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• Protests in Brazil support president in anti-vaccine stance

  01-11-2020 23:33
  
  SAO PAULO (AP) — Protesters have gathered in Brazil’s two biggest cities to demonstrate against any mandate for the taking of a coronavirus vaccine, supporting a rejection campaign encouraged by President Jair Bolsonaro in opposition to the advice of most health professionals. A small group of people assembled in downtown Sao Paulo on Sunday calling for the removal of Sao Paulo state Gov. Joao Doria, who has said state residents will be required to take a vaccine, likely the one bein
  
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• Louisiana officials feud over generators for polling places

  01-11-2020 23:26
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans’ Democratic mayor and Louisiana’s Republican secretary of state are feuding over who’s responsible for providing generators if some polling places don’t have electricity on Election Day. Mayor LaToya Cantrell said Sunday that up to 11 precincts could still be without power Tuesday, nearly a week after Hurricane Zeta. She said Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin is “refusing to provide support for generators.” Ardoin says Louisia
  
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• For Mexico’s doctors, an especially mournful Day of the Dead

  01-11-2020 23:16
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Diminutive figures skeletons in face masks and medical caps are all too common on Mexico’s Day of the Dead altars this year. More than 1,700 Mexican health workers are officially known to have died of COVID-19 and they are being honored with three days of national mourning on these Days of the Dead. One is Dr. Jose Luis Linares, who attended to patients at a private clinic in a poor neighborhood in Mexico City, usually charging about 30 pesos (roughly $1.50) a cons
  
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• Video altered to make it look like Biden greeted the wrong state

  01-11-2020 23:08
  
  It’s an awkward moment when a presidential candidate greets the audience at a rally and names the wrong state. Fortunately for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, that didn’t happen to him this week.
  A widely shared video appears to show him saying “Hello, Minnesota” to a crowd in Florida. It turns out he was, indeed, in Minnesota, as his heavy coat would suggest.
  The video that was shared had been altered to change the text on a sign and the podium to refer to Tampa, Florida,
  
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• 70-year-old pulled out alive in Turkey as quake toll hits 75

  01-11-2020 22:44
  
  IZMIR, Turkey (AP) — The death toll from a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea that struck Turkey and Greece has grown at at least 75. Rescue workers in western Turkey continued searching eight collapsed buildings on Sunday, and they extricated a 70-year-old man alive from one overnight. But on the third day since Friday’s quake, search-and-rescue teams appeared to be finding more bodies than survivors in Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city. The search was suspended at one toppl
  
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• Bruised and haunted, US holds tight as 2020 campaigns close

  01-11-2020 22:10
  
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Americans are bracing for a high-definition look in the mirror as Republican President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden race across the country in the final hours of the 2020 election. The bitter campaigns that began before Trump’s impeachment and acquittal are ending with a nation battered by the coronavirus and haunted by racial injustice. Images of confrontations between protesters, get-out-the-vote volunteers and police are putting people on edge as
  
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• Kelly’s $4.25 million option exercised by Diamondbacks

  01-11-2020 21:56
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Diamondbacks have exercised their option on pitcher Merrill Kelly for $4.25 million. The 32-year-old right-hander was 3-2 with a 2.55 ERA in five starts during the pandemic-shortened season. He did not pitch after Aug. 19 because of a nerve impingement in his pitching shoulder. He earned $1,111,111 in prorated pay from a $3 million salary, the second guaranteed season of a $5.5 million, two-year deal. Kelly’s option year carried a $500,000 buyout if it had
  
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• The Latest: Trump predicts ‘red wave’ of Election Day votes

  01-11-2020 21:37
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  3:30 p.m.
  President Donald Trump is predicting a “red wave” of Election Day votes for him, aiming to overcome Democratic leads in early votes.Speaking to supporters in Dubuque, Iowa, Trump says, “I like Election Day, and most of you do too.”
  Trump was aiming to boost that turnout in a final campaign blitz with 10 rallies over two days across battleground states.
  Trump turned the microphone
  
