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• Deutsche Bank has tax returns sought in Congressional probe

  27-08-2019 23:59
  NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s longtime bank says it has tax records Congress is seeking in its investigation of the president’s finances.
  Deutsche Bank revealed in court papers Tuesday that it has tax returns responsive to a subpoena sent this year in which Congress asked the bank for a host of documents related to Trump and his family.
  Trump has sued to block two House committees from getting the records.
  A federal appeals court had ordered Deutsche Bank to say whet
  
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• Former UA star resigns as IUPUI coach amid OWI investigation

  27-08-2019 23:57
  FISHERS, Ind. (WTHR) — Eyewitness News has learned that the IUPUI men’s basketball coach has resigned after his arrest early Monday morning for operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
  Jason Gardner was pulled over by Fishers Police and spent the night in the Hamilton County Jail.
  WTHR Staff
  Eyewitness News reached out to IUPUI for a statement on Gardner:
  “As of today, IUPUI and Coach Gardner have mutually agreed to part ways. Assistant Head Coach Byron Rimm II has been named int
  
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• Hockey’s ultimate journeyman goalie calls it a career

  27-08-2019 23:54
  Journeyman goaltender Mike McKenna has announced his retirement after a career that included stints with 15 NHL organizations and 22 professional teams.
  McKenna announced his decision on Twitter on Tuesday, roughly two weeks until the start of training camps. The 36-year-old had been open to playing another season but wanted to be rooted in one place because his oldest daughter is now in school.
  Since being a sixth-round pick of the Nashville Predators in 2002, McKenna played in the NCAA, ECHL,
  
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• Gardner resigns as IUPUI coach after drunken driving arrest

  27-08-2019 23:53
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — IUPUI men’s basketball coach Jason Gardner has resigned following his arrest on drunken driving charges in suburban Hamilton County.
  IUPUI spokesman Ed Holdaway says it was a mutual decision between Gardner and the university Tuesday.
  Gardner was lodged in the Hamilton County Jail over the weekend and released early Tuesday on his own recognizance. He arrested early Sunday by the Fishers Police Department after being found asleep behind the wheel at an intersectio
  
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• Oregon won’t use federal funds for family planning clinics

  27-08-2019 23:52
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s health care agency says it will no longer use federal dollars to fund family planning clinics because of new Trump administration rules that impose additional hurdles for women seeking abortion.
  Patrick Allen, director of the Oregon Health Authority, said Tuesday that banning taxpayer-funded clinics from making abortion referrals would cause Oregon to violate its own state laws on abortion access.
  The new federal rules also prohibit clinics that receive
  
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• As opioid settlements grow, so do questions about the money

  27-08-2019 23:50
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s legal fight against the opioid industry has racked up settlements and judgments of nearly $1 billion.
  As the numbers keep rising, so do concerns over how that money will be spent.
  Experts say the $572 million judgment issued Monday against consumer products giant Johnson & Johnson could pay for a year’s worth of statewide drug-treatment efforts. But the company has already announced plans to appeal, which could tie up the money for years. Mea
  
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• Trump to rally for GOP candidate before NC vote

  27-08-2019 23:46
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will be traveling to Fayetteville, North Carolina, for a campaign rally on Sept. 9, one day before a special election to fill a congressional seat that has been vacant all year.
  Trump will campaign for the Republican candidate in the race, state Sen. Dan Bishop of Charlotte. Democrat Dan McCready and two others are also running.
  Michael Glassner, chief operating officer for Trump’s presidential campaign, said the president will talk about &ldq
  
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• Leslie Jones exiting ‘SNL,’ Kate McKinnon back next season

  27-08-2019 23:46
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Saturday Night Live” cast member Leslie Jones is leaving the NBC show after five seasons, while Kate McKinnon is sticking around.
  Jones’ departure was confirmed by a person familiar with the change who spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss Jones’ status with the long-running sketch series.
  The departure comes as Jones is branching out into other projects.
  The person also said McKinnon will re
  
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• Bail set for son of ex-NFL player accused of killing parents

