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• The Latest: Trump announces more access to plasma treatment

  23-08-2020 23:56
  
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says the Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19 patients.
  Trump, announcing the decision Sunday at the White House, called convalescent plasma a “powerful therapy.” He says the FDA’s action will expand access to the treatment, which is already being used. The treatment involves transferring antibodies from recovered COVID-19 patients to patients suffering from the
  
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• Excessive Heat Warning in effect for Monday and Tuesday

  23-08-2020 23:34
  
  TUCSON - High temperatures will take a jump when the humidity moves out tomorrow. Afternoon temperatures could be as high as 108-109 for Tucson.The high heat will last all week, but starting Wednesday our high temperatures will stabilize around 104-105 for the days following.
  Rain chances will stay in the forecast on Monday. They will not be high chances, but because of the heat enough instability could develop for storms.
  Small rain chances stay in the forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday, b
  
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• Hurricane Marco heading over Gulf toward Louisiana coast

  23-08-2020 23:25
  
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hurricane Marco is heading across the Gulf of Mexico on a path toward the Louisiana coast. Tropical Storm Laura battered the Dominican Republic and Haiti and is headed to the same part of the U.S. coast, also as a potential hurricane. It appears the storms will avoid being hurricanes simultaneously — something that researchers say has never happened in the Gulf of Mexico at least since records began being kept in 1900. The National Hurricane Center says M
  
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• Excessive Heat Warning issued August 23 at 2:25PM MST until August 28 at 8:00PM MST by NWS Phoenix AZ

  23-08-2020 23:25
  
  * WHAT…Dangerously hot conditions. Afternoon temperatures 107to 115 expected.
  * WHERE…Portions of south central Arizona.
  * WHEN…From 10 AM Monday to 8 PM MST Friday.
  * 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
  
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• Excessive Heat Warning issued August 23 at 2:25PM MST until August 25 at 8:00PM MST by NWS Phoenix AZ

  23-08-2020 23:25
  
  * WHAT…Dangerously hot conditions. Afternoon temperatures 102to 113 expected.
  * WHERE…New River Mesa, Rio Verde/Salt River, FountainHills/East Mesa, Globe/Miami, San Carlos, Dripping Springs,Superior, Tonto Basin and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon.
  * WHEN…From 10 AM Monday to 8 PM MST Tuesday.
  * 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 me
  
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• Former ‘Glee’ star Lea Michele gives birth to baby boy

  23-08-2020 23:14
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lea Michele is a mom of a baby boy. A representative for Michele said Sunday that the former “Glee” star gave birth to her son on Aug. 20. She and her husband Zandy Reich welcomed their first child together. Michele announced her pregnancy on Instagram in May. She shared a photo of her baby bump with the caption “So grateful.” The couple married last year.The post Former ‘Glee’ star Lea Michele gives birth to baby boy appeared first on
  
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• Group hopes to rebuild Shakespeare theater that burned down

  23-08-2020 22:56
  
  STRATFORD, Conn. (AP) — A group of theater and business professionals is hoping to rebuild a renown Shakespearean theater in Connecticut that burned to the ground last year. Hearst Connecticut Media reported Sunday that the team is looking into the redevelopment of the 12-acre property in Stratford that was home to the American Shakespeare Theatre. Its stage was graced by the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones. Three teenagers were charged with setting the
  
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• Colombia court calls on Uribe to testify in massacre probe

  23-08-2020 22:43
  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s Supreme Court is calling on powerful former President Álvaro Uribe to testify in an investigation into three massacres that could once and for all establish whether he had any ties to violent paramilitary groups. The new legal quandary for Uribe is potentially more damaging than a separate probe into possible witness tampering that sparked protests earlier this month after magistrates placed the ex-president on house arrest. Details of the ma
  
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• Excessive Heat Warning issued August 23 at 1:40PM MST until August 25 at 8:00PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ