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• Biden works to push Black turnout in campaign’s final days

  01-11-2020 21:27
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joe Biden is spending the final days of the presidential campaign appealing to Black supporters to vote in-person during a pandemic that has disproportionally affected their communities. He’s betting that a strong turnout will boost his chances in states that could decide the election. President Donald Trump is aiming to blunt the effort by arguing that Biden and other Democrats have taken the support of Black voters for granted. When the coronavirus pandemic reac
  
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• New Orleans mayor: Some polling places face power outages

  01-11-2020 21:19
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The mayor of New Orleans says it’s unclear whether electrical service that was knocked out during Hurricane Zeta will be restored to all polling places by Election Day. Mayor LaToya Cantrell said Sunday that up to 11 precincts could still be without power Tuesday. The Democratic mayor said that Louisiana’s Republican secretary of state, Kyle Ardoin is “refusing to provide support for generators” for those precincts. Ardoin says polling places will
  
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• The Latest: Maine tightens restrictions against virus surge

  01-11-2020 21:13
  
  PORTLAND, Maine — Maine is reinstating restrictions meant to curb the spread of COVID-19 amid a resurgence of the virus, Gov. Janet Mills said Sunday.
  Maine has been one of the most successful states at controlling the virus, but it’s dealing with a wave of new infections. The rolling average of daily cases more than doubled from below 30 per day to more than 67 by Friday. The state reported 103 infections that day, the largest single day increase in cases.
  The state had been slated
  
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• The Latest: On election eve, Biden back to where race began

  01-11-2020 21:07
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  2:50 p.m.
  Joe Biden will close out his campaign where he began it, in Pittsburgh, where he’ll hold a rally Monday night.
  Pittsburgh was the site of Biden’s first campaign rally, back in April 2019. He described Pittsburgh for Democrats as one of the “places where lately we’ve had a little bit of a struggle.” At the time, he said, “If I’m going to be able to beat Donald Tru
  
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• Poland sees Day 11 of abortion, anti-government protests

  01-11-2020 20:36
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Anti-government protests triggered by the tightening of Poland’s strict abortion law have taken place for an 11th day in the predominantly Catholic nation. People in many cities again disregarded a virus-control restriction limiting public gatherings to more than five people. Marches were organized Sunday in the cities of Szczecin, Wroclaw, Krakow, Lodz, but not in the Polish capital of Warsaw, where some 100,000 protested Friday. Some protesters carried chrysan
  
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• Thousands protest in Belarus amid continued crackdown

  01-11-2020 20:27
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Thousands of protesters in Belarus swarmed the streets of the capital to demand the resignation of the country’s longtime president have been met by police using stun grenades and firing warning shots in the air from what authorities said were “non-lethal weapons.” Crowds of people headed toward a wooded area on the outskirts of Minsk where over 200,000 people were executed by Soviet secret police. Demonstrators carried banners reading, “The peo
  
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• Texas high court denies GOP effort to reject Houston votes

  01-11-2020 20:02
  
  DALLAS (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court has denied a Republican-led petition to toss nearly 127,000 ballots cast at drive-thru voting places in the Houston area. The state’s all-Republican high court on Sunday rejected the request from a state representative and two GOP candidates without explaining its decision. Their effort to have the Harris County ballots thrown out is still set to be taken up during an emergency hearing in federal court on Monday. Conservative Texas activists have
  
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• The Latest: Harris stresses Georgia’s big role in 2020 race

  01-11-2020 19:48
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  1:40 p.m.
  Joe Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris is thanking Democratic voting rights activist Stacey Abrams for proving Georgia is now a battleground state.
  Campaigning in Duluth outside Atlanta, Harris said Abrams’ 2018 governor’s race solidified Georgia’s status as more than a Republican stronghold. Harris narrowly lost her bid to become the first Black woman governor in U.S. history. Tw
  
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• Feds: Florida officers protected cocaine shipment for cash

