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• US sends troops, armored vehicles to Syria to counter Russia

  18-09-2020 23:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has deployed additional troops and armored vehicles into eastern Syria after a number of clashes with Russian forces, including a recent vehicle collision that injured four American service members. Navy Capt. Bill Urban, spokesman for U.S. Central Command, says the U.S. has also sent in radar systems and increased fighter jet patrols over the region to better protect American and coalition forces. A U.S. official says the deployment includes a half-dozen Bradley
  
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• Arizona student says she lost station manager job over tweet

  18-09-2020 23:48
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A student manager at Arizona State University’s student-run radio station has said she was involuntarily removed from her position Thursday after weeks of debate surrounding her tweet in late August about Jacob Blake, a Black man shot and paralyzed by a white police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The Arizona Republic reported that the debates started after Station Manager Rae’Lee Klein tweeted a link to a New York Post article containing graphic details from a po
  
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• Democrats set to unveil stopgap bill to prevent shutdown

  18-09-2020 23:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are preparing a temporary spending bill that’s needed to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month. It’s a lowest-common-denominator, bare-minimum measure that befits a deeply polarized Congress. Even so, it took intense effort at the highest levels of Washington to finish the package. It was set to be released Friday afternoon after a last-minute negotiating flurry. Republicans denied Democratic requests involving the census and elec
  
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• Homeland Security whistleblower not yet ready to testify

  18-09-2020 23:35
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A whistleblower from the Department of Homeland Security is delaying his testimony to Congress. Brian Murphy had been invited to give a deposition Monday on his claim that he was pressured to suppress facts in intelligence reports. But his lawyer says he won’t be able to testify until the Homeland Security department gives him more access to “relevant information.” Murphy said in the complaint that he was pressured by more senior officials to suppress fa
  
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• Wisconsin secretary resigns amid unemployment claim backlog

  18-09-2020 23:26
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development’s top leader has resigned after failing to find a way to address a backlog of tens of thousands of unemployment benefit claims. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ office said that Caleb Frostman stepped down at Evers’ request. The governor has been taking intense criticism for months over the department’s inability to process the backlog of claims that began building after the coronavirus pandemic hurt
  
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• Census layoffs ordered despite judge prohibiting agency from winding down

  18-09-2020 23:23
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A U.S. Census Bureau manager in Illinois instructed employees to start layoffs two weeks after a federal judge prohibited the agency from winding down the 2020 census.The manager can be heard giving the order in the audio of a conversation obtained by The Associated Press.During a conference call Thursday, the Chicago area manager told supervisors reporting to him that they should track down census takers under them who don’t have any cases, collect the iPhones t
  
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• The Latest: Jobless rate edges down to 11.4% in California

  18-09-2020 23:17
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s unemployment rate fell to 11.4% in August amid its slow recovery from the pandemic’s damage to the economy.The Employment Development Department says the state added 101,900 jobs during the month. Most were government jobs, including temporary positions for the U.S. Census.California lost more than 2.6 million jobs in March and April because of the coronavirus pandemic. The state has regained nearly a third of those jobs. But experts warn that
  
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• AP Exclusive: More migrant women say they didn’t OK surgeries

  18-09-2020 23:11
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — An Associated Press review of medical records for four detained immigrant women and interviews with lawyers have revealed growing allegations that a gynecologist performed surgeries and other procedures that the women never sought or didn’t fully understand.
  Dr. Mahendra Amin was linked this week to allegations of unwanted hysterectomies done on immigrant women at Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia.
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• Trump shifts on Puerto Rico, releases aid as election nears

  18-09-2020 23:05
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has announced the release of $13 billion in assistance to repair the damage in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria three years ago, and has pledged to restore its economy. He’s casting aside his bitter treatment of the island and its leaders as he courts voters, particularly in the crucial swing state of Florida. Trump has spent much of his administration blasting Puerto Rican officials as corrupt and inept and he has opposed spending to rebuild
  
