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• Joe Biden: Vacancy about health law, not court expansion

  27-09-2020 23:53
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says the GOP’s push for a speedy Supreme Court confirmation is really an effort to overturn the 2010 health care law. Speaking Sunday in Wilmington, Biden suggested voters focus on the practical effects President Donald Trump’s nominee to the high court would have on the landmark Affordable Care Act. The president on Saturday named conservative federal appeals court judge Amy Coney Barrett to succeed the late l
  
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• NY Times: Trump paid $750 in US income taxes in 2016, 2017

  27-09-2020 23:48
  
  President Donald Trump paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the past 15 years, according to a report in The New York Times. Trump has fiercely guarded his tax filings, becoming the only president in modern times not to make them public. The Sunday report said he paid $750 in taxes to the federal government the year he was elected, 2016, and $750 again his first year in office. The disclosure comes at a pivotal moment weeks before a divisive election, with early voting underway. A lawyer for the
  
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• Arrests in Portland protest follow fairly calm rally

  27-09-2020 23:45
  
  PORTLAND (AP) — Several people in Portland, Oregon were arrested in anti-police brutality protests that continued into early Sunday, hours after demonstrations ended with few reports of violence. Authorities say the protests that began Saturday night were declared an unlawful assembly and police began forcing demonstrators out after people blocked the road and objects were thrown at officers, including full drink cans and rocks. One protester lit an American flag on fire, and some proteste
  
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• Joe Montana, wife block attempted kidnapping of grandchild–copy

  27-09-2020 23:43
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana and his wife confronted a home intruder who attempted to kidnap their grandchild over the weekend in California.
  According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Montana told deputies that his 9-month-old grandchild was sleeping in a playpen Saturday when an unknown woman entered their home in Malibu and grabbed the child.
  Montana and his wife, Jennifer, confronted the woman and asked her to give back th
  
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• Minnesota mayor disputes harassment of COVID-19 survey team

  27-09-2020 23:05
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The mayor of a southern Minnesota city is disputing state health department claims that a COVID-19 survey team was threatened there earlier this month. State health officials on Friday reported cases of health workers being subjected to hostility _ including racial slurs _ in several Minnesota communities, as the teams surveyed households to collect data on how the virus is spreading. They were forced to end the survey early, officials said. Minnesota Public Radio News r
  
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• One man dead after car accident in Midtown

  27-09-2020 22:58
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - One man is dead and another was sent to a local hospital with serious injuries on Saturday night after a Motorcycle with two people on it collided with a vehicle on Flowing Wells Road and Wetmore Road.23-year old Jonathan Martinez was pronounced dead on the scene, and a 19-year old passenger was sent to the local hospital.
  The drive, a 18-year old female was sent to a local hospital with minor injuries.The post One man dead after car accident in Midtown appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Uncontained wildfire northeast of Phoenix burns 9,200 acres

  27-09-2020 22:48
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say a wildfire in the Tonto National Forest northeast of Phoenix now has charred about 14 square miles (36 square kilometers) as of Sunday with no containment yet. Forest officials say the wildfire is burning in grass and brush and its cause remains under investigation. No injuries or structure damage has been reported, but Forest Service officials said the Humboldt Lookout and FAA communication equipment are threatened. Fire officials on Sunday were able to acce
  
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• Deadly microbe water warning lifted for final Texas city

  27-09-2020 22:44
  
  LAKE JACKSON, Texas (AP) — Environmental officials in Texas have lifted a warning for a final Houston-area community to stop using tap water because it might be tainted with a deadly brain-eating microbe, but with a warning that the water should be boiled before being consumed. Earlier this month, 6-year-old Josh McIntyre died after contracting the microbe, naegleria fowleri. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality late Saturday lifted the warning for Lake Jackson and replaced it wit
  
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• Appellate court halts Wisconsin ballot-counting extension

  27-09-2020 22:40
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court has temporarily halted a six-day extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin. The decision Sunday by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a momentary victory for Republicans and President Donald Trump in the key presidential battleground state. As it stands, ballots will now be due by 8 p.m. on Election Day. A lower court judge had sided with Democrats and their allies to extend the deadline until Nov. 9. Democrats sought more time
  
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• Fighting erupts between Armenia, Azerbaijan; 18 killed

  27-09-2020 22:39
  
  YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces has erupted again over the disputed separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh and the territory’s defense ministry says 16 soldiers and two civilians have been killed and more than 100 others wounded. Azerbaijan’s president, meanwhile, says his military has suffered losses. Armenia also claimed that four Azerbaijani helicopters were shot down and 33 Azerbaijani tanks and fighting vehicles were hit by artillery
  
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• Federal appeals court temporarily halts six-day extension for counting ballots in battleground Wisconsin.

