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• Fox News, family of slain DNC staffer Seth Rich settle suit

  24-11-2020 23:58
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News has reached a settlement with the parents of Seth Rich, a former Democratic National Committee employee who was killed in 2016. Authorities have concluded that he died in a botched robbery attempt, but a Fox story later falsely suggested that Seth Rich had leaked DNC emails to WikiLeaks during the 2016 presidential campaign. There was a false Internet conspiracy theory that suggested that leaked emails had something to do with Rich’s death. Joel and Mary Rich
  
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• Fallen WWII marine returns home 80 years after death

  24-11-2020 23:55
  
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  (KNVN/NBC News) A fallen World War II marine has finally been laid to rest, nearly eight decades after his death.Thomas Frank Johnson was buried Monday at the Northern California Veterans Cemetery in Igo."It means he's finally home. He's resting comfortably now," said Fred Loveland, a Navy veteran.Johnson's remains were missing for 77 years in the South Pacific."The area that we actually found Thomas in, he was underneath a house that was built in the '50s," says Jordan Windish
  
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• President Trump not giving up on election despite agencies aid Biden transition

  24-11-2020 23:51
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he is not giving up his fight to overturn the election results, even as agencies across the federal government begin to support President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration.
  Career federal officials are opening the doors of agencies to hundreds of transition aides ready to prepare for Biden's Jan. 20 inauguration.
  And on Tuesday, Trump signed off on allowing Biden to receive the presidential daily brief, the highly classified brief
  
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• The Latest: Biden says team not as far behind as once feared

  24-11-2020 23:49
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):
  5:45 p.m.
  President-elect Joe Biden says that the transition of power has “already begun” and that he feels his team is “going to not be so far behind the curve as we thought we might be in the past.”
  He says: “There’s a lot of immediate discussion, and I must say, the outreach has been sincere. There has not been begrudging so far. And I don’t expect it to be. So yes it&r
  
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• EPA finalizes water permit to help clean up the Great Bay

  24-11-2020 23:47
  
  Federal officials have finalized a plan to reduce pollution in one of the largest estuaries in the Northeast with an approach that gives surrounding communities greater flexibility to address the problem. The Environmental Protection Agency, in the Clean Water Permit for the Great Bay in New Hampshire, calls for a dozen communities that ring the bay to reduce the amounts of nitrogen going into the waters, rather than focusing on one community as it has in the past. It also allows them to reduce
  
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• Phoenix College alumni members donate food to help students cook holiday dinner at home

  24-11-2020 23:46
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  PHOENIX (AP) — With their annual Thanksgiving meal for disadvantaged students cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak, alumni from one local community college held a food distribution drive-through Tuesday so people could cook a holiday dinner at home.
  Students in 100 vehicles who signed up beforehand lined up in the Phoenix College parking lot. Masked staff and volunteers placed in the trunk or backseat of each vehicle a bag with turkey, mashed potatoes, pie and other fixin
  
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• Kamila Mouckova, TV anchor during 1968 invasion dies at 92

  24-11-2020 23:44
  
  PRAGUE (AP) — Kamila Mouckova, a Czechoslovak television anchor who informed her nation about the 1968 Soviet-led invasion by the armies of five Warsaw Pact countries, has died at age 92. Her death was announced late Tuesday by Czech public television without any details. Mouckova had been a rare female television news presenter since the 1950s and is remembered for announcing the news of the invasion at gunpoint of occupying troops following the military operation that started an hour bef
  
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• Phoenix College alumni members donate student holiday meals

  24-11-2020 23:42
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — With their annual Thanksgiving meal for disadvantaged students cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak, alumni from one local community college held a food distribution drive-through Tuesday so people could cook a holiday dinner at home. Students in 100 vehicles who signed up beforehand lined up in the Phoenix College parking lot. Masked staff and volunteers placed in the trunk or backseat of each vehicle a bag with turkey, mashed potatoes, pie and other fixings. It&rs
  
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• Amphitheater school district hiring

  24-11-2020 23:41
  
  Amphitheater Public Schools has a number of open positions available for anyone looking for employment.Click here for the main page to the district's page, or you can click here for the Twitter feed of all of the posted available positions.The post Amphitheater school district hiring appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• 2 New York City police officers shot, suspect killed

  24-11-2020 23:31
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Two New York City police officers shot and killed an off-duty college security officer after he opened fire and wounded them as they responded to a domestic violence call at his home. Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said 41-year-old Rondell Goppy walked into his Queens home and started shooting around 12:45 p.m., just minutes after the officers arrived there with a woman who had gone to their police station to report an assault. Thirty-six-year-old Officer Christopher Wells
  
