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• England to have 3-tier lockdown system amid ‘tipping point’

  11-10-2020 23:30
  
  LONDON (AP) — Millions of people in northern England are waiting to hear whether they will be put under tighter coronavirus restrictions in the coming days. The British government confirmed Sunday that it will be introducing a new three-tier system for local lockdowns in England. Under the new system, the country will be placed into “medium,” “high” and “very high” alert levels. Details of what is involved at each level haven’t been confirmed, but
  
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• Mississippi child molestation suspect is arrested in Arizona

  11-10-2020 23:28
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Federal authorities say a Mississippi man accused of child molestation has been arrested in southern Arizona. They announced Sunday that 62-year-old Augustus Brook was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals in Tucson. Authorities say Brook allegedly molested a 4-year-old female relative. A warrant for his arrest was issued Aug. 7 in Stone County, Mississippi. Authorities say Brook left Mississippi after the alleged incident. Investigators in Mississippi obtained informati
  
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• Case against man linked to extremist group could be near end

  11-10-2020 23:10
  
  COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys may be close to resolving the criminal case against a Maryland man whom the FBI linked to a violent white supremacist group. In a court filing Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Windom said both sides “expect disposition” in the case against William Bilbrough IV within the next month. Bilbrough’s attorney declined to comment Sunday. Bilbrough was 19 when FBI agents arrested him and two other men in Jan
  
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• U.S. Marshals arrest child predator in Midtown Tucson

  11-10-2020 22:43
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - U.S. Marshals arrested an alleged child predator in Midtown Tucson today.62-year old Augustus Brook allegedly molested a 4-year old relative, and has had an arrest warrant issued for him in Stone County, Mississippi on August 7th according to U.S. Marshals.Brook has been booked into the Pima County Jail where he is being held on a $100,000 bond and awaiting extradition back to Mississippi.
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• U.S. Marshals arrest alleged child predator in Midtown Tucson

  11-10-2020 22:43
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - U.S. Marshals arrested an alleged child predator in Midtown Tucson today.62-year old Augustus Brook allegedly molested a 4-year old relative, and has had an arrest warrant issued for him in Stone County, Mississippi on August 7th according to U.S. Marshals.Brook has been booked into the Pima County Jail where he is being held on a $100,000 bond and awaiting extradition back to Mississippi.
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• Murray runs for TD, throws another, Cardinals rip 0-5 Jets

  11-10-2020 22:38
  
  EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals came to MetLife Stadium and like every other team this season found a cure-all for their woes. They beat up a winless team from New York’s rotten NFL apple. Kyler Murray ran for a touchdown and threw another as the Cardinals snapped a two-game losing streak with a 30-10 victory over the Jets. It put Jets coach Adam Gase’s future further in jeopardy after an 0-5 start. Murray ran for a 2-yard touchdown and hit DeAndre Hopkins on
  
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• Democrat’s praise of strict gun law roils Kansas Senate race

  11-10-2020 22:28
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republicans are circulating a video of Democrats’ candidate for an open U.S. Senate seat in Kansas praising strict Australian gun laws that she said “took them all away.” GOP nominee Roger Marshall’s supporters are trying to undercut Democrat Barbara Bollier’s campaign as a political moderate in what’s been an unexpectedly tough red-state race for the GOP.  Bollier’s campaign accused Marshall’s of being “duplici
  
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• Security guard jailed in deadly shooting at Denver protests

  11-10-2020 22:15
  
  DENVER (AP) — Police in Denver say a private security guard working for a local TV station was jailed for investigation of first-degree murder in the deadly shooting of another man during dueling right- and left-wing protests. The shooting took place in downtown Denver on Saturday afternoon. The Denver Post says the guard — identified as 30-year-old Matthew Dolloff — was taken into custody after a clash in which another man apparently slapped him and sprayed him with Mace.The p
  
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• Iran-backed militias offer truce for US pullout from Iraq

