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• Tulsa man accused of killing officer will face trial

  03-09-2020 23:58
  
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A Tulsa man accused of shooting two police officers and killing one of them will proceed to trial for first-degree murder and a slew of other charges. Special Judge April Seibert also found probable cause for David Anthony Ware to face a jury on charges of shooting with intent to kill, drug possession with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm after a felony conviction. The Tulsa World reports that the shooting happened during a June 29 traffic stop, resultin
  
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• Fall Gem Show opens in Tucson with COVID-19 precaution measures

  03-09-2020 23:55
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - After the "JOGS Tucson Gem & Jewelry Show" was approved by the City of Tucson and the Pima County Health Department three weeks ago, the annual show is now open through Sunday at the Tucson Expo Center.  We don't know when (COVID-19) is going away," Irene Mayzenberg JOGS organizer said. "So we have to adjust to what is happening and live in a new environment."Safety rules are being strictly enforced at the show.Officials say more security has been added for the even, and
  
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• Trump, allies beating path to battleground Pennsylvania

  03-09-2020 23:53
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald and his campaign are feeling new optimism about Pennsylvania with just two months to go before Election Day. Trump is holding a rally in the western part of the state Thursday evening as his campaign sees new signs of momentum in the state. Trump won the longtime Democratic stronghold by less than 45,000 votes in 2016. After months of trepidation, his campaign is feeling encouraged in the last few weeks as Trump has pivoted to a “law and order&rdquo
  
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• An Excessive Heat Warning has been issued through Labor Day

  03-09-2020 23:51
  
  TUCSON - Record high temperatures will settle in through the holiday weekend and will be wiped out by the first cold front of the season next week.
  Afternoon highs will range between 105-108 around Tucson between Friday afternoon and Monday.
  Each record high temperature between Friday and Sunday are likely to be broken thanks to the sunshine and dry air.
  We are not expecting any good chance of rain to return to our area until the middle of next week when the first cold front of the season h
  
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• Alabama gov seeks 3 private built mega prisons, names sites

  03-09-2020 23:50
  
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s governor has announced plans to move ahead with state leasing of three privately built mega prisons that would begin construction next year. Gov. Kay Ivey described that Thursday as a step toward overhauling Alabama’s understaffed and violence-plagued prisons. She says Department of Corrections officials would enter into talks for building the prisons with teams including Nashville, Tennessee-based private prison giant CoreCivic and a group inc
  
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• Police: Man attempts to kidnap infant at grocery store self-checkout in Flagstaff

  03-09-2020 23:44
  
  Flagstaff PD via 12 News
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz (KPNX) — Police in Flagstaff have identified and located a suspect who they say tried to leave a grocery store with a woman's infant child while she was buying groceries. It remains and ongoing investigation, police say. Flagstaff PD initially released video and photos asking the public for help identifying the man.According to Flagstaff PD, officers were called to the Bashas' located on Woodlands Village Boulevard Thursday, after a mothe
  
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• Hurricane Nana hits Belize, then weakens over Guatemala

  03-09-2020 23:44
  
  PUNTA GORDA, Belize (AP) — Hurricane Nana has made landfall in Belize and is now pushing across Guatemala as a tropical depression. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Nana’s maximum sustained winds had fallen to 35 mph by late Thursday afternoon. It was centered about 220 miles (350 kilometers) west-northwest of Belize City. Heavy rains were reported in Guatemala. There were no reports of casualties, and Belize authorities say so far unconfirmed reports indicate the worst impact
  
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• White woman charged with hate crime over confrontation

  03-09-2020 23:43
  
  WINNETKA, Ill. (AP) — A white woman faces a felony hate crime charge after police said she initiated a racist confrontation with a group of Black men at a beach in suburban Chicago. Irene Donoshaytis told the men they weren’t allowed there and that one of them, Otis Campbell, would kill her because he’s Black. Campbell captured the Aug. 17 interaction on video. Deputy Police Chief Brian O’Connell says the 65-year-old Northfield woman was initially charged with battery, bu
  