  01-11-2020 19:46
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Two South Florida police officers are facing charges that they provided protection for a fake cocaine transfer orchestrated by federal agents. Miami-Dade County officers Roderick Flowers and Keith Edwards Jr. are charged federally with conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine. The Miami Herald reports that the two liked to pose in social media photos as the Miami police officers played by Martin Lawrence and Will Smith in the “Bad Boys” films. F
  
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• Fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh region drags on into 6th week

  01-11-2020 19:35
  
  YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Fighting over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh has entered a sixth week with Armenian and Azerbaijani forces blaming each other for new attacks. Nagorno-Karabakh officials accused Azerabaijan of shelling the region’s civilian settlements. Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry claimed Armenian forces fired at the positions of the Azerbaijani army on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border and shelled two regions of Azerbaijan. Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerb
  
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• The Latest: Italy governor apologizes for dismissing elderly

  01-11-2020 19:19
  
  ROME — The governor of the Italian region with the largest percentage of residents older than 65 has apologized for a tweet which contended the elderly aren’t indispensable to the country’s production, as Italy battles COVID-19.
  The newspaper Corriere della Sera said Liguria Gov. Giovanni Toti, in a meeting Sunday with government ministers, had advocated limiting movement outside the home for those older than 70 in a bid to avoid a generalized, nationwide lockdown amid surging
  
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• Election win by Georgia’s governing party triggers protests

  01-11-2020 19:08
  
  TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Preliminary election results show that Georgia’s ruling party won the country’s highly contested parliamentary election. But the opposition refused to recognize Sunday’s results as valid, saying they were manipulated. Georgia’s Central election commission said that with 99% of ballots counted, the Georgian Dream party had received 48.1% of the vote in Saturday’s election. The biggest opposition alliance led by the United National Moveme
  
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• Sword-wielding man arrested after Halloween deaths in Quebec

  01-11-2020 18:59
  
  QUEBEC CITY (AP) — Police in Quebec City have arrested a 24-year-old man dressed in medieval clothing and armed with sword on suspicion of killing two people and injuring five others on Halloween near the historic Château Frontenac hotel. Quebec police said their initial information indicates the motive was personal and not terrorism. Police had earlier warned residents to remain indoors as they hunted for the man. Police say the five injured people are being treated and are expected
  
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• 70-year-old pulled out alive in Turkey as quake toll hits 71

  01-11-2020 18:59
  
  IZMIR, Turkey (AP) — The death toll from a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea that struck Turkey and Greece has grown at at least 71. Rescue workers in western Turkey continued searching eight collapsed buildings on Sunday, and they extricated a 70-year-old man alive from one overnight. But on the third day since Friday’s quake, search-and-rescue teams appeared to be finding more bodies than survivors in Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city. The search was suspended at one toppl
  
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• Tucson and Marana Police leading manhunt by I-10

  01-11-2020 18:55
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - The Marana Police Department have confirmed that they are currently undergoing a manhunt for a man in the area of Ina and I-10.Police have not released the name of the suspect.
  Details are limited at this time and we will update this article as they come into our newsroom.The post Tucson and Marana Police leading manhunt by I-10 appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Ivorians brace for unrest, await results of tense election

  01-11-2020 18:52
  
  ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast residents are bracing for more unrest as election officials began releasing the first results from the country’s presidential election. Opponents of President Alassane Ouattara on Sunday stepped up their criticism of his quest for a third term. A former prime minister whose own bid for the presidency was disqualified earlier this year tweeted from exile in France that he no longer considers Ouattara the country’s president. There was no i
  
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• Police fire warning shots as thousands protest in Belarus

  01-11-2020 18:40
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Thousands of protesters in Belarus swarmed the streets of the capital to demand the resignation of the country’s longtime president have been met by police firing warning shots and using stun grenades to break up the crowds. Large crowds of people headed toward a wooded area on the outskirts of Minsk where over 200,000 people were executed by Soviet secret police. Demonstrators carried banners reading, “The people’s memory (lasts) longer than a life o
  
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• The Latest: Harris seeks to boost Black support for Biden

