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• US priest who founded Knights of Columbus is beatified

  31-10-2020 23:28
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The late Connecticut priest who founded the Knights of Columbus has moved a step closer to possible sainthood. The Rev. Michael McGivney was beatified Saturday, as authorized by Pope Francis. The celebration at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford included the reading of a letter from Francis and the unveiling of a tapestry featuring McGivney’s portrait. Francis in May approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of McGivney, which is required to be bea
  
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• Fall conditions will last through the next week

  31-10-2020 23:23
  
  TUCSON - Fall is here! We have afternoon temperatures topping out in the upper 80's, low temperatures in the 60's and consistent sunny and dry weather.
  A few passing clouds will be possible over the next 5-6 days , but no rain is expected during the work week.Another cold front will reach Southern Arizona next weekend bringing us a solid rain chance.Rain chances will start up in the morning, but our best chance of rain will come in the mid afternoon. It is still early, but it appears that a
  
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• The Latest: Stevie Wonder back in home state for Biden

  31-10-2020 23:06
  
  BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  6:00 p.m.Stevie Wonder is back in his home state of Michigan to get out the vote for Joe Biden.s
  “The only way we’re gonna win this fight, a fight against injustice, is by voting,” he told a crowd gathered at a drive-in rally in Detroit Saturday. “We must vote justice in and injustice out.”
  Wonder, who is from Saginaw, Michigan, also joked about President Donald Trump&rsq
  
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• The Latest: Coronavirus leaves its mark on Halloween

  31-10-2020 22:49
  
  Ghosts, skeletons, princesses and black cats roamed the streets as usual this Halloween, but they kept their distance, wore face coverings and carried hand sanitizer in their quest for treats.Like with everything else this year, the pandemic also left its mark on Halloween. Parades, parties and haunted houses were canceled due to bans on large gatherings and concerns that spooky celebrations could spread the coronavirus.But across the U.S., parents and costumed kids found ways to preserve the es
  
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• Gospel star Bishop Rance Allen dead at 71

  31-10-2020 22:31
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Gospel star Rance Allen, whose Rance Allen Group drew upon contemporary sounds for such 1970s hits as “Ain’t No Need of Crying” and “I Belong to You” and anticipated such crossover gospel performers as the Winans and Amy Grant, has died at age 71. Allen died early Saturday while recovering from a “medical procedure” at Heartland ProMedica in Sylvania, Ohio. Allen was a longtime Toledo, Ohio resident and most recently bishop for Chur
  
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• Halloween in the pandemic: Costumes and candy, at a distance

  31-10-2020 22:14
  
  Halloween parades, parties and haunted houses were cancelled as the coronavirus pandemic left its mark on the holiday and its traditions this year. But parents across the U.S. found ways to preserve the essence of the spooky and sweet holiday. Some took their kids trick-or-treating with lots of hand sanitizer and social distancing, while neighbors rigged up remote treat-delivery devices or left individually wrapped bags of candy at the end of driveways in lieu of germy candy bowls. Halloween com
  
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• Tropical depression forms in Caribbean in busy storm season

  31-10-2020 22:11
  
  MIAMI (AP) — A tropical depression has formed in the central Caribbean Sea and forecasters say it is expected to become a hurricane in the coming days as it approaches Central America. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Tropical Depression 29 emerged Saturday afternoon about 315 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica. The Miami-based center said the storm system is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane in a couple of days as it approaches Nicaragua and Honduras. Forecasters s
  
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• Contenders to lead Merkel’s party seek January decision

  31-10-2020 22:08
  
  BERLIN (AP) — An official with German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party says the three main candidates to become the Christian Democratic Union’s next leader have agreed the decision should be made in mid-January. Leading contenders have been scrambling to end an increasingly bitter dispute over when the choice should be made. The center-right Christian Democratic Union has been in leadership limbo since current chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer announced in February that sh
  
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• New Orleans police identify officer shot in French Quarter