  27-09-2020 22:38
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Federal appeals court temporarily halts six-day extension for counting ballots in battleground Wisconsin.The post Federal appeals court temporarily halts six-day extension for counting ballots in battleground Wisconsin. appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Joe Montana, wife block attempted kidnapping of grandchild

  27-09-2020 22:25
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana and his wife confronted a home intruder who attempted to kidnap their grandchild over the weekend in California. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Montana told deputies that his 9-month-old grandchild was sleeping in a playpen Saturday when an unknown woman entered their home in Malibu and grabbed the child. Montana and his wife, Jennifer, confronted the woman and asked her to give back th
  
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• Jill Biden, Doug Emhoff team up in final campaign stretch

  27-09-2020 22:16
  
  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff have rapidly become two of the Democrat ticket’s most prolific surrogates. They’ve engaged in in-person campaign events and virtual fundraisers at a pace that often outmatches their spouses at the top of the ticket. In their first joint interview, they say they’ve begun to build a partnership that will help Joe Biden’s campaign on the trail and potentially beyond, if he wins in November. Jill Biden said as she cam
  
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• Biden to Democrats: Focus on health law, not court expansion

  27-09-2020 22:02
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says the GOP’s push for a speedy Supreme Court confirmation is really an effort to overturn the 2010 health care law. Speaking Sunday in Wilmington, Biden suggested voters focus on the practical effects President Donald Trump’s nominee to the high court would have on the landmark Affordable Care Act. The president on Saturday named conservative federal appeals court judge Amy Coney Barrett to succeed the late l
  
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• Greek police arrest 3 human traffickers, free 7 captives

  27-09-2020 21:54
  
  THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek police say they have arrested three men of Pakistani origin for keeping seven people, including an Afghan family of four whom they had helped cross into Greece, hostage and demanding money to release them. Police said Sunday that raids in two places outside the northern city of Thessaloniki Friday freed the captives and led to the arrests of the traffickers.The post Greek police arrest 3 human traffickers, free 7 captives appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Greens win mayoral runoffs in 3 west German cities

  27-09-2020 21:49
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Candidates for the environmentalist Greens have won mayoral runoff votes in three west German cities, underscoring the party’s strength a year before national elections. The Greens’ candidate, Sibylle Keupen, won more than two thirds of the vote Sunday in Aachen, on the border with Belgium and the Netherlands. In Bonn, the former German capital, Green party national lawmaker Katja Doerner ousted the incumbent mayor from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian D
  
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• Romania’s ruling party upbeat after municipal elections

  27-09-2020 21:44
  
  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Exit polls published in Romania after voting ended in the country’s municipal elections indicate that the balance of power in European Union member state is unlikely to shift in the next general election set for Dec. 6.  About 19 million registered voters chose local officials, council presidents and mayors on Sunday to fill more than 43,000 positions across the nation in elections seen as a preview of how the next general ballot will unfold. Official r
  
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• Russian dissident Navalny recovering faster than expected

  27-09-2020 21:23
  
  BERLIN (AP) — One of Alexei Navalny’s aides says the Russian opposition leader is recovering from a suspected assassination attempt last month faster than expected. Navalny collapsed on a plane to Moscow on Aug. 20 and spent nearly three weeks in a coma. He was discharged last week from the Berlin hospital where he was being treated and doctors say a “complete recovery is possible.” Navalny’s chief of staff Leonid Volkov told German broadcaster RTL on Sunday that th
  
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• Trump, Biden battle over quick confirmation of court pick

  27-09-2020 21:14
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says it’s “time for a woman” in nominating Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. But Democratic rival Joe Biden implored Senate Republicans to “let the people decide” and hold off on confirmation until after Nov. 3 so the winner of the presidential election can choose the nominee. Trump’s announcement of Barrett for the vacant seat held by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is launching a high-stakes election
  
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• Macron ‘ashamed’ of Lebanon’s political leaders amid crisis

  27-09-2020 21:06
  
  PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron assailed Hezbollah and the entire Lebanese political class Sunday, and warned of a new civil war. He urged them to set aside personal and religious interests to unlock international aid and save Lebanon from economic collapse. But Macron said France wouldn’t impose sanctions on anyone in its former protectorate – for now. And he clung to his proposed roadmap to break Lebanon’s political stalemate despite Saturday’s resig
  
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• Nearly a year after sudden exit, Shepard Smith returns to TV

