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• Clint Eastwood sues CBD sellers over use of his name, image

  22-07-2020 23:58
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clint Eastwood has sued several companies that sell CBD supplements alleging that they are falsely using his name and image to push their products. Two lawsuits filed Wednesday in federal court say companies have spread phony articles reporting that the 90-year-old actor-director is quitting the movie business to focus on a CBD business. The lawsuits say Eastwood has no part in the manufacture, sale or promotion of CBD. One defendant, Sera Labs, says that before the laws
  
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• Tesla picks Texas site for second US vehicle assembly plant

  22-07-2020 23:56
  
  Tesla has picked the Austin, Texas, area as the site for its largest auto assembly plant employing at least 5,000 workers. The company will build on a 2,100-acre tract in Travis County and will get more than $60 million in tax breaks from the county and a local school district. The new factory will build Tesla’s upcoming Cybertruck pickup. It also will be a second U.S. factory for the Model Y small SUV. The region that’s home to the University of Texas at Austin and tech companies su
  
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• Greek former minister charged over pharmaceutical probe

  22-07-2020 23:53
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s parliament has voted to charge a former deputy justice minister with breach of duty and incitement to abuse of office over allegations he sought to incriminate political opponents in a purported pharmaceutical bribery scandal. The charges against Dimitris Papangelopoulos refer to an investigation into purported allegations that Swiss drugmaker Novartis paid bribes to boost the sales and prices of its products in Greece. In 2018, when the left-wing gover
  
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• Buffalo DL Ed Oliver’s drunken driving, gun charges dropped

  22-07-2020 23:52
  
  CONROE, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped drunken driving and illegal handgun charges against Buffalo Bills defensive lineman Ed Oliver, who had been arrested during a traffic stop in Houston’s northern suburbs. A spokesman for the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday that the case is dropped for lack of evidence after blood test results showed no intoxication. Spokesman Kelly Blackburn said no further prosecution was expected. The Montgomery County P
  
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• 23-year-old from Sierra Vista arrested for child molestation

  22-07-2020 23:50
  
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  SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (KVOA) - A 23-year-old man from Sierra Vista was taken into custody Tuesday in connection to a report of an inappropriate relationship involving a juvenile.According to Sierra Vista Police Department, the investigation into the case began when the department received a report about the relationship from the mother of the juvenile. The mother said a neighbor told her that an unknown man was spotted entering her apartment when she
  
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• The Latest: Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio require masks statewide

  22-07-2020 23:46
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio, Indiana and Minnesota are the latest states to require residents statewide to wear masks because of the coronavirus pandemic.
  Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order Wednesday requiring Minnesotans to wear a face covering in indoor businesses and indoor public settings. The order takes effect Saturday.Indiana will have a statewide face mask mandate starting Monday, Gov. Eric Holcomb said Wednesday. The order will apply to anyone ages 8 and older in any indo
  
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• Flashpoints emerge as lawmakers negotiate new virus aid

  22-07-2020 23:46
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is just starting to negotiate new legislation to renew coronavirus aid. But the biggest obstacles to a deal are already coming into view. The Democratic House passed a whopping $3.5 trillion coronavirus response bill more than two months ago and is demanding robust funding to help state and local governments. Republicans want to keep the bill closer to $1 trillion and are insisting on new legal protections for schools, businesses, and charities that are trying to
  
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• Nebraska Senate hopeful who sent vulgar texts declines exit

  22-07-2020 23:44
  
  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Nebraska is doubling down on his promise to stay in the race, despite growing pressure to drop out after he sent sexually vulgar text messages to a campaign staffer. Chris Janicek says he won’t withdraw from the race, and he blames the state’s top Democratic leaders for the party’s recent struggles to win statewide office in Republican-dominated Nebraska. His comments came just days after the Nebraska Democratic P
  
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• United sees revenue stalling at 50% without a virus vaccine

  22-07-2020 23:43
  
  An increase in air travel has stalled, but United Airlines says it will resume once the current resurgence in new coronavirus cases is over. But even then, the airline says revenue will hover at around 50% of normal until there is a vaccine for COVID-19. United executives made the comments Wednesday on a call with analysts and reporters. The airline lost $1.6 billion in the second quarter as revenue plunged 89% from the same period last year. United also says passengers must now wear face masks
  
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• House OKs repeal of Trump travel ban decried as anti-Muslim

  22-07-2020 23:43
  
  The House has approved a measure that would repeal the Trump administration’s travel ban and further restrict the president’s power to limit entry to the U.S. It’s a symbolic victory for Muslim American and civil rights groups. The bill passed 233-183. It had initially been slated for action in March, before the coronavirus forced scheduling changes on Capitol Hill. It is unlikely to advance in the Republican-controlled Senate, where it has no GOP support, but House passage sti
  
