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• The Latest: Protesters march in Kenosha after Trump visit

  01-09-2020 23:49
  
  KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on the Aug. 23 police shooting of Jacob Blake (all times local):
  4:50 p.m.
  Demonstrators in Kenosha are marching through city streets, after President Donald Trump has wrapped up a visit to the area.
  More than 100 people are following a man with a megaphone, shouting, “Arrest the police” and other chants.
  The city saw protest and some violence after the Aug. 23 police shooting of Jacob Blake. The 29-year-old Black man was shot seven times in the
  
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• Ducey Delays Expiration Of Driver Licenses by One Year

  01-09-2020 23:48
  
  In an attempt to reduce the number of in-person visits to Motor Vehicle Departments, Gov. Doug Ducey issued an executive order today deferring requirements to renew standard driver licenses.
  If your license has an expiration date through Dec. 31, 2020, renewal requirements have been extended by one year.…
  
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• Georgia county where Black man shot sues over policing vote

  01-09-2020 23:44
  
  BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The commissioners of a coastal Georgia county where Black man Ahmaud Arbery was fatally shot after being pursued by armed white men are suing to stop a referendum on abolishing the county police department. The Brunswick News reports the Glynn County Commission filed the lawsuit on Friday. The lawsuit alleges that a state law mandating the November referendum vote is unconstitutional. The referendum would seek to abolish the county police agency and hand law enforceme
  
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• Current events push ‘Black Panther,’ Fox News to big ratings

  01-09-2020 23:40
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A special airing of “Black Panther” after the death of star Chadwick Boseman was a bright spot for the broadcast networks in a ratings week otherwise dominated by Fox News Channel’s coverage of the Republican National Convention. ABC’s last-minute scheduling of “Black Panther” for Sunday drew 6.27 million viewers two days after Boseman died of colon cancer at age 43. But the week overall belonged to Fox News, which had nine of the top
  
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• Florida DJ found dead less than month after rape charge

  01-09-2020 23:38
  
  MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a South Florida DJ and music producer Erick Morillo has been found dead at his home. His death came less than a month after being charged with sexual battery. Miami Beach police officers found 49-year-old Erick Morillo dead Tuesday morning after responding to a 911 call. Officials didn’t immediately report a cause of death. Morillo was best known for house music and the 1993 hit “I Like to Move It,” which is featured prominently in
  
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• Bucks players upset with Wisconsin Legislature’s inaction

  01-09-2020 23:32
  
  Milwaukee Bucks players and the team’s coach say they are disappointed that Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature didn’t take action on policing reform bills during a special session Monday called by Gov. Tony Evers. Both the state Senate and Assembly met for less than 30 seconds each before ending the session. Evers called lawmakers into a special session after a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer shot Jacob Blake in the back on Aug. 23. Bucks guard Kyle Korver said Tues
  
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• US says it won’t join global effort to find COVID-19 vaccine

  01-09-2020 23:31
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration says it will not work with an international cooperative effort to develop and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine because it does not want to be constrained by multilateral groups like the World Health Organization. The decision to go it alone, first reported by The Washington Post, follows the White House’s decision in early July to pull the United States out of the WHO. Trump claims the WHO needs reform and is heavily influenced by China. White
  
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• Officials: LA deputies shoot, kill Black man who dropped gun

  01-09-2020 23:27
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities and relatives say Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies have shot and killed a Black bicyclist they stopped for a traffic violation after he ran from them, punched one and then dropped a bundle that included a gun. The shooting death Monday afternoon of Dijon Kizzee comes on the heels of a police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin. That shooting left Jacob Blake, who is also Black, paralyzed and spurred days of protests, reinvigorating the national debate o
  
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• Mnuchin says Trump still wants virus deal with Democrats

  01-09-2020 23:20
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the Trump administration remains willing to work on a bipartisan agreement to help small businesses, the unemployed, children and schools. Mnuchin at a hearing Tuesday accused Democratic leaders of holding up an agreement with hard-line positions. Democrats insisted that dire economic conditions persist and said a larger relief package is needed. Mnuchin and top congressional Democrats have been in a monthslong stalemate over new rel
  
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• Tropical Storm Omar forms as Nana approaches Central America