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• Memorial for fallen officers vandalized with ‘Defund The Police’ message in Arkansas

  03-09-2020 23:34
  
  CNN Newsource
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (CNN) - A memorial for fallen police officers outside the Little Rock Police Department was vandalized overnight."Defund the police" was spray-painted on the memorial - and "Breonna Taylor" was painted on the ground below the memorial.Taylor was fatally shot by Louisville police officers who executed a no-knock warrant at her home in March.Other county justice buildings were also vandalized.On Thursday, volunteers worked to clean the graffiti off the monument and
  
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• The Latest: Italian experts: Reopen nursing homes gradually

  03-09-2020 23:32
  
  ROME — Italian health experts have recommended that nursing homes and other residences where disabled and other ‘’fragile” people live gradually allow visitors again with strict rules to guard against the spread of the coronavirus.Deaths in residences for the elderly figured prominently in the heavy fatality toll of the first months of the pandemic in Italy, where the outbreak began in Europe.The Superior Health Institute, which advises Italy’s public health system
  
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• Tech slump sends stock market to its biggest loss since June

  03-09-2020 23:26
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell sharply on Wall Street Thursday as high-flying technology companies took a tumble after months of spectacular gains. The benchmark S&P 500 lost 3.5%, its biggest loss since June, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 5%. Both indexes set record highs a day earlier. Apple, the most valuable U.S. company, slumped 8%. Big Tech companies have made outsize gains this year as investors bet that they would continue posting huge profits, even with many coronavirus restrict
  
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• Mayor suspends officers involved in man’s suffocation death

  03-09-2020 23:18
  
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The mayor of New York’s third largest city has suspended a group of police officers involved in the suffocation death of a Black man last March. Daniel Prude died March 30 when his family took him off life support, seven days after officers who encountered him running naked through the street put a hood over his head to stop him from spitting, then held him down for about two minutes. Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren announced the suspension of the officers Thursd
  
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• Excessive Heat Warning issued September 3 at 2:17PM MST until September 7 at 8:00PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ

  03-09-2020 23:17
  
  * WHAT…Dangerously hot conditions for September are expectedwith near record afternoon highs between 104 and 114 degrees.Hottest temperatures will be west of Tucson.
  * 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 Friday to 8 PM MST Monday.
  * IMPACTS…Extreme heat and humidity will significantlyincrease the potential for heat related illnesses,pa
  
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• Tweet sparks dispute at Arizona State student radio station

  03-09-2020 23:15
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The board of directors of Arizona State University’s student-run radio station postponed scheduled programming and board members threatened to resign over a tweet by the station’s manager. The Arizona Republic reported that the dispute among students at Blaze Radio and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication was sparked by an Aug. 29 message on Twitter by Station Manager Rae’Lee Klein. Klein tweeted a link to a New York Post article
  
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• Black jogger jailed after mistaken ID arrest speaks out

  03-09-2020 23:15
  
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Black jogger who spent nearly two days in jail after mistakenly being arrested by San Antonio police because they said he fit the description of an assault suspect says it was a traumatic experience that no one should have to go through. Mathias “Marty” Ometu, a 33-year-old insurance agent, was misidentified as an assault suspect on Aug. 25, wrestled into a patrol vehicle and jailed on charges of having assaulted two officers during his arrest. Ometu spoke
  
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• Apple delays debut of anti-tracking tool in iPhone software

  03-09-2020 23:13
  
  SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Apple is delaying a new privacy feature in the next version of its iPhone operating system that will make it more difficult for app developers to track people online to help sell ads. The decision outlined Thursday affects iOS 14, which is expected to be released to roughly a billion iPhone users later this month. Apple intended iOS 14 to automatically block tracking as soon as the software came out, but is now postponing the feature until early next year. The deci
  
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• Pac-12 reaches agreement for rapid COVID testing