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• The Latest: Biden says he’ll receive regular intel briefings

  24-11-2020 23:30
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):
  5:25 p.m.
  President-elect Joe Biden will begin receiving classified briefings regularly now that the Trump administration has removed a major roadblock from his transition.
  Biden told reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday that while it’s been offered, he hasn’t yet received the Presidential Daily Brief, the briefing on the most sensitive intelligence offered to top U.S. officials.
  Biden has bee
  
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• Senator-elect Kelly, Giffords volunteer at local food bank, encourages others to follow suit

  24-11-2020 23:24
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - The election might be over, but Senator-elect Mark Kelly has not slowed down.On Tuesday, he and wife, former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords helped out the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona with some food donations.They also helped the 100 to 120 volunteers and 40 National Guard members load food into vehicles on Tuesday at Kino Sports Complex drive-thru distribution.
  Sen.-Elect Mark Kelly and wife, former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords help the Community Food Bank of Southern A
  
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• Fox News viewership slips post-election, prodded by Trump

  24-11-2020 23:24
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — With his followers prodded by President Donald Trump, Fox News viewership slipped the two weeks after Election Day compared to the two weeks prior. Trump retweeted an odd video on Tuesday that featured actor Randy Quaid using doomsday tones to talk about Fox viewership. Fox News has been the favorite channel for Trump fans, and it’s not unusual for followers of a particular candidate to slip away from TV following an election loss.  Still, it’s only a two-w
  
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• Biden seeks swift Cabinet votes, but GOP Senate stays silent

  24-11-2020 23:24
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As President-elect Joe Biden started rolling out his administrative team, one voice has been notably silent: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Senate Republicans will hold great sway in confirming or denying Biden’s Cabinet nominees, regardless of which party controls the narrowly split Senate after runoff elections. But key Republican senators, including the GOP leader, are keeping quiet for now. Biden introduced his national security team Tuesday while askin
  
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• Ex-politician in adoption scheme to be sentenced in 3 states

  24-11-2020 23:20
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Prosecutors in Arkansas will seek a 10-year prison sentence next week for a former Arizona politician who acknowledged running an illegal adoption scheme in three states involving women from the Marshall Islands. Prosecutors said former Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen defrauded state courts, violated an international adoption compact and took advantage of birth mothers. Petersen is a Republican who also worked as an adoption attorney. He faces sentencings in January f
  
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• EPA finalizes water permit to help cleanup the Great Bay

  24-11-2020 23:11
  
  Federal officials have finalized a plan to reduce pollution in one of the largest estuaries in the Northeast with an approach that gives surrounding communities greater flexibility to address the problem. The Environmental Protection Agency, in the Clean Water Permit for the Great Bay in New Hampshire, calls for a dozen communities that ring the bay to reduce the amounts of nitrogen going into the waters, rather than focusing on one community as it has in the past. It also allows them to reduce
  
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• The Latest: Indiana nears its monthly virus death record

  24-11-2020 23:05
  
  INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana has nearly recorded its most COVID-19 deaths for a single month with a week remaining as health officials on Tuesday added 103 more deaths to the state’s pandemic toll.
  The Indiana State Department of Health’s daily update included the new deaths mostly occurring over the past several days through Monday, and which push November’s total to at least 991.
  Indiana’s monthly high for COVID-19 deaths was 1,041 in April, when at most the state&rsquo
  
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• Niger’s former President Mamadou Tandja dies at age 82

  24-11-2020 22:52
  
  NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger’s government says former President Mamadou Tandja has died. He was 82. Tandja was elected to lead Niger twice from 1999 to 2010, but was eventually overthrown in a coup d’etat after trying to change the constitution to extend his grip on power.  Niger’s government announced three days of national mourning for the former leader of the West African nation. It says Tandja died Tuesday but hasn’t reported a cause of death.The post Niger&r
  
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• Seattle City Council OKs budget with nearly 20% police cut

  24-11-2020 22:43
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle City Council has approved the city’s 2021 budget with reductions to the police budget, although not as much as activists sought amid mass demonstrations against police brutality. KING-TV reports the council voted Monday to shrink the budget of the Seattle Police Department by about 18%, which includes cuts to overtime and training. Dozens of vacant jobs will not be filled and 911 dispatchers and parking enforcement will be moved out of police jurisdiction.
  
