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• Red coating contaminates SpaceX rockets, delays crew launch

  28-10-2020 23:58
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX’s second astronaut flight is off until mid-November while two rocket engines are replaced. SpaceX and NASA announced Wednesday that red lacquer had dripped into tiny vent holes in the engines during a cleaning process. The clogged holes were discovered after the aborted launch of a GPS satellite last month. SpaceX later found the same problem with two of the nine engines on the rocket that will launch NASA astronauts to the International Space Stati
  
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• Biden shuns easy virus answers, Trump vows to ‘vanquish’ it in final plea to voters

  28-10-2020 23:58
  
  BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Joe Biden is focusing on COVID-19 in the final days of the election campaign, while President Donald Trump is anxious to talk about just about anything else.
  Biden said Wednesday he is “not running on the false promises of being able to end this pandemic by flipping a switch” but will prioritize science if elected.
  He said Trump’s handling of the pandemic is an “insult” to its victims.
  Meanwhile, Trump continued using the campaign's
  
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• Feds issue coverage plan for COVID-19 vaccine and treatments

  28-10-2020 23:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials are issuing insurance coverage rules designed to deliver on the promise that every American will have access to free COVID-19 vaccines when they are approved. The regulations released Wednesday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services also increase what Medicare pays hospitals for COVID-19 treatments. The changes arrive at a time when coronavirus infections are rising in much of the country, signaling a third wave that could eclipse the n
  
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• The Latest: Zeta hammers New Orleans, trees down, outages

  28-10-2020 23:55
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Zeta is hammering New Orleans with high winds, toppling trees, sparking numerous power outages and knocking street lights out at several intersections. The powerful Category 2 hurricane took aim at the Mississippi River port city after making landfall Wednesday afternoon along the south Louisiana coast.  At one New Orleans intersection, a tall tree split in fierce winds, taking down utility lines and sparking a brief but bright orange flash. Video on local
  
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• The Latest: Trump calls ‘Anonymous’ critic a ‘sleazebag’

  28-10-2020 23:41
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  6:35 p.m.
  President Donald Trump says a former administration official who penned a scathing anti-Trump op-ed and book under the pen name “Anonymous” was a “sleazebag.”
  Speaking at a rally in Goodyear, Arizona, soon after the former administration official, Miles Taylor, acknowledged he was the writer, Trump dismissed the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security as &ldqu
  
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• NTSB investigating crash that killed school bus driver, girl

  28-10-2020 23:37
  
  DECATUR, Tenn. (AP) — Federal and state authorities are investigating a crash in eastern Tennessee between a school bus carrying 24 children and a utility vehicle that killed the school bus driver and a 7-year-old girl. Authorities say eight other children were injured when the utility vehicle and the bus collided Tuesday. The Tennessee Highway Patrol said in a preliminary report that the utility vehicle went off the side of the road, overcorrected, and lost control, sending the utility ve
  
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• Social media CEOs rebuff bias claims, vow to defend election

  28-10-2020 23:28
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google rebuffed accusations of anti-conservative bias during testimony to a Senate hearing on Wednesday. The three are under fire from President Donald Trump and his allies, and they promised to aggressively defend their platforms from being used to sow chaos in next week’s election. Lawmakers of both parties are looking to challenge the tech giants’ long-enjoyed bedrock legal protections for online speech. With worries over e
  
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• Lawyer for China exec accuses RCMP of lying about her arrest

  28-10-2020 23:28
  
  VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A lawyer for a senior executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei is accusing a Canadian police officer of lying about why he didn’t arrest her immediately at Vancouver’s airport two years ago. Richard Peck told Constable Winston Yep during cross-examination Wednesday that he does not believe Yep was honest when he told the British Columbia Supreme Court this week why the arrest happened only after Canada Border Services Agency officials questioned
  
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• Hurricane Zeta hits Louisiana with flooding, power outages