  31-10-2020 22:03
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Police Department has identified the police officer shot while patrolling the city’s historic French Quarter. In an email Saturday, the department confirmed that Officer Trevor Abney was struck by gunfire Friday by an individual traveling as a passenger in a pedicab. Abney was shot below the eye in the left cheek and the bullet lodged in his skull. He was listed in serious but stable condition Friday. The department did not release an update Saturda
  
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• England to enter new lockdown; UK virus cases pass 1 million

  31-10-2020 21:46
  
  LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that the government is putting all of England under a monthlong lockdown next week after being warned that a resurgent coronavirus outbreak will overwhelm hospitals in weeks without tough action. Johnson said in a televised news conference night that the new measures will begin Thursday and last until Dec. 2. Non-essential shops must close and people will only be able to leave home for a short list of reasons. Unlike during t
  
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• The Latest: Biden and Obama stop to thank young canvassers

  31-10-2020 21:36
  
  BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  3:30 p.m.
  Joe Biden and Barack Obama are thanking a group of young canvassers in Michigan and encouraging them to stay involved in politics after the election.
  The Democrats made a surprise stop Saturday at a canvass kickoff in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, as they drove from a campaign event in Flint to a later one in Detroit. About three dozen volunteers, most of them young people, had gathered in soc
  
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• North Carolina voter rally ends with pepper spray, arrests

  31-10-2020 21:33
  
  GRAHAM, N.C. (AP) — A rally to promote voting in swing state North Carolina on Saturday ended with police using pepper spray on some participants and making several arrests. News outlets report that multiple people were arrested Saturday outside Alamance County’s courthouse and police used pepper spray to disperse the crowd. The Raleigh News & Observer reported that Alamance County sheriff’s deputies began dismantling a sound system and telling the crowd to disperse as peop
  
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• EXPLAINER: Senate majority outcome may take weeks or more

  31-10-2020 21:32
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Thirty-five U.S. Senate seats are on the ballot and will determine which party controls the chamber for the next two years. But due to election law quirks in Georgia and Louisiana, where a total of three seats are up for grabs, it is possible that the fate of the current 53-47 Republican majority will remain unknown for weeks to come. Both states require Senate candidates to capture over 50 percent of the vote in order to win outright on Nov. 3. If not, the top two vote-g
  
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• Obama criticizes Trump in scathing, personal terms

  31-10-2020 21:30
  
  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Former President Barack Obama is hitting President Donald Trump right where he thinks it’ll hurt most: His ego. Campaigning in Flint, Michigan, for Joe Biden, Obama painted Trump as insecure and self-absorbed, describing him as a failed president who cares more about himself than the country. Obama said the president is “jealous of COVID’s media coverage” and mocked what he called Trump’s “obsession with crowd size.” Obama also
  
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• EXPLAINER: Election unprecedented some ways, in others not

  31-10-2020 21:29
  
  The election of 2020 has been called many things: extraordinary, bizarre, unprecedented. It’s all true, in some ways, though the election is still being held on the first Tuesday of November, and a Democrat or a Republican will win it. The differences start with a couple of future trivia answers. This is the first time a Black woman has been nominated by a major party. It’s the first time both presidential nominees have been in their 70s. And then there are the many ripples of an ele
  
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• EXPLAINER: Calling a race is tricky: How AP does it

  31-10-2020 21:28
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In the 2020 U.S. general election, The Associated Press will declare winners in more than 7,000 races – starting with the White House and reaching down the ballot to every seat in every state legislature. To do so, AP uses regional stringers who collect votes at a local level, while other AP journalists gather results from state or county websites, as well as via electronic data feeds from states. Calling a race for one candidate or another depends on a complex form
  
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• EXPLAINER: US vote is 51 elections, one in each state and DC