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• Trump skips turkey jokes, gives thanks for COVID-19 vaccines

  24-11-2020 22:35
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nostalgia was in and jokes were out as President Donald Trump offered a reprieve to a pair of meaty turkeys as part of the traditional turkey pardon ceremony at the White House. The National Turkey Federation presented two birds, named Corn and Cob. Corn was declared the national Thanksgiving turkey, though both will retire to a new home on the campus of Iowa State University. It’s not the first time the typically light-hearted turkey pardon ceremony has taken place
  
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• New Mexico teams adjusting to long-term life on the road

  24-11-2020 22:34
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The major college sports programs in New Mexico are trying to make the most of being temporarily relocated this season due to coronavirus restrictions in their home state. The University of New Mexico’s football team moved to Las Vegas for this season, while the men’s and women’s basketball teams have set up in two Texas towns. Meanwhile, New Mexico State’s men’s basketball team has a temporary home at a resort in Phoenix. Spending extended time
  
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• Multiple districts cancel football, fall sports at recommendation of Pima County

  24-11-2020 22:32
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - A few days after Pima County recorded a daily-high COVID-19 cases, several school districts across the area made the decision to halt its fall sports season.Pima County observed its highest single-day total of new cases on Sunday - reaching 878. With the county also coming off its largest weekly case count of 2,575 new cases, school leaders began reevaluating its COVID-19 policies.On Monday, Tucson Unified School District shared that they have suspended the remainder of its footb
  
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• Harvard gets its first Black, elected student body president

  24-11-2020 22:28
  
  HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — A 20-year-old from Mississippi has become the first Black, elected student body president at Harvard University. The Hattiesburg American reports that Noah Harris was elected president of Harvard’s Undergraduate Council on Nov. 12. He is a junior who is majoring in government and co-chairs the Undergraduate Council’s Black caucus. Two other Black students have previously headed Harvard’s Undergraduate Council, but Harris is the first Black man to
  
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• The Latest: California judge rejects bid to block dining ban

  24-11-2020 22:18
  
  LOS ANGELES — A California judge has rejected a request from a restaurant industry group to block the nation’s most populous county from reinstating a ban on outdoor dining, a plan the group said would devastate businesses and workers.
  The California Restaurant Association asked a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Tuesday to block the order until county health officials provide medical or scientific evidence that it poses an unreasonable risk to public health.
  The group challen
  
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• Trump vents about election as agencies aid Biden transition

  24-11-2020 22:14
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he is not giving up his fight to overturn the election results, even as agencies across the federal government begin to support President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration. Career federal officials are opening the doors of agencies to hundreds of transition aides ready to prepare for Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration. But Trump, who has not formally conceded to Biden, continued to try to sow doubt about the vote. His own administ
  
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• The Latest: Trump signs off on giving Biden intel briefings

  24-11-2020 22:11
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):
  4:05 p.m.
  President Donald Trump has signed off on giving his successor access to the nation’s most secure secrets.
  An administration official said Tuesday that Trump has allowed President-elect Joe Biden to receive the presidential daily brief, the highly classified briefing prepared by the nation’s intelligence community for the government’s most senior leaders.
  The official said the logistics
  
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• As virus cases spike, financial outlook for airlines dims

  24-11-2020 22:05
  
  With coronavirus cases spiking in the U.S. and Europe, the financial outlook of the world’s airlines is getting worse. The International Air Transport Association said Tuesday that around the world, airlines will lose more than $157 billion this year and next. That’s worse than the group was predicting back in June. It’s because fewer people are flying due to travel restrictions like quarantine requirements. The airline trade group says airlines carried 4.5 billion passengers l
  
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• ‘America is back’: Biden pushes past Trump era with nominees

  24-11-2020 22:05
  
  Adam Schultz / Biden for President / (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)President-elect Joe Biden, Photo Date: October 27, 2020
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden has introduced his selections for his national security team. It’s his first substantive offering of how he’ll shift from President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies by relying on a slate of foreign policy and national security experts from the Democratic establishment to serve as some of his mos
  
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• Obama memoir sells a record 1.7 million copies in first week

  24-11-2020 22:00
  
  Former President Barack Obama’s “A Promised Land” sold more than 1.7 million copies in North America in its first week, roughly equal to the combined first week sales of memoirs by his two immediate predecessors. Among former White House residents, only Obama’s wife Michelle approaches his popularity as a writer. Her “Becoming,” published in 2018, has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. “A Promised Land,” the first of two planned volumes, w
  
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• The Latest: Scientists detect COVID-19 in mink in Poland

  24-11-2020 21:58
  
  WARSAW, Poland — Scientists in Poland said Tuesday that they have detected the first cases of the novel coronavirus in mink in Poland.
  They said that they examined 91 farmed mink for the presence of coronaviruses and confirmed infections with the coronavirus in the cases of eight animals.
  “This is the first case of confirmed infection of farm animals with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Poland,” the scientists said.
  The study was carried out by scientists from the Medical University Un
  
