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• Orioles GM Elias fires 11 scouts, front-office workers

  23-08-2019 23:55
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Orioles general manager Mike Elias has fired 11 members of the scouting department and front office as part of an effort to turn around a team in the early stages of a major rebuild.
  Elias announced the personnel moves Friday. The rookie GM would not reveal the names of those people dismissed, nor the positions impacted.
  “We’re in a period of change right now with the industry and we’re in a period of change right now with the Orioles,” Elias said.
  
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• Work on more border wall starts in Arizona, New Mexico

  23-08-2019 23:45
  SANTA TERESA, N.M. (AP) — Work crews in Arizona and New Mexico are forging ahead with construction of taller border fencing being funded through a national emergency declaration by President Donald Trump.
  His hallmark campaign promise is taking shape along a 46-mile stretch of desert west of Santa Teresa, New Mexico, and on 2 miles of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona.
  At the New Mexico site Friday, about 20 workers placed rebar frames for concrete footers along the path of th
  
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• Sánchez pitches into 9th, slugging Nats roll past Cubs 9-3

  23-08-2019 23:42
  CHICAGO (AP) — Aníbal Sánchez pitched one-hit ball into the ninth inning and helped himself with two perfectly placed bunts, leading the Washington Nationals to a 9-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Friday.
  Washington had a short turnaround with an afternoon start after its 7-1 victory at Pittsburgh on Thursday night. The Nationals didn’t arrive in Chicago until early Friday morning, but their loaded lineup looked as if it got more than enough rest.
  Juan Soto and Adam
  
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• IMF dispatches technical staff team to Argentina

  23-08-2019 23:38
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is sending a technical team to Argentina on Saturday to discuss the policy plans of President Mauricio Macri’s administration.
  The IMF said Friday that the team headed by Roberto Cardarelli will also meet with the economic advisers of the main candidates in the October presidential election.
  Argentina’s stocks and currency have lost value since center-left presidential candidate Alberto Fernández and his unrelated running
  
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• French runner-up Vondrousova out of US Open with bad wrist

  23-08-2019 23:35
  NEW YORK (AP) — French Open runner-up Marketa Vondrousova has pulled out of the U.S. Open because of an injured left wrist.
  The 20-year-old lefty from the Czech Republic hasn’t played a match on tour since bowing out of Wimbledon in the first round in July.
  Vondrousova had been seeded No. 17 in the women’s draw at Flushing Meadows, where play begins Monday.
  The U.S. Tennis Association announced Vondrousova’s withdrawal Friday and said Zhang Shuai — the next player e
  
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• Minneapolis City Council OKs settlement in police shooting

  23-08-2019 23:29
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis City Council has approved a $200,000 settlement for the family of a black man who was killed by police in 2015.
  Jamar Clark’s death during a struggle with two white officers led to weeks of protests outside a nearby police station. Prosecutors declined to seek criminal charges and the department did not discipline the officers.
  The council previously rejected an unspecified five-figure settlement because it was too low. That vote came the same day t
  
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• Victims of fatal crash on northwest side identified

  23-08-2019 23:20
  TUCSON – The two people killed in Wednesday’s serious vehicle collision on the northwest side have been identified, Oro Valley Police Department announced Friday afternoon.
  According to OVPD, Richard and Marjory Brown, both 85 years old were involved in a crash Wednesday while they were traveling east on Tangerine Road approaching La Canada. OVPD said they were reportedly struck by a 19-year-old driver who was making a u-turn at the intersection. Authorities say the impact of the cra
  
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• Alaska salmon deaths blamed on record warm temperatures

  23-08-2019 23:18
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska fisheries officials say widespread salmon deaths this summer are tied to river water heated by record high temperatures.
  Adult salmon that died before they could spawn have been seen in major rivers that empty into the Bering Sea.
  The state this week restricted fishing in two tributaries of the Susitna (soo-SIT-nah) river because of low river levels or warm water.
  Sam Rabung is the state’s director of commercial fisheries. He says fish kills tied warm
  