  27-08-2019 23:46
  LONG PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — A judge has set bail at $3 million for the son of a former NFL lineman accused of killing his parents in Minnesota.
  Twenty-two-year-old Dylan John Bennett appeared in court Tuesday on two counts of second-degree murder. Bennett was extradited from Mexico after being arrested at a hotel in Cancun Saturday.
  Bennett’s public defender did not return a request for comment.
  Barry and Carol Bennett, both 63, were found fatally shot last Wednesday at their home in
  
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• VA investigating patient deaths at West Virginia hospital

  27-08-2019 23:43
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs says it’s investigating allegations of “potential wrongdoing” resulting in multiple patient deaths at a VA hospital in West Virginia.
  VA Inspector General Michael J. Missal said in a statement Tuesday that his office has been looking with federal law enforcement into allegations at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg. He didn’t elaborate.
  The Exponent Telegram reported an attorney for
  
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• Teen told uncle ‘please don’t hurt us’ before Texas shooting

  27-08-2019 23:39
  HOUSTON (AP) — A young woman says she begged her uncle “please don’t hurt us” before he fatally shot her parents and four siblings and shot her in the head in their suburban Houston home.
  Cassidy Stay testified Tuesday at the capital murder trial of Ronald Lee Haskell, who is accused in the July 2014 attack. Stay, who was 15 at the time, survived by playing dead. Haskell had been married to one of Stay’s aunts. Prosecutors allege Haskell wanted to hurt his ex-wife&r
  
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• TV viewership down, social media up for VMSs

  27-08-2019 23:35
  NEW YORK (AP) — If Taylor Swift, Missy Elliott and a 1990s rap reunion couldn’t halt the shrinkage of MTV’s television audience for its Video Music Awards, perhaps nothing can.
  Monday’s show was seen by 4.9 million viewers across 12 different Viacom-owned networks. The Nielsen company says that’s down from last year’s audience of 5.2 million. The annual event has been slipping steadily in television viewers since reaching 10.3 million people in 2014.
  But MTV s
  
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• Frontier Airlines to offer discount service from Newark

  27-08-2019 23:32
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Frontier Airlines will begin offering service at Newark Liberty International Airport this fall, and offering introductory fares as low as $15 on some flights.
  The discount carrier announced Tuesday that it will start offering nonstop routes in mid-November to Las Vegas; Miami; Orlando, Florida; and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  Flights to Phoenix, Atlanta and West Palm Beach, Florida, will begin in December. Frontier said flights to cities including Tampa, Florida; Punta Cana
  
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• Ruling against towns in religious discrimination case upheld

  27-08-2019 23:28
  PHOENIX (AP) — An appeals court has upheld a ruling that concluded two towns on the Arizona-Utah border had discriminated against people who weren’t members of a polygamous sect.
  The ruling Monday by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found there was enough evidence to show Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, had conspired with sect members to advance the objectives of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
  The sect is a radical offshoot of the Church of Jes
  
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• OxyContin maker, government attorneys in settlement talks

  27-08-2019 23:28
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State attorneys general and lawyers representing local governments say they are in active negotiations with Purdue Pharma, maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin, as they attempt to reach a landmark settlement over the nation’s opioid crisis.
  The privately held company has offered to settle for $10 billion to $12 billion, according to an NBC News report Tuesday.
  Purdue has been cast by attorneys and addiction experts as a main villain in the crisis for p
  
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• Judge awards $88 million to slain contractor’s company

  27-08-2019 23:26
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A military contractor whose president was killed in Iraq under mysterious circumstances 15 years ago has won a judgment of more than $88 million against Iraq to reimburse the contractor for funds it never received.
  The judgment issued Tuesday by a federal judge in Washington caps a nine-year legal battle between Pennsylvania-based Wye Oak technology and the Republic of Iraq.
  Wye Oak says its president, Dale Stoffel, was slain in Iraq in December 2004 after complaining his
  
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• Palace, Norwich pay the price for rotation in League Cup

  27-08-2019 23:24
  LONDON (AP) — Premier League teams Crystal Palace and Norwich paid the price for heavily rotating their lineups for the second round of the English League Cup as they were eliminated by fourth-tier opponents on Tuesday.
  Three days after beating Manchester United at Old Trafford, Palace lost 5-4 on penalties to Colchester — a team sitting 85 places down the English soccer pyramid — after a 0-0 draw in 90 minutes.
  Norwich rested its top players like Teemu Pukki, the scorer of fiv
  
