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• Reid Park Zoo mourns Shombay the Lion after ‘humanely euthanized’ due to kidney disease

  24-06-2020 23:49
  
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  TUCSON (KVOA) - The Tucson community is mourning the loss of a beloved African lion after Reid Park Zoo announced Shombay was humanly euthanized Wednesday after battling polycystic kidney disease.According to zoo officials, the 11-year-old feline was diagnosed with the disease back in 2016. Authorities said the zoo's care team has been just managing Shombay's condition, as the disease has no cure.After the medical team noticed a decline in kidney function and a lack of participati
  
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• Police overhaul dims as GOP Senate bill blocked by Democrats

  24-06-2020 23:45
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican policing bill stalled out Wednesday, blocked in a vote by Senate Democrats who dismissed it as meager “crumbs.” The standoff signals the collapse for now of Congress’s efforts to respond to mass demonstrations over the killings of Black people. With a tally that fell almost exclusively along party lines, it’s a familiar impasse despite public outcry over the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other Americans. Polling shows the
  
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• Convincing win in Virginia shows strength of Black vote

  24-06-2020 23:45
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Cameron Webb is a Black doctor and lawyer from Charlottesville whose job description says he works “at the intersection of health and social justice” at one of the top medical schools in the country. His strong showing in a Virginia Democratic congressional primary suggests the energy behind the sweeping civil rights protests across America is also present at the polls. With the country gripped by a pandemic and racial unrest, Webb’s supporters believ
  
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• Trump’s national security adviser takes aim at China

  24-06-2020 23:44
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — President Donald Trump’s national security adviser is warning China that America is waking up to the threat that it believes the Chinese Communist Party poses “to our great way of life.” And Robert O’Brien says the Trump administration will act to check the spread of that ideology. O’Brien says his speech Wednesday in Phoenix challenging China was the first of many in the coming weeks by senior administration officials he says that “the da
  
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• Targeted sculptures linked to Wisconsin, Civil War history

  24-06-2020 23:36
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Protesters have defaced and torn down statues of historic figures during recent demonstrations against racial injustice in cities across the nation. Most of those pieces have explicit links to colonialism, slavery and the Confederacy, including imagery of Christopher Columbus and former U.S. presidents who owned slaves. But in Madison, Wisconsin, protesters tore down two sculptures with no obvious links to that history. Protesters have said in media interviews that the state
  
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• Democratic super PAC is joining Trump-TV station lawsuit

  24-06-2020 23:36
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has granted a leading Democratic super PAC’s request to join a court fight between President Donald Trump and a Wisconsin TV station. Trump’s campaign sued the station after it aired an ad produced by the super PAC that criticized his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. That sets up a notable legal battle between Trump’s financially flush Republican reelection campaign and Priorities USA, one of the biggest spending groups in Democratic
  
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• Atlanta reality TV star charged with misusing relief funds

  24-06-2020 23:31
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Federal officials say a reality TV star who appeared on the show “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” has been indicted for allegedly misusing coronavirus relief funds. In a news release, the Department of Justice said 37-year-old Maurice Fayne was charged with bank fraud, making a false statement to a federally insured financial institution and money laundering. Fayne, who also goes by the nickname Arkansas Mo on the VH1 show, was arrested May 11. According to court re
  
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• South Dakota tribe sues feds to keep COVID-19 checkpoints

  24-06-2020 23:29
  
  PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe alleges the federal government has been trying to coerce and threaten the tribe ever since South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem asked for help stopping its COVID-19 checkpoints on state and federal highways. The tribe filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that since Noem’s White House plea, the federal defendants have been abusing their power to coerce the tribe to dismantle its checkpoints. When that didn’t work, the tribe contends the de
  
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• TPD Chief Reveals Details of Death of Man in Police Custody Two Months Ago, Offers Resignation to Mayor and Council

  24-06-2020 23:26
  
  Carlos Adrian Ingram-Lopez died after Tucson police detained him on April 21, 2020. He was 27 years old.The in-custody death was just revealed yesterday, June 23, and has been met with outrage from the Tucson community.…
  
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• New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to quarantine visitors from COVID-19 hotspots

  24-06-2020 23:20
  
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  (NBC News) The governors of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey have issued a joint travel advisory requiring anyone traveling to those states from any of the nine states with spiking cases of COVID-19 to quarantine for 14 days.Governor Andrew Cuomo, Governor Ned Lamont of Connecticut, and Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey made the joint announcement this morning.They all called the move common sense in protecting the New England area, where they now have some of the lowest
  
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• Slavery advocate’s statue removed in South Carolina

  24-06-2020 23:14
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The historic South Carolina city of Charleston has removed a statue honoring John C. Calhoun, an early U.S. vice president whose zealous defense of slavery led the nation toward civil war. The city had crews working night and day to take away the towering statue. What had been expected to be a relatively quick task stretched into an ordeal lasting more than 16 hours before the statue was lifted up and brought to the ground late Wednesday afternoon as dozens cheered.
  
