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• Trump rape accuser ‘stunned’ at DOJ no-show at court hearing

  21-10-2020 23:56
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who has accused President Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s says she’s stunned that the Department of Justice turned down a chance to argue to a judge that the United States can be substituted for Trump in a defamation lawsuit. E. Jean Carroll stood outside Manhattan federal court Wednesday talking to reporters after a Justice Department lawyer told a judge by phone that the department declined to make oral arguments in the case. The judge said he’
  
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• Police: 43 bank hostages freed in ex-Soviet republic Georgia

  21-10-2020 23:54
  
  TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Police in the ex-Soviet nation of Georgia say 43 people have been freed after an armed assailant took them hostage in a bank. The statement came shortly after local media reported that the gunman had escaped with three hostages still with him. An armed man took bank employees and customers hostage Wednesday in the town of Zugdidi. Local media said the assailant demanded $500,000 in cash. In a statement early Thursday, the Georgian Interior Ministry says the 43 freed
  
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• US approves $1 billion in new arms sales to Taiwan

  21-10-2020 23:45
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has approved the sale of more than a billion dollars worth of advanced weaponry to Taiwan. The move will enrage China and further exacerbate tensions between Washington and Beijing that are already heated over issues such as trade, Tibet, Hong Kong and the South China Sea. The State Department announced Wednesday it had greenlighted the sale of 135 land attack missiles, associated equipment and training to Taiwan to improve its defense capabilitie
  
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• More than 934,000 acres of land have burned in Arizona due to 2,200 fires this year so far

  21-10-2020 23:45
  
  TUCSON - It's no secret that Monsoon didn't show up this year and we have seen the two hottest Arizona months recorded during that same time. Because of that we have seen an uptick in late season fires but we should start to see them slow down in the next couple weeks.The Encinos, Racetrack, Catalina and Ironwood are four fires that have burned in Southern Arizona in just the last few weeks.Tiffany Davila with the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management and she says that the fires wer
  
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• Democrats to boycott Barrett vote at Senate Judiciary

  21-10-2020 23:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are set to boycott voting on Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett at the Senate Judiciary Committee. The panel is set to meet Thursday to recommend Barrett’s nomination to the full Senate. Democrats decry the Republican rush to confirm President Donald Trump’s pick before Election Day. The Senate is planning a rare weekend session to push the nominee toward confirmation on Monday. Boycotting Thursday’s committee hearing won’t st
  
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• Videos unclear on whether cruiser led moped rider to crash

  21-10-2020 23:42
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Police have released two videos showing events before a crash that seriously injured a Black man on a moped being followed by a police cruiser in Providence, Rhode Island. Neither of the videos released Wednesday helped resolve whether the cruiser struck the moped as witnesses have said. Twenty-four-year-old Jhamal Gonsalves was injured Sunday as police responded to reports of hundreds of street-illegal vehicles. Relatives say Gonsalves is in a coma. As many as 700
  
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• Police: 3 killed, 1 badly wounded in Houston club shooting

  21-10-2020 23:42
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities are searching for two men suspected of gunning down three people and wounding a fourth at a Houston nightclub. Police say the shooting happened Tuesday night at the DD Sky Club, where about 30 people had gathered for an open mic night. Police told the Houston Chronicle that two people opened fire after an argument. Officers who responded found three men dead and a fourth person wounded in critical condition. The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission says the nightc
  
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• Correction: Britain-UAE-Assault Allegations story

  21-10-2020 23:42
  
  LONDON (AP) — In a story first published Oct. 18, 2020, about allegations against the tolerance minister of the United Arab Emirates, The Associated Press reported on a statement by Britain’s Metropolitan Police that an allegation of rape was made against the minister. British police has since revised its statement on the matter, saying instead in an email Wednesday that a woman contacted police on July 3 to “report an allegation of attempted rape, digital penetration and false
  
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• Fiat Chrysler hires 4,100 Detroit residents for new plant

