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• Health officials seek to block Trump rally in Virginia

  24-09-2020 23:59
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia health official is warning of a “severe public health threat” if a planned campaign rally for President Donald Trump goes forward Friday evening. Dr. Natasha Dwamena, a Department of Public Health district director, said in a letter Thursday that the estimated 4,000 people expected to attend Trump’s rally at the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport would be breaking Gov. Ralph Northam’s executive order generally banning gat
  
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• Publisher: 2 reporters arrested during Kentucky protests

  24-09-2020 23:55
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The publisher of an online news website says two of the site’s reporters were arrested while covering protests of a grand jury’s decision not to indict officers in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. Daily Caller publisher Neil Patel says the two reporters were peacefully doing their jobs in Louisville, Kentucky, on Wednesday night when they were detained. Police on Thursday confirmed that Shelby Talcott was charged with failure to disperse and unlawful
  
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• Canadian party’s support for legislation bolsters Trudeau

  24-09-2020 23:47
  
  OTTAWA (AP) — The leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party has voiced support for proposed legislation on higher emergency benefits for workers, a move that could keep Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority government in power. On Wednesday, Trudeau’s government presented its priorities for a new session of Parliament in what’s called the Throne Speech. If the three main opposition parties vote against the speech, which was formally delivered by Governor General Ju
  
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• Court: $300K total liability cap for school shooting victims

  24-09-2020 23:44
  
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that a school district can’t be forced to pay more than $300,000 total to the victims or their families in the Parkland high school massacre that left 17 people dead and another 17 wounded. Justices unanimously sided with Broward County Public Schools on Thursday, agreeing that the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was a single incident. The victims and their families had argued that each pull of the tri
  
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• Justice Dept. expected to file antitrust action vs. Google

  24-09-2020 23:39
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is expected to file an antitrust action against Google in coming weeks, focusing on its dominance in online search and whether it was used to stifle competition and hurt consumers, a person familiar with the matter tells The Associated Press. The department also is examining Google’s online advertising practices, said the person, who could not discuss an ongoing investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Antitrust officials at
  
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• GOP elections board members in NC resign over absentee deal

  24-09-2020 23:36
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The two Republican members of North Carolina’s state elections board have resigned after signing off on a settlement to help voters fix absentee ballot problems. The settlement has been criticized by Republican leaders. Ken Raymond and David Black announced their resignations late Wednesday from the State Board of Elections over the tentative agreement to let voters correct problems with witness information on their absentee ballots without filling out an entirel
  
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• House backs bill to boost ‘clean energy,’ enhance efficiency

  24-09-2020 23:33
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved a modest bill to promote “clean energy” and increase energy efficiency in schools, homes and other buildings. The bill boosts renewable energy such as solar and wind power, sets stricter energy efficiency standards for buildings and authorizes grants to local communities for more efficient schools, homes and municipal buildings. It also phases out use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, used as coolants in air conditioners and refrigerators
  
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• Republicans argue against electronic Ohio ballot application

  24-09-2020 23:29
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Lawyers for Ohio and Republicans are arguing that the state’s top election official acted reasonably when he barred counties from accepting absentee ballot applications electronically in the face of potential cyberthreats and a loosely worded law. Groups including the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee and the state GOP argued in a state appellate court filing Wednesday that Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s directive was also &ld
  
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• US hits Iran court, judges with sanctions over wrestler

  24-09-2020 23:24
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is hitting an Iranian revolutionary court and several judges with sanctions in part for their role in the conviction and execution of a young wrestler. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo imposed the sanctions on two judges with Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Shiraz as well as three prisons where he said human rights abuses were rampant. The sanctions include asset freezes and ban Americans from doing business with the targets. Pompeo said Judg
  
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• Minnesota candidate’s death triggers special House election