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• Trump announces new retaliatory tariffs against China, bumping up taxes by 5 percentage points

  23-08-2019 23:11
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump announces new retaliatory tariffs against China, bumping up taxes by 5 percentage points.
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• Fitch Ratings downgrades Lebanon, S&P affirms credit ratings

  23-08-2019 23:08
  BEIRUT (AP) — Fitch Ratings has downgraded Lebanon’s long-term foreign currency issuer default rating to CCC from B-.
  The international rating agency’s downgrade of Lebanon is another blow to the struggling economy of the small Arab country that is suffering from one of the world’s highest debt ratios, high unemployment and little growth.
  Fitch’s rating change Friday came minutes before Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings affirmed its long- and short-term for
  
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• US to open Greenland consulate amid increased interest

  23-08-2019 23:06
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is planning to open a U.S. consulate in Greenland for the first time in decades amid increased strategic and economic interest in the Danish territory.
  The State Department says in a letter to Congress that reestablishing a consulate in Greenland is part of a broader plan to increase the U.S. presence in the Arctic.
  A copy of the letter was obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
  President Donald Trump sparked a diplomatic dispute with U.S. ally
  
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• Villa beats Everton 2-0 for first win in EPL

  23-08-2019 23:05
  BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — Aston Villa earned its first win since promotion back to the English Premier League by beating Everton 2-0 thanks to a first-half goal by offseason signing Wesley Moraes and a late strike by substitute Anwar El Ghazi on Friday.
  Wesley, a Brazilian striker who joined from Belgian side Club Brugge, timed his run perfectly to latch onto a pass from Jota and finish low into the far corner in the 21st minute.
  It was the first goal Everton has conceded this season &mda
  
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• As Gannett, GateHouse merge, newspaper cost-cutting persists

  23-08-2019 23:02
  NEW YORK (AP) — Just a week after announcing its $1.4 billion acquisition of Gannett, GateHouse Media was again laying off journalists and other workers at its newspapers. These cuts may foreshadow what awaits employees of what will become the largest U.S. newspaper company.
  GateHouse and Gannett say the merger will accelerate its newspapers’ move to digital while paying down huge sums GateHouse borrowed in order to fund the acquisition. But it’s unclear exactly how it will mak
  
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• Couple says hospital misplaced remains of miscarried baby

  23-08-2019 22:59
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A couple says a suburban Philadelphia hospital misplaced the remains of their miscarried baby.
  Tiffany Griffin and Chad Greaves filed a lawsuit Thursday claiming Bryn Mawr Hospital mistakenly gave a funeral home Griffin’s placenta to cremate instead of the baby’s remains.
  Seventeen days later, the remains were found, having been misplaced like “a set of keys or item of clothing,” the lawsuit alleges.
  The couple is seeking damages of more than $50
  
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• Chinese embassy says the US is trying to suppress Huawei

  23-08-2019 22:59
  TORONTO (AP) — China’s embassy in Canada says the U.S. is trying to suppress a Chinese tech giant with unwarranted charges in what it calls “typical bullying behavior.”
  A spokesman for the embassy said Friday in a statement to The Associated Press the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Canada is “of course different” from the detentions of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor in China. He said the U.S. and Canada are guilty of arbitrary detentio
  
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• PACC Takes in Over 50 Animals in Hoarding Case

  23-08-2019 22:53
  The Pima Animal Care Control Center took in 57 cats and one dog late Thursday night during a response to a hoarding case at a home near East Valencia and South Houghton Roads.…
  
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• Texas gun rights lobby pushing back on calls for new laws