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• 15-year-old MS-13 gang member has 55-year prison sentence affirmed

  24-11-2020 21:39
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — An appeals court has affirmed a 55-year prison term for a MS-13 gang member who led the slaughter of four young men in a Long Island park when he was 15.
  But the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also expressed disappointment Tuesday that parole was not still available for federal prisoners like Josue Portillo, now 19.
  The appeals panel said the case serves as a “classic illustration of the unfortunate consequences” of a decision by Congress to eliminate parole
  
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• Swiss probe knife attack injuring 2 as possible terrorism

  24-11-2020 21:36
  
  GENEVA (AP) — Swiss authorities are investigating as a possible terror attack the stabbing of two women in a department store in the southern city of Lugano, and a suspect has been arrested. Swiss Federal Police said on its Twitter feed that an attack “presumably of terrorist motivation” took place in Lugano on Tuesday afternoon, and federal prosecutors were investigating. The federal prosecutor’s office said “an alleged terrorist attack against several people in a
  
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• Simon Haydon, ex-AP international sports editor, dies at 64

  24-11-2020 21:36
  
  LONDON (AP) — Simon Haydon, former international sports editor of The Associated Press, has died. He had recently been diagnosed with cancer and contracted the coronavirus last week. His wife says he died early Tuesday in a hospice in southern England. Haydon shaped the AP’s coverage of World Cups and Olympics and reported on landmark news events while traveling the world as a correspondent, including the downfall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Haydon left the AP in 2018 aft
  
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• Former Cincinnati council member sentenced

  24-11-2020 21:34
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — A former Cincinnati city council member has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to a federal charge resulting from corruption investigations that have left two other council members facing charges. U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott ruled Tuesday that Tamaya Dennard will begin serving her sentence next year. Dlott called the case “a real tragedy,” saying the 41-year-old woman had done a lot of good. Dennard pleaded guilty earlier this year
  
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• NBA Draft has Arizona flavor

  24-11-2020 21:30
  
  Three Arizona Wildcats and a former Arizona high school standout were among the players who heard their name called during the 2020 NBA Draft.…
  
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• Home Depot agrees to $17.5m settlement in 2014 data breach

  24-11-2020 21:26
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Home Depot has reached a $17.5 million settlement with the attorney generals of most U.S. states over a 2014 data breach in which the payment card information of some 40 million customers was exposed. The Massachusetts Attorney General’s office detailed the settlement in a statement Tuesday. In the breach, cybercriminals hacked into Home Depot’s self-checkout point-of-sale systems. They installed malware that harvested the customer data from April through Septembe
  
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• Prosecutor: Unemployment claim made in Scott Peterson’s name

  24-11-2020 21:25
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California prosecutor says someone has filed an unemployment claim in the name of convicted murderer Scott Peterson. Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said it is one of at least 35,000 unemployment claims made on behalf of prison inmates between March and August. Schubert said the state has paid out at least $140 million in benefits. At least 158 claims have been filed for 133 inmates on death row. Schubert called it perhaps the biggest fra
  
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• Bruce Boynton, who inspired 1961 Freedom Rides, dies at 83

  24-11-2020 21:24
  
  SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer who inspired the “Freedom Rides,” has died at the age of 83. Former Alabama state Sen. Hank Sanders confirmed Boynton’s passing Friday. Boynton was arrested 60 years ago for entering the white part of a racially segregated bus station in Virginia. That action began a chain reaction of events that ultimately helped to bring about the abolition of Jim Crow laws in the South. Boynton contested his conviction, an
  
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• California prosecutors: More than 35,000 unemployment claims filed in names of prison inmates, including Scott Peterson

  24-11-2020 21:23
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California prosecutors: More than 35,000 unemployment claims filed in names of prison inmates, including Scott Peterson.The post California prosecutors: More than 35,000 unemployment claims filed in names of prison inmates, including Scott Peterson appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• BTS, Megan Thee Stallion, Dua Lipa react to Grammy noms

  24-11-2020 21:19
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Megan Thee Stallion, BTS and Dua Lipa are some of the music artists sharing reactions after learning about their Grammy nominations. Stallion sat in disbelief during a livestream after the Recording Academy president and CEO Harvey Mason Jr. told the Houston-based rapper about her nomination. Lipa became teary eyed after Mason gave her the news, saying “You’re joking.” Other performers took to social media to give their reactions including BTS, Jhen&eac
  
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• The Latest: Russia says vaccine candidate effective, cheaper