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• 8 of 10 Premier League matches this weekend streamed in US

  18-09-2020 23:04
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — NBC has moved eight of this weekend’s 10 Premier League matches to its online streaming service Peacock behind a pay wall. The network did so because it wanted to broadcast the U.S. Open golf tournament and Tour de France on its television networks. NBC took over Premier League U.S. broadcasts from Fox starting with the 2013-14 season and on a typical weekends in recent seasons had two Saturday matches on NBCSN followed by a late game on NBC, and several Sunday matche
  
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• Vice President Pence seeks Hispanic, vet vote in Arizona

  18-09-2020 23:00
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence is in Arizona as Republican President Donald Trump works to solidify his support among Hispanics and Latinos in the battleground state. Friday’s trip comes after visits this week by the president, his daughter Ivanka Trump and Pence’s wife, Karen. Republicans are trying to shore up their position in a historically red state where polling shows Democrat Joe Biden with a slight advantage. Pence appeared at Grand Canyon University at an eve
  
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• Texas ex-deputies: Leaders gave gift cards for using force

  18-09-2020 22:57
  
  GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) — Two former employees of a Texas sheriff’s office say leaders rewarded officers with gift cards when they used force on the job. The Texas Rangers and the Williamson County prosecutor’s office are investigating the Williamson County sheriff’s office in suburban Austin. A former deputy whose use of force is under investigation told investigators about the gift cards in a recorded interview obtained by the Austin American Statesman and KVUE-TV. A sec
  
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• 4 Louisiana police officers charged in Black man’s death

  18-09-2020 22:57
  
  SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A grand jury in Louisiana has charged four police officers in the city of Shreveport with negligent homicide in the April death of a 44-year-old Black man. The indictment was announced Friday afternoon in a news release from the Caddo Parish District Attorney’s Office. Tommie McGlothen Jr. died April 6 after an altercation with police. In June, a television station aired video showing officers appearing to hit and use a Taser on him. The news release says inves
  
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• ‘Power of positive’: Michigan conjoined twins separated

  18-09-2020 22:54
  
  ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Doctors at the University of Michigan have separated 1-year-old conjoined twin sisters. Sarabeth and Amelia Irwin of Petersburg, Michigan. Each girl had her own arms and legs and heart, but their livers were connected. The nearly 11-hour surgery to separate them was performed in August at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. Sarabeth and Amelia are now at home. The parents, Alyson and Phil Irwin, learned about the conjoined twins during a pregnancy ultrasound in 201
  
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• Police: Shooting leaves college student dead, 2 injured

  18-09-2020 22:53
  
  TERRE HAUTE, IND. (AP) — Police say an 18-year-old Indiana State University student died early Friday from a shooting outside a college house party. Terre Haute Police Chief Shawn Keen says Valentina Delva of Indianapolis died in the shooting shortly before 2 a.m. He says she was a front seat passenger in a car being driven from the scene when she was struck by gunfire. Two males at the party also were shot and were treated at a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Indiana State Un
  
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• Cardinals Hall of Fame safety Larry Wilson dies at 82

  18-09-2020 22:50
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Larry Wilson, a former Cardinals safety and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, has died. He was 82. Wilson spent more than 43 years in the Cardinals organization as a player and an executive. A seventh-round draft pick out of Utah in 1960, Wilson played 13 seasons with the Cardinals. He was an eight-time Pro Bowl selection and a first-team All-Pro five times. Wilson was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and was on both the NFL’s 75th and 100th anniver
  
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• Walmart raising wages for about 165,000 workers

  18-09-2020 22:45
  
  (CNN) — Approximately 165,000 hourly workers at Walmart will be getting a pay raise ahead of schedule.The big box retailer says it’s introducing a new team-based operating model for its Supercenters that comes with higher pay.The new wage ranges for hourly team lead roles start between $18 and $21 per hour and can go up to $30 per hour in Supercenters.
  The idea is to provide cross-training, as well as new opportunities for leadership and career growth.Walmart says the management pla
  