  23-08-2019 22:47
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ muscular gun-rights lobby is swiftly pushing back after Gov. Greg Abbott raised the possibility of tighter firearms laws after a gunman killed 22 people at an El Paso Walmart.
  The resistance could test the relationship between gun-rights groups, Abbott and the state’s Republican leadership, which eased gun restrictions after previous mass shootings in 2017 and 2018.
  Gun rights activists say they’ll resist calls to tighten gun laws and they were
  
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• Deputies: Would-be robber high-fives clerk, leaves knife

  23-08-2019 22:47
  LANCASTER, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a would-be robber laughed, dropped his knife and high-fived a South Carolina drugstore employee after she told him they didn’t have any money or a specific brand of painkillers.
  Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Doug Barfield said 63-year-old Gary Broome was arrested shortly after leaving the CVS on Thursday. He was charged with armed robbery.
  Barfield says Broome had a kitchen knife when he demanded that a pharmacy technician gi
  
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• International traveler with measles visited Disneyland

  23-08-2019 22:42
  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Health authorities say a teenage girl traveling from New Zealand to Southern California this month was infectious with highly contagious measles and may have exposed others at Disneyland and a nearby hotel.
  The Orange County Health Care Agency says Friday the exposures could have occurred Aug. 11 at the Desert Palms Hotel in Anaheim and on Aug. 12 at Disneyland and the California Adventure park. She remained in Southern California through Aug. 15.
  The agency says i
  
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• Oklahoma fugitives accused of child abuse found in Missouri

  23-08-2019 22:40
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police and U.S. marshals have found and taken into custody two people wanted on child abuse and other charges after authorities in Oklahoma last month found one of their children dead and three others in critical condition.
  Police said on Twitter Friday that twenty-seven-year-old Hakim Mustafa Moore and twenty-nine-year-old Robin Alexander were located and a three-month-old child was located unharmed.
  The couple’s last known address was in Altus, Oklahoma,
  
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• Sancho helps Dortmund come from behind to beat Cologne 3-1

  23-08-2019 22:39
  BERLIN (AP) — Jadon Sancho scored one and set up another for Borussia Dortmund to again come from behind and maintain its winning start to the Bundesliga in a 3-1 win at Cologne on Friday.
  Dortmund also had to come from a goal down to beat Augsburg 5-1 in its opening game last weekend.
  The 19-year-old Sancho became the youngest to ever clock 15 goals in the league when he cancelled out Dominick Drexler’s 29th-minute opener for Cologne in the 70th, then set up Paco Alcacer to seal the
  
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• Man accused of killing 2 found competent to stand trial

  23-08-2019 22:38
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A man accused of killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and a Florida police officer has been found competent to stand trial.
  The Orlando Sentinel reports Circuit Judge Leticia Marques ruled Friday that 43-year-old Markeith Loyd’s murder cases could move forward, one week after his attorneys requested an evaluation. Loyd could face the death sentence if convicted of first-degree murder.
  Authorities say Loyd killed Sade Dixon in December 2016, and then gunned down Orl
  
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• ‘The Bachelor’ star gets suspended sentence in fatal crash

  23-08-2019 22:32
  INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (AP) — A farmer who appeared on ABC’s “The Bachelor” has accepted a suspended two-year prison sentence for his role in a 2017 Iowa crash that killed another man.
  Court records show that Chris Soules entered written consent documents on Friday agreeing to the suspended sentence and supervised release. He also agreed to pay a $625 fine. A judge must still sign off on the sentencing. Soules had been set to appear for sentencing on Tuesday. In light of the
  
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• Sevilla beats Granada 1-0 for 2nd win to start La Liga

  23-08-2019 22:23
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Midfielder Joan Jordán scored in the second half to help Sevilla beat Granada 1-0 on the road and win its second match in as many rounds in the Spanish league on Friday.
  Jordán, one of several summer signings by Sevilla, finished off a shot by Luuk de Jong that was blocked by a sliding defender after Jordán set up his striker in the 52nd minute.
  Granada, promoted this season, succeeded through its pressure to disarm Sevilla’s attack in the
  
