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• Ex-candidate charged with fraud on nominating petitions

  31-07-2020 23:58
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A former Flagstaff mayoral candidate accused of forging petition signatures to appear on Tuesday’s primary ballot has been indicted on fraud and other charges. The indictment alleged Victor Valera signed the names of six other people on his petitions and turned in documents knowing they contained false or forged information. Varela didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment. In a July 9 social media post, Varela said he was dropping out of the race
  
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• GOP leaders can’t bank on Trump’s help in Kansas Senate race

  31-07-2020 23:56
  
  HOLTON, Kan. (AP) — Establishment Republicans might have to try to hang on to what should be a safe Senate seat in Kansas without hoped-for help from President Donald Trump. The fight between establishment-backed Rep. Roger Marshall and lightning-rod conservative Kris Kobach grew increasingly ugly as Tuesday’s primary neared because GOP leaders who want Marshall see the party’s Senate majority potentially at stake if he loses. Trump has refused to step in, leaving Marshall and
  
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• City in Kansas requiring masks to guard ‘safe’ reputation

  31-07-2020 23:55
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Officials in a college town in conservative western Kansas are embracing a mask ordinance in hopes of making residents and incoming students feel safe, even as surrounding communities have balked at such efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus. City officials in Hays voted last week to require people to wear masks in public. The response in the community has been mixed since the ordinance took effect Monday, with some businesses offering masks and refusing to serv
  
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• California reports first child death related to COVID-19

  31-07-2020 23:48
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California health officials have reported the state’s first coronavirus death of a child.The state Department of Public Health said Friday the victim was a teenager, had other health conditions and died in the Central Valley.  No other details were released.The state's death toll surpassed 9,000 on Friday, and three-quarters were 65 and older. Only about 9% of California's half-million confirmed virus cases are children.It’s extremely rare for chi
  
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• The Latest: Lockdown resumes in western Libya for pandemic

  31-07-2020 23:44
  
  CAIRO — The internationally recognized Libyan government based in Tripoli has reinstated a total lockdown for at least five days to curb the growing coronavirus outbreak in the war-torn country.The tight restrictions imposed Friday dampened the festive spirit of the Eid-al-Adha holiday, when Muslims gather to pray and slaughter livestock and distribute the meat to the poor.
  With Libya’s health system and infrastructure devastated by nine years of conflict, the U.N.-supported governme
  
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• California officials report first virus death of a child

  31-07-2020 23:44
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California health officials have reported the state’s first coronavirus death of a child. The state Department of Public Health said Friday the victim was a teenager, had other health conditions and died in the Central Valley.  No other details were released. The state’s death toll surpassed 9,000 on Friday, and three-quarters were 65 and older. Only about 9% of California’s half-million confirmed virus cases are children. It’s extreme
  
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• Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg released from hospital

  31-07-2020 23:41
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been discharged from a hospital in New York City and has returned home. The court says Ginsburg, 87, is doing well, two days after undergoing a minimally invasive procedure on Wednesday to “revise a bile duct stent” at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The stent had originally been placed last August, when Ginsburg was treated for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas. Ginsburg announced earlier this mon
  
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• DC releases police footage from 2018 deaths of 3 Black men

  31-07-2020 23:33
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department has released long-sought body camera and security footage from the 2018 deaths of three young Black men. The release on Friday was compelled by an emergency police reform bill passed by the D.C. Council in June. Mayor Muriel Bowser criticized that reform bill as rushed, but she has complied and said the council had addressed some of her concerns. The videos relate to the deaths of Marqueese Alston, D’Quan Young and J
  
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• US hits China anew for rights abuses in western Xinjiang

  31-07-2020 23:31
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is taking new aim at China by imposing sanctions on a major paramilitary organization in the country’s western Xinjiang region and its commander for alleged human rights abuses against ethnic and religious minorities. The State and Treasury departments announced the penalties that also target the group’s former political commissar on Friday. The moves against the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and the two officials came as
  
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• Chicago removes its third and last Columbus statue

  31-07-2020 23:30
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago has removed its last remaining statue of Christopher Columbus, which had stood on display in the city for nearly 130 years but drew criticism from those who say the explorer doesn’t deserve veneration because of how he treated Indigenous peoples. The removal of the statue Thursday from its spot overlooking an intersection on the city’s South Side followed the removal last week of Columbus statues in downtown Chicago’s Grant Park and in the city&rsqu
  
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• Two Oklahoma jail escapees are recaptured after fleeing jail

