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• Who did it? TV viewers intrigued by HBO’s ‘The Undoing’

  02-12-2020 23:55
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — HBO’s ‘The Undoing’ proved that it’s still possible for a word-of-mouth hit to emerge in today’s fragmented world of television and streaming. The Nielsen company said some 3 million people watched Sunday to learn the mystery’s resolution in the limited series starring Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman. That number is certain to rise exponentially in the coming weeks. HBO says it was the first time in the network’s history that every epi
  
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• Ex-French leader Valery Giscard d’Estaing dies at age 94

  02-12-2020 23:45
  
  PARIS (AP) — French officials say former President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, who became a champion of European integration during his 1974-1981 presidency, has died at the age of 94. Giscard d’Estaing had recently been hospitalized in Tours, in central France. His office did not provide further details on his death. Born in 1926, Giscard d’Estaing served in the Free French army that helped liberate France during World War II. Charles de Gaulle named him finance minister a
  
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• US to block goods from Chinese company over rights abuses

  02-12-2020 23:42
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will block imports from a major Chinese producer of cotton goods for its suspected use of workers detained as part of a crackdown on ethnic minorities in China’s northwest. The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps was already on a U.S. Treasury sanctions list that barred American companies from doing business with the company. A measure announced Wednesday by Customs and Border Protection detains any shipments at U.S. ports. It is the sixth time in re
  
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• The Latest: Biden gives dire virus warning for next 2 months

  02-12-2020 23:39
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):
  5:40 p.m.
  President-elect Joe Biden has issued a dire warning about the spread of the coronavirus over the next two months, predicting as many as 250,000 deaths.
  Biden, who has warned of a “dark winter” ahead, did not offer details to back up his assessment, which is far bleaker than projections by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other experts. His transition team did not immediately
  
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• Former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing has died at the age of 94, his office and the French presidency say

  02-12-2020 23:35
  
  PARIS (AP) — Former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing has died at the age of 94, his office and the French presidency say.The post Former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing has died at the age of 94, his office and the French presidency say appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Building collapses in Egypt; officials say at least 6 dead

  02-12-2020 23:32
  
  CAIRO (AP) — An apartment building has collapsed in Egypt’s Mediterranean city of Alexandria, and officials say at least six people are dead. One official says rescue workers are looking for any survivors trapped under the rubble of the three-story building that fell Wednesday in the Moharam Bek neighborhood. Police have cordoned off the area, keeping back the curious and those apparently looking for relatives in the building. Alexandria Gov. Mohammed el-Sharif says initial reports s
  
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• Rafer Johnson, 1960 Olympic decathlon champion, dies at 86

  02-12-2020 23:28
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin in 1968, has died. He was 86. Family friend Michael Roth says Johnson died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. No cause was announced. Johnson was among the world’s greatest athletes from 1955 through his Olympic triumph in 1960. He lit the torch at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. In June 1968, Johnson was with Kennedy at a hotel in Los Angeles when the
  
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• Gloria Estefan reveals she caught COVID-19, is now recovered

  02-12-2020 23:25
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Cuban-born singer Gloria Estefan said she’s emerging from isolation after testing positive for COVID-19, days after dining outdoors at a Miami-area restaurant. Estefan says she fortunately only lost her sense of smell and taste and had “a little bit of a cough” and dehydration. In a video shared on Instagram, she says she’s since tested negative. The Grammy-winning artist urged everyone to protect themselves and keep their distance, saying there is &ldq
  
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• 2,500 ballots to be inspected in suit by Arizona GOP chief

  02-12-2020 23:23
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — County officials agreed to expand their inspection of certain ballots in metro Phoenix being challenged in a Republican lawsuit that seeks to reverse Joe Biden’s victory in the state. Arizona GOP chief Kelli Ward filed a lawsuit contesting the election results and is looking for irregularities among ballots that were duplicated by officials because voters’ earlier ballots were damaged or couldn’t be tabulated. She requested a broader ballot examination afte
  
