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• Low-key 75th anniversary of UN’s birth because of pandemic

  26-06-2020 23:57
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations has marked the 75th anniversary of its birth with a scaled-down event because of the coronavirus pandemic, one of many challenges a deeply divided world must tackle along with poverty, inequality, discrimination and unending wars. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said during Friday’s virtual commemoration of the signing of the U.N. Charter that “global pressures are spiraling up” and “today’s realities are as for
  
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• Texas shuts down bars as hospitalizations surpass 5,000

  26-06-2020 23:41
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is shutting down bars in Texas again and scaling back restaurant dining. The moves Friday are the most dramatic reversals yet as confirmed coronavirus cases surge. Abbott also said rafting and tubing outfitters on Texas’ popular rivers must close. He says outdoor gatherings of 100 people or more must be approved by local governments.  In the last four days alone, Texas has reported more than 23,000 confirmed new cases. On Friday,
  
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• Democrats renew health care attacks on GOP as virus builds

  26-06-2020 23:40
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are intensifying their attacks on President Donald Trump and his Republican allies over health care, hoping that an issue that helped lift the party during the 2018 midterms will prove even more resonant during a public health crisis. Spikes in coronavirus cases nationwide and the Trump administration’s filing this week supporting a GOP-led effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act in the courts have offered Democrats an opportunity to return the issue t
  
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• Confederate symbol on Mississippi flag sparks strong debate

  26-06-2020 23:39
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Emotions are running high as Mississippi legislators consider the future of the last state flag in the U.S. that includes the Confederate battle emblem. Leaders say a vote at the state Capitol could happen as soon as Saturday. Pressure to change the flag has increased rapidly the past three weeks amid nationwide protests against racial injustice. Legislators could adopt a new Mississippi flag without the Confederate emblem. Or, they could kick the volatile issue to a
  
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• GM wants judge removed from lawsuit against rival

  26-06-2020 23:34
  
  DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is asking a federal appeals court to overturn an order that requires its CEO to meet with the head of Fiat Chrysler by next week to try to settle a lawsuit. GM also wants U.S. District Judge Paul Borman removed from the case. GM accuses Fiat Chrysler of getting an advantage by paying off union leaders to reduce labor costs. The judge describes the lawsuit as a “nuclear option” that would be a “waste of time and resources” for years if h
  
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• Elsie moooves on: Borden dairy sold to private equity firms

  26-06-2020 23:33
  
  Elsie the cow has a new home. Borden dairy, which filed for bankruptcy protection in January, has been sold to two private equity firms. Dallas-based Borden said Friday it was sold for about $340 million to Capitol Peak Partners and KKR. Colorado-based Capitol Peak will be the majority owner while New York-based KKR will be a minority investor. Borden’s 12 U.S. plants will remain open and its 3,300 workers will keep their jobs. There was no word on the fate of Elsie, the smiling cow that h
  
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• Family lawyer probing police actions in Black man’s death

  26-06-2020 23:27
  
  DENVER (AP) — The lawyer for the family of Black man who died after being stopped by suburban Denver police last year because he was “being suspicious,” said Friday she and his relatives have been conducting their own investigation of an official inquiry that cleared three white police officers. Mari Newman told The Associated Press on Friday she is suspicious of government investigations of alleged police misconduct. She spoke a day after Gov. Jared Polis appointed Attorney Ge
  
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• Plan advances to allow dismantling Minneapolis Police Dept.

  26-06-2020 23:20
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis City Council has unanimously advanced a plan that could one day do away with the city’s police department, following unrest over the killing of George Floyd. The council voted Friday in favor of amending the city charter to replace the current department with a “Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention” that would prioritize a “holistic” and “public-health oriented” approach. Several obstacles remain
  
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• Chicago officer sentenced to 7-plus years for bogus raids

  26-06-2020 23:15
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police sergeant convicted of using bogus search warrants to raid homes and steal cash and drugs has been sentenced to seven years and three months in federal prison. Xavier Elizondo was sentenced Friday. The Chicago Tribune reports that prosecutors had sought a 10-year sentence. They noted that the Cook County state’s attorney’s office in Chicago dismissed 37 criminal cases that were tainted by the involvement of Elizondo and another convicted officer.
  
