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• West Virginia mail carrier admits attempted election fraud

  09-07-2020 23:56
  
  ELKINS, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia postal carrier has pleaded guilty to altering mail-in requests for absentee voter ballots. Thomas Cooper entered the plea Thursday in federal court in Elkins. Cooper was charged in May after eight mail-in requests for absentee voter ballots had their party affiliations altered. Cooper held a postal contract to pick up mail in the three towns in which the voters live. An investigation found five of the ballot requests were changed from Democrat to Republ
  
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• Baseball players get a peek at playing without fans

  09-07-2020 23:54
  
  Baseball players got a sense of what the game will be like without fans in the stands upon returning for workouts last week. They’re getting a more realistic glimpse this week as teams begin holding scrimmages in empty stadiums. For players used to playing in front of thousands of people, it’s been an adjustment. The baseball season will start in two weeks without fans and may stay that way for a while as coronavirus hotspots continue popping up around the country.The post Baseball p
  
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• Report blames prosecutor missteps in botched NYC convictions

  09-07-2020 23:53
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A new report says prosecutors withheld evidence, elicited false testimony and made other missteps that contributed to botched convictions in New York City in the 1980s and 90s. The findings on Thursday by the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office also cited more familiar factors like false confessions and shady police work in 25 cases that were finally overturned. But perhaps most striking was how they took aim at prosecutors for their role in convictions that put the w
  
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• Biden pledges New Deal-like economic agenda to counter Trump

  09-07-2020 23:45
  
  DUNMORE, Pa. (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden is turning his campaign against President Donald Trump toward the economy. On Thursday, he introduced a New Deal-like economic agenda while drawing a sharp contrast with a billionaire incumbent he said has abandoned working-class Americans amid cascading crises. Biden presented details of a comprehensive agenda that he touted as the most aggressive government investment in the U.S. economy since World War II. He also accused Trump of ignoring the coro
  
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• New sex abuse charges against former USC campus gynecologist

  09-07-2020 23:43
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — New charges have been filed against a former University of Southern California campus gynecologist accused of sexually assaulting young women who were his patients. Los Angeles County prosecutors say Thursday the additional charges involve five new alleged victims of Dr. George Tyndall. He previously pleaded not guilty to criminal charges involving 16 women. The amended complaint adds five counts of sexual penetration of an unconscious person and one count of sexual batt
  
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• Violence erupts at rally in Greece against new protest law

  09-07-2020 23:41
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Violence broke out in Athens during a mass demonstration against a new law to curb public protests, leaving six police officers injured. A group of protesters hurled gasoline bombs at riot police outside parliament late Thursday, while police responded with tear gas and flash grenades. Demonstrations were held in Athens and dozens of other Greek cities and towns to oppose the plans by the center-right government. The bill was approved by 187-101 votes in parliament. M
  
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• New Mexico vows to defend school funding amid virus plans

  09-07-2020 23:39
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is pushing back against threats by President Donald Trump to withhold federal funds if public schools don’t resume classroom studies. The Democratic governor said in a tweet Thursday that the president’s threats will not change the state’s science-driven approach to fighting the pandemic and that she will will do everything possible to maintain federal school funding. The state Public Education Department has issued guidan
  
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• Excessive Heat Warning issued July 9 at 2:34PM MST until July 13 at 8:00PM MST by NWS Phoenix AZ

  09-07-2020 23:34
  
  * WHAT…Dangerously hot conditions. Afternoon temperatures 108to 121 expected.
  * WHERE…Portions of south central and southwest Arizona andsoutheast and southern California.
  * WHEN…From 10 AM MST /10 AM PDT/ Saturday to 8 PM MST /8 PMPDT/ Monday.
  * IMPACTS…Very High Heat Risk. Increase in heat relatedillnesses, including heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heatstroke. Heat stroke can lead to death.An Excessive Heat Warning means that a period of very hottemperatures, even
  