  23-08-2020 22:40
  
  …HOTTER MONDAY AND TUESDAY…
  * WHAT…Dangerously hot conditions expected. Afternoontemperatures 107 to 113.
  * WHERE…Western Pima County, Tohono O’odham Nation, TucsonMetro Area, South Central Pinal County, Southeast Pinal Countyand Upper Gila River Valley.
  * WHEN…From 10 AM Monday to 8 PM MST Tuesday.
  * IMPACTS…Extreme heat will significantly increase thepotential for heat related illnesses, particularly for thoseworking or participating in outdoor a
  
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• UK leader urges parents to let kids to return to school

  23-08-2020 22:35
  
  LONDON (AP) — Britain’s prime minister is asking parents to set aside their fears and send their children back to school next month when the nation’s schools fully reopen for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic shut then down more than five months ago. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was the government’s “moral duty’’ to reopen the schools as he stressed that authorities now know more about COVID-19 than they did when the country went into
  
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• Cardinals get cornerback help, sign veteran Dre Kirkpatrick

  23-08-2020 22:25
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals have signed veteran cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick to boost their secondary after a season-ending injury to Robert Alford. The Cardinals announced on Sunday that Kirkpatrick has agreed to a one-year deal. The 30-year-old spent the first eight seasons of his career with the Cincinnati Bengals and was a starter during the last five. He’s played in 99 games, including 67 starts and has 10 career interceptions. The 6-foot-2, 190-pound Kirkpatrick
  
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• Kansas candidate who admitted to revenge porn drops out

  23-08-2020 22:11
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A 19-year-old Kansas House candidate who had been disowned by some Democrats for his incendiary social media posts and because he abused girls online when he was 14 says he’s dropping out of the race. Aaron Coleman said on Twitter Sunday that he’s abandoning his campaign. Earlier this month, he narrowly defeated veteran Rep. Stan Frownfelter in the Democratic primary in their Kansas City, Kansas district. Heather Scanlon, chief of staff to House Minority Lea
  
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• Pedestrian fatally struck by a freight train in Flagstaff

  23-08-2020 22:10
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a pedestrian is dead after being struck by a freight train in Flagstaff. City police say they received a call from the BNSF Railway Company about 10 p.m. Saturday about a person get hit near Steve’s Boulevard and Route 66. The train came to a stop near the Fourth Street overpass. Police say the pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene. The name, age and gender of the pedestrian weren’t immediately released. Police say investigators are
  
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• Libyan commander dismisses rivals’ cease-fire as ‘deception’

  23-08-2020 21:57
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Forces loyal to a powerful military commander based in eastern Libya have dismissed a cease-fire proposal by the U.N.-supported government, calling it a “deception.” A spokesman for Khalifa Hifter said Sunday the proposal “represents nothing but throwing dust in eyes and deceiving the local and international public.” The head of the rival government that’s based in western Libya proposed the cease-fire Friday. It called for demilitarization of the
  
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• Police: 12 arrested, 1 officer hurt during riot in Denver

  23-08-2020 21:37
  
  DENVER (AP) — City officials say dozens of armed “anarchists” descended on the Denver Police Headquarters late Saturday and damaged buildings, set fires and injured an officer. The officials say a dozen people were arrested. Public safety director Murphy Robinson said the 50 to 75 people who showed up at police headquarters were intent on harming officers and causing property damage. Fireworks were shot at officers, an American flag and a tree outside a courthouse were set on f
  
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• Delaware man charged with pulling gun on abortion opponents

  23-08-2020 21:32
  
  DOVER, Del. (AP) — Police have arrested a man on gun charges after he allegedly pulled a handgun on a group of anti-abortion protesters in the parking lot of Planned Parenthood in Delaware. Dover police said Saturday they arrested 31-year-old Jerome Aniska, of Wilmington, Delaware. Police say it happened Friday morning after Aniska engaged with demonstrators that were on a public sidewalk. Police say during an argument, Aniska pulled out a black handgun and made a threatening statement to
  