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• Jury gets case of man accused of killing, mutilating woman

  18-09-2020 22:45
  
  JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A jury has begun deliberations in the murder trial of a southern Indiana man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and eating parts of her body. Joseph Oberhansley of Jeffersonville is accused of killing 46-year-old Tammy Jo Blanton. Authorities say the victim’s body was found at her home Sept. 11, 2014, badly mutilated with more than 25 sharp force injuries and multiple blunt force injuries. Oberhansley is charged with murder, rape, abuse of a corpse and b
  
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• Washington’s Haskins shows signs of growth as a leader

  18-09-2020 22:42
  
  ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Washington quarterback Dwayne Haskins wanted to be voted a team captain in his second NFL season. After earning that distinction from teammates, Haskins is showing signs of growth as a leader at the age of 23. When coach Ron Rivera stepped away at halftime in Week 1 with his team down 17-7 to Philadelphia, Haskins gave the halftime speech to motivate players and then led a comeback victory. The 2019 first-round pick still has some work to do on the field, but off it he&
  
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• Father gets 30 years after plea in death of Illinois boy, 5

  18-09-2020 22:42
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A northern Illinois man who was charged with murder for his role in the beating death of his 5-year-old son has pleaded guilty to reduced charges and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. At a brief hearing, Andrew Freund Sr. pleaded guilty to felony charges of aggravated battery of a child, involuntary manslaughter and concealment of a homicidal death. In exchange, prosecutors agreed to drop first-degree murder charges against him in the April 2019 death of Andrew “AJ&
  
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• Last studio recording of jazz trumpeter Woody Shaw released

  18-09-2020 22:41
  
  RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — A forgotten studio recording of the late jazz trumpeter Woody Shaw has been released as part of an effort to preserve jazz history. “49th Parallel,” a 1987 recording led by Canadian bassist Neil Swainson that features Shaw and tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, was made available this month by Vancouver, Canada-based Cellar Music Group’s imprint Reel to Real and New York distributor la reserve records. The album has been out-of-print for 25 years and
  
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• Coronavirus pandemic shrinks Europe’s monitoring of US vote

  18-09-2020 22:37
  
  The coronavirus pandemic has led Europe’s largest security organization to drastically scale back plans to send as many as 500 observers to the U.S. to monitor the Nov. 3 presidential election. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe told The Associated Press on Friday that it now will deploy just 30 observers. The Vienna-based organization is better known for monitoring elections in countries such as Belarus or Kyrgyzstan. But it has spent months trying to figure out how t
  
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• Actor Masterson’s lawyer denies and denounces rape charges

  18-09-2020 22:32
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Danny Masterson’s attorney says his client is “absolutely not guilty” of the three rape charges against him, and calls the case “politicized.” Masterson, the 44-year-old former star of “That ‘70s Show,” made his first appearance in the case since his June arrest Friday in a Los Angeles courtroom. His attorney Tom Mesereau says the actor has been unfairly harassed by prosecutors as the district attorney faces reelectio
  
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• Mississippi justices: No broad absentee voting amid COVID-19

  18-09-2020 22:28
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi law does not allow absentee voting by all people who have health conditions that might make them vulnerable to COVID-19. That’s according to a ruling from the state Supreme Court on Friday. A majority of justices reversed a Sept. 2 decision by Hinds County Chancery Judge Denise Owens. They said she too broadly interpreted some changes that legislators made to state law this year. To vote absentee because of the coronavirus pandemic, a person with a p
  
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• California jobless rate falls with help of temporary jobs

  18-09-2020 22:28
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s unemployment rate fell to 11.4% in August. The Employment Development Department says the state added 101,900 jobs during the month. Most  were government jobs, including temporary positions for the U.S. Census. California lost more than 2.6 million jobs in March and April because of the coronavirus. The state has regained nearly a third of those jobs. But experts warn other indicators show the state’s economy has stalled with no quic
  
