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• Bryson DeChambeau wins U.S. Open at Winged Foot for first major title

  20-09-2020 23:57
  
  MAMARONECK, N.Y. (AP) — Bryson DeChambeau wins U.S. Open at Winged Foot for first major title.The post Bryson DeChambeau wins U.S. Open at Winged Foot for first major title appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Ivory Coast opposition urges civil disobedience before vote

  20-09-2020 23:43
  
  ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast opposition candidate Henri Konan Bedie is calling for civil disobedience to take place nationwide ahead of next month’s vote. Critics of President Alassane Ouattara consider his quest for a third term to be unconstitutional. The public declaration raises the specter of unrest in a country already scarred by post-election violence in 2010-2011 that left more than 3,000 people dead. In their declaration Sunday, Bedie and several other opposition
  
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• Vive le Tour! With young winner, thrilling race defies virus

  20-09-2020 23:42
  
  PARIS (AP) — In a first, the Tour de France winner wore a face mask on the podium Sunday, bright yellow to match the color of the iconic jersey so snug on his young shoulders.
  But at least there was a winner.Three weeks ago, when 21-year-old Tadej Pogacar set off with 175 other competitors that he ended up beating, not even race organizers were sure they would make it through the storm of France’s worsening coronavirus epidemic and reach Paris.
  “Really, I was scared we wouldn&r
  
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• Deputies find 1 woman dead, 1 chained to bed at Texas home

  20-09-2020 23:12
  
  CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — Deputies are looking for a man after one woman was found chained inside his home and the body of another woman was found inside a burning vehicle outside his Southeast Texas house. After responding to a 911 call  Saturday evening, deputies with the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office found a woman who had been chained to a bed inside a home near Cleveland, Texas. The woman said she had been sexually assaulted by the homeowner, 59-year-old Jose Marin Soriano.
  
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• The Latest: California tops 15K deaths; infection rate falls

  20-09-2020 23:08
  
  California’s death count from the coronavirus has surpassed 15,000 even as the state sees widespread improvement in infection levels.A tally by Johns Hopkins University put California’s death toll at 15,027 on Sunday, the fourth-highest in the country. New York has suffered by far the most deaths — 33,087 — followed by New Jersey, which has about half as many. Texas is third.California has had the most confirmed virus cases in the country with about 775,000, but key indic
  
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• UN chief: No UN support for reimposing Iran sanctions now

  20-09-2020 22:46
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the United Nations will not support reimposing sanctions on Iran as the United States is demanding until he gets a green light from the Security Council. The U.N. chief said in a letter to the council president obtained Sunday by AP that there appears to be uncertainty about whether or not U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo triggered the “snapback” mechanism in the Security Council resolution that enshrined the
  
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• Born to prevent war, UN at 75 faces deeply polarized world

  20-09-2020 22:30
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Born out of World War II’s devastation to save succeeding generations from the scourge of conflict, the United Nations officially marks its 75th anniversary Monday at an inflection point in history, navigating a polarized world as it faces a pandemic, regional conflicts, a shrinking economy and growing inequality.
  Criticized for spewing out billions of words and achieving scant results on its primary mission of ensuring global peace, the U.N. nonetheless remains
  
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• Biden to GOP senators: Don’t jam through Ginsburg nominee

  20-09-2020 22:17
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says the Republican effort to jam through a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an “abuse of power.” The former vice president said Sunday that voters should pick the president who picks the justice. President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are moving quickly toward a vote. It would take four Republicans breaking ranks to keep Trump’s nominee off the court. So far, o
  
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• Thousands protest Netanyahu; many ignore Israeli virus rules

  20-09-2020 21:58
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Israelis are protesting outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official residence in Jerusalem. That’s despite a national lockdown order aimed at curbing a raging coronavirus outbreak. The lockdown orders include an exception allowing people to hold public demonstrations. But many participants in Sunday night’s gathering appeared to ignore social-distancing rules. Thousands of Israelis have participated in the protests throughout the sum
  