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• Government defends imprisoning ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen

  22-07-2020 23:42
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say President Donald Trump’s ex-personal lawyer was returned to prison because he refused to sign an agreement describing terms of his home confinement, not because he planned to publish a book critical of Trump. Prosecutors filed papers Wednesday in advance of a court hearing Thursday before a judge who will decide whether Michael Cohen’s constitutional rights were violated when he was returned to prison July 9. Cohen’s lawyers sued federal of
  
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• Tesla picks Austin, Texas area as the site for its largest auto assembly plant employing at least 5,000 workers.

  22-07-2020 23:37
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Tesla picks Austin, Texas area as the site for its largest auto assembly plant employing at least 5,000 workers.
  
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• Congress passes sprawling plan to boost conservation, parks

  22-07-2020 23:36
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan bill that would spend nearly $3 billion on conservation projects, outdoor recreation and maintenance of national parks and other public lands is on its way to the president’s desk after winning final legislative approval. Supporters say the measure, known as the Great American Outdoors Act, would be the most significant conservation legislation enacted in nearly 50 years. The House approved the bill Wednesday, weeks after it won overwhelming approval in
  
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• Nigeria president says Islamic militants kill 5 aid workers

  22-07-2020 23:26
  
  MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic extremists have released a video showing the slayings of five people who Nigeria’s president says were aid workers abducted in northeastern Nigeria last month. Their abductions came around the same time that a Boko Haram splinter group said it would begin targeting Nigerians who work for international aid organizations as well as those who help the military. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari issued a statement identifying the victims in the video r
  
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• Microsoft weathers pandemic, beats Wall Street expectations

  22-07-2020 23:25
  
  REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft says the coronavirus pandemic has increased demand for its flagship cloud computing and workplace productivity products as it reported quarterly earnings Wednesday that beat Wall Street expectations. Microsoft reported fiscal fourth-quarter profit of $11.2 billion, or $1.46 per share, beating Wall Street expectations of $1.34 a share. It posted revenue of $38 billion in the April-June period, up 13% from last year. Analysts had been looking for revenue of $3
  
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• Democrats warn GOP divisions are delaying virus aid

  22-07-2020 23:24
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite disarray in the Republican ranks, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is pushing ahead on the next COVID-19 aid package. He’s preparing to present a GOP draft soon. Democrats say Republicans must quit delaying and act. A $600 unemployment benefit boost and housing assistance expires Friday. The price tag for the next COVID-19 aid package could quickly swell above $1 trillion. Republicans are divided over big spending, forcing McConnell and the White House
  
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• Flash Flood Warning issued July 22 at 2:19PM MST until July 22 at 4:00PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ

  22-07-2020 23:19
  
  At 219 PM MST, Automated rain gauges on the northern side of theCatalina Mountains indicated locally in excess of 1 inch of rain.Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
  Excessive rainfall over the burn scar will result in possible debrisflow moving through the the CDO Wash. The debris flow can consist ofrock, mud, vegetation and other loose materials.
  HAZARD…Life threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms producingflash flooding.
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• Effort to remove Confederate statues stalled in rural areas

  22-07-2020 23:16
  
  CLINTON, La. (AP) — Dozens of Confederate statues have fallen across the country _ often in more liberal-leaning urban centers — but in many smaller places, the effort to remove markers that many view as racist relics has stalled or has yet to arrive.A tally by The Associated Press shows that more than 60 Confederate statues, monuments or markers have been removed from public land across the country since Floyd’s death on May 25.All but eight have come down in cities or metropo
  
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• Trump deploys more federal agents under ‘law-and-order’ push

  22-07-2020 23:14
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he will send federal agents into Chicago and Albuquerque to help combat rising crime as he runs for reelection under a “law-and-order” mantle. Using alarmist language, Trump on Wednesday painted Democrat-led cities as out of control, even though criminal justice experts say the increase in violence in some cities defies easy explanation. The decision to dispatch federal agents to American cities is playing out at a hyperpoliticized
  
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• Small Nevada communities have not received US relief funds

  22-07-2020 23:14
  
  CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — In Nevada, all local governments except Las Vegas and Clark County have not received federal coronavirus aid passed by Congress in March. Local officials say it is difficult to help communities without the money as costs accumulate and the virus continues to spread. Gov. Steve Sisolak said Nevada cities and counties will get the money once they are certified, but local officials say they want direct aid from the federal government instead of money that passes throu
  
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• Sudan’s premier appoints civilians as provincial governors

