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• Harris suspends campaign after Biden campaign finds 3rd virus link

  15-10-2020 23:59
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris is suspending in-person events until Monday after two people associated with the campaign tested positive for the coronavirus.
  Joe Biden's campaign also announced a third case but said that Biden had no direct exposure and will continue campaigning. Biden and Harris spent several hours campaigning together in Arizona on Oct. 8. Biden and Harris have both had multiple negative COVID-19 tests since then.
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• Can a 7-win Pac-12 team make the playoffs? It’s complicated

  15-10-2020 23:59
  
  The Pac-12 becomes the last Power Five conference to play football next month. That has raised questions about whether a conference team could possible make the College Football Playoff. The Pac-12’s coaches believe there’s a chance, but many things would have to fall into place. A Pac-12 team would have to dominate opponents to be considered, and the games would have to go on as scheduled, an uncertainty amid the coronavirus pandemic. The post Can a 7-win Pac-12 team make the p
  
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• Mitt Romney calls for US commission to deal with wildfires

  15-10-2020 23:58
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah announced legislation to establish a national commission focused on diminishing future wildfire disasters. Romeny said Thursday the proposed commission would study and recommend fire mitigation policies to Congress, including forest management tactics and federal spending. Romney’s announcement came as wildfires have raged across the West. Blazes have grown more intense and dangerous as the changing climate dries out forests thick w
  
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• The Latest: Pence rallies Hispanic voters in Florida

  15-10-2020 23:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 presidential election (all times local):
  5:55 p.m.
  Vice President Mike Pence is rallying Hispanic voters in Florida by highlighting President Donald Trump’s record opposing socialist leaders across Latin America.
  Pence said Thursday that their support in the battleground state is crucial to guarantee Trump’s reelection. About 2.4 million Latinos are registered to vote for the 2020 presidential election in Florida.
  A few hundred Trump sup
  
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• Park Police officers indicted in shooting of unarmed driver

  15-10-2020 23:50
  
  FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Two U.S. Park Police officers have been indicted on manslaughter charges in the 2017 shooting death of an unarmed motorist who led officers on a stop-and-go chase after an accident. The charges against officers Alejandro Amaya and Lucas Vinyard come after years of agitation by the family of 25-year-old Bijan Ghaisar of McLean, Virginia, and some political figures who saw the officers’ conduct in the shooting as excessive. Federal prosecutors declined to pursue cri
  
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• Iranian CEO sentenced for conspiracy to violate US sanctions

  15-10-2020 23:48
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The founder and CEO of an Iranian financial services firm accused of conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions against Iran has been sentenced to nearly two years in federal prison. Thirty-three-year-old Seyed Sajjad Shahidian pleaded guilty in June to one count of conspiracy to defraud and commit offenses against the United States. Shahidian, a citizen of Iran, was arrested in London in November 2018 and not extradited to the U.S. until May. Prosecutors say Shahidian lied to
  
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• GM to run robot cars in San Francisco without human backups

  15-10-2020 23:48
  
  General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit says it will pull the human backup drivers from its vehicles in San Francisco by the end of the year. CEO Dan Ammann says that the Cruise got a permit from California’s Department of Motor Vehicles on Thursday to let the cars travel on their own. The move follows last week’s announcement from Waymo that it would open its autonomous ride-hailing service to the public in vehicles without human drivers. The rides are being offered in
  
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• Two U.S. Park Police officers indicted on manslaughter charges in 2017 shooting of unarmed motorist

  15-10-2020 23:47
  
  FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Two U.S. Park Police officers indicted on manslaughter charges in 2017 shooting of unarmed motorist.The post Two U.S. Park Police officers indicted on manslaughter charges in 2017 shooting of unarmed motorist appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Cafe Poca Cosa to Close

  15-10-2020 23:46
  
  After 35 years in business, Tucson's beloved Cafe Poca Cosa announces plans to close due to coronavirus concerns and the corresponding economic downturn of Tucson's service industry. 
  Owner Suzana Davila said after giving her "heart and soul" to Cafe Poca Cosa over the years, she is choosing to shut her restaurant down after experiencing "many months of great anxiety" because of the pandemic's impact on the cost of operating an eating establishment with limited occupancy.“Clearly, thi
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trump flubs study on masks and coronavirus

  15-10-2020 23:45
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump twice botched the findings of a federal study on Thursday as he brushed off the importance of wearing a mask to prevent COVID-19.
  Trump also was off the mark in stating that Democratic rival Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris never expressed best wishes when he came down with the disease. They did.
  A look at those remarks before Trump and Biden take separate stages in the evening for competing town hall-style events.
  TRUMP, on his rallies: &ld
  
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• Electric cars, homes and shops: NJ’s clean energy future?

