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• Man handcuffed by Phoenix police to prevent self harm dies

  19-08-2020 23:57
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Police in Phoenix say a man who was acting erratically and handcuffed to prevent doing harm to himself has died. They say the cause of death for 42-year-old Darimiah Hand will be determined by the Maricopa County Medical Examiner. Police say Hand was seen acting erratically at a school Tuesday afternoon, running into parked cars and refusing to leave the parking lot.  They say Hand then wandered around a front yard of a home, walking into a wall and tree.  A police
  
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• Trump: US demands restoration of all UN sanctions against Iran, setting stage for Security Council crisis

  19-08-2020 23:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump: US demands restoration of all UN sanctions against Iran, setting stage for Security Council crisis.The post Trump: US demands restoration of all UN sanctions against Iran, setting stage for Security Council crisis appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• California slammed by wildfires, heat, unhealthy smoky air

  19-08-2020 23:51
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Northern Californians are facing multiple threats as wildfires, unhealthy smoky air, extreme heat, the looming possibility of power outages and an ongoing pandemic coincide. It’s forcing many to weigh the risks of staying indoors or going outside. Smoke from several wildfires created unhealthy air quality, heightening concerns that people could be more prone to respiratory illnesses. Air quality and public health officials are urging people to stay inside with wi
  
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• Obama, in scathing Trump rebuke, warns democracy on the line

  19-08-2020 23:50
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama will issue a blistering rebuke of President Donald Trump in Wednesday’s Democratic Party convention. According to excerpts of Obama’s speech, he will accuse Trump of unleashing America’s “worst impulses” and treating the presidency as a reality show “to get the attention he craves.” The former president also puts the stakes in the November election in stark terms, warning that the future of American democracy is on th
  
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• TUSD elementary school closes after seeing positive COVID-19 cases

  19-08-2020 23:48
  
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  TUCSON (KVOA) - A Tucson Unified School District elementary school has been shut down after two staff members tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday.Back on Aug. 10, TUSD officially started its school year remotely. Seven days later, the district reopened its campuses at some capacity in compliance with Gov. Doug Ducey's executive order that orders Arizona schools to reopen physically to provide at-risk students a space to learn.RELATED: Some TUSD employees fearful to go back to sch
  
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• Puerto Rico imposes stricter measures amid coronavirus spike

  19-08-2020 23:47
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s governor says she will place the U.S. territory on a 24-hour lockdown every Sunday as part of stricter measures to fight a spike in coronavirus cases. Gyms, theaters and bars will remain closed and only restaurants with outdoor areas will be allowed to seat people, but at 25% capacity. Gov. Wanda Vázquez said Wednesday that violators will be shut down for a month. Beaches will remain open only to those doing exercise, and businesses,
  
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• Progressives irked by spotlight on GOP at Dem convention

  19-08-2020 23:46
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic National Convention has awarded some of its most prominent speaking slots to top Republicans, frustrating progressive activists who say they have been marginalized at a time when their influence on the party is actually rising. The Washington of a bygone era when a bipartisan champion like Joe Biden can hammer out deals with the other side is fantasy, they argue, and it is disingenuous to pretend otherwise for a national audience — much of which may o
  
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• Louisiana governor’s goal: net zero greenhouse gases by 2050

  19-08-2020 23:41
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s governor has signed an executive order setting a state goal for net zero carbon emissions by 2050, and environmental groups were quick to praise him. Environmental Defense Fund coastal resilience director Natalie Snider says it’s unique for a state driven by fossil fuel. Gov. John Bel Edwards laid out Louisiana’s first goal on Wednesday for greenhouse gases in an order creating a climate initiatives task force. It will include members from s
  
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• TEP has tips on how to conserve power during the hot summer months

  19-08-2020 23:33
  
  TUCSON - Tucson Electric Power is doing a second day of urging residents to conserve electricity and they have tips on how to help take the strain off the grid and save money on your energy bill.The average high temperature this month has been 107 degrees and that is having a huge impact on our wallets and the regional electric grid.Joe Barrios of Tucson Electric Power said, "What we find ourselves in right now is a situation where demand for power is very very high. The
  
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• Kemp defends coronavirus response after White House report

  19-08-2020 23:24
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is defending his administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic after a White House report said Georgia led the nation last week in new cases per capita. The Aug. 16 report from the White House coronavirus task force was first reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The report recommends several steps to curb the spread of the virus that Kemp has declined to take, including closing bars and issuing mask mandates in counties with 50
  
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• Far-right provocateur vs. Florida congresswoman in November

