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• Wildlife advocates sue US agency to protect Canada lynx

  01-12-2020 23:58
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Wildlife advocates have sued the federal government in a bid to force officials to do more to conserve Canada lynx, a snow-loving cat that has struggled to survive in parts of the U.S. West. Attorneys for Friends of the Wild Swan, Rocky Mountain Wild and other groups filed the legal complaint Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Montana. The move comes almost three years after the Fish and Wildlife Service said it planned to strip lynx in the U.S. of their threatened sp
  
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• La Russa scheduled to change plea in drunken driving case

  01-12-2020 23:58
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa is scheduled to change his plea to misdemeanor charges stemming from his drunken driving arrest nine months ago on a freeway in Phoenix. The Hall of Fame manager has previously pleaded not guilty to the two drunken driving charges. He is scheduled to change his plea on Dec. 21. Authorities say La Russa blew out a tire on the grey Lexus he was driving in a collision with a curb that left the vehicle smoking.The post La Russa scheduled t
  
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• Women plead guilty in sex sting involving Patriots owner

  01-12-2020 23:57
  
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Two of four women charged in a South Florida prostitution sting that also involved New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft have taken plea deals this week. Court records show 41-year-old Lei Wang and 60-year-old Shen Mingbi each pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count in Palm Beach County circuit court. Records show two other who worked at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter had previously reached deals with prosecutors. A misdemeanor charge against Kraft was
  
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• The Latest: Drug maker begins applying for vaccine approval

  01-12-2020 23:54
  
  NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Johnson & Johnson, one of the largest drugmakers developing a vaccine against COVID-19, on Tuesday began the process of applying for emergency approval of its vaccine from the European Medicines Agency and Health Canada.
  In what’s called a rolling submission, J&J’s Janssen Pharmaceutical business sent regulators in the EU and Canada early testing data from its experimental one-dose vaccine for preventing COVID-19. Rolling submissions are used to sp
  
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• Georgia elections official urges Trump to rein in supporters

  01-12-2020 23:54
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A top Georgia elections official has lashed out angrily at the rhetoric surrounding the election and the threats of violence that have resulted. Republican Gabriel Sterling on Tuesday specifically called on President Donald Trump to rein in his supporters. During a routine news conference at the state Capitol Tuesday to provide an update on the recount of the presidential race, Sterling admonished the president and Georgia’s two U.S. senators. The GOP senators are both
  
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• US panel: 1st vaccines to health care workers, nursing homes

  01-12-2020 23:50
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — An influential government advisory panel says health care workers and nursing home residents should be at the front of the line when the first coronavirus vaccine shots become available. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 13-1 on Tuesday to recommend priority be given to those groups in the first days of any coming vaccination program, when doses are expected to be very limited. The two priority groups encompass around 24 million Americans out of a U.S.
  
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• New-look Suns come out of bubble, into spotlight

  01-12-2020 23:30 via tucsonweekly.com
  
  PHOENIX – After a disrupted 2019-20 season that ended in a bubble at Walt Disney World, the Phoenix Suns have undergone an offseason makeover that they hope will build on their surprising 8-0 run in Orlando that followed the COVID-19 interruption. …
  
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• The Latest: Florida tops 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases

  01-12-2020 23:27
  
  MIAMI — Florida joined Texas and California in surpassing 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases Tuesday as the governor has vowed not to adopt any further restrictions or impose closures like those enacted in the spring and summer.Hospitalizations have also climbed in the state with 4,261 COVID-19 patients, up from 4,139 tallied on Monday.The figure is still less than half what hospitals saw in late July, but it has steadily climbed since October after plateauing at about 2,000 hospitalizatio
  
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• Senate GOP leader sticking with partisan COVID relief plan

  01-12-2020 23:25
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell says he’s sticking with his scaled-back COVID-19 relief bill with the goal of passing a significant downpayment during the lame-duck session and then revisiting the topic next year. The Kentucky Republican made the announcement after President-elect Joe Biden called upon lawmakers to follow a similar path. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi resumed talks with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin about a year-end spending package that could
  
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• Alabama sets February execution date for man in 1991 killing

  01-12-2020 23:17
  
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The state of Alabama has set a February execution date for a man convicting of the 1991 slaying of a woman abducted and shot in a cemetery. The Alabama Supreme Court ordered that 51-year-old Willie B. Smith III be put to death on Feb. 11 in the shotgun slaying of Sharma Ruth Johnson. Prosecutors said Smith abducted Johnson in October 1991 as she waited to use an ATM machine in Birmingham, withdrew money using her bank card and then took her to a cemetery where he sh
  