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• NTSB releases preliminary report on Earnhardt plane crash

  23-08-2019 22:20
  ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board says part of the landing gear collapsed and a section of the right wing hit the runway as the plane carrying Dale Earnhardt Jr. touched down a third time during its crash in East Tennessee last week.
  The NTSB released a preliminary report Friday essentially repeating the description investigators offered at a news conference last week.
  Earnhardt, a NASCAR television analyst and retired driver, was with wife Amy, 15-month-o
  
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• No. 13 Washington names Jacob Eason starting quarterback

  23-08-2019 22:15
  SEATTLE (AP) — No. 13 Washington has named Georgia transfer Jacob Eason its starting quarterback for the season opener against Eastern Washington.
  Eason was expected to land the starting job after transferring to the Huskies but was in an extended competition with sophomore Jake Haener throughout spring practice and into fall camp. Coach Chris Petersen said Haener will also play in the opener.
  Eason started as a freshman at Georgia, playing in 13 games and throwing for 2,430 yards and 16 t
  
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• The Latest: CDC: Nearly 200 in 22 states sick after vaping

  23-08-2019 22:14
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on a possible vaping-related illnesses around the U.S. (all times local):
  3:15 p.m.
  Health officials say the number of the number of severe breathing illnesses reported in people who vape has grown to nearly 200 in 22 states.
  Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the new figures Friday and confirmed that an adult in Illinois is being counted as the first death in the investigation.
  An Illinois official said the death was reported t
  
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• News 4 Tucson Cooks: Camarones a los dos Tipos

  23-08-2019 22:14
  Culiche Sauce:
  Roast 4 Pobalno beppers in olive oil 20 min.
  Peel away the skin of the chile & dice.
  3 tbsp of shrimp consume added to the diced Chile with 3 cups heavy cream in slow amounts.
  Food Processor until liquified with the consistency of a gravy.
  10 servings
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• Manitoba premier on NFL game: ‘a lot of disappointment’

  23-08-2019 22:13
  WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — The premier of Manitoba says there’s a “lot of disappointment” from the Packers-Raiders exhibition game that was played on an 80-yard field because of safety concerns.
  Brian Pallister acknowledged during a campaign stop Friday that it “didn’t work out the way they wanted.” But he added that “organizers tried to do something that hadn’t been done before, so let’s give them respect and credit for trying.”
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• Man charged in campus slaying of California co-worker

  23-08-2019 22:13
  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man has been charged with murder in the stabbing of his co-worker on a college campus.
  The Orange County District Attorney’s office on Friday charged 51-year-old Chuyen Vo of Huntington Beach with one count of murder with enhancements for use of a knife and lying in wait.
  Authorities say Vo stabbed 57-year-old Steven Chan in a parking lot on Monday at California State University, Fullerton. Chan retired from an administrative job at the
  
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• Navajo Nation settles lawsuit against Wells Fargo for $6.5M

  23-08-2019 22:11
  WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation has settled claims against Wells Fargo accusing the company of predatory and unlawful practices.
  The tribe says Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $6.5 million, ending cases in federal and tribal court.
  The tribe had accused bank employees of routinely misleading customers into opening unnecessary accounts and pushing elders into buying products to meet quotas.
  The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the case this week.
  Wells Fargo has five b
  
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• Charges dropped after officer says wrong person was arrested

  23-08-2019 22:11
  PHOENIX (AP) — All charges have been dropped against a public defender after a Phoenix police officer testified that he arrested that wrong person during an immigration protest.
  The Arizona Republic reports Jamaar Williams was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault on two police officers, unlawful assembly and blocking a thoroughfare during a mid-July protest of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement roundups in Phoenix.
  Officer Francisco Barrios wrote in his police report that Will
  
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• Hearing ordered as miners protest by blocking coal trains