  01-11-2020 18:31
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  12:25 p.m.
  Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris says Black voters are critical to defeating President Donald Trump and electing Joe Biden president.
  But as the California senator arrived to campaign in Georgia on Sunday, she stressed that “we are not telling anybody they’re supposed to vote for us” and are working to “earn the vote.”Harris is the first Black woman on a
  
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• The Latest: With lockdown exception, French visit cemeteries

  01-11-2020 18:23
  
  PARIS — French families took advantage Sunday of an exception to national virus lockdown measures to gather at cemeteries to mark All Saints’ Day and honor lost loved ones.
  France’s government has shut down all nonessential businesses and ordered people to stay indoors for the next month to slow accelerating virus infections, hospitalizations and deaths. But cemeteries stayed open and church services were allowed for the All Saints’ holiday weekend.
  Parisian Alice Crespel
  
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• One man dead after shooting at Ten’s Show Club

  01-11-2020 18:01
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Tucson Police have confirmed that an adult male is dead after being struck by gunfire at Ten's Show Club on Speedway and Rosemont Saturday night.
  TPD confirmed that the man was transported to a local hospital and was pronounced dead shortly after.
  Nobody has been charged of a crime as of yet. The investigation is still ongoing.
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• The Latest: Trump aims to run up support in Michigan

  01-11-2020 18:00
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  11:55 a.m.
  President Donald Trump is braving flurries and a stiff wind chill as he rallies thousands of supporters in Michigan.
  Trump took the stage Sunday in Washington Township and told the crowd: “It’s freezing out here.”The president is aiming to run up support in the whiter, more rural parts of Michigan as Democrat Joe Biden was in the state Saturday with former President Barack Obama in a b
  
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• Tribe proposing to reopen 4 casinos in Arizona, New Mexico

  01-11-2020 17:59
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Navajo Nation is asking the public to weigh in on the possible reopening of four of the tribe’s casinos in New Mexico and Arizona.  The proposed reopening plan would allow casinos and other gaming facilities to operate at 50% capacity. If the legislation is not passed, Albuquerque TV station KRQE reports the Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise likely will be forced to permanently close and layoff all employees by the end of this month. The Navajo Nation
  
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• 70-year-old pulled out alive in Turkey as quake toll hits 66

  01-11-2020 17:45
  
  IZMIR, Turkey (AP) — The death toll from a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea that struck Turkey and Greece has grown at at least 66. Rescue workers in western Turkey continued searching eight collapsed buildings on Sunday, and they extricated a 70-year-old man alive from one overnight. But on the third day since Friday’s quake, search-and-rescue teams appeared to be finding more bodies than survivors in Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city. The search was suspended at one toppl
  
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• The Latest: Biden puts campaign focus on Pennsylvania

  01-11-2020 17:38
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
  11:35 a.m.
  Joe Biden is spending the final Sunday before Election Day rallying voters in the all-important swing state of Pennsylvania.
  Biden will make two stops in Philadelphia on Sunday — an appearance at a Baptist church for a “Souls to the Polls” event, and a rally in Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park downtown.
  Biden’s return to Philadelphia underscores the significance of Pennsylvania, th
  
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• France: Suspect in priest’s shooting freed, search widens

  01-11-2020 17:22
  
  LYON, France (AP) — French police have on Sunday released an initial suspect in the shooting of a Greek Orthodox priest and widened their search for the gunman who critically wounded the priest at a church in the city of Lyon. The Lyon prosecutor’s office said a man who was arrested shortly after Saturday’s shooting was released Sunday after they found no evidence of his involvement. Shots from a hunting rifle struck the priest in the abdomen as he closed the door to his offici
  
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• The Latest: Lebanon extends nighttime curfew to fight virus

  01-11-2020 17:21
  
  BEIRUT— Facing a relentless surge in cases of coronavirus infections, Lebanese authorities are lengthening a nationwide nighttime curfew and placing a number of towns and villages under total lockdown.The Interior Ministry’s decisions Sunday increase a nighttime curfew by four hours, asking people to stay off the streets and shops to close between 9pm local time and 5am. It did not set an end date.
  The Interior Ministry also put 115 towns and villages in total lockdown for a week bec
  