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• Pentagon official overseeing counter-IS effort forced out

  01-12-2020 23:05
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A defense official says the civilian overseeing the fight against the Islamic State militant group has been forced to resign his Pentagon post. Christopher Maier had directed the Pentagon’s counter-IS office since March 2017, shortly after President Donald Trump took office. The Pentagon says acting secretary of defense Christopher Miller accepted Maier’s resignation Monday. It is giving no reason for his departure. It says the office Maier oversaw would be ab
  
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• NTSB: Safety processes failed in crash that killed 7 bikers

  01-12-2020 23:01
  
  Federal investigators say systems meant to keep motorists safe failed to prevent a pickup driver on drugs from causing a 2019 crash in New Hampshire that killed seven motorcyclists. The National Transportation Safety Board unanimously approved a report Tuesday that determined that Volodymyr Zhukovskyy’s drug impairment was the “probable cause” for him crossing the center line on a rural highway. But it also blamed Massachusetts for allowing him to continue driving despite infra
  
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• Republican Nicole Malliotakis wins election to U.S. House in New York’s 11th Congressional District, beating incumbent Rep. Max Rose

  01-12-2020 22:51
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Nicole Malliotakis wins election to U.S. House in New York’s 11th Congressional District, beating incumbent Rep. Max Rose.The post Republican Nicole Malliotakis wins election to U.S. House in New York’s 11th Congressional District, beating incumbent Rep. Max Rose appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• American women settle lawsuit with U.S. Soccer Federation on unequal working conditions with men, to appeal wage claims

  01-12-2020 22:51
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — American women settle lawsuit with U.S. Soccer Federation on unequal working conditions with men, to appeal wage claims.The post American women settle lawsuit with U.S. Soccer Federation on unequal working conditions with men, to appeal wage claims appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• US Supreme Court asked to block Biden win in Pennsylvania

  01-12-2020 22:44
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republicans attempting to undo President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up their lawsuit, three days after it was thrown out by the battleground state’s highest court. Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly of northwestern Pennsylvania and the other plaintiffs want the court to prevent the state from certifying any contests from the Nov. 3 election, and undo any certifications already made, such as Biden&rsquo
  
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• ‘Big Sky’ producers recognize Native American criticism

  01-12-2020 22:44
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Native American tribes and coalitions are condemning “Big Sky,” a Montana-set ABC drama. They say it ignores the history of violence inflicted on Indigenous women and instead makes whites the crime victims. But the groups also assailed the network and the show’s producers for failing to respond to their complaints, which they first made known in mid-November. The makers of “Big Sky” broke their silence Tuesday. The executive producers said i
  
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• The Latest: North Carolina to get vaccine from US government

  01-12-2020 22:38
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said on Tuesday that North Carolina will soon receive nearly 85,000 doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine from the federal government.
  Frontline healthcare workers at hospitals will be the first to get vaccinated, followed by other health workers and vulnerable populations, such as people with at least two comorbidities.
  Mandy Cohen, secretary of the state’s Department of Health and Human Services, says North Carolina will receive
  
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• Thomas sees room for improvement after another strong year

  01-12-2020 22:34
  
  Justin Thomas won two times this year on the PGA Tour and that puts him in elite company. He’s the first player since Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson a decade ago to win multiple PGA Tour events in four consecutive years. But that’s still not good enough for Thomas. He keeps thinking about the ones that got away. Thomas twice had 54-hole leads and didn’t win. He also had the 18-hole lead at the U.S. Open and shared the 36-hole lead at the Masters. Thomas says thinking about what
  
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• Ex-Honolulu police lieutenant sentenced in conspiracy case

  01-12-2020 22:32
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — A judge sentenced a former Honolulu police lieutenant to three-and-a-half years in prison for helping a now-retired police chief and his now-estranged, ex-prosecutor wife frame a relative as part of a wide-ranging conspiracy aimed at preserving the couple’s lavish lifestyle.  The judge said Tuesday that Derek Wayne Hahn was less culpable in the plot than former Chief Louis Kealoha, who was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison. The judge said Kealoha’s
  
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• Enbridge starts construction on Line 3 in Minnesota

  01-12-2020 22:32
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Enbridge Energy has begun construction on its Line 3 crude oil pipeline replacement in Minnesota. The action Tuesday comes a day after state regulators approved the final permit for the $2.6 billion project. Spokeswoman Juli Kellner said Enbridge began construction in several locations around the state in the morning. Enbridge spent years pursuing permits for the project before the last one, a construction stormwater permit, was granted Monday by the Minnesota Pollution
  
