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• Biden’s health team offers glimpse of his COVID-19 strategy

  07-12-2020 23:59
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The health care team assembled by President-elect Joe Biden points to stronger federal management of the nation’s COVID-19 response, a leading role for science and an emphasis on fair and equitable distribution of vaccines and treatments. With Monday’s announcement of his health secretary and a half dozen other key officials Biden is aiming to leave behind the personal dramas that erupted under President Donald Trump and return the federal response to a more m
  
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• Arizona's Economic Forecast Is Cloudy as Debate on COVID Relief Continues on Capitol Hill

  07-12-2020 23:55
  
  The future of Arizona’s economy is one of uncertainty, UA economist George Hammond made clear at a virtual economic outlook event Friday.Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the state has fared better in unemployment numbers compared to the rest of the nation, but it has still withstood a heavy loss, according Hammond, the director of the Economic and Business Research Center at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management.…
  
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• Arizona's Economic Forecast Cloudy as Capitol Hill Debate on COVID Relief Continues

  07-12-2020 23:55
  
  The future of Arizona’s economy is one of uncertainty, UA economist George Hammond made clear at a virtual economic outlook event Friday. Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the state has fared better in unemployment numbers compared to the rest of the nation, but it has still withstood a heavy loss, according to Hammond, the director of the Economic and Business Research Center at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management.…
  
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• ‘B.A.P.S.’ star Natalie Desselle Reid dies at 53

  07-12-2020 23:52
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Natalie Desselle Reid, who starred alongside Halle Berry in the 1997 film “B.A.P.S.” and on the sitcom “Eve,” has died. She was 53. Reid’s death on Monday was confirmed by Je’Caryous Johnson, the CEO of Je’Caryous Entertainment, which was planning a stage adaption of “B.A.P.S.” The cause of death has not been officially released. In the film “B.A.P.S,” Reid and Berry played the roles of two waitresses at a
  
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• Dems challenge to Arizona redistricting panel list rejected

  07-12-2020 23:37
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A lawsuit filed by the Arizona Legislature’s Democratic leaders who wanted two of five independents who could chair the state’s redistricting commission disqualified has been dismissed by a judge. The Democrats argued that one of the independents wasn’t qualified because he registered as a lobbyist and the other wasn’t truly an independent because he held a rally for President Donald Trump. Monday’s ruling from Maricopa County Superior Court Jud
  
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• New this week: Jingle Ball 2020 & 2 doses of Meryl Streep

  07-12-2020 23:36
  
  This week’s new entertainment releases include the CW’s “iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2020,” a 90-minute special based on the annual concert. There’s also a double film dose of Meryl Streep — she’s in “Let Them All Talk” on HBO Max about a novelist who crosses the Atlantic on a British ocean liner and “The Prom,” parodying a diva actor in Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of the 2018 Broadway musical. And there’s also this season&rs
  
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• US hits China with Hong Kong sanctions, OKs Taiwan arms sale

  07-12-2020 23:31
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has approved a new major arms sale to Taiwan and is slapping sanctions on Chinese officials over the crackdown on pro-democracy advocates in Hong Kong. The moves announced on Monday are sure to draw a firm rebuke from China, which regards Taiwan as a renegade province and has rejected Hong Kong-related measures as interference in its internal affairs. The State Department said it had approved a $280 million sale to Taiwan of advanced military comm
  
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• The Latest: Nevada COVID-19 hospitalizations rise to 1,617

  07-12-2020 23:30
  
  LAS VEGAS — Officials have reported that the number of people hospitalized in Nevada with COVID-19 has more than doubled over the last month.The Nevada Hospital Association reported Monday that hospitalized coronavirus patients increased to 1,617 statewide from Nov. 6 to Dec. 6 as the state continues experiencing a surge. That’s up from 692, a rise of more than 230%.Nevada COVID-19 response director Caleb Cage says officials expect the number of reported cases to continue rising beca
  
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• Offutt Air Force lab brings closure to Pearl Harbor families