  28-10-2020 23:28
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Forecasters say Hurricane Zeta is crashing onshore in southeastern Louisiana. The National Hurricane Center says the center of the Category 2 storm is coming ashore around Terrebone Bay near Cocodrie. Some roads already are underwater, and rain is pelting New Orleans to the north. Zeta has sustained winds of 110 mph and is just shy of being a major, Category 3 hurricane. Heavy rains and rising seawater are possible all along the northern Gulf Coast, and topical storm war
  
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• Pence to visit Tucson Friday on heels of Harris’ campaign stop

  28-10-2020 23:25
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - On the heels of Democratic opponent Kamala Harris' visit the Old Pueblo to campaign for Joe Biden, the Trump Campaign announced that Vice President Mike Pence is coming to town Friday.Originally the vice president was scheduled to hold events in Flagstaff on Thursday and Friday. On Wednesday, the Trump Campaign shared that Pence has added a stop in Tucson on the final day of his campaign trip to the Grand Canyon State.According to officials, Pence will hold "Make America Great Ag
  
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• The Latest: Zeta’s eyewall nears New Orleans with high winds

  28-10-2020 23:22
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Forecasters say the eyewall of powerful Hurricane Zeta is approaching New Orleans with strong winds. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said a life-threatening storm surge is also occurring near the Louisiana coast after Zeta powered ashore Wednesday afternoon. Forecasters are warning those in Zeta’s path not to venture out when the calm eye of the hurricane passes overhead. They issued a statement saying “dangerous winds will return very quickly whe
  
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• Tupperware profits soar as pandemic shut-ins store leftovers

  28-10-2020 23:13
  
  SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Tupperware relied on social gatherings for explosive growth in the mid 20th century. In the 21st century, it is social distancing that is fueling sales. Restaurant pain has turned into Tupperware’s gain with millions of people in a pandemic opening cookbooks again and looking for solutions to leftovers. They’ve found, again in Tupperware, suddenly an “it brand” five decades after what seemed to be its glory days. The company had appeared to
  
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• Country artist Cam confronts hard truths on ‘The Otherside’

  28-10-2020 23:12
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The five-year journey between albums for country singer Cam was an evolution in coming to grips with hard truths about a music industry that had left her a bit bruised but not broken.
  The California-born singer with cinematic influences made an instant impression in 2015 with her dark horse double-platinum ballad “Burning House.” Doors opened for her, like getting a Grammy nomination, invitations to tour and write with British pop star Sam Smith and open
  
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• NTSB release details in crash that killed 7 motorcyclists

  28-10-2020 23:11
  
  The pickup truck driver charged with causing the deaths of seven motorcyclists told authorities he had drug problem, regularly used heroin and cocaine but believed he was not impaired at the time of the crash. The admission by Volodymyr Zhukovskyy was included in a trove of documents released Wednesday by federal investigators related to the the June 21, 2019, crash in Randolph. The National Transportation Safety Board also announced that it will hold a hearing Dec. 1 where it discuss probable c
  
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• Venezuelan president: Key oil refinery attacked; 2 detained

  28-10-2020 23:07
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s president says a large oil refinery suffered a terrorist attack as his government struggles to provide domestic fuel to the crisis-stricken nation. President Nicolás Maduro announced Wednesday in a nationwide address that two foreigners have been detained. Maduro says that on Tuesday a large tower at the Amuay Refinery on Venezuela’s northern Caribbean coast had been toppled. This follows the arrest a month earlier of a U.S. citizen
  
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• Breonna Taylor’s mother wants new prosecutor to probe cops

  28-10-2020 23:06
  
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  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The mother of Breonna Taylor is calling for a new special prosecutor to investigate police actions in her daughter’s death. She and two anonymous grand jurors are speaking out about the Kentucky attorney general’s handling of the case. She is asking the Kentucky Prosecutors Advisory Council to pick a new special prosecutor. Palmer says Kentucky Attorney General Daniel C
  
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• Florida man uses hurricane debris, builds giant pirate ship