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• Texas’ factory of conservative legislation may be at risk

  01-11-2020 17:12
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ shift into a battleground is on display in the fight for control of the state House of Representatives. Democrats are just nine seats from winning a majority for the first time in 20 years. They say a victory could spell an end to an intense era of culture wars and bitterly divisive laws in the Texas Capitol. Republicans are taking the threat to their majority in Texas seriously, but insist they are not as vulnerable as Democrats are making it seem.The pos
  
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• Trump noticeably absent from key US Senate race in Montana

  01-11-2020 17:06
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A parade of Republican Party leaders fearful of losing the majority in the U.S. Senate has visited Montana to rally behind incumbent Steve Daines as he faces a strong challenge from the state’s Democratic governor, Steve Bullock. But one has been conspicuously absent: President Donald Trump. The president in 2018 visited Montana repeatedly and hosted huge rallies in a failed bid to oust the state’s senior senator, Democrat Jon Tester. Trump had indicated
  
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• Salt Life founder facing manslaughter charge in teen’s death–copy

  01-11-2020 17:04
  
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A founder of the Salt Life clothing brand is facing a manslaughter charge in the death of an 18-year-old woman at a Florida hotel.
  Michael Troy Hutto was being held without bond Sunday at the Duval County jail in Jacksonville following his arrest in connection with the death of 18-year-old Lora Grace Duncan.
  Her body was found Thursday at a Palm Beach County hotel. Police say she had been fatally shot.
  Hutto was arrested Friday. Investigators have not said how the
  
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• Israel’s Netanyahu praises Trump policies ahead of election

  01-11-2020 17:04
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s leader has praised President Donald Trump’s Mideast policies, even as he avoids openly taken sides ahead of the U.S. presidential election. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters on Sunday that U.S. bipartisan support has been “one of the foundations of the American-Israeli alliance.” He then went on to praise a slew of steps taken by Trump in favor of Israel, including recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, his toler
  
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• Moldovans vote for president, pro-EU or pro-Russia visions

  01-11-2020 17:01
  
  CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Voters in Moldova cast ballots in a presidential election that is perceived as a referendum on two divergent visions for the future of the small Eastern European nation. Eight candidates were vying in Sunday’s race for the head of state post. The staunchly pro-Russia incumbent, President Igor Dodon, and a pro-Western former prime minister, Maia Sandu, were widely seen as the front-runners. However, neither appeared likely to secure enough votes for an outrigh
  
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• Trial to begin for man accused in Minnesota mosque bombing

  01-11-2020 16:58
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the trial of the leader of an Illinois anti-government group who’s accused of being the mastermind behind the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque. Michael Hari, of Clarence, has pleaded not guilty to multiple civil rights and hate crimes stemming from the early morning pipe bombing of Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington. No one was injured, but the attack damaged the mosque and frightened local Muslims. Hari&rsq
  
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• French churches honor Nice attack victims; 6 detained

  01-11-2020 16:52
  
  PARIS (AP) — Churches around France are dedicating Sunday services to honoring three people killed in an Islamic extremist attack at Notre Dame Basilica in the city of Nice. The Nice archbishop is holding a special Sunday night service in the basilica to purify it following Thursday’s knife attack. Other churches mentioned the attack during their services for All Saint’s Day, when many Christians honor the dead. Riot police or other security forces were stationed at some promin
  
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• Arizona reports 1,527 new COVID-19 cases and 2 more deaths

  01-11-2020 16:51
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona health officials have reported more than 1,500 new COVID-19 cases for the third consecutive day and two additional deaths as the total death toll nears 6,000. The state Department of Health Services says the 1,527 cases reported Sunday increases Arizona’s total to 247,473 since the coronavirus pandemic began with the known death toll now at 5,981. Health officials had reported 1,901 new cases Saturday along with 45 deaths, the biggest spikes in months. Saturday
  