  07-12-2020 23:24
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The remains of Nebraska and Iowa sailors who were killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor 79 years ago will get to return home soon thanks to the work of experts at Offutt Air Force Base. It’s part of a five-year effort to identify Navy sailors and Marines who went missing while serving on the USS Oklahoma, a battleship that capsized during the attacks. The Omaha World-Herald reports that the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is working to identify remains with DNA te
  
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• Mexico asks US to extradite country’s former security chief

  07-12-2020 23:24
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has confirmed it has asked the United States to extradite former security chief Genaro García Luna, who currently faces trial in the U.S. for allegedly protecting a drug gang. The Foreign Relations Department said Monday the request had been formally made, but offered no further details. Mexico has said in the past it prefers Mexican officials be tried in their own country, and bristled over the recent arrest of the country’s former defense secretary,
  
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• Ex-Harvard coach, father indicted in $1.5M admissions scam

  07-12-2020 23:13
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The former fencing coach at Harvard and a wealthy Maryland businessman have been indicted on charges the coach accepted $1.5 million in bribes in exchange for helping the businessman get his two sons into the Ivy League school as recruited fencers. Peter Brand, who was fired by Harvard last year, and Jie “Jack” Zhao were indicted Friday by a federal grand jury in Boston. The two each face a charge of conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery. The indictment co
  
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• Avoiding cheetah hangouts helps ranchers protect herds

  07-12-2020 23:13
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — New research found African cattle ranchers were able to dramatically reduce calf killings by skirting popular cheetah hangouts. Scientists who studied the inner workings of cheetah society helped ranchers in Namibia trim the number of calves killed annually by 86%. They avoided conflicts by keeping their herds away from landmarks cheetahs frequently visit to leave scent marks and sniff out information on feline neighbors. Cheetahs are the fastest land animal and the rares
  
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• Bills activate LB Milano off IR before game against 49ers

  07-12-2020 23:05
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills have activated starting linebacker Matt Milano off injured reserve hours before their game against the San Francisco 49ers on Monday night. Milano missed the past three games and four weeks with a partially torn pectoral muscle. He was initially hurt during a 30-23 win at Las Vegas in Week 4 and missed the next two games. He then saw limited playing time in two games before being placed on IR. Milano returned to practice last week along with backup
  
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• The Latest: Biden plans to announce defense secretary Friday

  07-12-2020 22:59
  
  Gretchen Whitmer (D), 49th governor of Michigan, Photo Date: 8/17/2020 Adam Schultz / Biden for President / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0President-elect Joe Biden, Photo Date: October 29, 2020
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):
  4:55 p.m.
  President-elect Joe Biden says he’ll announce his choice for defense secretary on Friday.
  Biden made the comment as he climbed into his motorcade in Wilmington, Delaware, on Monday. He also suggested he’d name a nom
  
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• EPA overrides scientists’ calls for tougher pollutant limit

  07-12-2020 22:59
  
  The Trump administration is refusing to toughen standards for a deadly kind of air pollutant. The Environmental Protection Agency made official on Monday that it was leaving unchanged limits for the tiny bits of soot we breathe from tailpipes, smokestacks and other sources. EPA scientists had early found that tougher limits would save tens of thousands of lives annually from heart disease, lung cancer and other causes. But EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler says U.S. levels for the deadly pollutio
  
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• Gary Oldman on finding the frequency of ‘Mank’

  07-12-2020 22:48
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — David Fincher’s “Mank” is such a dense and dazzling Hollywood time machine that all the conversation it’s spawned has sometimes overlooked the incredible balancing act at its center. Gary Oldman’s performance is always teetering on the edge, poised between inebriation and lucidity, ’40s-style zip and modern-day naturalism. In an interview, Oldman says he had to draw on his own “muscle memory” as an alcoholic. In crafting the p
  
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• Newspaper executive editor Dean Baquet to get Cronkite Award

