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• Police: Man killed dad’s cat with frying pan on Thanksgiving

  28-11-2020 23:36
  
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Police in Maine have arrested a man accused of killing his father’s cat with a frying pan on Thanksgiving. The Bangor Daily News reports that the man’s father called police Thursday morning to report that he had found his cat dead. The man’s son had been released on bail Wednesday following an arrest on charges that he stole his mother’s car. Forty-three-year-old Ryan Carleton is being held on charges including animal cruelty and violating con
  
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• The Latest: Researchers urge Arizona shutdown, mask mandate

  28-11-2020 23:11
  
  PHOENIX — University of Arizona researchers say the current surge in the coronavirus outbreak will present the state with a hospital crisis that could become a disaster unless the state takes steps such as ordering a three-week stay-home shutdown and implementing a statewide mask mandate.Members of the university’s COVID Modeling Team said failing to take such steps would be like facing a major forest fire without evacuation orders. It also recommends providing economic aid to affect
  
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• Police: DC officer killed by wife in apparent murder-suicide

  28-11-2020 23:08
  
  WALDORF, Md. (AP) — Authorities say a Maryland woman fatally shot her police officer husband and then killed herself. The Charles County Sheriff’s Office says police two people dead inside their home Friday and found evidence that a woman had shot her husband and then herself. Authorities identified the couple as 41-year-old Christina Lynn Francis and 50-year-old Timothy Eugene Francis. Timothy Francis was a veteran detective for the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington D.C.
  
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• Temperatures will continue to cool over the next few days

  28-11-2020 22:54
  
  TUCSON - We have seen a steep decrease in temperatures over the last week and this trend is projected to continue for the next 5 days.
  High temperatures between Sunday and Tuesday will be in the 70's, but as the wind shifts more northward midweek we will see these numbers drop to the mid 60's.
  Overnight lows will also stay around 40 degrees or so for Tucson, but we are not expecting freezing conditions yet.
  The sunshine will also continue over the next 7 days without a chance of rain in sig
  
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• Black Friday sees record online as US shoppers stay home

  28-11-2020 22:27
  
  Black Friday online sales hit a new record this year as pandemic-wary Americans filled virtual carts instead of real ones. Consumers spent an estimated $9 billion on U.S. retail websites on Black Friday, according to Adobe Analytics, which tracks online shopping. That was a 22% increase over the previous record of $7.4 billion in 2019. Meanwhile, in-person traffic at U.S. retail stores dropped 52%, according to Sensormatic. Adobe says Monday could be the largest online sales day in U.S. history.
  
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• Artists say Cuba government agrees to dialogue, tolerance

  28-11-2020 22:09
  
  HAVANA (AP) — A group of Cuban artists and intellectuals say they’ve won an unusual government vow of greater tolerance for independent art following a demonstration in front of the Culture Ministry in Havana. About 200 people were in the crowd Saturday when Vice Minister Fernando Rojas and the directors of several associations affiliated with the governing Communist Party met with delegates of the demonstrators. Writer Katherine Bisquet says officials agreed to hold a dialogue and t
  
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• Artists say Cuba government agrees to dialogue, tolderance

  28-11-2020 22:02
  
  HAVANA (AP) — A group of Cuban artists and intellectuals say they’ve won an unusual government vow of greater tolerance for independent art following a demonstration in front of the Culture Ministry in Havana. About 200 people were in the crowd Saturday when Vice Minister Fernando Rojas and the directors of several associations affiliated with the governing Communist Party met with delegates of the demonstrators. Writer Katherine Bisquet says officials agreed to hold a dialogue and t
  
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• Ethiopia declares victory as military takes Tigray capital

  28-11-2020 21:56
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s army says the military has gained “full control” of the capital of the defiant Tigray region, and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared the taking of Mekele as marking the “completion” of the offensive that started nearly four weeks ago. The Tigray government said earlier Saturday that the city of a half-million people was being “heavily bombarded” in the military’s final push to arrest its leaders. Abiy’s
  
