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• First lady: ‘Self-serving adults’ push rumors about her

  16-10-2020 23:58
  
  DORAL, Fla. (AP) — Melania Trump is lashing out at those she describes as “self-serving adults” for focusing on her falling out with a friend and adviser. She says in a Friday blog post that the focus on “salacious claims” by the adviser in a tell-all book about their broken relationship comes at the expense of her work on behalf of children. Mrs. Trump sharply criticizes the media and her former adviser, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, claiming Wolkoff hardly knew her.
  
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• After census ruling, judges dismiss part of similar case

  16-10-2020 23:46
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A three-judge panel in Maryland has dismissed part of a case challenging the decision of President Donald Trump’s administration to end data collection for the 2020 census early after the Supreme Court ruled the head count can end this week. The panel of federal district judges said Tuesday’s decision by the Supreme Court in a California case made moot the challenge by advocacy groups and individuals who had sued the Trump administration. The groups had fil
  
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• Adviser: Trump tweet about Afghanistan withdrawal was a wish

  16-10-2020 23:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s national security adviser on Friday doubled down on his assertion that the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan will shrink to 2,500 early next year, while suggesting that Trump’s vow to bring all forces home by Christmas was more a wish than a reality. Robert O’Brien sought to clarify a week of confusing statements about the American footprint in Afghanistan. He also appeared to take a shot at Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the J
  
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• Teacher who turned ALS diagnosis into a movement dies at 71

  16-10-2020 23:43
  
  Christopher Pendergast, a suburban New York teacher who turned a dreaded Lou Gehrig’s Disease diagnosis into a decades-long campaign to raise awareness and fund research, died from the illness on Wednesday. He was 71. Pendergast was the driving force behind the ALS Ride for Life, an annual wheelchair ride across Long Island that has raised more than $10 million for research, patient and caregiver services, and education about the neurodegenerative disease, formally known as amyotrophic lat
  
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• Topics for 3rd presidential debate are released

  16-10-2020 23:40
  
  (AP) – President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden will face questions on the coronavirus, race issues and climate change in the final presidential debate next week.
  Moderator Kristen Welker of NBC released the six topics for the debate Friday through the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates. They are “Fighting COVID-19,” “American Families,” “Race in America,” “Climate Change,” “National Security,” and &ldq
  
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• Biden email episode illustrates risk to Trump from Giuliani

  16-10-2020 23:40
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A New York tabloid’s puzzling account about how it acquired emails purportedly from Joe Biden’s son has raised some red flags. One of the biggest involves the source of the emails: Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani has traveled abroad looking for dirt on the Bidens, developing relationships with shadowy figures, including a Ukrainian lawmaker who U.S. officials have described as a Russian agent and part of a broader Russian effort to denigrate the Democratic presidentia
  
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• Engineers’ report bolsters proposed Mississippi pump project

  16-10-2020 23:38
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published a draft of a new environmental impact statement that supports a proposal to build massive pumps to drain floodwaters from parts of the rural Mississippi Delta. The new report came out Friday. It reverses a previous federal report that said the project would hurt wetlands. Mississippi’s two Republican U.S. senators are praising the new findings for a project that they and other politicians have supported. Conservatio
  
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• Ex-Angels employee indicted in Tyler Skaggs’ fatal overdose

  16-10-2020 23:29
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted a former Los Angeles Angels employee in Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs’ fatal drug overdose. A coroner says Skaggs choked to death on his vomit with a toxic mix of alcohol and the drugs fentanyl and oxycodone in his system. The indictment Thursday in Fort Worth charges Eric Prescott Kay with drug distribution and drug conspiracy. Skaggs was found dead in his suburban Dallas hotel room on July 1, 2019, before a game against the T
  
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• US deported Venezuelans through third country despite risks

  16-10-2020 23:28
  
  MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — The Trump administration stealthily deported an unknown number of Venezuelans through a third country, possibly violating U.S. laws and undermining U.S. warnings about the socialist government’s human rights record. That’s according to Senator Bob Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Menendez on Friday said he was informed by the State Department that the deportations occurred via Trinidad and Tobago between January and
  
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• Feds planning now to get coronavirus shots to nursing homes

  16-10-2020 23:27
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials are unveiling a plan to get approved coronavirus shots to nursing home residents free of cost, with the aid of two national pharmacy chains. No vaccine has yet been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and the distribution program is contingent on that happening first. Trained staff from CVS and Walgreens will deliver the vaccines to each nursing home and administer shots. Assisted-living facilities and residential group homes can also pa
  