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• Parents of Arizona children killed in flood plead not guilty

  01-12-2020 22:29
  
  GLOBE, Ariz. (AP) — A couple whose two children and a niece drowned in Arizona floodwaters have pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and child abuse charges. KPHO-TV reported Daniel Rawlings and Lacey Rawlings were arraigned in Gila County Superior Court Tuesday. Daniel Rawlings was indicted by a grand jury on three counts of reckless manslaughter and seven counts of child abuse. Lacey Rawlings was indicted on seven counts of child abuse. The Rawlings were charged in connection with the deat
  
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• 2017 ban on local LGBT ordinances ends in North Carolina

  01-12-2020 22:28
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A 3 1/2-year ban on new local ordinances aimed at protecting LGBT rights in North Carolina has expired. The expiration of the moratorium Tuesday prompted gay rights groups to urge the passage of such measures. The ordinances would prohibit LGBT discrimination at workplaces, hotels and restaurants. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper agreed to the moratorium on the ordinances in March 2017. In return, GOP lawmakers agreed to eliminate a provision of a 2016 law that required tran
  
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• Ex-Arizona politician gets 6 years in adoption scheme

  01-12-2020 22:21
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A former Arizona politician who admitted running an illegal adoption scheme in three states involving women from the Marshall Islands was sentenced in Arkansas to six years in federal prison. The sentence issued Tuesday to former Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen is the first of three punishments he’ll face for arranging adoptions prohibited by an international compact. Authorities say Petersen illegally paid women from the Pacific Ocean nation to come to the Unit
  
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• Salesforce to buy work chat service Slack for $27.7 billion

  01-12-2020 22:12
  
  Business software pioneer Salesforce.com is buying work chatting service Slack for $27.7 billion in a deal aimed at giving the two companies a better shot at competing against one of the industry’s longtime powerhouses. The acquisition announced Tuesday is by far the largest in the 21-year history of Salesforce, a San Francisco company that was one of the first to begin selling software as a subscription service that could be used on any internet-connected device instead of the more cumber
  
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• Strong start to December as S&P 500 index sets another high

  01-12-2020 22:09
  
  Stocks scored more record highs on Wall Street Tuesday, a day after the S&P 500 closed out November with its biggest monthly gain since April. The benchmark index climbed 1.1% while the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 1.3%. Both beat the all-time highs they set on Friday. Stocks have been ramping higher in recent weeks as investors focus on the possibility that coronavirus vaccines could soon help usher in a fuller global economic recovery. The Dow Jones Industrial Average hovered just below 30,000.
  
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• 5 dead, many injured after German man drives car into crowd

  01-12-2020 21:54
  
  BERLIN (AP) — German officials say a man zig-zagged an SUV at high speed through a pedestrian zone in the southwestern German city of Trier, killing five people, including a 9-month-old child, and seriously injuring more than a dozen. The driver, identified as a 51-year-old German man born in Trier, was arrested at the scene and the vehicle was impounded, Trier police said. Footage from the scene Tuesday showed people outside a shop apparently helping someone on the ground lying among scat
  
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• City offers reward in case of random ambushes on pedestrians

  01-12-2020 21:50
  
  WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts city is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in a series of unprovoked attacks on male pedestrians walking alone. Officials in Waltham said Tuesday that at least 10 men have been targeted since Nov. 10. Police Chief Keith MacPherson said it appears that the face-covered assailant sneaks up on victims from behind after dark. Police think the attacker uses some sort of weapon to strike the victims, some of whom
  
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• Argentina cops search office of 2nd doctor in Maradona case

  01-12-2020 21:44
  
  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The investigation into Diego Maradona’s death has brought police raids on the office and home of the psychiatrist who cared for the soccer star and is being investigated for possible medical negligence. Officers on Tuesday entered an apartment used by Agustina Cosachov for consultations in Buenos Aires, while another group of police searched her private home. The search came two days after police raided the office and home of a neurosurgeon who particip
  
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• Pushed to rush, FDA head says feds will get vaccine ‘right’

  01-12-2020 21:43
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the agency responsible for approving COVID-19 vaccines says federal officials will take the time needed to get the vaccine right. That’s despite increasing pressure and growing frustrations from President Donald Trump that approval is taking too long. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn spoke not long after he was summoned to the White House by Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows to discuss vaccine development. Hahn says it&rsquo
  
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• Senate GOP leader says he’s revising his COVID relief plan

  01-12-2020 21:41
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell says he’s revising his scaled-back COVID-19 relief bill with the goal of passing a significant downpayment during the lame-duck session and then revisiting the topic next year. The Kentucky Republican made the announcement after President-elect Joe Biden called upon lawmakers to follow a similar path. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi resumed talks with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin about a year-end spending package that could incl
  