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• Ex-Trump campaign aide sues over Russia probe surveillance

  28-11-2020 21:35
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Trump campaign associate who was the target of a secret surveillance warrant during the FBI’s Russia investigation says in a federal lawsuit that he was the victim of “unlawful spying.” The suit from Carter Page alleges a series of omissions and errors made by FBI and Justice Department officials in applications they submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to eavesdrop on Page on suspicion that he was an agent of Russia. The com
  
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• Hundreds protest outside Israelí leader’s Jerusalem home

  28-11-2020 21:14
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — About 1,000 protesters have gathered outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official residence in Jerusalem while pressing ahead with a campaign demanding his resignation. A mix of grassroots groups have held weekly protests for over six months. They say Netanyahu should step down while he is on trial for corruption and because of his handling of the coronavirus. Many protesters are Israelis who have lost their jobs. Some of the participants on Saturday
  
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• University researchers recommend 3-week shutdown, mask order

  28-11-2020 21:11
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — University researchers say the current surge in the coronavirus outbreak will present Arizona with a hospital crisis that could become a disaster unless the state takes steps such as ordering a three-week stay-home shutdown and implementing a statewide mask mandate. Members of the COVID Modeling Team at the University of Arizona said without such steps, it would be like facing a major forest fire without evacuation orders. The team has tracked the outbreak since last spring
  
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• Tony Hsieh, retired Zappos CEO, dies at 46 after house fire

  28-11-2020 21:02
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tony Hsieh, the retired CEO of Las Vegas-based online shoe retailer Zappos.com, has died at age 46 of injuries suffered in a house fire. He founded DTP Companies, which says he was with family when he died Friday after the Nov. 18 fire in New London, Connecticut. Hsieh retired from Zappos this year after 20 years leading the company. He also worked to revitalize the Las Vegas area. Zappos called Hsieh “a tremendous visionary and an incredible human being.” Hsie
  
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• Police block Warsaw march against abortion ruling, force use

  28-11-2020 20:57
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Police have blocked protesters from marching in Poland’s capital as demonstrations took place across the country against an attempt to restrict abortion rights and recent police violence. Police and protesters played a game of cat and mouse in Warsaw as officers set up cordons which the protesters sought to evade. The protests were planned to coincide with Polish women gaining the right to vote 102 years ago but violated a pandemic-related ban on large gathering
  
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• The Latest: Record number of new COVID-19 cases in Oklahoma

  28-11-2020 20:05
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma health officials reported a one-day record of more than 6,000 newly confirmed coronavirus cases Saturday as experts warned the Thanksgiving holiday may make testing numbers erratic.
  The Oklahoma State Department of Health reported 6,257 new cases of COVID-19 and 13 more deaths linked to the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
  The record daily case count comes as the pandemic has grown worse across the state.
  Infectious diseases experts have warned the holiday
  
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• UTEP goes up against Arizona

  28-11-2020 19:45
  
  UTEP (1-0) vs. Arizona (1-0)
  McKale Memorial Center, Tucson, Arizona; Sunday, 6 p.m. EST
  BOTTOM LINE: UTEP and Arizona both look to put winning streaks together .
  DID YOU KNOW: Each of these teams posted winning records against non-conference competition last season. UTEP went 6-4 against teams outside its conference, while Arizona went 10-3 in such games.
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• UK, France agree new plan to curb Channel migrant crossings

  28-11-2020 19:43
  
  LONDON (AP) — The British government says it has agreed with France to double the number of police patrolling beaches in northern France in an attempt to stop people crossing the English Channel in small boats. Britain’s Home Office said Saturday that Home Secretary Priti Patel and French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin agreed on the measure as part of efforts to make the route “unviable” for people-smugglers. The agreement also will boost surveillance using “dron
  
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• Arizona agency: Suspect shot by troopers after pointing gun