  19-08-2020 23:14
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A far-right Republican candidate banned from social media sites because of her racist and anti-Muslim speech is challenging a longtime Democratic congresswoman in Florida this fall. Laura Loomer won her Republican primary Tuesday and President Donald Trump has tweeted his support. Incumbent Rep. Lois Frankel has been a political fixture for decades in the Palm Beach County district, which is firmly Democratic. That makes Loomer a decided longshot in November&rs
  
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• Judge: Policy that suspended student over dreadlocks unfair

  19-08-2020 23:12
  
  MONT BELVIEU, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge has ruled a school district’s hair policy is discriminatory after two Black students were suspended for their dreadlocks. According to KTRK-TV, the  decision from the judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas came late Monday, nearly a month after the school district board voted not to change its hair code policy. The policy was at the center of controversy after a senior at Barbers Hill High School was suspende
  
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• Ex-North Carolina Rep. Hayes gets probation for lying to FBI

  19-08-2020 23:09
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A former North Carolina congressman has been sentenced to probation for lying to FBI agents about his role in a scheme with a wealthy insurance company magnate to try to bribe the state’s top insurance regulator. Former U.S. Rep. Robin Hayes received no prison time on Wednesday from U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn, in keeping with the requests of federal prosecutors and Hayes’ attorneys. Hayes was one of four indicted on charges involving efforts to give
  
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• Attorneys general seek summary judgment in ERA lawsuit

  19-08-2020 23:09
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Three Democratic state attorneys general have asked a court to declare that the Equal Rights Amendment is valid and part of the U.S. Constitution. Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford made the request Wednesday in a motion for summary judgment. The motion came in a lawsuit the attorneys general filed in January shortly after Virginia became the key 38th state to ratify the amendment and the
  
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• Judge allows North Dakota to pursue protest reimbursements

  19-08-2020 23:07
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that North Dakota may proceed in its effort to recoup money the state spent policing protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline. U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Traynor on Wednesday denied the federal government’s motion to dismiss North Dakota’s lawsuit seeking to recover more than $38 million in damages the state claimed in damages from the monthslong pipeline protests almost four years ago. The state filed a lawsuit again
  
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• Hillary Clinton to reflect on 2016 loss in Democratic speech

  19-08-2020 23:00
  
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  CHICAGO (AP) — Hillary Clinton is returning to the Democratic National Convention to cement her legacy as a champion of women in politics — and to issue a stark warning. According to excerpts released earlier Wednesday, Clinton plans to reflect on her 2016 election loss to President Donald Trump and urge Americans not to take the election&rsqu
  
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• Arizona teacher gets turn in spotlight, as Democrats officially nominate Biden

  19-08-2020 23:00
  
  When it came time for the Arizona delegation to announce its votes for the next Democratic presidential nominee Tuesday, the job fell to middle school teacher Marisol Garcia.Who spent much of her allotted 30 seconds in the national spotlight talking about the reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.It was part of an unorthodox roll call of the states during an unorthodox Democratic National Convention, where almost all of the business is being conducted virtually because of coronavirus c
  
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• Student-led group seeks justice for man shot by police

  19-08-2020 22:56
  
  EAST ORANGE, N.J. (AP) — A student-led group is protesting the death of a 28-year-old black man shot by police after a traffic stop in New Jersey. They hope to bring wider attention to Maurice Gordon’s death. The Poughkeepsie, New York, resident was killed on May 23 in southern New Jersey after he was stopped for speeding. Video released by the state attorney general’s office shows Gordon sitting in the back of a police vehicle for about 20 minutes before he exited the car. A s
  
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• Democrats use Trump’s ‘It is what it is’ to make their case

  19-08-2020 22:56
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democrats working to depict President Donald Trump as an ineffective and negligent leader are summing up their case by quoting the president’s own words on coronavirus deaths: “It is what it is.” Democratic leaders, including former first lady Michelle Obama and former President Bill Clinton, highlighted Trump’s comment during each of the first two nights of the Democratic National Convention. One party fundraiser says Trump’s comment stood ou
  
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• The Latest: Louisiana lawmakers, Edwards clash over election

  19-08-2020 22:55
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana lawmakers are plowing ahead with a contested emergency plan to run the state’s fall elections during the pandemic despite Gov. John Bel Edwards’ intention to jettison the plan if it reaches his desk.
  Republicans on the House and Governmental Affairs Committee voted in a near-bloc Wednesday to advance the emergency plan offered by GOP Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin to the full House for consideration. It eliminates most of the coronavirus-related rea
  
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• S&P 500 takes a step back after setting record; yields rise