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• CCSO deputy struck car on State Route 90

  27-08-2019 23:22
  TUCSON – An investigation is underway after a Cochise County Sheriff’s Department deputy was involved in a crash on State Route 90 Monday evening.
  According to Sierra Vista Police Department, CCSO Deputy Troy Haymore was heading northbound on State Route 90 when he allegedly struck 74-year old Richard Titus.Officials say the CCSO patrol vehicle reportedly rolled over several times before coming to a stop on the side of the highway.
  Haymore who sustained minor injuries in the incident
  
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• US moves FEMA, Coast Guard money to fund border programs

  27-08-2019 23:19
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security is moving $271 million from FEMA, the Coast Guard and other agencies to fund immigration detention beds and support its policy forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico.
  Homeland Security officials say they will transfer $155 million for temporary hearing spaces along the U.S.-Mexico border to help hear asylum cases faster. They will also transfer $116 million to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention bed space, though Congre
  
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• Old rivals Red Star, Dinamo qualify for Champions League

  27-08-2019 23:19
  BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Red Star Belgrade and Dinamo Zagreb advanced to the Champions League group stage after making it through their playoff second-leg games Tuesday.
  The former domestic rivalry between the current champions of Serbia and Croatia — which was curbed in 1991 — could now be renewed in Europe’s top competition.
  Red Star, which won the European Cup in 1991 as the old Yugoslav national league broke up, went through on away goals after a 1-1 draw with visiting
  
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• Excessive Heat Warning issued August 27 at 2:16PM MST until August 31 at 8:00PM MST by NWS Phoenix AZ

  27-08-2019 23:16
  The National Weather Service in Phoenix has issued an ExcessiveHeat Warning, which is in effect from 10 AM Friday to 8 PM MSTSaturday.
  * WHERE…Portions of south central Arizona.
  * IMPACTS…Increase in heat related illnesses, including heatcramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke. Heat stroke can leadto death.
  * THREAT…Very High HeatRisk. Afternoon temperatures 101 to113. Overnight lows in the mid 80s.An Excessive Heat Warning means that a period of very hottemperatures, even
  
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• Excessive Heat Warning issued August 27 at 2:16PM MST until August 28 at 8:00PM MST by NWS Phoenix AZ

  27-08-2019 23:16
  The National Weather Service in Phoenix has issued an ExcessiveHeat Warning, which is in effect from 10 AM Friday to 8 PM MSTSaturday.
  * WHERE…Portions of south central Arizona.
  * IMPACTS…Increase in heat related illnesses, including heatcramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke. Heat stroke can leadto death.
  * THREAT…Very High HeatRisk. Afternoon temperatures 101 to113. Overnight lows in the mid 80s.An Excessive Heat Warning means that a period of very hottemperatures, even
  
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• Mariners’ Broxton gets 2-game ban for throwing equipment

  27-08-2019 23:12
  NEW YORK (AP) — Seattle Mariners right fielder Keon Broxton has been suspended for two games by Major League Baseball for throwing equipment on the field that hit an umpire after striking out looking.
  MLB handed down the suspension and undisclosed fine Tuesday, a day after the 29-year-old Broxton was ejected for the first time in his career.
  Broxton threw his bat down, flipped his helmet off and threw one of his batting gloves behind him after a disputed third strike call in the second inn
  
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• Man tried to break windows to free wife, daughter in pond

  27-08-2019 23:12
  WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Police say an 83-year-old man jumped into a Michigan pond and tried to break car windows to free his wife and daughter who died in the water.
  More details are emerging about the deaths of 81-year-old Mary Syron and 56-year-old Maureen Syron. They drowned last Wednesday in Waterford Township.
  Police say Lloyd Syron mistakenly left the transmission in drive when he went into his daughter’s home to get clothes. The vehicle rolled into the pond. The Detro
  
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• Coroner IDs Indiana toddler who died after being left in car

  27-08-2019 22:54
  BROWNSBURG, Ind. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of an Indiana toddler who died after she was mistakenly left in the car after her family returned home from church. WRTV-TV reports that the Hendricks County coroner identified the 21-month-old girl as Marah Anne Crapo.
  The county sheriff’s office says she died Sunday near Brownsburg, northwest of Indianapolis. Her parents and four siblings took naps after church. Family members mistakenly believed someone had removed the gir
  