  21-10-2020 23:36
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Fiat Chrysler has hired about 4,100 Detroit residents, and most if not all of them will be employed at a new auto plant on the city’s east side. The auto giant is obliged to employ at least 3,850 Detroiters at the Mack assembly plant under a deal with the city to develop the land where the plant is being built. If the remaining 250 workers are not employed at Mack, they could be sent to work at another Fiat Chrysler plant in Detroit or the suburbs. Mayor Mike Duggan sa
  
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• GOP’s Romney, long a Trump critic, voted — but not for Trump

  21-10-2020 23:30
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Mitt Romney says he’s voted in the Nov. 3 election but not for President Donald Trump. However, the Utah senator wouldn’t say Wednesday whom he did vote for. The 2012 GOP presidential nominee is a longtime Trump critic and was the lone Republican to vote to convict Trump on an impeachment charge. He’s also said publicly that Trump is unfit for the presidency. On Wednesday, Romney told CNN that he has voted and that he “did not vote
  
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• Virginia man pleads guilty to cyberstalking Tulsa mayor

  21-10-2020 23:27
  
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Virginia man who sent dozens of harassing emails and phone messages to Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum and his family has pleaded guilty to cyberstalking. U.S. Attorney Trent Shores said Wednesday that 41-year-old Adam Maxwell Donn of Norfolk, Virginia, admitted to sending Bynum and his wife 44 emails and leaving them 14 phone messages in June. The harassment was part of a failed attempt to get Bynum to cancel President Donald Trump’s rally in the
  
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• Mexico Senate kills 109 government disaster, science funds

  21-10-2020 23:20
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party has pushed legislation through the Senate to eliminate 109 semi-independent government trust funds that finance everything from science to movie productions to disaster relief. In a party-line vote Wednesday, the Senate voted to have the government directly administer the money that has gone to the trusts. The lower house already approved the bill and the president is certain to sign it into
  
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• Hurricane Epsilon rapidly strengthens into Category 3 storm

  21-10-2020 23:15
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Epsilon has rapidly intensified into a major hurricane. Forecasters on Wednesday afternoon said the Category 3 storm is likely to miss Bermuda on Thursday, yet its effects may still be felt there, so the island is under a tropical storm warning. With 115 mph winds, Epsilon gained 50 mph in wind speed in just 24 hours, officially qualifying as a rapidly intensifying storm. It is the seventh storm this season to power up this quickly. Large swells generated by Epsilon
  
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• US surgeon general to plead not guilty in Hawaii virus case

  21-10-2020 23:08
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — A lawyer for U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said Wednesday that his client will plead not guilty to illegally entering a Hawaii public park that was closed because of the coronavirus. The criminal complaint against Adams says he and two other men were looking at the view and taking pictures at the shuttered park on Oahu. The judge said the not guilty plea could not be entered until Adams decided if he would waive his right to a jury trial. His lawyer, Michael Green, said
  
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• Census says deadline can be reached with tech, nonstop work

  21-10-2020 23:08
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Census Bureau officials say new technology and working around the clock should allow the statistical agency to crunch numbers from the 2020 census in half the time originally allotted. But officials said Wednesday that if the work isn’t completed by a year-end deadline, the bureau will take the extra time needed to finish it. Advocacy groups are concerned that the Census Bureau is rushing the data-processing phase of the once-a-decade census that determines
  
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• Hurricane Epsilon rapidly strengthens into a Category 3 storm in the Atlantic; Bermuda is under a tropical storm warning

  21-10-2020 23:02
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Epsilon rapidly strengthens into a Category 3 storm in the Atlantic; Bermuda is under a tropical storm warning.The post Hurricane Epsilon rapidly strengthens into a Category 3 storm in the Atlantic; Bermuda is under a tropical storm warning appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Canada avoids snap election after Parliament vote