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• After White House test, Pa. senator calls COVID-19 case mild

  01-12-2020 21:39
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Republican state lawmaker from Pennsylvania says he’s been diagnosed with COVID-19. He confirmed the positive test result five days after he went to the White House to meet with President Donald Trump and went maskless at a packed public meeting to discuss efforts to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. State Sen. Doug Mastriano first revealed the diagnosis in a Facebook live video Monday night, one day after The Associated Press reported that
  
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• The Latest: Alabama doctor expects ‘tidal wave’ of cases

  01-12-2020 21:34
  
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A health official says Alabama hospitals treating a record number of COVID-19 patients are bracing for a “tidal wave” of additional cases linked to holiday gatherings.Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo of the University of Alabama at Birmingham says health care systems could be overwhelmed within two or three weeks. The Alabama Hospital Association says only 11% of the state’s intensive care beds were available Monday. The remaining spaces could be filled as more pati
  
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• Visitor: Monolith toppled by group who said ‘leave no trace’

  01-12-2020 21:28
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — New clues have surfaced in the disappearance of a gleaming monolith in Utah that seemed to melt away as mysteriously as it appeared in the red-rock desert. A Colorado photographer told a TV station in Salt Lake City that he saw four men push over the hollow, stainless steel structure in Utah on Friday night. Authorities have said they aren’t planning an investigation but that they would accept tips from the hundreds of visitors who trekked out to see the gleamin
  
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• UN: 11 children killed in 2 attacks in Yemen

  01-12-2020 21:22
  
  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency says at least 11 children have been killed in Yemen in two separate attacks in the past three days. They include a 1-month-old baby. Yemen’s grinding war pits a Saudi-led coalition supporting the country’s internationally recognized government against the Iranian backed Houthis. The internationally recognized government blamed the Houthis for the attacks. A spokesman for the Houthis did not immediately respond to a request fo
  
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• ‘Very dark couple of weeks’: Morgues and hospitals overflow

  01-12-2020 21:18
  
  Nearly 37,000 people died of COVID-19 in the U.S. in November, the most since the dark early days of the pandemic. It’s engulfing families in grief, filling obituary pages of small-town newspapers and testing the capacity of morgues, funeral homes and hospitals. States have begun reopening field hospitals to handle an influx of patients that is pushing health care systems — and their workers — to the breaking point. Hospitals are bringing in mobile morgues. And funerals are bei
  
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• Turkish Cypriot leader wants new direction for Cyprus talks

  01-12-2020 21:12
  
  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar says efforts to resolve Cyprus’ ethnic division should start fresh and aim to achieve a two-state deal, because decades of negotiations for a federation-based agreement have got nowhere. Tatar was speaking after meeting on Tuesday with United Nations envoy Jane Holl Lute who arrived on the island nation to scope out chances of resuming peace talks that have remained dormant since 2017. The majority Greek Cypriots reject any a
  
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• 9 new Catholic priests named in Colorado sex abuse report

  01-12-2020 21:12
  
  A new report has found evidence that nine more Catholic priests sexually abused children going back to the 1950s. The follow-up report on abuse in the state’s Catholic Church was released Tuesday by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser. The new priests named include the late Rev. Charles B. Woodrich, known as Father Woody, who worked with Denver’s homeless. In all, the review agreed to by the church and the attorney general last year has found that a total of 212 children were abuse
  
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• 49ers prepared for ‘bumps in the road’ on 3-week trip

  01-12-2020 21:11
  
  The San Francisco 49ers are set to embark on an unusual three-week road trip after being kicked out of their stadium and practice facility because of strict new COVID-19 protocols in their home county in Northern California. The Niners will fly to Arizona, where they will practice, live and play their next two games after Santa Clara County imposed a three-week ban on games and practices for contact sports. Coach Kyle Shanahan says he expects some “bumps in the road” but that his tea
  
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• Barr appoints special counsel in Russia probe investigation

  01-12-2020 21:06
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr has given extra protection to the prosecutor he appointed to investigate the origins of the Trump- ussia investigation, giving him the authority of a special counsel to allow him to complete his work without being easily fired. Barr told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he had appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham as a special counsel in October under the same federal statute that governed special counsel Robert Mueller’s in the origi
  
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• Pentagon official overseeing counter-IS effort has resigned