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• Attorney: Ex-Baltimore mayor surrenders for prison term

  26-06-2020 23:05
  
  Baltimore’s disgraced former mayor has surrendered to federal authorities to begin serving a three-year prison sentence stemming from a public corruption scandal. Catherine Pugh’s attorney, Steven Silverman, told The Associated Press Friday his client “surrendered as directed.” Pugh was sentenced in February in a case centered on the sales of her self-published children’s books. The 70-year-old was ordered to report to an all-women federal correctional institution i
  
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• Family’s lawyer continues her own investigation for McClain

  26-06-2020 23:01
  
  DENVER (AP) — The lawyer for the family of Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after being stopped by suburban Denver police last year, says she will conduct an independent investigation of the incident. Mari Newman told The Associated Press on Friday the decision reflects her suspicions toward government investigations of cases of alleged police misconduct. Her announcement comes a day after Gov. Jared Polis said he was appointing Attorney General Phil Weiser to re-investigate and possib
  
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• Arizona lawmakers split on party lines as House passes police reform bill

  26-06-2020 23:00
  
  PHOENIX – Arizona lawmakers split on party lines Thursday as the House passed a Democrat-backed police reform bill on the one-month anniversary of George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police.The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act would ban chokeholds like the one that killed Floyd, restrict police officers’ qualified legal immunity, require body cameras and more.The 236-181 vote included support from every House Democrat and just three Republicans – none fr
  
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• Coronavirus task force briefs — but not at White House

  26-06-2020 22:57
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House coronavirus task force has briefed the public for the first time since late April — this time without President Donald Trump or the presidential podium. Friday’s briefing was a sign of the administration’s effort to show it’s got a handle on the virus but the nation no longer needs to be on a wartime footing that would prevent reopening the economy. Vice President Mike Pence acknowledged a surge in new cases across the South and Wes
  
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• 2 dead, 1 hurt in Illinois warehouse shooting; suspect dead

  26-06-2020 22:43
  
  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Police say two employees were killed at a warehouse in central Illinois and another was critically injured, all apparently shot by another employee who was later found fatally shot in his car. Springfield Police say the suspected gunman also died of an apparent gunshot Friday and that authorities are trying to determine if he took his own life. Authorities have not released the names of the victims. Springfield police Chief Kenny Winslow identified the suspect as 4
  
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• Trump administration to give Congress full virus loan data

  26-06-2020 22:35
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — After prodding from Democratic lawmakers, the Trump administration has agreed to give Congress — but not the public — complete data on the millions of small businesses that received loans from a $600 billion-plus coronavirus aid program. Senior administration officials told lawmakers they will provide full details on the roughly 4.6 million taxpayer-funded loans worth $512 billion awarded under the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Prog
  
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• Tucson Medical Center launches campaign encouraging voter participation

  26-06-2020 22:30
  
  According to the president and CEO of TMC Healthcare, Judy Rich, one of the most important things healthcare workers (and anyone else) can do to improve public health is to become more civically engaged.That’s the leading message of Tucson Medical Center’s newest campaign, launched in partnership with VotER, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works with healthcare providers to encourage patients and healthcare workers the encouragement and opportunity they need to vote in the
  
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• Catcher Austin Wells agrees to $2.5M bonus with Yankees

  26-06-2020 22:27
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Catcher Austin Wells has agreed to a minor league contract with a $2.5 million signing bonus after the New York Yankees selected him 28th overall in the amateur draft. Wells turns 21 on July 12. He hit .375 with six doubles, two homers and 14 RBIs for the University of Arizona in a season cut to 15 games because of the pandemic. He batted .357 with seven homers and 74 RBIs over 71 games in two seasons. The post Catcher Austin Wells agrees to $2.5M bonus with Yankees ap
  
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• Man shot in back of head by S. Carolina cop sues department

  26-06-2020 22:21
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A Black man shot in the back of the head by a South Carolina police officer last August is now suing the police department and the officer. Attorneys for Sir Brandon Legette filed a lawsuit in federal court Friday morning. They allege Columbia police officer Sean Rollins used unjustified force when he hit Legette twice and shot him once during a traffic stop on August 24. Authorities previously said Legette had accelerated his car and dragged the officer along a parki
  
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• Family’s lawyer plans her own probe in Colorado man’s death

  26-06-2020 22:21
  
  DENVER (AP) — The lawyer for the family of Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after being stopped by suburban Denver police last year, says she will conduct an independent investigation of the incident. Mari Newman told The Associated Press on Friday the decision reflects her suspicions toward government investigations of cases of alleged police misconduct. Her announcement comes a day after Gov. Jared Polis said he was appointing Attorney General Phil Weiser to re-investigate and possib
  
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• Adult film star Ron Jeremy pleads not guilty to 3 rapes