  01-09-2020 23:19
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Omar has formed off the U.S. East Coast as Tropical Storm Nana approaches the coast of Central America. The U.S. National Hurricane Center predicts that Nana will grow to hurricane strength says people in Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula should closely monitor its progress. Strong winds, a dangerous storm surge and very heavy rainfall causing flash flooding are likely. Colorado State University professor Phil Klotzbach says Nana a
  
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• Police chief defends arrest of Black jogger; DA drops case

  01-09-2020 23:18
  
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — San Antonio’s police chief says his officers “acted appropriately” when they arrested an innocent Black jogger. That’s even as the Bexar County district attorney is rejecting the charges against the jogger for prosecution. The officers detained Mathias Ometu on Aug. 28 as a suspect in a nearby domestic violence call, saying he resembled a sketchy description given by the complainant. However, the complainant refused to come to the scene immediatel
  
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• Michigan State’s Nassar review mostly clears staff

  01-09-2020 23:06
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Michigan State University mostly found no violations of campus policy in a review of roughly 20 former or current staff members who were said to have received complaints about Larry Nassar. Nassar was the campus doctor who was convicted of molesting female athletes. The government required Michigan State to determine if employees properly handled complaints about Nassar, based on policies in place at the time of the allegation. Michigan State found that the evidence mostly f
  
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• Lawyer: Plea offer tried to link Breonna Taylor to drug ring

  01-09-2020 23:04
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A lawyer for Breonna Taylor’s family says a plea deal was offered to an accused drug dealer that would have implicated Taylor in a drug operation weeks after her killing by police. Louisville’s top prosecutor Tom Wine acknowledged the existence of the document but says it was part of preliminary plea negotiations. Wine says the plea offer posted on social media by attorney Sam Aguiar was a “draft.” Taylor was shot on March 13. The offer to Jam
  
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• Large antibody study offers hope for virus vaccine efforts

  01-09-2020 23:02
  
  Scientists are reporting that the antibodies people make to fight the new coronavirus do not fade quickly. The new study is the most extensive work yet on the immune system’s response to the virus and is good news for efforts to develop vaccines. The was report published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. It was based on tests on more than 30,000 people in Iceland. It found antibodies lasted for at least four months after diagnosis. Independent experts say if a vaccine can spu
  
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• Study suggests immune system’s coronavirus-fighting antibodies do not fade quickly, a hopeful sign for vaccine efforts

  01-09-2020 23:01
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Study suggests immune system’s coronavirus-fighting antibodies do not fade quickly, a hopeful sign for vaccine efforts.The post Study suggests immune system’s coronavirus-fighting antibodies do not fade quickly, a hopeful sign for vaccine efforts appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Facebook, Twitter suspend Russian network ahead of election

  01-09-2020 22:57
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Facebook said Tuesday that it removed a small network of accounts and pages linked to Russia’s Internet Research Agency, the “troll factory” that has used social media accounts to sow political discord in the U.S. since the 2016 presidential election. The people behind the accounts recruited “unwitting” freelance journalists to post in English and Arabic, mainly targeting left-leaning audiences. Facebook said Tuesday the network’s
  
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• Colombia: High court drops jurisdiction of Álvaro Uribe case

  01-09-2020 22:56
  
  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s Supreme Court has announced it is giving up jurisdiction over the investigation into accusations that powerful former President Álvaro Uribe tried to strong arm ex-paramilitaries into testifying in his favor in a case that has rocked the nation. The high court announced Tuesday that its justices do not believe the allegations are connected to Uribe’s position as a senator, so they unanimously decided to turn the case over to the chief p
  
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• Tropical Storm Omar, the 15th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, has formed but is expected to be short-lived

  01-09-2020 22:55
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Omar, the 15th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, has formed but is expected to be short-lived.The post Tropical Storm Omar, the 15th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, has formed but is expected to be short-lived appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Criminal charges loom in California boat fire that killed 34

  01-09-2020 22:48
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Court documents say criminal charges are imminent in the investigation of the fire that killed 34 people aboard the scuba boat Conception last year off the coast of Southern California. Filings last week in a Los Angeles federal court say prosecutors met with the boat’s captain to reveal the evidence they have against him. Lawyers say those meetings are often held to persuade a suspect to plead guilty. Capt. Jerry Boylan, who survived along with four crew members,
  
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• Feds to ship fast COVID-19 tests to assisted living sites