  28-11-2020 19:12
  
  BOUSE, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say Arizona state troopers shot and wounded a possible suspect in a fatal drive-by killing in Nevada and other incidents when the man allegedly pointed a gun at a trooper approaching a crashed vehicle. The Arizona Department of Public Safety said the vehicle that crashed Thursday in La Paz County reportedly was involved in several earlier incidents in which shots were fired at vehicles in the Parker area. The DPS said the wounded suspect and two other suspec
  
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• The Latest: Greece suffers new record of COVID-19 deaths

  28-11-2020 19:09
  
  ATHENS, Greece — Greek authorities announced a record 121 deaths from the coronavirus over the past 24 hours on Saturday.
  The total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic is 2,223.
  There were also 1,747 new confirmed infections, raising the total to 103,034.
  The country is under lockdown until Dec. 7, but government officials have strongly hinted that restrictons could be extended.
  In any case, the opening will be gradual, starting with schools and with restaurants, cafes, bars a
  
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• Montenegro declares Serbian ambassador persona non grata

  28-11-2020 18:38
  
  PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro’s outgoing pro-Western government has declared the ambassador of neighboring Serbia persona non grata and ordered him to leave the country. The small Balkan nation’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday cited “long and continuous meddling in the internal affairs of Montenegro” as the reason for the action. The move reflects a spike in tensions days before the planned inauguration of a new, pro-Serb government in Montenegro. There was
  
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• Arizona reports 4,136 more COVID cases, 36 additional deaths

  28-11-2020 18:37
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The state on Saturday reported 4,136 additional known COVID-19 cases and 36 more deaths, increasing the state’s totals to 322,774 cases and 6,624 deaths. The Department of Health Services’ coronavirus dashboard also reports that COVID-19-related hospitalizations reached 2,383 as of Friday, including 553 patients in beds in intensive-care units. Seven-day rolling averages of daily new cases, daily deaths and COVID-19 testing positivity in Arizona all increased in
  
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• 2 shot, killed at Northern California mall on Black Friday

  28-11-2020 18:15
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Police are looking for a person who shot and killed two teens at a Northern California mall on Black Friday. Shoppers at Arden Fair Mall in Sacramento ran for safety after shots were fired shortly after 6 p.m. A 19-year-old man was found dead at the mall and a 17-year-old boy was taken to a hospital, where he later died of his injuries. Police say the shooting appeared to be a targeted and isolated attack, and they’re looking for a suspect in his 20s. The Sa
  
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• The Latest: Infections level off in Italy; restrictions stay

  28-11-2020 18:14
  
  ROME — Italy’s coronavirus infections have leveled off after nearly a month of new restrictions, with another 26,323 new positive cases and stabilizing numbers in hospital intensive care units.
  But public health officials warned Saturday that the second wave of the outbreak is hardly under control, with 10 regions still declared high risk and the daily number of dead — 686 on Saturday — likely to be the last number to fall.
  At a briefing, members of Italy’s governme
  
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• Rough rescue: Storms, broken plane force layover for turtles

  28-11-2020 18:10
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Thirty endangered sea turtles rescued from the beaches of Cape Cod are now safe in New Orleans after their Thanksgiving travel plans went awry. The animals were rescued this fall after almost succumbing to cold ocean waters. They were being taken to a Louisiana rehabilitation center when bad weather and damage to a propeller grounded their plane in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Wildlife experts scrambled to find overnight homes for the turtles. They were then driven to New Orleans
  
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• Egypt leader in 1st South Sudan visit talks Nile, stability

  28-11-2020 17:50
  
  JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — In the first visit by an Egyptian president to South Sudan, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said he and President Salva Kiir discussed regional security and the usage of Nile waters, but he didn’t mention the country currently at the heart of either issue, Ethiopia. The statement after Saturday’s meeting made no mention of the deadly conflict inside neighboring Ethiopia, which is also in a dispute with Egypt over a massive dam that Addis Ababa is nearin
  
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• Ethiopia says its military now controls the Tigray capital

  28-11-2020 17:47
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s army chief of staff says the military has control of the capital of the defiant Tigray region, Mekele. And Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said in a separate statement Saturday, “We have entered Mekele without innocent civilians being targets.” Tigray TV earlier Saturday reported that the city was being “heavily bombarded.” With communications cut to the Tigray region, it is difficult to verify claims by the warring sides as Ethiopia
  
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• Ethiopia’s army chief of staff says the military has control of the capital of the defiant Tigray region, Mekele.