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• Reid Park announced the passing of African lion Shombay

  24-06-2020 23:10
  
  Tucson’s Reid Park Zoo said “goodbye” to one of its animals Wednesday when the organization announced the passing of Shombay the African lion.…
  
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• Indictment: threat to kill Mississippi’s only Black US Rep.

  24-06-2020 23:06
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal indictment accuses a Mississippi man of threatening to kill Mississippi’s only Black U.S. representative and his staffers. The indictment against 52-year-old Newton Wade Townsend identifies the target of his alleged threats only by the initials B.T. and does not mention race. However, the only member of Mississippi’s delegation with those initials is Democrat Bennie Thompson, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.  A news release
  
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• Peru giving up on virus measures in face of sinking economy

  24-06-2020 23:05
  
  LIMA, Peru (AP) — The same day that the Peruvian government announced another grim increase in the number of coronavirus infections, thousands of people packed together in lines outside shopping malls. Peru has reported the world’s sixth-highest number of cases in a population of just 32 million, but it has decided to ignore scientific warnings and opened many of the country’s largest shopping malls this week. The government had enforced a strict stay-at-home order for three mo
  
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• Prince William visits Oxford vaccine development facilities

  24-06-2020 23:00
  
  LONDON (AP) — Prince William has visited Oxford University’s coronavirus vaccine development facilities to learn more about researchers’ work there. The royal was given a tour Wednesday of the manufacturing laboratory where the experimental vaccine has been produced. He also looked at a laboratory where samples from the clinical trial are being examined by researchers. The trials began April 23 and 10,000 people in the U.K are in the process of being vaccinated to assess the po
  
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• Prosecutors order ex Haiti strongman transferred to new jail

  24-06-2020 22:59
  
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian prosecutors have ordered ex paramilitary leader Emmanuel “Toto” Constant transferred to the northern coastal town of Gonaives a day after he was deported from the U.S. Authorities there will decide whether to free the former strongman accused of murder and torture. Constant became leader of the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was toppled in 1991. He is accused of killing, raping and tort
  
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• GOP police bill hits roadblock, as Dems seek broader changes

  24-06-2020 22:57
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican policing bill stalled out Wednesday, blocked in a vote by Senate Democrats who dismissed it as meager “crumbs.” The standoff either signals the collapse of Congress’s efforts to respond to mass demonstrations over the killings of Black people or the start of fresh bipartisan talks toward compromise. With a tally that fell almost exclusively along party lines, it’s a familiar impasse despite public outcry over the deaths of George Floyd
  
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• Mexican official hit after call to nationalize lithium mines

  24-06-2020 22:50
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s largest union group is criticizing calls by the environment secretary to nationalize the country’s newly-discovered lithium deposits, considered among the largest in the world. The Mexican Workers Federation, known as the CTM claimed the nationalization proposal would scare off foreign investment and called it “ideological fanaticism.” The CTM represents some mine workers. A joint project by Chinese and English companies are developing wh
  
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• Flu vaccine was disappointing vs. some strains last season

  24-06-2020 22:44
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials say the flu vaccine did a disappointing job last winter, and officials worry it might be a bad sign for the fall. Flu vaccines for years were close to 60% effective against the flu strain that caused the most illnesses last winter, but it proved only 31% effective last season. Vaccines have already been only around 30% effective against another major type of flu. Officials are worried he new results may be a sign of eroding effectiveness against a numb
  
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• Wisconsin governor activates National Guard after violence

  24-06-2020 22:43
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s governor has activated the National Guard to protect state properties after a night of violence that included the toppling of two statues outside the state Capitol and an attack on a state senator. Protesters also threw a Molotov cocktail into a government building and attempted to break into the Capitol, only to be repelled by pepper spray from police stationed inside. The violence broke out Tuesday night as a group of 200 to 300 people protested the
  
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• PACC gets $150,000 grant; plans to extend its foster program

  24-06-2020 22:42
  
  PIMA COUNTY, Ariz. (KVOA) - Friends of Pima Animal Care Center was awarded a $150,000 grant from Spring Point Partners.The shelter says the funds will be used to expand its foster program.
  They want to create a system to reduce pets' length of stay in the shelter and to get foster and adoptive homes more quickly.
  PACC says several studies show pets in foster care  are healthier and happier.Currently, the shelter is housing 608 pets in foster homes.
  This grant will allow Friends of
  