  27-09-2020 21:00
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Two weeks shy of a year after his abrupt exit from Fox News Channel, Shepard Smith is making his return to television. His general interest newscast on CNBC premieres Wednesday at 7 p.m. Eastern. Don’t look for any punditry from Smith; he says his newscast will be as straight as they come. The financial news network was an unexpected landing spot for Smith, who was courted by networks across the dial. But it gives him virtually a clean slate, since fewer than 200,000
  
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• The Latest: Jewish celebrations amid coronavirus limits

  27-09-2020 20:43
  
  NEW YORK — Jewish communities across the U.S. are celebrating the holiest day on their calendar within the limitations of the coronavirus, with virtual services and in-person worship with restrictions.Chabad-Lubavitch organized a worldwide pre-Yom Kippur Yizkor event to allow lost family members to be remembered, including a memorial for 1,200 Jewish victims of COVID-19 who are listed on the Chabad.org memorial page.Temple Emanu-El, a reform congregation in New York City, planned a wide ra
  
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• Mali transitional government appoints new prime minister

  27-09-2020 20:40
  
  BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s transitional president has appointed former minister of foreign affairs, Moctar Ouane, as the West African nation’s prime minister days after being sworn into office. Sunday’s appointment of a civilian prime minister was a major condition imposed by the West African regional economic bloc, ECOWAS, on Mali to lift sanctions that were imposed after an Aug. 18 coup. ECOWAS had closed borders to Mali and stopped financial flows to put pressure on th
  
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• Suspect in getaway vehicle strikes 2 Peoria police officers

  27-09-2020 20:38
  
  PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — Police in Peoria say a shoplifting suspect has been arrested after hitting two city police officers with his vehicle while trying to make a getaway. They say 40-year-old Gabriel Brandin of Avondale has been booked into jail on suspicion of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, unlawful flight, endangerment, shoplifting, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving under the influence. Police say officers responded to a Walmart about 7 p.m. Saturday after a s
  
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• TikTok fate in the balance as judge weighs app store ban

  27-09-2020 20:13
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for TikTok have pleaded with a U.S. judge to delay the Trump Administration’s ban of the video sharing program from app stores set to take effect at the end of Sunday. They argue the move would infringe on First Amendment rights and do irreparable harm to the business. President Donald Trump has declared TikTok is a threat to national security and that it either sells its U.S. operations to U.S. companies or the app would be barred. TikTok, owned by Chinese co
  
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• Average US gas price falls a penny to $2.25/gallon

  27-09-2020 20:03
  
  CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline fell a penny over the past two weeks to $2.25 per gallon. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday prices will likely continue falling due to lower wholesale gasoline prices and a decline in demand. Nationwide, the highest average price for regular-grade gas is in the San Francisco Bay Area at $3.27 per gallon. The lowest average is in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at $1.77 per gallon. The averag
  
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• Biden to Dems: Focus on health care, not court expansion

  27-09-2020 19:56
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says the GOP’s push for a speedy Supreme Court confirmation is really an effort to overturn the 2010 health care law. Speaking Sunday in Wilmington, Biden suggested voters focus on the practical effects President Donald Trump’s nominee to the high court would have on the landmark Affordable Care Act. The president on Saturday named conservative federal appeals court Judge Amy Comey Barrett to succeed the late l
  
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• Biden to Dems: Focus on health are, not court expansion

  27-09-2020 19:43
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says the GOP’s push for a speedy Supreme Court confirmation is really an effort to overturn the 2010 health care law. Speaking Sunday in Wilmington, Biden suggested voters focus on the practical effects President Donald Trump’s nominee to the high court would have on the landmark Affordable Care Act. The president on Saturday named conservative federal appeals court Judge Amy Comey Barrett to succeed the late l
  
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• Two female pedestrians hit near 4th Avenue; driver at large

  27-09-2020 19:33
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Tucson Police have confirmed reports that two females were strucks just after midnight on the intersection of 4th Avenue and 6th Street.Minor injuries were reported. The driver and suspect in the incident fled the scene. No suspects are in custody at this time.
  We will update this article as more information comes in.The post Two female pedestrians hit near 4th Avenue; driver at large appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• With anger at police high, officers face greater danger

  27-09-2020 19:29
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Recent shootings of police officers and protests that have left scores of officers injured are stark reminders of the dangers facing law enforcement as the country grapples with police killings of African Americans. Statistics compiled by the FBI show so far this year 37 law enforcement officers have been “feloniously killed” in the line of duty compared to 30 such deaths at this point last year. New York has reported hundreds of officers injured during recent pr
  
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• Pompeo speaks with NATO chief about Mediterranean tensions