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• Donkey sculpture on front lawn burned in Maine town

  20-09-2020 21:54
  
  BOWDOINHAM, Maine (AP) — A donkey sculpture on a private front lawn in a Maine town was set on fire in what one lawmaker called an act of “political terrorism.” The sculpture was burned around 2 a.m. Saturday morning in Bowdoinham on the property of former select board member Theresa Turgeon, who said she currently running for the town’s select board again. Newscentermaine.com reports that the Sagadahoc County dispatch confirmed a sheriff’s deputy is looking into th
  
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• Vandalism, no arrests, as protests continue in Portland

  20-09-2020 21:23
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Vandalism but no arrests occurred during a demonstration involving about 200 people in downtown Portland, Oregon. A march began around 9 p.m. Saturday. KOIN-TV reports some in the group sprayed graffiti and smashed windows at a bank, restaurant and coffee shop. Police reported no violence and didn’t use force or munitions. On Friday, protests resumed after a more than week-long pause largely due to smoky air from West Coast wildfires. Protests have occurred in P
  
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• Thomas’s career-high 31 leads Sun past Aces 87-62 in Game 1

  20-09-2020 21:09
  
  BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Jasmine Thomas had a career-high 31 points, Alyssa Thomas scored 18, and the Connecticut Sun pulled away early and cruised to a 87-62 win over the Las Vegas Aces in Game of 1 of the best-of-five WNBA semifinals. Alyssa Thomas had six rebounds, five assists, five steals and two blocks. Natisha Hiedeman made 4 of 4 from 3-point range and finished with 14 points for Connecticut. A’ja Wilson led top-seeded Las Vegas with 19 points and Jackie Young scored 16. Game 2
  
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• Schiff delays deposition of Homeland Security whistleblower

  20-09-2020 21:08
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says the committee is scheduled to depose a Department of Homeland Security whistleblower on Friday, pushing the closed-door testimony back four days due to a dispute with the Trump administration over his appearance. Rep. Adam Schiff says a subpoena may be necessary. Whistleblower Brian Murphy said in a complaint this month that he was pressured by more senior officials to suppress facts in intelligence reports about Russi
  
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• Reports claim Bahrain stopped militants planning attacks

  20-09-2020 20:48
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi state TV is reporting that Bahrain broke up a plot by militants backed by Iran to launch attacks on diplomats and foreigners in the island nation home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, just days after normalizing relations with Israel. The Saudi state TV report aired footage Sunday of what appeared to be police raiding a home with a hidden passage. The footage showed assault rifles and explosives, apparently seized in the raid. A Saudi state TV re
  
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• Arrested man dies in Cave Creek holding cell; Likely suicide

  20-09-2020 20:39
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Maricopa County Sheriff’s officials are investigating the death of a man in custody that appears to be a suicide. They say 62-year-old Scott McKay died Friday after he was found unresponsive in his holding cell at a substation in Cave Creek. Sheriff’s officials say McKay was arrested on suspicion of burglary and violating a restraining order. They say he was taken to the substation and placed in a holding cell while deputies completed booking paperwork. McKay was
  
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• The Latest: WH leaves it to McConnell to decide vote timing

  20-09-2020 20:30
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and President Donald Trump’s effort to appoint a successor (all times local):
  2:25 p.m.
  The White House says President Donald Trump will announce his pick to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the “near future” but is declining to say whether the president will push for a Senate confirmation vote before Election Day.
  Marc Short is the chief of staff to Vice President Mike P
  
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• Ginsburg’s impact on women spanned age groups, backgrounds

  20-09-2020 20:30
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Recent pop culture popularity aside, the impact that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had on women was profound, and spanned age groups and backgrounds. As a litigator who fought tenaciously for the courts to recognize equal rights for women, one case at a time, and later as the second woman to sit on the hallowed bench of the Supreme Court, Ginsburg left a legacy of achievement in gender equality that had many women grasping for words this weekend to describe her significance t
  