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• Heading to these 3 states? Quarantine might be in the cards

  24-06-2020 22:42
  
  New York, Connecticut and New Jersey are asking visitors from states with high coronavirus infection rates to quarantine for 14 days. What was presented Wednesday as a “travel advisory” affects three adjacent Northeastern states that managed to check the spread of the virus this spring as New York City became a hot spot. Travelers from states including Florida and Texas will be affected beginning Thursday. The two-week quarantine will last two weeks from the time of last contact with
  
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• California voters to decide fate of affirmative action ban

  24-06-2020 22:39
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California voters will decide in November whether governments and public colleges and universities can consider race in their hiring and admissions decisions. The state has banned affirmative action policies since 1996 when voters approved a constitutional amendment that bans preferential treatment based on race and other factors. The statea Senate voted 30-10 on Wednesday to repeal that amendment. But voters must approve it in November before it can become law. T
  
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• Confederate store in Branson, Missouri, at protests’ center

  24-06-2020 22:26
  
  BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — Branson, Missouri, may be known for its country music shows and wholesome entertainment, but the tourist hot spot now finds itself at the center of a standoff over Confederate symbolism. Protesters have been gathering outside a strip mall store Dixie Outfitters, which specializes in Confederate flags, clothing and other merchandise. The protests have drawn people from opposing sides of the debate — Black Lives Matter demonstrators, as well as those who support the
  
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• Phoenix police arrest a man suspected in girlfriend’s death

  24-06-2020 22:25
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Police say a man has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder after his girlfriend died at a north Phoenix home. They say officers were called to the house around 4 p.m. Tuesday about an assault. Police reported finding found 58-year-old Lori Williams seriously injured and she later died. Homicide investigators developed probable cause to arrest Williams’ boyfriend, 43-year-old Jeffrey Michael Rhine.  Police say Rhine was found at another location and tak
  
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• Wirecard scandal puts spotlight on German company regulation

  24-06-2020 22:17
  
  FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The accounting scandal at German payments company Wirecard is turning up the heat on the country’s financial regulator. Legislators are asking why the financial watchdog didn’t respond more forcefully when news media reports said the company’s books were questionable. The head of the BaFin agency has admitted Wirecard’s implosion is “a disaster.” Experts say Wirecard’s complexity and international connections may have thro
  
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• ‘Coming back and biting us’: US sees virus resurgence

  24-06-2020 22:13
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Hospital administrators and health care experts are warning that parts of the U.S. are on the verge of being overwhelmed by the coronavirus, lamenting that a restriction-weary public and politicians are letting disaster unfold. With 34,700 COVID-19 cases reported Tuesday, the U.S. is back near its late-April peak of 36,400. While new cases have been declining steadily in early U.S. hot spots such as New York and New Jersey, several other states set single-day case records Tu
  
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• Tribal leaders say border wall, other projects continue to threaten sacred, historic sites

  24-06-2020 22:00
  
  PHOENIX – As President Donald Trump was hailing the pace of border wall construction Tuesday, Tohono O’odham Nation Chairman Ned Norris Jr. was bemoaning it as a project that continues “to destroy … sacred sites.”“We have an obligation, we have a duty, we have a responsibility, to protect those sites of our ancestors, sacred sites of our ancestors, and do what we can do to protect those areas,” Norris said.He was one of five tribal leaders, along with
  
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• Election results are delayed again. Get used to it.

  24-06-2020 21:55
  
  Kentucky and New York held primaries on Tuesday, but the results of the closest races won’t be known for another week. That’s a feature of voting during the pandemic. Voters in the two states had until Election Day to mail their ballots, so they won’t all be in the hands of election officials for several days. Counting mail ballots is normally slower than counting in-person votes. Old laws also slow down the count of mail ballots. New York couldn’t legally begin tallying
  
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• Town of Marana to hold Fourth of July fireworks show

  24-06-2020 21:52
  
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  MARANA, Ariz. (KVOA) - The Town of Marana will hold a fireworks-only event on July 4.
  Fireworks will be launched from within Crossroads at Silverbell District Park.
  Residents are encouraged to enjoy the display from their homes or throughout Arizona Pavilions.
  To take fire-safety precautions, the park and parking lot will be closed.
  The show is scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m.The post Town of Marana to hold Fourth of July fireworks show appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Egypt news outlet says police raid office, arrest editor