  15-10-2020 23:40
  
  ATLANTIC CITY,N.J. (AP) — Gasoline-powered vehicles would become a thing of the past, and nine out of every 10 buildings in New Jersey would be heated and cooled by electricity instead of natural gas or oil under an ambitious plan laid out Thursday by the state’s environmental regulators. It is an effort so far-reaching and transformative of the way everyday life is lived in the state that its cost is sure to be so great that authorities did not even try to estimate it. Officials wit
  
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• Black man’s family views graphic video of in-custody death

  15-10-2020 23:31
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Family members viewed graphic body-camera video this week of a Black man who died in Louisiana State Police custody following a high-speed chase. Their attorney says the footage clearly shows troopers beating the man, jolting him with their stun guns and dragging him face-down across the pavement. Gov. John Bel Edwards met Wednesday with the family of Ronald Greene but left before the man’s mother and sister watched a half-hour of the footage of the May 2019 e
  
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• SC Dems file ethics complaint in Graham fundraising comments

  15-10-2020 23:25
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Democrats have filed a formal complaint against U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham for making a campaign fundraising appeal while speaking with reporters on Capitol Hill following judicial confirmation hearings. The South Carolina Democratic Party said Thursday that Graham “committed a crime and violated longstanding ethics rules by openly raising money for his campaign in a Federal government building while leveraging his official U.S. Senate activity,&rdq
  
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• Judge continues halt of California’s ban on gator products

  15-10-2020 23:24
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge says California’s ban on alligator products probably violates federal laws that allow such sales and cannot be enforced while challenges remain in court. Companies that make and use alligator and crocodile leather and the state of Louisiana had filed two lawsuits. Chief Judge Kimberly J. Mueller consolidated the two suits Wednesday in California’s Eastern District. She said she wasn’t considering the lawsuits’ environmental claims
  
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• FDA extends pregnancy warning for common pain relievers

  15-10-2020 23:23
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials are expanding the time period that pregnant women should avoid pain relievers including Advil and Aleve. The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that the pain relievers should be avoided for the last four months of pregnancy because of a rare but serious risk to the fetus. The warning had previously been for the last three months. The FDA said that a group of fever-and-pain-reducing drugs can lead to low levels of amniotic fluid in the womb. T
  
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• Power cut to thousands in California to prevent wildfires

  15-10-2020 23:12
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Thousands of people in wine country woke up without power amid a fall heat wave that’s bringing another round of extreme wildfire danger to large portions of already battered Northern California. Pacific Gas and Electric cut power starting Wednesday evening to more than 45,000 customers — about 100,000 people — mainly in the Sierra Nevada foothills and the San Francisco Bay Area. Another 22,000 people were expected to lose power later Thursday. Red-fl
  
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• Shares of Chinese retailer Miniso rise in Wall Street debut

  15-10-2020 23:11
  
  HONG KONG (AP) — Miniso, a Chinese discount retailer known for its fashionable but affordable household products, raised $608 million in a U.S. initial public offering in New York. The Guangzhou-based retailer is the latest Chinese company to list in the U.S., amid tensions that have taken U.S.-China relations to their worst level in decades. Miniso founder Ye Guofu, who owns an 80% stake in the company, is set to become a billionaire following the listing, with a net worth of about $4 bil
  
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• Brexit trade talks: both EU and UK dig in heels

  15-10-2020 23:10
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — With both sides digging in their heels as another deadline passed, the European Union and Britain are demanding concessions from one another in talks on a basic trade deal that would soften the economic blow of the coronavirus pandemic for all. The EU leaders meeting in a summit on the day British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had set as a potential cutoff point for the acrimonious negotiations, said in a joint statement it was now up to “the UK to make the necessary m
  
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• Priest gets federal prison for breaking into Navy base

  15-10-2020 23:09
  
  BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A 71-year-old Roman Catholic priest has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for breaking into a Navy submarine base in Georgia with a group protesting nuclear weapons. The Rev. Stephen Michael Kelly and six fellow activists were convicted in U.S. District Court a year ago of trespassing, destruction of government property and other charges. The activists took videos of themselves using wire cutters to enter a locked security gate at Kings Bay Naval Submari
  
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• The Latest: Harris says Biden campaign takes virus seriously

  15-10-2020 23:07
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 presidential election (all times local):
  5:05 p.m.
  Kamala Harris says the Democratic presidential campaign’s response to positive coronavirus tests among their team “obviously stands in stark contrast to you-know-who.”
  Harris, Joe Biden’s running mate, made the thinly veiled remark about President Donald Trump on Thursday during a virtual fundraising call.
  She was scheduled to campaign in North Carolina but canceled the trip
  