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• In head-to-head town halls, Biden beats Trump in audience

  16-10-2020 23:24
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not the tally that really matters, but Democrat Joe Biden scored something of an upset over President Donald Trump. During the dueling town halls, Biden reached a larger audience on ABC than Trump did for his event, held by NBC News. It had been expected that Trump would get more viewers because it was simulcast on NBC, CNBC and MSNBC. But the mostly liberal audience that usually tunes in to MSNBC wasn’t enthusiastic about watching. Both were town hall-styl
  
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• College coaches still scrambling to fill hoops schedules

  16-10-2020 23:22
  
  College coaches had a tense time waiting for for the NCAA to green light the 2020 basketball season. They knew there was a window between late November and early December. They just didn’t have an exact date. Coaches did the best they could to prepare for the big moment, yet still find themselves in a scramble once it actually happened. The NCAA announced last month that the season would begin on Nov. 25 and teams are still trying to fill all the holes in their schedules.The post College c
  
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• Maryland Republican governor votes for Ronald Reagan

  16-10-2020 23:20
  
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan says he voted for the late Ronald Reagan for president, instead of President Donald Trump. Hogan told The Washington Post he cast his ballot by mail last week for the former president as a write-in candidate. As a moderate Republican in a heavily Democratic state, Hogan hasn’t shied away from criticizing Trump. The governor voted for his father, Larry Hogan Sr., for president instead of Trump in 2016. A poll this month by Goucher Colleg
  
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• Nobel winner urges billionaires to save millions from famine

  16-10-2020 23:18
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the World Food Program, this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is urging billionaires to donate just a few billion to save millions of lives. David Beasley said Friday the number of people “marching toward starvation” has jumped from 135 million to 270 million since the COVID-19 pandemic.  He said “humanity needs the help right now.” The executive director of the U.N. food agency told a virtual U.N. press conference
  
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• Supreme Court to weigh President Trump census plan to exclude noncitizens

  16-10-2020 23:11
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it will decide whether President Donald Trump can exclude people living in the U.S. illegally from the census count that is used to allocate seats in the House of Representatives.
  Trump’s policy has been blocked by a lower court. The justices signaled in their order Friday that they will hear arguments in December and issue a decision by early January, when Trump must report the once-a-decade census results to Congress.
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• Justices to weigh Trump census plan to exclude noncitizens

  16-10-2020 23:05
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it will decide whether President Donald Trump can exclude people living in the U.S. illegally from the census count that is used to allocate seats in the House of Representatives. Trump’s policy has been blocked by a lower court. The justices signaled in their order Friday that they will hear arguments in December and issue a decision by early January, when Trump must report the once-a-decade census results to Congress. Trump’s high cour
  
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• Supreme Court will review Trump policy to exclude people in US illegally from census count to allocate House seats

  16-10-2020 23:04
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court will review Trump policy to exclude people in US illegally from census count to allocate House seats.The post Supreme Court will review Trump policy to exclude people in US illegally from census count to allocate House seats appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• French police search homes of health minister, ex-PM

  16-10-2020 23:04
  
  PARIS (AP) — French police have searched the homes of the health minister, the former prime minister and other top officials Thursday in an investigation into the government’s response to the global coronavirus pandemic. The dawn searches, confirmed by the Health Ministry, come as France is fighting against a resurgent epidemic that has now filled a third of the country’s intensive care units with COVID-19 patients and is again putting Europe to the test. President Emmanuel Mac
  
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• The Latest: Trump predicts ‘red wave’ of voting in Florida

  16-10-2020 23:01
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  5 p.m.
  President Donald Trump is predicting a “red wave” of Republican voting in Florida.
  Most polls show a close race in the important battleground state that both the Republican incumbent and Democrat Joe Biden are courting heavily.
  Addressing a campaign rally Friday in Ocala, Trump reminded thousands of supporters that “I live here, too.” He recently switched his legal residence from New
  
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• NM man who shot and killed another guilty of manslaughter

  16-10-2020 23:00
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a 22-year-old man who fatally shot another man while staying at his girlfriend’s house has pleaded guilty to a voluntary manslaughter charge. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Mexico announced that Joshua Gutierrez entered the plea Friday in Albuquerque federal court. A news release from the U.S. attorney says Gutierrez was staying at a home on the Navajo Nation where his girlfriend and her father lived when the shooting occured
  
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• French leader decries terrorist beheading of teacher