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• Investigation underway after alcohol dumped over Islamic Center

  27-08-2019 22:38
  TUCSON – Tucson Police Department is investigating an alcohol-related incident involving the Islamic Center of Tucson (ICT).
  According to Maria Molina, the head of Public Relations for ICT, alcohol was dumped over the center from the Luna Building on Saturday, Aug. 24.
  The Islamic Center of Tucson is located at 901 E. First St. According to Molina’s statement, witnesses say the alcohol was dumped over the center from the 12th floor on the southeast side of the building, adjacent to I
  
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• Couple suspected in Arizona murder escape during extradition

  27-08-2019 22:33
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a couple suspected in a Tucson murder have escaped while being extradited from New York to Arizona.
  Tucson police say 56-year-old Blane Barksdale and 59-year-old Susan Barksdale reportedly overpowered two security officers Monday evening in Blanding, Utah, which is south of Moab.
  Police say the Barksdales were last seen in a pickup truck with an Arizona license plate and they’re possibly driving through Arizona.
  Tucson police say the couple are be
  
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• Survey finds new auto technology can annoy drivers

  27-08-2019 22:32
  DETROIT (AP) — A survey shows that alerts from new driver assist systems are so annoying that some motorists are turning the features off.
  The 2019 J.D. Power Tech Experience study also found that frustrated drivers may avoid the systems in future vehicle purchases.
  J.D. Power says the findings are a major concern for automakers who want to sell the systems and prepare drivers for automated vehicles.
  The survey found that 23% of drivers with systems that keep vehicles in their lanes view t
  
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• The Latest: $2M bond for engineer in self-driving theft case

  27-08-2019 22:31
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on self-driving theft case (all times local):
  3:20 p.m.
  Former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski has been released on a $2 million bond after being charged with stealing self-driving car technology from Google before joining Uber’s effort to build a fleet of robotic vehicles.
  The bond consists of $300,000 of Levandowski’s cash and $1.7 million in property owned by his father, stepmother and a friend.
  Government prosecutors have agreed to tho
  
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• Adopt this Pet: Meet Yoda!

  27-08-2019 22:31
  There is a new pet looking to be adopted, meet Yoda!Yoda is a one-and-a-half-year-old boy. He would do best with a family of adults or a family with older children. You can meet Yoda at the Humane Society of Southern Arizona’s main campus located at 635 W. Roger Rd. For more information, give an adoptions counselor a call at 520-327-6088, ext. 173.
  Yoda’s ID number: 869700
   
  The post Adopt this Pet: Meet Yoda! appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• DNA leads to arrest in 1988 East Texas death, body in river

  27-08-2019 22:02
  PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) — Investigators say DNA evidence has led to the arrest of a convicted sex offender suspected in the 1988 death of a Southeast Texas woman whose body was found in a river.
  Prosecutors on Tuesday announced that 60-year-old Daniel Andrew MacGinnis of Tyler County is charged with murder in the death of Patricia Ann Jacobs. KFDM-TV reports MacGinnis, whose bond was $1 million, declined comment when leaving court.
  Jacobs in October 1988 failed to return home from a meetin
  
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• Man accused of strangling mother found incompetent for trial

  27-08-2019 22:00
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A judge has ruled an Indiana man who told police at he was possessed by demons and Adolf Hitler when he allegedly strangled his mother isn’t competent to stand trial. The Journal Gazette reports an order signed last week by Allen Superior Court Judge David Zent states 35-year-old Jason Steiss of Fort Wayne “lacks the ability to assist counsel in his defense.”Steiss was ordered into the custody of the Indiana Family and Social Service Administration
  
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• Butt could be headed to injured reserve again

  27-08-2019 21:44
  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Jake Butt has had another setback in his return from a third ACL injury and might be headed back to injured reserve.
  Butt played 11 snaps in Denver’s preseason loss to the Los Angeles Rams last weekend in his first game action since last September, and he caught a pair of passes.
  He hasn’t practiced since then, however, because of pain and swelling in his surgically repaired left knee, symptoms that also sidelined him for three weeks earlier this summer.
  