  31-10-2020 21:26
  
  A major misconception about the vote for U.S. president is that it is a national election. Instead, it consists of 51 elections — one in each state and in the District of Columbia. And that’s more than a technical difference. The states conduct all elections and decide who is eligible to vote, beyond the bare requirements of being 18 years old and a citizen, set by the U.S. Constitution. For example, convicted felons can vote in some states, but not in others. And the national vote t
  
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• EXPLAINER: Pandemic to factor into inauguration planning

  31-10-2020 21:25
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Every four years at noon on Jan. 20, whoever is elected president takes the oath of office for a four-year term during a U.S. Capitol ceremony that includes a luncheon, followed by a parade and the president and first lady dancing at the balls. This year’s program will also include the coronavirus pandemic, though it’s too soon to know how the outbreak will affect the scope of the festivities. Cases and hospitalizations for the disease the virus causes current
  
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• EXPLAINER: They lost the popular vote but won the elections

  31-10-2020 21:24
  
  Five times in U.S. history, candidates have lost the popular vote but won the presidency — most recently in 2016. Could Donald Trump be the first to do it twice? A look at the previous instances in which the person who got the most votes didn’t win the nation’s highest office.The post EXPLAINER: They lost the popular vote but won the elections appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• England to enter new lockdown as UK virus cases pass million

  31-10-2020 21:06
  
  LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that the government is putting all of England under a monthlong lockdown next week after being warned that a resurgent coronavirus outbreak will overwhelm hospitals in weeks without tough action. Johnson said in a televised news conference night that the new measures will begin Thursday and last until Dec. 2. Non-essential shops must close and people will only be able to leave home for a short list of reasons. Unlike during t
  
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• Thousands protest in Jerusalem against Israeli PM

  31-10-2020 20:46
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Israelis have protested in Jerusalem as part of the latest weekly demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his handling of the coronavirus crisis and the corruption charges he faces. Protesters waved Israeli and pink flags that have become a symbol of the protest movement through Jerusalem toward a square near Netanyahu’s official residence. Smaller demonstrations were taking place elsewhere across the country on Saturdays. The protesters
  
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• Sean Connery, a lion of cinema whose roar went beyond Bond

  31-10-2020 20:46
  
  To glimpse Sean Connery’s magnetism, you might turn to a photograph of him in a tailored suit, leaning against an Aston Martin. You’d probably get more of his menacing charisma by pulling up the “Chicago way” scene from “The Untouchables.” It might be enough simply to say: The king is dead. As a lion of movies for half a century, Connery’s talent was manifest. He was famously cast as James Bond without a screen test. And from then on, in even the lesser
  
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• The Latest: Britain imposes monthlong lockdown to curb virus

  31-10-2020 20:34
  
  LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced England will start a monthlong lockdown next week.
  Johnson says the new measures will begin Thursday and last until Dec. 2. Non-essential shops must close and people can only leave home for a short list of reasons.Unlike the U.K.’s first lockdown, schools, universities and manufacturing businesses will stay open.The U.K. reported more than 21,900 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, bringing the country’s total to more than
  
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• Orthodox priest shot at church in France, motive unknown

  31-10-2020 20:34
  
  LYON, France (AP) — French police say a Greek Orthodox priest has been shot while closing his church in the city of Lyon, and authorities are hunting for the assailant. A police official says the priest was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries after being shot in the abdomen with a hunting rifle on Saturday. A possible suspect has been arrested. The reason for the shooting was unclear. It happened two days after an Islamic extremist knife attack at a Catholic church in
  
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• Obama: Trump failed to take pandemic, presidency seriously

  31-10-2020 20:26
  
  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Barack Obama is campaigning in Michigan with Joe Biden, and he calls his former vice president his “brother.” Obama also is accusing Donald Trump of failing to take the coronavirus pandemic and the presidency seriously. Democrats are leaning on America’s first Black president to energize Black voters in battleground Michigan on the final weekend of the 2020 campaign. Obama and Biden held drive-in rallies in Flint and Detroit. They’re two predomin
  