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• Iowa Democrat to challenge 6-vote loss in appeal to US House

  02-12-2020 23:20
  
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Democratic congressional candidate in Iowa who trailed by six votes after a recount says she will forgo further legal challenges in the state and appeal directly to the U.S. House of Representatives for further review. Rita Hart’s campaign had until Wednesday to contest the election under Iowa law following Monday’s certification of results in which Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks was declared the winner of the closest House race in decades. Hart&rs
  
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• Building collapses in Egypt; officials say at least 5 dead

  02-12-2020 23:19
  
  CAIRO (AP) — An apartment building has collapsed in Egypt’s Mediterranean city of Alexandria, and officials say at least five people are dead. One official says rescue workers are looking for any survivors trapped under the rubble of the three-story building that fell Wednesday in the Moharam Bek neighborhood. Police have cordoned off the area, keeping back the curious and those apparently looking for relatives in the building. Alexandria Gov. Mohammed el-Sharif says initial reports
  
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• Mexico president’s chief of staff resigns; stays link to biz

  02-12-2020 23:10
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The chief of staff to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has resigned, but the president says Alfonso Romo will continue to be his “main liaison” to the business sector. Wednesday’s announcement marked the latest chapter in López Obrador’s tense and often troubled relations with the business community. It also was at least the fourth major Cabinet resignation in the president’s first two years in office. Romo
  
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• Judges affirm firings of 2 cops in Laquan McDonald shooting

  02-12-2020 23:07
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Two judges in separate rulings declined to overrule a police review board that ordered the firing of two officers who were accused of helping cover up the 2014 shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald by a fellow officer. The Chicago Tribune reports that the rulings in the firings of Sgt. Stephen Franko and Officer Daphne Sebastian were made last month. Franko was fired for approving reports by other officers that were not consistent the dashcam video of Officer Jason Van
  
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• NASA: Mystery object is 54-year-old rocket, not asteroid

  02-12-2020 23:06
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have confirmed that a mysterious object temporarily orbiting Earth is a 54-year-old rocket, not an asteroid after all. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Wednesday that observations by a telescope in Hawaii clinched its identity. The object was classified as an asteroid after its discovery in September. But NASA’s top asteroid expert suspected it was the upper Centaur rocket stage from a failed 1966 moon-landing mission. He was proven r
  
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• Survey finds race- and sex-based harassment ‘common’ at FEMA

  02-12-2020 23:02
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a quarter of employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency say they have been harassed or discriminated against based on their gender or race. That’s according to a survey released Wednesday as part of the fallout from allegations of sexual harassment by a senior official at the agency. The survey by the RAND Corp. found that such civil rights violations were “common” at FEMA, reported by about 29% of the employees surveyed last year. FE
  
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• The Latest: Nebraska may get shipments of vaccine in 2 weeks

  02-12-2020 22:48
  
  OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska could gets its first shipments of a coronavirus vaccine in less than two weeks if the proposed drug wins federal approval, but health care workers will be given first priority and the general public may not get access until April, state officials said Wednesday.
  Gov. Pete Ricketts said the state tentatively expects to receive 15,600 doses of a vaccine produced by the drug manufacturer Pfizer the week of Dec. 13. Another 19,500 doses from the company are slated to arr
  
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• Midday fireball, boom thrill gazers from Ontario to Virginia

  02-12-2020 22:47
  
  SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A noontime boom that was heard and felt from southern Ontario to Virginia was likely caused by a disintegrating meteor. Robert Lunsford of the American Meteor Society says witnesses across the region reported hearing the boom or seeing a fireball in the sky shortly after noon on Wednesday. Police agencies and fire departments around central New York received 911 calls reporting a boom that shook windows. The American Meteor Society, based in Geneseo, received 78 repor
  
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• Austin mayor went to Mexico while urging people to stay home