  28-10-2020 23:01
  
  GULF BREEZE, Fla. (AP) — When Hurricane Sally knocked down his fence and hurled debris across the Florida Panhandle, John Rebolledo gathered up the hurricane’s forgotten treasures and spent a month turning it into a life-sized pirate ship. Now there’s a  17-foot-long, 10-foot-tall pirate ship in his driveway, complete with a treasure chest, skeletons and a skiff boat just in time for Halloween. Rebolledo built the boat using mostly wood fencing that had fallen down. t&rsqu
  
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• Regulators suspend Missouri nursing home COVID-19 test lab

  28-10-2020 22:54
  
  COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The federal government has closed a coronavirus testing lab in Missouri over concerns about test accuracy. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services earlier this week suspended Gamma Healthcare’s Poplar Bluff license, and a federal judge on Wednesday ruled he won’t step in to keep the lab open. The Poplar Bluff lab tested for coronavirus at around 2,500 nursing homes in 11 states. Those states are Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
  
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• Officials: People who enter US illegally are immediately expelled under temporary COVID-19 laws

  28-10-2020 22:53
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — President Donald Trump’s vast reshaping of U.S. immigration policy may be most widely felt in his undoing of asylum.
  With immigration laws temporarily suspended at the border during the coronavirus pandemic, people who enter the U.S. illegally are immediately expelled without even a piece of paper, generally within two hours and with no chance to plead for protection from persecution.
  Facing no consequences, migrants are more determined to keep trying until they succ
  
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• The Latest: South Dakota sees record virus hospitalizations

  28-10-2020 22:46
  
  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Hospitalizations from COVID-19 in South Dakota reached new heights for the fourth straight day on Wednesday.
  The number of daily new cases also set a record, with 1,270 people testing positive for the virus. The virus has surged in the state and region, sending South Dakota to the nation’s second-worst ranking in new cases per capita over the last two weeks. Johns Hopkins researchers report that one out of roughly every 77 people in the state has tested positive i
  
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• Justices deny fast, new look at Pennsylvania ballot deadline

  28-10-2020 22:45
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it will not grant a quick, pre-election review to a new Republican appeal to exclude Pennsylvania absentee ballots received after Election Day. But the court’s order left open the possibility that the justices could take up and decide after the voting whether a three-day extension to receive and count absentee ballots ordered by the state’s high court was proper. The issue would take on enormous importance if Pennsylvania turns out to be
  
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• Man gets life term for murder of Chicago police commander

  28-10-2020 22:40
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A man convicted of first-degree murder in the 2018 shooting death of a Chicago police commander has been sentenced to life in prison. Shomari Legghette received a mandatory life term for the fatal shooting of 53-year-old Cmdr. Paul Bauer because he was convicted of killing a police officer in the line of duty. Bauer was walking to City Hall on Feb. 13, 2018, when he heard a radio call about a man who was running from officers. He gave chase and caught Legghette, who shot Bau
  
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• The Latest: Zeta hits land just shy of Category 3 hurricane

  28-10-2020 22:38
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Zeta powered ashore just 1 mph shy of a devastating Category 3 storm, gaining in intensity ahead of its south Louisiana landfall. Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach said Wednesday that Zeta’s 110 mph winds would make it the strongest landfalling hurricane in the continental United States this late in the calendar since the 1899 Halloween Hurricane struck South Carolina. At 4 p.m. Wednesday, the core of the fierce storm was cente
  
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• Justice Department ramps up inquiry into NY care home deaths

  28-10-2020 22:36
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department is vastly expanding its inquiry into whether New York is undercounting its coronavirus nursing home deaths. It is demanding detailed data on deaths of residents from hundreds of private facilities, regardless of whether they died in the home or in a hospital.  The demand ratchets up pressure on Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo after months of bipartisan criticism that the state’s official tally of 6,722 dead at long-term care facilities is like
  
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• Spain: judge probes Catalan separatism links with Russia