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• England faces new lockdown as UK virus cases pass 1 million

  31-10-2020 20:16
  
  LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that the government is putting all of England under a monthlong lockdown next week after being warned that a resurgent coronavirus outbreak will overwhelm hospitals in weeks without tough action. Johnson said in a televised news conference night that the new measures will begin Thursday and last until Dec. 2. Non-essential shops must close and people will only be able to leave home for a short list of reasons. Unlike during t
  
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• Phoenix police: 3 teens shot, wounded at party at warehouse

  31-10-2020 20:14
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police are trying to piece together the circumstances of an early morning incident in which three teens showed up at hospitals after being shot during a fight at a party at a vacant warehouse. Sgt. Tommy Thompson says police were called by two hospitals Saturday regarding a 17-year-old girl, a 17-year-old boy and an 18-year-old man who had been shot. Thompson said the 17-year-old boy’s injuries were described as life-threatening and the other two teens had less
  
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• British prime minister says England will enter a monthlong lockdown on Thursday to curb a surging coronavirus outbreak

  31-10-2020 20:06
  
  LONDON (AP) — British prime minister says England will enter a monthlong lockdown on Thursday to curb a surging coronavirus outbreak.The post British prime minister says England will enter a monthlong lockdown on Thursday to curb a surging coronavirus outbreak appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Judge orders Postal Service to take extraordinary measures

  31-10-2020 20:05
  
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Postal Service to take “extraordinary measures” to deliver ballots in time to be counted in Wisconsin and around Detroit, including using a priority mail service. Chief U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian in Yakima, Washington, issued the order on Friday after being presented with data showing on-time delivery of ballots sent by voters were too slow in the battleground states of Michigan and Wisconsin. Washington state Att
  
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• The Latest: Obama blasts Trump as egotistical, incompetent

  31-10-2020 20:04
  
  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  1:50 p.m.
  Barack Obama blasted President Donald Trump as egotistical and incompetent during a campaign event in Flint, Michigan.
  The former president spoke Saturday at a drive-in rally at his first joint campaign event with Joe Biden. Obama told the crowd that Trump “cares about feeding his ego” while Biden “cares about keeping you and your families safe.”
  Wearing a black windbreaker but
  
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• Dutch government halts KLM bailout amid standoff over terms

  31-10-2020 20:04
  
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The finance minister of the Netherlands says the government will halt its multibillion euro coronavirus bailout to national carrier KLM amid a standoff with a pilot’s union about terms of the rescue package. The dispute, if not resolved, could have dire consequences for KLM, which employs some 30,000 people. The company announced Friday that it recorded a loss of $273 million in the third quarter as a result of the aviation slump caused by the coronaviru
  
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• The Latest: Obama blasts Trump as egotistical, incompetant

  31-10-2020 19:54
  
  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  1:50 p.m.
  Barack Obama blasted President Donald Trump as egotistical and incompetent during a campaign event in Flint, Michigan.
  The former president spoke Saturday at a drive-in rally at his first joint campaign event with Joe Biden. Obama told the crowd that Trump “cares about feeding his ego” while Biden “cares about keeping you and your families safe.”
  Wearing a black windbreaker but
  
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• Teen told police where to find gun used in Kenosha shootings

  31-10-2020 19:47
  
  ANTIOCH, Illinois (AP) — Police records show a 17-year-old accused of fatally shooting two demonstrators in Wisconsin told officers at his local police station in Illinois where to find an assault-style rifle he said he had just used to shoot several people. The records say Kyle Rittenhouse was visibly upset as he surrendered to police in Antioch on Aug. 26. He is accused of killing two people and injuring a third during unrest in Kenosha following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Bla
  
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• Hawaii inmate dies at Arizona prison with COVID-19 outbreak