  19-08-2020 22:49
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The S&P 500 pulled back from its newly set record on Wednesday after a meandering day of trading took a late turn lower. The benchmark index fell 0.4% a day after it wiped out the last of its losses created by the pandemic and surpassed its Feb. 19 peak. It and other indexes turned lower in the afternoon after the Federal Reserve released the minutes from its latest policy meeting. The stock market’s momentum has remained solid, but it’s slowed recently afte
  
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• UN: Committee drafting new Syria constitution meets Aug. 24

  19-08-2020 22:48
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Syria says the 45-member committee charged with drafting a new constitution for the conflict-torn country will meet for the first time in nine months on Aug. 24. Geir Pedersen told the Security Council on Wednesday that convening the U.N.-facilitated meeting in Geneva has been challenging, because of disagreement on an agenda until March and then because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He encouraged committee representatives from the government, o
  
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• California governor: Hundreds of wildfires blazing statewide

  19-08-2020 22:46
  
  VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Crews were battling wildfires in the San Francisco Bay Area and thousands of people were under orders to evacuate Wednesday as hundreds of wildfires blazed across the state amid a blistering heat wave now in its second week. Gov. Gavin Newsom blamed the extraordinary weather and thousands of lightning strikes for 367 known fires, including 23 major fires or groups of fires. He said the state has recorded nearly 11,000 lightning strikes in 72 hours. Ash and smoke fi
  
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• ‘Satanist’ ex-soldier sentenced to 2 1/2 years in bomb plot

  19-08-2020 22:45
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former U.S. soldier described by prosecutors as a Satanist has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for distributing information through social media about building a bomb and making napalm. Twenty-four-year-old Jarrett William Smith also has been linked to a neo-Nazi group by the Anti-Defamation League. A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a request from Smith’s attorney for a lenient sentence of 15 months. Smith pleaded guilty in February to two fe
  
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• South Dakota city mourns urban cornstalk’s brief life

  19-08-2020 22:42
  
  Sioux Falls residents are mourning an urban cornstalk that briefly became a lighthearted beacon of hope during the coronavirus pandemic. The Argus Leader reported Wednesday that the stalk had been growing through the concrete in an intersection. Mayor Paul TenHaken said the city rallied around the stalk, which quickly had its own mock Twitter account, as a sign of hope in tough times. But someone tore out the stalk sometime before Wednesday morning. A memorial with a sign proclaiming “CORN
  
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• Democratic boundary breakers’ night: Obama, Clinton, Harris

  19-08-2020 22:40
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The Democrats’ historic boundary breakers are joining forces at the party’s national convention. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris are all addressing the virtual convention Wednesday night in an effort to mobilize the diverse coalition Joe Biden will need to defeat President Donald Trump this fall. Obama, the first Black president, and Clinton, the first woman nominated for president by a major party, are speaking on Biden’s beha
  
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• Trustee criticized for Nassar case remarks won’t run again

  19-08-2020 22:36
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan State University trustee who suggested that attorneys representing sexual assault victims of former sports doctor Larry Nassar were “chasing ambulances” will not seek reelection to the school’s board. Joel Ferguson said in a news release Wednesday that he will focus on development projects he has in the state. Ferguson is a real estate developer and a Democrat. He was among the eight trustees who came under fire by Nassar survivors and stu
  
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• A different view of the Democrats on Fox News prime time

  19-08-2020 22:36
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel is presenting a distinctly different vision of the Democratic National Convention through opinion hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity each night. While rivals CNN and MSNBC present three hours of convention coverage each night, Fox mimics the broadcast networks with a single hour, and doesn’t preempt its two most popular opinion hosts. Hannity presents annotated versions of Democratic speakers and has called the presentation “the worst infomer
  
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• Excessive Heat Warning issued August 19 at 1:28PM MST until August 20 at 8:00PM MST by NWS Phoenix AZ

  19-08-2020 22:28
  
  * WHAT…Dangerously hot conditions. Afternoon temperatures 108to 115.
  * WHERE…Cave Creek/New River and Fountain Hills/East Mesa.
  * WHEN…Until 8 PM MST Thursday.
  * 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 by local standards, will occur. Actions shouldbe taken to lessen the impact of the e
  
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• Local power company requests voluntary energy conservation again

  19-08-2020 22:20
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Tucson Electric Power is asking its customers to reduce energy use between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. again on Wednesday.
  They say the request is to limit stain on the western grid.
  "Although TEP expects to have enough energy to serve our customers, we’re joining other Arizona utilities in calling for a second day of voluntary energy conservation to support reliability throughout the southwestern United States," the company said in a news release. "Similar calls are being issued by
  
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• Officer denies wrongdoing in violent takedown of wrong man