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• Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’ wins TIFF People’s Choice Award

  20-09-2020 20:17
  
  After picking up Venice’s Golden Lion award, Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” has won another prestigious honor: The Toronto International Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award. No film has ever won both. TIFF programmers announced the winners Sunday. Zhao’s film features Frances McDormand as a widowed wanderer of the modern American West. Winning the audience award at TIFF is promising for “Nomadland’s” Oscar chances, too. In the past d
  
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• Zoetemelk hit by car 40 years after winning Tour de France

  20-09-2020 20:08
  
  PARIS (AP) — The 1980 Tour de France champion Joop Zoetemelk has been hit by a car while riding his bike. He was hospitalized with leg and arm fractures, the French press reported. The accident happened in the Seine-et-Marne region, east of Paris, where the 73-year-old Zoetemelk has lived for decades. It occurred on the final day of this year’s Tour which was won by Tadej Pogacar. The Tour tweeted that Zoetemelk was transported by helicopter to the hospital. Zoetemelk was the second
  
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• The Latest: Lebanon suffers another record in COVID-19 cases

  20-09-2020 19:56
  
  BEIRUT — Lebanon registered a record 1,006 cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, the government announced Sunday, amid a sharp increase in infections and deaths due to the new coronavirus.
  Health Minister Hamad Hassan recommended a total lockdown for two weeks to stem the alarming rise in daily detected infections, but authorities will find it difficult difficult to impose another lockdown amid an unprecedented economic collapse.
  The new cases registered by the Health Ministry bring th
  
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• 2nd GOP senator a ‘no’ to filling court seat before election

  20-09-2020 19:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A second Republican senator has come out in opposition to filling a vacant Supreme Court seat before the Nov. 3 election. And Speaker Nancy Pelosi is asserting without details that the Democratic-led House has “options” for stalling or preventing President Donald Trump from quickly installing a successor to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska says that “for weeks, I have stated that I would not support taking up”
  
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• Family, work and opera filled Ginsburg’s final summer

  20-09-2020 19:54
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — She was seeing family; she was exercising; she was listening to opera; she was doing the work of the Supreme Court; she even officiated at a wedding. That’s how Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent the summer before her death Friday at 87. Those who had been in touch with Ginsburg or her staff recently said she seemed to be coping with treatment for cancer and also making plans for events months away. So the announcement of her death came as something of a surprise, ev
  
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• Saudi state TV says Bahrain stops militants planning attacks

  20-09-2020 19:50
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi state TV is reporting that Bahrain broke up a plot by militants backed by Iran to launch attacks on diplomats and foreigners in the island nation home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, just days after normalizing relations with Israel. The Saudi state TV report aired footage Sunday of what appeared to be police raiding a home with a hidden passage. The footage showed assault rifles and explosives, apparently seized in the raid. A Saudi state TV re
  
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• NY AG moves to expedite release of police body cam footage

  20-09-2020 19:42
  
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James is promising to expedite the release of body camera footage in cases of alleged police misconduct that her office investigates. James spoke Sunday in Rochester, which has been in turmoil since the footage of Daniel Prude’s fatal encounter with police was released more than five months after his death. James said her office “will be proactively releasing footage to the public on our own.” It’s unclear how
  
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• Judge agrees to delay US government restrictions on WeChat

  20-09-2020 19:40
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has approved a request from a group of WeChat users to delay looming U.S. government restrictions that could effectively make the popular app nearly impossible to use. In a ruling dated Saturday, Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in California said the government’s actions would affect users’ First Amendment rights as an effective ban on the app removes their platform for communication. WeChat is a messaging-focused app popular with many Chinese-spe
  
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• Biden to focus on health care in Supreme Court debate

