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• AP sources: President-elect Joe Biden plans to name Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge his housing and urban development secretary

  08-12-2020 23:58
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — AP sources: President-elect Joe Biden plans to name Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge his housing and urban development secretary.The post AP sources: President-elect Joe Biden plans to name Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge his housing and urban development secretary appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Georgia secretary of state wins praise from Schwarzenegger

  08-12-2020 23:57
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s secretary of state has received death threats over his handling of last month’s election, but he’s found a fan in Arnold Schwarzenegger. The actor and former California governor congratulated Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on a Zoom call Tuesday. The call was organized by the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Schwarzenegger explained to Raffensperger that the in
  
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• The Latest: Colorado governor’s partner out of the hospital

  08-12-2020 23:51
  
  DENVER — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’ longtime partner was discharged from a hospital Tuesday after undergoing treatment for the new coronavirus.
  First gentleman Marlon Reis was hospitalized over the weekend as a precaution after experiencing shortness of breath and a worsening cough after he was diagnosed on Nov. 28.The Democratic governor also was diagnosed with COVID-19 but has not experienced severe symptoms. He has been working from home in quarantine.
  Polis’ office said in
  
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• California warns of rising virus cases, broad transmission

  08-12-2020 23:49
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s top health official says coronavirus cases are expected to continue to climb in the state and everyday activities now carry a much greater risk of infection. Dr. Mark Ghaly, California’s secretary of health and human services, on Tuesday, urged residents to stay home whenever possible. The warning came as California authorities sent a cellphone text alert to two major regions of the state to tell millions of people that the coronavirus is spreadi
  
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• Georgia Senate GOP push for end to no-excuse absentee voting

  08-12-2020 23:48
  
  Atlanta (AP) — Republicans in Georgia’s state Senate are calling for an end to absentee voting without cause and want to ban ballot drop boxes. The effort comes after an increase in mail voting helped propel Democrat Joe Biden to a narrow victory over President Donald Trump in the state. Trump has for months made unsubstantiated claims about the integrity of mail-in votes. Republican election officials in Georgia have vehemently and repeatedly disputed claims that there was fraud in
  
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• DNA identifies Missouri toddler found in Mississippi in 1982

  08-12-2020 23:42
  
  PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — Investigators say DNA testing has identified a Missouri toddler whose body was found on a riverbank in Mississippi in 1982. The sheriff of Jackson County, Mississippi, says the child long known only as “Baby Jane”  or “Delta Dawn” has been identified as 18-month-old Alisha Ann Heinrich. Her mother, Gwendolyn Mae Clemons was a 23-year-old resident of Joplin, Missouri, who left home on Thanksgiving 1982 along with her baby and a boyfriend
  
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• PHX FBI: Woman Federally Charged with Attempting to Carry a Weapon on an Aircraft

  08-12-2020 23:33
  
  PHOENIX (KVOA) - The FBI announced that a woman attempted to pass through a TSA checkpoint at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport with the intent to board a commercial aircraft while carrying a folding knife concealed in her bra.
  According to an FBI news release the incident happened on November 28, 2020.The FBI said the 36-year old woman, Erine Aisha Robertson was charged in a criminal complaint filed in federal court, with Attempting to Carry a Weapon on an Aircraft in violation of 49 U.S
  
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• Senate OKs Trump pick for FCC, adding hurdle to Biden plans

  08-12-2020 23:27
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has narrowly approved President Donald Trump’s lame-duck nominee to become a member of the Federal Communications Commission, setting up the agency for a stretch of partisan gridlock likely to stymie President-elect Joe Biden’s policies. The vote was 49-46 along party lines to confirm Nathan Simington. He played a role in the plan by the Republican-majority FCC to reexamine the legal protections enjoyed by social media companies like Facebook and Tw
  
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• Legal panel: Free Minneapolis man jailed for life as teen

  08-12-2020 23:24
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A national panel of legal experts recommended the immediate release of a Black man sentenced to life in prison as a teenager nearly two decades ago.
  The panel also said Minneapolis police appear to have suffered from “tunnel vision” while investigating the case of Myon Burrell, who was convicted of killing a little girl hit by a stray bullet in 2002. In addition, the panel said, among the other serious flaws in the high-profile case, police ignored witnesses
  
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• The Latest: North Carolina under modified stay-at-home order

  08-12-2020 23:20
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper unveiled a modified stay-at-home order on Tuesday that requires the state’s roughly 10.5 million residents to remain off the streets between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.
  The executive order set to take effect on Friday orders bars, restaurants, entertainment venues and personal care businesses closed by 10 p.m., though grocery chains and some retailers that sell groceries will be allowed to operate within the seven-hour window.
  On-site alcohol sal
  