  02-12-2020 22:44
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Austin Mayor Steve Adler went on vacation to Mexico with family in November at a time when he was urging people to stay home amid worsening coronavirus caseloads in Texas. The trip was revealed Wednesday by the Austin American-Statesman. It’s the latest example  example of a public official who has pleaded for vigilance in the face of growing hospitalizations across the U.S. seeming to not heed their own guidance. Adler, a Democrat, told the newspaper his ac
  
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• US Air Force appeals ruling against urban training in Idaho

  02-12-2020 22:36
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Air Force is appealing a federal court ruling preventing exercises that had military jets coordinating with plain-clothed soldiers on the ground in cities in Idaho as part of an urban warfare training program. The Air Force filed the appeal with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday. The military says air support for ground forces is increasingly required in urban combat areas. U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy Dale ruled in October that the Air Force viola
  
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• Biden facing growing pressure over secretary of defense pick

  02-12-2020 22:31
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is facing escalating pressure from competing factions within his own party as he finalizes his choice for secretary of defense. Black leaders have encouraged the incoming president to select an African American to diversify what has so far been an all-white prospective Cabinet, while others are pushing him to appoint a woman to lead the Department of Defense for the first time. Meanwhile, a growing collection of progressives opposes the leading f
  
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• Hospitals call on Arizona to act as COVID-19 surge mounts

  02-12-2020 22:28
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Top hospital officials across Arizona are urging the state to take more action to stop the spread of COVID-19, making a bleak projection of a health care system that could go beyond capacity later this month. Officials at the state’s largest health system Banner Health warned Wednesday that it could surpass its hospital bed capacity as early as next week. The system’s chief clinical officer was one of eight hospital leaders who signed a letter calling on Arizona&
  
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• Judge says no to digging up remains of President Harding

  02-12-2020 22:27
  
  MARION, Ohio (AP) — A judge has denied a request to dig up the remains of President Warren Harding. The grandson of Harding and a lover wanted the remains of the nation’s the 29th president exhumed “to establish with scientific certainty” that they are related. Harding’s legal heirs oppose the move. They say they already have accepted DNA evidence that James Blaesing’s mother was the daughter of Harding and Nan Britton. The judge in Ohio says there’s no
  
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• Pasadena bucks Los Angeles County to offer alfresco dining

  02-12-2020 22:24
  
  PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The city of Pasadena has kept outdoor dining open despite Los Angeles County restricting restaurants to takeout to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. A surge of COVID-19 cases last week in the nation’s most populous county led to a three-week end to outdoor dining and then a broader stay-home order that took effect Monday. Officials in the city famous for its Rose Parade said they chose more aggressive enforcement because Pasadena is smaller than other citi
  
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• Cox Communication store manager in Chandler accused of theft

  02-12-2020 22:14
  
  CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) —  Police in Chandler say the manager of a Cox Communications store is facing felony theft charges after being arrested on suspicion of embezzlement. They say Placido Vasquez allegedly stole about $68,000 between July 2018 and April 2020. Police started an investigation at Cox’s request in late June and Vazquez was arrested on Nov. 22. They say as the store manager, Vasquez allegedly manipulated computer entry payments by customers showing they paid. Police
  
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• Stock indexes shake off a weak start and end mostly higher

  02-12-2020 22:10
  
  Stocks shook off early losses and managed to end mostly higher on Wall Street, even as weakness in technology companies weighed on major U.S. indexes. The S&P 500 edged up 0.2% Wednesday after trading lower for much of the day. The Nasdaq fell slightly and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ticked up 0.2%. Salesforce.com sank after announcing a deal late Tuesday to buy messaging platform Slack for $27.7 billion. The mixed trading came as investors become more optimistic that coronavirus vaccin
  
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• Eyeball sculpture damaged in Dallas protest being repaired

  02-12-2020 22:08
  
  DALLAS (AP) — A large sculpture of an eyeball in downtown Dallas is in the process of being repaired after it was tagged with graffiti during a protest following George Floyd’s death. The 30-foot-high sculpture that was installed in 2013 was tagged with graffiti on May 29. The message “NOW UC US,” along with Floyd’s initials and his words, “I can’t breathe,” were spray-painted on the sculpture. Sculptor Tony Tasset says a lot of the graffiti has no
  
