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• Portuguese government raises its stake in national airline

  02-07-2020 23:41
  
  LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The Portuguese government has announced that it is increasing its stake in TAP Air Portugal from 50% to 72.5%,. The move announced Thursday comes after prolonged negotiations with the airline’s minority private shareholders on how to save the money-losing company. The European Commission recently granted the Portuguese government permission to inject 1.2 billion euros ($1.35 billion) into TAP, on the condition it scaled back the airline’s operations and
  
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• California governor urges people to avoid holiday gatherings

  02-07-2020 23:41
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom is urging Californians to use common sense over the 4th of July weekend by wearing masks and avoiding traditional gatherings with family and friends. The governor says the state won’t be “going into everybody’s backyard and enforcing” but people should be safe and thoughtful. His comments came Thursday after he announced a new public awareness campaign involving billboards, TV and radio ads in English and Spanish urging pe
  
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• White Michigan couple arrested after gun pulled on Blacks

  02-07-2020 23:40
  
  A white couple has been arrested after at least one handgun was pulled on a Black woman and her daughters during a videotaped confrontation in a restaurant parking lot in Michigan. Jillian Wuestenberg and Eric Wuestenberg were charged Thursday with felonious assault. Cellphone video captured the confrontation Wednesday outside a Chipotle in Orion Township, northwest of Detroit. Jillian Wuestenberg can be seen outside her vehicle shouting “Get away!” while pointing a handgun. She even
  
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• Special Weather Statement issued July 2 at 2:31PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ

  02-07-2020 23:31
  
  At 230 PM MST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 10miles north of Bisbee, moving northeast at 20 mph.
  Winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with this storm.
  Locations impacted include…Bisbee and Elfrida.The post Special Weather Statement issued July 2 at 2:31PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Herman Cain treated for COVID-19 after attending Trump rally

  02-07-2020 23:31
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — 2012 GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain is being treated for the coronavirus at an Atlanta-area hospital. That’s according to a statement posted on his Twitter account Thursday. It’s not clear where Cain was infected. The 74-year-old was hospitalized less than two weeks after attending President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The statement says Cain was hospitalized Wednesday after he developed “serious” symptoms but he
  
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• Military chief: Troops were issued bayonets in DC unrest

  02-07-2020 23:24
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has confirmed a report by The Associated Press that some of the service members who mobilized to Washington, D.C., last month in response to civil unrest were issued bayonets. Army Gen. Mark A. Milley confirmed the information in a letter sent to two Democratic U.S. representatives last month. In addition, an unclassified military document provided to the AP shows that members of the 82nd Airborne who deployed to the capital
  
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• Special Weather Statement issued July 2 at 2:17PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ

  02-07-2020 23:17
  
  At 216 PM MST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm nearPatagonia, or 22 miles northeast of Nogales, moving northeast at 25mph.
  Dime size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible withthis storm.
  Locations impacted include…Patagonia, Sonoita, Elgin and Canelo.The post Special Weather Statement issued July 2 at 2:17PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Booker reaches out to unite Democrats against McConnell

  02-07-2020 23:15
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Progressive Charles Booker has reached out to help unite Kentucky Democrats behind Amy McGrath’s fight to unseat Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Booker lost to McGrath by about 15,000 votes in Democratic Senate primary results released Tuesday. On Thursday, Booker portrayed McConnell as “our common enemy” in the struggle against generational poverty and structural racism. Those issues formed the foundation of his campaign. McGrath
  
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• Harley-Davidson cuts ties with dealership over racist posts

  02-07-2020 23:13
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Harley-Davidson said it is pulling its Facebook ads for the month of July and severing ties with a Tennessee dealership whose owner was accused of posting racist comments on social media disparaging Black Lives Matter protesters. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Thursday that the post was allegedly made on the Facebook page of Abernathy’s Cycles, a Union City, Tennessee, motorcycle and ATV dealership. The post read “I’m sick of this black lives mat
  
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• Bell to commentate and race on same day in different states

  02-07-2020 23:06
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Townsend Bell is putting his own unique twist on “double duty” this weekend. The NBC Sports analyst will call the IndyCar race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Saturday before jetting off to Florida to compete in the IMSA sports car race at Daytona. When the IndyCar race ends, a police escort will take him and car owners Jimmy Vasser and James Sullivan to a chartered plane to make it back to Daytona for the 6:10 p.m. start. The post Bell to commentate
  
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• Black worker files discrimination complaint against Facebook

