mountain road.
  On Friday, Glacier spokeswoman Lauren Alley told the Missoulian the incident is under investigation.
  She says throwing or hurling things over Going-to
  
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• Hurricanes, Brock McGinn agree on 2-year, $4.2 million deal

  20-07-2019 17:50
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes have agreed to a two-year, $4.2 million contract with Brock McGinn and avoided arbitration.
  In the deal announced Saturday, the 25-year-old forward will earn $1.9 million next year and $2.3 million for the 2020-21 season. Team president and general manager Don Waddell says the team is “relieved to have this settled.”
  McGinn had 10 goals and 16 assists last year in the regular season, then two goals and four assists during Carolina&rs
  
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• Hot weather intensifying hold on much of East, Central US

  20-07-2019 17:39
  NEW YORK (AP) — The heat is on.
  The National Weather Service is warning a large swath of the U.S. of hot weather this weekend, including dangerously high temperatures across the East and Midwest that can threaten the elderly and young children.
  Temperatures in the mid- to upper 90s and high humidity are expected in many places Saturday and Sunday. Experts are urging people to limit their time outside and drink lots of water.
  Cities in Vermont and New Hampshire are opening shelters where pe
  
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• Pogopalooza bounces into Pittsburgh for pogo competition

  20-07-2019 17:33
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pogopalooza, known as the World Championships of Pogo, is bouncing into Pittsburgh this weekend.
  Extreme pogo stick athletes from around the world are coming to town to show off their huge tricks and flips to compete for world titles in such categories as High Jump and Best Trick.
  The events on Saturday and Sunday aren’t just for the grown-ups. Pogo-users under the age of 15 can enter a “bounce off” competition and those who bounce the longest get a free
  
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• Famed architect Cesar Pelli dies at 92

  20-07-2019 17:30
  NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Famed Argentine-American architect Cesar Pelli, known for designing some of the world’s tallest and most iconic buildings, has died. He was 92.
  Anibal Bellomio, a senior associate architect at Pelli’s Connecticut studio, confirmed Saturday that Pelli died peacefully on Friday at his home in New Haven. Pelli was the former dean of the Yale University School of Architecture and a lecturer at the school, where he received an honorary Doctor of Arts degree.
  
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• At Tour, struggling champ Thomas no longer touching the sky

  20-07-2019 17:24
  LA MONGIE, France (AP) — When the team of Geraint Thomas was in its pomp at the Tour de France, a time trial followed by a big mountain stage would have been playgrounds for Sky — now in new colors as Ineos — to take cycling’s greatest race by the scruff of the neck and leave everyone else fighting for second place.
  Not this year.
  Thomas, the defending champion, cracked on Saturday on the Tour’s first encounter with a climb to above 2,000 meters (6,500 feet), exposi
  
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• Alaphilippe still in yellow after first big Tour climb

  20-07-2019 17:24
  LA MONGIE, France (AP) — When the team of Geraint Thomas was in its pomp at the Tour de France, a time trial followed by a big mountain stage would have been playgrounds for Sky — now in new colors as Ineos — to take cycling’s greatest race by the scruff of the neck and leave everyone else fighting for second place.
  Not this year.
  Thomas, the defending champion, cracked on Saturday on the Tour’s first encounter with a climb to above 2,000 meters (6,500 feet), exposi
  
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• Hot Chicago weekend off to violent start, with 19 shot

  20-07-2019 17:15
  CHICAGO (AP) — A hot weekend in Chicago has gotten off to a violent start, with more than a dozen people wounded and two killed in shootings throughout the city.
  WBBM-TV reports that 19 people were shot overnight, including six people who were wounded in a 3:30 a.m. shootout between two groups outside the Theater on the Lake in Lincoln Park, on the city’s North Side.
  Police say one group was leaving the lakefront and another was arriving when an argument started. Shots were fired by
  
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