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• France and UN rally aid for Lebanon, urge political reforms

  02-12-2020 22:02
  
  PARIS (AP) — France and the United Nations have vowed to keep providing humanitarian aid to the Lebanese people but urged the country’s leaders to form a new government as a political deadlock has blocked billions of dollars in assistance for the cash-strapped country. A Wednesday meeting organized by France and the United Nations was the second held since the Aug. 4 explosion that killed more than 200 people, destroyed Beirut’s port and wrecked much of the capital. French Pres
  
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• Restaurant jaunts create credibility issue for politicians

  02-12-2020 21:38
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Several California politicians have been called out in the last month for their dining choices that violate the state’s rules aimed at slowing the spread of coronavirus. Gov. Gavin Newsom, San Francisco Mayor London Breed and a Los Angeles County supervisor all dined outdoors, conflicting with their own messaging to stay home. San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo acknowledged spending Thanksgiving at his parents’ house with five different households. The dinners cre
  
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• Tucson Mayor Regina Romero to hold virtual State of the City

  02-12-2020 21:34
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) – Tucson Mayor Regina Romero will address the community Wednesday night.Romero, alongside the City of Tucson, Tucson Metro Chamber and Visit Tucson will hold a virtual State of the City event.For years, this event has been a platform to the city officials to address the community and share future plans.
  Good morning, Tucson! Don't forget to tune in tomorrow at 5pm to watch my first State of the City. We've been through so much this year and have much to look forward to. Join
  
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• Pizza Hut co-founder Frank Carney dies from pneumonia at 82

  02-12-2020 21:31
  
  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Frank Carney, who with his brother started the Pizza Hut empire in Wichita, has died from pneumonia. He was 82. The Wichita Eagle reports that Carney had recently recovered from COVID-19, but had Alzheimer’s disease for more than a decade. Family members say he died at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday at an assisted living facility in Wichita. He was a 19-year-old student at Wichita State University when he and his then 26-year-old brother, Dan, borrowed $600 in 1958 from the
  
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• Lon Adams, Slim Jim jerky recipe creator, dies of COVID-19

  02-12-2020 21:26
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Alonzo “Lon” T. Adams II, the man who created the formula for Slim Jim beef jerky sticks, has died from complications of COVID-19. Lynn Barrow of Brown-Wynne Funeral Home in Raleigh confirmed Adams died on Nov. 28. He was 95. A funeral service was held Wednesday. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports Adams was a World War II veteran who survived the Battle of the Bulge despite being shot in the head. Today’s Slim Jims are the result of Adams&rsqu
  
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• Washington state to boost workers’ comp rates for Amazon

  02-12-2020 21:19
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — A labor agency in Washington state has announced that it will increase workers’ compensation rates for Amazon fulfillment centers, deeming them more hazardous than other types of warehouses. The Seattle Times reports that the state Department of Labor and Industries has boosted the company’s premium rates by 15% starting Jan. 1. Previously, Amazon fulfillment centers were grouped with other kinds of warehouses when calculating premium rates, which are in part bas
  
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• The Latest: Pfizer CEO urges patience on reopening economies

  02-12-2020 21:17
  
  ATHENS, Greece — Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla urged global governments not to reopen economies too quickly because of the optimism created by possible COVID-19 vaccines.
  “Given the pressure to open the economy, (governments) should not make this mistake…and relax immediately,” said Bourla, speaking at an online event hosted in his native Greece.
  “The vaccine is one tool in controlling this disease…The time that we will have to go back to normality is not far awa
  
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• Top Democrats swing behind bipartisan coronavirus aid bill

  02-12-2020 21:14
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic leaders have swung behind a bipartisan COVID-19 relief effort. They’re cutting their demands for a $2 trillion-plus measure by more than half in hopes of breaking a monthslong logjam and delivering much-sought aid at the end of a tempestuous congressional session. It’s aimed at budging Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who so far has been unwilling to abandon a $550 million Senate GOP plan that has failed twice this fall. The new plan would es
  