  31-07-2020 23:15
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two Oklahoma jail escapees, including a murder suspect, have been recaptured in Oklahoma City after escaping a county jail by using sheets tied together to climb down the outside of the building from a 12th floor cell. Oklahoma County jail spokesman Mac Mullings said 34-year-old murder suspect Pablo Robledo was arrested Friday afternoon in southwest Oklahoma City by city police and U.S. marshals. Mullings says the second escapee fell or jumped from about the fourth flo
  
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• Hurricane Isaias churns through Bahamas as Florida prepares

  31-07-2020 23:14
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Forecasters have declared a hurricane warning for parts of the Florida coast as Hurricane Isaias drenches the Bahamas on a track for the U.S. East Coast. Officials in Florida say they are closing beaches, marinas and parks in Miami-Dade County beginning Friday night. Mayor Carlos Gimenez says the county has 20 evacuation centers on standby that could be set up with COVID-19 safety measures. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Isaias had maximum sustained wi
  
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• AP Analysis: Why Trump’s election delay tweet matters

  31-07-2020 23:09
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s pattern is now familiar: He makes a stunning assertion, on Twitter or impromptu. The head scratching begins.
  Was he serious? Was he trying to distract from other negative news?Allies are left to shrug their shoulders and brush off his remarks. Some regularly claim to have not read or heard them.
  A public numbness sets in, to the point that even Trump’s most ardent political opponents have difficulty summoning outrage.
  But this week the
  
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• 2 Cardinals test positive; 6 teams idle because of virus

  31-07-2020 23:09
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Six major league teams are idle because of the coronavirus, with a Cardinals-Brewers game the latest to be postponed as a spread of infection threatened to overtake efforts to play ball. Milwaukee’s home opener was called off hours before the first pitch after two St. Louis players tested positive for COVID-19. The Cardinals said in a statement they learned Thursday night about positive tests from samples collected Wednesday. Players and staff were instructed to isolate
  
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• Tech giants lead gains as S&P 500 closes 4th winning month

  31-07-2020 23:03
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Big Tech continues to steamroll through the pandemic, and strong gains for some of the market’s most influential companies on Friday helped Wall Street close out its fourth straight winning month. The S&P 500 rose 0.8% following blowout profit reports from Apple and several other tech titans. The gains didn’t come easily, though, and the stock market flipped up and down through the day amid worries about the economy and whether Congress can find agreement on
  
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• Detroit-area mayor quits after white supremacist remark

  31-07-2020 23:02
  
  HARPER WOODS, Mich. (AP) — A mayor in suburban Detroit has resigned after he was accused of saying he understood why people become white supremacists. Ken Poynter, who is white, has been under fire since making the remark in a private meeting with residents and Harper Woods officials. Harper Woods has been targeted by protesters who want information about the June death of a Black woman who was in jail after a drug arrest. During a meeting about civil unrest, Poynter said he understood &ld
  
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• Excessive Heat Warning issued July 31 at 2:00PM MST until August 1 at 8:00PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ

  31-07-2020 23:00
  
  * WHAT…Dangerously hot conditions with high temperatures 107 to115 degrees for much of Pima County. High temperatures 101 to109 degrees for Santa Cruz County.
  * WHERE…Western Pima County, Tohono O’odham Nation, UpperSanta Cruz River Valley/Altar Valley, Tucson Metro Area, SouthCentral Pinal County, Southeast Pinal County and Upper GilaRiver Valley.
  * WHEN…Until 8 PM MST Saturday.
  * IMPACTS…Extreme heat will significantly increase thepotential for heat related il
  
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• The Latest: Florida testing sites close due to hurricane

  31-07-2020 22:58
  
  MIAMI — Hurricane Isaias’ imminent arrival is forcing the closure of some outdoor coronavirus testing sites Friday even as the state reached a new daily high in deaths.
  Meanwhile, the virus was complicating efforts to put contingency plans in place for evacuations and shelters if the storm makes them necessary. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued Friday an order declaring a state of emergency in eastern coastal counties from the Florida Keys to Jacksonville, but no evacuations had been
  
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• Forecasters post hurricane warning for populated stretch of Florida’s Atlantic coast as Isaias nears the Bahamas

  31-07-2020 22:58
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters post hurricane warning for populated stretch of Florida’s Atlantic coast as Isaias nears the Bahamas.
  