  20-09-2020 19:26
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden is expected to use the sudden Supreme Court vacancy to reinforce his argument that the upcoming election should be a referendum on President Donald Trump’s handling of health care and the coronavirus. The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg jolted the presidential campaign just six weeks before the election and as several states are already voting. Trump has seized on the opportunity to nominate a new justice to motivate his most loyal voters. Biden
  
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• The Latest: Murkowski won’t back court vote before election

  20-09-2020 19:16
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and President Donald Trump’s effort to appoint a successor (all times local):
  1:10 p.m.
  Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska says she doesn’t support taking up a Supreme Court nomination so close to the Nov. 3 election.
  Murkowski joins Maine Sen. Susan Collins among Republicans opposed to confirming a successor to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the election. President Donald
  
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• Tadej Pogacar wins COVID-defying Tour de France

  20-09-2020 19:16
  
  PARIS (AP) — In a stunning performance for the ages, Tour de France rookie Tadej Pogacar won cycling’s showpiece race Sunday on the eve of his 22nd birthday.Pogacar became the second-youngest winner of the 117-year-old event that this year braved, and overcame, France’s worsening coronavirus epidemic.
  Turning him from promising prodigy into cycling superstar, Pogacar became the youngest winner since World War II and the first from Slovenia.His victory was incredible, too, for t
  
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• Man accused of stabbing, beating woman at Sedona-area resort

  20-09-2020 19:11
  
  SEDONA, Ariz. (AP) — Yavapai County Sheriff’s officials say a suspect has been arrested at a hotel near Sedona for allegedly beating and stabbing a woman inside a room. They say deputies received a report early Saturday morning that a man had been hitting a woman inside a room at a resort in Oak Creek Village just south of Sedona. Authorities say the woman had multiple cuts and stab wounds on her head, left shoulder and chest and was taken to a Flagstaff hospital for treatment. Sheri
  
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• Tadej Pogacar wins Tour de France, first Slovenian and youngest post-World War II champion

  20-09-2020 19:10
  
  PARIS (AP) — Tadej Pogacar wins Tour de France, first Slovenian and youngest post-World War II champion.The post Tadej Pogacar wins Tour de France, first Slovenian and youngest post-World War II champion appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Outlook not improving for beleaguered US movie theaters

  20-09-2020 19:01
  
  About three quarters of the country’s movie theaters are open, but Americans are not going back to the movies in significant numbers in the COVID-era, even with new movies coming into the marketplace. The biggest movies continue to limp along. According to studio estimates Sunday, Warner Bros.’ “Tenet” earned $4.7 million in its third weekend, Disney’s “The New Mutants” added $1.6 million in its fourth weekend and Sony’s rom-com “The Broken H
  
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• The Latest: Rep. Hayes tests positive for new coronavirus

  20-09-2020 18:59
  
  WATERBURY, Conn. — Rep. Jahana Hayes of Connecticut has tested positive for the new coronavirus and will quarantine for 14 days, she announced Sunday on Twitter.
  “After going to 2 urgent care centers yesterday, I finally got an appointment at a 3rd site and was tested this morning,” the first-term Democrat said. Hayes said she has no COVID-19 symptoms “except for breathing issues which are being monitored.”
  Hayes sought testing after one of her staff members tested
  
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• GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska says she doesn’t support taking up Supreme Court nomination so close to the election

  20-09-2020 18:54
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska says she doesn’t support taking up Supreme Court nomination so close to the election.The post GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska says she doesn’t support taking up Supreme Court nomination so close to the election appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Southern California wildfire grows, burns nature center

  20-09-2020 18:34
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The destruction wrought by a wind-driven wildfire in the mountains northeast of Los Angeles is approaching 156 square miles, burning structures, homes and a nature center in a famed Southern California wildlife sanctuary in foothill desert communities. Across California, authorities say Sunday nearly 19,000 firefighters continue to fight more than two dozen major wildfires. Officials are also investigating the death of a firefighter on the lines of another Southern Calif
  