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• Arizona’s Kelly is sworn into Senate, narrowing GOP edge

  02-12-2020 21:14
  
  NBC News ChannelWASHINGTON (AP) — Arizona Democrat and former astronaut Mark Kelly has been sworn into the Senate.Kelly defeated Republican Sen. Martha McSally in last month's election.
  By taking office, Kelly has narrowed GOP control of the Senate to a 52-48 advantage.
  That won't do much to weaken Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's control of the chamber.
  But it does set the stage for the two runoff Senate elections in Georgia in January.
  If Democrats win both of those races, they
  
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• The Sundance Film Festival goes largely virtual for 2021

  02-12-2020 21:09
  
  Leave the snow boots, parkas and glove warmers in the closet, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival is coming down from the mountain and straight to your living room. Organizers on Wednesday said that this year they will premiere over 70 films on a custom online platform during the seven day event. There will also be some socially distanced screening opportunities around the country. The festival has been preparing for various scenarios for months as the pandemic has raged on. The festival this year r
  
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• Oklahoma’s 40-foot ‘leg lamp’ honors iconic Christmas movie

  02-12-2020 21:02
  
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  We have a story about a major award in Oklahoma.And we triple-dog dare ya' to check it out.It's a leg lamp, very much like the one that became famous in the movie "A Christmas Story."Except this one is 40-feet tall.It's displayed as part of the annual festival of light in Chickasha, about 40-miles southwest of Oklahoma City.The idea is the brainchild of a local economic council official.He says he hopes it gives travelers a good reason to stop in Chickasha.The festival,
  
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• Proposition 207: What happens before recreational marijuana becomes legal in Arizona?

  02-12-2020 21:00
  
  PHOENIX – Recreational use of marijuana will soon be legal in Arizona, thanks to Proposition 207’s easy passage, but economic and logistical hurdles remain before Arizonans will feel the effects. …
  
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• Nurses wanted: Swamped hospitals scramble for pandemic help

  02-12-2020 20:55
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — U.S. hospitals slammed with COVID-19 patients are trying to lure nurses and doctors out of retirement, recruiting students and new graduates who have yet to earn their licenses and offering eye-popping salaries in a desperate effort to ease staffing shortages. The number of U.S. patients in the hospital with the virus has more than doubled over the past month to a record high of nearly 100,000, pushing medical centers and health care workers to the breaking point.The pos
  
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• Illinois speaker’s friend, 3 others enter bribery case pleas

  02-12-2020 20:54
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Four people, including a close friend of Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, have entered not guilty pleas in a federal bribery case alleging a scheme with the state’s largest utility. The pleas were entered Wednesday, weeks after they were charged with federal counts of bribery and conspiracy. Among those who entered pleas was Michael McClain, a one-time state lawmaker and close friend of Madigan. The others are former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggirore, lobbyist and for
  
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• Ex-NFL player Carlos Rogers pleads guilty in fraud scheme

  02-12-2020 20:47
  
  LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A 12th former NFL player has pleaded guilty in Kentucky in a multimillion-dollar health-fraud scheme. Former Washington Football Team and San Francisco 49ers cornerback Carlos Rogers pleaded guilty Monday to one charge of conspiring to defraud a program set up to reimburse former players for out-of-pocket medical expenses. Prosecutors allege the players targeted the Gene Upshaw NFL Player Health Reimbursement Account Plan. The plan provides tax-free reimbursement of o
  
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• Hungarian politician resigns party after Belgium party bust

  02-12-2020 20:40
  
  BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A former European Parliament lawmaker from Hungary has resigned from his country’s ruling party after being swept up in a scandal involving what media reports called an orgy that Brussels police broke up amid a covornavirus lockdown. Jozsef Szajer resigned as a member of Hungary’s ultra-conservative Fidesz party in a one-sentence letter Wednesday, ending a 30-year career with the political party he co-founded. Szajer gave up his seat in the European Uni
  
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• Fed reports slowing US economic activity due to virus surge