  24-06-2020 21:50
  
  CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian news outlet says security forces have arrested its editor following a raid on its offices in Cairo, in the latest government action cracking down on news media. Al-Manassa news website said in a statement that at least eight police raided its offices Wednesday and searched computers. They seized one laptop saying they would examine it, the outlet said. The news outlet said its editor, Nora Younis, was taken in a van to a police station in Cairo’s Maadi distri
  
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• 3 men indicted on murder charges in killing of Ahmaud Arbery

  24-06-2020 21:49
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A prosecutor has announced that three men have been indicted on murder charges in the killing of a Black man in coastal Georgia, Ahmaud Arbery. Prosecutor Joyette Holmes said Wednesday that a Glynn County grand jury has indicted Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan Jr. on malice and felony murder charges in Arbery’s death. Arbery was slain Feb. 23 when the Greg and Travis McMichael, a white father and son, armed themselves and pursued
  
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• Braidy Industries hires new CEO to oversee mill project

  24-06-2020 21:48
  
  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — An aluminum company planning to build a $1.7 billion plant in Appalachia has hired a longtime metals industry executive as its CEO. Don Foster will serve as CEO and acting president of Braidy Industries. His new role comes as Braidy tries to complete financing for the massive mill project in northeastern Kentucky. Foster previously served as an officer at United States Steel Corp. Braidy says its planned mill in northeastern Kentucky is projected to create more than 1
  
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• Report: State, local aid needed to avert 4 million layoffs

  24-06-2020 21:42
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A new private sector report is warning anew of continuing damage to the economy if Washington doesn’t deliver several hundred billion dollars in budget relief to states and local governments. But Wednesday’s report by Moody’s Analytics, a private sector economic research firm, also could help illustrate a path toward bipartisan agreement on next month’s fifth, and possibly final, COVID-19 response bill. The study warns that doing nothing to address
  
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• With a jab at Trump, Pelosi unveils new ‘Obamacare’ bill

  24-06-2020 21:40
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is taking a jab at President Donald Trump as she unveils a plan to expand the Obama-era health law. Wednesday’s move by Pelosi comes a day before the Trump administration is expected file arguments in a Supreme Court case to strike down “Obamacare.” Pelosi says trying to gut the health law in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic is “beyond stupid.” Her bill, which would come to a vote Monday, stands no chance in t
  
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• Prosecutor decides not to charge officer who shot Black teen

  24-06-2020 21:40
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina prosecutor says he will not file charges against a white police officer who fatally shot a Black teenager who pointed a gun at the officer as he ran away. The prosecutor said Wednesday that a review of the investigation led to the decision to not to charge Columbia police Officer Kevin Davis. Authorities say the officer stopped to question 17-year-old Josh Ruffin on April 8 about several car break-ins that had just happened nearby. Columbia’s po
  
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• Faith-based mutual aid flourishes amid pandemic, protests

  24-06-2020 21:39
  
  Amid a pandemic and anti-racism protests, mutual aid is seeing a major resurgence as a tool for neighbors to support one another without waiting for government aid. Many volunteers and organizers say their efforts are driven both by the understanding that existing welfare systems are broken, and that it’s their duty as people of faith to step in. “If you need aid and we have it, we’re going to give it to you,” Zanifa Franck, care team leader at Brooklyn’s Forefront
  
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• Turkey not considering lockdowns despite rise in virus cases

  24-06-2020 21:38
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s health minister says the country isn’t considering new lockdowns even though the number of daily coronavirus infections registered since the lifting of restrictions is higher than “anticipated.” Speaking to reporters following the country’s scientific advisory council’s weekly meeting on Wednesday, the minister blamed the uptick in cases on widespread complacency and failure to comply with social distancing. Turkey has witn
  
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• Tucson police chief offers resignation after man’s death

  24-06-2020 21:34
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Tucson, Arizona police chief has offered his resignation after the death of a 27-year-old man who died while handcuffed and placed face-down two months ago. Chief Chris Magnus offered his resignation during a news conference on Wednesday, a day after the death of Carlos Ingram-Lopez on April 21. The medical examiner’s office didn’t determine a manner of death but said he had died of sudden cardiac arrest in the settng of acute cocaine intoxication and physica
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 43 new coronavirus cases and 1 death

  24-06-2020 21:32
  
  WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Department of Health has reported 43 new cases of coronavirus on the Navajo Nation with one more known death. That pushes the total of positive COVID-19 cases to 7,088 with the death toll at 336 as of Tuesday night. Tribal officials say coronavirus related cases continue to decrease due to the Navajo Nation’s daily curfew and requirement to wear a face mask. The tribe also has resumed weekend lockdowns with businesses closed as the number of coron
  
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• Mississippi flag: ‘In God We Trust’ for Confederate symbol?