  11-10-2020 22:04
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Powerful Iraqi militias that are backed by Iran say they’ve agreed to temporarily halt rocket attacks targeting the American presence in Iraq. But that’s on the condition that all U.S.-led coalition troops withdraw from the country, in line with a Iraqi parliamentary resolution. A militia spokesman said Sunday that American-led forces must withdraw within an “acceptable timeframe.” Two other factions from different Iran-backed groups echoed his commen
  
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• Funeral held for Arkansas detective who was fatally shot

  11-10-2020 21:53
  
  PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas police officer who was fatally shot earlier this week was remembered by officials, friends and family for his dedication to his job and community. The funeral for Pine Bluff Detective Kevin Collins, who was killed Monday in an exchange of gunfire at a hotel during an investigation, was held Saturday at the Pine Bluff Convention Center. Pine Bluff Mayor Shirley Washington said Collins, 35, was a “commanding force and a gentle giant” known for
  
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• The Latest: Kentucky governor and family go into isolation

  11-10-2020 21:45
  
  FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky’s governor says he will be in isolation after a member of his security detail who drove with his family tested positive for the coronavirus.
  Gov. Andy Beshear said Sunday that he and his family feel fine and have tested negative for the virus. Beshear’s wife and their two children also will stay isolated.
  The governor has stressed the importance of following the advice of health experts to limit the virus’s spread and says that by going into isol
  
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• The Latest: Louisiana governor announces 1 death from storm

  11-10-2020 21:35
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on Delta (all times CDT):
  3:30 p.m.
  BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana officials have announced a death from Hurricane Delta.Gov. John Bel Edwards said Sunday an 86-year-old man from St. Martin Parish died in a fire that started after he refueled a power generator in a shed. The governor said it didn’t appear that the man had let the generator cool down before refueling it.
  Earlier Sunday, officials in Florida said a 19-year-old tourist from Illinois dro
  
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• ‘We can’t lose our momentum:’ Louisiana vows to rebuild

  11-10-2020 21:24
  
  LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Utility crews in Louisiana are scrambling to restore power and residents in the besieged southwest part of the state are vowing to rebuild in the wake of Hurricane Delta. Some residents returned home for the first time on back roads lined with fallen trees, mangled metal and homes missing roofs. The remnants of Delta, meanwhile, were blamed for a drowning in Florida and a train derailment in Georgia. Delta made landfall Friday with top winds of 100 mph. It then mov
  
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• Average US gas price falls to under $2.25/gallon

  11-10-2020 21:24
  
  CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline fell half a penny over the past two weeks to just under $2.25 per gallon. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey says Sunday prices may change a little in the coming days as hurricanes pummel the Gulf Coast, impacting oil production. Still, a decline in demand for gasoline because of the pandemic means there is plenty of petroleum available for motorists. The average price of diesel in the survey tak
  
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• Trump claims he’s free of virus, ready for campaign trail

  11-10-2020 21:20
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday declared he was ready to return to the campaign trail despite unanswered questions about his health on the eve of a Florida rally meant to kick off the stretch run before Election Day. His impending return comes after the White House doctor said he was no longer at risk of transmitting the coronavirus but did not say explicitly whether Trump had tested negative for it. The president insisted he was now “immune” from the virus,
  
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• Perfect in Paris, Nadal overwhelms Djokovic to tie Federer

  11-10-2020 21:17
  
  PARIS (AP) — Rafael Nadal has beaten Novak Djokovic 6-0, 6-2, 7-5 in the French Open final to win his 20th Grand Slam title. That ties Roger Federer’s record for most major tennis championships by a man. Nadal won his 13th trophy at Roland Garros and improved his career mark at the clay-court tournament to 100-2. That includes a combined 26-0 in semifinals and finals. This was Djokovic’s first loss in 2020 in a match played to its conclusion. He came into Sunday with a 37-1 rec
  
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• Brazil cops hunt alleged crime boss after release rescinded

  11-10-2020 21:02
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian police are hunting for the purported leader of one of Brazil’s biggest criminal organizations who went on the run after being freed from prison on a judge’s order that was revoked a few hours later. André Oliveira Macedo allegedly heads the PCC crime gang and had been held since September 2019 on charges of organizing large shipments of cocaine to Europe. One of the 11 justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court granted a habeas corpus reques
  