  07-12-2020 22:44
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona State University announced Monday that Dean Baquet, the first Black executive editor to lead both The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, will be presented with this year’s Walter Cronkite Award for excellence in journalism. Baquet will receive the 37th annual award from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication during a March 25 virtual ceremony. The New York Times has won 16 Pulitzer Prizes during Baquet’s tenure as executive
  
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• New Los Angeles prosecutor ends cash bail for many offenses

  07-12-2020 22:44
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Incoming Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has been sworn in and immediately announced he will end cash bail for many offenses and reevaluate sentencing thousands of cases. Gascón took the oath of office Monday and took aim at his predecessors in recent decades. He called Los Angeles “a poster child for the failed tough-on-crime approach.” Gascón is a former San Francisco district attorney and assistant Los Angeles police
  
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• ‘The Undoing’ creator lured back to network TV for ‘Big Sky’

  07-12-2020 22:36
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Writer-producer David E. Kelley gifted network TV with three decades of hits, including “Ally McBeal,” “The Practice” and “Boston Legal.” Then he switched to a new canvas, premium cable, to make HBO’s “Big Little Lies” and “The Undoing.”  But he’s back on network TV with “Big Sky,” a crime drama based on a C.J. Box novel airing on Tuesdays. Kelley says he was promised that he could m
  
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• California releases smartphone virus tool as cases soar

  07-12-2020 22:35
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is rolling out a voluntary smartphone tool to alert people if they spent time near someone who tests positive for the coronavirus as cases and hospitalizations soar throughout the state. People can opt into the new tool that Gov. Gavin announced starting Thursday. Officials say the tool doesn’t track people’s identities or locations. It uses Bluetooth wireless signals to detect when two phones are within 6 feet of each other for at least 15
  
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• Lawmakers who met with Giuliani scramble after COVID news

  07-12-2020 22:33
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani is “doing very well” after contracting the coronavirus. Meanwhile, lawmakers in states Giuliani visited last week on behalf of the president’s push to subvert his election loss are scrambling to make sure they did not contract the virus. Giuliani has on numerous occasions met with officials for hours at a time without wearing a mask, including hearings with state lawmakers in Arizona, Georgi
  
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• Trump summit aims to boost faith in vaccine; excludes Biden

  07-12-2020 22:31
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is hoping to instill public confidence in forthcoming vaccines for the coronavirus with a White House summit on Tuesday featuring experts who will outline the distribution and administration process. It’s happening just days before the first doses could be injected.Officials from President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team are not invited, even though they will oversee continuation of the largest vaccination program in the nation&rsquo
  
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• National Zoo extends panda deal with China through 2023

  07-12-2020 22:29
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Zoo has struck a new extension of its longstanding agreement with the Chinese government that will keep the zoo’s iconic giant pandas in Washington for another three years. But the agreement calls into question the long-term future of the zoo’s popular panda exhibit, as it calls for all three pandas, baby and his parents, to return to China at the end of 2023. Zoo officials say they fully expect to negotiate a new panda loan agreement with their C
  
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• Trump adviser broke law with Biden criticism, watchdog says

  07-12-2020 22:20
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal watchdog agency has found that President Donald Trump’s economic adviser Peter Navarro repeatedly violated the law during the presidential campaign season with his criticisms of now-President-elect Joe Biden. The Hatch Act prevents federal employees from engaging in political work while performing their official duties. The office charged with enforcing the act says that Navarro, director of the White House Office for Trade and Manufacturing Policy, used h
  
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• Stocks close mostly lower, pushing pause on recent rally

  07-12-2020 22:09
  
  Stocks are closing mostly lower on Wall Street Monday, taking a pause from their recent rally. The S&P 500 lost 0.2%. Companies that would benefit most from a reopening economy, like banks and indsutrial stocks, took some of the sharper losses. Technology stocks, meanwhile, bucked the downward trend and rose, pushing the Nasdaq to another record high. It’s a flip of the market’s recent momentum and a callback to how it was trading earlier this year, before enthusiasm burst higher
  