  02-07-2020 23:00
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A Black Facebook employee, joined by two others who were denied jobs at the social network, has filed a complaint against the company, saying it discriminates against Black workers and applicants in hiring, evaluations, promotions and pay. The charge was filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by Oscar Veneszee, Jr., who has worked as an operations program manager at Facebook since 2017 and claims he has not been fairly evaluated or promoted despite hi
  
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• Arizona business leaders have high hopes as USMCA takes effect

  02-07-2020 23:00
  
  WASHINGTON – There’s often not much agreement on news out of Washington, but Arizona business leaders were hard-pressed this week to come up with negatives about the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that took effect Wednesday.The deal, which has been several years in the making, replaces the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement that created the three-country trading zone that economists say has been worth billions in trade and thousands of jobs in Arizona alone.&ldqu
  
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• Human foosball: New form of soccer developed for pandemic

  02-07-2020 22:51
  
  PERGAMINO, Argentina (AP) — Soccer-starved Argentines have found a way to play their beloved sport while social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. The rules have been altered, and the dazzling end-to-end dashes produced by national legend Diego Maradona are impossible. The system has been dubbed “metegol humano,” or “human foosball.” It involves dividing the field with white chalk into 12 rectangles and restricting each player to a defined space. The ball c
  
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• Texas governor issues mask order to fight coronovirus

  02-07-2020 22:49
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered that face coverings must be worn in public across most of the state The move announced Thursday is a dramatic ramp up of the Republican governor’s efforts to control spiking numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. Abbott had pushed Texas’ aggressive reopening of the state economy in May. He previously said the government could not order individuals to wear masks. His previous orders had undercut early
  
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• Democrats say troop threats should be pursued ‘relentlessly’

  02-07-2020 22:49
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The two top Democrats in Congress say any threats to U.S. troops must be pursued “relentlessly.” They are rebuking President Donald Trump after receiving a highly classified briefing about intelligence that Russia offered bounties for killing U.S. troops in Afghanistan. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer accuse Trump of being “soft” on Russian President Vladimir Putin and distracted by less important issues. Trump
  
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• Blue Jays granted exemption to train in Toronto

  02-07-2020 22:45
  
  TORONTO (AP) — All 30 Major League Baseball teams will train at their regular-season ballparks for the pandemic-shortened season after the Toronto Blue Jays received a Canadian federal government exemption to work out at Rogers Centre. Toronto will move training camp from its spring training complex in Dunedin, Florida. This exemption does not cover the regular season and player travel between the U.S. and Canada. MLB required an exemption to a requirement that anyone entering Canada for n
  
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• Texas Governor issues statewide mask order to fight COVID-19

  02-07-2020 22:43
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered that face coverings must be worn in public across most of the state The move announced Thursday is a dramatic ramp up of the Republican governor’s efforts to control spiking numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. Abbott had pushed Texas’ aggressive reopening of the state economy in May. He previously said the government could not order individuals to wear masks. His previous orders had undercut early
  
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• NY prosecutors appeal Manafort’s double jeopardy dismissal

  02-07-2020 22:36
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors seeking to revive state mortgage fraud charges against Paul Manafort say their case is distinct from one that sent President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman to federal prison and shouldn’t have been thrown out on double jeopardy grounds. In appeal paperwork made public Thursday, Manhattan prosecutors argued Judge Maxwell Wiley took an “exceedingly broad view” in reaching the conclusion last December that their case mirror
  
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• US jobs surge: Trump sees sunshine, Biden ‘no victory yet’

  02-07-2020 22:28
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. economy just posted its largest single-month job gain in history. At the same time, the unemployment rate sits at one of its worst points since the Great Depression. ‘As Republicans and Democrats fight to spin Thursday’s jobs numbers to their advantage, both sides face tremendous political risks on a defining issue heading into the presidential election. Joe Biden seized on the growing threat presented by the coronavirus after the better-than-expected n
  
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• Kansas legislators seek investigation into former detective

  02-07-2020 22:27
  
  BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — A coalition of Kansas lawmakers, religious leaders and racial justice advocates called Thursday for an investigation into a retired white police detective accused of preying on Black women for sex over decades and framing for murder the son of one of them. A letter signed by 27 state lawmakers from both parties was sent to the Kansas Bureau of Investigations asking them to investigate former detective Roger Golubski and others in the police force.  The letter
  
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• Epstein pal arrested, accused of luring girls for sex abuse

  02-07-2020 22:23
  
  The FBI has arrested a British socialite on charges she helped lure three girls to be sexually abused by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein was accused of victimizing dozens of girls and women over many years. According to an indictment unsealed Thursday, Ghislaine Maxwell facilitated Epstein’s crimes by “helping Epstein to recruit, groom, and ultimately abuse” girls. She is also accused of participating in the abuse. Epstein killed himself in a federal detention cente
  