  26-06-2020 22:16
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Adult film star Ron Jeremy pleaded not guilty to charges of raping three women and sexually assaulting a fourth. The 67-year-old Jeremy entered the plea at his arraignment Friday in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom to three counts each of forcible rape and forcible penetration by a foreign object and one count each of forcible oral copulation and sexual battery. Defense lawyer Stuart Goldfarb says Jeremy is “absolutely innocent” and “it’s not a cl
  
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• Crews battle house fire on Tucson’s west side

  26-06-2020 22:13
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) – Crews are responding to a house fire Friday afternoon on Tucson’s west side.Northwest Fire District and Pima County Sheriff’s Department were dispatched to a house on Flowing Wells and Wetmore roads.Firefighters were able to save neighboring structures.No injuries have been reported.Flowing Wells is closed north of Wetmore.
  Northwest Fire District and @PimaSheriff at the scene of a house fire at Flowing Wells and Wetmore Roads. Crews were able to save neighbori
  
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• Stocks sink as virus cases jump, forcing states to backtrack

  26-06-2020 22:09
  
  Stocks closed sharply lower on Wall Street as the number of confirmed new coronavirus cases in the U.S. hit an all-time high, stoking worries that the reopening of businesses investors have been banking on to revive the economy will be derailed. The S&P 500 fell 2.4% Friday. Texas and Florida reversed course and clamped down on bars again in the nation’s biggest retreat yet. The two states joined the small but growing list of those that are either backtracking or putting any further re
  
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• Arizona city settles suit over fatal police shooting of teen

  26-06-2020 22:06
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — A Phoenix suburb has reached a $2 million settlement with the family of a 14-year-old Latino boy who was fatally shot in the back by a police officer as the youth ran away while holding a non-lethal pellet gun. The Tempe City Council on Thursday approved the settlement in the shooting of Antonio Arc by now-resigned Officer Joseph Jaen. The shooting occurred January 2019 in an alley after the officer responded to a 911 call about a possible vehicle burglary. The off
  
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• No, President Trump, Testing Is Not Causing Case Counts to Rise. The Virus Is Just Spreading Faster.

  26-06-2020 22:00
  
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• Facebook to label all rule-breaking posts – even Trump’s

  26-06-2020 21:59
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Facebook says it will flag all ‘newsworthy’ posts from politicians that break its rules, including those from President Donald Trump. CEO Mark Zuckerberg had previously refused to take action against Trump posts suggesting that mail-in ballots will lead to voter fraud. Twitter, by contrast, slapped a “get the facts” label on them. Facebook is also banning false claims intended to discourage voting, such as stories about federal agents checking
  
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• After waves of virus deaths, care homes face legal reckoning

  26-06-2020 21:54
  
  PARIS (AP) — A reckoning is beginning in France over the country’s 14,000 COVID-19 deaths among care home residents, a cataclysm that scythed through the generation that endured World War II. Families whose elders died behind the closed doors of homes in lockdown are filing wrongful death lawsuits, triggering police investigations. They are hiring lawyers and banding together to bust through walls of silence erected by homes that failed to keep families updated about coronavirus deat
  
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• 3 die in New Mexico from drinking hand sanitizer

  26-06-2020 21:50
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico health officials say three people have died, three others are in critical condition and one person is permanently blind after apparently drinking hand sanitizer that contained methanol. The Department of Health said Friday that the cases were reported to the state poison control center. The first case came in early May. The others have occurred since May 29. The health department couldn’t immediately say what the circumstances were in the recent cases
  
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• Police solve case of girl abducted, raped, killed in 1982

  26-06-2020 21:38
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Columbus police say they have solved the nearly four-decade-old case of an 8-year-old girl abducted on the way home from school, then raped and killed. Authorities say the new investigative technique known as genetic genealogy testing led them to suspect Harold Warren Jarrell, who is now deceased. Police announced the identification of Jarrell as the killer of 8-year-old Kelly Prosser at a Friday news conference. The girl was abducted on Sept. 20, 1982, and her body d
  
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• Statisticians join criticism against Census Bureau hires

  26-06-2020 21:37
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The world’s largest statisticians group added to a chorus of criticism this week against the recent hiring of two political appointees at the U.S. Census Bureau. The American Statistical Association says the appointments earlier this week of Nathaniel Cogley and Adam Korzeniewski to top posts even though they have little experience at the agency are in direct conflict with the bureau’s mission. Cogley is a political science professor who wrote a series of o
  
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• American booking full flights next week; Big Lots still busy

  26-06-2020 21:30
  
  American Airlines will start booking flights to full capacity starting next Wednesday. The move contrasts sharply with rivals including Delta that limit bookings to create space between passengers. American said Friday that it will continue to notify customers of full flights and let them change flights at no cost. Big Lots is seeing the continuation of strong demand that started in mid-April, with second quarter-to-date comparable sales through fiscal June increasing well ahead of expectations.
  