  03-09-2020 23:08
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Pac-12 has reached an agreement with a diagnostic testing company to implement up to daily COVID-19 testing for all close-contact sports across the conference. Commissioner Larry Scott says the deal with Quidel Corporation is a major step toward safe resumption of Pac-12 sports. Tests and Quidel’s Sofia 2 testing machines are expected to be delivered to the conference’s schools by late September.The post Pac-12 reaches agreement for rapid COVID testing
  
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• Rochester mayor suspends officers involved in March suffocation death of Black man

  03-09-2020 22:54
  
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Rochester mayor suspends officers involved in March suffocation death of Black man.The post Rochester mayor suspends officers involved in March suffocation death of Black man appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Biden, in Kenosha, hails fight for racial progress

  03-09-2020 22:54
  
  NBC News Channel Joe Biden in Pittsburgh on Monday, Aug. 31, 2020.
  KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden told residents in Kenosha, Wisconsin, that the police and protest violence their city has experienced in recent weeks can be part of an awakening that helps the United States finally confront centuries of systemic racism and social discord. Biden said addressing systemic racism in America is something worth losing the election over, but he said he wouldn’
  
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• Colombia targets ex US Green Beret behind anti-Maduro plot

  03-09-2020 22:53
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Colombia’s police chief is calling on a former U.S. Green Beret behind a plot to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to “answer for his crimes” in the South American country. The announcement came a day after police arrested four Venezuelans tied to clandestine camps where he said American war veteran Jordan Goudreau helped arm and train a small cadre of volunteers to carry out the cross-border incursion. The Associated Press on May 1 reveale
  
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• Arizona schools mull in-person class with COVID-19 declines

  03-09-2020 22:52
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Most counties in Arizona, including Maricopa, have been cleared to transition their schools to some form of in-person learning. The state Department of Health Services announced Thursday that eight counties now meet the benchmarks required to do a hybrid of remote and in-person instruction if they choose to. Meanwhile, Greenlee and La Paz counties, which are more rural, got the greenlight to switch to full-time, in-person classes. State Superintendent of Public Instruction K
  
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• White woman faces hate crime over interaction with Black men

  03-09-2020 22:45
  
  WINNETKA, Ill. (AP) — A white woman faces a felony hate crime charge after police said she initiated a racist confrontation with a group of Black men at a beach in suburban Chicago. Irene Donoshaytis told the men they weren’t allowed there and that one of them, Otis Campbell, would kill her because he’s Black. Campbell captured the Aug. 17 interaction on video. Deputy Police Chief Brian O’Connell says the 65-year-old Northfield woman was initially charged with battery, bu
  
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• Court blocks Trump administration abortion rules in Maryland

  03-09-2020 22:45
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court’s decision blocking the enforcement in Maryland of Trump administration rules that prohibit taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from making abortion referrals. The decision came Thursday from the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a lawsuit brought by Baltimore city officials. It means Maryland remains the only state where enforcement of the rules is enjoined. Earlier this year, a dif
  
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• New Hampshire 16-year-old swims across English Channel

  03-09-2020 22:39
  
  A 16-year-old from New Hampshire successfully swam across the English Channel, completing a 33-mile-swim by reaching a sandy shore in France after darkness fell. Vera Rivard, of Springfield, left Dover in the United Kingdom in the morning and arrived on a beach near Calais, just before midnight on Tuesday. The swim took her more than 14 hours, and she is the second American to cross the channel this year. She made the crossing in 64 degree water and “roly-poly” waves that she says sh
  
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• Black Lives Matter supporters disrupt Loeffler event

  03-09-2020 22:36
  
  CUMMING, Ga. (AP) — Several Black Lives Matter protesters broke up a campaign event with Republican U.S. Sens. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia and Tom Cotton of Arkansas. The event in the northern Atlanta suburb of Forsythe County was part of a campaign swing by Loeffler through north Georgia on Thursday. Loeffler was appointed to the post by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp. She is seeking election this year. Loeffler is an owner of the WNBA team Atlanta Dream. In recent weeks, she has heavily critic
  
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• Jacob Blake speaks by phone with Joe Biden