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• Ex-Kentucky Dem Party chief, lawmaker McBrayer dies at 83

  11-10-2020 20:51
  
  LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Terry McBrayer, a political power broker in Kentucky as a lawmaker and a Democratic Party leader whose influence reached beyond the state, has died. He was 83. Milward Funeral Directors in Lexington on Sunday confirmed McBrayer’s death. No cause or date of death was given. McBrayer was a senior member at a Lexington law firm he started in 1963 and was a longtime Democratic National Committee member. He led the Kentucky campaign for President Bill Clinton in 1992
  
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• The Latest: Florida has highest daily caseload since August

  11-10-2020 20:39
  
  MIAMI — Florida officials have reported the state’s biggest one-day total of confirmed coronavirus cases since late August, a day after not releasing any pandemic data because of a problem with a private testing laboratory.The Florida Department of Health said Sunday there were 3,700 new cases in the previous 24 hours and 1,790 for the day before that. It said there were 180 COVID-19 over both days.
  Health officials say they received 400,000 previously reported test results late Frid
  
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• Guard in custody over fatal shooting at Denver protests

  11-10-2020 20:34
  
  DENVER (AP) — Police identified a 30-year-old man as the suspect in a fatal shooting that took place in downtown Denver during dueling protests. Police said Sunday that Matthew Dolloff, a private security guard working for local television station KUSA TV, was being held for investigation of first degree murder in connection with Saturday’s shooting. The shooting took place shortly before 3:50 p.m. in downtown Denver after a man participating in what was billed a “Patriot Rally
  
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• Leftist, hard-liner in Turkish Cypriot leadership runoff

  11-10-2020 20:20
  
  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A leftist incumbent looks set to take on a hard-line challenger in a runoff after Turkish Cypriots voting in a leadership election chose no clear winner. With three quarters of the votes counted in Sunday’s poll, unofficial results show incumbent Mustafa Akinci and right-wing candidate Ersin Tatar trading the lead several times but not garnering the required majority to win outright. Next Sunday’s winner will be tasked with overcoming Turkish Cypriots&rsq
  
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• Soaring virus infection puts more French cities on alert

  11-10-2020 20:01
  
  PARIS (AP) — Four French cities have joined Paris and Marseille in the maximum alert status to fight the spread of the coronavirus, and it appeared likely that the list would soon grow as infections soar. Lyon, Grenoble and Saint-Etienne in the southeast and Lille in the north moved to maximum alert this weekend when health authorities reported on Saturday nearly 26,900 new daily infections in 24 hours.  There were just under 5,000 new hospitalizations over the past week, with 928 of
  
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• Appeals court grants stay to Texas AG in mail-in ballot case

  11-10-2020 19:44
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court has issued a temporary order that blocks Texas counties from setting up multiple drop-off locations for mail-in ballots. The Fifth District U.S. Court of Appeals on Saturday granted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request for an emergency stay of a federal judge’s injunction that blocked Gov. Greg Abbott’s order limiting counties to just one ballot drop-off location during early voting for the November elections. U.S. Distr
  
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• Carl’s Jr on N. Oracle catches fire

  11-10-2020 19:41
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Tucson Fire crews responded to a fire at a Carl's Jr. on Oracle on Sunday.#BREAKING Heavy smoke still coming from the fire at Carl's Jr. on N. Oracle Rd. in #Tucson.@TucsonFireDept crews fighting the fire from above the restaurant. pic.twitter.com/a677oocOAX— paulbirmingham (@paulbirmingham) October 11, 2020#BREAKING Fire at the Carl's Jr. on Oracle near Prince in #Tucson. Crews from @TucsonFireDept now working to control the fire. pic.twitter.com/eiXiQfGz4X— paulbirm
  
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• Rights group: Scores detained during protests in Belarus

  11-10-2020 19:38
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Scores of people were detained in Belarus on Sunday during protests against the country’s authoritarian leader, who won his sixth term in office in a vote widely seen as rigged, a Belarusian rights group said. Tens of thousands of protesters rallied in the Belarusian capital Minsk for the 10th consecutive Sunday, demanding the resignation of President Alexander Lukashenko, who has run the country with an iron fist for 26 years. Police moved to disperse the crowds
  