  22-07-2020 23:03
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s prime minister has announced the appointment of civilian governors, including two women, for the country’s 18 provinces. The appointments announced Wednesday are another key step forward in Sudan’s fragile transition to democracy. Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok also says his government will gradually slash some energy subsidies as part reforms to help the African nation face daunting economic challenges. A popular uprising led the military to overthrow
  
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• Sierra Club calls out founder John Muir for racist views

  22-07-2020 23:01
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Sierra Club is reckoning with the racist views of founder John Muir, the naturalist who helped spawn environmentalism. The Oakland, California-based environmental group said Wednesday that Muir was part of the group’s history perpetuating white supremacy. Executive Director Michael Brune says Muir made racist remarks about Black people and Native Americans, though his views later evolved. Brune says that as Confederate monuments are toppled, it’s time for
  
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• Court rejects long-simmering challenge to Proposition 123 school funding

  22-07-2020 23:00
  
  PHOENIX – A federal appeals court Tuesday rejected a long-simmering challenge to Proposition 123, the voter-approved 2016 measure that is set to redirect an estimated $3.5 billion to Arizona public schools over a decade.A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling in the case, which has been pending since the day after Prop 123 was passed by a margin of just 1.5%.Phoenix resident Michael Pierce had argued that the state could not transfer fu
  
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• Illinois reports July’s highest one-day total of virus cases

  22-07-2020 22:58
  
  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — As parts of the nation struggle with a worse coronavirus outbreak than during its high points last spring, Illinois officials announced on Wednesday an increasing number of new infections as well. Gov. J.B. Pritzker made a public plea to wear masks when outside the home and continue physical distancing and conscientious hygiene to stem the spread of the highly contagious and potentially deadly coronavirus. The state reported nearly 1,600 new cases of COVID-19, the
  
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• Utah sees virus surge — but not in county with mask order

  22-07-2020 22:55
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah has seen a surge in coronavirus cases _ but not in densely populated Salt Lake City, where cases are dropping a month after the county instituted a mask mandate. In a rare scenario, case counts in Salt Lake County have started returning to late-June levels  while the number of cases in the state as a whole have nearly doubled in the same time frame. Mandating face coverings has been hotly debated in recent weeks as more than half of U.S. states have implemen
  
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• Whitmer: Enbridge dodging responsibility for potential spill

  22-07-2020 22:52
  
  TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says Enbridge is falling short of a clear pledge to pay for any spill from its oil pipeline in a Great Lakes channel. Whitmer’s administration is pushing the Canadian company for an airtight, written promise to cover any costs of a spill from Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac. Enbridge says it already provided such assurances under a 2018 deal with former Gov. Rick Snyder to build a tunnel that would house a new pipeline in t
  
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• DC mayor orders mandatory masks as infections rise again

  22-07-2020 22:46
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser has issued an executive order making face masks mandatory outside the home. It’s an unprecedented step in the nation’s capital as cases are rising. Bowser says the order will include “enforcement language” detailing possible fines for violations. However, the order does not apply to “any employees of the federal government while they are on duty.” After saying they had successfully blunted the infec
  
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• El Tour, TMC deliver ice cream to frontline workers

  22-07-2020 22:45
  
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  TUCSON (KVOA) - El Tour and Tucson Medical Center came together to provide a cool treat to frontline workers who continue to battle the coronavirus.
  Event organizers say hundreds of ice cream treats were handed out Tuesday to hospital workers while they enjoyed a social event at the TMC campus.Those with El Tour say the event was put together to show their appreciation for the hard work our frontline workers continue to do.
  "Obviously, these medical workers
  
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• Ex-cop charged in Floyd’s death faces tax evasion counts

  22-07-2020 22:44
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd has been charged with multiple felony counts of tax evasion. Derek Chauvin and his wife, Kellie May Chauvin, were charged Wednesday in Washington County. They are each charged with six counts related to filing false tax returns dating back to the 2014 tax year, and three counts of failing to file returns for 2016, 2017 and 2018. Chauvin is currently in custody in connection with Floyd&
  
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• Vice presidential debate to be held with audience in Utah

  22-07-2020 22:42
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A vice presidential debate will be held with an audience at the University of Utah in October, though it will be significantly smaller to accommodate social distancing amid a surge of coronavirus cases in Utah and elsewhere. Officials said Wednesday the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates decided the gathering can be done safely, and having it adds to the atmosphere in the room. The commission and Utah organizers have been working closely with health expert
  
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• Federal operation in Kansas City targets violent crime