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• Lithuanians form human chain to back democracy in Belarus

  23-08-2020 21:23
  
  MEDIKINNAI, Lithuania (AP) — More than 50,000 Lithuanians have joined hands in a human chain stretching 32 kilometers (20 miles) from the capital of Vilinus to the Belarus border to express solidarity with their neighbor’s dramatic struggle for democracy. The massive event, dubbed “the Freedom Way” resembled another historic event on August 23, 1989. Then over 1 million people in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania formed the Baltic Way, a human chain stretching from Vilnius to
  
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• City naming sewage plant after John Oliver

  23-08-2020 21:14
  
  DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut town’s officials are showing comedian John Oliver what they think about his expletive-filled rant about their city — they’re naming the local sewage treatment plant after him. Mayor Mark Boughton announced the tongue-in-cheek move in a video posted on his Facebook page on Saturday. The new name comes after a recent episode of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” in which he explored the racial disparities in the
  
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• Trump to announce plasma treatment authorized for COVID-19

  23-08-2020 21:08
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to announce the emergency authorization of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 patients. The announcement to be made Sunday evening comes after days of White House officials suggesting there were politically motivated delays by the Food and Drug Administration in approving a vaccine and therapeutics for the disease that has upended Trump’s reelection chances. The blood plasma is taken from patients who have recovered from the coronavirus a
  
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• Trump to give emergency authorization to COVID-19 treatment

  23-08-2020 20:59
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to announce the emergency authorization of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 patients. The announcement to be made Sunday evening comes after days of White House officials suggesting there were politically motivated delays by the Food and Drug Administration in approving a vaccine and therapeutics for the disease that has upended Trump’s reelection chances. The blood plasma is taken from patients who have recovered from the coronavirus a
  
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• The Latest: Pakistan shuts hotels over worker infections

  23-08-2020 20:59
  
  PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani authorities have closed about two dozen hotels in a scenic tourist destination in the country’s northwest after dozens of hotel employees tested positive for the coronavirus.
  According to Maqbool Hussain, a district government official, Sunday’s move to place high-risk areas of Shogran, Naran and Kaghan under lockdown was aimed at containing the spread of the virus.
  He said as many as 47 hotel employees who tested positive for COVID-19 were quaran
  
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• Cyprus denies new allegations in “golden passport” scheme

  23-08-2020 20:57
  
  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus is denying new allegations that is was granting citizenship to foreigners accused of crimes in exchange for millions in investments. Officials insisted that all those who received a passport met all criteria in place at the time. Cyprus’ interior ministry said Sunday that 12 foreigners named in an Al Jazeera report received citizenship under its lucrative “golden passport” program only after being approved by Cypriot and foreign agencies task
  
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• Taliban set powerful negotiating team for intra-Afghan talks

  23-08-2020 20:41
  
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — The top Taliban negotiator says the group’s chief has finalized a negotiating team that will have sweeping decision-making powers in upcoming intra-Afghan negotiations. The Taliban official spoke to The Associated Press on Sunday. He says the 20-member negotiating team will have the authority to set agendas, decide strategy and even sign agreements with the political leadership of the Afghan government in Kabul. The talks are intended to set a road map for post-war A
  
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• Average US gas price remains steady at $2.25 per gallon

  23-08-2020 20:39
  
  CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline held steady over the past two weeks at $2.25 per gallon. That’s 41 cents below the average pump price from a year ago. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey says prices are stable because crude oil prices barely changed. Also the U.S. has a glut of gasoline, yet weak demand during the coronavirus pandemic. Nationwide, the highest average price for regular-grade gas is in the San Francisco Bay
  
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• Former Chicago, Las Vegas mobster Frank Cullotta dies at 81