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• Crew digs through tons of trash to find Indiana man’s wallet

  07-12-2020 22:07
  
  LOGANSPORT, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana man whose cash-filled wallet was accidentally discarded got it back last week after a crew waded through tons of trash and found it near the bottom. Logansport resident Robert Nolte’s wallet ended up in the trash Thursday after he asked a friend to throw out a pair of pants that were covered in paint. Nolte later discovered his wallet was missing and realized it had been in the discarded pants. The (Logansport) Pharos-Tribune reports that a
  
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• Longtime National Spelling Bee director steps down

  07-12-2020 22:04
  
  The longtime executive director of the Scripps National Spelling Bee is stepping down. Scripps announced Paige Kimble’s departure on Monday after 22 years in charge of the world’s preeminent spelling competition. Kimble’s final year on the job ended up being the first year without a bee since 1945. The event was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. It is normally held in late May at a convention center outside Washington and includes hundreds of spellers. Cincinnati-ba
  
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• High court hears Nazi-era cases from Germany, Hungary

  07-12-2020 21:59
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is struggling with whether to allow two lawsuits stemming from claims of property taken from Jews in Germany and Hungary during the Nazi era to continue in U.S. courts. One case was brought by a group of Hungarian Holocaust survivors. The other case involves the heirs of Jewish art dealers and the 1935 sale of a collection of medieval Christian artwork called the Guelph Treasure. During nearly three hours of arguments both conservative and liberal j
  
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• As virus talks drag, Congress prepares temporary funding fix

  07-12-2020 21:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers are giving themselves more time to sort through their end-of-session business on government spending and COVID-19 relief. Congress is preparing to pass a one-week stopgap spending bill that would prevent a shutdown this weekend. House Democratic floor leader Steny Hoyer said the temporary government funding bill is slated for a vote on Wednesday. The development comes as Capitol Hill is struggling to figure out how to deliver long-delayed pandemic relief, includ
  
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• ID of man who found Rocky Mountains treasure chest revealed

  07-12-2020 21:54
  
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A grandson of the late author and art dealer Forrest Fenn has confirmed that a medical school student from Michigan found an over $1 million treasure chest that Fenn stashed in the wilds of Wyoming more than a decade ago. Shiloh Forrest Old wrote Monday on a website dedicated to the treasure that 32-year-old Jonathan “Jack” Stuef found the treasure in June. Stuef had met with Fenn soon after finding the treasure. Stuef also identified himself to Daniel Bar
  
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• US credit card balances fall, though overall borrowing rises

  07-12-2020 21:47
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumers took out more auto and student loans in October, but cut back on credit card borrowing, a sign that they remain cautious about spending amid a spike in virus cases. The Federal Reserve said Monday that consumer borrowing rose 2.1% in October to $4.16 trillion, pushed higher by a 4.8% jump in a category mostly made up of student and auto loans. Credit card borrowing fell 6.7%.The post US credit card balances fall, though overall borrowing rises appeared firs
  
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• The Latest: Israel planning nightly curfew during Hanukkah

  07-12-2020 21:46
  
  JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has announced plans for a nighttime curfew during the upcoming Hanukkah holiday to contain a COVID-19 outbreak.
  The curfew is set to go into effect on Wednesday, on the eve of Hanukkah. It says commercial activities will be banned and intercity travel will be limited.
  An announcement Monday night said the measure, approved by the advisory coronavirus cabinet, still requires approval from the Cabinet.
  Israel has already im
  
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• UN chief urges rule of law and rights in Ethiopia’s Tigray

  07-12-2020 21:44
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres is urging quick restoration of the rule of law and respect for human rights in Ethiopia’s defiant Tigray region as well as reconciliation efforts and unfettered humanitarian access. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the secretary-general has engaged in “an active dialogue” with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, including a phone conversation on Monday, and “is very concerned about the current situa
  
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• Taylor’s family praises Virginia ban on no-knock warrants

  07-12-2020 21:44
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two of Breonna Taylor’s aunts watched Monday as Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam ceremoniously signed a statewide ban on the use of no-knock search warrants. The law is named after Taylor, a Kentucky woman who was fatally shot when Louisville police broke down her door in the middle of the night. “Breonna’s Law” is the first such law enacted by a state since Taylor was killed in March. Two other states _ Oregon and Florida _ already had similar bans.
  