  16-10-2020 22:59
  
  PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron denounced what he called an “Islamist terrorist attack” against a history teacher beheaded in a Paris suburb Friday, urging the nation to stand united against extremism. Macron visited the school where the teacher worked in the town of Conflans-Saint-Honorine and met with staff after the slaying. Macron said the teacher was killed because he taught “freedom of expression, the freedom to believe or not believe.” He said t
  
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• Six indicted in connection to 18 shootings in Tucson

  16-10-2020 22:57
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) – Six people were indicted in September in connection to 18 shootings that occurred in the Tucson metropolitan area.The shootings are believed to have been perpetrated by the “Get Money Gang (GMG)” and “29th Street Blood” gang members from September 2019 to January 2020.The gang members were identified as Richard Gonzales-Medina, Derrick Irutingabo, Bahati Leonidas, Mohamed Saeed, Abdallah Tutu and Saqr Zamzeer.A Pima County grand jury indicted the six
  
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• The Latest: Wisconsin breaks its COVID-19 case record

  16-10-2020 22:53
  
  MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin broke the record for new positive coronavirus cases on Friday for the third time in a week as a surge that began in early September shows no signs of abating.
  The state also hit record highs for daily deaths and hospitalizations this week as a third lawsuit was filed arguing that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers had overstepped his authority by issuing public health emergencies and implementing a statewide mask mandate and capacity limits for bars and restaurants.
  Evers
  
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• Jersey City, Kushner reach accord in political bias lawsuit

  16-10-2020 22:53
  
  Jersey City has reached an agreement in a lawsuit by White House adviser Jared Kushner’s family’s company that claimed the city tried to sabotage a $900 million residential tower project out of political animosity toward Kushner’s father-in-law, President Donald Trump. Under terms of the agreement obtained by The Associated Press, the project will move forward and Journal Square Partners, of which Kushner Companies is a principal investor, will release the city from all claims
  
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• French leader decries Islamist terror attack against teacher

  16-10-2020 22:43
  
  PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has denounced what he is calling an “Islamist terrorist attack” against a history teacher decapitated in a Paris suburb, urging the nation to stand united against extremism. Macron visited the school where the teacher worked in the town of Conflans-Saint-Honorine and met with staff after the slaying. “One of our compatriots was murdered today because he taught …  the freedom to believe or not believe,” Macron
  
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• Florida felon purge would be too late for this election

  16-10-2020 22:43
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The agency that oversees Florida elections says it will soon send a list of felons who remain ineligible to vote to the counties for a possible purge. The Florida Secretary of State’s memo drew sharp criticism from voting rights groups Friday. They called it an attempt by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to create confusion before the Nov. 3 election. The state says it is simply informing counties they will soon be notified of which felo
  
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• French President Macron decries ‘Islamist terrorist attack’ against teacher, urges nation to unite

  16-10-2020 22:37
  
  PARIS (AP) — French President Macron decries ‘Islamist terrorist attack’ against teacher, urges nation to unite.The post French President Macron decries ‘Islamist terrorist attack’ against teacher, urges nation to unite appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• The Latest: Biden warns Trump wants to scrap health law

  16-10-2020 22:32
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  4:30 p.m.
  Joe Biden is warning Michigan voters that President Donald Trump wants to strip health insurance from tens of millions of Americans with preexisting conditions.
  Campaigning outside Detroit on Friday, the Democratic nominee said Trump promises to protect the insurance eligibility of all Americans but in reality wants to scrap the 2010 Affordable Care Act. That law for the first time set a federal standard
  
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• “I Don’t Feel Like It Limits Me” – Arizona songwriter offers unique inspiration

  16-10-2020 22:30
  
  (KPNX)  It’s often said that music can reach the depth of the soul.“It’s kind of an outlet to express myself and how I’m feeling,” says Victoria Chiantella.Strumming her songs on a ukulele, Chiantella's songwriting is a little different than most.“I love the sound of it. It has a really nice warm sound,” she says.There is also something unique about the way Victoria strums her instrument.“I was born missing my arm below the elbow down. Yeah,
  
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• Dancing Dennis: Unknown Cardinals LB relishes two-sack game

  16-10-2020 22:29
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Dennis Gardeck is one of the rare NFL players who made it to the game’s highest level after playing in college at the NCAA Division II level. The linebacker had a breakout performance on Sunday with two sacks against the Jets. They were the first two sacks of his career. Gardeck has been mostly a special teams ace during his three years with the Cardinals. The 26-year-old LB might have a bigger role in Arizona’s defense now because 2019 All-Pro Chandler Jone
  