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• ‘First Cow,’ ‘Nomadland’ top AP’s best films of 2020

  08-12-2020 23:19
  
  Good movies kept coming in 2020, even when everything else stopped. It was the year of the drive-in, the backyard bedsheet movie and the streaming service. But wherever they played, the best films of the year offered some escape and connection: the possibility of grace, a spark of fury — and something the rest of the world couldn’t offer: the assurance of an ending. Associated Press Film Writers Jake Coyle and Lindsey Bahr pick “First Cow,” “Nomadland,” &ldquo
  
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• Cybersecurity firm FireEye says was hacked by nation state

  08-12-2020 23:11
  
  MILPITAS, Calif. (AP) — Prominent cybersecurity firm FireEye says it was hacked by what it believes was a national government. The company said Tuesday that the attacker targeted and stole assessment tools that FireEye uses to test the its customers’ security and which mimic the methods used by hackers. It didn’t identify who it thought was responsible. The stolen “Red Team” tools could be dangerous in the wrong hands, though FireEye said there’s no indication
  
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• Judge: US must provide limited info on Khashoggi death tape

  08-12-2020 23:09
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A judge says the U.S. government must provide limited information about its withholding of a tape of the killing of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi and a CIA report on his death in a Freedom of Information Act case. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer said Tuesday that public statements, including by President Donald Trump, have made clear that the items exist. They are being sought by a FOIA lawsuit brought in Manhattan by the Open Society Justice Initiative. The Justice I
  
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• First lady urges kindness during holiday clouded by pandemic

  08-12-2020 23:09
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump is encouraging people to perform small acts of kindness for one another during a holiday season clouded by the coronavirus pandemic. The first lady delivered that message during an appearance Tuesday at the Marine Toys for Tots annual toy drive in Washington, D.C. She noted that many people won’t get to spend time with loved ones in the coming weeks because of the coronavirus. Because of that, she says it’s more important than ever for people to
  
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• Amid virus surge, life goes on at Mexico City’s main market

  08-12-2020 23:07
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — As the coronavirus slams Mexico City, it is business as usual at the city’s central wholesale food market — the scene of one of the capital’s biggest outbreaks in the spring. The city has recorded nearly 21,000 deaths related to COVID-19 so far and 75% of its hospital beds are full, but some people strolled around the Central de Abasto produce market without masks Tuesday. A half million people visit the market each day, about as many as before the pand
  
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• Tesla seeks to sell $5B in stock; CEO Musk moves to Texas

  08-12-2020 22:59
  
  Tesla says Tuesday it wants to raise up to $5 billion in capital through a stock offering. The move came the same day that CEO Elon Musk said he has moved from California to Texas. The stock offering is the second for the company in three months. In September Tesla said that it planned to sell up to $5 billion worth of common shares just one day after its 5-for-1 stock split took effect. Musk told The Wall Street Journal in an interview that he has switched states, saying that California is comp
  
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• Steady gains for stocks deliver more records on Wall Street

  08-12-2020 22:55
  
  Steady gains throughout the day delivered another round of record highs for major indexes on Wall Street Tuesday. The S&P 500 rose 0.3%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq also hit a record high. Small-company stocks rose much more than the rest of the market, a signal that investors are feeling more optimistic about the economy. The gains, which came after a shaky start for the market, came as the U.K. became the first Western country to start a mass vaccination program. U.S. regulators have given a pos
  
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• High court rejects GOP bid to halt Biden’s Pennsylvania win

  08-12-2020 22:46
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected Republicans’ last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the electoral battleground. The court without comment Tuesday refused to call into question the certification process in Pennsylvania. Gov. Tom Wolf already has certified Biden’s victory and the state’s 20 electors are to meet on Dec. 14 to cast their votes for Biden. Biden won 306 electoral votes, so eve
  
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• Supreme Court rejects Republican bid to reverse certification of Biden victory in Pennsylvania

  08-12-2020 22:43
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court rejects Republican bid to reverse certification of Biden victory in Pennsylvania.The post Supreme Court rejects Republican bid to reverse certification of Biden victory in Pennsylvania appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• 2 killed, 2 critically injured in Omaha house explosion