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• Workers allegedly dumping some border wall waste into Mexico

  11-10-2020 19:16
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is investigating allegations that workers have illegally dumped waste from border wall construction into Mexico, where the metal is being sold on the black market. The Arizona Republic reports that crews on the Arizona side of the border have demolished the metal barriers that once marked the international boundary at various locations. The barriers are being replaced with taller bollard panels. Pieces of the older barriers litter the ground
  
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• Lucky 13 in Paris lets Nadal tie Federer with 20 Slam titles

  11-10-2020 19:06
  
  PARIS (AP) — Rafael Nadal has beaten Novak Djokovic 6-0, 6-2, 7-5 in the French Open final to win his 20th Grand Slam title. That ties Roger Federer’s record for most major tennis championships by a man. Nadal won his 13th trophy at Roland Garros and improved his career mark at the clay-court tournament to 100-2. That includes a combined 26-0 in semifinals and finals. This was Djokovic’s first loss in 2020 in a match played to its conclusion. He came into Sunday with a 37-1 rec
  
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• Supreme Court pick Barrett draws on faith, family for Senate

  11-10-2020 19:00
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett vows to be a justice “fearless of criticism” as the Senate charges ahead with confirmation hearings on President Donald Trump’s pick just weeks before Election Day and with the country struggling to contain the pandemic. Barrett draws on faith and family in prepared opening remarks for hearings that start Monday.  She says courts “should not try” to make policy, but leave those decisions to the gov
  
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• Race for Los Angeles district attorney increasingly bitter

  11-10-2020 18:59
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Race and police reform are clashing in what has become a bitter campaign for Los Angeles County district attorney. Mayor Eric Garcetti recently withdrew his support from Jackie Lacey in her run for re-election and endorsed her opponent. The defection was another blow to a campaign that has been reshaped after a summer of protests over police brutality. Lacey, the two-term incumbent who is the first woman and Black person to run the nation’s largest prosecutor&rsquo
  
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• Trump inks law addressing missing, murdered Native Americans

  11-10-2020 18:58
  
  FARGO, N.D. (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed a bill named for a Fargo murder victim to address cases of missing and murdered Native Americans. Savanna’s Act, which is named for Savanna Greywind, passed the House last month after passing the Senate earlier this year. The bill was introduced by former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, of North Dakota, last Congress and was reintroduced by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, in the current Congress. The law is meant to help police track, solve a
  
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• The Latest: Slovakia sets virus restrictions amid case surge

  11-10-2020 18:56
  
  BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Slovakia is imposing new restrictive measures in hopes of curbing a surge in coronavirus infections.
  Starting Thursday, it will again be mandatory to wear face masks outside in all cities, towns and villages and there will be a ban on public events, including religious services in churches. Exceptions include weddings, funerals and baptisms with a limited number of participants.
  Major professional sports competitions are allowed to continue without fans.
  Fitness and
  
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• Phoenix police: 2 roommates fight, fatally shoot each other

  11-10-2020 18:45
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Police in Phoenix say two roommates are dead after the men apparently shot each other following a fight. They say officers responded to the scene about 5 a.m. Sunday after a 911 caller reported a physical fight between the roommates. Police say the two men _ ages 31 and 33 _ both had gunshot wounds. One man was pronounced deceased at the scene and the other was taken to a hospital, where he later died. Police didn’t immediately release the names of the two men and say
  
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• Uber driver arrested after firing gun, injuring a passenger

  11-10-2020 18:26
  
  MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say an Uber driver has been arrested for allegedly firing a gun and injuring one of his passengers following an argument.  Maricopa County Sheriff’s officials say 60-year-old Peter Caso was booked into jail on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, disorderly conduct and endangerment. They incident occurred around 1 a.m. Friday near the Loop 202 freeway in Mesa. Sheriff’s investigators say Caso got into an argument with his two
  
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• Ricciardo leaves mark on Renault F1 boss after winning bet