  28-11-2020 17:44
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s army chief of staff says the military has control of the capital of the defiant Tigray region, Mekele.The post Ethiopia’s army chief of staff says the military has control of the capital of the defiant Tigray region, Mekele. appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• To court Latinos, Democrats have to expand strategy in 2022

  28-11-2020 17:36
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Immigrant-rights and grassroots organizations that have been mobilizing Latinos in Arizona for nearly two decades helped propel Joe Biden to victory in a traditionally conservative state. But there wasn’t a blue shift in most statewide races or in some other parts of the country with large Latino populations, leaving questions about the future of Democratic candidates and how the party can capitalize on these gains in 2022 and 2024. In parts of the country where Democr
  
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• Pope elevates 13 new cardinals then puts them in their place

  28-11-2020 17:29
  
  ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has raised 13 new cardinals to the highest rank in the Catholic hierarchy. But he immediately warned them against using their new titles for corrupt ends during a formal ceremony marked from beginning to end by the coronavirus pandemic.Two new “princes” of the church _ from Brunei and the Philippines _ didn’t make the trip at all because of COVID-19 travel restrictions. And cardinals new and old wore protective masks throughout the unusually quick
  
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• Poland: Marches oppose abortion restriction, police violence

  28-11-2020 17:15
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Protesters have gathered in Warsaw and other Polish cities for a nationwide demonstration against an attempt to restrict abortion rights and the police violence that occurred in response to other recent protests over reproductive rights. In Warsaw, protesters “renamed” a downtown square where they have often met recently to Women’s Rights Roundabout. The protests in Krakow, Gdansk and other cities on Saturday were planned to coincide with Polish wome
  
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• The Latest: Dozens arrested in British anti-lockdown protest

  28-11-2020 17:09
  
  LONDON — British police have arrested dozens of people at an anti-lockdown demonstration in London.
  Anti-mask and anti-vaccine demonstrators, some with placards reading “stop controlling us” and “no more lockdowns,” marched along Oxford and Regent streets in the city’s central shopping district on Saturday.
  Police officers led several people away in handcuffs after protesters ignored requests to disperse. Several bottles and smoke bombs were thrown as some dem
  
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• French protesters decry bill outlawing use of police images

  28-11-2020 17:03
  
  PARIS (AP) — Thousands of critics of a proposed French security law that would restrict sharing images of police have gathered across the country in protest. Paris officers were advised to behave responsibly during Saturday’s demonstrations in the wake of footage showing police using violence becoming public. In Paris,  police fired tear gas to disperse protesters as scuffles broke out at the demonstration that numbered into the thousands, packing the sprawling Republique plaza
  
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• Wildcat Preview: UCLA

  28-11-2020 17:00
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) -- The Arizona Wildcats (0-2) hit the road for the second consecutive week and face the UCLA Bruins (1-2) this Saturday, Nov. 28 at the Rose Bowl. The game is slated to kick off at 6:00 p.m. MST with a television broadcast on FOX. Wildcat Preview: UCLAUA has not won in Pasadena since the Rob Gronkowski days of 2010. That 29-21 victory ten years ago propelled the Wildcats to a 7-1 start to that season. Arizona has lost a program record nine st
  
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• Correction: Rescued Dogs-Airlift story