  28-10-2020 22:23
  
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A judge in Barcelona is probing possible links between promoters of Catalonia’s 2017 attempt to declare independence from the rest of Spain with an alleged misinformation campaign that Spanish investigators link to Russia. Police on Wednesday in northeastern Spain arrested 21 people with strong connections to the Catalan separatist movement on suspicion of corruption and promoting public disorder. The investigating judge argued that there is enough preliminary
  
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• Hurricane Zeta crashes onshore in storm-weary Louisiana

  28-10-2020 22:21
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Forecasters say Hurricane Zeta is crashing onshore in southeastern Louisiana. The National Hurricane Center says the center of the Category 2 storm is coming ashore around Terrebone Bay near Cocodrie. Some roads already are underwater, and rain is pelting New Orleans to the north. Zeta has sustained winds of 110 mph and is just shy of being a major, Category 3 hurricane. Heavy rains and rising seawater are possible all along the northern Gulf Coast, and topical storm war
  
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• The Latest: Kansas reports about 3,400 new cases over 2 days

  28-10-2020 22:18
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas doesn’t appear to be containing the coronavirus, reporting nearly 3,400 new cases over just two days.
  The state health department’s data showed that the rolling average for new confirmed and probable coronavirus cases was 1,084 a day for the seven days ending Wednesday. That’s 33% higher than the previous record for the seven-day rolling average of 815 for the seven days ending Monday.
  The health department said it switched this weekend to a new, aut
  
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• Arrest made in 2008 kidnapping of journalists in Afghanistan

  28-10-2020 22:16
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — An Afghan man has been brought to the United States to face charges in the 2008 gunpoint kidnapping of a journalist for The New York Times and two other men in Afghanistan. The charges against Haji Najibullah were in a six-count indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday. Federal authorities said in a news release that Najibullah had been brought from Ukraine to face charges including conspiracy and kidnapping. Authorities did not identify the kidnapping victi
  
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• Lawsuit says census takers were pressured to falsify data

  28-10-2020 22:15
  
  A revised lawsuit says the U.S. Census Bureau was able to claim it had reached 99.9% of households because census takers were pressured to falsify data in order to close cases. The amended lawsuit was filed Tuesday by a coalition of advocacy groups and local governments. It says 2020 census takers sometimes guessed the number of people living in a household or lied that residents had refused to answer questions. The lawsuit argues the disregard for accuracy was done to end the count early so the
  
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• Cubans fret as US sanctions threaten Western Union closures

  28-10-2020 22:14
  
  HAVANA (AP) — More than 400 Western Union offices that Cubans heavily rely on for remittances sent by family abroad are in danger of closing amid a growing number of sanctions the U.S. government has placed on the island.Cuba’s government said all 407 offices could close by late November, a move that potentially could affect millions of people who depend on money relatives send to help pay for daily necessities if no alternative is found.The post Cubans fret as US sanctions threaten
  
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• The Latest: Powerful Hurricane Zeta makes Louisiana landfall

  28-10-2020 22:12
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Zeta has crashed ashore in storm-weary Louisiana as a powerful Category 2 storm. Zeta’s landfall on Wednesday afternooon struck the latest blow of an extraordinarily busy Atlantic tropical storm season to a stretch of the U.S. Gulf Coast. The Miami-based hurricane center says a hurricane hunter aircraft confirmed at 4 p.m. Wednesday that the menacing storm had made landfall near Cocodrie, Louisiana.  The fast-moving
  
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• New program allows soldiers to innovate from the bottom up

  28-10-2020 22:12
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A new competition launched by the U.S. Army hopes to harvest innovative ideas from the bottom up. The 18th Airborne Corps announced Maj. Evan Adams as the winner of their inaugural Dragon Innovation Challenge on Wednesday. He presented a plan for an mobile app that will change the way the Army manages training ranges. The software the Army now uses to manage ranges is more than a decade old. Future rounds of the competition plan to tackle various shortcomings across
  
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• The Latest: Trump campaign says ‘Anonymous’ reveal is lame

  28-10-2020 22:07
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  5:05 p.m.
  A spokesperson for President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign says the revelation that Miles Taylor is “Anonymous” is the “least impressive, lamest political ‘reveal’ of all time.”
  Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, revealed himself Wednesday to be the senior White House administration official known as “Anonymou
  
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• Category 2 Hurricane Zeta crashes ashore in storm-weary Louisiana, dealing new blow in busy Atlantic hurricane season.