  19-08-2020 22:14
  
  SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A white police officer in Georgia is denying wrongdoing after he slammed a Black man to the ground and broke his wrist in the mistaken belief that there was a warrant for his arrest. Valdosta police Lt. Billy Wheeler is being sued in federal court by Antonio Arnelo Smith, who says the officer used excessive force and violated his civil rights in the violent takedown Feb. 8. Police video shows Smith talking cooperatively with a Black officer when Wheeler walks up behind
  
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• Stocks turn lower a day after the S&P 500 hit a record high

  19-08-2020 22:09
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks turned lower in late trading on Wall Street Wednesday, handing the S&P 500 a loss a day after it closed at a record high. The day-earlier gain wiped out the last of the index’s losses created by the pandemic and surpassed its Feb. 19 peak. Stocks started to fade in the afternoon after the Federal Reserve released minutes from its latest policy meeting. The market’s momentum has remained solid, but it’s slowed recently after roaring back from a n
  
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• The Latest: France records 3,700 new cases of coronavirus

  19-08-2020 21:58
  
  PARIS — France recorded more than 3,700 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours.
  Health authorities say that’s 1,500 more than the previous day. The number hospitalized and in ICUs was slightly down. But health authorities say “the transmission of the virus is accentuating” among all age groups, especially young adults.
  President Emmanuel Macron told Paris-Match magazine that “we can’t bring the country to a halt.” But he’d consider “ta
  
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• New election ordered in race marred by voter fraud charges

  19-08-2020 21:56
  
  PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — A judge has ruled that a new election will be held in November for a disputed Paterson City Council seat, just weeks after the race’s apparent winner and a sitting councilman were charged with voter fraud. State Superior Court Judge Ernest Caposela issued his ruling Wednesday. Alex Mendez had won a special election on May 12 to fill the seat, but claims of voter fraud were soon raised. An investigation was then launched after the U.S. Postal Service’s law
  
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• Victims want Golden State Killer sent to toughest prison

  19-08-2020 21:53
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Victims of California serial killer and rapist Joseph DeAngelo want him locked away in a distant maximum security prison with other inmates since he isn’t going to spend the rest of his life on death row. But they may not hold much sway over where the 74-year-old former police officer known as the Golden State Killer is imprisoned after he is sentenced Friday. State correction officials said they must make their own evaluation about where and how DeAngelo ca
  
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• AG: Delaware officers justified in killing armed Black man

  19-08-2020 21:49
  
  DOVER, Del. (AP) — The Delaware attorney general’s office has determined that two police officers were justified in using deadly force earlier this year against a Black man armed with a large knife. The Delaware Department of Justice issued a report Wednesday clearing Milford police officers Nigel Golding and Brandon Karpin of criminal wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of Brandon Roberts. Roberts was shot in January after police were called to an apartment regarding a domestic disturb
  
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• Iowa governor’s push to reopen schools descends into chaos

  19-08-2020 21:35
  
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An aggressive push by Iowa’s pro-Trump governor to reopen schools amid a worsening coronavirus outbreak has descended into chaos, with some districts and teachers rebelling and experts calling the scientific benchmarks used by the state arbitrary and unsafe. The clash in the Midwest has illustrated in condensed form the tension between science and politics that has characterized the nation’s response to the outbreak from the White House on down. The virus
  
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• Hotel manager accused of sexually abusing job seekers, guest

  19-08-2020 21:34
  
  A hotel manager has been arrested by Phoenix police and accused of assaulting or sexually abusing multiple women, including one hotel guest and five women seeking work. A police probable-cause statement said Chandulal Dhanan was arrested Tuesday in connection with alleged crimes that occurred in 2019 and early 2020. The statement said Dhanani grabbed the breasts of five of the six alleged victims. Court records identified Dhanani as a 70-year-old Mesa resident. His defense attorney, Trent Buckal
  
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• Guatemalan man seeking asylum drowns along US-Mexico border

  19-08-2020 21:34
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Aid workers say a Guatemalan man who had been living in a makeshift migrant camp while waiting to petition the U.S. government for asylum drowned in the Rio Grande near Brownsville, Texas. Sister Norma Pimentel of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley said Wednesday that Edwin Rodrigo Castro de la Parra died Tuesday. She says she spoke with his family, but the conditions surrounding his death are unclear. Pimentel says he had gone to the river’s edge becaus
  
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• US won’t seek death penalty against pair of IS militants

  19-08-2020 21:33
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has notified the British government that it will not pursue the death penalty against two Islamic State militants suspected in the beheadings of Western hostages. The decision removes a hurdle in the potential prosecution of the men in the United States. Attorney General William Barr told British Home Secretary Priti Patel that the U.S. would commit to not seek capital punishment in the case of El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey. An earlier Briti
  