  03-09-2020 22:30
  
  NBC News Channel Joe Biden arrives in Wisconsin on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020.
  Blake is a Black man whose shooting by a white Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer last week led to days of protests and violence.Biden says Blake “talked about how nothing was going to defeat him, about how whether he walked again or not, he was not going to give up.”Blake’s family members have said he is paralyzed from the waist down after being shot seven times. The shooting remains under investigati
  
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• Excessive Heat Warning issued September 3 at 1:24PM MST until September 7 at 8:00PM MST by NWS Phoenix AZ

  03-09-2020 22:24
  
  * WHAT…Dangerously hot conditions. Afternoon temperatures 105to 114 expected.
  * WHERE…Portions of south central Arizona including thePhoenix area.
  * WHEN…From 10 AM Friday to 8 PM MST Monday.
  * 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 tak
  
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• For first time, a woman to head Canada’s Space Agency

  03-09-2020 22:22
  
  OTTAWA (AP) — Canada’s Space Agency will have a female president for the first time in its 31-year history. The government announced Thursday that longtime public servant Lisa Campbell will take over as head of the agency. Campbell replaces Sylvain Laporte, who has been president since 2015. Campbell has spent the last two years as senior executive for Veteran Affairs Canada. Prior to that, she spent three years as the assistant deputy minister for defense and marine procurement. Est
  
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• Gas leak prompts traffic delays near Hacienda Del Sol, Sunrise

  03-09-2020 22:20
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - A gas leak is causing traffic delays near Hacienda del Sol Thursday afternoon.Traffic on Hacienda Del Sol Road near Sunrise Drive will be blocked while repairs are made. Motorists are asked to take alternate routes.Details are limited at this time.Gas Leak on Hacienda Del Sol https://t.co/4k9RcG4Nqf pic.twitter.com/lMetd8HkAT— Pima County Sheriff's Department (@PimaSheriff) September 3, 2020The post Gas leak prompts traffic delays near Hacienda Del Sol, Sunrise appeare
  
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• 100 million discounted meals eaten in UK during August

  03-09-2020 22:14
  
  LONDON (AP) — Around 100 million discounted meals were eaten by British diners during August as part of a government effort to encourage nervous customers back to restaurants. Figures published Friday by the Treasury department show that the so-called “Eat Out to Help Out” scheme for August cost more than envisioned at $680 million. It is set to cost a lot more as participating eateries have until the end of September to make claims. Under the program, sitting customers could r
  
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• ‘Jeopardy!’ returns with new setup and new role for Jennings

  03-09-2020 22:04
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Jeopardy!” is returning for its 37th season, with greater social distance between Alex Trebek and the contestants, and a new role for all-time great contestant Ken Jennings. The show announced Thursday that a redesigned set for the coronavirus era will allow for the contestants to be further apart and at a greater distance from Trebek, who has continued as host after a diagnosis last year of pancreatic cancer. Jennings is joining the series as a consulting p
  
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• Truck crashes into pond outside Florida courthouse

  03-09-2020 21:58
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a man drove a pickup truck into a retention pond outside a Florida courthouse. Florida Highway Patrol says the crash occurred Wednesday at the Pinellas County Justice Center near St. Petersburg. The 64-year-old driver had just entered the parking lot and was attempting to pull into a spot when his boot became entangled with the accelerator. FHP says the truck sped forward over a raised concrete curb and sidewalk, smashed through a fence and vault
  
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• Noem featured in South Dakota tourism ad airing on Fox News

  03-09-2020 21:54
  
  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem got some extra air time on Fox News last week during the Republican National Convention, after the state ran a $819,000 taxpayer-funded ad promoting tourism. Purchasing the Fox News ad while millions of people tuned into the RNC was Noem’s idea, her spokesman Ian Fury said. In the 30-second ad narrated by the Republican governor, she describes how the state is “open for opportunity,” alluding to how she has leveraged
  
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• Beleaguered Belarus leader shuffles aides to tighten control