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• CVS hiring thousands of staff to administer COVID-19 vaccines

  07-12-2020 21:44
  
  Mike Mozart / CC BY 2.0CVS Pharmacy store sign, Photo Date: June 17, 2016
  CVS is boosting its head count as it prepares to start coronavirus vaccinations.The retail pharmacy chain says its hiring thousands of extra nurses, pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians.In Monday’s announcement, the company said it plans to vaccinate millions of people next year.And it said it's urgently hiring extra staff to make that happen when vaccines are ready.Government documents show the first vaccines will
  
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• Shuttered Met Opera to lock out stagehands

  07-12-2020 21:40
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The shuttered Metropolitan Opera said it will lock out its stagehands in Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees at midnight on Monday because it has been unable to negotiate wage cuts during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Met General Manager Peter Gelb said the company proposed 30% cuts, of which half would be restored when box office and core donations reach  pre-pandemic benchmarks, as part of a five-year contract to replace the deal t
  
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• UA Develops New "Swish Gargle" COVID-19 Test, Expert Discusses Vaccine Efficacy

  07-12-2020 21:35
  
  As University of Arizona students finish the fall semester remotely, they’ll return to more stringent guidelines to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the spring semester.…
  
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• UN health agency’s advice for the holidays: Don’t hug

  07-12-2020 21:25
  
  GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization has an unwelcome but potentially life-saving message for the holiday season: Don’t hug. To stop the spread of the coronavirus, WHO’s emergencies chief said Monday that the “shocking” rate of COVID-19 cases and deaths, particularly in the U.S., mean that people shouldn’t get too close to their loved ones this year. Dr. Michael Ryan called the pandemic “brutal” in the U.S., which accounts for about a third
  
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• California unveils smartphone virus tool as cases surge

  07-12-2020 21:20
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is rolling out a voluntary smartphone tool to alert people if they spent time near someone who tests positive for the coronavirus as cases and hospitalizations soar throughout the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the tool on Monday. People can opt in to use it starting Thursday. Officials say the tool doesn’t track people’s identities or locations. It uses Bluetooth wireless signals to detect when two phones are within 6 feet of each other
  
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• The Latest: South Carolina teacher group seeks to go virtual

  07-12-2020 21:18
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. — With new COVID-19 cases reaching record levels in South Carolina, a teacher group is asking districts to go back to all virtual teaching until this second spike in the virus can be flattened.
  The plea was given more emotional weight over the weekend after the death of 50-year-old third grade teacher Staci Blakely from COVID-19. Her family asked the school district to announce her death publicly to remind people how serious the disease can be, District Superintendent Greg L
  
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• Does Trump have power to pardon himself? It’s complicated

  07-12-2020 21:17
  
  The White House / Shealah CraigheadDonald Trump, United States President, Photo Date: September 28, 2020
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has declared that he has “absolute power” to issue a pardon to himself.
  Yet the law is much murkier than his confidence suggests. No president has attempted to pardon himself while in office.
  So if Trump tries to do so in the next six weeks, he will be venturing into legally untested territory without clear guidance from the Constitu
  
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• Lidia Menapace, Italian Resistance member, dies at age 96

  07-12-2020 21:15
  
  ROME (AP) — The Italian Senate says Lidia Brisca Menapace, who as a teenager pedaled a bicycle to deliver messages to Resistance fighters in Italy during World War II, has died.  Italian state radio said she was 96 and was hospitalized with COVID-19 when she died Monday. After her Resistance activities for the Partisans, as the fighters were known, Menapace went into politics, first locally in an Alpine province then in the Senate for a Communist party. Menapace was hailed as a pacifi
  