  24-09-2020 23:23
  
  RED WING, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota congressional race won’t be decided in November after one of the candidates died, triggering a provision in state law that pushes to a special election in February. Adam Charles Weeks, of the Legal Marijuana Now Party, was running in the 2nd District, which represents a swath of Minnesota stretching south from Minneapolis suburbs. Gabby Ulan, who identified herself as Weeks’ partner, said he was found dead at his home in Red Wing after family
  
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• Idaho man sues over state’s anti-sodomy law

  24-09-2020 23:09
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho man represented by a coalition of civil rights attorneys is suing the state’s attorney general over Idaho’s so-called “infamous crime against nature” law, which makes it illegal to have oral or anal sex. The man, who uses the pseudonym “John Doe,” filed the lawsuit in federal court Wednesday. Doe says his constitutional rights were violated when he was forced to register as a sex offender earlier this year because he was conv
  
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• Rejecting Trump, both parties’ leaders see orderly election

  24-09-2020 23:02
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the Nov. 3 presidential election drew swift blowback Thursday from Congress. Lawmakers are turning to unprecedented steps to ensure the president cannot ignore the vote of the people. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed an “orderly transition” as has been done since the nation’s founding. Pelosi said she trusts voters. Still, some lawmakers are pushing T
  
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• The Latest: US company moves virus vaccine study to UK

  24-09-2020 22:58
  
  GAITHERSBURG, Md. — A U.S. biotechnology company is moving its experimental COVID-19 vaccine into final-stage testing in Britain, a different kind of shot than other leading candidates.
  Novavax Inc. announced Thursday that the Phase 3 study getting underway in the United Kingdom aims to test up to 10,000 volunteers, at least a quarter of them over age 65.
  In mid-October, the company is set to begin another, much bigger final study in the U.S. that will recruit 30,000 people.
  The Novavax sh
  
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• Correction: Election 2020-Ohio story

  24-09-2020 22:52
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In a story Sept. 23, 2020, about litigation over absentee ballot applications in Ohio, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of the Franklin County common pleas judge who decided a lower court case. It was Stephen McIntosh, not Richard Frye. The post Correction: Election 2020-Ohio story appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• US Health Department’s Caputo has cancer, spokesperson says

  24-09-2020 22:50
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A spokesperson says Trump health appointee Michael Caputo has metastatic head and neck cancer. New York Republican state Assemblyman David DiPietro told reporters the squamous cell carcinoma originated in Caputo’s throat. He says Caputo is home in western New York with his family. Caputo is on leave from his role as assistant secretary for public affairs for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services after accusing government scientists of sedition. Caputo h
  
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• Politics mixes with law as Trump closes in on court pick

  24-09-2020 22:46
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is closing in on his pick to fill a Supreme Court vacancy just weeks before Election Day. The selection of his third justice to the high court is infused with politics, as Trump aims to maximize the benefit before Nov. 3 and even secure an electoral backstop should the results be contested. Even before Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death last week, the president had tried to use likelihood of more Supreme Court vacancies to his political advan
  
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• Bank manager finds 9.07-carat diamond in Arkansas state park

  24-09-2020 22:38
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A bank manager discovered a 9.07-carat diamond at a state park in southwestern Arkansas after thinking the precious gem was a piece of glass. A news release from Arkansas State Parks says Kevin Kinard of Maumelle found the second-largest diamond in the 48-year history of Crater of Diamonds State Park on Labor Day. Assistant Superintendent Dru Edmonds says conditions were ideal for Kinard to spot the gem because park staff plowed the search area on Aug. 20, just a f
  
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• Walmart staffing up for online shopping surge this holiday season

  24-09-2020 22:37
  
  WalmartWalmart employee, Photo Date: UndatedWalmart is getting ready for its Black Friday!The retailer says it is hiring more than 20,000 seasonal workers.But these workers will not have positions in their stores.Walmart says they will be a part of their e-commerce fulfillment centers across the country.The company expects to see a spike in online shopping this year.To go with this new change, Walmart is promising an all-new Black Friday experience.For instance, the company says it will spread
  