  21-10-2020 22:59
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government avoided being toppled in a vote after a majority of Parliament members voted against a Conservative motion to create a special anticorruption committee. The Liberal government had declared the motion to be a matter of confidence. Trudeau’s Liberal party won re-election last year but does not have the majority of seats in Parliament and must rely on at least one opposition party to remain in power. The leftist New Democrat party
  
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• The Latest: Wisconsin sees highest 1-day virus death total

  21-10-2020 22:58
  
  MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin has recorded its highest one-day total of new COVID-19 deaths and the first patient was admitted to a field hospital near Milwaukee that opened last week to help hospitals coping with the influx of patients.
  The surge that began in early September showed no signs of slowing with 48 new deaths reported Wednesday and a whopping 43% of those tested coming back as positive.
  There have been 1,681 deaths to date from the coronavirus pandemic while nearly 183,000 people
  
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• Gunman takes hostages at bank in ex-Soviet republic Georgia

  21-10-2020 22:55
  
  TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Authorities in the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia say an armed assailant has taken hostages at a bank. Local media report that up to 19 hostages were held inside and that after hours of negotiations, the assailant left the building with three hostages, releasing the rest. The Georgian Interior Ministry hasn’t said how many people were taken hostage in the western town of Zugdidi or what demands their captor made. Georgia’s national Mtavari TV channel says
  
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• Fed survey finds tepid growth as US economy battles pandemic

  21-10-2020 22:52
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Federal Reserve survey of business conditions around the country has found that the U.S. economy grew at a “slight to modest” pace in September and early October. But many areas of economic activity were still hobbled by the coronavirus pandemic. The Fed report made public Wednesday said that the pace of economic activity varied greatly among sectors. Housing demand showed solid gains, helped by very low mortgage rates, but conditions in commercial real esta
  
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• Remains found in Tulsa search for 1921 race massacre victims

  21-10-2020 22:44
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — At least 10 bodies have been found in an unmarked mass grave during a search at a Tulsa cemetery for the remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Oklahoma state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck says the bodies were found Wednesday in 10 coffins in Oaklawn Cemetery. Stackelbeck says she cannot yet say that the remains are massacre victims, but they were found in an area where funeral home records show victims were buried. The 1921 massacre left an estimated 300
  
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• Brazil’s Bolsonaro rejects coronavirus vaccine from China

  21-10-2020 22:44
  
  SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has overruled his own health minister on the announced purchase of 46 million doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine being tested in Sao Paulo state. The president’s announcement came a day after Health Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello announced the purchase alongside Sao Paulo Gov. João Doria, a foe of Bolsonaro whose state government is participating in the vaccine’s development. The cost of the acquisition was esti
  
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• Giuliani shown in hotel bedroom scene in new ‘Borat’ film

  21-10-2020 22:43
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani is shown in a compromising position in a hotel room with a young actress pretending to be a television journalist in a scene in Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest mockumentary, a sequel to his hit “Borat” film. The scene in a New York hotel room in July — which resulted in Giuliani calling police —is broken up when Baron Cohen, as his fictional journalist character Borat, bursts into the room screaming at Giuliani. Trolling those close to
  
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• Macron says beheaded teacher was victim of stupidity, hate

  21-10-2020 22:40
  
  PARIS (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron has promised that France will not renounce freedoms taught by a schoolteacher beheaded by a radical Islamist last week after showing caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class. At a national memorial in central Paris late Wednesday, Macron praised history teacher Samuel Paty as the “face of the Republic” who “believed in knowledge.” Paty, 47, was murdered on Friday by an 18-year-old of Chechen origin who had become radica
  
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• Whitmer: Michigan at ‘dangerous moment’ as virus cases spike

  21-10-2020 22:36
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is warning that Michigan has more confirmed cases of the coronavirus than ever, noting a sharp increase since the state Supreme Court invalidated her sweeping orders earlier this month. Since the court decision on Oct. 2, the seven-day case average is up to 1,818 — nearly double. The governor says Michigan is at a “dangerous moment.” She pleaded Wednesday for people to wear a mask and socially distance. Meanwhile, a chiropractor
  