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• Tropical Storm Beta churns slowly toward Texas and Louisiana

  20-09-2020 18:20
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Forecasters say Tropical Storm Beta is slowly churning through the Gulf of Mexico toward Texas and Louisiana, stirring worries that it could bring heavy rain, flooding and storm surge to a storm-weary stretch of the Gulf Coast. The National Weather Service says that as of late Sunday morning, Beta was aiming to make landfall along the middle or upper Texas coast late Monday night or early Tuesday but is no longer expected to reach hurricane intensity. If Beta makes landfall,
  
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• The Latest: Myanmar tightens pandemic restrictions

  20-09-2020 18:15
  
  YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar, faced with a rapidly rising number of coronavirus cases and deaths, has announced the tightest restrictions so far to fight the spread of the disease.
  The measures announced Sunday by Health Minister Dr, Myint Htwe cover Yangon, the country’s biggest city and main transportation hub.
  Measures effective Monday allow just one person per household out of their homes for shopping, and two for hospital visits, although a driver is also permitted when traveling b
  
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• Apache Junction police: Man accused in fatal attack on woman

  20-09-2020 18:10
  
  APACHE JUNCTION, Ariz. (AP) — Police in Apache Junction say a man has been arrested after a woman was fatally attacked while walking to her car outside an apartment complex. They say 30-year-old Jay Hungerford is being held in the Pinal County jail on suspicion of second-degree murder and aggravated assault. Police say Hungerford and 68-year-old Joan Sirhan had no prior contact before what appears to be an unprovoked attack. They say Sirhan visited her daughter and grandchildren and was he
  
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• Pogacar riding to victory at COVID-defying Tour de France

  20-09-2020 18:06
  
  PARIS (AP) — Riding high on a performance for the ages, 21-year-old Tour de France rookie Tadej Pogacar was cruising into Paris with the race leader’s iconic yellow jersey Sunday, on his way to becoming the youngest post-war winner of the showpiece event that braved, and overcame, France’s worsening coronavirus epidemic.
  On the 21st and final stage, a traditional procession where only riders not in the running for the podium hare off at the end for the prestige of the stage vic
  
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• Law and order vs. health care as Dems, GOP vie for suburbs

  20-09-2020 17:57
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Contested congressional seats in the nation’s suburbs are becoming battlefields, and each party is wielding what it hopes will be a potent weapon. During the pandemic, Democrats are widely returning to the health care theme they used in 2018 to capture House control. In some races, Republicans are promoting the need for law and order after racial justice protests this summer that sometimes turned violent. Even in campaigns where the GOP has chosen a different theme,
  
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• Douglas statue comes down, but Lincoln had racist views, too

  20-09-2020 17:52
  
  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois officials plan to remove a state Capitol statue of Stephen A. Douglas as part of a national reckoning on race prompted by the police-custody death of George Floyd. Douglas was a political legend and longtime rival of Abraham Lincoln who profited from family-owned slaves. But inside the Capitol is a painting of an 1858 debate with Douglas in which Lincoln disavowed support for Black people’s civil rights. Just as Douglas did a lot of political good fo
  
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• Sen. Graham’s challenge: Fill a court seat and save his own

  20-09-2020 17:40
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Few members of the Republican Party have taken a political journey as long as Lindsey Graham’s. He’s gone from ridiculing Donald Trump as a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot” to becoming one of the president’s fiercest defenders in Congress. This November may be Graham’s toughest test yet as he seeks reelection. He’ll have to explain to voters how, as the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, he’ll push for Trump
  
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• Verdict against young artists in Sudan stirs controversy

  20-09-2020 17:37
  
  CAIRO (AP) — A Sudanese court’s decision to send five young artists to prison is stirring  controversy both in Sudan and abroad. Activists and rights groups are calling for judicial reforms following last year’s pro-democracy uprising that toppled the country’s longtime autocrat. Rights groups have warned Sudan’s judiciary is still heavily influenced by the former government’s Islamist ideology. The jailed artists are known for their support for the upris
  