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• Pakistan Hindus rally in Islamabad over India migrant deaths

  24-09-2020 22:37
  
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Hundreds of members of Pakistan’s minority Hindu community are rallying in Islamabad and have briefly clashed with the police. Thursday’s demonstration was called to protest the deaths of 11 members of a Hindu migrant family who died in India last month under mysterious circumstances. Since then, their relatives have held small rallies in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province but this is the first time they arrived in the country’s capital, vowing to s
  
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• The Latest: Taylor’s family to hold Friday news conference

  24-09-2020 22:35
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The family of Breonna Taylor plans to hold a news conference Friday morning along with civil rights attorney Ben Crump in Louisville. A news release says they’ll address a grand jury’s decision Wednesday to not indict any of the police officers for Taylor’s death. Cities around the country have seen protesters take to the streets following the grand jury decision.The post The Latest: Taylor’s family to hold Friday news conference appeared firs
  
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• Trump promoting health care ‘vision’ in swing state NC

  24-09-2020 22:25
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is laying out his health care agenda Thursday amid a global pandemic and growing uncertainty about the future of the Affordable Care Act, the Obama-era law he vowed to replace with a much better plan, but never did. In a campaign-style visit to swing state North Carolina, the president will sketch out what aides call a “vision” for quality health care at affordable prices, lower prescription drug costs and greater consumer choice. But al
  
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• Murray maturing fast as rolling Cardinals host winless Lions

  24-09-2020 22:24
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray says nobody has to remind him to stay humble. The soft-spoken quarterback said this isn’t his first time dealing with success so he knows how to stay focused. The undefeated Cardinals are hosting the winless Lions on Sunday at State Farm Stadium. Detroit will try to stop Murray, who has run for three touchdowns over his first two games. The Lions are giving up the most yards rushing in the league. Arizona is 2-0 for th
  
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• Owner of fire-stricken ship to pay $1.8M for Sri Lankan help

  24-09-2020 22:23
  
  COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s government says the owner of a large oil tanker that caught fire off the coast of the island nation has agreed to pay $1.8 million for its help in extinguishing the blaze. MT New Diamond, which was carrying nearly 2 million barrels of crude oil, was damaged by two fires over a week in early September. Greece-based Porto Emporios Shipping Inc. is the registered owner of the 20-year-old vessel. The Attorney General’s Department says an interi
  
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• US stocks end higher as market volatility continues

  24-09-2020 22:16
  
  U.S. stocks are closing slightly higher Thursday, as volatility continues to be the dominant force in Wall Street’s tumultuous September. The S&P 500 was 0.3% higher after having been close to a correction earlier. The day’s headline report showed that 870,000 workers filed for unemployment claims last week, a worse number than economists expected. Investors also weighed a report on home sales that was much stronger than economists expected. Technology stocks ended up as the bigg
  
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• San Francisco sues 28 alleged dealers to stop flow of drugs

  24-09-2020 22:06
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco has sued 28 alleged drug dealers who frequent a downtown neighborhood where broad daylight drug dealing and drug use is common. City Attorney Dennis Herrera says the suits are part of an effort to stop the flow of drugs and clean up the Tenderloin, which has seen the city’s largest number of drug overdose deaths. If approved in California Superior Court, the suits would prevent the alleged dealers from entering a 50-block area in the Tenderloin. Tho
  
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• The Latest: Amy McGrath: Time to tackle systemic racism

  24-09-2020 21:50
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Amy McGrath says there is a need to “tackle the systemic racism” in the U.S.McGrath is challenging U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky’s November election. She met in downtown Louisville on Thursday with some of the protesters who have taken to the streets to seek justice for Breonna Taylor. Demonstrators turned out Wednesday in Louisville and throughout the country to express their disappointment
  
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• US stocks lose early gains as market volatility continues