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• School counselor at Kentucky Army post dies of COVID-19

  18-09-2020 22:25
  
  FORT KNOX, Ky. (AP) — Officials say a school counselor at a central Kentucky Army post that started in-person classes in August has died after being diagnosed with the coronavirus. A Department of Defense education spokesman says Fort Knox Middle-High School counselor Pamela Harris was diagnosed with the virus and was being treated at a local hospital when she died Tuesday. The Federal Education Association-Stateside Region represents educators at schools on military bases and says it warn
  
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• The Latest: New Hampshire school cancels Betsy DeVos visit

  18-09-2020 22:24
  
  CONCORD, N.H. — The New Hampshire Department of Education says a public school canceled a scheduled visit from U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos after a staff member tested positive for the coronavirus.The McKelvie Intermediate School in Bedford informed the department Friday morning that it had a positive test. DeVos did go on to visit Riddle Brook Elementary School in Bedford.A state education spokesperson says the decision on McKelvie Intermediate was made by school officials in Bedf
  
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• US stocks fall as market decline extends for third week

  18-09-2020 22:19
  
  Stocks are closing lower on Wall Street Friday, as another zig-zag week for markets ends with a third-straight weekly loss for the S&P 500. Apple, Amazon and Alphabet weighed particularly heavy on the market decline. Stocks have swirled this week despite the Federal Reserve saying it expects to keep short-term interest rates at record lows. Futures and options on stocks and indexes expired in an event known as “quadruple witching,” which can drive swings in prices.The post US sto
  
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• Pompeo visits Guyana hoping to shore up support on Venezuela

  18-09-2020 22:11
  
  GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has visited the small nation of Guyana looking to shore up support for Trump administration efforts to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and build ties with the booming oil producer. During the brief stop Friday, Pompeo and Guyanese President Irfaan Ali signed agreements to strengthen U.S. investment and cooperation on energy and infrastructure while vowing to deepen cooperation on maritime security and drug traffi
  
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• Judge: Michigan must count ballots that arrive post-election

  18-09-2020 22:06
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A judge has cleared the way for more absentee ballots to be counted in Michigan. Envelopes postmarked by the eve of the Nov. 3 election are eligible even if they show up days later. Michigan is anticipating waves of absentee ballots this fall: about 2.3 million have already been requested. Michigan law requires absentee ballots to be received by the time polls close on Election Day to be counted. Judge Cynthia Stephens said Friday that flexibility is crucial in 2020 b
  
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• As schools reopen, Arizona confronts high rates of COVID-19 in youth

  18-09-2020 22:06
  
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• Texas ex-deputies say leaders rewarded force with gift cards

  18-09-2020 22:05
  
  GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) — Two former employees of a Texas sheriff’s office say leaders rewarded officers with gift cards when they used force on the job. The Texas Rangers and the Williamson County prosecutor’s office are investigating the Williamson County sheriff’s office in suburban Austin. A former deputy whose use of force is under investigation told investigators about the gift cards in a recorded interview obtained by the Austin American Statesman and KVUE-TV. A sec
  
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• Fired, pro-Black Lives Matter officer sues to get job back

  18-09-2020 22:02
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former Philadelphia police officer who was cleared of charges that he falsified records is suing the city and the department to get his job back. Bryan Turner sued this week in federal court claiming the department has discriminated against him and targeted him for dismissal because of his support for Black Lives Matter. It also alleges the department denied the Black officer’s request for a gun permit after he was cleared. He says it prevented him from being em
  
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• Captain says he knowingly risked career with virus warning

  18-09-2020 21:56
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The dismissed captain of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier knew he was jeopardizing his military career when he sent a now-famous email warning of possible sailor deaths due to a coronavirus breakout on board. But Capt. Brett Crozier said in a witness statement obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle that he wanted to avoid a larger catastrophe amid a bureaucratic logjam. The statement was recorded as part of the Navy’s investigation into the March outbreak aboard the
  