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• Man described as neo-Nazi pleads guilty in synagogue plot

  15-10-2020 23:07
  
  DENVER (AP) — A man described by U.S. prosecutors as a neo-Nazi and white supremacist has pleaded guilty to a hate crime for plotting to bomb a historic Colorado synagogue last year. Twenty-eight-year-old Richard Holzer pleaded guilty Thursday to attempting to stop people from exercising their religion with an explosive or fire and attempting to destroy a building used in interstate commerce. The pleas came in a deal with prosecutors who have promised not to ask for a more than 20 years of
  
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• Black skeptics uplift their community through social justice

  15-10-2020 23:07
  
  Darrin Johnson would like nothing better than to rid the Black community of organized religion. The way Johnson sees it, Black people “don’t need outside beliefs or higher powers.” Black nonbelievers like Johnson have for years been working to redefine what it means to be atheist, a word too often linked to white spaces mostly concerned with creationism and the separation of church and state. That can make Johnson and other Black nonbelievers feel out of place. About 80% of Bla
  
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• Oakland, Portland sue over use of federal agents at protests

  15-10-2020 23:03
  
  The cities of Oakland and Portland, Oregon have sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department, alleging that the agencies are overstepping constitutional limits in their use of federal law enforcement officers to tamp down on protests. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, cites the deployment of U.S. agents this summer to quell protests and also accuses the U.S. Marshals Service of acting unlawfully by deputizing dozens of local Portland police o
  
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• The Latest: South Dakota breaks its COVID-19 cases record

  15-10-2020 23:02
  
  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — South Dakota on Wednesday broke its record for coronavirus hospitalizations and new cases, and the state has already had more deaths from the disease less than halfway through October than it had in any other month.
  Despite the grim prognosis — South Dakota had the nation’s highest rate of positive tests over the last 14 days, according to the COVID Tracking Project — Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has resisted pressure to step up the state’s respon
  
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• DEA officials announce largest domestic meth seizure in department’s history

  15-10-2020 23:00
  
  LOS ANGELES, CA (KVOA) – On Wednesday, DEA officials announced the largest domestic crystal meth seizure in the department's history.The DEA said agents seized 893 pounds of cocaine, 13 pounds of heroin and 2,224 pounds of crystal methamphetamine.“The largest DEA domestic seizure of methamphetamine in history is a significant blow to the cartels, but more importantly it is a gigantic victory for communities throughout Southern California and the United States who have had to dea
  
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• DHS: Phoenix ICE officers remove Honduran national wanted for murder

  15-10-2020 22:57
  
  PHOENIX, AZ (KVOA) — According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), in Phoenix, removed a three-time previously deported criminal alien who is wanted for homicide in Honduras, Oct. 9.
  DHS said the Honduran national was removed via an ICE Air Operations (IAO) charter flight and was transferred to the custody of Honduran law enforcement authorities on an outstanding warrant.DH
  
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• Man charged with setting fire to Planned Parenthood center

  15-10-2020 22:53
  
  FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Florida man accused of setting fire to a Planned Parenthood center has been arrested. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office says 20-year-old Everett Little was charged Wednesday with arson, criminal mischief and using an incendiary device. Surveillance video taken Saturday at the Fort Myers clinic shows a man pouring gas into bottles and then throwing them at the building. Officials say Little was identified shortly after the sheriff’s office
  
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• GOP pushes Barrett toward court as Democrats decry ‘sham’

  15-10-2020 22:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are powering Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett closer to confirmation. They pushed past Democratic objections on the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday and set Oct. 22 for its vote to recommend Barrett’s nomination to the full Senate. In the drive to seat President Donald Trump’s nominee before the Nov. 3 election, the Senate is pausing work on other priorities during the COVID-19 crisis. Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar calls it “a sham.
  
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• Women’s wrestling, rugby backers join Iowa gender complaint

  15-10-2020 22:31
  
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — University of Iowa students who want to establish intercollegiate women’s wrestling and rugby programs have been added as plaintiffs to a lawsuit seeking more sports opportunities for female Hawkeyes. A lawsuit filed this month by members of the women’s swimming and diving team seeks to stop the university from eliminating their program after this season. They argue that Iowa doesn’t comply with a federal law that requires colleges to offer equal at
  
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• The Latest: 3rd person tied to Biden campaign tests positive