  24-06-2020 21:23
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two Republican elected officials in Mississippi are saying the Confederate battle emblem should be removed from the state flag and replaced with “In God We Trust.” Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann and Attorney General Lynn Fitch issued statements Wednesday. Hosemann said a new flag would help future generations. Fitch says “In God We Trust” would reflect love and compassion. Mississippi has the only flag with the battle emblem. Confederate symbols are
  
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• Tucson, Arizona, police chief offers resignation after man’s death in custody comes to light; three officers quit

  24-06-2020 21:21
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Tucson, Arizona, police chief offers resignation after man’s death in custody comes to light; three officers quit.The post Tucson, Arizona, police chief offers resignation after man’s death in custody comes to light; three officers quit appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Nominee to be CIA watchdog says he’ll stand up to Trump

  24-06-2020 21:20
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the CIA’s chief watchdog is pledging independence, saying he will perform his role “in an unbiased and impartial manner, free of undue or inappropriate influences” by Trump or anyone else. Peter Thomson, a New Orleans attorney and former federal prosecutor, faced skepticism about his ability to ward off interference from Trump at a nomination hearing Wednesday. Thomson’s nomination as CIA inspector gener
  
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• Kosovo president, 9 others indicted on war crimes charges

  24-06-2020 21:19
  
  PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A war crimes prosecutor has indicted Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and nine other former separatist fighters on a range of crimes against humanity and war crimes charges, including murder. The court is investigating crimes against ethnic Serbs during and after Kosovo’s 1998-99 independence war with Serbia. Because of the indictment, Thaci has postponed his trip to Washington, where he was to meet Saturday for talks with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. &nbs
  
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• Police: Missing girls were never at Milwaukee home set afire

  24-06-2020 21:18
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee police say two missing teenage girls were never at a Milwaukee house that was set on fire during unrest that saw three people shot and 10 police officers and a firefighter injured as a large unruly crowd gathered at the scene of the investigation. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd Tuesday night as tensions rose and rumors spread online about the girls, ages 13 and 15. Police said during interviews the girls denied ever being at the house or
  
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• Trump and Poland discuss US troops on NATO’s eastern flank

  24-06-2020 21:10
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has welcomed Poland’s president to the White House, and sending more U.S. troops to Poland to bolster NATO’s eastern flank against Russian aggression is at the top of their agenda. Even before Andrzej Duda arrived, the U.S. ambassador to Poland said the U.S. will send another 1,000 troops to Poland — over and above the 1,000 declared last year. But the troops might not necessarily be transferred from Germany, where Trump is plannin
  
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• FAA orders fix for engine covers of Boeing 737 Max planes

  24-06-2020 21:10
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators are requiring inspections and possible repairs to engine coverings of all Boeing 737 Max jets. That’s because of a problem that regulators say could lead to loss of engine power. The problem isn’t related to a system suspected in two deadly crashes involving Max planes, but it’s another blow to the company’s safety reputation. The Federal Aviation Administration says strong electromagnetic fields could cause loss of power or faulty
  
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• Iraq passes bill to unlock funds for cash-strapped state

  24-06-2020 21:03
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi lawmakers have passed a crucial bill allowing the country to finance a widening fiscal deficit amid an unprecedented economic crisis spurred by falling oil prices and the pandemic. Of 329 members of parliament, 168 voted Wednesday in favor of a law enabling domestic and foreign borrowing by the government, a key legal step for Iraq to access funds and pay state salaries as revenues take a hit with plummeting oil prices. Iraq depends on oil exports to fund the lion&rsqu
  
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• Immigration advocates criticize Trump’s new visa restrictions

  24-06-2020 21:00
  
  PHOENIX – President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday suspending H-1B, L-1, J and other temporary work visas until the end of the year, while also extending the hold on green cards for new immigrants.The suspension is in addition to an earlier order signed April 22, which put a 60-day restriction on the flow of immigrants into the United States to soften the economic downfall caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.The order goes into effect Wednesday, potentially affecting thousands
  
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• Monsanto to pay $95M over PCB pollution in Washington state

  24-06-2020 20:54
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — The agrochemical giant Monsanto has agreed to pay Washington state $95 million to settle a lawsuit that blamed it for pervasive pollution from PCBs — toxic industrial chemicals that have accumulated in plants, fish and people around the globe for decades. The announcement Wednesday from Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson came as Bayer, which acquired Monsanto two years ago, said it would pay $820 million to resolve PCB pollution claims and nearly $11 billion to r
  
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