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• Hundreds of thousands still without power in Sally cleanup

  18-09-2020 21:46
  
  LOXLEY, Ala. (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people are still without power along the Alabama coast and the Florida Panhandle in the aftermath of Hurricane Sally. The power outages continued Friday as officials assessed millions of dollars in damage that included a broken bridge in Pensacola and ships thrown onto dry land. Two people were reported killed in Alabama. While the cleanup pressed on, the record-shattering hurricane season notched another milestone: Forecasters ran out of tradit
  
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• Navajo Nation schools look to resume in-person learning as COVID-19 wanes

  18-09-2020 21:45
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Public Education Department has given the green light for more students in tribal areas to attend school in-person.McKinley County, which covers much of the Navajo Nation, now has a low enough rate of COVID-19 cases that it can allow schools to offer in-person learning two days per week to students in kindergarten through the fifth grade.Middle school and high school students across New Mexico are not allowed to return to school.
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• Utah police officer charged after K9 allegedly attacked man who had hands in air

  18-09-2020 21:41
  
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  (KSL/NBC News)  Utah's Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office on Wednesday announced charges have been filed against a police officer who allegedly let his K-9 partner attack a man who had his hands in the air.Salt Lake City police officer Nickolas John Pearce, 39, has been charged with aggravated assault, a second-degree felony.The charges stem from an incident in April when police were called to a residence after a neighbor called heard arguing. Jeffery Ryans
  
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• Yemen’s rival sides meet in Geneva for prisoner swap talks

  18-09-2020 21:39
  
  CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations says Yemen’s warring sides have started U.N.-brokered peace consultations in Switzerland to exchange prisoners. The prisoner swap is part of a long-delayed deal aiming to end a conflict that has killed thousands of civilians and set off the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Delegates from Yemen’s internationally recognized government, which is supported by a Saudi-led military coalition, sat down in Geneva on Friday for talks co-chaired by
  
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• NYC tries $50 fines to get scofflaws to don masks on subway

  18-09-2020 21:39
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Bus and subway riders in New York are facing a $50 fine if they refuse to wear a mask while on board, though even transit officials have implied it’s unlikely many will end up getting dinged. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority began a crackdown this week. Officials say more than 90% of riders are already wearing masks and that the enforcement effort is aimed at pushing that number higher. Critics say the action is unnecessary. Transit officials say police have
  
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• Wildfire smoke from 2017 wildfires leaves lung damage

  18-09-2020 21:37
  
  SEELEY LAKE, Mont. (AP) — A research effort to see how long it takes people to recover from living with hazardous levels of wildfire smoke for seven weeks still hasn't determined the answer.Some residents of the western Montana town of Seeley Lake who stayed in the area during the 2017 wildfire season are participating in a University of Montana study of their lung capacity. Researchers found that people's lung capacity declined in the first two years.Kaiser Health News reports researchers
  
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• Pelosi to Catholic archbishop of San Francisco: ‘Follow science’ on COVID-19 restrictions

  18-09-2020 21:32
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing back against the Catholic archbishop of San Francisco's criticism of COVID-related restrictions.Pelosi, a practicing Catholic, says the church should “follow science” rather than advocate for fuller in-person gatherings for Mass and worship. Archbishop Salvatore Joseph Cordileone is protesting limits on larger public gatherings.He said worshipers' First Amendment rights are being “unjustly repressed” by the gov
  
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• Massive damage of rare plants probed at Nevada mine site

  18-09-2020 21:32
  
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — State and federal authorities are investigating the mysterious loss of a significant swath of a rare desert wildflower that’s being considered for federal protection at a contentious mine site in Nevada. The Australian mining company, Ioneer Ltd., and state biologists are investigating the unprecedented incident 200 miles southeast of Reno. They believe small mammals most likely caused the damage to thousands of plants at the only place Tiehm’s buckwheat is kn
  