  24-09-2020 21:44
  
  U.S. stocks are shedding early gains in Thursday afternoon trading, as volatility continues to be the dominant force in Wall Street’s tumultuous September. The S&P 500 was 0.1% lower after having been up 1.3% earlier. The day’s headline report showed that 870,000 workers filed for unemployment claims last week, a worse number than economists expected. Investors also weighed a report on home sales that was much stronger than economists expected. Losses in health care and other sec
  
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• Minnesota governor activates National Guard for Pence visit

  24-09-2020 21:44
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota’s governor has called in the National Guard to help provide security and keep the peace as Vice President Mike Pence and Ivanka Trump were scheduled to visit the Twin Cities. Pence and President Donald Trump’s eldest daughter planned to meet with law enforcement on Thursday in the city where George Floyd’s death sparked angry and sometimes violent protests that spread around the world. Gov. Tim Walz said 100 Guard soldiers were mobilized at th
  
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• Democrats to redraft virus relief in bid to jump-start talks

  24-09-2020 21:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are going back to the drawing board on a huge virus relief bill. House Democrats say they are paring back their proposal in an attempt to jump-start negotiations with the Trump administration. If talks fall through, the Democratic-controlled House could still pass the measure next week. The chamber passed a $3.4 trillion rescue measure in May but Republicans dismissed the measure as bloated and unrealistic. Even as Democrats cut their offer to $2.2 trillion or s
  
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• Stuck at sea: Nations urged to help virus-stranded mariners

  24-09-2020 21:38
  
  PARIS (AP) — The U.N. is trying to help more than 300,000 merchant mariners who are trapped at sea because of coronavirus restrictions. One captain described the desperation of seafarers who’ve been afloat for a year or more, and the importance of their profession to transporting food and medicine around the world. He pleaded their case Thursday at a U.N.-organized meeting with shipping executives and government transport officials. The captain was stuck for an extra three months at
  
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• Biden’s Scranton vs. Park Ave. appeal targets working class

  24-09-2020 21:36
  
  Democrat Joe Biden is leveraging his middle-class background against a billionaire president he’s trying to defeat. Biden says Donald Trump may have appealed to millions of working-class Americans but doesn’t actually understand them or care about them. Biden declared in Wisconsin recently, “I’ve dealt with guys like Donald Trump my whole life, who would look down on us because we didn’t have a lot of money or your parents didn’t go to college.” He says
  
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• Maricopa County prosecutor wants all police to wear cameras

  24-09-2020 21:33
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The top prosecutor in Maricopa County is calling for lawmakers to require body-worn cameras for all Arizona police officers in the field. County Attorney Allister Adel urged lawmakers Wednesday to take action in the next legislative session after the prosecutor declined two days earlier to bring charges against Trooper George Cervantes in the shooting death of Dion Johnson, who is Black. Department of Public Safety officers haven’t been equipped with cameras. Early thi
  
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• Judge dismisses suit against Fox over Trump affair story

  24-09-2020 21:31
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan judge has tossed out a defamation lawsuit against Fox News brought by the former Playboy model who took a $150,000 payoff to squelch her story of an affair with Donald Trump. Karen McDougal had alleged in the suit filed late last year that Fox host Tucker Carlson slandered her by calling the payout “a classic case of extortion.” The judge ruled Thursday that the remarks were “rhetorical hyperbole.”The post Judge dismisses suit against Fox
  
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• Israel tightens second lockdown as coronavirus cases soar

  24-09-2020 21:27
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has moved to further tighten its second countrywide lockdown as coronavirus cases continue to soar. The Cabinet voted on Thursday to close all nonessential businesses, including open-air markets. Prayers and political demonstrations would be limited to open spaces and no more than 20 people, and participants would not be able to travel more than a kilometer, about half a mile, from home for the event. The measures are set to go into force on Friday afternoon, as Isr
  
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• Park identifies hunter killed by bear in Alaska as Ohio man