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• Official says remains of at least 10 people found in unmarked grave during search for 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims

  21-10-2020 22:35
  
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Official says remains of at least 10 people found in unmarked grave during search for 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims.The post Official says remains of at least 10 people found in unmarked grave during search for 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Pandemic relief faces uncertainty in postelection session

  21-10-2020 22:31
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Negotiations on a COVID-19 relief bill are inching forward, but it’s clear that the window for action before the Nov. 3 election is closing and the issue will be tossed to a postelection lame-duck session of Congress. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke again on Wednesday and continue to signal progress. But President Donald Trump’s chief of staff says Pelosi is slow-walking the talks and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnel
  
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• Gaza nurses protest loss of Israeli permit, layoffs

  21-10-2020 22:20
  
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A group of medics from the Gaza Strip has staged a protest in a public square, saying an Israeli travel ban has led the Jerusalem hospital where they worked for many years to fire them. The seven nurses gathered at a public square in Gaza City on Wednesday, wearing lab coats and holding banners that said: “Firing us is a death sentence on our profession and families.” They directed their anger at both Israel, which restricts the entry of Palestinian
  
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• Report: Kingman aquifer to last longer, a century or more

  21-10-2020 22:15
  
  KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey has told Mohave County and the city of Kingman that the underground water supply will likely last longer than previously thought. The Kingman Daily Miner reported Tuesday that the agency said the Hualapai Valley Basin Aquifer hydrological model is expected to hold for another 100 years or more but still requires mitigation practices. The Arizona Department of Water Resources previously reported in December 2019 that there would be water supp
  
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• Marana Council Pushes Out Town Manager, Replaces Him with Police Chief

  21-10-2020 22:12
  
  The Town of Marana’s mayor and council chose Police Chief Terry Rozema to replace Jamsheed Mehta as town manager in a 6-1 vote during a special council meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 20. …
  
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• Meet Amit Mehta, the judge for Google’s antitrust case

  21-10-2020 22:11
  
  The Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Google has a judge: Obama appointee Amit Mehta, who was assigned the case Wednesday in federal court in Washington. He went to elite U.S. universities, clerked for an appellate court judge and worked for both a D.C. law firm with high-profile clients and as a public defender attorney for low-income clients. As a judge, he’s ruled that lawmakers should get the president’s financial records and sprinkled his music appreciation in
  
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• Stocks slip on Wall Street as virus aid deal remains elusive

  21-10-2020 22:08
  
  Stocks are closing lower on Wall Street as negotiations continue to drag on in Washington over delivering more aid for the economy. The S&P 500 lost 0.2% Wednesday after spending much of the day wobbling between gains and losses. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she’s made progress with the White House on more economic stimulus, and she hopes discussions will continue. Even if they reach a compromise, it may face stiff resistance in the Senate. Stocks of social media companies rose afte
  
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• The Latest: Hawaii cites hundreds in week 1 of tourism plan

  21-10-2020 22:06
  
  HONOLULU — Honolulu police have issued warnings or citations to thousands of people in violation of coronavirus protocols since Hawaii launched a pre-arrival testing program to reopen to tourists.The Honolulu Police Department says officers issued 4,500 warnings and 470 citations for not wearing masks or failing to social distance since the launch of the traveler testing program Thursday.Police say they do not separate visitors and residents on their list of citations and warnings. Officer
  
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• Nigerian forces killed 12 peaceful protesters, Amnesty says

  21-10-2020 22:03
  
  LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Amnesty International says Nigeria’s security forces have fired on two large gatherings of peaceful protesters, killing 12 people who were calling for an end to police brutality. The group says the violence happened Tuesday night. The organization says in a report that at least 56 people have died during two weeks of widespread demonstrations against police violence, including 38 on Tuesday. The #EndSARS protests began as calls for the government to close the po
  