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• Arizona Legislature closes due to COVID-19 exposures

  07-12-2020 21:11
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Legislature is closing for a week because of COVID-19 exposures shortly after Rudy Giuliani met with several Republican lawmakers. The Legislature is not in session but two informational hearings had been scheduled. House officials say the Capitol was closed “out of an abundance of caution for recent cases and concerns relating to COVID-19. They say the meetings with Giuliani are among those concerns. Giuliani met with Republicans as part of his quest to ov
  
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• Avoiding cheetah hangouts helps ranchers protect calves

  07-12-2020 21:07
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Cheetahs are Africa’s rarest big cats, but they face threats from cattle ranchers when the cats prey opportunistically on calves. Researchers from Germany and Slovenia studied the inner workings of cheetah society to help ranchers in Namibia reduce the number of calves killed annually by 86%, largely by avoiding popular cheetah hangouts. While cheetahs are mostly solitary cats, they frequently visit key landmarks to leave scent marks and sniff out information on fel
  
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• Legislative election leaves Venezuela in political standoff

  07-12-2020 21:06
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Nicolás Maduro has cemented formal control over all major institutions of power in Venezuela with authorities reporting that his political alliance easily won a majority in congress. Yet Maduro remains a pariah to much of the world following an election critics called undemocratic. Maduro’s domestic adversaries are also scrambling to assert relevance after boycotting elections for the National Assembly, their stronghold for five years. Oppos
  
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• PACC holds “Name Your Own Price” sale for the holidays

  07-12-2020 21:01
  
  Pima Animal Care Center Twitter
  TUCSON (KVOA) Need some holiday cheer? A local animal shelter is making adoption easier.
  With the mission of getting pets into homes for the holidays, Pima Animal Care Center says "Name your own Price."Pet adopters can name their own price for the adoption fees of pets four months or older.
  There is a $20 licensing fee per adopted dog that cannot be waived. Kittens and puppies will cost $50 each.
  The sale starts Monday and continues through Jan. 7, 2021.Intereste
  
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• UAE sheikh buys stake in controversial Israeli soccer club

  07-12-2020 21:00
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Beitar Jerusalem soccer club has gained notoriety for never having an Arab player on its roster. Now it says an Emirati sheikh has purchased a 50% stake in the team. The team said on Monday that Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, a member of the Abu Dhabi ruling family, has pledged to invest 300 million shekels, or about $90 million, into the club over the next decade. Moshe Hogeg, owner of Beitar, says the deal represents “new days of coexistence, ac
  
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• The Latest: Iowa death rate from COVID-19 rising

  07-12-2020 20:57
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa posted another 35 deaths from the novel coronavirus on Monday, continuing the high level of deaths related to the pandemic.
  The seven-day rolling average of daily deaths in Iowa has risen over the past two weeks from 29 deaths per day on Nov. 22 to 45 deaths per day on Sunday, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University.
  State health officials reported on Monday 912 new cases in the previous 24 hours. State data indicates new case trends have slowed with th
  
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• Officials: Flint makes progress toward ending water crisis

  07-12-2020 20:57
  
  Officials say Flint is making progress toward resolving the lead contamination crisis that made the Michigan city a symbol of poor drinking water. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says Flint has used federal and state funds to replace more than 9,700 lead service lines, which carry water to homes. Fewer than 500 remain to be checked. Other completed steps include a study of corrosion control treatments and sampling of water from homes that still have lead service lines. Mayor Sheldon Nee
  
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• UK’s Johnson to head to Brussels amid Brexit talks deadlock

  07-12-2020 20:54
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the head of the European Commission plan to meet in person to see whether a last-minute trade deal can be hammered out. Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said after a lengthy phone call Monday that “significant differences” remained on three key issues. They said they were planning to discuss the differences “in a physical meeting in Brussels in the coming days.” The two leaders sp
  
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