  24-09-2020 21:22
  
  COPPER CENTER, Alaska (AP) — Officials have identified the hunter killed by a grizzly bear in an Alaska national park as a 22-year-old man from Ohio. Park officials say Austin Pfeiffer was killed while salvaging meat from a moose hunt in a remote area of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. Officials with the country’s largest national park have said the attack late Sunday was the first recorded fatal bear attack in the park since its establishment in 1980. Officials say Pf
  
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• Inspections found nursing home lapses as COVID-19 raged

  24-09-2020 21:09
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Health inspectors found safety shortcomings at 77 New York nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic, including basic infection-control violations like failing to have staff wear masks or wash their hands. The Department of Health says the state has fined 23 nursing homes a total of $328,000 for violations since March 1. Inspectors found problems in about 1 in 10 homes in the state. One patient advocate said infection controls in U.S. nursing homes have long been la
  
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• Holly Hunter suits up as US prosecutor in ‘The Comey Rule’

  24-09-2020 21:09
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscar-winning actor Holly Hunter has been entrusted with playing an array of real-world women, from tennis great Billie Jean King to a cheerleading mom gone astray. In “The Comey Rule,” Hunter plays deputy U.S. attorney general Sally Yates, whose decadeslong career imploded along with that of FBI director James Comey and others serving in the Trump administration. Comey is played by Jeff Daniels, with Brendan Gleeson as President Donald Trump. The project&rsq
  
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• US, China and Russia clash at UN over responsibility for pandemic

  24-09-2020 21:07
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China, Russia and the United States have clashed at the United Nations over responsibility for the coronavirus pandemic. They traded allegations about who mishandled and politicized the virus in one of the few real-time exchanges among top officials at this year’s COVID-distanced U.N. General Assembly meeting.The sharp exchanges reflect the deep divisions among the three veto-wielding council members. Those disputes have escalated since the virus first emerged i
  
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• The Latest: Britain reports highest daily cases at 6,600

  24-09-2020 21:05
  
  LONDON — Britain has reported the highest number of coronavirus cases in a single day with 6,632 infections.
  Public Health England Medical Director Yvonne Doyle says the figure is a “stark warning’’ as infections rise across all age groups.
  She says citizens must follow the new restrictions announced by the government this week to control the spread of the virus. Doyle suggested downloading the National Health Service’s new coronarvirus contact tracing app.
  Britain
  
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• AP Explains: Powerful grand juries stay shrouded in secrecy

  24-09-2020 21:05
  
  The announcement that no police officers would be charged in the death of Breonna Taylor throws a spotlight on the role of grand juries, which are shrouded in secrecy yet wield enormous power in courthouses across the U.S. Authorities say two officers who shot at Taylor after barging into her apartment on a warrant were justified because Taylor’s boyfriend had fired one shot at them. The grand jury did charge another officer with three counts of wanton endangerment for firing shots that we
  
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• 2 dead after ultralight aircraft crashes on Texas interstate

  24-09-2020 21:04
  
  HARKER HEIGHTS, Texas (AP) — Authorities say two men died after their ultralight aircraft crashed on an interstate in front of a Texas hospital. Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Bryan Washko said a 911 call came in about 11 a.m. that a plane had gone down on Interstate 14 in Harker Heights, which is about 60 miles north of Austin. Washko said the two men aboard the Quicksilver MX II Sprint aircraft were taken to Seton Medical Center Harker Heights, where they were pronounced dead. He
  
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• President Trump’s niece files suit saying family cheated her of millions

  24-09-2020 21:03
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's niece has followed up her best selling tell-all book with a lawsuit alleging that Trump and two of his siblings cheated her out of tens of millions of dollars.The lawsuit in Manhattan State Supreme Court Thursday sought unspecified compensatory and punitive damages. It alleges that Trump conspired with a sister and a brother to portray themselves to Mary Trump as protectors while they instead took her share of minority interests in the family busine
  