  28-10-2020 22:05
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Category 2 Hurricane Zeta crashes ashore in storm-weary Louisiana, dealing new blow in busy Atlantic hurricane season.The post Category 2 Hurricane Zeta crashes ashore in storm-weary Louisiana, dealing new blow in busy Atlantic hurricane season. appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Whitmer, Benson defend election integrity amid Trump attacks

  28-10-2020 21:56
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s Democratic governor and top elections official are defending the integrity of the election amid continued attacks from President Donald Trump. They say results may take longer in close contests due to a surge in absentee voting in the battleground state but every valid ballot will be counted. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer encouraged people to take advantage of their right to cast an absentee ballot for any reason to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavi
  
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• S&P 500 sinks 3.5% as surging virus cases lead to shutdowns

  28-10-2020 21:48
  
  The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 943 points Wednesday as surging coronavirus cases in the Europe resulted in more lockdowns there, threatening more pain for the economy. Cases are also surging in the U.S. The S&P 500 dropped 3.5%, its third straight loss. The index has now given up 5.6% so far this week and is on track for its biggest weekly fall since March, when markets were in a downward spiral. Crude oil prices fell sharply as investors anticipated that demand for energy will wea
  
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• Rising infections complicate rules for New York-area travel

  28-10-2020 21:47
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Questions have arisen about the usefulness of travel restrictions like those agreed on by New York, Connecticut and New Jersey. The latter two states recently surpassed their own threshold to require travelers to quarantine. But all three have agreed to not enforce their travel rules against one another. Each state also has exempted certain neighboring states that qualify for the restrictions. Enforcement has been lax and uneven. And the infection rates used by the s
  
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• Lawsuit planned over hunting, fishing at US wildlife refuges

  28-10-2020 21:47
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An environmental group says the Trump administration is violating the Endangered Species Act by expanding hunting and fishing by 3,600 square miles on the national wildlife refuge system and national fish hatchery system. The Center for Biological Diversity on Tuesday filed a notice of its intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages the nation’s 550 national wildlife refuges. The formal notice is a precursor to a lawsuit, giving the agency 60 d
  
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• France, Germany impose new lockdowns to curb virus spread

  28-10-2020 21:44
  
  BERLIN (AP) — France has announced a full nationwide lockdown for the second time this year and German officials imposed a partial four-week lockdown as governments across Europe sought to stop a fast-rising tide of coronavirus cases. The World Health Organization says the European region accounted for almost half of the 2.8 million new coronavirus cases reported globally last week. The U.N. health agency said virus-related deaths were also on the rise in Europe, with about a 35% spike sin
  
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• Montana judge grants petition to change offensive lake name

  28-10-2020 21:35
  
  KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — A Montana judge has granted a petition to re-name a small lake near Whitefish because its name includes an offensive term referring to a Black person. District Judge Dan Wilson on Tuesday approved the petition to change the name of “Lost Coon Lake” to “Lost Loon Lake.” The city of Whitefish filed the petition in August on behalf of residents who live around the lake. It’s not clear when the lake was given its current name. Residents hav
  
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• The Latest: Zeta just shy of reaching Category 3 status

  28-10-2020 21:31
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Zeta is just short of being considered a major hurricane as it speeds toward storm-weary Louisiana with New Orleans squarely in its path. Forecasters say the storm is estimated to make landfall in southeast Louisiana on Wednesday afternoon. In a 3 p.m. update, the U.S. National Hurricane Center says the storm has top sustained winds of 110 mph, just 1 mph shy of becoming a powerful Category 3 storm. Zeta is located about 60 miles southwest of Grand Isle, Louisi
  