  01-09-2020 22:47
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials plan to ship rapid coronavirus tests to assisted living facilities, moving to fill a testing gap for older adults who don’t need the constant attention of a nursing home. Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir said assisted living facilities will be followed by senior day care centers and home health agencies in getting the tests. The tests will come from a supply of 150 million ordered from test maker Abbott Laborato
  
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• The Latest: No reports of violence as Trump visits Kenosha

  01-09-2020 22:44
  
  KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on the Aug. 23 police shooting of Jacob Blake (all times local):
  3:45 p.m.
  A few hundred supporters and detractors of President Donald Trump gathered at a city center intersection in Kenosha, engaging each other in shouting matches at times, but there were no reports of violence.
  Some Kenosha residents had feared Trump’s visit Tuesday would prompt violence. Kenosha has seen days of protests and some violence since the Aug. 23 police shooting of Jacob B
  
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• Good Samaritan dies after human chain fails in Ala.

  01-09-2020 22:40
  
  (WPMI)  Video captured Saturday in Fort Morgan, Alabama shows waves overtaking a human chain that had formed on the beach trying to rescue swimmers in distress, but ultimately it caused even more people to get caught up in deadly rip currents and rough surf.Karen Graham, 54, was the first one in that chain and soon found herself in trouble."Someone started hollering for help and Karen took off running to help," said Graham's mother Laura Carrigan.Graham, a Collierville, Tennessee resident,
  
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• The Latest: Trump wraps up tour in Kenosha

  01-09-2020 22:36
  
  KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on the Aug. 23 police shooting of Jacob Blake (all times local):
  3:25 p.m.
  President Donald Trump says he doesn’t believe that there’s a problem with systemic racism in policing as he wraps up a tour in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
  Trump on Tuesday toured damage caused amid unrest that followed the Aug. 23 shooting of Jacob Blake, who is Black.
  Trump says police are sometimes under tremendous pressure and don’t handle it well.Trump is trying to rein
  
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• Trump visits Kenosha, calls violence ‘domestic terrorism’

  01-09-2020 22:27
  
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  KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump charged into the latest eruption of the nation’s reckoning over racial injustice on Tuesday, blaming “domestic terror” that he said fueled the violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He declared the violence “anti-American,” and said it was enabled by Democratic leaders. But he offered no words for the underlying cause of the anger and protests — accusations of police violence agai
  
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• Mnuchin spars with Democrats on new virus aid, economy

  01-09-2020 22:26
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the Trump administration remains willing to work on a bipartisan agreement to help small businesses, the unemployed, children and schools. Mnuchin at a hearing Tuesday accused Democratic leaders of holding up an agreement with hard-line positions. Democrats insisted that dire economic conditions persist and said a larger relief package is needed. Mnuchin and top congressional Democrats have been in a monthslong stalemate over new rel
  
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• Belarus opposition challenger to address UN Security Council

  01-09-2020 22:25
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The main opposition challenger in Belarus’ disputed presidential election will address an informal meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Friday. Estonia’s U.N. ambassador said Tuesday that Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya will speak to the U.N.’s most powerful body at a meeting focusing on attacks on human rights in the former Soviet nation. Belarus’ opposition has called the Aug. 9 election that gave Alexander Lukashenko a sixth term as president ri
  
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• Airline crews report jetpack flier near Los Angeles airport

  01-09-2020 22:23
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration says it is investigating reports from airline pilots that someone was flying in what appeared to be a jetpack as the planes approached Los Angeles International Airport for landings last weekend. The FAA said Tuesday that two flight crews reported the sightings as they were on final approaches to LAX around 6:35 p.m. Sunday. The FAA says law enforcement was alerted and the agency is looking into the reports. The sightings were at an al
  
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• US stocks start September off with more gains, led by tech

  01-09-2020 22:09
  
  Stocks are closing higher on Wall Street Tuesday, a day after wrapping up their fifth monthly gain in a row. Technology companies were once again a standout. The S&P 500 climbed 0.8% after starting the day slightly in the red. The Nasdaq rose 1.4%. Zoom Video Communications soared more than 40% a day after the now-ubiquitous video conferencing service reported another quarter of explosive growth. This is a busy week for economic news, culminating Friday with the monthly U.S. jobs report. Tes
  
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• The Latest: Wisconsin investigators: 28 videos reviewed