  03-09-2020 21:48
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus’ authoritarian leader has reshuffled his top lieutenants in an apparent attempt to strengthen his position amid weeks of protests pushing for him to resign after 26 years in office. President Alexander Lukashenko promoted the head of the state security agency that still goes under the Soviet-era name of KGB to be secretary of the presidential Security Council. Observers saw Thursday’s appointments as an attempt by Lukashenko to tighten control. In a
  
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• Nevada church resumes court battle over COVID-19 rules

  03-09-2020 21:47
  
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — A rural Nevada church is trying again to persuade the 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals that the state’s 50-person cap on religious gatherings is unconstitutional. Lawyers for Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley filed new briefs with the San Francisco-based appellate court Wednesday after the Supreme Court narrowly refused in July to grant an emergency order suspending the COVID-19 policy. They’re emphasizing the three dissenting opinions from the high court’s 5-4 de
  
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• Biden meets Jacob Blake’s family in trip to Wisconsin

  03-09-2020 21:46
  
  NBC News Channel Joe Biden in Pittsburgh on Monday, Aug. 31, 2020.
  KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Joe Biden met Thursday with the family of Jacob Blake, as the Democratic presidential nominee began a day of events in Wisconsin. The battleground state finds itself at the center of a national reckoning on racism, police violence and protests after a white Kenosha police officer shot Blake, a Black man, in the back. Biden is also meeting with several Kenosha community leaders. Biden believes the discu
  
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• Hedge fund founder arrested in Neiman Marcus-linked case

  03-09-2020 21:44
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A hedge fund founder has been charged with defrauding Neiman Marcus creditors by pressuring an investment bank not to bid against his hedge fund to buy securities from creditors. Daniel Kamensky was arrested Thursday as charges were revealed in Manhattan federal court. The 47-year-old Roslyn, New York, resident was due to appear in court. His lawyers declined comment through a spokesperson. Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said in a release that Kamensky broke
  
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• Police probe alleged violence at Paris station cited in book

  03-09-2020 21:43
  
  PARIS (AP) — The Paris police chief ordered an investigation Thursday after a new book published accounts of alleged violence and racism at a police station by a man who says he “infiltrated” the police force by becoming an officer. Author Valentin Gendrot paints a chilling portrait of what he said is daily life in a police station and on patrol in a rough, ethnically-mixed neighborhood in eastern Paris in his book, “Cop: A Journalist Infiltrates Police.” Police Chi
  
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• The Latest: Jacob Blake speaks by phone with Joe Biden

  03-09-2020 21:42
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 presidential campaign (all times local):
  3:30 p.m.
  Jacob Blake, the Black man shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has spoken with former Vice President Joe Biden by phone, along with his parents and other family members.
  Blake’s attorney Ben Crump says the 29-year-old participated in the meeting “from his hospital bed.” Crump says Blake shared the pain he is enduring and Biden commiserated. The family has said that Blake is paral
  
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• Army Cyber Command completes its move to Georgia base

  03-09-2020 21:40
  
  FORT GORDON, Ga. (AP) — The Army’s command dedicated to defending against hackers and other online threats has moved into its new $366 million headquarters in Georgia. The military held a dedication ceremony Thursday marking the arrival of  the Army Cyber Command at Fort Gordon in Augusta. The move has been in the works for seven years and consolidates elements of the command that had previously been spread among Fort Gordon and Army installations in Virginia and Maryland. The A
  
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• Tech rout sends stock market to its biggest loss since June

  03-09-2020 21:38
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Technology stocks stumbled on Wall Street Thursday, giving back some of their spectacular gains over the past several months and knocking the broader stock market to its biggest loss since June. The S&P 500 lost 4.1% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 5.6%. Both indexes set record highs a day earlier. The Dow was down nearly 1,000 points, or 3.4%. Big Tech companies like Apple have made outsize gains this year as investors bet that they would continue posting huge profits,
  
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• Leaders of Kosovo, Serbia at White House for economic talks