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• Cardinals cut DL McClain, sign OL Ohnesorge

  27-08-2019 21:41
  TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals have released veteran defensive lineman Terrell McClain and signed offensive lineman Jacob Ohnesorge.
  The 31-year-old McClain has played eight NFL seasons, most recently with the Atlanta Falcons last year. He played in 13 games and had 17 tackles and a sack. Arizona made the move Tuesday.
  The 6-foot-2, 294-pound Ohnesorge gives the Cardinals some depth going into the final preseason game on Thursday against the Denver Broncos. He spent the 2018 pre
  
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• Defendant in opioid case says he was helping people

  27-08-2019 21:36
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A defendant at the center of a multimillion-dollar opioid case says he saw himself as helping people get the prescription drugs that they needed while making money for himself and his friends.
  Aaron Shamo testified Tuesday in a U.S. courtroom in Salt Lake City, just miles from the suburban basement where authorities say he and a friend pressed thousands of fentanyl-laced fake oxycodone pills that were sold online and shipped across the country.
  Prosecutors said the dr
  
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• School board wants Kentucky Noah’s Ark to pay higher taxes

  27-08-2019 21:34
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A county school board in Kentucky says a Christian theme park with a 500-foot-long Noah’s Ark is not paying enough in property taxes.
  Grant County’s school board filed a suit against the Ark Encounter after losing an administrative appeal. The school board alleges that the theme park has been undervalued by county officials.
  The park in northern Kentucky preaches a literal interpretation of the Bible’s Old Testament.
  The suit says the county’s
  
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• Fall Movie Preview: Hollywood goes all-in on original films

  27-08-2019 21:29
  NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar season always brings a welcome wave of originality after the reboots, remakes and sequels of summer. But this fall is especially rich in big, audacious bets on original films that will try to lure moviegoers with the most time-tested of draws: megawatt movie stars, genre twists and innovation.
  Many of the season’s most anticipated movies — including “The Irishman,” ”Ford v Ferrari,” ”Gemini Man,” ”Knives Out”
  
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• Venezuelan baseball league asks US for exception to ban

  27-08-2019 21:27
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan officials say they’re fighting a ban by Major League Baseball that blocks its players from the South American country’s winter league under strict U.S. sanctions against the socialist government.
  The Venezuelan Professional Baseball League on Tuesday said it’s asking the U.S. Treasury for an exception. Major League Baseball announced last week that its players are banned from the Venezuelan Winter League, citing the economic sanctions.
  
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• Gambia’s 1st president, Dawda Jawara, dies at 95

  27-08-2019 21:26
  BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — Gambia’s government says the country’s first democratically elected president, Dawda Kairaba Jawara, has died at the age of 95.
  The Gambian presidency said Tuesday that Jawara died in the capital, Banjul, and called him a “champion of international peace, justice and humanity.”
  Jawara was known as the father of the nation. He spearheaded the talks that led to Gambia’s independence from Britain in 1965.
  He served as prime minister while Qu
  
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• Sen. Chris Murphy says Russia has denied him a visa

  27-08-2019 21:22
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut says the Russian government has denied him a visa to enter the country.
  The Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Tuesday he had planned to be part of an upcoming bipartisan congressional delegation.
  Murphy has described himself as a “tough critic” of Russia.
  Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin planned to be part of the same group and said Monday that he had also been denied a visa
  
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• Tucson murder suspects escape while being extradited to Pima County

  27-08-2019 21:20
  Blane, and Susan Barksdale,/ Courtesy: Tucson Police Department
  TUCSON –Two Tucson murder suspects escaped from a van while being extradited from Henrietta, NY to Pima County, according to Tucson Police Department.
  Officials say Blane, 56, and Susan Barksdale, 59, “overpowered” two security officers and took possession of the van in Blanding, Utah.
  Investigators say they have information that the couple is possibly traveling through Arizona. They were last seen driving a red GM
  
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• Vast fires sweep across Bolivia as well as Brazil

  27-08-2019 21:18
  LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — While global attention has been focused on fires burning across the Brazilian Amazon, neighboring Bolivia is battling its own vast blazes, which have charred an area nearly as extensive as the nation of Lebanon.
  The head of the national forests and lands authority says at least 38,793 fires were burning across the country as of the weekend, and a total of 3,700 square miles (950,000 hectares) had been burned so far this year — most of that in weeks.
  While some
  