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• France: Teacher beheaded, police shoot dead suspected killer

  16-10-2020 22:25
  
  PARIS (AP) — A history teacher who opened a discussion with students on caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad was beheaded in a French street and police have shot the suspected killer dead, a police official says. The French anti-terrorism prosecutor has opened an investigation into Friday’s incident outside Paris. The gruesome incident in the town of Eragny, in the Val d’Oise region northwest of Paris, was the second terrorism-related incident since the start of an ong
  
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• The Latest: Biden: US hasn’t ‘turned the corner’ on virus

  16-10-2020 22:23
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  4:20 p.m.
  Joe Biden is mocking President Donald Trump for suggesting in a Thursday town hall that the U.S. has “turned the corner” in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
  Biden said Friday while campaigning in Southfield, Michigan, that the virus is “not disappearing” and is instead “on the rise again.”
  The Democratic nominee noted a COVID-19 uptick in many states and sai
  
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• ‘Cheer’ star to remain locked up on child porn charges

  16-10-2020 22:22
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A judge says “Cheer” star Jerry Harris will remain in jail while awaiting trial on child pornography charges. Attorneys for Harris had asked that he be released and confined at home under strict conditions. But a Chicago federal judge said Friday that evidence offered by prosecutors “overwhelmingly supports detention.”  U.S. Magistrate Judge Heather McShain says it would “virtually impossible” to ensure Harris doesn’t use the in
  
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• 2 drug measures on Oregon ballot

  16-10-2020 22:22
  
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — War veterans with PTSD, terminally ill patients and others suffering from anxiety are backing a ballot measure that would legalize controlled, therapeutic use in Oregon of psilocybin mushrooms. Backers of the ballot measure say the state should lead the way in legalizing therapeutic, regulated use of psilocybin, often referred to as magic mushrooms. Opponents say science does not yet indicate that psilocybin is a safe medical treatment. A second ballot measure would decr
  
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• A late slide erases gains for US indexes, leaving them mixed

  16-10-2020 22:16
  
  Stocks took a late stumble on Wall Street, erasing an early gain and leaving major indexes mixed on Friday. The S&P 500 closed up just a fraction of a point but still managed to post a modest gain for the week. Big Tech and energy companies fell while health care and industrial stocks rose. The Dow Jones Industrial Average of blue chips ended higher, but small-company stocks ended lower. The market had been up for much of the day after the government reported that retail sales rose in Septem
  
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• FBI probing if Russia involved in Hunter Biden email story

  16-10-2020 22:14
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is investigating whether emails that were published by the New York Post related to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, are connected to a possible Russian influence operation. That’s according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. The newspaper said that it had obtained a hard drive from Rudy Giuliani containing the emails, and that the messages were found on a laptop
  
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• The Latest: Biden praises Democratic leaders in Michigan

  16-10-2020 22:10
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  4:10 p.m.
  Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is heaping praise on leading Michigan Democrats as he tries to flip the state back his party’s presidential win column.
  Biden praised Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday as one of the nation’s best governors and said she “stands up straight and tall.” He again blasted President Donald Trump for not explicitly condemning white supremacists an
  
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• Correction: Virus Outbreak-New York story

  16-10-2020 22:06
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — In a story published October 15, 2020, about legal fights over New York’s coronavirus restrictions, The Associated Press erroneously reported the location of one judge who declined to block those restrictions. The judge was based in Brooklyn, not Albany.The post Correction: Virus Outbreak-New York story appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Court rejects bid to extend ballot counting on Navajo Nation

  16-10-2020 21:54
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — An appeals court has refused to give an extra 10 days after Election Day to count ballots mailed by Navajo Nation members living on the Arizona portion of the tribe’s reservation. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled a later deadline would burden officials who wouldn’t be able to tell from ballots whether voters are members of the tribe. The court said Navajos who sought the extension because of slow mail delivery on the reservation had no legal standing to sue
  
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• The Latest: US report shows patterns of virus deaths shifted

  16-10-2020 21:50
  
  WASHINGTON — A new U.S. government report shows that patterns of coronavirus deaths shifted over the summer, with rising percentages of the deaths in Hispanic people, and those living in the South and West.
  The report, released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, looks at coronavirus-associated deaths reported between May 1 and August 31. It is an update of an earlier report that focused on deaths during an initial wave of illnesses in the early spring that mainly hit
  
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• Ex- GOP lawmaker charged with assaulting poll worker