  11-10-2020 18:24
  
  NÜRBURG, Germany (AP) — Daniel Ricciardo’s first podium finish for Renault comes with a special bonus. He gets to choose a tattoo for his boss. The Australian driver and Renault team principal Cyril Abiteboul had a bet that Abiteboul would get a tattoo of Ricciardo’s choice if he could finish in the top three of a race this season. Ricciardo managed it with a run to third in Germany’s Eifel Grand Prix on Sunday. Abiteboul gets to choose where the tattoo goes but Ricc
  
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• The Latest: Tourist dies in Florida amid rough storm current

  11-10-2020 18:20
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on Delta (all times CDT):
  11:15 a.m.
  DESTIN, Fla. — A 19-year-old tourist from Illinois drowned and another swimmer was rescued after they were caught in a rip current unleashed by the remnants of Hurricane Delta in the Gulf Coast.The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday that witnesses went in to help the tourists in Destin, Florida, but also struggled with the rough waves before they were rescued by lifeguards.
  Witnesses told the sheriff&r
  
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• GOP US. Rep. Bost of Illinois tests positive for COVID-19

  11-10-2020 18:20
  
  CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — Congressman Mike Bost of Illinois has tested positive for the coronavirus, the latest lawmaker to confirm he has it. The Republican from southern Illinois released a statement Friday saying he tested positive the night before and has experienced a mild cough and the loss of taste and smell. Bost says he’ll quarantine and postpone his public schedule as he isolates. He says staff members he’s been in contact with will do the same. His office says he&rsquo
  
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• French police station attacked with fireworks, metal bars

  11-10-2020 18:18
  
  PARIS (AP) — French officials say dozens of people have attacked a police station outside Paris with blasts of fireworks and damaged several police cars. No one has been injured. It was the latest action among numerous attacks against police officers, and sometimes firefighters, that Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says are a sign that France is growing “savage.” Last week, two police officers in civilian clothes were pulled from their vehicle and shot multiple times with the
  
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• Nadal ties Federer at 20 Slams by beating Djokovic in Paris

  11-10-2020 18:06
  
  PARIS (AP) — Rafael Nadal has beaten Novak Djokovic 6-0, 6-2, 7-5 in the French Open final to win his 20th Grand Slam title. That ties Roger Federer’s record for most major tennis championships by a man. Nadal won his 13th trophy at Roland Garros and improved his career mark at the clay-court tournament to 100-2. That includes a combined 26-0 in semifinals and finals. This was Djokovic’s first loss in 2020 in a match played to its conclusion. He came into Sunday with a 37-1 rec
  
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• Rafael Nadal beats Novak Djokovic in French Open final to tie Roger Federer with 20 Grand Slam titles

  11-10-2020 17:53
  
  PARIS (AP) — Rafael Nadal beats Novak Djokovic in French Open final to tie Roger Federer with 20 Grand Slam titles.The post Rafael Nadal beats Novak Djokovic in French Open final to tie Roger Federer with 20 Grand Slam titles appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Trump insists he’s free of virus, ready for campaign trail

  11-10-2020 17:43
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s healthy and “in very good shape” to return to the campaign trail following his COVID-19 diagnosis. Trump, who is set to host a rally Monday, tells Fox News that he is now free of the virus, a claim that was impossible to prove. His comments come a day after a White House doctor said the president was no longer at risk of transmitting the coronavirus but did not say explicitly whether Trump had tested negative for it. In a
  
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• Israeli army teams up with hospital amid new COVID-19 crisis

  11-10-2020 17:42
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military has opened a new coronavirus unit in a converted parking garage at a hospital in northern Israel. It’s a first-of-its-kind effort by the army to assist the country’s overloaded health care system. The unit, set up at Haifa’s Rambam Health Care Campus, will utilize some 100 military doctors, nurses and other medical personnel working alongside hospital staff. Doctors say the unit will be able to treat dozens of intermediate to severe c
  
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• The Latest: Nearly 370K in Louisiana without power