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• Trump tweets wanted poster related to statue-removal attempt

  26-06-2020 21:26
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to call for the arrest of protesters involved in this week’s attempt to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson from a park directly in front of the White House. Trump on Friday retweeted a FBI wanted poster showing pictures of 15 protesters who are wanted for “vandalization of federal property.” Trump wrote, “MANY people in custody, with many others being sought for Vandalization of Federal Property in La
  
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• Israeli military says 2 Gaza rockets hit southern Israel

  26-06-2020 21:24
  
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military says Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have fired two rockets toward southern Israel, shattering months of near-total calm. There have been no reports of damage or injury and no Palestinian militant group immediately claimed responsibility for Friday’s rocket fire. The firing comes a day after Gaza’s Hamas rulers had warned of violence over Israeli plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. Tensions are simmering in t
  
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• Another suspect pleads guilty in case of 39 dead Vietnamese

  26-06-2020 21:16
  
  LONDON (AP) — A 28-years-old man pleaded guilty Friday to immigration violations in connection with the deaths of 39 Vietnamese people found inside the back of a container truck in England. Alexandru Hanga, of Tilbury, England, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration. He appeared via video link at Central London Criminal Court and will be sentenced at a later date. The 39 victims were found Oct. 23 in an industrial park in the English town of Grays. THeir bodies were in
  
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• Thomas Blanton, KKK bomber of 16th St Baptist Church, dies

  26-06-2020 21:14
  
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The last of three one-time Ku Klux Klansmen convicted in a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four Black girls has died in prison. Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. was 82. Officials say he died Friday at a prison near Birmingham, Alabama. In May 2001, Blanton was convicted of murder and sentenced to life for the Sept. 15, 1963, bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. The bombing was a tipping point of the civil rights movement as the fight to topple se
  
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• Virus hits Venezuelan city, raising fears of broader crisis

  26-06-2020 21:10
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Witnesses say that hospitals in the capital of Venezuela’s main oil-producing state are filled with coronavirus patients and dozens of health workers have been infected. These are the first reports the pandemic is overwhelming the country’s debilitated health care system. Health experts have long feared the impact of the virus on Venezuela, where hospitals are dilapidated and there are constant shortages of medicine and essential supplies after years o
  
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• Annual Michigan boat party threatens social distancing rules

  26-06-2020 21:09
  
  GULL ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — Hundreds of boats are congregating around a small island in Lake St. Clair as part of an annual celebration of water and sun that is expected to place thousands of people at odds with Michigan’s social distancing rules in place to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus. No persons or groups organized the Jobbie Nooner Friday at Gull Island, about 35 miles northeast of Detroit. Once at the island, many people leave their boats to wade in the shallow water or c
  
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• Toronto cop convicted in beating of Black man who lost eye

  26-06-2020 21:02
  
  TORONTO (AP) — A Toronto police officer has been found guilty of assault in the beating of a young Black man who lost an eye when he was arrested in 2016. Prosecutors alleged Const. Michael Theriault and his brother Christian chased Dafonte Miller in the early hours of the morning, cornering the then-19-year-old between two homes in Whitby, Ontario and beating him so badly with a pipe that his left eye burst. The Theriaults had pleaded not guilty to aggravated assault and obstruction of ju
  
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• San Pedro River, squeezed by growing population, is subject of multiple lawsuits

  26-06-2020 21:00
  
  PHOENIX – The Verde and the San Pedro rivers are the subject of lawsuits filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club and other conservation groups.…
  
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• Six takeaways of the KHN/AP public health investigation

  26-06-2020 20:59
  
  Local and state public health departments in the United States work to ensure that people have healthy water to drink, their restaurants don’t serve contaminated food and outbreaks of infectious diseases don’t spread. Today, during the pandemic, those departments now find themselves at the forefront of fighting the coronavirus. But years of budget and staffing cuts have left them unprepared to face the worst health crisis in a century. An investigation by KHN, also known as Kaiser He
  
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• Look at method used to assess state of public health system

  26-06-2020 20:59
  
  To assess the state of the public health system in the United States, Kaiser Health News and The Associated Press analyzed data on government spending and staffing at national, state and local levels. What reporters found was a mix of survey and budget data, each measuring a slightly different concept of “public health.” Experts say the lack of comprehensive data specifically about public health makes assessing community programs, agencies and staffing levels difficult. According to
  
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• Ending title drought deepens Klopp’s affinity with Liverpool