  23-08-2020 20:37
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Frank Cullotta, a former mobster turned government witness who had a cameo role in the 1995 movie “Casino” and later was a Las Vegas mob museum tour guide, has died. He was 81. The Mob Museum says Cullotta died Thursday in a Las Vegas hospital from coronavirus complications. In “Casino,” he had a bit role as a hitman who carries out several murders. Cullotta arrived in Las Vegas from Chicago in 1979 and later admitted to killing a former friend and
  
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• Returning vacationers drive Italy’s surge in COVID cases

  23-08-2020 20:33
  
  ROME (AP) — Vacationers returning from Mediterranean resorts are helping to fuel coronavirus caseloads in Italy, with numbers of infections rising for a seventh straight day Sunday. Migrants have also figured in new cases. Sicily’s governor has ordered all migrants to be transferred from the island by Monday. On Sunday, Italy registered 1,210 new cases, the highest daily number since May 12. The surge comes only a few weeks after the nation saw daily new infections plunge to 200-300.
  
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• Emergency postal aid stalls as WH rejects House-passed bill

  23-08-2020 20:23
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Help for the U.S. Postal Service has landed in stalemate as the White House dismissed an emergency funding bill aimed at shoring up the agency before the November elections as “going nowhere.” But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the public is demanding action and the Senate can’t avoid acting on it “unless they do so to their peril.” The House approved the legislation in a rare Saturday session to provide $25 billion and block operational cha
  
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• Israel’s Netanyahu accepts compromise, avoids election

  23-08-2020 20:11
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has decided against calling new elections. In a nationally televised address, Netanyahu announced Sunday that he had accepted a compromise proposal to extend budget negotiations by 100 days. “Now is the time for unity. Not for elections,” he said. Netanyahu and his rival and coalition partner, Benny Gantz, had faced a midnight Monday night deadline to complete a deal and avoid sending the country to its fourth p
  
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• Israel’s Netanyahu says now is not the time for elections, as lawmakers struggle over make-or-break budget negotiations.

  23-08-2020 20:08
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Netanyahu says now is not the time for elections, as lawmakers struggle over make-or-break budget negotiations.The post Israel’s Netanyahu says now is not the time for elections, as lawmakers struggle over make-or-break budget negotiations. appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• 6 dead, 10 missing as flooding hits Turkey’s Black Sea coast

  23-08-2020 20:04
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish officials say six people have died and 10 others are missings in floods caused by heavy rain along Turkey’s Black Sea coast. The flooding hit the mountain town of Dereli in Giresun province. The interior minister said Sunday while visiting the town that 153 other people had been rescued. Two of the dead were police officers whose vehicle was swept away by the floods. Television footage showed vehicles and debris being carried by floodwaters along the mai
  
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• Winds could fan already enormous Northern California fires

  23-08-2020 20:01
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A calm overnight allowed firefighters to make progress against a trio of massive fires burning in Northern California. But they are girding for the arrival of a weather system Sunday that will bring high winds and thunderstorms that could spark new fires and fan existing blazes that already destroyed nearly 1,000 homes and other structures and forced tens of thousands to evacuate.  The fires surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area were started by lightning strikes
  
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• Trump pushes for COVID-19 treatments, claims slowdown at FDA

  23-08-2020 19:57
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Pushing for breakthroughs in treatments for the coronavirus, White House officials are suggesting there are politically motivated delays by the Food and Drug Administration in approving a vaccine and therapeutics for the disease. The accusations are the latest assault from President Donald Trump’s team on the so-called “deep state” bureaucracy. They were presented without evidence and just hours before Trump is set to hold a news conference on Sunday to
  
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• Residents flee as Gulf Coast sees possible tandem hurricanes

  23-08-2020 19:52
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Residents are fleeing coastal areas in Louisiana as the state braces for a possible hit from consecutive hurricanes. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says the fear is the state could see a heavy storm surge from Hurricane Marco, now in the Gulf of Mexico, and a second strike from Tropical Storm Laura before water from the first storm recedes. Laura is now lashing islands in the Caribbean. The governor says “we’ve not seen this before.” Along the main dra
  