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• Feds accuse county of racial bias in hiring police officers

  27-08-2019 21:16
  TOWSON, Md. (AP) — A Justice Department lawsuit accuses a Maryland county of discriminating against black applicants for police officer positions.
  The department’s civil rights division filed the federal lawsuit Tuesday against Baltimore County. It claims the county’s use of written examinations led to hiring fewer blacks as entry-level police officers and police cadets than it would have had it used a “non-discriminatory screening device.”
  The Justice Department sa
  
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• Lokomotiv Moscow signs Joao Mario on loan from Inter

  27-08-2019 21:14
  MOSCOW (AP) — Lokomotiv Moscow has signed Portuguese midfielder Joao Mario from Inter Milan on a season-long loan.
  Lokomotiv says the deal includes an option to buy the player for an undisclosed fee.
  The deal reunites Joao Mario with forward Eder, his teammate when Portugal won the 2016 European Championship.
  Joao Mario says in a statement that “I’m sure we’ll get results. I’m looking to the future with inspiration and I’m ready to get out on the field as soon
  
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• Basketball-sized world-record grapefruit grown in Louisiana

  27-08-2019 21:13
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A basketball-sized grapefruit has brought two world records to a Louisiana couple.
  The giant citrus grew in the yard of Mary Beth and Doug Meyer of Slidell.
  The Guinness Book of World Records says it’s the world’s heaviest and largest in circumference.
  It weighed 7 pounds, 14.6 ounces (3.6 kilograms) and measured 28¾ inches (73 centimeters) around. That’s almost as big around as an NBA basketball.
  The grapefruit was 13.6 ounces (385.6 grams)
  
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• Barcelona ‘closer’ to Neymar deal, club official says

  27-08-2019 21:13
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A Barcelona official involved in the negotiations with Paris Saint-Germain for Neymar says the Catalan club is “closer” to reaching a deal for the player’s return.
  Javier Bordas told Spanish media Tuesday there is no agreement yet with PSG but negotiations are ongoing.
  Bordas says “there is no deal yet” but “we are closer.”
  Bordas was among the Barcelona representatives who traveled to Paris for talks with PSG officials on T
  
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• Malaysian pleads guilty to placing camera in jet bathroom

  27-08-2019 21:09
  HOUSTON (AP) — A passenger who put a camera in an airplane bathroom on a California-to-Texas flight has pleaded guilty and could be deported.
  Choon Ping Lee, a 50-year-old Malaysian man, pleaded guilty to video voyeurism on Tuesday. A judge in Houston sentenced Lee to two months in prison and a $6,000 fine.
  The Justice Department says Lee acknowledged installing a camera in the first-class bathroom of a United Airlines flight from San Diego to Houston on May 5.
  A female passenger found the
  
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• Montpellier ends Lyon’s winning start to French season

  27-08-2019 21:07
  MONTPELLIER, France (AP) — A spectacular strike from Arnaud Souquet gave Montpellier a 1-0 win over 10-man Lyon on Tuesday, ending their opponent’s winning start to the new French season.
  Souquet met a headed clearance with a fierce volley from outside the box in the 42nd minute, his shot still rising as it hit the net. It was Souquet’s first league goal since January 2017 and the first goal Lyon conceded this season after two big wins.
  Minutes earlier, Souquet’s Montpell
  
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• Kim Foxx: Work of Smollett special prosecutor underway

  27-08-2019 21:04
  CHICAGO (AP) — Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx says the work of a special prosecutor investigating why her office dropped charges against Jussie Smollett accusing the actor of staging an attack on himself has begun.
  Her remarks to reporters Tuesday were her first extensive comments since a judge Friday appointed former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb as special prosecutor.
  Foxx said Webb “reached out” and the “process is already underway.” She added she’d b
  
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• Trump: Federal Reserve is loving US manufacturing troubles

  27-08-2019 21:03
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, who last week suggested Fed Chairman Jerome Powell could be an enemy, is now saying that the central bank “loves” the troubles that U.S. manufacturers are facing.
  The president’s tweet Tuesday appears to be his latest effort pressure the central bank to lower interest rates more quickly.
  But a former top Fed official is pushing back on Trump’s repeated attacks on the Fed and Powell. Bill Dudley, former president of the Fed&r
  
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