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• Officials: Rodents likely destroyed rare plants at mine

  04-12-2020 23:37
  
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Fish and Wildlife Service says DNA evidence strongly suggests rodents destroyed part of an area of an extremely rare desert wildflower being considered for federal protection at a contentious mine site in Nevada. The head of an Australian mining company that wants to dig for lithium about 200 miles southeast of Reno said Friday as much as half of the Tiehm’s buckwheat population was lost in the animal attack this fall. Environmentalists who are suing to force a
  
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• Santa Claus Is Coming to (Down)Town

  04-12-2020 23:22
  
  While it might not be safe to take your kids to sit on Santa's lap this year, that doesn't mean ol' Kris Kringle won't be back downtown for the annual Miracle on Congress Street.Starting Friday, Dec. 4, Santa will be up on the rooftop at Playground, 278 E. Congress St., to wave to kids from the proverbial safe physical distance. Kids can drop their letter to Santa in a mailbox on Fifth Avenue next to the Tucson Together mural painted on the side of Playground.Plus, all good boys and girls g
  
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• Hundreds of boats likely destroyed in Michigan marina fire

  04-12-2020 23:22
  
  LASALLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A fire has destroyed an enormous building loaded with hundreds of boats stored for the winter in southeastern Michigan. Smoke could be seen for miles along Lake Erie. Monroe County emergency manager Mark Hammond says the number of boats at Toledo Beach Marina is in the hundreds. No injuries were reported. The marina is in LaSalle Township, a few miles south of Monroe and just north of the border with Ohio. Aerial video showed clouds of black smoke and a build
  
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• UN health chief: World can start dreaming of pandemic’s end

  04-12-2020 23:13
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. health chief says positive results from coronavirus vaccine trials mean the world “can begin to dream about the end of the pandemic.” But the director-general of the World Health Organization says rich and powerful nations must not trample the poor and marginalized “in the stampede for vaccines.” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the General Assembly’s first high-level session on the pandemic that while the virus can be stopped, &l
  
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• Search continues for 2 missing after Alaska landslide

  04-12-2020 23:05
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The search continued Friday for two people missing after a landslide slammed into a neighborhood in Haines, Alaska, earlier this week. The debris field estimated to be 600 feet wide took out four homes. Missing were David Simmons, who owned one of those homes, and Jenae Larson, who rented an apartment above Simmons’ garage. He is a world traveler from California who recently settled in Haines, following his cousin who opened up restaurants after appearing on
  
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• Sheriff’s Christmas tree ‘thugshots’ rub some the wrong way

  04-12-2020 23:03
  
  MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama sheriff’s department is being criticized for displaying a photo of a Christmas tree adorned with what it calls “thugshots,” or photos of people who were arrested. The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office used its Facebook page to post a doctored image of a Christmas tree decorated with photos of people wanted for crimes. The post says the image was meant to show how many “thugs” were arrested in 2020. But the American Civil Liber
  
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• Puerto Rico seeks to arrest US tourist who refused face mask

  04-12-2020 22:58
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A judge has ordered the arrest of a tourist from the U.S. mainland who is accused of attacking a National Guard trooper at Puerto Rico’s airport after refusing to wear a face mask as required under pandemic restrictions. The suspect was identified as 31-year-old Adrien Williams. He faces charges including assault in the Nov. 28 incident caught on video that went viral. A spokeswoman for Puerto Rico’s Department of Justice said Friday that Williams h
  
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• Judge calls Trump request in Wisconsin lawsuit ‘bizarre’

  04-12-2020 22:58
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge hearing President Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s win in Wisconsin says that the president’s request to “remand” the case to the GOP-controlled Legislature to pick new electors was “bizarre.” The federal case is one of two Trump has in Wisconsin making similar arguments. He filed another one in state court, which the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday refused to hear before it fi
  
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• Gala ignites political dispute over COVID-19 restrictions