  22-07-2020 22:38
  
  LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A massive federal operation underway in Kansas City, Missouri, that targets violent crime has been largely welcomed by local and state officials. The federal effort is dubbed Operation LeGend after a 4-year-old boy fatally shot while sleeping in his bed in Kansas City. Under the effort, 225 federal agents from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives joined 400 agents already work
  
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• Trump deploys feds to more states under ‘law-and-order’ push

  22-07-2020 22:34
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he will send federal agents into Chicago and Albuquerque to help combat rising crime as he runs for reelection under a “law-and-order” mantle. Using alarmist language, Trump on Wednesday painted Democrat-led cities as out of control, even though criminal justice experts say the increase in violence in some cities defies easy explanation. The decision to dispatch federal agents to American cities is playing out at a hyperpoliticized
  
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• Virus slams Bolivia as hospitals say: ‘There is no space’

  22-07-2020 22:31
  
  LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Police in Bolivia’s major cities have recovered the bodies of hundreds of suspected victims of the coronavirus pandemic from homes, vehicles and, in some instances, the streets. Some hospitals, full of COVID-19 patients and short of staff because of spreading infection, are keeping their gates closed and hanging signs that say: “There is no space.” The Bolivian government says the peak of the outbreak is not expected until August. Desperation is gro
  
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• Puerto Rico to offer virtual classes, delay school reopening

  22-07-2020 22:30
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico officials have announced that all public school students will start virtual classes Aug. 17 as the U.S. territory battles an increase in coronavirus cases. Education Secretary Eligio Hernández said Wednesday he is delaying the reopening of public schools for in-person classes by one month, to Sept. 17. He cautioned that it is a preliminary plan which depends on whether coronavirus cases can be controlled. More than 281,500 students are enroll
  
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• Search ends for remains of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims

  22-07-2020 22:24
  
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The search for remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has ended at one location with no remains found, but with a promise to continue searching. State archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck said Wednesday that eight days of excavation at Tulsa’s Oaklawn Cemetery has found no indication of a mass grave. Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum said researchers will continue examining other sites in the city where victims were reportedly buried. On May 31 and June 1 in 1921, whit
  
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• Correction: Virus Outbreak-Antibodies story

  22-07-2020 22:20
  
  In a story July 21, 2020, about how long coronavirus antibodies last, The Associated Press erroneously reported the antibodies’ half-life, because of an error made by researchers. It is 36 days, not 73, according to the lead researcher, who said he asked the medical journal that published the paper to correct it.
  
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• California State University sets ethnic studies requirement

  22-07-2020 22:19
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Trustees of California State University voted to make ethnic studies a graduation requirement. It would take effect in three years and becomes the first change to the school’s general education curriculum in over 40 years. It comes amid the national uproar over racism and police brutality. The 23 colleges make up the nation’s largest four-year public university system. The state Legislature is on the verge of passing a bill with its own defined rules f
  
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• Legal Challenge Filed To Keep Recreational Marijuana off the November Ballot

  22-07-2020 22:17
  
  Opponents to the effort to legalize recreational marijuana in Arizona filed a legal challenge in Maricopa County Superior Court Tuesday in an attempt to stop the initiative from making the state's November ballot.
  But rather than challenge the validity of the signatures, Arizonans for Health and Public Safety is taking issue with what they call misleading language in Smart and Safe Arizona's 100-word summary. Among other complaints, they say the group redefines marijuana because the initiative i
  
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• Powerful quake shakes Alaska towns, creates small tsunami

  22-07-2020 22:14
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A powerful earthquake off Alaska’s southern coast has jolted coastal communities and forced residents to briefly scramble for higher ground over fears of a tsunami. There were no immediate reports of damage late Tuesday in the sparsely populated area of the state affected by the earthquake. The tsunami warning was canceled after the magnitude 7.8 quake off the Alaska Peninsula produced a wave that was less than a foot high. The quake was centered about 65 mil
  
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• Stocks close mostly higher after a choppy day of trading

  22-07-2020 22:08
  
  Stocks closed with solid gains on Wall Street Wednesday but only after a choppy day of trading that pulled indexes temporarily into the red. The S&P 500 rose 0.6%. The bumpy day came as investors sized up a mix of company earnings and another flare-up in tensions between Washington and Beijing. The U.S. ordered China to close its consulate in Houston, and China said it would retaliate. United Airlines sank after its revenue plunged 87% as the coronavirus throttled air travel. Pfizer rose aft
  
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• Critics: Trump order to exclude undocumented migrants in Census will fail

  22-07-2020 22:00
  
  PHOENIX – President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will exclude undocumented immigrants in the 2020 Census when it comes to allocating seats in Congress, a move critics called unconstitutional and unenforceable.Opponents immediately vowed to sue over Trump’s memorandum, which comes a little more than a year after the Supreme Court rejected the administration’s attempt to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.“Today’s memorandum from Donald Trump to Lyin&r
  