  24-11-2020 21:15
  
  MOSCOW — Russia has released new results claiming its experimental coronavirus vaccine is highly effective and will cost less than vaccines made by some Western competitors.Russian Direct Investment Fund, which bankrolled the development of the shot, says Sputnik V will cost less than $10 per dose — or less than $20 for the two doses needed to vaccinate one person — on international markets. The vaccine will be free for Russians. Developers of the vaccine say it was 91.4% effec
  
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• Macron outlines France’s baby steps out of lockdown

  24-11-2020 21:06
  
  People in France will be able to go back to their favorite shops and attend religious services again next week, after a month of a partial virus lockdown. But they’ll  have to wait until next year to savor a meal in a restaurant or enjoy a gym workout. These are among announcements President Emmanuel Macron made Tuesday when he laid out the next steps in France’s virus strategy. Infection and hospitalization rates are slowing, but the country is still reporting hundreds of virus
  
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• Community Food Bank of Southern AZ continues to help record number of families in need

  24-11-2020 21:03
  
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  TUCSON (KVOA) – Many cars showed up to the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona distribution center Tuesday.Officials say the food bank does have enough food to help those in need.These distributions are held every Tuesday and Thursday. However, this week it will be closed on Thanksgiving Day.
  Lines at the the Community Food Bank are expected to be long today. About 2,400 cars are expected, the average is 1200. Last week it was 1800. pic.twitter.com
  
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• Tampa Bay outfielder Arozarena arrested in Mexico’s Yucatan

  24-11-2020 21:02
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tampa Bay outfielder Randy Arozarena has been arrested in Mexico’s Yucatan state for a situation involving allegations of domestic violence, just two weeks after he won the Babe Ruth award for the Most Valuable Player in postseason. The Yucatan state prosecutors’ office confirmed Tuesday that Arozarena was detained “for problems relating to his ex-partner.” He has not been formally charged yet. Mexican law allows a two-day period for prosecutors t
  
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• Restaurant workers out of work again as virus surges anew

  24-11-2020 21:02
  
  Waiters and bartenders are losing their jobs – again – as governors and local officials shut down indoor dining and drinking establishments to combat the nationwide surge in coronavirus infections that is overwhelming hospitals and dashing hopes for a quick economic recovery. The timing, just before the holidays, couldn’t be worse. Los Angeles County restaurant owner Greg Morena says he’s dreading having to notify employees that they won’t have a job over the holida
  
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• 55-year sentence affirmed for 15-year-old MS-13 gang killer

  24-11-2020 21:00
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — An appeals court has affirmed a 55-year prison term for a MS-13 gang member who led the slaughter of four young men in a Long Island park when he was 15. But the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also expressed disappointment Tuesday that parole was not still available for federal prisoners like Josue Portillo, now 19. The appeals panel said the case serves as a “classic illustration of the unfortunate consequences” of a decision by Congress to eliminate parole
  
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• 2 detained for speaking Spanish settle border patrol lawsuit

  24-11-2020 21:00
  
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Two women who were detained in northern Montana by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents for speaking Spanish while shopping at a convenience store have reached a monetary settlement in their lawsuit against the agency. The ACLU of Montana announced the settlement but did not say how much the two received. Ana Suda and Martha “Mimi” Hernandez said their constitutional rights were violated by an agent who demanded their identifications and detained them
  
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• Judge won’t bar Los Angeles County restaurant restrictions

  24-11-2020 20:55
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California judge has rejected a request from a restaurant industry group to block the nation’s most populous county from reinstating a ban on outdoor dining, a plan the group said would devastate businesses and workers. The California Restaurant Association asked a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Tuesday to block the order until county health officials provide medical or scientific evidence that it poses an unreasonable risk to public health. The group ch
  
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• The Latest: Azar says HHS now working on Biden transition

  24-11-2020 20:51
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):
  2:50 p.m.
  Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar says his agency is working to immediately get briefing materials to President-elect Joe Biden’s team and pledged a “professional, cooperative and collaborative” transition to the new administration.
  Azar said in a news briefing Tuesday that the deputy surgeon general Rear Admiral Erica Schwartz began communicating Monday night with Biden&rsq
  
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• Judge files charges against 2 over Lebanon port blast

  24-11-2020 20:44
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese prosecutor has filed charges against current and former customs officials over the massive blast at Beirut’s port in August. They include the former customs chief who was reportedly the point man for the militant Hezbollah group at the facility. State prosecutor Ghassan Khoury charged the two men Tuesday, according to state-run National News Agency. The report did not reveal the charges or give additional details. Moussa Hazimeh was Beirut customs chief when
  
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