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• Road trip? Quarantines mess with Americans’ travel plans

  31-07-2020 22:52
  
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Families trying to get in a last-minute vacation before school starts better do some homework on COVID-19 restrictions before loading up the minivan. The web of state and local quarantines is growing more tangled by the day: New York, New Jersey and Connecticut ordered visitors from a whopping 34 states to quarantine for 14 days. Chicago mandates quarantines for travelers from 22 states. Others states have their own quarantine lists. Some have an option for travelers
  
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• Hall-of-Fame country DJ Bill Mack dies of COVID-19 at age 88

  31-07-2020 22:49
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Longtime country music disc jockey Bill Mack, whose “Blue” became a hit for LeAnn Rimes and won a 1996 Grammy Award for Country Music Song of the Year, has died at age 88. In a Facebook message, Mack’s son Billy Mack Smith said his father died Friday of COVID-19 but had underlying health conditions. Mack’s “Midnight Cowboy Trucking Show” overnight program on clear channel WBAP-AM in Fort Worth kept truckers entertained for decade
  
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• Judge orders partial release of video in man’s jail death

  31-07-2020 22:48
  
  WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A judge has ruled that two videos showing how a jailed North Carolina man was restrained before his death late last year should be released to the public. The Forsyth County judge said in Friday’s ruling that the release of video footage of 56-year-old John Neville is in the public interest. The Black man died of a brain injury on Dec. 4 at a Winston-Salem medical center. Five former detention officers and a nurse are charged with involuntary manslaughter i
  
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• Joe Biden’s search for a running mate enters final stretch

  31-07-2020 22:42
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden is nearing a final decision on his running mate and is expected to announce his pick the week of Aug. 10. That’s according to three people who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the plans. It puts the announcement closer to the Democratic National Convention, which begins Aug. 17, than the Aug. 1 deadline Biden had initially indicated. The vetting process is nearing completion this week. Multiple people tell the AP that Bide
  
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• Report: U-Michigan’s academic official was serial harasser

  31-07-2020 22:34
  
  DETROIT (AP) — A University of Michigan professor who became the school’s top academic officer committed sexual misconduct during his long career. That’s the conclusion of an investigation by a law firm hired by the university. The report says Martin Philbert harassed graduate students and staff and regularly had sex in campus offices. Philbert was fired as provost in March, weeks after being put on leave. President Mark Schlissel had promoted him in 2017. Philbert spent 25 yea
  
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• Judge orders man to pay $85K in deaths of 2 whooping cranes

  31-07-2020 22:29
  
  LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — A federal magistrate judge has ordered $85,000 in fines and restitution for a Louisiana man who admitted that he and a juvenile shot and killed two whooping cranes. The judge also says Kaenon Constantin of Rayne cannot hunt until he completes 360 hours of public service. A conservation group says the sentence given Thursday is the toughest ever in Louisiana for a crime involving one of the endangered birds. U.S. Attorney David Joseph said in a news release Friday that
  
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• Court orders release of teen detained over schoolwork

  31-07-2020 22:28
  
  PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Court of Appeals has granted an emergency motion releasing a 15-year-old suburban Detroit girl from a juvenile facility where a county judge sent her for failing do schoolwork and because the teen was a threat to her mother. An emergency order signed Friday releases the teen into her mother’s custody pending appeal or further order by the appeals court. ProPublica reported earlier this month that the girl has been in Oakland County’s Children&
  
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• Plug it in: Electric car charging station numbers are rising

  31-07-2020 22:26
  
  DETROIT (AP) — As automakers introduce more models powered by electricity, there may not be enough public charging stations to handle the load. There are 26,000 public electric vehicle charging stations in the U.S. with more than 84,000 plugs. The country will need thousands more for drivers to accept vehicles powered by batteries alone. Companies are struggling to raise the numbers now because they’re investing before demand arrives. But the number of stations is rising. On Friday,
  
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• Fauci confident virus vaccine will get to Americans in 2021

  31-07-2020 22:23
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci says he is confident that a coronavirus vaccine will be ready by early next year. The government’s top infectious disease expert tells lawmakers that a quarter-million Americans already have volunteered to take part in clinical trials.  But although the future looks encouraging, the present-day public health crisis has not eased. Officials testifying with Fauci at a contentious House hearing acknowledged that the U.S. remains unable to turn ar
  
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• Buffalo Exchange closes Colorado stores amid abuse case

  31-07-2020 22:22
  
  DENVER (AP) — A vintage clothing retailer based in Tucson, Ariz. has cut ties with three of its Colorado stores after dozens of anonymous allegations of employee abuse surfaced on Instagram this week. Buffalo Exchange has stores in 19 states, with three locations in Denver and Boulder. The Denver Post reported the Denver Police Department is investigating the allegations against franchise managing partner Patrick Todd Colletti of sexual assault and underage drug and alcohol abuse. No polic
  
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• Pac-12 sets Sept. 26 start for 10-game football schedule

  31-07-2020 22:21
  
  The Pac-12 has set Sept. 26 as the start of its 10-game conference-only football schedule. The Pac-12 announced three weeks ago it would eliminate nonconference games for its 12 member schools.. The new plan adds an additional cross-divisional game to each team’s slate and moves the conference championship game back two weeks to Dec. 18 or 19. That game was set to be plyed for the first time at the new NFL stadium in Las Vegas. It will now be hosted by the highest-seeded team.
  