  27-09-2020 19:23
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is due to arrive in Greece on an official visit early Monday, has had a conversation on tensions in the eastern Mediterranean with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. Relations between NATO members Greece and Turkey, always tense, have further deteriorated this year over long-standing disputes, including maritime boundaries and energy rights. Pompeo will meet with top Greek officials and tour the NATO naval base at Souda B
  
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• Woman arrested after driving car into California protest

  27-09-2020 19:10
  
  YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — A woman who authorities say drove a car into a crowd during a Southern California demonstration against police brutality, striking and injuring two people, has been arrested for investigation of attempted murder and assault. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department says 40-year-old Tatiana Turner of Long Beach was booked into jail. Authorities say Turner drove a car into a crowd at a demonstration Saturday that drew protesters and counter-protesters to Yorba
  
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• UK university students furious over virus restrictions

  27-09-2020 19:02
  
  LONDON (AP) — U.K. authorities are trying to contain COVID-19 outbreaks at universities as some students complained they were being “imprisoned” in their dormitories  Students at universities in Glasgow, Manchester and Edinburgh who have returned to campus in the past few weeks are being asked to self-isolate in their residence halls, with security guards at some schools preventing young people from leaving their buildings. While students at Glasgow University greeted the
  
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• Lockdowns are fading, but GOP outrage isn’t in campaigns

  27-09-2020 18:59
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — It’s not just Democrats who want voters thinking about the pandemic on Election Day. Across the country, some Republican candidates are counting on lingering voter resentment of cornavirus lockdown orders to boost them into office. Among them are Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther. She became an overnight symbol of conservative defiance earlier this year after spending  two days in a Texas jail for refusing to close her doors. She’s now running for stat
  
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• Sheriff: 1 wounded in shooting at haunted house

  27-09-2020 18:55
  
  CHINA GROVE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say one person was wounded in a shooting at a Halloween haunted house attraction in North Carolina. Investigators arrested five juveniles and seized three guns after responding to a report of shots fired at the Reaper’s Realm haunted house in China Grove on Saturday night. The Rowan County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that fights broke out among a crowd of about 1,000 people. One person was treated at a hospital for a gunshot woun
  
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• Man takes officer’s gun, opens fire inside LA police station

  27-09-2020 18:43
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles Police Department officer suffered minor injuries in an altercation inside a police station with a man who wrestled away the officer’s gun, fired it and then ran when another officer shot at him. The incident unfolded late Saturday night. The suspect came into the lobby and quickly got into an altercation with the officer. A watch commander heard the noise, saw the man had grabbed the officer’s gun and opened fire at him. The unidentified suspec
  
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• Lawyer says officer thought Blake was trying to kidnap child

  27-09-2020 18:43
  
  KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The lawyer for the Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back says his client told investigators he thought Blake was trying to abduct one of his own children. Brendan Matthews, the attorney for Officer Rusten Sheskey, told CNN that Sheskey also said Blake was holding a knife as he leaned into the SUV on Aug. 23 and that he opened fire because Blake “twisted his body toward” him. The Kenosha News reports that Blake’s uncle, Ju
  
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• UN failures on coronavirus underscore the need for reforms

  27-09-2020 18:40
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A virus that has claimed nearly 1 million lives has underscored the failure of the United Nations to bring countries together to defeat it. And it has renewed calls for U.N. reform and for all countries to collaborate to build a world that is healthy, safe and ready to meet challenges far different — and more daunting — than those it faced at its birth. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says solidarity is key. But last week’s virtual meeting of
  
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• Trump: “Definitely time for a woman” on Supreme Court

  27-09-2020 18:38
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death and the fact that he’d already put two male justices on the high court meant “it was definitely time for a woman.” He also says his candidate, federal judge Amy Coney Barrett, is so solid that it will be hard for opponents to “dispute her qualifications or anything about her.” But Democrats and others who recoil at the idea of the conservative Barrett replacin
  
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• Alexie, Pilkey books among most ‘challenged’ of past decade

  27-09-2020 18:34
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Toni Morrison is on the list. So are John Green and Harper Lee. And John Steinbeck and Margaret Atwood. All wrote books that were among the 100 most subjected to censorship efforts over the past decade, as compiled by the American Library Association. Sherman Alexie’s prize-winning “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” came in at No. 1,  followed by Dav Pilkey’s “Captain Underpants” picture book series and Jay Asher&rsquo
  
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• 100,000 march in Belarus capital on 50th day of protests