  01-09-2020 22:01
  
  KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on the Aug. 23 police shooting of Jacob Blake (all times local):
  3 p.m.
  The Wisconsin Department of Justice says it has reviewed 28 videos related to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha.Only two cellphone videos that captured the Aug. 23 shooting have been widely distributed over social media. The state Justice Department did not describe what was seen on any of the videos. Kenosha police do not have body cameras.
  A police officer shot Blake seven
  
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• Missouri woman sentenced in death of man found in concrete

  01-09-2020 21:58
  
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri woman who prosecutors say was the “most culpable” in the death of a developmentally disabled man has been sentenced to 17.5 years in prison on federal charges. Sherry Paulo was given the maximum sentence possible in the death of Carl DeBrodie and for trying to cover up the crime. DeBrodie’s body was found encased in concrete at a Fulton storage facility in April 2017 but investigators determined he died months earlier. He was a resi
  
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• The Latest: Trump promises to help Kenosha businesses

  01-09-2020 21:53
  
  KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on the Aug. 23 police shooting of Jacob Blake (all times local):
  2:50 p.m.
  President Donald Trump says he’s committed to helping Kenosha, Wisconsin, and is promising more federal resources for police and small businesses.
  Trump is visiting the city over the objections of some state and local leaders, fearful that he will increase tensions. The city saw unrest after a police officer shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back on Aug. 23. Blake’s fami
  
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• Attorneys file lawsuit seeking redress for Tulsa massacre

  01-09-2020 21:51
  
  Attorneys for victims and their descendants affected by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre have filed a lawsuit in state court against the City of Tulsa and other defendants. The group is seeking reparations for the destruction of the city’s once thriving Black district that was burned to the ground by an angry white mob. The massacre, which left hundreds of Black residents dead and thousands homeless, has received renewed attention in recent months. President Donald Trump moved the date of his
  
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• The Latest: Advisers: Plasma treatment for virus needs study

  01-09-2020 21:47
  
  WASHINGTON — A group of medical experts advising the National Institutes of Health says there is not enough evidence to recommend for or against the use of plasma therapy for patients hospitalized with COVID-19.
  The non-endorsement by government advisers comes a week after the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency authorization to the treatment. That decision followed threats from President Donald Trump about the slow pace of FDA’s review, raising concerns that the agency fe
  
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• The Loan Company That Sued Thousands of Low-Income Latinos During the Pandemic

  01-09-2020 21:45
  
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• Now in Government Food Aid Boxes: A Letter From Donald Trump

  01-09-2020 21:35
  
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• Oglala Sioux president suspended on improper contact charge

  01-09-2020 21:29
  
  RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota has been suspended and will face an impeachment hearing after being accused of inappropriate contact with a 17-year-old boy. The Rapid City Journal reports that the tribal council voted to suspend Julian Bear Runner after receiving a complaint from the boy’s father. The father accused Bear Runner of grooming his son, who was 17 at the time, for inappropriate sexual touching in a motel room once he turned
  
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• US Justice Department warns FIFA on international ban

  01-09-2020 21:26
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has entered into a sports dispute involving the company of a longtime friend of President Donald Trump, warning FIFA that a prohibition against staging league matches internationally could violate American antitrust laws. Relevent Sports, controlled by Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, sued the U.S. Soccer Federation in September 2019 for failing to sanction a proposed Spanish league match between Barcelona and Girona in Miami Gardens, Florida
  
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• Video shows Israeli soldier kneeling on protester’s neck

  01-09-2020 21:25
  
  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A video circulating on social media appears to show an Israeli soldier kneeling on a Palestinian protester’s neck while arresting him during a demonstration in the occupied West Bank. The 65-year-old protester said he was not seriously injured and acknowledged shoving an Israeli soldier. The Israeli military said troops were “forced to apprehend” a suspect who had “repeatedly assaulted them.” Palestinians and Israeli rights groups of
  
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• McConnell chides mayors for response to destructive protests

  01-09-2020 21:23
  
  LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has chided some big-city mayors for their handling of protests. The Kentucky Republican said Tuesday they’ve shown a reluctance to “enforce the law” when protests have turned destructive. McConnell spoke about protests after receiving an endorsement from the Kentucky Fraternal Order of Police. McConnell consistently says he supports the rights of people to demonstrate peacefully while condemning prope
  
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• Suicide Hotline Offers Young People Hope and a Chance To Talk with Peers