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• Arizona reports 469 new coronavirus cases and 9 more deaths

  20-09-2020 17:37
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona health officials on Sunday reported 469 new coronavirus cases and nine additional deaths. That increased the statewide totals to 214,018 cases and 5,476 known deaths. According to Johns Hopkins University data, the seven-day rolling average of daily new COVID-19 cases in Arizona rose over the past two weeks _ going from 575 new cases on Sept. 4 to 774 on Friday. The increase in the average followed the state Department of Health Service’s recent changing of its
  
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• Wildfires and hurricanes disrupt final weeks of 2020 census

  20-09-2020 17:31
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Census Bureau is contending with several natural disasters as wildfires and hurricanes disrupt the final weeks of the nation’s once-a-decade headcount. The agency was already burdened with the coronavirus pandemic and a tightened deadline. Now the fires on the West Coast have forced tens of thousands of people to flee homes in California and Oregon before they could be counted. And tens of thousands of others remain uncounted in Louisiana communities hit hard
  
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• March of 100,000 marks week 7 of Belarus protests

  20-09-2020 17:24
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Tens of thousands of Belarusians calling for the authoritarian president to resign marched through the capital as the country’s wave of protests entered its seventh week. Hundreds of soldiers blocked off the center of Minsk, deploying water cannon and armored personnel carriers and erecting barbed wire barriers. Protests also took place in several other cities, including Brest and Grodno. The crowd in Minsk included about 100,000 people, said Ales Bialiatski, hea
  
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• Arizona records 469 new COVID-19 cases; 9 new deaths

  20-09-2020 17:18
  
  PHOENIX (KVOA) - 469 Arizonans tested positive for the coronavirus Sunday, according to the state's dashboard.ADHS also reported 9 more lives lost to the virus.Hundreds of the new cases are from antigen tests from several months ago, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services.Arizona now reports 214,018 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 5,476 known deaths.Deaths are not recorded until the health department receives a death certificate naming COVID-19 as the cause of death.The
  
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• Judge agrees to delay US gov’t restrictions on WeChat

  20-09-2020 17:09
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has approved a request from a group of WeChat users to delay looming U.S. government restrictions that could effectively make the popular app nearly impossible to use. In a ruling dated Saturday, Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in California said the government’s actions would affect users’ First Amendment rights as an effective ban on the app removes their platform for communication. WeChat is a messaging-focused app popular with many Chinese-spe
  
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• Navajo Nation report 17 new coronavirus cases, 4 more deaths

  20-09-2020 17:00
  
  WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Navajo Nation health officials report 17 new confirmed cases of coronavirus with four additional deaths. The Navajo Department of Health says there now have been 548 known deaths since the pandemic began and 10,107 confirmed cases on the vast reservation that covers parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Tribal health officials say 101,899 people have been tested for the coronavirus and 7,230 have recovered as of Saturday. The number of infections is thought to be
  
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• Thousands march in Berlin in support of refugees in Greece

  20-09-2020 16:34
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of people have marched in Berlin demanding that the government do more to help migrants stuck in Greece, many of whom have been made homeless since fires ravaged the country’s largest refugee camp. Germany’s government said last week it would take in 1,553 migrants who come from 408 families with children from various Greek islands who already have been granted protected status in Greece. The move came on top of a decision to take in up to 150 unaccompan
  
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• Des Moines says no to governor’s demand for classroom return

  20-09-2020 16:28
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A dispute between Iowa’s governor and the state’s largest school district could mean summer school for students and crippling bills for the school system. Des Moines school officials have repeatedly refused to abide by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds’ order that districts hold at least half their classes in-person, saying it’s not safe. After the district last week again voted to violate Reynolds’ order, the governor called their action &l
  
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