  02-12-2020 20:39
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Federal Reserve survey of business conditions around the country has found that economic activity in several regions was slowing in November as coronavirus cases surged. The Fed report released Wednesday says that overall, the Fed’s 12 regional banks characterize the economic expansion as “modest or moderate.” But it notes that three Midwest regions and the Philadelphia region reported activity had begun to slow in early November as COVID-19 cases surg
  
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• Israeli navy welcomes new generation of German-made warships

  02-12-2020 20:37
  
  HAIFA, Israel (AP) — Israel’s navy has welcomed the first of four German-made warships that will be at the vanguard of Israeli efforts to protect its coastline and growing natural-gas industry. The first missile boat of “Project Magen” docked at Israel’s Haifa port on Wednesday, with three more of the corvettes scheduled to arrive over the next two years. President Reuven Rivlin told the ceremony that the new ships — commonly known as the Saar 6 — &ldquo
  
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• Pakistan’s former prime minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali dies

  02-12-2020 20:32
  
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Zafarullah Khan Jamali, a veteran Pakistani politician who served as the country’s prime minister from 2002 to 2004 has died at a hospital, days after suffering a heart attack. He was 76. Jamali served as prime minister during the tenure of ex-dictator Pervez Musharraf. He resigned over differences on several political issues with Musharraf, who is currently living in self-imposed exiled in Dubai. Jamali was a soft-spoken person known for his decency in politics. Pak
  
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• Ducey, other state officials to hold COVID-19 briefing Wednesday

  02-12-2020 20:31
  
  PHOENIX (KVOA) - Governor Doug Ducey is scheduled to hold a briefing Wednesday regarding the coronavirus.
  He is scheduled to speak at 3:30 p.m. in Phoenix.
  The governor will be joined with Arizona's top health official Dr. Cara Christ.
  COVID-19 hospitalizations reached 2,699 as of Tuesday. That’s up more than 100 from Monday. During the summer, virus-related hospitalizations peaked at around 3,500.The state also reported 3,840 additional confirmed cases and 52 more deaths. That increa
  
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• Not just a teacher: Phoenix’s Paul says he can still ball

  02-12-2020 20:25
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Chris Paul is ready to help lead the Phoenix Suns to the playoffs for the first time in more than a decade. The 35-year-old is happy to share knowledge with his new teammates but he also says he’s not in the desert just to teach. Paul made his 10th All-Star team last season and is still playing at a high level. He was traded to Phoenix during the offseason as part of a package that sent four players to the Oklahoma City Thunder.The post Not just a teacher: Phoenix&rsqu
  
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• Armenian opposition pushes PM to step down over peace deal

  02-12-2020 20:20
  
  YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators have rallied in Armenia’s capital to to continue to pressure the ex-Soviet nation’s prime minister to resign over a peace deal with neighboring Azerbaijan that domestic critics see as a betrayal of national interests. The Russia-brokered agreement took effect on Nov. 10 and followed 44 days of fierce fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh. The deal saw the return to Azerbaijan of a significant part of Nagorno-Karabakh and also obliged
  
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• Ugandan opposition candidate Bobi Wine resumes campaign

  02-12-2020 20:18
  
  KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan opposition presidential hopeful and musician Bobi Wine says he will resume his campaign after suspending it in protest over police brutality. Wine spoke to journalists after meeting the head of the country’s electoral body. He suspended his campaign on Tuesday after police shot his car tires and fired rubber bullets that injured his bodyguards and supporters. The singer has captured the imagination of many in Uganda as he challenges President Yoweri Mus
  
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• US won’t seek death penalty in Planned Parenthood case

  02-12-2020 20:06
  
  Federal prosecutors say they won’t seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing three people and injuring nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado in 2015. U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn submitted a one-sentence notice Wednesday of the decision on Robert Dear’s prosecution in federal court. It did not include any explanation. The move comes a year after Dear was charged in federal court after his prosecution in state court stalled. He had repeatedly been deemed inc
  
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