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• The Latest: Biggest Swiss hospital near saturation

  01-11-2020 16:46
  
  GENEVA — Authorities in Geneva say Switzerland’s largest hospital complex is facing “imminent saturation” and is preparing to airlift patients to other Swiss hospitals after a sixfold spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations over the last two weeks.The Geneva canton, or region, said the University Hospitals of Geneva on Sunday counted 474 people hospitalized with coronavirus infections, including 56 in intensive care. That’s up from 78 hospitalizations and 13 people in th
  
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• Races for governor take top billing in Missouri, Montana

  01-11-2020 16:43
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Republican governor’s response to the coronavirus pandemic could be giving the Democratic challenger traction in this year’s race for top executive in Missouri. In another competitive race, Republicans are hoping to win control of the governor’s office in Montana for the first time in 16 years. Eleven states are electing governors in 2020, but few of the jobs are expected to switch party control. Governors are expected to play pivotal roles in the nex
  
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• Thai king and queen take to street to meet adoring royalists

  01-11-2020 16:35
  
  BANGKOK (AP) — Under increasing pressure from protesters demanding reforms to the monarchy, Thailand’s king and queen have met with thousands of adoring supporters in Bangkok, mixing with citizens in the street after attending a religious ceremony inside the Grand Palace. Crowds of royal devotees waited hours outside the white walls of the storybook palace compound to greet them, carrying portraits of King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida and waving national flags. As the smilin
  
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• Salt Life founder facing manslaughter charge in teen’s death

  01-11-2020 16:35
  
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A founder of the Salt Life clothing brand is facing a manslaughter charge in the death of an 18-year-old woman at a Florida hotel. Michael Troy Hutto was being held without bond Sunday at the Duval County jail in Jacksonville following his arrest in connection with the death of 18-year-old Lora Grace Duncan. Her body was found Thursday at a Palm Beach County hotel. Police say she had been fatally shot. Hutto was arrested Friday. Investigators have not said how the
  
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• Experts: Police brutality, racism pushing Black anxiety

  01-11-2020 16:34
  
  WARREN, Mich. (AP) — Some experts say police brutality, the coronavirus pandemic, and other issues around race have increased anxiety levels among African Americans. Suburban Detroit resident Eddie Hall says he was already on edge when racist graffiti was scrawled on his pickup and shots were fired into his home after his family placed a Black Lives Matter sign in their front window in September. A 24-year-old white neighbor eventually was arrested and charged with ethnic intimidation and
  
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• South Africa’s largest opposition party elects white leader

  01-11-2020 16:30
  
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s largest opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, has elected a white leader, a move some analysts warn may cost it support from Black voters. The party, which attracted just over 20% of the votes and won 89 parliamentary seats in last year’s national poll, on Sunday elected John Steenhuizen to lead the party The party’s first Black leader Mmusi Maimane resigned last year, claiming angrily that he had been hampered by those who wanted t
  
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• Report: Ex-Maricopa county attorney stockpiled guns and ammo

  01-11-2020 16:30
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — When he was Maricopa County attorney, Bill Montgomery spent years stockpiling guns and ammunition to arm employees and specially trained investigators and their supervisors. Now, his successor is grappling with this unwanted lethal inventory. Allister Adel said keeping the guns and ammo does little to further the county attorney’s job of prosecuting criminals. She has ordered the storage of the rifles and is exploring ways to transfer them to other law enforcement. The
  
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• Supreme Court changes fuel moves to protect abortion access

  01-11-2020 16:22
  
  A vast swath of West Texas has been without an abortion clinic for more than six years. Planned Parenthood plans to change that with a health center it opened recently in Lubbock. It’s an example of how abortion-rights groups are striving to preserve nationwide access to the procedure even as the Supreme Court shifts in a more conservative direction. It’s widely assumed that the court’s new justice, Amy Coney Barrett, would support at least some new restrictions. Planned Parent
  
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