  15-10-2020 22:24
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 presidential election (all times local):
  4:20 p.m.
  A third person tied to Joe Biden’s campaign has tested positive for the coronavirus.
  The news comes as Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris, paused her in-person campaigning after finding out two others, one of her staffers and a crew member on her flight to Arizona last week, tested positive for the virus. Both Biden and Harris tested negative for the coronavirus Thursday morning.
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• New book will include final thoughts from Justice Ginsburg

  15-10-2020 22:09
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Some final thoughts from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and some previously unreleased materials have been gathered by one of her former clerks and will appear in a book coming out in March. The University of California Press announced Thursday that it will publish “Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life’s Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union,” on which Ginsburg worked in collaboration with Amanda Tyler. The book was in production at the time Ginsb
  
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• Yemen’s warring sides kick off largest prisoner swap to date

  15-10-2020 22:03
  
  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Both parties of Yemen’s civil war have started a long-awaited prisoner exchange. The development comes a day after the Iran-backed rebels freed two Americans and released the remains of a third who had died in captivity. The exchange is part of a U.N.-brokered deal between the rebel Houthis and a Saudi-backed coalition supporting Yemen’s internationally recognized government. Three planes carrying freed Houthi prisoners touched down on Thursday in the rebel-
  
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• Ancient stone patterns add new wrinkle to pipeline debate

  15-10-2020 22:02
  
  MACKINAW CITY, Mich. (AP) — Images from an underwater vehicle seem to reveal stone patterns on the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac in northern Michigan. An expert says it’s possible evidence of Native American artifacts from thousands of years ago. It also could add a new wrinkle to Enbridge’s proposed pipeline tunnel. A group of amateur explorers raised money to look at Enbridge’s pipeline on the lake bottom. The Detroit Free Press says sonar shows what appears to be s
  
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• The Latest: Georgia workers at voting prep center have virus

  15-10-2020 22:01
  
  ATLANTA — Election officials said nearly a quarter of the workers in a warehouse where election supplies are kept and voting equipment is readied for Georgia’s most populous county have tested positive for COVID-19.But Fulton County Elections Director Rick Barron said Thursday that the positive tests for 13 of the 60 workers at the county election preparation center shouldn’t delay election operations.Barron said the county is working to hire replacement staff and implement mor
  
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• Feds approve Georgia health insurance changes sought by Kemp

  15-10-2020 21:56
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia will offer federally subsidized health insurance to its residents only through private brokers. The plan was approved Thursday by President Donald Trump’s administration. A separate part of the plan would offer Medicaid to some of the state’s poorest able-bodied adults, but only on the condition that they work, volunteer, receive job training or attend school. Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services Administrator Seema Verma approved the waivers from no
  
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• Jewish family’s painting looted by Nazis in 1933 is returned

  15-10-2020 21:55
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A painting of two young, 19th-century skaters that was looted by Nazis from a Jewish family in 1933 and recently discovered at a small museum in upstate New York has been returned after 87 years. The painting “Winter” by American artist Gari Melchers was among more than 1,000 pieces of art and artifacts seized from the Mosse family, a prominent Jewish family in Berlin who became early targets of the Nazi Party. The painting had been housed at the Arkell Muse
  
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• Slain LA cop’s family hopes for retrial 37 years later

  15-10-2020 21:50
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office is mulling whether to again file charges against a man accused of killing a police officer over 30 years ago. Kenneth Earl Gay maintains his innocence and is currently incarcerated in state prison. There is a hearing Friday on the defense’s motion to dismiss the case. The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office must decide by Dec. 14 if prosecutors will re-file the case against Gay, who is accused of shooting Lo
  
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• Nicaragua passes controversial ‘foreign agent’ law

  15-10-2020 21:50
  
  MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua’s National Assembly has approved a law that would give the government of President Daniel Ortega more power to monitor people, businesses and organizations that receive funding from overseas. The so-called law for the regulation of foreign agents carried by a wide margin in the legislative body, which is controlled by Ortega’s Sandinista Front party. The law requires any Nicaraguan citizen working for “governments, companies, foundation
  
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• Scramble to get people counted as 2020 census winds down

  15-10-2020 21:49
  
  Census advocates across the nation have been making last-ditch efforts to get as many households to answer the 2020 census. The tally has been mandated to halt at 11:59 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time on Thursday but questions still linger about deadlines and who gets counted when congressional seats are allotted. Advocates are particularly worried that minorities, and people in rural and tribal areas, are going to be missed due to the rushed ending of the count. That would result in less federal fund
  
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• Judge rejects request to delay access to Floyd case filings

  15-10-2020 21:42
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota judge has rejected a prosecution request to put a 48-hour hold on filings in the criminal cases of four Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s death. Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill said Thursday that a natural lag in the court filing system gives prosecutors sufficient time to see filings and ask that they be sealed by the court before they are available to the public. The state’s request this week came after defense attorneys s
  