  16-10-2020 21:48
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A former GOP lawmaker has been charged with allegedly assaulting an elections official at an early voting site in Wake County, North Carolina. Law enforcement arrived after the polls opened at 8 a.m. Friday and cited Gary Pendleton with a Class 3 misdemeanor. He will not be permitted to serve as a poll observer for the rest of this election cycle, according to the North Carolina State Board of Elections. Pendleton plans to appeal the assault charge in court. The p
  
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• 7 Chicago cops suspended for roles in chief’s traffic stop

  16-10-2020 21:46
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Seven Chicago police officers have been suspended for their roles in an incident in which then-Superintendent Eddie Johnson was found asleep behind the wheel of his SUV following a night of drinking. Superintendent David Brown decided to suspend two probationary officers for one day each, two other officers for seven days, a sergeant for 14 days, a lieutenant for 21 days and a commander for 28 days. The report by Chicago’s inspector general stopped short of concluding
  
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• The Latest: Biden, Harris test negative for virus Friday

  16-10-2020 21:39
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  3:35 p.m.
  Joe Biden’s campaign says the former vice president and his running mate, Kamala Harris, each tested negative Friday for COVID-19.
  The tests come a day after the campaign confirmed three individuals connected to the campaign had tested positive, including Harris’ communications director Liz Allen.
  As a precaution, Harris has suspended in-person campaigning through the weekend, but plans to re
  
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• Puerto Rico to relax COVID-19 restrictions, extend curfew

  16-10-2020 21:24
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s governor has announced that more people will be able to visit restaurants, gyms, theaters and casinos as the U.S. territory relaxes some pandemic-related restrictions. Gov. Wanda Vázquez also said Friday that public transportation including buses and trains will resume service next week, and ferries will be allowed to only take tourists to the popular nearby island of Culebra. A 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew remains in place, and face mask
  
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• AP source: FBI probing if emails part of influence operation

  16-10-2020 21:24
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is investigating whether emails that were published by the New York Post related to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, are connected to a possible Russian influence operation. That’s according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. The newspaper said that it had obtained a hard drive from Rudy Giuliani containing the emails, and that the messages were found on a laptop
  
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• Israel: Gaza militants fire rocket into southern Israel

  16-10-2020 21:23
  
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military says Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip have fired a rocket in southern Israel. There were no reports of casualties or damage in Friday’s attack. No Palestinian group claimed responsibility for the rocket fire. The Gaza-Israel border has been mostly quiet since a coronavirus outbreak spread in the Hamas-ruled coastal territory in August. However, the militant group is disgruntled, saying Israel ignores terms of an unofficial ce
  
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• For grateful NBC, Savannah Guthrie changes the subject

  16-10-2020 21:22
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — NBC’s Savannah Guthrie did more than just display her journalistic chops during Thursday’s town hall event with President Donald Trump. She changed the subject for her bosses. NBC was receiving intense criticism for its decision to hold the session with Trump at the same time as ABC was interviewing Democratic opponent Joe Biden. Guthrie used her experience as a lawyer to come well-prepared and offer sharp questions, checking Trump’s facts and following up
  
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• Man who attacked Virginia protesters avoids federal prison

  16-10-2020 21:14
  
  A California man who pleaded guilty to attacking anti-racism protesters at a white nationalist rally and at a torch-lit march through the through the University of Virginia’s campus will avoid serving a term in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Norman Moon on Friday sentenced 26-year-old Cole Evan White to 14 months in prison but gave him credit for 7 months he served in jail after his arrest and 5 months of home confinement. That leaves two more months of house arrest. White was one of
  
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• The Latest: North Dakota leads nation in per capita cases

  16-10-2020 21:10
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota leads the nation with 978 new cases of coronavirus per capita in the last two weeks.That’s according to the COVID Tracking project, which reports cases per 100,000 people. Health officials confirmed 877 new cases and 18 more deaths on Friday.The surge in cases and deaths statewide resulted in Republican Gov. Doug Burgum raising the coronavirus risk level in several North Dakota counties this week. However, he issued no mandated restrictions and mask use
  
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• Arizona woman files lawsuit after water turned off in cell

  16-10-2020 21:09
  
  GLOBE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona woman has filed a lawsuit against the Gila County jail, saying she was held without criminal charges and forced to drink toilet water. The lawsuit alleges false imprisonment, assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress. KNXV-TV reported Thursday that 63-year-old Tamara Barnicoat was booked in the Globe facility in October 2019 while having a psychotic episode. The lawsuit said she was held for 27 days and was deprived of water after an employee t
  
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