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• Deadline to register for Primary Election is July 6

  02-07-2020 22:18
  
  Marc D. Anderson / Twitter'I Voted' sticker, Photo Date: 6/5/2018
  TUCSON (KVOA) - The Pima County Recorder Offices will be open for extended hours on Monday.
  July 6 is the deadline to register to vote in the August 4 Primary Election.LIST: Early voting sites in Pima CountyYou can request early ballots to be mailed for the upcoming Primary Election, HERE.Voters may also print a form to request a ballot by mail for the Primary and General Elections.A separate request must be made f
  
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• Audit criticizes Houston police unit tied to fatal drug raid

  02-07-2020 22:13
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — An audit has found various problems with a Houston Police Department narcotics unit that’s been under scrutiny following a deadly 2019 drug raid. The audit found that officers made hundreds of errors in cases, often weren’t thorough in their investigations, lacked supervision and overpaid informants for the seizure of minuscule amounts of drugs.  A group of state lawmakers who’ve been fighting for months for the audit’s release criticized the rep
  
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• Death toll rises to 26 in Mexican drug rehab center attack

  02-07-2020 22:12
  
  IRAPUATO, Mexico (AP) — The killing of 26 people in an unregistered drug rehabilitation center in central Mexico is the deadliest such attack in a decade and has led to calls for change in a prosperous state that has become a cartel battleground. Authorities in the city of Irapuato in Guanajuato state on Thursday raised the death toll from 24 after two of the seven people injured in the attack died. Police in Guanajuato state said Wednesday’s attack occurred at a modest two-story hou
  
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• Richmond removes 2nd Confederate statue as crowd cheers

  02-07-2020 22:10
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Work crews have removed a second Confederate monument in Richmond as the city rushes to take down statues that have long been seen as symbols of slavery and oppression. A crowd cheered Thursday morning as a crane lifted a statue of Navy officer Matthew Fontaine Maury from its base. His statue was removed a day after crews took down a statue of Gen. Stonewall Jackson on an order from Mayor Levar Stoney to remove all Confederate statues on city land. The Maury statue was
  
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• Stocks rise on jobs data, S&P 500 ends week with solid gain

  02-07-2020 22:09
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are closing higher Thursday after a report showed the U.S. job market continues to climb out of the crater created by the coronavirus pandemic in the spring. The S&P 500 rose 0.5% and finished the holiday-shortened week with a gain of 4%. Stocks also rose across Europe and Asia, while oil prices strengthened on hopes that a recovering economy will mean more demand. Worries about the virus are still weighing on investors, however. Florida reported another sharp in
  
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• Congress passes bill rebuking China over Hong Kong crackdown

  02-07-2020 22:08
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has approved a bill rebuking China over its crackdown in Hong Kong amid protests against a strict “national security” law that outlaws so-called subversive or terrorist acts, as well as collusion with foreign forces intervening in the city’s affairs. Critics say the new law effectively ends the “one country, two systems” framework under which Hong Kong was promised a high degree of autonomy when it reverted from British to Chinese ru
  
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• Watchdog says govt blocking report on Trump-hurricane flap

  02-07-2020 22:04
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog says the Commerce Department is trying to block the findings of an investigation into the agency’s role in rebuking forecasters who contradicted President Donald Trump’s inaccurate claims about the path of Hurricane Dorian last year. The accusation comes from Peggy Gustafson, the inspector general for the Commerce Department. It’s the latest turn in a saga that led the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to chastise gove
  
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• Locals: South Dakota police removed Confederate flag emblem

  02-07-2020 22:01
  
  GETTYSBURG, S.D. (AP) — Local residents say a South Dakota police department has removed a decal from its squad cars that featured a Confederate battle flag next to an American flag. Dave Mogard, the police chief in Gettysburg, declined to confirm that the decal had been removed, saying Thursday that the City Council would discuss the issue at a meeting next week. Several locals, including Selwyn Jones, an uncle of George Floyd, say the decal had been removed from the department’s sq
  
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• He Built a Privately Funded Border Wall. It’s Already at Risk of Falling Down if Not Fixed.