  31-10-2020 19:43
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii inmate has died at a privately owned prison in Arizona that has experienced an outbreak of the coronavirus. Hawaii Department of Public Safety officials say a 61-year-old man was found unresponsive in his bed at the Saguaro Correctional Center on Thursday and was pronounced dead. Officials say the cause of death for the 61-year-old man has not yet been determined and his name was not immediately released. KGMB-TV reports the prison has had 65 Hawaii prisoners test
  
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• The Latest: Italy adds record 31,758 daily coronavirus cases

  31-10-2020 19:41
  
  ROME — Italy added a record 31,758 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours and doubled the deaths to nearly 300 on Saturday.The Health Ministry says approximately one of every seven people receiving swab tests has tested positive in recent days.Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte is considering more stringent virus measures. Demonstrators took to the streets of Rome on Saturday to protest recent measures.Italy has nearly 680,000 confirmed cases and 38,618 deaths, the second-highest deaths in Eur
  
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• Abortion rights protest held for 10th day in Poland

  31-10-2020 19:36
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Demonstrators held anti-government protests across Poland for the 10th straight day in response to the tightening of one of Europe’s strictest abortion laws. The protests on Saturday were smaller than in previous days, but they showed the determination and discontent of thousands of Poles after five years under the right-wing government of the ruling Law and Justice party. In Warsaw, a crowd gathered near the house of party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski to watch a s
  
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• The Latest: First lady defends president’s handling of virus

  31-10-2020 19:13
  
  WEST BEND, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  1:10 p.m.
  Melania Trump is defending the president’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and criticizing Democrat Joe Biden for his dire warnings about the crisis.
  The first lady says in prepared remarks to a crowd in Wisconsin that the Trump administration has “worked tirelessly” on behalf of Americans during the crisis. She’s accusing congressional Democrats of being obstacles to fu
  
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• Georgia’s ruling party claims victory in parliamentary vote

  31-10-2020 19:10
  
  TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Voters in Georgia have cast ballots in a parliamentary election hotly contested between the governing party founded by a billionaire and an alliance around an ex-president who has spent years in self-imposed exile. After the polls closed, billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili quickly claimed victory for the ruling party, but it wasn’t immediately clear if it won enough votes to stay at the helm. Former President Mikhail Saakashvili charged that a strong performance
  
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• Death toll reaches 39 in quake that hit Turkey, Greek island

  31-10-2020 18:53
  
  IZMIR, Turkey (AP) — Rescue workers have pulled three young children and their mother alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in western Turkey some 23 hours after a powerful earthquake in the Aegean Sea killed at least 39 people and injured more than 800 others. One of the children died soon after being rescued, while a fourth child was still trapped. The Friday quake that struck Turkey’s Aegean coast and north of the Greek island of Samos toppled buildings in Turkey’s t
  
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• Ivory Coast opposition asserts 12 dead in election violence

  31-10-2020 18:43
  
  ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast’s opposition asserts that at least a dozen people have died in clashes during the country’s presidential election. The main opposition parties have boycotted the vote as incumbent leader Alassane Ouattara seeks a controversial third term. More than 20 people died amid clashes ahead of the vote, prompting the United Nations and human rights groups to call for calm. The election is taking place a decade after a post-electoral crisis left mo
  
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• Arizona sees biggest rise in virus cases, deaths in months

  31-10-2020 18:43
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s coronavirus outbreak has worsened as the state reported about 1,900 new cases and 45 deaths, the biggest spikes in months. The rise in the number of confirmed infections Saturday is the largest single-day increase since Aug. 1, and the deaths are the most reported in one day since Sept. 3. The state was a national COVID-19 hot spot in June and July. Infections and related hospitalizations declined before beginning to gradually increase again in September. Hos
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trump baselessly cites fraud in virus toll

  31-10-2020 18:38
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The actual crisis of the coronavirus pandemic and a manufactured crisis over voting fraud featured heavily in President Donald Trump’s misstatements during the 2020 campaign’s final week. Democrat Joe Biden went astray on trade as he assailed the president’s record on China.
  Straining to make the pandemic look less dire than it is, Trump baselessly alleged that the death count is inflated by instances of doctors falsifying the cause of death. He produced
  