  27-09-2020 18:27
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — About 100,000 demonstrators marched in Belarus’ capital calling for the authoritarian president’s ouster, some wearing cardboard crowns to ridicule him. The protests that have rocked the country marked their 50th consecutive day Sunday. Protests also took place in nine other cities, underlining the wide extent of dismay and anger with President Alexander Lukashenko, who has stifled opposition and independent news media during 26 years in power. The protest
  
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• Valentino closes Milan Fashion Week with lush live show

  27-09-2020 18:10
  
  MILAN (AP) — It’s been a season of disruption at Milan Fashion Week. The hybrid live-virtual formula meant anyone from their homes could watch delightful videos like Moschino’s marionette fashion show, created with the help of Jim Henson Studios, and featuring models wearing tiny Jeremy Scott creations while Anna Wintour and other top fashion editors nodded from the front row.  But even those who did virtual shows acknowledge that no video and no photos can replace the ene
  
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• Police arrest dozens during unauthorized Maryland car rally

  27-09-2020 17:51
  
  OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) — More than 100 people have been arrested on criminal and traffic offenses during an unauthorized car rally in a Maryland city, where confrontations between participants and police were captured on videos. The Baltimore Sun reports that police from neighboring jurisdictions helped Ocean Police officers with crowd control at the H2oi” rally. Ocean City Police Chief Ross Buzzuro said in a statement Sunday that the rally participants came to the city “to disru
  
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• Arizona reports 412 new coronavirus cases, but no new deaths

  27-09-2020 17:41
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona health officials on Sunday reported 412 new coronavirus cases but no additional deaths. The state Health Services Department says there have been 217,237 cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began hitting Arizona in March. The known death total remains at 5,622. Heath officials say the number of Arizona’s confirmed or suspected coronavirus inpatients fell to 483 on Saturday, among the fewest since early April. The number of COVID-19 patients in ICU beds rose by
  
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• Arizona’s western yellow-billed cuckoo to remain protected

  27-09-2020 17:36
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A beloved cuckoo bird won’t go federally unprotected in Arizona. Experts are celebrating the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s recent decision to keep the western yellow-billed cuckoo under the Endangered Species Act. The Arizona Republic reports the agency ruled against a petition for its removal. The Arizona Game and Fish Department has listed the cuckoo breed as threatened since the late 1980s. In 2014, it was assigned the same designation under the federal End
  
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• Fighting erupts between Armenia, Azerbaijan; 16 killed

  27-09-2020 17:24
  
  YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces has erupted again over the disputed separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh and a top territorial official says 16 people have been killed and more than 100 others wounded. Azerbaijan’s president, meanwhile, says his military has suffered losses. Armenia also claimed that two Azerbaijani helicopters were shot down and three Azerbaijani tanks were hit by artillery in Sunday’s fighting. But Azerbaijan’s
  
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• Arizona records 412 new COVID-19 cases; No new deaths

  27-09-2020 17:19
  
  PHOENIX (KVOA) - Another 412 Arizonans tested positive for the coronavirus, according to the state's dashboard on Sunday.Zero others lost their lives to the virus overnight, Arizona Department of Health Services says.Arizona now reports 217,237 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 5,622 known deaths.Deaths are not recorded until the health department receives a death certificate naming COVID-19 as the cause of death.The data includes people who have recovered.As of Friday, 1,734,623 in
  
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• Tribes see ballot collection as a lifeline in Indian Country

  27-09-2020 17:18
  
  NIXON, Nev. (AP) — Tribes see ballot collection as a critical way to boost historically low Native American turnout, but it’s become a flashpoint in the November election. Nevada has a new law that allows people to fill out their ballots and let someone else return them on their behalf. President Donald Trump’s campaign asserts that so-called ballot harvesting will lead to fraud. Advocates say removing restrictions on ballot collection will help Native Americans who don’t
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 32 new coronavirus cases and no deaths

  27-09-2020 17:00
  
  WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Navajo Nation health officials report 32 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus, but no additional deaths. The latest figures released Saturday night bring the total number of cases to 10,269 with the known death toll at 552. Tribal officials say 104,746 people have been tested on the vast reservation that covers parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah and 72,250 have recovered from COVID-19. The Navajo Nation has implemented a stricter weekend lockdown as it looks
  
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• Nearly 1M who died of COVID-19 also illuminated treatment

  27-09-2020 16:29
  
  The nearly 1 million people who have lost their lives to COVID-19 also have given the world some gifts: A better understanding of how to treat the disease. More deaths are expected this fall because of the recent surge in coronavirus infections in the United States and many other countries. Yet there also are signs that death rates are declining and that people who get the virus now are faring better than those in the early months of the pandemic did. Several drugs have proved able to fight COVI
  
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