  04-12-2020 22:57
  
  A New Jersey restaurant that hosted a political gala put on by a New York Republican club was ordered temporarily closed Friday over potential violations of coronavirus guidelines. Numerous photos posted on Twitter showed dozens of maskless partiers at the New York Young Republican Club event in Jersey City on Thursday night. Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, a Democrat, said in an emailed statement that the event at the Maritime Parc restaurant was “an egregious violation” of state co
  
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• The Latest: Northern California under new stay-at-home order

  04-12-2020 22:56
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — The health officers in six San Francisco Bay Area regions issued a new stay-at-home order Friday as the number of virus cases surge and hospitals fill.The changes will take effect for most of the area at 10 p.m. Sunday and last through Jan. 4. The counties have not yet reached Gov. Gavin Newsom’s threshold announced a day earlier requiring such an order when 85% of ICU beds at regional hospitals are full, but officials said the hospital system will be overwhelmed befo
  
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• Google AI researcher’s exit sparks ethics, bias concerns

  04-12-2020 22:54
  
  Artificial intelligence scholar Timnit Gebru helped improve Google’s public image as a company that elevates Black computer scientists and questions harmful uses of AI technology. But internally, Gebru, a leader in the field of AI ethics, was not shy about voicing doubts about those commitments. That’s until she was ousted this week in a dispute over a research paper examining the societal dangers of an emerging branch of AI. The furor over Gebru’s abrupt departure is the lates
  
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• Families of 34 California boat fire victims grieve, advocate

  04-12-2020 22:46
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 34 grieving families who lost lived ones in a boat fire off the California coast in 2019 have endured a year of firsts — the first anniversary, first birthdays, first holiday season without their loved ones — amid the coronavirus pandemic. It’s forced them to grieve both alone, canceling memorials where they’d planned to scatter the ashes at sea, and together over Zoom. The first year has also prompted them to advocate for strengthened boating
  
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• Scene from ‘Elf’ comes to life as Buddy meets dad in Boston

  04-12-2020 22:44
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The story of Buddy the Elf meeting his biological father has come to life, just in time for holidays. Doug Henning of Eliot, Maine, wore a costume to look like Will Ferrell in the movie “Elf” while meeting his father face to face for the first time last week at Logan Airport in Boston. He even broke into the same awkward song from the movie. Henning told Boston.com that his biological father “probably thought I was a lunatic.” The dad didn’t get
  
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• Judge urged to toss suit seeking to undo Biden’s Arizona win

  04-12-2020 22:39
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Lawyers for election officials urged a judge to dismiss Arizona GOP chief Kelli Ward’s lawsuit seeking to undo Democrat President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the state. They argued there was no evidence of fraud in how ballots were processed in metro Phoenix and that the number of votes President Donald Trump could have lost due to human error wasn’t enough for him to carry the state. The attorneys said it would be an extraordinary move to to reverse an el
  
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• Texas prep player faces assault charge, team out of playoffs

  04-12-2020 22:38
  
  EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — A Texas high school football player who ran onto the field and blindsided a referee who had ejected him from a game has been charged with misdemeanor assault. Senior defensive lineman Emmanuel Duron of Edinburg High School was escorted from the field by police after the incident Thurdsay night. The Edinburg school district says it has decided to remove the team from the playoffs. The referee was reportedly evaluated for a concussion and a shoulder injury by medical p
  
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• Minnesota attorney general to decide police shooting charges

  04-12-2020 22:37
  
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota’s attorney general will decide whether a St. Paul police officer should be charged in connection with last month’s non-fatal shooting of a Black man who had been hiding from police after he allegedly livestreamed a sexual assault. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Tuesday that he and the Washington County Attorney’s Office will review the Nov. 28 shooting of Joseph Javonte Washington after state investigators finish their
  
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• Colorado student, scientist named Time’s ‘Kid of the Year’