  23-08-2019 22:07
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A judge has ordered an evidentiary hearing within two weeks on a protest involving coal miners who have blocked trains transporting coal.
  News outlets report lawyers for Blackjewel LLC and the U.S. Labor Department were in court Friday in Charleston.
  Miners have camped out on train tracks and blocked coal trains in Harlan County, Kentucky since last month and say Blackjewel owes workers weeks of pay. Blackjewel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection July 1 .
  Th
  
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• PACC takes in 58 pets from hoarding case

  23-08-2019 22:06
  TUCSON – Pima Animal Care Center took in 57 cats and a dog involved in a hoarding case, the shelter said Friday.
  According to the shelter, officers called PACC late Thursday night to assist with the removal of dozens of cats in a home near Valencia and Houghton roads.
  Tucson Police Department is investigating the incident.
  PACC says “the conditions inside the home were poor, with animal waste and trash all over the floor. Litterboxes were full of waste. There was no visible water lef
  
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• Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 620 points as escalation of US-China trade dispute rattles investors

  23-08-2019 22:05
  NEW YORK (AP) — Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 620 points as escalation of US-China trade dispute rattles investors.
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• DOJ making changes to agency that runs immigration courts

  23-08-2019 22:01
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is making changes to the agency that runs the country’s immigration courts and giving its director authority to weigh in and make appellate rulings.
  The interim rule announced Friday by the Justice Department faced immediate criticism by the immigration judges’ union and immigration lawyers’ association, who say the Trump administration is trying to exert political sway over immigration court decisions.
  The rule gives the director of
  
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• 3 young Michigan boys convicted of raping brothers ages 6, 8

  23-08-2019 21:59
  BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) — Three boys who were 11, 12 and 13 at the time they were charged have been convicted of raping two young brothers, ages 6 and 8.
  The Battle Creek Enquirer reports a jury of four men and two women found two of the older boys guilty late Thursday of three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and the other guilty of two counts. They will be sentenced in the juvenile delinquency case on Oct. 23 following a pre-sentence investigation including psychological e
  
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• Judge says she can’t order new trial for convicted murderer

  23-08-2019 21:58
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri judge has ruled that she doesn’t have the authority to grant a new trial for a man serving a life sentence for a murder he and others contend he didn’t commit.
  The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Circuit Judge Elizabeth Hogan’s ruling on Friday means 45-year-old Lamar Johnson will remain in prison for the 1994 murder of 25-year-old Marcus Boyd.
  St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner and the Midwest Innocence Project are seeking a new trial
  
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• The Latest: Woman in Capital One case to stay in custody

  23-08-2019 21:56
  SEATTLE (AP) — The Latest on a hearing involving a data breach at Capital One (all times local):
  1 p.m.
  A U.S. judge says a woman accused of hacking Capital One and at least 30 other organizations is a flight risk and a threat and must stay in custody.
  At a hearing Friday in Seattle, U.S. Magistrate Judge Michelle Peterson said the “bizarre and erratic” behavior of Paige Thompson makes her a threat to herself and others.
  The judge also says Thompson has no stable employment, re
  
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• XOXO: Where to rock this weekend, Aug. 23 - 25

  23-08-2019 21:50
  Friday, Aug. 23"People Are People."…
  
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• Lawyer calls ex-Peruvian president’s US detention ‘inhumane’

  23-08-2019 21:49
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo has been kept in solitary confinement and only allowed to go outdoors once in the month he has been in U.S. custody while fighting extradition to his native country.
  That’s according to Toledo’s federal defense attorney, who argued in court papers filed this month that Toledo should be released on bail because of “inhumane” conditions at a Northern California federal detention facility.
  Toledo is wanted
  
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• Former NBA, ABA coach Tom Nissalke dead at 87