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• In Florida’s Old South, a new political battleground emerges

  28-10-2020 21:31
  
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The last time Florida’s Duval County voted for a Democratic presidential contender, it was 1976 and the candidate was Jimmy Carter. Now it’s Joe Biden who’s hoping to break through, while President Donald Trump defends once solidly Republican turf. As a sign of the region’s importance, Republicans and Democrats have invested heavily to woo voters in  Jacksonville, which is one of Florida’s largest metropolitan areas. Barack Obama
  
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• Trump Got What He Wanted at the Border. Would Biden Undo It?

  28-10-2020 21:30
  
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• The Latest: Trump admires roaring jet flying by Ariz. rally

  28-10-2020 21:29
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  4:25 p.m.
  President Donald Trump paused a campaign speech in the battleground state of Arizona to admire what he identified as a fighter jet flying by.
  Trump said Wednesday as the jet roared by his rally in Bullhead City: “I love that sound.”
  Trump, who identified the jet as an F-35, went back to his remarks briefly before the pilot offered a nifty maneuver that caught both Trump’s and the crowd&
  
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• Judge approves agreement to end dispute over threatened owl

  28-10-2020 21:26
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A U.S. judge approved an agreement between environmentalists and federal managers that will clear the way for both forest restoration efforts and logging to resume in the Southwest. The judge’s order was filed Wednesday, a day after the parties announced they had reached the resolution. The court had limited timber activities and restoration projects on national forest lands in New Mexico and Arizona last year pending the outcome of a battle over the threaten
  
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• Diane di Prima, Beat poet and activist, dead at 86

  28-10-2020 21:25
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Diane di Prima, a poet, activist and teacher who was one of the last surviving members of the Beats and one of the few women writers in the Beat movement, has died at age 86. Di Prima’s many works included her multi-part poem “Loba,” referred to at times as a feminist counterpart to Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl!” and her fictionalized and explicit “Memoirs of a Beatnik.” During The Band’s farewell concert in 1976 at San Franci
  
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• Man gets 4 years in prison in plot to bribe Russian official

  28-10-2020 21:23
  
  COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — A Maryland businessman has been sentenced to four years in prison for his conviction on charges he plotted to pay a Russian official more than $1.5 million in bribes to get lucrative contracts for transporting uranium. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang on Wednesday ordered 57-year-old Mark Lambert to report to prison in February. After a three-week trial last November, a jury convicted Lambert of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.. Lambert’s compa
  
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• Barrett confirmation rises as issue in Kentucky Senate race

  28-10-2020 21:22
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is taking a victory lap in his home state of Kentucky for shepherding Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court. But his Democratic challenger questioned his priorities Wednesday. Opponent Amy McGrath says the Republican Senate leader should have done more to deliver more coronavirus aid to hurting Kentuckians. While campaigning Wednesday, McConnell played up his alliance with President Donald Trump in putting conservatives on th
  
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• Pandemic hasn’t stopped Tucson’s gala circuit

  28-10-2020 21:16
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - The ballroom is closed due to COVID-19. But that has not stopped some of Tucson’s non-profit organizations from moving forward with their annual fund-raising events. In this Pandemic, the Gala has gone virtual like pretty much everything else. El Rio Foundation and Children’s Museum Tucson are just two organizations that took their fund-raising live on social media in October. El Rio Foundation held a Facebook Live production for their Noche d
  
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• S&P 500 sinks 3.5% as surging virus cases threaten shutdowns

  28-10-2020 21:13
  
  The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 943 points Wednesday as surging coronavirus cases in the U.S. and Europe threaten more business shutdowns and pain for the economy. The S&P 500 dropped 3.5%, its third straight loss. The index has now given up 5.6% so far this week and is on track for its biggest weekly fall since March, when markets were in a downward spiral. European markets also sank. Crude oil prices fell sharply as investors anticipated that demand for energy will weaken along wi
  
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