  01-09-2020 21:22
  
  PHOENIX – The small office building, nestled just off the road near a medical office and appliance store, looks more like a house where a quiet family might live. The only signs of activity are the cars in the small parking lot out front.…
  
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• Study: Cancer cases likely in those exposed to atomic test

  01-09-2020 21:22
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — After decades of study, the National Cancer Institute says some excess cancer cases likely resulted from exposure to radioactive fallout that wafted across New Mexico after the U.S. government detonated the first atomic bomb in 1945. However, the exact number is unknown. Researchers said in studies released Tuesday that it’s impossible to know if New Mexico’s cancer rates changed in the first decades after the test given the lack of data. They did concl
  
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• The Latest: Trump meets with law enforcement in Kenosha

  01-09-2020 21:20
  
  KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on the Aug. 23 police shooting of Jacob Blake (all times local):
  2:20 p.m.
  President Donald Trump is meeting with law enforcement officers at a local high school as part of his visit to Kenosha, Wisconsin.
  The city saw unrest after a police officer shot Jacob Blake on Aug. 23. A 17-year-old has been charged with killing two demonstrators on Aug. 25. Trump has suggested he was acting in self-defense.
  Trump is trying to portray himself as a friend of police an
  
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• Suicide may run in the family. A closer look at genetic risk.

  01-09-2020 21:02
  
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• Northern Arizona University reopened for in-person classes

  01-09-2020 21:00
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Northern Arizona University has reopened for in-person classes Monday, welcoming students for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic closed the Flagstaff campus in March. The Arizona Daily Sun reported that the announcement came three weeks after the university began its academic year online. As of Monday, 29,594 students were enrolled in classes across all the NAU campuses, with more than 6,000 students living in university-owned residence halls. Some facult
  
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• Officials: Deputies fatally shoot Black man who dropped gun

  01-09-2020 20:59
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies have shot and killed a Black man they stopped for a traffic violation after he ran from them, punched one and then dropped a gun. The shooting death Monday afternoon of the man identified by local media as Dijon Kizzee comes on the heels of a police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin. That shooting left Jacob Blake, who is also Black, paralyzed and spurred days of protests, reinvigorating the national debate on racial inju
  
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• Stocks move higher on Wall Street after big gain in August

  01-09-2020 20:56
  
  Wall Street shook off a sluggish start and was moving higher in midday trading Tuesday, a day after the market wrapped up its fifth monthly gain in a row. The S&P 500 was up 0.5% after starting the day slightly in the red. Gains for Apple and other tech stocks pushed the Nasdaq higher. Zoom Video Communications soared a day after the now-ubiquitous video conferencing service reported another quarter of explosive growth. This is a busy week for economic news, culminating Friday with the month
  
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• Italy’s FM meets with Libya rivals to push for end to war

  01-09-2020 20:56
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Italy’s chief diplomat has paid an unannounced visit to Libya to press for an end to the bloody civil war following cease-fire initiatives by the U.N.-supported government and rival parliament. Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio met with Fayez Sarraj, head of the Government of National Accord based in the capital Tripoli, before heading to eastern Libya to meet with Aguila Saleh, speaker of the rival Tobruk-based House of Representatives, Libyan officials said. Libya was plu
  
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• The Latest: Experts: No guarantees on human testing vaccines

  01-09-2020 20:55
  
  NEW YORK — A handful of the dozens of experimental coronavirus vaccines in human testing have reached the last and biggest hurdle — looking for the needed proof they really work.
  A U.S. advisory panel suggested Tuesday a way to ration the first limited doses once a vaccine wins approval. AstraZeneca announced Monday its vaccine candidate has entered the final testing stage in the U.S. The Cambridge, England-based company said the study will involve up to 30,000 adults from various ra
  
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• Threatened American Airlines layoffs leave Arizona employees anxious

  01-09-2020 20:53
  
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• Boy Scouts launch ads on how abuse victims can seek money

  01-09-2020 20:48
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America has launched a nationwide advertising campaign to notify victims of decades-old sex abuse by Scout leaders that they have until Nov. 16 to seek compensation as part of its bankruptcy case. The $6.8 million ad campaign has been approved by a bankruptcy judge and aims to alert abuse survivors who might want a share of a proposed compensation fund. Law firms say they have already signed up thousands of clients to submit claims since the Boy Scouts fil
  
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