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• 7 vie to fill remainder of John Lewis’ congressional term

  24-09-2020 20:59
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Five Democrats, an independent and a Libertarian will square off in a special election in Georgia’s 5th Congressional District. The winner will fill the vacancy left by the death of civil rights leader John Lewis in July after 34 years in Congress. If no one wins a majority Tuesday, the runoff will be Dec. 1. Lewis’ successor will serve only until the current Congress ends in January. None of Tuesday’s candidates are contesting the November general election
  
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• McConnell, Pelosi push back after President Trump declines to commit to peaceful power transfer

  24-09-2020 20:58
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are pushing back after President Donald Trump declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the Nov. 3 presidential election.McConnell vowed an “orderly transition” as has been done since the nation's founding. Pelosi said she trusts voters.On Thursday, the White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the president will accept the result
  
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• Powerful Vatican Cardinal Becciu resigns amid scandal

  24-09-2020 20:54
  
  ROME (AP) — The powerful head of the Vatican’s saint-making office, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, has resigned from the post and renounced his rights as a cardinal amid a financial scandal that has reportedly implicated him indirectly. The Vatican provided no details on why Pope Francis accepted Becciu’s resignation in a statement issued late Thursday. In the one-sentence announcement, the Holy See said only that Francis had accepted Becciu’s resignation as prefect of the Congr
  
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• Iowa fines beef plant $957 after huge coronavirus outbreak

  24-09-2020 20:47
  
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa regulators have issued their first citation to a meatpacking plant with a large coronavirus outbreak that sickened its workforce. The $957 fine was for a minor record-keeping violation. Inspection records show the outbreak at the Iowa Premium Beef Plant in Tama in April resulted in 338 of the plant’s 850 workers testing positive for the virus. That’s 80 more than the state previously acknowledged. The plant is owned by Kansas City-based National Beef
  
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• Texas dad shows off dance moves to lift spirits of son during his battle with leukemia

  24-09-2020 20:43
  
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  DALLAS/FORT WORTH (CNN) - Coronavirus-related restrictions at hospitals are making it hard for patients' loved ones to spend time with them during their treatments.That lack of closeness makes being ill even more difficult than usual, but families around the world are finding work-arounds.One father in Fort Worth came up with a creative and entertaining way to connect with his son while the boy receives chemotherapy.Usually when you see a dancing, it is usually inspired by loud mu
  
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• 7 vie to to fill remainder of John Lewis’ congressional term

  24-09-2020 20:39
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Five Democrats, an independent and a Libertarian will square off in a special election in Georgia’s 5th Congressional District. The winner will fill the vacancy left by the death of civil rights leader John Lewis in July after 34 years in Congress. If no one wins a majority Tuesday, the runoff will be Dec. 1. Lewis’ successor will serve only until the current Congress ends in January. None of Tuesday’s candidates are contesting the November general election
  
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• 1st Kosovar Albanian arrested on war crimes charges

  24-09-2020 20:35
  
  PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A special international court says that a former commander of the separatist fighters in Kosovo’s 1998-1999 war has been arrested on charges including torture of detainees and the murder of one prisoner held at a compound in Kosovo during the conflict. The Kosovo Specialist Chambers, based in The Hague, says former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Salih Mustafa was arrested Thursday. He is the first ethnic Albanian arrested and sent to the court, which is inve
  
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• Evel Knievel’s son suing Disney over ‘Toy Story 4’ character

  24-09-2020 20:34
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Evel Knievel’s son is on a collision course with the Walt Disney Co. and Pixar over a movie daredevil character named Duke Caboom. A federal trademark infringement lawsuit filed in Las Vegas accuses the moviemaker of improperly basing the “Toy Story 4” character on Knievel. His famous stunts in the 1960s and ‘70s included motorcycle jumps over the Caesars Palace fountain in Las Vegas and a rocket shot into Snake River Canyon in Idaho. Kelly Knievel
  
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