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• Medical experts: Floyd’s speech didn’t mean he could breathe

  09-07-2020 23:22
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — When George Floyd said he couldn’t breathe, two of the Minneapolis officers at the scene pointed out that he could still speak. Medical experts say that reaction is dangerously wrong, and that a person can still utter words, even if they can’t inhale enough breath. They say waiting until a person can’t breathe may be too late. Floyd, a Black man who was handcuffed, died May 25 after Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, pressed his knee into Floyd&rsqu
  
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• Dallas man charged in fatal shooting of transgender woman

  09-07-2020 23:22
  
  DALLAS (AP) — A 20-year-old Dallas man has been arrested and charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Black transgender woman. Angelo Walker was taken into custody Wednesday and is being held in the Dallas County jail on a $900,000 bond. Police say he’s responsible for the death of 22-year-old Merci Richey. Richey was fatally shot outside an apartment complex in late June. Walker made an initial court appearance Thursday. His lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for
  
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• CDC head sticking to school-opening guides Trump criticized

  09-07-2020 23:20
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A top federal health official says coronavirus guidelines for reopening schools aren’t being revised despite criticism from President Donald Trump. But Dr. Robert Redfield, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevent, says additional information will be released to help state and local communities and parents decide how to move forward for the coming year. Draft CDC documents obtained by The Associated Press say the agency “cannot provide one-size-fit
  
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• Pentagon: US will respond if Russia bounty reports are true

  09-07-2020 23:17
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Pentagon leaders have told Congress that reports of Russia offering Taliban militants bounties for killing Americans were not corroborated by defense intelligence agencies. They said they are looking into it and the U.S. will respond if necessary. Defense Secretary Mark Esper says his military commanders heard initial reports on the bounty issue in January and he first saw an intelligence paper about it in February. He says that while the threats were taken seriously,
  
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• Setbacks hamper pipeline industry backed by Trump

  09-07-2020 23:16
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. energy boom and strong backing from President Donald Trump propelled a major expansion of the nation’s sprawling oil and gas pipeline network in the past decade. But mounting political pressure and legal setbacks have put its future growth in doubt — even as the pandemic saps demand for fuel. Two major oil pipelines in the Midwest suffered courtroom blows this week and utilities in the Southeast cancelled plans for an $8 billion gas transmission
  
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• St. Louis considers surveillance planes in crime battle

  09-07-2020 23:15
  
  O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — With 2020 shaping to be an especially violent year in one of the nation’s most violent cities, St. Louis leaders are considering a new tool to fight crime — surveillance planes — even as opponents worry about further the militarization of police and privacy issues. St. Louis has spent millions on anti-crime efforts over the years, but with little success. Alderman Tom Oldenburg’s proposal calls for contracting with a company called Persist
  
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• Germany seizes server hosting pilfered US police files

  09-07-2020 23:06
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Acting at the behest of the U.S. government, German authorities have seized a computer server that hosted a huge cache of files from U.S. federal, state and local law enforcement agencies obtained in a Houston data breach last month. The publisher, a transparency collective called Distributed Denial of Secrets, says it got the documents from an outside individual who sympathizes with nationwide protests against police killings of unarmed Black people. Twitter has permanently
  
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• Arkansas officer charged in fatal shooting of fellow officer

  09-07-2020 23:05
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas police officer who allegedly told a colleague he’d shoot through the door if any protesters came to his home has been charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a fellow officer who knocked on his door. The state police say 33-year-old Alexander police Officer Calvin Salyers surrendered Wednesday in the fatal June 3 shooting of Officer Scott Hutton. Hutton was shot through the door after he went to Salyers’ home to pick up a patrol u
  
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• Sheriff Napier speaks about law enforcement reform for Pima County