  28-11-2020 16:58
  
  MACON, Ga. (AP) — In a story November 27, 2020, about dogs from Georgia being rescued and flown to areas around Washington, D.C., The Associated Press misattributed a quote in the story about the need for help in finding homes for animals. The quote was from the Lost Dog and Cat Rescue Foundation’s executive director, Dawn Wallace, not organization spokeswoman Kim Williams. The post Correction: Rescued Dogs-Airlift story appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Ethiopia’s Tigray capital reported to be ‘heavily bombarded’

  28-11-2020 16:42
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s military has launched an offensive on the Tigray regional capital in a quest to arrest the region’s defiant leaders. Tigray TV reports that the city is being “heavily bombarded.” Humanitarians confirmed the shelling on Saturday in Mekele, which immediately raised concerns about civilian casualties in the densely populated city of a half-million people. The government had warned Mekele residents there would be “no mercy” i
  
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• With no action by Washington, states race to offer virus aid

  28-11-2020 16:21
  
  SANTA FE, N.M (AP) — Governors and state lawmakers are racing to get pandemic relief to small business owners, the unemployed, renters and others whose livelihoods have been upended by the widening coronavirus outbreak. Some elected officials are spending the last of a federal relief package passed in the spring as an end-of-year deadline approaches. New Mexico is giving a one-time check to the unemployed. Colorado is looking to help schools, child care providers and other services, New Je
  
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• Arizona adds 4,136 new COVID-19 cases; 36 new deaths

  28-11-2020 16:21
  
  PHOENIX (KVOA) – Another 4,136 Arizonans tested positive for the coronavirus, the Arizona Department of Health Services said Saturday.AZDHS reported that 36 new deaths were also added to the state's dashboard.That brings the state’s documented totals to 322,774 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The death toll is 6,624.WHAT TO KNOW:Deaths are not recorded until the health department receives a death certificate naming COVID-19 as the cause of death.The data includes people who have re
  
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• Pope elevating 13 new cardinals in ceremony marked by COVID

  28-11-2020 15:50
  
  ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is formally elevating 13 new cardinals in a ceremony marked in every way by the coronavirus pandemic. Two of the cardinals stayed home, the rest eschewed the usual celebrations and St. Peter’s Basilica was practically empty for Saturday’s service. The ceremony, known as a consistory, is the seventh of Francis’ pontificate and once again reflected the Argentine pope’s effort to name cardinals from places that have never had them before or who
  
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• Azerbaijan: 4 dead in mine blast in newly retaken region

  28-11-2020 15:38
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Azerbaijani authorities say four people were killed and one injured when their car triggered an anti-tank mine in a region that was taken during recent fighting with Armenian forces. The general prosecutor’s office said the blast took place Saturday in the Fuzuli region.  Fuzuli had been under the control of Armenian forces since a 1990s war in and around the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region. Heavy fighting broke out in late September during which Azerbaijan rega
  
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• Protests over security bill take place across France

  28-11-2020 15:36
  
  PARIS (AP) — Thousands of critics of a proposed French security law that would restrict sharing images of police have gathered across the country in protest. Paris officers were advised to behave responsibly during Saturday’s demonstrations in the wake of footage showing police using violence becoming public. Dozens of rallies against a provision of the law that would make it a crime to publish photos or video of on-duty police officers with the intent of harming their “physica
  
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• Biden plans swift moves to protect and advance LGBTQ rights

  28-11-2020 15:02
  
  As vice president in 2012, Joe Biden endeared himself to many LGBTQ Americans by endorsing same-sex marriage even before his boss, President Barack Obama. Now, as president-elect, Biden is making sweeping promises to LGBTQ activists, proposing to carry out virtually every major proposal on their wish lists. One is to lift the Trump administration’s near-total ban on military service for transgender people. Biden also is backing a bill passed by the House last year that would extend federal
  
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• Black firefighters in NC allege racism amid larger reckoning

  28-11-2020 15:01
  
  WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A group of Black firefighters in a North Carolina city has filed a grievance citing racism and discrimination they have endured for more than 30 years. Black members of the Winston-Salem Fire Department allege two white captains talked about running over demonstrators protesting the police killing of George Floyd this summer. They also allege a firefighter made a noose during a rope and knots class in November 2017. The group wants Fire Chief William “Trey&
  