  01-12-2020 21:01
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says the civilian official overseeing the fight against the Islamic State militant group has resigned. Christopher Maier had directed the Pentagon’s counter-IS office since March 2017, shortly after President Donald Trump took office. The Pentagon says acting secretary of defense Christopher Miller accepted Maier’s resignation on Monday. It gave no reason for his departure. It said the office that Maier oversaw would be absorbed by the counterterr
  
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• Barr appoints Durham special counsel to keep investigating Russia probe origins under new administration

  01-12-2020 21:00
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Barr appoints Durham special counsel to keep investigating Russia probe origins under new administration.The post Barr appoints Durham special counsel to keep investigating Russia probe origins under new administration appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• ‘All my love, Elliot’: Actor Page comes out as transgender

  01-12-2020 21:00
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Oscar-nominated actor who starred in  “Juno,” “Inception” and “The Umbrella Academy” has come out as transgender with the name of Elliot Page. He made the announcement Tuesday in a moment greeted as a watershed for the trans community in Hollywood. The 33-year-old actor from Nova Scotia says his decision came after a long journey and with much support from the LGBTQ community. Page says his pronouns are “he” and &ldqu
  
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• DeVos says free college amounts to a ‘socialist takeover’

  01-12-2020 20:54
  
  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is taking a veiled swing at President-elect Joe Biden. DeVos is blasting the push for free college as a “socialist takeover of higher education” that could damage the “already fragile economy.” DeVos didn’t mention Biden by name during an online conference. But she is railing against “politicians” who want to cancel federal student debt or make college free. DeVos has long opposed free college proposals and has been accuse
  
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• Authorities end search in river for missing Columbia woman

  01-12-2020 20:48
  
  COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Authorities in central Missouri are finished searching a section of river for the remains of a Chinese woman who’s been missing for more than a year. Columbia police say they found no evidence related to Mengqi Ji during a search of part of the Lamine River outside Boonville. Ji was reported missing in October 2019. Her husband, Joseph Elledge, was charged in February with first-degree murder in her death. He’s also charged with abusing the couple’s y
  
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• Sierra Vista schools back to remote learning

  01-12-2020 20:46
  
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  SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (KVOA) - Schools in Sierra Vista are back to remote learning due to the recent data from health officials on the coronavirus.
  The Sierra Vista Unified School District made the announcement of suspending in-person learning on Facebook Monday night.According to the post, students will be able to return to campuses once all three benchmarks are met.The post Sierra Vista schools back to remote learning appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Nestle, Cargill at high court in child labor case

  01-12-2020 20:42
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed concerned Tuesday about the impact of siding with food giants Nestle and Cargill and ending a lawsuit that claims they knowingly bought cocoa beans from farms in Africa that used child slave labor. The court was hearing arguments in the case by phone because of the coronavirus pandemic. If the court were to accept Nestle and Cargill’s arguments, that could further limit the ability of victims of human rights abuses abroad to use U.S. courts
  
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• Netanyahu rival threatens to end coalition, force election

  01-12-2020 20:41
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief governing partner says he will vote in favor of a proposal to dissolve their troubled coalition, accusing the Israeli leader of repeatedly breaking his promises and pushing Israel closer to its fourth election in two years. Tuesday’s announcement by Defense Minister Benny Gantz that he would vote in favor of a preliminary no-confidence measure did not immediately cause the government to collapse. Rather, Gantz i
  
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• The Latest: Panel to recommend who gets first U.S. vaccines

  01-12-2020 20:30
  
  NEW YORK — An influential scientific panel is set to tackle one of the most pressing questions in the U.S. coronavirus epidemic: Who should get the first vaccines when they become available?
  The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet in an open-to-the-public, virtual meeting to vote on a proposal that would give priority to health care workers and patients in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. The two groups together represent around 23 million Americans out
  
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• Arizona vs. Colorado basketball game postponed

  01-12-2020 20:26
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - The Pac-12 announced Tuesday morning that the University of Arizona Men's basketball game against Colorado has been postponed.
  The announcement comes after Colorado does not have the minimum number of players to compete due to COVID-19 issues.
  The game was scheduled for Wednesday.Conference officials say they are working with both teams to reschedule the game.The post Arizona vs. Colorado basketball game postponed appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• NTSB: Pickup driver’s drug use critical in death of 7 bikers

  01-12-2020 20:24
  
  The National Transportation Safety Board has found that a pickup driver’s drug use was the reason for a crash that killed seven New Hampshire motorcyclists. The board on Tuesday unanimously approved a report that determined that Volodymyr Zhukovskyy’s impairment from the drugs was the “probable cause” for him crossing the center line on a rural highway in June 2019. Investigators told the board he had drugs in his system and likely hit the motorcyclists because he was imp
  
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