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• Honda, Arizona reach $5 million settlement over air bags

  21-10-2020 21:54
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Honda has agreed to a $5 million settlement with Arizona over allegations it failed to disclose defects in air bags that led to two deaths there in the state. Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced the settlement Wednesday over the faulty airbag systems manufactured by Takata Corp. and used in certain Honda and Acura cars. Under the agreement, roughly $1.7 million will go toward consumer restitution. Another $2.1 million will pay for a gift card program incentivizing owner
  
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• Poland faces restriction upgrade, but no lockdown, PM says

  21-10-2020 21:47
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister has signaled that the whole country faces being placed on the highest restriction level short of a full lockdown, as health authorities registered a record in new confirmed COVID-19 infections. Mateusz Morawiecki said he would like the current “red zones” to be extended nationwide, starting Saturday. That means wearing masks outdoors, ban on gatherings and limits of public transport passengers. Earlier Wednesday Morawiecki spo
  
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• Army: Slain Texas soldier’s family entitled to compensation

  21-10-2020 21:38
  
  KILLEEN, Texas (AP) — U.S. Army officials have announced that the family of a Texas soldier slain at Fort Hood is entitled to benefits because her death happened while she was on duty. A report released Tuesday says 20-year-old Spc. Vanessa Guillén was conducting her assigned duties when a fellow solider killed her in April. The determination gives Guillén’s family access to money to help pay expenses, a life insurance payout and a funeral with full military honors. Gui
  
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• Animals, people rescue each other in heartfelt docuseries

  21-10-2020 21:31
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a new docuseries, a child who uses a walker meets a puppy with its own version of wheels. Inmates find solace in training dogs, and pigs strut their stuff in a “body positivity” celebration. That and more is part of “That Animal Rescue Show,” with its 10 episodes out Oct. 29 on the CBS All Access streaming service. The creators include Oscar-winning documentarian Bill Guttentag and the Oscar-nominated filmmaker Richard Linklater, whose films in
  
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• Woman’s obituary: In lieu of flowers ‘do not vote for Trump’

  21-10-2020 21:28
  
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An obituary for a Minneapolis-area woman who died at age 93 included one specific request for her mourners: Do not vote for Donald Trump. Georgia May Adkins, of Inver Grove Heights, died of a stroke on Sept. 28 at United Hospital in St. Paul. A pair of obituaries published in the St. Paul Pioneer Press included details of how she wanted to be cremated and then honored with an Oct. 16 church service under COVID-19 protocols. And she preferred that her friends and fami
  
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• Giuliani caught in hotel bedroom scene in new ‘Borat’ film

  21-10-2020 21:20
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani is shown with his hand down his pants after flirting with a young actress pretending to be a television journalist in a scene in Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest mockumentary, a sequel to his hit “Borat” film. The scene in a New York hotel room in July — which resulted in Giuliani calling police —is broken up when Baron Cohen, as his fictional journalist character Borat, bursts into the room screaming at Giuliani. Trolling those close t
  
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• Oats: Alabama freshman Tchikou to miss season after surgery

  21-10-2020 21:16
  
  TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama freshman forward Alex Tchikou will miss the upcoming basketball season after suffering a torn right Achilles. Crimson Tide coach Nate Oats said Tchikou had surgery Wednesday in Birmingham and is expected to make a full recovery. The 6-foot-11, 225-pounder was a four-star prospect who several recruiting services ranked as one of the nation’s top 60 recruits. The post Oats: Alabama freshman Tchikou to miss season after surgery appeared first on KVOA
  
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• 5 questions as Trump and Biden prepare for final debate