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• The Latest: Biden to campaign alongside Obama for 1st time

  31-10-2020 18:35
  
  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  12:30 p.m.
  Joe Biden is hitting the campaign trail with his old boss for the first time with a pair of events in Michigan.
  Former President Barack Obama will join Biden Saturday for drive-in rallies in Flint and Detroit. While Obama has been active on the trail for Biden in recent weeks, this will mark their first day of joint campaigning.
  Michigan remains a top target for Biden as he seeks to rebuild the &ldquo
  
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• Thousands mourn death of Montenegro bishop amid virus fears

  31-10-2020 18:31
  
  PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Thousands of people have poured into the streets in Montenegro despite soaring coronavirus infections to mourn the death of the top Serbian Orthodox Church bishop in the country. Huge crowds gathered around the main church in the capital where the body of Bishop Amfilohije was brought in an open casket ahead of Sunday’s funeral. Crowds outside the church did not keep anti-virus distance and not all were wearing face masks. Amfilohije died Friday after con
  
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• 2 officials close to Turkish leader test positive for virus

  31-10-2020 18:25
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Two top Turkish officials who work closely with Turkey’s president say they have tested positive for the coronavirus. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman tweeted Saturday that he had light COVID-19 symptoms and was nearing the end of treatment. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said he, his wife and daughter all tested positive after feeling unwell on Monday. He says they are being treated in a hospital doing a bit better. Soylu was criticized in April for
  
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• Death toll reaches 38 in quake that hit Turkey, Greek island

  31-10-2020 18:24
  
  IZMIR, Turkey (AP) — Rescue workers have pulled three young children and their mother alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in western Turkey some 23 hours after a powerful earthquake in the Aegean Sea killed at least 38 people and injured more than 800 others. One of the children died soon after being rescued, while a fourth child was still trapped. The Friday quake that struck Turkey’s Aegean coast and north of the Greek island of Samos toppled buildings in Turkey’s t
  
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• The Latest: Trump says nation is at crossroads with election

  31-10-2020 18:23
  
  NEWTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  12:20 p.m.
  President Donald Trump says the nation is at a crossroads as Election Day approaches.
  He spoke Saturday near the site where George Washington had his headquarters before he crossed the Delaware River. Trump said this election has the potential to be a similarly momentous event.
  In three days, the president said, “this is the state that will save the American dream.” He predicted victory in
  
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• UK’s Johnson to hold news conference; new lockdown expected

  31-10-2020 18:18
  
  LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to hold a news conference alongside his top scientific advisers amid anticipation of him announcing a new national lockdown for England to stem a resurgence of the coronavirus.The U.K. reported more than 21,900 new confirmed cases on Saturday, bringing the country’s total since the start of the pandemic to over 1 million. Scientists have warned that COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths could soon surpass the levels seen at the
  
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• Rivals both claim victory in Georgia’s hotly contested vote

  31-10-2020 18:11
  
  TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Voters in Georgia have cast ballots in a parliamentary election hotly contested between the governing party founded by a billionaire and an alliance around the country’s ex-president who has spent years in self-imposed exile. After the polls closed, both the billionaire and the former leader quickly claimed victory, setting stage for more political turmoil in the ex-Soviet nation on the Black Sea. Billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Georgian Dream Party ha
  
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• The Latest: Britain reaches more than 1 million virus cases

  31-10-2020 17:54
  
  LONDON — Britain has recorded more than 1 million cases of the coronavirus since the start of the outbreak.
  The British Department of Health on Saturday announced 21,915 new cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 1.01 million cases.The United States, India, Brazil, Russia, France, Spain, Argentina and Colombia also have recorded more than 1 million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University. Scientists say the number of cases is likely much higher because of a lack of testing
  
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