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• Trump, Barr expand anti-crime surge to Chicago, Albuquerque

  22-07-2020 21:58
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr say federal agents will surge into Chicago and Albuquerque to help combat rising crime as Trump runs for reelection under a “law-and-order” mantle. More than 100 federal agents have already been sent to Kansas City, Missouri, to help quell a record rise in violence after the shooting death of a young boy there. Sending federal agents to help localities is not uncommon. But this surge effort will include
  
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• Flash Flood Warning issued July 22 at 12:57PM MST until July 22 at 4:00PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ

  22-07-2020 21:57
  
  The National Weather Service in Tucson has issued a
  * Flash Flood Warning for…Northeastern Pima County in southeastern Arizona…Southern Pinal County in southeastern Arizona…
  * Until 400 PM MST.
  * At 1257 PM MST, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producingheavy rain across the warned area. Up to 1 inch of rain hasfallen. The Dan Saddle rain gauge recorded 0.55 inches of rain in15 minutes. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
  Excessive rainfall over the
  
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• Flash Flood Warning from WED 12:57 PM MST until WED 4:00 PM MST

  22-07-2020 21:57
  
  Issued by National Weather Service – Tucson, AZ
  Pinal County
  The National Weather Service in Tucson has issued a
  * Flash Flood Warning for…Northeastern Pima County in southeastern Arizona…Southern Pinal County in southeastern Arizona…
  * Until 400 PM MST.
  * At 1257 PM MST, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producingheavy rain across the warned area. Up to 1 inch of rain hasfallen. The Dan Saddle rain gauge recorded 0.55 inches of rain in15 minutes. Flash flooding is
  
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• Worker dies after loading dock accident at Phoenix airport

  22-07-2020 21:56
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say a worker has died after being pinned against a loading dock by a tractor trailer at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Phoenix police say officers responded to a 6 a.m. call Wednesday about an injured man at a UPS cargo area on the southern part of the airport property. They say 50-year-old Scott Morris was pronounced dead at the scene by Phoenix Fire Department paramedics. It wasn’t immediately clear if Morris was a UPS employee. Police say the
  
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• Splash slashed: Cornell drops swim test amid pandemic

  22-07-2020 21:55
  
  ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — Cornell University will not conduct its 115-year-old swim test this fall due to the pandemic. The Ivy League school confirmed Wednesday it was waiving the requirement for those seniors graduating this fall and spring who had yet to complete the test. The move comes as colleges everywhere retool their operations amid the coronavirus outbreak. The test was designed to reduce the number of drownings and had been canceled this past spring for the first time. The test is usu
  
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• Stocks are mostly higher in choppy trading on Wall Street

  22-07-2020 21:38
  
  Stock indexes are mostly higher on Wall Street in choppy trading Wednesday afternoon as investors size up a mix of company earnings reports and another flare-up in tensions between Washington and Beijing. The S&P 500 was up 0.4%. The U.S. ordered China to close its consulate in Houston, saying it was necessary to protect American intellectual property, and China said it would retaliate. United Airlines sank after its revenue plunged 87% as the coronavirus throttled air travel. Pfizer rose af
  
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• Portland standoff: State asks federal agents to be reined in

  22-07-2020 21:31
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Attorneys for Oregon have argued for a restraining order against federal agents deployed to quell protests in Portland. A federal judge heard that argument and the U.S. government’s defense Wednesday. Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum accuses federal agents of arresting protesters without probable cause, whisking them away in unmarked cars and using excessive force to quell the unrest. Federal authorities have disputed that. The state’s lawsuit is pa
  
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• The Latest: Ohio Gov. DeWine issues mandatory mask order

  22-07-2020 21:28
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced a mandatory mask order will be expanded statewide to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
  DeWine says the mask mandate will go into effect Thursday evening for people 10 and older.The Republican governor in recent weeks had resisted calls for a statewide mask order and instead required masks in counties considered “hotspots.” But he says more counties are seeing increasing numbers.
  DeWine says the rate of increase has slowed in th
  
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• Ohio governor supports nuclear bailout law despite scandal

  22-07-2020 21:24
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine says he wouldn’t support a repeal of a nuclear bailout law as a scandal unfolds over the law’s passage. DeWine says the state needs the non-carbon producing energy provided by the state’s two power plants. The Republican DeWine says he’s also concerned about the jobs that would be lost if the plants closed. DeWine said Wednesday it was obvious a lot of money was being spent supporting the bailout but no indications of anyt
  
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