  21-10-2020 21:16
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden meet on the debate stage for the second and final time Thursday night. The 90-minute prime-time meeting comes just 12 days before Election Day as Trump fights to change the trajectory of the campaign. The president will be armed with dubious new reports of alleged maleficence by Biden’s son that have so far failed to draw much attention beyond conservative media. Trump, meanwhile, will face tough questi
  
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• Natalie Portman releases children’s book of inclusive fables

  21-10-2020 21:15
  
  New York (AP) — Natalie Portman has released a book of popular children’s fables with a friendlier, more gender-inclusive twist. The Oscar winner says “Natalie Portman’s Fables” is “a love letter” to her 9-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter about how she hopes they will see and be in the world. She’s updated “The Three Little Pigs,” “Country Mouse and City Mouse” and “The Tortoise and the Hare” to reflect the t
  
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• Woman who accused President Trump of rape arrives at court for oral arguments

  21-10-2020 21:13
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who says President Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s arrived to court to hear lawyers argue whether Trump can substitute the United States for himself as the defendant in her defamation lawsuit.
  But seconds after E. Jean Carroll walked into the Manhattan federal courthouse Wednesday, a Justice Department lawyer told the judge that the government's lawyer was denied access to the courthouse because he came from Virginia, which had been added to states requiring qua
  
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• Protesters in Colombia decry government pandemic response

  21-10-2020 21:11
  
  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Protesters filled a historic square in Colombia’s capital Wednesday to demonstrate against the government’s handling of a wide range of issues including the economic fallout of the pandemic and implementation of the peace accord. Indigenous leaders, students and union members gathered at the Plaza Bolivar, waving flags and banners decrying the government nearly one year after massive protests rocked the country only to fizzle with little to show by way o
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 30 new COVID-19 cases, no new deaths

  21-10-2020 21:10
  
  WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Navajo Nation health officials report 30 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 but no additional deaths. The latest figures released Tuesday night bring the total number of cases to 10,999 with the known death toll remaining at 574. Tribal health officials said 117,320 people on the vast reservation that covers parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah have been tested for COVID-19 since the pandemic started and 7,397 have recovered. A shelter-in-place order, mask mandate,
  
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• Trump rape accuser arrives to court for oral arguments

  21-10-2020 21:09
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who says President Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s arrived to court to hear lawyers argue whether Trump can substitute the United States for himself as the defendant in her defamation lawsuit. But seconds after E. Jean Carroll walked into the Manhattan federal courthouse Wednesday, a Justice Department lawyer told the judge that the government’s lawyer was denied access to the courthouse because he came from Virginia, which had been added to states requiri
  
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• The Latest: NJ Gov. Murphy, wife test negative for virus

  21-10-2020 21:04
  
  TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and the first lady tested negative for coronavirus on Wednesday, just hours after he abruptly left an event.
  The Democrat was speaking at a workforce development event his office organized with Democratic Rep. Donald Norcross at Camden County College when he learned a recent contact had tested positive.The 63-year-old governor say he has no symptoms and last tested negative on Monday. Murphy spokesperson Mahen Gunaratna says Tammy Murphy also tes
  
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• Unknown group sends Democratic voters intimidating emails

  21-10-2020 20:53
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Democratic voters in at least four battleground states including Florida and Pennsylvania received threatening emails, falsely purporting to be from the neo-fascist group Proud Boys, that warned “we will come after you” if the recipients didn’t vote for President Donald Trump. Security experts say the unknown party behind the operation apparently got the email addresses from state voter registration rolls. The top Homeland Security official, Christopher Kreb
  
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• Ireland focuses on Christmas as it enters new lockdown

  21-10-2020 20:52
  
  DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland is already focused on Christmas. It’s a major national priority. Unless the country can get the COVID-19 epidemic under control, there won’t be much Christmas cheer this year in Galway, Cork or Dublin. With infections on the rise, the government has imposed a tough new lockdown, shutting down non-essential shops, limiting restaurants to takeout service and ordering people to stay within five kilometers (three miles) of their homes for the next six weeks. T
  
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