  09-07-2020 23:03
  
  TUCSON - Sheriff Mark Napier said the time to A.C.T. for law enforcement reform is now. He says that he doesn't want to wait for the state or federal government to work out there differences before changes are made.A.C.T. is a program the Pima Co. Sheriff's Department will be rolling out in the coming weeks for Accountability, Community Engagement and Transparency.
  Sheriff Napier said, "Accountability, Community engagement, and transparency, so it's time to ACT. I think that acronym is neat but
  
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• Reid says she wants different perspectives on MSNBC show

  09-07-2020 23:03
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC has named weekend anchor Joy Reid to the 7 p.m. Eastern time slot vacated in March when former “Hardball” host Chris Matthews retired on the air. She said she plans to offer different perspectives on her Washington-based show. The former host of the weekend show “AM Joy,” a Black woman, joins a previously all-white evening lineup on the news network geared to liberals. For prospective viewers, Reid said the imagine a crowded dinner table at a r
  
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• Excessive Heat Warning issued July 9 at 2:01PM MST until July 13 at 8:00PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ

  09-07-2020 23:01
  
  * WHAT…Dangerously hot conditions with high temperatures 102to 108 in the Upper San Pedro River Valley and Eastern CochiseCounty below 5000 feet, 90 to 100 across the BaboquivariMountains, 110 to 118 in Western Pima County, and 105 to 113elsewhere.
  * WHERE…Western Pima County, Upper Santa Cruz RiverValley/Altar Valley, South Central Pinal County, SoutheastPinal County, Upper San Pedro River Valley, Eastern CochiseCounty below 5000 feet and Baboquivari Mountains.
  * WHEN…From
  
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• Student health boss cited for not reporting doc’s misconduct

  09-07-2020 22:58
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former Ohio State student health director faces potential discipline from the state medical board for failing to report several sexual misconduct complaints in the mid-1990s about a doctor now accused of abusing young men for two decades. The citation makes former director Ted Grace the first individual to face such action in the wake of allegations that Ohio State officials long turned a blind eye to misconduct by now-deceased doctor Richard Strauss. Grace didn&rsq
  
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• The Latest: South Africa reports highest daily total cases

  09-07-2020 22:54
  
  JOHANNESBURG — South Africa announced Thursday its highest daily number of confirmed coronavirus cases with 13,674.Africa’s most developed country is now a hot spot in the global pandemic with 238,339 total confirmed cases. Gauteng province, which contains Johannesburg and the capital, Pretoria, is home to more than a third of the total cases.Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said South Africa could run out of available hospital beds within the month.The African continent has more than 52
  
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• NBC News sets goal of a workforce that is half minority

  09-07-2020 22:52
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — NBC Universal’s News Group’s chairman has set a bold goal of having a workforce at NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC that is 50 percent minority. He also wants women to make up half of the workforce. Cesar Conde says he wants to be a leader in a moment of racial awakening. He was appointed to his new role in May. His workforce is now nearly 27 percent minority, with a roughly equal amount of Blacks, Latinos and Asians. Organizations across the news business are looking c
  
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• Trump signs executive order as he courts Hispanic voters

  09-07-2020 22:51
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that creates a new advisory commission tasked with improving Hispanic Americans’ access to economic and educational opportunities. The effort comes as the president hopes to win a bigger share of the Latino vote than he did four years ago. Trump used the event to highlight how his administration had boosted employment among Hispanics prior to the coronavirus pandemic. But his attempt to court Latino voters ahead o
  
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• Mississippi seeing big virus outbreak in state legislature

  09-07-2020 22:47
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is seeing the biggest outbreak of COVID-19 among legislators in any state. At least 1 in 7 Mississippi legislators has tested positive. President Donald Trump has resisted wearing a mask, and many other Republicans around the country have cast face coverings and social distancing as an infringement on their personal freedom. But around the heavily Republican Mississippi Capitol, not wearing a mask — or wearing one pushed below the chin — was a
  
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• Worker advocates file meat plants discrimination complaint