  04-12-2020 22:28
  
  LONE TREE, Colo. (AP) — A 15-year-old Colorado high school student and young scientist has been named Time Magazine’s first-ever “Kid of the Year.” Gitanjali Rao has used artificial intelligence and created apps to tackle contaminated drinking water, cyberbullying, opioid addiction and other social problems. Rao is a sophomore at STEM School Highlands Ranch in suburban Denver and was selected from more than 5,000 nominees. The process culminated with a finalists’ co
  
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• Trump orders most American troops to leave Somalia

  04-12-2020 22:27
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says President Donald Trump has ordered most of the approximately 700 troops in Somalia to leave the country. The move continues Trump’s post-election push to shrink the number of U.S. troops operating against extremists abroad. He previously ordered troop drawdowns in Afghanistan and Iraq. On Friday, the Pentagon said Trump had ordered “a majority” of the U.S. forces in Somalia to leave by early 2021. It did not provide a specific number of
  
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• Newtown board blocks proposed gun-carrying restrictions

  04-12-2020 22:26
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Newtown, Connecticut, officials have blocked proposed bans on carrying firearms around town that were requested by gun control activists who said they were intimidated at protests by armed Second Amendment Supporters. The action by the town’s Legislative Council on Wednesday night comes less than two weeks before the eighth anniversary of the Newtown school shooting that killed 20 children and six educators. Gun rights supporters said the council’s action
  
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• San Francisco Bay Area issues new stay-at-home order

  04-12-2020 22:18
  
  SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The health officers in six San Francisco Bay Area counties have issued a new stay-at-home order as the number of virus cases surge and hospitals fill. The changes announced Friday will take effect Sunday and last through Jan. 4. The counties have not yet reached Gov. Gavin Newsom’s threshold requiring such an order when 85% of ICU beds at regional hospitals are full. But the health officers said the hospital system will be overwhelmed before the end of Dece
  
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• The Latest: Alabama health officials ask for mask extension

  04-12-2020 22:16
  
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama health officials have urged the state Friday to extend its statewide mask mandate, set to expire next week.
  Dr. Sarah Nafziger, who teaches emergency medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said it was “critically important” for Republican Gov. Kay Ivey to maintain the requirement, which is opposed by some who consider it an infringement on personal rights or discount the threat of the new coronavirus.
  The president of the Alabama Hospita
  
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• Health officers in most of the San Francisco Bay Area issue new stay-at-home order as hospitals, ICU beds fill

  04-12-2020 22:12
  
  SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Health officers in most of the San Francisco Bay Area issue new stay-at-home order as hospitals, ICU beds fill.The post Health officers in most of the San Francisco Bay Area issue new stay-at-home order as hospitals, ICU beds fill appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• More record highs for stocks as hopes grow for economic aid

  04-12-2020 22:10
  
  Stocks returned to record highs on Wall Street Friday as traders took a discouraging jobs report as a sign that Congress may finally move on delivering more aid for the pandemic-striken economy. The S&P 500 rose 0.9% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.8%. In another bullish signal, small-company stocks, which stand to benefit greatly from an improving economy, rose much more than the rest of the market. Investors are also banking on hopes that the upcoming distribution of coronaviru
  
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• The Latest: Biden’s inauguration could resemble virtual DNC

  04-12-2020 22:09
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):
  4:05 p.m.
  President-elect Joe Biden says keeping people safe is his first consideration for his Jan. 20 inauguration, making it “highly unlikely” that a million people will pack the National Mall for his swearing-in during the coronavirus pandemic.
  Biden was asked about inauguration planning during a news conference Friday in Wilmington, Delaware. He suggested that the festivities could end up looking
  
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• The Latest: Biden acknowledges need to rebuild vaccine trust

  04-12-2020 22:04
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):
  4 p.m.
  President-elect Joe Biden says the Trump administration has diminished confidence in science so much that it will take some time and effort to rebuild it across the board, including convincing people that the coronavirus vaccines are safe.He said Friday that he’s bothered by what he said were “wild assertions” President Donald Trump has made about the virus going away on its own. He noted
  