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• UK appoints vaccines minister to oversee COVID inoculations

  28-11-2020 14:20
  
  LONDON (AP) — The British government has appointed a vaccines minister as it prepares to inoculate millions of people against the coronavirus. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Conservative lawmaker Nadhim Zahawi will oversee the country’s biggest vaccine program in decades. The U.K. medicines regulator is assessing two vaccines, one developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the other by Oxford University and AstraZeneca. The Guardian newspaper reported Saturday that hospitals were told they
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trump distorts military role in vaccines

  28-11-2020 14:17
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — From the get-go, President Donald Trump has miscast or exaggerated the military’s role in his administration’s crash program to accelerate the development, production and eventual distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.
  The military theme originated in the May 15 announcement of the creation of Operation Warp Speed. Speaking from the Rose Garden, Trump likened the effort to the Manhattan Project, the military’s successful World War II program to engineer and
  
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• High court takes up census case, as other count issues loom

  28-11-2020 14:15
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments over whether the Trump administration can exclude people in the country illegally from the count used for divvying up congressional seats. But experts say other issues are looming large for the 2020 census as it heads into unchartered territory over the next two months. A host of not-previously-experienced variables could determine the final product of the nation’s once-a-decade head count. There are questions about whether the
  
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• The Latest: Britain appoints vaccines minister

  28-11-2020 14:10
  
  LONDON — The British government has appointed a vaccines minister as it prepares to inoculate millions of people against the coronavirus, potentially starting within days.
  Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Conservative lawmaker Nadhim Zahawi will oversee the country’s biggest vaccine program in decades.
  The U.K. medicines regulator is currently assessing two vaccines — one developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, the other by Oxford University and AstraZeneca — to see if they are sa
  
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• Ethiopian government begins offensive in Tigray capital city

  28-11-2020 13:48
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Ethiopian military has begun its offensive in the Tigray regional capital in its quest to arrest the region’s defiant leaders. Tigray TV announced the shelling midday Saturday in Mekele, a city of a half-million people. A report from the city confirms it. The Tigray leader could not immediately be reached. Ethiopia’s government did not immediately comment. Ethiopia’s government had warned Mekele residents there would be “no mercy” if
  
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• Ethiopia’s military offensive begins in capital of defiant Tigray region

  28-11-2020 13:42
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s military offensive begins in capital of defiant Tigray region.The post Ethiopia’s military offensive begins in capital of defiant Tigray region appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Protests over security bill planned across France

  28-11-2020 13:19
  
  PARIS (AP) — Critics of a proposed French security law in France that would restrict sharing images of police are gathering across the country in protest. Dozens of rallies are taking place against the controversial bill that was approved by the lower house of Parliament this week but still awaits a green light from the Senate. Civil liberties groups and journalists are concerned that the measure will stymie press freedoms and allow police brutality to go undiscovered and unpunished.  
  
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• UK, EU resume face-to-face trade talks with time running out

  28-11-2020 12:58
  
  LONDON (AP) — Teams from Britain and the European Union are resuming face-to-face talks on a post-Brexit trade deal, but both sides sound gloomy about striking an agreement in the little remaining time. EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier returned to London to meet his U.K. counterpart David Frost after completing a spell of self-isolation due to a coronavirus case among his team. Negotiations remain snagged over key issues including fishing rights and fair-competition rules, and Barnier sa
  
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• The Latest: British govt insists virus measures are needed

  28-11-2020 12:26
  
  LONDON — The British government is warning lawmakers who oppose strict coronavirus restrictions that the measures are the only way to avoid a surge that will overwhelm the health system.
  A four-week national lockdown in England is due to end Wednesday, and will be replaced by three-tier regional measures that restrict business activity, travel and socializing. The vast majority of the country is being put into the upper two tiers.
  Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces opposition from dozens o
  
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