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• Deadline extended for tribes to seek broadband licenses

  31-07-2020 22:16
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Tribes have another month to apply for a band of wireless spectrum to establish or expand internet on their lands. The Federal Communications Commission had opened a priority filing window for tribes to access a mid-band spectrum that largely is unassigned across the western United States. The commission on Friday extended the deadline to Sept. 2. Tribes had sought more time because of the coronavirus pandemic. They said tribes have struggled to gather the informati
  
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• Federal prosecutors: Three suspects arrested after Twitter accounts of politicians, celebrities hacked as part of scam

  31-07-2020 22:15
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal prosecutors: Three suspects arrested after Twitter accounts of politicians, celebrities hacked as part of scam.
  
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• Heat Advisory issued July 31 at 12:58PM MST until August 1 at 8:00PM MST by NWS Phoenix AZ

  31-07-2020 21:58
  
  * WHAT…Hot conditions with afternoon temperatures 94 to 108.
  * WHERE…Mazatzal Mountains and Pinal/Superstition Mountains.
  * WHEN…Until 8 PM MST Saturday.
  * IMPACTS…Very High Heat Risk. Increase in heat relatedillnesses, including heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heatstroke. Heat stroke can lead to death.A Heat Advisory means that a period of hot temperatures, even bylocal standards, will occur. Actions should be taken to lessenthe impact of the extreme heat.
  Stay ind
  
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• Excessive Heat Warning issued July 31 at 12:58PM MST until August 1 at 8:00PM MST by NWS Phoenix AZ

  31-07-2020 21:58
  
  * WHAT…Dangerously hot conditions. Afternoon temperatures 98to 114.
  * WHERE…New River Mesa, Rio Verde/Salt River, Globe/Miami,Southeast Gila County, San Carlos, Dripping Springs, Superior,Tonto Basin and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon.
  * WHEN…Until 8 PM MST Saturday.
  * 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 h
  
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• AP Source: Pac-12 sets Sept. 26 start for football schedule

  31-07-2020 21:48
  
  The Pac-12 has set Sept. 26 as the start of its 10-game conference-only football schedule. The decision was confirmed by a person involved with the decision who spoke to The Associated Press. The conference announced three weeks ago that it would eliminate nonconference games to give its 12 members a better chance to manage complications and disruptions caused by  the pandemic. The Pac-12 is the third Power Five football conference to detail its schedule changes this week.
  
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• Students return to campus amid virus growth in some states

  31-07-2020 21:47
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The first wave of college students returning to their dorms aren’t finding the typical mobs of students and parents. What many of them found Friday were strict safety protocols and heightened anxiety amid a pandemic where virus infections are growing in more than two dozen states. Across the country, students are jumping through additional hoops by getting tests, navigating travel quarantines and abiding by strict rules. At North Carolina State University, the re
  
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• Georgia camp with COVID-19 outbreak didn’t require masks

  31-07-2020 21:46
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A Georgia overnight camp hit by a coronavirus outbreak took many precautions, but didn’t make campers wear masks or have proper ventilation in buildings, The report released Friday says the camp followed disinfecting rules and required staff to wear masks, but not campers. Nearly 600 people were at the overnight camp. The camp was not named in the report by Georgia health officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The camp alerted state health offic
  
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• Court overturns Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence

  31-07-2020 21:44
  
  A federal appeals court on Friday overturned the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. The three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston issued the decision more than six months after arguments were heard in the case. Tsarnaev’s lawyers had argued that intense media coverage had made it impossible to have a fair trial in Boston. The April 15, 2013, attack killed three people and injured more than 260 others. Tsarnaev was convicted o
  
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• 7 seek to follow Lewis in House, but long-term prospects dim

  31-07-2020 21:44
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia special congressional election to succeed the late John Lewis is likely to produce someone who will hold the seat only for a short time, possibly only a few weeks. Seven candidates qualified Friday for the Sept. 29 election, but declining to run are replacement Democratic nominee Nikema Williams and Republican nominee. Angela Stanton-King. Both say they’re holding their fire for the Nov. 3 general election, which will decide a full two-year term. If no one wi
  
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• A federal appeals court has overturned the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing

  31-07-2020 21:39
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has overturned the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
  
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• Big Tech props up Wall Street as S&P 500 closes winning July