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• Niece says ‘cruel and traitorous’ Trump belongs in prison

  04-12-2020 21:56
  
  President Donald Trump’s niece says her uncle is “traitorous” and belongs in prison after he leaves the White House.  Mary Trump told the Associated Press in an interview this week that “if anybody deserves to be prosecuted and tried, it’s Donald.” Asked about her comments, a spokesperson for President Trump’s campaign asked in an email: “Did she mention she has a book to sell?” Mary Trump announced this week she is writing a follow up t
  
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• Pentagon installs 2 Trump allies on defense advisory board

  04-12-2020 21:55
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has appointed two close political allies of President Donald Trump to a defense advisory board, continuing a purge of the Defense Department in the waning weeks of the Trump administration. The acting secretary of defense, Christopher Miller, said in a written statement Friday that nine members of the Defense Business Board had been replaced with the appointment of 11 new members. The new members include Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, who are among Trump
  
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• The Latest: Biden urges equitable distribution of vaccine

  04-12-2020 21:54
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):
  3:50 p.m.
  President-elect Joe Biden says the Trump administration’s plan for distributing an approved coronavirus vaccine to the public lacks important detail.
  Biden said Friday that “there’s no detailed plan that we’ve seen” for how to get vaccines out of a container, into syringes and into people’s arms.
  He says more equitable distribution is also needed to get the vaccine int
  
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• High court will hear appeal over Medicaid work requirements

  04-12-2020 21:46
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In the midst of a pandemic, the Supreme Court says it will take up the Trump administration’s stalled plan to allow states to require low-income people to work to receive health care under Medicaid. The timing of the court’s decision to take up the issue is curious because by the time the case is argued in late winter or early spring, Joe Biden will be president and his administration is unlikely to continue President Donald Trump’s plan to remake Medica
  
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• The Latest: Biden says jobs report ‘dire,’ no time to waste

  04-12-2020 21:36
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):
  3:35 p.m.
  President-elect Joe Biden says that the most recent jobs report is “dire” and that there is no time to lose as millions of people have lost their jobs or have seen their incomes slashed.With the pandemic accelerating across the country, America’s employers sharply scaled back their hiring last month, adding 245,000 jobs, the fewest since April and the fifth straight monthly slowdown. Bi
  
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• Pandemic casts inevitable shadow on final ‘Shameless’ season

  04-12-2020 21:36
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The coronavirus outbreak that delayed taping of Showtime’s “Shameless” is woven into the 11th and final season of the Gallagher saga. It seems inevitable, given the outsized share of life’s hardships the family has met and, sometimes, conquered. The comedy-drama was days away from taping when COVID-19 slammed the door on movie and TV production in the spring. Series’ executive producer John Wells says already completed scripts were reworked
  
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• ‘It’s go time’: Booker, Ayton eager to start after key offseason additions

  04-12-2020 21:30
  
  PHOENIX – Suns fans are certainly excited for the arrival of Chris Paul, but center Deandre Ayton might be the most excited of all. …
  
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• Arizona expects vaccine doses by end of year if authorized

  04-12-2020 21:25
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona expects to get enough doses of new coronavirus vaccines by the end of the year to inoculate more than 383,000 health care workers and long-term care facility residents. Health Services Department Director Dr. Cara Christ said the federal government has allocated those doses of the vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna if the U.S. Food and Drug Aministration gives it emergency use authorization. The announcement comes as the state sees a surge of virus cases that are th
  
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• MedCare2U to offer telemedicine services at local hotels

  04-12-2020 21:24
  
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  TUCSON (KVOA) - The 2020 pandemic has definitely challenged many industries to think outside the box, and telemedicine is no exception.A company called MedCare2U will now offer telemedicine services to visitors staying at some of our local hotels.
  News 4 Tucson's photojournalist Edgar Ybarra has the story."Individuals are concerned about visiting hospitals and anything that can be done to avoid that, such as this service will satisfy and increase the comfort
  