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• Oh deer! OVPD recover numerous taxidermy mounts that were allegedly stolen in theft

  15-10-2020 21:34
  
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  TUCSON (KVOA) - Oro Valley Police Department encountered a theft that would leave local hunters bucking.On Thursday, OVPD shared that they recovered several taxidermy deer mounts after they were reportedly stolen in a theft.Details surrounding the incident have not been released. However, OVPD said they "tried to keep the predator separate from the prey. But a couple of them lost their heads over it."Oh deer! This is one crime we don’t see very often… t
  
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• Mother convicted in deaths of 2 newborns left in trash bags

  15-10-2020 21:33
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A jury has convicted a South Carolina mother in the deaths of two of her newborns, who were thrown into trash bags after they were born 13 months apart. But the 32-year-old mother of two other children wasn’t in court Thursday to hear the verdict. Alyssa Dayvault faces 20 years to life without parole in prison on each of two counts of homicide by child abuse. The judge sealed his sentence to be read when Dayvault is found and brought to court. Prosecutors say Da
  
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• C-SPAN suspends Scully after he admits to lie about hack

  15-10-2020 21:32
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — C-SPAN has suspended its political editor Steve Scully indefinitely after he admitted to lying about having his Twitter account hacked. A week ago, when Scully was questioned about a message he had sent to former Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci seeking advice, Scully claimed that someone had gotten into his account and sent it. But he admitted this week to his bosses that he had lied, feeling the pressure of attacks from President Donald Trump. Scully was supposed to moderate
  
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• Glendale homeowners association orders removal of Black Lives Matter sign

  15-10-2020 21:30
  
  GLENDALE – Melanie Boyle hung a hand-painted Black Lives Matter sign on her home in July to show her support for the movement and its demands for justice. …
  
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• C-SPAN suspends political editor Steve Scully indefinitely after he admits he lied about his Twitter feed being hacked

  15-10-2020 21:26
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — C-SPAN suspends political editor Steve Scully indefinitely after he admits he lied about his Twitter feed being hacked.The post C-SPAN suspends political editor Steve Scully indefinitely after he admits he lied about his Twitter feed being hacked appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• The Latest: Spain adds more than 13,000 coronavirus cases

  15-10-2020 21:25
  
  MADRID — Spain added more than 13,000 coronavirus cases on Thursday.
  Spain’s health ministry reported 6,603 new infections diagnosed in the previous 24 hours. The other cases were diagnosed in recent days but not reported until now by regional officials.
  The government’s top virus expert, Fernando Simón, says while “no province is where we want it to be” in terms of infections, “we have the sensation that we are in a process of stabilization.”
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• YouTube follows Twitter and Facebook with QAnon crackdown

  15-10-2020 21:17
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — YouTube is following the lead of Twitter and Facebook, saying that it is taking more steps to limit QAnon and other baseless conspiracy theories that can lead to real-world violence. The Google-owned video platform said Thursday it will now prohibit material targeting a person or group with conspiracy theories that have been used to justify violence. One example would be videos that threaten or harass someone by suggesting they are complicit in a conspiracy such as Q
  
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• Man granted parole after getting life sentence fir stealing hedge clippers

  15-10-2020 21:16
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Black man whose life sentence for stealing hedge clippers in a home burglary drew scathing criticism from the chief justice of Louisiana's Supreme Court has been granted parole.
  The high court had denied release for 63-year-old Fair Wayne Bryant earlier this year for the 1997 burglary that netted him a set of hedge clippers. In dissent, Chief Justice Bernette Johnson said the habitual offender law under which Bryant was sentenced was a “modern manifestation&rdquo
  
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• Canada police say who killed 9-year-old girl 36 years ago.

  15-10-2020 21:16
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police say they’ve identified the person who killed a 9-year-old girl 36 years ago.  Toronto Police said Thursday Calvin Hoover was identified through DNA. He died in 2015. He was 28 years old at the time of the murder and knew the family of Christine Jessop, though he was not a suspect at the time. Jessop was last seen on Oct. 3, 1984, in Queensville, Ontario, north of Toronto. Her body was found over three months later. Her case received national attent
  
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• The Latest: Harris negative for virus after canceling travel

  15-10-2020 21:10
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 presidential election (all times local):
  3:05 p.m.
  California Sen. Kamala Harris has tested negative for the coronavirus.
  It comes the same day she canceled travel for several days after two people involved with the Democratic presidential campaign tested positive.
  The campaign says both Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, tested negative for the virus Thursday.
  Harris, Joe Biden’s running mate, was scheduled to campaign in North Carolina, wh
  
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