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• Greek national security adviser resigns over Turkey remarks

  19-08-2020 21:33
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Greek prime minister’s top national security adviser has stepped down after suggesting that Greece conceded ground to Turkey in the neighbors’ face-off over offshore energy prospecting rights in the eastern Mediterranean. The adviser had retracted his comments but said Wednesday that they “caused confusion and created a problem” for Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his government. Greek and Turkish warships have been shadowing each ot
  
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• Global leaders condemn Mali coup amid worry about extremists

  19-08-2020 21:31
  
  BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — African and Western leaders have condemned the junta that forced Mali’s president from power, warning the coup was a deep setback for the West African nation that could threaten the battle against Islamic extremism. Soldiers promised they would ultimately hand power to a transitional civilian government but gave no timeline. At a news conference Wednesday, junta members urged Malians to return business as usual. That came a day after soldiers detained President Ib
  
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• Navajo president speaks at convention as one of Democrat’s ‘rising stars’

  19-08-2020 21:30
  
  Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez is one of 17 Democratic “rising stars” from across the country who have been tapped to share the job of delivering the keynote address at the  Democratic National Convention on Tuesday.The speakers will deliver their addresses virtually to the convention, which has been forced mostly online because of concerns over COVID-19 – a pandemic that has hit the Navajo Nation particularly hard.Nez, a member of Arizona’s Democratic delegati
  
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• Mexican students take college entrance exam amid pandemic

  19-08-2020 21:26
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tens of thousands of prospective students hoping to get into Mexico’s largest public university have begun taking the notoriously competitive entrance exam for the National Autonomous University of Mexico, better known as the UNAM. It was an unusual scene Wednesday due to the coronavirus pandemic: Lines of students wearing face masks and face shields sat at a safe distance from each other on the concrete seats of the UNAM’s soccer stadium. It was also a lonel
  
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• Trump, Pence campaign events signal lax approach to virus

  19-08-2020 21:19
  
  DES MOINES (AP) — There’s a disconnect between coronavirus health guidelines and the scene at recent Trump and Pence campaign events. Hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump stood and sat shoulder to shoulder in Yuma, Arizona, this week, against the advice of Trump’s own health experts. Vice President Mike Pence, for his part, went mask-less in Iowa last week as he reached across a barrier to autograph a half-dozen familiar red Trump campaign hats. Such episodes are se
  
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• Pelosi says postmaster has no plans to restore mail cuts

  19-08-2020 21:11
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says President Donald Trump’s postmaster general has no intention of restoring mail equipment or paying overtime hours he cut despite public outcry the changes are undermining service before Election Day. Pelosi says she told Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in phone call that his decision to temporarily pause any further mail service changes is “wholly insufficient.” She says DeJoy “frankly admitted” he had no intent
  
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• Facebook bans some, but not all, QAnon groups, accounts

  19-08-2020 21:11
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Facebook says it will restrict QAnon and stop recommending that users join groups supporting it, but the company is stopping short of banning the right-wing conspiracy movement outright. Facebook said Wednesday it is banning groups and accounts associated with QAnon, U.S.-based militia groups and anarchist groups that support violence. But the company will continue allow people to post material that supports these groups _ so long as they do not otherwise violate its
  
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• Douglas’ statue to be removed from Illinois Capitol lawn

  19-08-2020 21:11
  
  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois officials have approved removing a statue of 19th century politician Stephen A. Douglas from the front of the state Capitol. The board of the Office of the Architect of the Capitol voted Wednesday to remove a statue of the senator and a statue of early settler Pierre Menard because both profited from slavery. The action came after House Speaker Michael Madigan said in July that Douglas should not be so honored because he profited from his wife’s slav
  
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• Man sought after reported missing on southeast side

  19-08-2020 21:07
  
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  TUCSON (KVOA) - Tucson Police Department is on the lookout for a 75-year-old man after he was reported missing on the southeast side of Tucson Wednesday morning.According to TPD, Manuel Rodriguez Cortes was last seen near Escalante and Kolb Roads early Wednesday.Cortes was described to be five foot, six inches tall and weigh 152 pounds.Anyone with information is advised to call 911.
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• North Carolina judges hear arguments on ex-offender voting

  19-08-2020 21:03
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Attorneys for convicted felons have urged North Carolina judges to block a state law that keeps those who are on probation or parole from voting. On Wednesday, groups that help ex-offenders argued that the state’s law is racially discriminatory and that people with felonies should be able to regain their voting rights after they are no longer incarcerated. If voters’ rights activists are successful, the decision could lead to an influx of voters in a hotly
  
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