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• Wayward wallaroo rescued from river after chase in Illinois

  04-12-2020 21:19
  
  PERU, Ill. (AP) — Police in Peru, Illinois, are no strangers to chases. Unless what they’re after hops away on two legs. Officers in the city about 95 miles southwest of Chicago were joined Wednesday afternoon by firefighters and even residents in a two-hour pursuit of a runaway wallaroo that bounded through yards and along streets and roads. Wallaroos are larger than wallabies and smaller than kangaroos. They’re native to Australia. But this bloke, named Wally, got away from h
  
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• The Latest: Kansas Gov: Grocery workers in line for vaccine

  04-12-2020 21:17
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. — Gov. Laura Kelly says Kansas considers meatpacking plant workers and grocery store employees essential workers, putting them in the second phase for possible vaccinations.
  Kelly says the Kansas vaccine plan calls for the first shots to go to front-line health care workers with a high risk of coronavirus exposure.
  She says the second phase will focus on vaccinating essential workers, including first responders but also grocery store and meatpacking plant workers.
  The Democrat
  
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• States submit vaccine orders as coronavirus death toll grows

  04-12-2020 21:17
  
  States are facing a deadline on Friday to place orders for the coronavirus vaccine as many reported record infections, hospitalizations and deaths. The number of Americans hospitalized with COVID-19 hit an all-time high in the U.S. on Thursday at 100,667, and hospitals were at the breaking point. Arizona on Friday reported more than 5,000 new known COVID-19 cases for the second straight day as the number of available intensive care beds fell below 10%. Nevada reported 48 new deaths on Thursday,
  
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• Official who had brain injury says she’s feeling stronger

  04-12-2020 21:13
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel says she looks forward to returning home in coming weeks after being hospitalized for treatment of a brain injury she experienced after a Nov. 3 fall. Adel said Friday in a statement released through her office that she feels stronger every day and knows it is a “slow and steady process” to recover from a brain injury. Adel after her fall had emergency surgery for removal of a blood clot from bleeding on the brain. She said
  
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• Nissan pulls out of Trump emissions fight with California

  04-12-2020 21:10
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Nissan says it will no longer support the Trump administration in its legal fight to end California’s ability to set its own auto-pollution and gas-mileage standards. The announcement Friday is another sign that a coalition of automakers backing the outgoing administration is fracturing. General Motors ended its support for the Trump administration’s position last week. Nissan says it’s pulling out because of its confidence that discussions between the indu
  
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• Bus plunges off bridge in Brazil, killing at least 10

  04-12-2020 21:09
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A bus has careened off a bridge in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, killing at least 10 people. Images on local media showed the smoking bus on its side atop train tracks after falling about 15 meters (49 feet) on Friday. The accident happened beside the Piracicaba River. While police say the death toll was at least 10, radio station CBN said that the death toll had reached 14 and that more than 20 people were injured.The post Bus plunges off bridge in Brazil, kil
  
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• Minnesota regulators deny request to delay Line 3 pipeline

  04-12-2020 21:06
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota regulatory panel has denied a request by two northern Minnesota tribes to prevent Enbridge Energy from moving forward with its contentious Line 3 crude oil pipeline replacement. The Red Lake and White Earth Bands of Chippewa asked the Public Utilities Commission to stay its order allowing construction, citing pending litigation in the Minnesota Court of Appeals and concerns about COVID-19 spread by construction workers in their communities. The five-member pa
  
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• Kansas man’s obit criticizes those who won’t wear masks