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• Tucson Botanical Gardens host Dia de los Muertos exhibit

  18-09-2020 21:26
  
  The Tucson Botanical Gardens has opened a Dia de los Muertos-themed exhibit after COVID-19 forced them to close their doors in March. “La Calavera Catrina'' decorates midtown with nine-foot-tall depictions of Mexican cultural figures as joyful skeletal sculptures.…
  
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• Mexico City school owner convicted in 2017 collapse

  18-09-2020 21:24
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The owner of an elementary school that collapsed in Mexico City during the 2017 earthquake has been found guilty of charges equivalent to manslaughter. The school collapse killed 26 people in the devastating magnitude 7.1 earthquake in September 2017. The Mexico City prosecutor’s office said late Thursday it has requested a sentence of 57 years in prison for Mónica García Villegas, who built an apartment atop the school. Sentencing will be held later.
  
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• The Latest: Britain’s Johnson sees 2nd wave; 4,322 new cases

  18-09-2020 21:23
  
  LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says a second wave of coronavirus is coming, on a day when the government reported 4,322 new confirmed cases, the highest since early May.
  Speaking at a vaccine manufacturing center under construction near Oxford, Johnson says: “We are seeing it in France, in Spain, across Europe — it has been absolutely, I’m afraid, inevitable we were going to see it in this country.”
  The weekly survey released Friday by the Office for
  
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• One family’s desperate, deadly attempt to flee Lebanon

  18-09-2020 21:17
  
  TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Hundreds of Lebanese are fleeing miserable conditions in their country on migrant ships hoping to start a new life in Europe. A trip on a fishing boat this month from the northern city of Tripoli to the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus ended with some of the four dozen passengers losing their lives while others are still missing. People are selling their belongings to pay human traffickers who promise a bright future beyond the seas. Lebanon is passing through
  
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• Judge rules on scope of testimony in newspaper shooting case

  18-09-2020 21:16
  
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A judge has ruled a psychiatrist retained by prosecutors in the case of a man who killed five people at a Maryland newspaper can testify about whether he believes the gunman was criminally responsible in the sanity phase of his trial. However, Judge Laura Ripken ruled Friday the doctor can’t directly compare Jarrod Ramos to other mass shooters in an FBI report. Ripken made the rulings during a pretrial hearing for the trial scheduled for December. Ramos has plea
  
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• Missouri officer calls mother after being shot while on patrol

  18-09-2020 21:05
  
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  ST. LOUIS, Mo. (CNN) - A St. Louis police officer is recovering after being shot while on patrol.He's one of nine officers in the city hit by gunfire shot this year.Christine Byers caught up with his mother, who says her son's first priority after the shooting, was to reassure her.Officer Erich Vonnida watched his fellow officers come under fire all year.In June, he helped one of the officers who was shot at a protest get to the hospital.Then, in August, a young officer he met at
  
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• Arizona sees 2nd consecutive day of big COVID-19 case jump

  18-09-2020 20:50
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona health officials on Friday reported for the second consecutive day a sizable increase in additional COVID-19 cases, again largely attributing the hike to a change in the state’s counting method.State officials reported 1,281 additional confirmed cases, well above the several hundreds typically reported daily in recent weeks, but below the 1,753 cases reported Thursday.The department on Friday also reported 42 additional deaths. Of the newly reported cases, 764
  
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• Forecasters run out of storm names in busy hurricane season

  18-09-2020 20:49
  
  LOXLEY, Ala. (AP) — Forecasters have run out of traditional names for storms in the record-shattering 2020 hurricane season. On Friday, they began using the Greek alphabet for only the second time since the 1950s. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people were still without power along the Alabama coast and the Florida panhandle in the aftermath of Hurricane Sally. Officials continued to assess millions of dollars in damage that included a broken bridge in Pensacola and ships thrown onto
  
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