  11-10-2020 17:40
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on Delta (all times CDT):
  11:30 a.m.
  LAKE CHARLES, La. — Nearly 370,000 customers in Louisiana are without power because of Hurricane Delta.The Louisiana Public Service Commission on Sunday released its latest outage figures from the storm. In hard hit Cameron Parish, nearly three-quarters of customers don’t have power.
  Utility trucks could be seen driving westward along I-10 in the early morning hours, as crews worked to restore electricity.
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• Biden harnesses history to describe urgency of 2020 campaign

  11-10-2020 17:34
  
  GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Presidential hopefuls tend to declare every upcoming election the most important one that voters have faced in their lifetime. Joe Biden is going bigger. He’s portraying 2020 as an entanglement of social, economic, political, environmental and public health crises as threatening to America’s stability as the Civil War and the Great Depression. The Democratic nominee cites those historical challenges and the presidents who led through them as guideposts fo
  
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• Arizona reports 597 new COVID-19 cases; no new virus-related deaths

  11-10-2020 17:32
  
  PHOENIX (KVOA) - Another 597 Arizonans tested positive for the coronavirus, according to the state's dashboard on Sunday.No new deaths were recorded according to Arizona Department of Health Services.Arizona now reports 225,575 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 5,759 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.1,867,854 individuals have been tested for
  
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• Missouri house fire kills 4, badly burns 2 others

  11-10-2020 17:31
  
  DESOTO, Mo. (AP) — An early morning house fire has left four people dead and two others seriously burned in the small community of De Soto, Missouri. Firefighters got the 911 call shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday. A spokesman for the De Soto Rural Fire Protection District says fire crews arriving on the scene were met by two badly burned victims who had just literally jumped from a second floor windows. The two survivors were taken to separate burn centers in St. Louis while crews battled the f
  
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• Arizona reports nearly 600 new COVID-19 cases, but no deaths

  11-10-2020 17:29
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona health officials on Sunday reported 597 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, but no additional deaths. The latest numbers increases the statewide case total to 225,575 since the coronavirus pandemic began with the death toll remaining at 5,759. On Saturday, state Department of Health Services officials reported 894 new cases. That was the largest daily increase since Sept. 17-18 when those days’ counts ballooned to 1,753 and 1,281  respectively as the state chang
  
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• The Latest: Nearly 370K without power because of Delta

  11-10-2020 17:28
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on Delta (all times CDT):
  11:30 a.m.
  LAKE CHARLES, La. — Nearly 370,000 customers in Louisiana are without power because of Hurricane Delta.The Louisiana Public Service Commission on Sunday released its latest outage figures from the storm. In hard hit Cameron Parish, nearly three-quarters of customers don’t have power.
  Utility trucks could be seen driving westward along I-10 in the early morning hours, as crews worked to restore electricity.
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• Saudi’s National Commercial Bank buys Samba in $14.8B deal

  11-10-2020 17:25
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s National Commercial Bank says it will purchase rival lender Samba Financial Group in a deal valued at $14.8 billion, creating what will become the kingdom’s largest bank. The bank will control some $223 billion in assets and a market capitalization of $46 billion after the merger is complete. That’s what National Commercial Bank said in a filing Sunday on Riyadh’s Tadawul stock market announcing the deal. The new ban
  
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• Iran-backed militias offer truce for US troop withdrawal

  11-10-2020 17:21
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi militias backed by Iran say they have agreed to temporarily halt rocket attacks targeting the American presence in Iraq. That’s on the condition that U.S.-led coalition troops withdraw from the country in line with a Iraqi parliamentary resolution. A spokesman for a powerful Iran-backed militia said Sunday that the armed factions have offered a truce and will refrain from targeting the U.S. in Iraq, including the embassy. He says American forces must withdraw wit
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 43 new coronavirus cases, 1 more death

  11-10-2020 17:03
  
  WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Navajo Nation health officials are reporting 43 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 with one additional death. The latest numbers released Saturday night bring the total number of cases to 10,675 with the death toll at 565. Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez says he’s concerned about 85 news COVID-19 cases over the last two days on the vast reservation that covers parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. In a statement, Nez says the resurgence in new coronavirus
  
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