  04-12-2020 20:50
  
  BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — An obituary for an 81-year-old Kansas man who died of COVID-19 is garnering attention. Dr. Marvin James Farr of Scott City died Tuesday in isolation at a nursing home. His son, Courtney Farr, wrote an obituary lamenting how his father died in a world where many of his fellow citizens refuse to wear a mask to protect one another. His father was a farmer and a veterinarian. The obituary says the science that guided his life has been disparaged and abandoned by many
  
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• US imposes visas restrictions on more Chinese citizens

  04-12-2020 20:47
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says the U.S. will impose visa restrictions on Chinese citizens engaged in overseas influence operations. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the restrictions will apply to Chinese Communist Party officials or anyone else taking part in propaganda or influence campaigns linked to the United Front Work Department. The United Front has been involved in efforts to put pressure on people who criticize China for human rights abuses in the Uighur region, Ti
  
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• Fort Bragg IDs 2 bodies found in military training area

  04-12-2020 20:47
  
  FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — Officials at the Army’s largest base have identified the two men whose bodies were found in a training area. Their bodies were found at Fort Bragg in North Carolina on Wednesday. Officials say their deaths were not related to official unit training. A news release on Friday identified one of the men as 44-year-old Army veteran Timothy Dumas of Pinehurst, North Carolina. The U.S. Army Special Operations Command identified the second body as that of 37-year-old
  
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• Big fire hits Michigan boat storage building near Lake Erie

  04-12-2020 20:40
  
  LASALLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A building loaded with boats burned in southeastern Michigan, sending smoke for miles along Lake Erie. Monroe County emergency manager Mark Hammond says the number of boats at Toledo Beach Marina could be in the hundreds. No injuries were reported from Friday’s fire. The marina is in LaSalle Township, a few miles south of Monroe and just north of the border with Ohio. Aerial video showed clouds of black smoke and a building overwhelmed by flames. The ro
  
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• With red carpets rolled up, the Oscar race goes virtual

  04-12-2020 20:38
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — This year, Hollywood’s awards season is operating in a strange COVID-19 vacuum with only a whiff of the stuff it thrives on: buzz. Oscar season is pushing ahead, despite the pandemic and a year where most of the biggest releases were postponed. The timetable has shifted two months. The Academy Awards are to be held April 25. Awards season, such as it is, has gone virtual. The Oscar race will Zoomed. The pandemic also has undoubtedly reshuffled the usual kinds of movie
  
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• UK-EU trade talks ‘paused’ with deal still elusive

  04-12-2020 20:34
  
  LONDON (AP) — The European Union’s chief negotiator says he and his British counterpart have agreed to “pause” trade negotiations while they brief their political leaders on the stalled talks. Michel Barnier said the conditions for a deal have not been met and differences remain after a week of intense talks. He says British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will discuss the state of the talks on Saturday.The post UK-EU trade ta
  
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• Chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier says Brexit talks are ‘paused’ to brief principals on talks

  04-12-2020 20:28
  
  LONDON (AP) — Chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier says Brexit talks are ‘paused’ to brief principals on talks.The post Chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier says Brexit talks are ‘paused’ to brief principals on talks appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Vegas execs sue online travel firms, allege unpaid hotel tax

  04-12-2020 20:19
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two prominent Las Vegas communications executives are suing more than 20 online travel companies for back taxes they say should have been paid to Nevada based on hotel room rates. Mark Fierro and Sig Rogich accuse hotel room booking services including Orbitz, Hotwire, Expedia, Travelocity, Priceline and Hotels.com of intentionally underpaying state hotel taxes going back at least several years. Representatives of most of the named defendants didn’t respond this week
  
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• Dutch populist Baudet wins vote to remain party leader

  04-12-2020 20:19
  
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Members of a Dutch right-wing populist party have voted overwhelmingly in support of its leader, who stood down last month and then returned amid criticism of the way he handled accusations of extreme views among some members of the party’s youth wing. In a referendum result announced Friday, more than 76% of members of Forum For Democracy voted for Thierry Baudet to remain as party leader. Baudet’s victory came less than four months before a gener
  
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