  09-07-2020 22:45
  
  Worker advocates have filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture alleging that meat processing companies Tyson and JBS have engaged in racial discrimination during the coronavirus pandemic. The complaint filed Wednesday alleges the meatpacking companies haven’t implemented appropriate social distancing on production lines or slowed production speeds. As a result, it says, Hispanic, Black and Asian workers have suffered. The complaint alleges the policies violate
  
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• Tropical Storm Fay forms off coast of North Carolina

  09-07-2020 22:45
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Fay has formed off the coast of North Carolina. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami announced the storm’s formation Thursday afternoon. Forecasters say they will release more details shortly. It is already the sixth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. Two named storms formed before the official start of the hurricane season June 1. The post Tropical Storm Fay forms off coast of North Carolina appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Most of Wall Street wilts amid worries on virus, economy

  09-07-2020 22:43
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Most of Wall Street wilted Thursday on worries that the economy’s recent improvements may be set to fade as coronavirus cases keep climbing. The S&P 500 lost 0.6%, with three in four stocks within the index falling. The sharpest drops hit oil companies, airlines and other stocks whose fortunes are most closely tied to a reopening and strengthening economy. Treasury yields also sank in another sign of increased caution. Smaller stocks sank more than the rest of the
  
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• Milley: Confederate names on Army bases divide the military

  09-07-2020 22:42
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top military officer says the naming of Army bases for Confederate generals undermines cohesion in today’s force. Without explicitly saying the names should be changed, Gen. Mark Milley made clear he thinks this legacy of the Civil War contributes to divisions in an Army that is about 20% Black. President Donald Trump has said he will not allow any such name changes. Speaking at a House hearing on Thursday, Milley said Confederate officers carried
  
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• NBC News sets goal of a workforce that is half mnority

  09-07-2020 22:39
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — NBC Universal’s News Group’s chairman has set a bold goal of having a workforce at NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC that is 50 percent minority. He also wants women to make up half of the workforce. Cesar Conde says he wants to be a leader in a moment of racial awakening. He was appointed to his new role in May. His workforce is now nearly 27 percent minority, with a roughly equal amount of Blacks, Latinos and Asians. Organizations across the news business are looking c
  
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• Forecasters say Tropical Storm Fay has formed off North Carolina’s coast

  09-07-2020 22:36
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters say Tropical Storm Fay has formed off North Carolina’s coast.The post Forecasters say Tropical Storm Fay has formed off North Carolina’s coast appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trump team distortions on Biden and police

  09-07-2020 22:32
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s campaign team is misrepresenting Democratic rival Joe Biden’s stance on improving police practices following George Floyd’s death.
  In ads and emails this week, the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee assert that Biden would “defund the police.” That’s not Biden’s position. The former vice president has made clear he would boost money for social services and condition federal dollars on pol
  
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• Police: Black man’s hanging death in California was suicide

  09-07-2020 22:30
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A police investigation  confirmed suicide was the cause of death of a Black man found hanging from a tree in a Southern California city park last month. Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials made the announcement at a Thursday news conference. The body of 24-year-old Robert Fuller was found early on June 10 in a park near City Hall in Palmdale. Sheriff’s deputies found no evidence of a crime and an autopsy conducted the next day produced an initial find
  
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• DC judge asks for full appeal review of Flynn dismissal

  09-07-2020 22:27
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. District Court judge who oversaw the guilty plea of President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn has requested a full appeals court review of the case after a panel of judges dismissed it. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan made the highly unusual request Thursday. A three-judge panel last month dismissed the case against Flynn following the Justice Department’s unusual decision to drop the prosecution. The post DC judg
  
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• Woman charged in hit-and-run at Indiana protest

  09-07-2020 22:20
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana woman has been charged in a hit-and-run crash that sent one woman to the hospital and caused minor injuries to a man during a southern Indiana protest over the assault of a Black man by a group of white men. Monroe County Sheriff’s Deputy Barry Grooms says 66-year-old Christi Bennett, of Scottsburg, was booked into the Monroe County Jail early Thursday. She was released on $500 cash bond within a couple of hours. Prosecutors have charged her with crimin
  