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• Police arrest 5 during RNC protests in Charlotte

  23-08-2020 19:31
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Police have arrested five people in Charlotte, North Carolina, where protesters demonstrated against the Republican National Convention for a second night. Police said the arrests happened Saturday night after a group of demonstrators left a park. One person was charged with possession of a weapon, when police seized a firearm after being alerted that a demonstrator riding a bicycle had a gun. Police say that at about 11 p.m., officers blocked off a street for safety
  
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• Video shows armed Belarus president as protests roil capital

  23-08-2020 19:07
  
  MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Video from Belarus shows beleaguered President Alexander Lukashenko carrying a rifle and wearing a bulletproof vest as he got off a helicopter that brought him to this working residence as anti-government protests roil the capital. The dramatic moment occurred as massive protests calling for his resignation flooded the capital of Minsk on Sunday for the 15th straight day. As Lukashenko landed at the Independence Palace in Minsk, protesters were gathered in a nearby sq
  
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• Marco becomes hurricane headed for US Gulf Coast

  23-08-2020 19:04
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Marco became a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico Sunday on a path toward the Louisiana coast. Tropical Storm Laura battered the Dominican Republic and Haiti and headed to the same part of the U.S. coast, also as a potential hurricane. It would be the first time two hurricanes form in the Gulf of Mexico simultaneously, according to records dating to at least 1900, said Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach. The National Hurricane Center s
  
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• Video from Belarus shows President Alexander Lukashenko carrying a rifle outside his home as protests roil the capital

  23-08-2020 19:01
  
  MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Video from Belarus shows President Alexander Lukashenko carrying a rifle outside his home as protests roil the capital.The post Video from Belarus shows President Alexander Lukashenko carrying a rifle outside his home as protests roil the capital appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Storm Marco becomes a hurricane over Gulf of Mexico

  23-08-2020 18:52
  
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The U.S. National Hurricane Center says a storm named Marco that is swirling over the Gulf of Mexico has become a hurricane. Marco was heading for a possible hit on the Louisiana coast. Tropical Storm Laura, another potential hurricane, battered the Dominican Republic and Haiti and headed to the same part of the U.S. coast. The hurricane center said Sunday that maximum winds of the Marco hurricane are 75 miles per hour (120 kilometers per hour). It says data fr
  
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• U.S. National Hurricane Center says storm Marco has become a hurricane

  23-08-2020 18:43
  
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — U.S. National Hurricane Center says storm Marco has become a hurricane.The post U.S. National Hurricane Center says storm Marco has become a hurricane appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Phoenix man accused of 2nd-degree murder after vehicle crash

  23-08-2020 18:33
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Police say a man has been arrested after allegedly driving impaired and colliding with another vehicle that left an 18-year-old driver dead in southwest Phoenix. They say 21-year-old Enrique Garcia allegedly ran a red light about 11:30 p.m. Saturday and the pickup truck he was driving collided with an SUV driven by Jonathan Felix. Police say Felix was pronounced dead at the scene.  They say Garcia “showed signs and symptoms consistent with impairment” and wa
  
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• Old Tucson’s Nightfall canceled due to COVID-19

  23-08-2020 18:30
  
  TUCSON (KVOA)- In a brief Facebook post, the organizers of Old Tucson's Nightfall announced that it was canceling this years event due to COVID-19.No immediate details were provided.
  DUE TO COVID-19 CONCERNS NIGHTFALL 2020 IS CANCELLEDPosted by Nightfall at Old Tucson on Saturday, August 22, 2020
  The show usually lasts for a month, and is a Southern Arizona favorite.
  The post Old Tucson’s Nightfall canceled due to COVID-19 appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Shipbuilders approve 3-year pact, ending monthslong strike