  31-07-2020 21:36
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Big Tech continues to steamroll through the pandemic, but much of the rest of Wall Street is struggling on Friday, leaving stock indexes mixed. The S&P 500 was up 0.4% in late trading after flipping from small gains to losses earlier. Stocks that most need the economy to reopen had the sharpest losses, such as those in the travel industry. Energy stocks were also weak. Helping to prop up the market were continued gains for Amazon, Apple and Facebook, which reported much
  
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• Iraqi prime minister: Early elections to be held next June

  31-07-2020 21:33
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister says early elections will be held in June next year, fulfilling a promise made when he took office to meet a key demand of anti-government protesters. The prime minister said on Friday that general elections would be held on June 6, a year earlier than scheduled. It’s unclear under what electoral law the vote will take place. The U.N. mission in Iraq welcomed his announcement and said it was ready to provide support and technical advice, if
  
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• Trader Joe’s says no to changing ethnic-sounding label names

  31-07-2020 21:32
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The popular grocery chain Trader Joe’s says it won’t be changing ethnic-sounding labels on its line of Mexican, Chinese and other international foods, adding they are not racist. Earlier this month the company said it was looking at changing some labels. But now it says it has no problem with ethnic-food labels like Trader Jose’s, Trader Ming’s and Arabian Joe. The company says they were created years ago in a lighthearted effort to promote inclus
  
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• The Latest: Peru wonders about 27,000 uncounted deaths

  31-07-2020 21:30
  
  LIMA, Peru — Peruvian authorities and the Pan American Health Organization are investigating whether the country failed to count more than 27,000 deaths caused by the coronavirus.
  Health Minister Pilar Mazzetti announced Thursday that thousands of death certificates list COVID-19 as one of several causes of death, but they were not included in the country’s official toll because the victims didn’t have a coronavirus test before dying.She says Peru has listed 19,021 deaths from
  
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• Dunkin’s Free Coffee Mondays begin Aug.3

  31-07-2020 21:25
  
  Mr.TinDC / Flickr / CC BY-ND 2.0Dunkin' Donuts Coffee, Photo Date: 9/1/08
  If you don't already love Dunkin, here's a reason you should start! Two actually!Not only are they bringing back a fan favorite, Free Donut Fridays, but they're also starting Free Coffee Mondays!That's right!Starting this Monday, if you're a Dunkin' Perks Member, you can get a free medium coffee, hot or iced, for free!You just have to buy any food item to get the deal.If you're not a member, you can sign up with the app.A
  
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• Reports: Trump to order China’s ByteDance to sell TikTok

  31-07-2020 21:21
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Published reports say President Donald Trump will order China’s ByteDance to sell its hit video app TikTok because of national-security concerns. Trump told reporters Friday at the White House that the administration is considering banning the app. TikTok said it does not comment on rumors or speculation. TikTok has said it has tens of millions of U.S. users and hundreds of millions globally. It has a reputation for fun, goofy videos and is popular with young people.
  
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• US: Snake River dams will not be removed to save salmon

  31-07-2020 21:17
  
  SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. government says four huge dams on the Snake River in Washington state will not be removed to help endangered salmon migrate to the ocean. Friday’s announcement thwarts the desires of environmental groups that fought for two decades to breach the structures.The Final Environmental Impact Statement was issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation and the Bonneville Power Administration, and sought to balance the needs of salmon and ot
  
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• Florida teen charged in massive Twitter hack, Bitcoin theft

  31-07-2020 21:13
  
  LONDON (AP) — Authorities say a Florida teen hacked the Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls to scam people around the globe out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin.
  The 17-year-old boy was arrested Friday in Tampa.
  He faces 30 felony charges.
  The hacks led to bogus tweets being sent out July 15 from the accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg and a number of tech billionaires including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates
  
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• Iraq’s PM says early elections to be held June next year

  31-07-2020 21:10
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister says early elections will be held in June next year, fulfilling a promise made when he took office to meet a key demand of anti-government protesters. the prime minister said on Friday that general elections would be held on June 6, a year earlier than scheduled. It is unclear under what electoral law next year’s elections will be held. The U.N. mission in Iraq welcomed his announcement and said it was ready to provide support and technical
  
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• House Democrats subpoena Pompeo for documents on Biden’s son

  31-07-2020 21:02
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Foreign Affairs Committee has subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for documents he turned over to a Senate panel that is investigating Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Committee Chairman Eliot Engel said Friday that he had issued the subpoena as part an investigation into Pompeo’s “apparent use of Department of State resources to advance a political smear of former Vice President Joe Biden.” The subpoe
  
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