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• The Latest: Aid group reports first case in rebel-held Syria

  09-07-2020 22:08
  
  BEIRUT — A Syrian group that helps deliver assistance in the rebel-held part of the country’s northwest is reporting the first case of coronavirus in the region that borders Turkey.
  The Assistance Coordination Unit says the person who tested positive in Idlib province is being isolated along with people who mingled with him.
  The Idlib Health Directorate also confirmed the case and urged residents of Idlib on Thursday to take precautionary measures.
  Experts have long warned that an ou
  
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• Officers in deadly Breonna Taylor raid thought she was alone

  09-07-2020 21:57
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville police officers who fatally shot Breonna Taylor while serving a warrant were told she should be home alone. Officers were told the main target of a large-scale narcotics investigation was elsewhere. Taylor was shot eight times after officers used a battering ram to knock down her door on March 13. Sgt. Johnathan Mattingly spoke to internal investigators about two weeks after the raid. News outlets obtained the interview with Mattingly on Thursday. Mattingl
  
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• US economy may be stalling out as viral outbreak worsens

  09-07-2020 21:43
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy is stumbling as the viral outbreak is intensifying across the country, threatening to slow hiring even as the unemployment rate remains in double-digits. Coronavirus case counts are rising in 38 states and the U.S. set a record for the most new cases earlier this week. In six states representing one-third of the U.S. economy _ Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, and Texas _ governors are reversing their reopening plans. Reopening efforts are
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 40 more COVID-19 cases, 3 more deaths

  09-07-2020 21:43
  
  WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Navajo Nation health officials have reported 40 more coronavirus cases and three additional known deaths. Tribal Department of Health officials say 7,981 people on the vast reservation that spans parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah have tested positive for COVID-19 with 382 known deaths as of Wednesday night. Health officials also say reports from all 12 health care facilities on and near the Navajo Nation indicate 61,371 people have been tested and 5,693 have r
  
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• Bronx Zoo, NYC aquarium to open July 24 after virus shutdown

  09-07-2020 21:40
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Bronx Zoo and New York City’s aquarium and three other zoos will reopen this month after being closed since March 16 because of the coronavirus outbreak. Zoo officials said Thursday that the Bronx Zoo, the New York Aquarium, the Central Park Zoo, the Prospect Park Zoo and the Queens Zoo will open on July 24. Visitors will have to buy tickets online in advance, and masks will be required for everyone over 3 years old. Zoo officials said the planned openings are tim
  
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• Official: Feds feared Epstein confidant might kill herself

  09-07-2020 21:37
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Federal officials were so worried that Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell might take her own life after her arrest that they took away her clothes and sheets and made her wear paper attire. That’s according to an official familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The steps to ensure Maxwell’s safety while she’s locked up at a federal jail in New York City extend far beyond the m
  
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• Judge strikes down Indiana abortion complications report law

  09-07-2020 21:37
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has struck down an Indiana law that would have required reports from medical providers to the state if they treat women for complications arising from abortions. The ruling issued Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Richard Young came two years after he blocked the law from taking effect following its 2018 passage by the Republican-dominated state Legislature. Young sided with Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky in its challenge to the law. He ruled
  
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• Soap opera’s kisses outwit virus with tests, spouses, dolls

  09-07-2020 21:36
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood’s technical expertise can awe us with monsters and imaginary worlds. But is it capable of delivering a simple screen kiss during a pandemic marked by masks and social distancing? Yes, according to the producer who is making that happen for CBS’ “The Bold and the Beautiful.” The daytime serial is among the first TV series to resume taping after an industry-wide production shutdown in March. The soap opera is relying on health advisers and
  
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• US Supreme Court asked to lift stay on Florida felon voting