  26-06-2020 20:59
  
  LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp says he hopes that ending the club’s 30-year English title drought lifts the spirits of the city emerging from the coronavirus pandemic shutdown. Klopp says “at this moment in time in the world, all cities need a lift.” Fans also see Klopp as chiming with the left-leaning social conscience of a port city which produced The Beatles and has often felt cut adrift politically and economically from the power and wealth
  
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• Judge blocks 25% capacity rule for religious services in NY

  26-06-2020 20:58
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has blocked New York state from enforcing coronavirus restrictions limiting indoor religious gatherings to 25% capacity when other types of gatherings are limited to 50%. Judge Gary Sharpe acted Friday to enjoin Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Attorney General Letitia James from enforcing some of the capacity restrictions put in place by executive order to contain the spread of the virus. A spokesperson for Cuomo said the governor&r
  
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• House adopts bill to make DC 51st state; Senate GOP opposes

  26-06-2020 20:48
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-controlled House has approved a bill to make the District of Columbia the 51st state. Democratic lawmakers say Congress has both the moral obligation and constitutional authority to ensure that the city’s 700,000 residents are allowed full voting rights, no longer subject to “taxation without representation.″ Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the district’s non-voting representative in Congress, sponsored the bill, saying it has both the f
  
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• As virus grows, governors rely on misleading hospital data

  26-06-2020 20:45
  
  Governors in states seeing huge spikes in the coronavirus often downplay the outbreak by citing statewide data to assure the public they have plenty of hospital capacity to survive the onslaught of cases. But experts say those numbers are often misleading in guiding decisions on whether to keep open a state during the pandemic.” Several states in the South and West are behind a big surge in COVID-19 cases. Statewide data can overlook places where hubs of the illness are filling hospitals.
  
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• Magnus: TPD is working to share information with public “more effectively” after in-custody death investigation

  26-06-2020 20:44
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Tucson Police Department Chief Chris Magnus took to Twitter Friday to address the recent events following the in-custody death investigation.
  "I realize there's anger, hurt & frustration in our community following recent events," he wrote. "We're working hard to address how we share information w/the public more effectively."
  I continue to strongly believe that the actions of a few do not reflect the hard, thoughtful work of the many. While I readily acknowledge that there is
  
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• Georgia’s Kemp signs hate crimes law after outcry over death

  26-06-2020 20:42
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed legislation allowing additional penalties to be imposed for crimes motivated by a victim’s race, religion, sexual orientation or other factors, removing Georgia from the dwindling list of U.S. states without a hate crimes law. State lawmakers acted with haste to pass the previously stalled legislation following the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, as well as recent nationwide protests against racial injustice. Arbery was a 25-year-old Black
  
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• Stocks sink on Wall Street as new daily virus cases surge

  26-06-2020 20:35
  
  Stocks are down sharply on Wall Street as the number of confirmed new coronavirus cases in the U.S. hit an all-time high, stoking worries among investors that the reopening of businesses they are banking on to revive the economy will be derailed. The S&P 500 was down 2.0% in afternoon trading Friday. Nike also fell after reporting a big loss as most of its stores were forced to close. Investors were disappointed to see that the number of confirmed new coronavirus cases per day in the U.S. hi
  
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• Democrats fail to override Trump veto on student loan policy

  26-06-2020 20:32
  
  House Democrats have failed to override President Donald Trump’s veto of a measure that would have reversed the Education Department’s tough policy on loan forgiveness for students misled by for-profit colleges. The House voted 238-173 on Friday in support of the override measure, coming up short of the two-thirds majority needed to send it to the Senate. It’s a victory for Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, whose policy on student loan disputes was in jeopardy after Congress vot
  
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• At least 1 person wounded in Springfield warehouse shooting

  26-06-2020 20:31
  
  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Police say officers are searching for a gunman at a warehouse in the Illinois state capital after at least one person was shot and wounded. Police received a call about shots fired at the Bunn-O-Matic warehouse in Springfield shortly after 11 a.m. Friday. Springfield Police Commander Brian Oakes says one person was confirmed to have been shot and police are trying to determine if anyone else was hit. He has provided no information about the person who was shot or t
  
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• Latin America’s critical food markets fuel virus spread

  26-06-2020 20:30
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City’s main wholesale market detects dozens of coronavirus cases every week. A covered food market in Venezuela was the source of one of the largest outbreaks in the country. And every single merchant in a market in Peru with 2,500 stalls has tested positive for the virus. As the coronavirus pandemic swamps countries from Mexico to Argentina, public health officials are struggling to limit the damage caused by Latin America’s iconic covered food market
  
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