  02-07-2020 22:00
  
  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.…
  
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• Report: Sardinia blocks Americans who land in private jet

  02-07-2020 21:57
  
  ROME (AP) — Officials on the Italian island of Sardinia are distancing themselves from a reported decision by local airport authorities to prevent a group of Americans who arrived in a private plane from going to their rented summer house due to the coronavirus. Because of the number of confirmed virus cases still getting reported in the United States, the European Union did not include the U.S. on the list of countries whose nationals were allowed to resume visiting Europe this week. The
  
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• Moo-ving Friendship: Calf and cattle dog form inseparable bond

  02-07-2020 21:52
  
  (KFOR/NBC News) Genia Kay Meyer's Peavine, Oklahoma backyard is a convalescent home this summer.Meyer brings a bottle every morning for her one patient, a downed calf named Cupcake.“She was my cousin’s,” Meyer says. “They had worked with her. We got her at 5-weeks-old.”Cupcake was born with crooked legs and has trouble standing and walking.Genia’s husband, Tim, helps out too.But the nurse spending the most time with Cupcake, virtually every minute, is Bo, a p
  
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• Buttigieg, South Carolina mayor teaming up on COVID effort

  02-07-2020 21:51
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former South Bend, Indiana, mayor and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has teamed up with the mayor of South Carolina’s capital city to help municipalities stem the spread of the coronavirus. Columbia, South Carolina, Mayor Steve Benjamin says he and Buttigieg have been co-chairing the Pandemic Resilience Working Group for America’s Mayors. The group is organized by the COVID-19 Study Group at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard Universit
  
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• Mother of UN rights chief Bachelet dies in Chile

  02-07-2020 21:49
  
  SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The mother of U.N. human rights chief and former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has died at age 93. The country’s Air Force announced that Ángela Jeria Gómez died Thursday, a day after being admitted to a military hospital. Jeria Gómez’s husband, Air Force Gen. Alberto Bachelet, died in prison after being tortured by the military regime that seized power in 1973. She herself was imprisoned along with Bachelet and both were fortur
  
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• One officer shown in Elijah McClain photos resigns

  02-07-2020 21:40
  
  AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Police in Aurora, Colorado, say one of the police officers investigated over photographs connected with the death of Elijah McClain has resigned. The department said Thursday that Jaron Jones was one of the employees depicted in the photos, which were taken sometime after McClain’s death last summer. The department hasn’t released details about what they show or said how many officers were being investigated. However, they say the photographs were taken nea
  
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• AP EXCLUSIVE: Soldiers were issued bayonets for DC unrest

  02-07-2020 21:31
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has confirmed a report by The Associated Press that some of the service members who deployed to Washington, D.C., last month in response to civil unrest were issued bayonets. Army Gen. Mark A. Milley confirmed the information in a letter sent to two Democratic U.S. representatives last month. The Pentagon letter comes as the AP also reports that members of the 82nd Airborne who deployed to Washington were not trained in riot
  
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• Tucson Make-A-Wish kid receives basketball wheelchair

  02-07-2020 21:27
  
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  TUCSON (KVOA) - A Sahuarita High School graduate has been granted a wish.Sariah, 18, will soon start her basketball career at the University of Arizona.She now has a custom wheelchair basketball thanks to Make-A-Wish Arizona.
  Sariah was paralyzed in an an auto accident at the age of 15.
  Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Sariah found out she had a brain tumor.
  “Basketball was my life before my accident and helped to bring my out of my depression after my accident,&r
  
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• Police chief shot in Reagan assassination attempt retiring

  02-07-2020 21:18
  
  ORLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — An suburban Chicago police chief who was wounded in the assassination attempt on then-President Ronald Reagan is retiring after nearly half a century in law enforcement. Tim McCarthy, who has served as Orland Park’s police chief for 26 years, is retiring Aug. 1. McCarthy says he wants to spend more time with his wife, children and grandchildren. While serving for eight years in the Secret Service’s Presidential Protective Division, McCarthy was shot in
  
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• Founder of German Schoenstatt Movement accused of abuses

  02-07-2020 21:18
  
  Another founder of a 20th century lay Catholic movement has been accused of abusing his power, including sexually and spiritually, with nuns in his care. A German researcher says she found evidence in newly released Vatican archives that the Holy See investigated the Rev. Josef Kentenich in the 1950s and because of his abuses ordered the German priest exiled from the Schoenstatt Movement. Church historian Alexandra Von Teuffenbach said she wanted to reveal the truth about Kentenich, and “d
  
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• Attorney: Missing Texas solider was killed at Fort Hood

  02-07-2020 21:18
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The lawyer for the family of a soldier missing since April says Army investigators believe the woman was killed by another soldier on the Texas base where they served. Attorney Natalie Khawam said Thursday that the U.S. Army Criminal Investigations Division told her that the other soldier bludgeoned 20-year-old Vanessa Guillen with a hammer at Fort Hood and later dismembered her and buried the remains in the woods. Army officials did not immediately return a call for c
  