  23-08-2019 21:49
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Tom Nissalke, who won coach of the year honors in the NBA and ABA, has died. He was 87.
  Nissalke passed away at his home in Salt Lake City on Thursday after facing a “series of health-related problems” in recent years, according to the Deseret News .
  He was the first coach of the Utah Jazz after the franchise relocated from New Orleans in 1979. Nissalke was also an NBA head coach in Seattle, Houston and Cleveland.
  Nissalke got his start in the pro ranks as
  
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• The Latest: Houston police chief supports drug raid charges

  23-08-2019 21:45
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on the ongoing investigation into a deadly Houston drug raid that killed a couple and injured several officers (all times local):
  6:30 p.m.
  Houston’s police chief says the arrest of two officers for their roles in a deadly January drug raid that killed a couple shows his agency can hold its own accountable if they do something wrong.
  Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said Friday he doesn’t believe the actions of ex-officers Gerald Goines and Steven Brya
  
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• The Latest: Family of woman killed in raid welcomes charges

  23-08-2019 21:45
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on the ongoing investigation into a deadly Houston drug raid that killed a couple and injured several officers (all times local):
  5:35 p.m.
  Attorneys for the family of a woman who along with her husband were killed in January drug raid by Houston police say charges against two ex-officers involved in the raid are “only the beginning of the pursuit of justice” for the couple.
  Killed in the raid were 58-year-old Rhogena Nicholas and 59-year-old Dennis Tu
  
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• The Latest: Ex-Houston officer charged with murder over raid

  23-08-2019 21:45
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on the ongoing investigation into a deadly Houston drug raid that killed a couple and injured several officers (all times local):
  2:30 p.m.
  Prosecutors have charged a former Houston police officer with felony murder in connection with a deadly January drug raid that killed a couple and injured several officers.
  The Harris County District Attorney’s Office announced the charges against former officer Gerald Goines on Friday. Another former officer was charged
  
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• The Latest: Fed vice chairman made no time for Trump tweet

  23-08-2019 21:40
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming (all times local):
  5:15 p.m.
  Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Richard Clarida says he was too busy at the central bankers’ conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to read President Donald Trump’s tweets, including the one in which Trump says he can’t decide “who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi,” referring to China’s President Xi Jinping.
  Clarida says the Fe
  
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• The Latest: Economist laments Trump’s calling Powell ‘enemy’

  23-08-2019 21:40
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming (all times local):
  3:20 p.m.
  David Jones, a leading historian of the Federal Reserve, says he thinks President Donald Trump’s reference Friday to Fed Chairman Jerome Powell as an “enemy” set an unfortunate precedent.
  “This challenges something that has been sacred in the history of the world’s most successful central bank,” said Jones, an economist an author of four
  
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• UN expert: No peace in Myanmar if no military prosecutions

  23-08-2019 21:29
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A member of the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar says there will be no long-term peace in the country and no return of Rohingya refugees unless there is accountability for the “brutality” of Myanmar’s military forces.
  Radhika Coomaraswamy is a Sri Lankan lawyer who is one of the mission’s three international experts. She told an informal Security Council meeting on accountability in Myanmar Friday that the commissi
  
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• Trump raises tariffs on Chinese goods as trade war escalates

  23-08-2019 21:27
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Escalating his trade war with China, President Donald Trump bumped up his tariffs on Chinese imports Friday, lashing back after Beijing raised taxes on U.S. products.
  In a tweet, Trump said he would be raising planned tariffs on $300 billion in Chinese goods from 10% to 15%. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative also said existing tariffs on another $250 billion in Chinese imports would go from 25% to 30% Oct. 1 after receiving feedback from the public.
  The move cam
  
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• Markets tumble on growing tariffs rift between US, China

  23-08-2019 21:27
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump declared Friday that he had “hereby ordered” American companies “to immediately start looking” for alternatives to operating in China, hours after Beijing announced new trade sanctions on U.S. products.
  But as markets in the U.S., Asia and Europe tumbled, the White House offered no further details or explanation of Trump’s intentions.
  Instead, the president tweeted that he would be “responding to China’s Tar
  
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