  09-07-2020 21:34
  
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Voting rights advocates are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a stay on a federal judge’s ruling that allowed Florida felons to regain the right to vote, regardless of unpaid fines and other financial obligations. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals last week granted a request from Florida’s governor to review a May ruling that was deeply critical of how Florida has set up road blocks for hundreds of thousands of felons seeking access to the ballot bo
  
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• Navy carrier sidelined by virus returns home to San Diego

  09-07-2020 21:31
  San Diego (AP) — The USS Theodore Roosevelt has returned home to San Diego led by a new captain who came aboard after the previous one was fired over the handling of a massive COVID-19 outbreak on board. On Thursday, there were no embraces on the Navy pier typical of such homecomings. Instead, sailors disembarked one by one and walked to waiting vehicles to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The aircraft carrier in late March was sidelined in Guam for 10 weeks with an outbreak. Over ti
  
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• ‘Real Housewives’ star’s ex pleads not guilty to assault

  09-07-2020 21:25
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The ex-husband of a “Real Housewives of New Jersey” cast member and a reputed mobster have pleaded not guilty to charges that they conspired to assault the woman’s current husband. Thomas Manzo, of Franklin Lakes, and John Perna, of Cedar Grove, entered their pleas Wednesday during an arraignment hearing conducted via videoconferencing. Federal prosecutors say Manzo hired Perna to commit the attack in exchange for a lavish wedding reception at a restau
  
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• Gov. Ducey expected to provide COVID-19 update Thursday

  09-07-2020 21:22
  
  PHOENIX (KVOA) - Gov. Doug Ducey is expected to provide an update on COVID-19 in Arizona on Thursday.Ducey and other state officials are set to speak at 3 p.m. in Phoenix.
  On Thursday morning, state health officials logged 4,057 new coronavirus cases and 75 more known deaths.
  That brings the state’s documented totals to 112,671 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 2,038 known deaths.RELATED: Arizona could be the new COVID-19 capital of the worldYou catch the press conference on News 4 Tucson's
  
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• The Latest: Arizona death toll from coronavirus tops 2,000

  09-07-2020 21:17
  
  PHOENIX — Arizona’s death toll from the coronavirus topped 2,000 as state health officials reported new highs for hospitalizations and use of ventilators.
  The Department of Health Services reported 75 more deaths, increasing state’s confirmed total to 2,038. The additional 4,057 confirmed coronavirus cases reported Thursday brought the total to 112,671.
  Arizona has emerged as a national hotspot since Republican Gov. Doug Ducey loosened stay-home restrictions in mid-May.
  The sta
  
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• Moderate algae bloom forecast for Lake Erie this summer

  09-07-2020 21:00
  
  TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The blob of pea-green algae that covers parts of Lake Erie is expected to be smaller this summer than a year ago. That’s according to the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which released its annual forecast Thursday. It predicts the algae bloom will reach 4.5 on the severity index, down from 7.3 last year but higher than the 3.8 rating in 2018. The measurements indicate the amount of algae in the water for an extended period. Scienti
  
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• Police: Mother admits to starving daughter, dumping body

  09-07-2020 20:56
  
  SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Police say a Maryland woman accused of starving her 15-month-old daughter for more than three weeks has been charged with first-degree murder. The Montgomery County Police Department on Thursday said 23-year-old Kiearra Tolson admitted to placing her daughter’s body in a pillowcase and trash bags after she died last month. Authorities say she then discarded the child’s body in a nearby dumpster. Police say the Silver Spring woman also told authorities
  
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• Brazil asks investment firms to adopt protected Amazon areas

  09-07-2020 20:45
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s government has proposed that global asset-managers adopt protected areas in the Amazon rainforest in order to curb illegal deforestation ahead of the season farmers traditionally use fire to clear land and brush. The proposal by Vice President Hamilton Mourão, who heads the government’s council on the Amazon region, comes after a group of mainly European investment firms sent a letter last month expressing concern over rising deforestation
  
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