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• Rain Helps Slow Bighorn Fire, Flash Flood Warnings Today

  02-07-2020 21:15
  
  The monsoon may be the next major player in the Bighorn Fire story. The 118,000-acre fire is now more than half contained after burning across the Catalina Mountains for nearly a month.…
  
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• US sets deadline for wolverines protection decision

  02-07-2020 21:05
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. wildlife officials have agreed to decide by the end of August whether climate change and other threats are pushing the rare wolverine closer to extinction. Government attorneys and conservation groups that sued to force a decision filed court documents Thursday settling the lawsuit and agreeing to the deadline. That comes more than four years after a federal judge chastised government officials for rejecting the views of many of its own scientists when it decide
  
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• Saudi-led coalition launches new strikes on Yemeni capital

  02-07-2020 21:03
  
  CAIRO (AP) — The Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels in Yemen says it’s unleashed a new air campaign on the capital, Sanaa, and on other provinces, in retaliation for drone attacks on Saudi Arabia claimed by the rebels. Residents in rebel-held Sanaa reported hearing huge explosions as bombs fell on the city on Wednesday night. Houthi-run media claimed several civilian casualties but their reports could not be independently verified. Bombs struck an oil storage depot. The
  
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• Confirmed coronavirus cases are rising in 40 of 50 states

  02-07-2020 21:02
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. climbed to a new high of more than 50,000 per day on Thursday, with the infection curve rising in 40 out of 50 states, as the pandemic trended in the wrong direction in nearly all of the country outside of the Northeast. The U.S. recorded 50,700 new cases, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. All but 10 U.S. states are showing an increase of confirmed cases over the last 14 days, according
  
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• Over 80 killed in Ethiopia unrest after singer shot dead

  02-07-2020 21:01
  
  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian state media says more than 80 people have been killed in unrest after a popular singer was shot dead this week. Hachalu Hundessa was buried Thursday amid tight security. He was a prominent voice in anti-government protests that led to a dramatic change in leadership in 2018. The new violence poses a major test for the country’s prime minister, whose political reforms have been challenged by ethnic and other grievances. He has called for Ethiopia
  
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• FBI arrests Epstein pal, accused of enabling abuse of girls

  02-07-2020 20:58
  
  The FBI has arrested British socialite on charges she helped recruit three girls to be sexually abused by financier Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein was accused of assaulting dozens of girls and women over many years. An indictment unsealed Thursday said Maxwell facilitated Epstein’s crimes by “helping Epstein to recruit, groom, and ultimately abuse” girls as young as 14. It also said she participated in the abuse. Epstein killed himself in a federal detention center in New York last s
  
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• Hugh Downs, genial presence on TV news and game shows, dies

  02-07-2020 20:55
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Hugh Downs, a genial and near-constant presence on television from the 1950s through the 1990s, has died. His family said Downs died of natural causes Wednesday night in Scottsdale, Arizona. Downs was a host of the ‘Today” show on NBC, worked on the “Tonight” show when Jack Paar was in charge, and hosted the long-running game show “Concentration.” He co-hosted the ABC newsmagazine ‘20/20’ with Barbara Walters. Until surpassed
  
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• US, Russia share a complex and bloody history in Afghanistan

  02-07-2020 20:48
  
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Moscow and Washington are intertwined in a complex and bloody history in Afghanistan, with both suffering thousands of dead and wounded in conflicts lasting for years. Now both superpowers are linked again over Afghanistan, with intelligence reports indicating Russia secretly offered bounties to the Taliban to kill American troops there. But analysts suggest that the two adversaries actually have more in common, especially when it comes to what they want to see in a postwa
  
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• Court record shows St. Louis couple pulled gun before

  02-07-2020 20:44
  
  O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Court documents show the white St. Louis couple who became internationally famous for standing guard with guns outside their mansion during a protest have pulled a weapon before in defense of their property. As demonstrators marched near the home of Mark and Patricia McCloskey on Sunday, video posted online showed him wielding a long-barreled gun and her with a small handgun. The McCloskeys and the trustees of Portland Place are involved in a legal dispute over a
  
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• ‘Help is on the way’: Pence makes house call to Arizona amid COVID-19 surge

  02-07-2020 20:30
  
  PHOENIX – As Arizona broke records Wednesday for new COVID-19 cases and deaths reported in a single day, Vice President Mike Pence flew in to assure Gov. Doug Ducey that the federal government “will spare no expense” in helping the state.Pence’s trip originally included a visit to Tucson and a rally with supporters, but those events were canceled as the vice president continues to tour states hard hit by COVID-19, including Texas last weekend and a trip to Florida on Thu
  
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