  03-09-2020 21:34
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is mediating talks between Serbia and Kosovo in hopes of normalizing economic relations and possibly paving the way toward resolving thorny political disputes. Trump administration officials met Thursday with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo’s Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti to discuss furthering relations on the economic front — something that would provide the president with a diplomatic win ahead of the November presidential election. Kos
  
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• DC Police release body camera footage from fatal shooting

  03-09-2020 21:31
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Police in the nation’s capital have released body camera footage from the officer who fatally shot a young Black man a day earlier. Eighteen-year-old Deon Kay was shot in the chest Wednesday during a foot pursuit with police officers. The video shows a police car pulling into the parking lot of a southeast Washington apartment complex, the officer jumping out and beginning chasing someone. The officer turns around, sees Kay running a few feet behind him and fires a
  
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• Dow Jones Industrial Average falls as much as 1,000 points as a steep drop in tech companies pulls rest of market lower

  03-09-2020 21:28
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Dow Jones Industrial Average falls as much as 1,000 points as a steep drop in tech companies pulls rest of market lower.The post Dow Jones Industrial Average falls as much as 1,000 points as a steep drop in tech companies pulls rest of market lower appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• The Latest: Milwaukee’s health commissioner steps down

  03-09-2020 21:25
  
  MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee’s health commissioner is quitting to take a new job, citing the partisan battles management of the coronavirus.Jeanette Kowalik is joining a national health policy think tank in Washington, D.C. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports Kowalik noted obstacles to testing, public health orders, mask messaging during the pandemic response.Republican lawmakers brought a successful lawsuit before the state Supreme Court this spring ending Democratic Gov. Tony Evers&rsq
  
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• Vehicle crashes into Oro Valley bakery

  03-09-2020 21:23
  
  ORO VALLEY (KVOA) - Police are working to remove a vehicle from the north side of a bakery in Oro Valley Thursday afternoon.According to Oro Valley Police Department, the crash happened at Kneaders Bakery near Oracle Road and Linda Vista Boulevard.This is NOT what They meant when they said curbside delivery! There is an accident on the north side on Kneaders Bakery in Oro Valley. Please stay away from the north side of the business for the next hour while the vehicle is removed and cleanup occur
  
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• France calls on US to withdraw sanctions on world court

  03-09-2020 21:23
  
  PARIS (AP) — France called on the United States on Thursday to withdraw sanctions imposed on top officials of the International Criminal Court, saying they are a “grave attack” on the court and put into question the independence of justice. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced sanctions Wednesday against the chief prosecutor of the court, based in The Hague, and a top aide. The two officials were investigating alleged torture and other crimes by Americans in Afghanista
  
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• Death toll from flooding in northwest Pakistan rises to 48

  03-09-2020 21:23
  
  PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Flash floods triggered by week-long monsoon rains in northwestern Pakistan have brought the death toll to 48. A government spokesman says hundreds of homes have been damaged or swept away. The army has joined relief and rescue operations and key roads that have been blocked by large rocks dislodged in mudslides are being cleared in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Before Thursday’s updated death toll, the province had said 15 died in the floods. Overall, about 2
  
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• White House faces skepticism over prospects for a vaccine

  03-09-2020 21:16
  
  Could the U.S. really see a coronavirus vaccine before Election Day? A letter from federal health officials instructing states to be ready to begin distributing a vaccine by Nov. 1 — two days before the election — has met, not with exhilaration, but with suspicion among public health experts and others. They wonder whether the Trump administration is hyping the possibility or intends to rush approval for political gain. The administration is giving assurances it not sacrifice safety.
  
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• National Guard soldiers return to Arizona from Wisconsin

  03-09-2020 21:15
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A contingent of National Guard soldiers has returned to Arizona from Wisconsin. About 150 members of the 850th Military Police Battalion were sent to Kenosha to help authorities manage unrest following the shooting by police of Jacob Blake, a Black man. The soldiers returned to Arizona on Tuesday after nearly a week in Wisconsin. Arizona was among three states that sent Guard units to Wisconsin after Gov. Tony Evers requested assistance. The Arizona National Guard said it ha
  
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