  23-08-2020 18:19
  
  BATH, Maine (AP) — Striking workers at a Maine shipyard have approved a three-year contract after a 63-day strike. The strike at Bath Iron Works came to a close with Sunday’s announcement of the result of the voting by Machinists Union Local S6. The 4,300 shipbuilders the union represents will begin returning to work Monday. The stakes were high for both a company that fears being priced out of lucrative Navy contracts and workers who didn’t want to give up ground to subcontrac
  
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• Production workers in Maine agree to new contract, end monthslong strike at 1 of US Navy’s biggest shipbuilders

  23-08-2020 18:17
  
  BATH, Maine (AP) — Production workers in Maine agree to new contract, end monthslong strike at 1 of US Navy’s biggest shipbuilders.The post Production workers in Maine agree to new contract, end monthslong strike at 1 of US Navy’s biggest shipbuilders appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Arizona reports 207 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, 15 deaths

  23-08-2020 18:05
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona health officials report 207 new confirmed COVID-19 cases with 15 additional deaths as of Sunday. The Arizona Department of Health Services says that raises the state’s coronavirus totals to 198,103 cases and 4,771 deaths as reports of infections and deaths continued to slow. Of the more than 198,000 cases, authorities say nearly 132,000 of them have occurred in Maricopa County _ the state’s largest county that includes the Phoenix metro area. COVID-19-rel
  
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• Businesses heavily lobbied Arizona governor during pandemic

  23-08-2020 18:02
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey had no shortage of advice when he was considering reopening the state following a six-week coronavirus shutdown that ended in mid-May. Records provided to The Associated Press show the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a national small business lobbying group were among those sending letters to the Republican governor offering their take on what they needed. Other key groups seeking the governor’s ear were associations representing ho
  
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• Black-owned bookstores want action after influx in business

  23-08-2020 17:56
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A renewed focus on social justice in the wake of police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd has seen sales soar at Black-owned bookstores around the country as customers seek out knowledge from their own communities. The stores have always served as a community space for Black people to gather and educate themselves and their communities about their culture and history. Sales increased exponentially after calls on social media in June encouraged people to spend their
  
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• The Latest: Florida reports fewer than 3,000 new cases

  23-08-2020 17:50
  
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida broke the 600,000 mark for confirmed coronavirus cases Sunday but reported one of its lowest daily totals in two months, continuing a downward trend that began five weeks ago.Florida reported 2,974 new cases on Sunday, only the second time since June 22 that fewer than 3,000 new cases have been tallied in a day. The other time was Monday, when 2,678 cases were reported. Sundays and Mondays often have a low number of reports as not all hospitals report on the wee
  
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• Film shows trailblazing Black female editor, VP candidate

  23-08-2020 17:40
  
  RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — Kamala Harris made history last week by becoming the first Black woman to be nominated to run for vice president on a major party’s ticket. But the first Black woman to run for vice president in the nation’s history was trailblazing newspaperwoman Charlotta Spears Bass. The groundbreaking journalist and civil rights activist who ran in 1952 on the Progressive Party ticket is the subject of a new PBS/WNET “American Masters” short. It’s t
  
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• High winds could fan already enormous California wildfires

  23-08-2020 17:37
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A calm overnight allowed firefighters to make progress against a trio of massive fires burning in Northern California. But they are girding for the arrival of a weather system Sunday that will bring high winds and thunderstorms that could spark new fires and fan existing blazes that already destroyed nearly 1,000 homes and other structures and forced tens of thousands to evacuate.  The fires surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area were started by lightning strikes
  
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• Pompeo deputy to Russia, Ukraine during Belarus crisis

  23-08-2020 17:26
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s No. 2 diplomat will travel to Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine and Austria this week for talks on arms control and other matters, including allegations of Russian election meddling and the crisis in Belarus after disputed elections. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun will visit Vilnius, Moscow, Kyiv and Vienna beginning on Monday. The State Department said Sunday that Biegun’s agenda would include discussions on “a range of reg
  
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