  08-12-2020 22:38
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Fire officials say an explosion that leveled a home in Omaha, Nebraska, has left two people dead and two others critically injured. Omaha Fire Department Battalion Chief Scott Fitzpatrick says firefighters responded to the explosion shortly after 8 a.m. Tuesday. Fitzpatrick says the house was leveled and completely destroyed. The explosion also caused significant damage to homes on either side of the house. The blast in south-central Omaha rained splintered lumber and ot
  
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• Oliva Jade Giannulli learning from family college ‘mess-up’

  08-12-2020 22:37
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Maybe Olivia Jade Giannulli had hoped for kid-glove treatment in choosing the family vibe of “Red Table Talk” for her first public comments about the college admissions scandal involving her famous parents. If so, she was quickly enlightened during Tuesday’s episode of the Facebook Watch series. Adrienne Banfield Norris, mom of series host Jada Pinkett Smith, said she saw Olivia Jade as a privileged young white woman who would be fine despite the scanda
  
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• Legal panel: Free Minnesota man jailed for life as a teen

  08-12-2020 22:33
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A national panel of legal experts recommended the immediate release of a Black man sentenced to life in prison as a teenager nearly two decades ago.
  The panel also said Minnesota police appeared to have suffered from “tunnel vision” while investigating the case of Myon Burrell, who was convicted of killing a little girl hit by a stray bullet in 2002. In addition, the panel said, among the other serious flaws in the high-profile case, police ignored witnesses
  
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• Biden vows to reopen most schools after 1st 100 days on job

  08-12-2020 22:25
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden is pledging to bring the coronavirus pandemic under enough control to open most of the nation’s schools during his first 100 days as president. The president-elect said Tuesday that the promise is dependent on Congress providing sufficient funding to protect students, teachers and staff. He made the comments during an event in Delaware to introduce a team of health experts that will help the new administration combat a virus that has already killed more th
  
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• Portland police and protestors clash in broad daylight

  08-12-2020 22:23
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Clashes between police and protesters have erupted in Portland in rare daytime violence following the arrests of seven people at a residence that has long been the site of demonstrations against gentrification. Officials say the demonstrators protesting the eviction of a Black and Indigenous family that lived in a home since the 1950s hurled rocks at officers, sprayed a fire extinguisher toward them and damaged police vehicles after seven people were arrested on tresp
  
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• The Latest: Rudy Giuliani says he’s making rapid recovery

  08-12-2020 22:19
  
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani says that he’s making a rapid recovery after being diagnosed with the novel coronavirus and expects to be released from the hospital as early as Wednesday.
  Giuliani calling into own radio show on WABC in New York said he decided to go to the hospital after being urged by the president’s physician. The 76-year-old former mayor of New York was admitted into Georgetown University Medical Center in Washingt
  
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• The Latest: Biden says he plans to name Austin defense chief

  08-12-2020 22:18
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):
  4:20 p.m.
  President-elect Joe Biden is confirming that he will nominate retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin to be secretary of defense.
  Word of the choice had leaked out Monday, prompting some members of Congress to raise doubts about the wisdom of putting a recently retired military officer in charge of the Defense Department. Austin, who served 41 years in uniform, retired four years ago.
  Biden responded Tuesday with
  
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• Woman arrested at Phoenix airport with a knife hidden in bra

  08-12-2020 22:17
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The FBI says a woman was arrested at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport after allegedly trying to pass through security and board a flight to San Francisco recently with a folding knife concealed in her bra. FBI officials said Tuesday that 36-year-old Erine Aisha Robertson was charged with the federal crime of attempting to carry a weapon on an aircraft. They say the incident occurred on Nov. 28. Court documents show  an alarm went off as Robertson passed through the sensor at
  
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• COVID-19 aid in balance as McConnell pushes smaller deal

  08-12-2020 22:15
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Capitol Hill’s most powerful Republican is proposing to shelve a controversial pet provision for an emerging COVID-19 relief package — but only if Democrats agree to shelve one of their top priorities, too. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would drop a controversial provision that would provide a shield against lawsuits for COVID-related negligence. In exchange, McConnell wants House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to drop a demand for $160 billion or so to
  
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• Cybersecurity official fired by Trump sues over threats

  08-12-2020 22:14
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. cybersecurity official who was fired by President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit over threatening remarks by a lawyer for the president. Christopher Krebs says in the suit that he has been “bombarded” with death threats since attorney Joseph diGenova appeared on the TV network Newsmax and called for him to be killed. DiGenova said that Krebs should be “drawn and quartered” and “taken out at dawn and shot” for his defense of t
  
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• Clarification: Film-Gary Oldman story

  08-12-2020 22:09
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — In a story published December 7, 2020, The Associated Press reported in 2001, Gary Oldman’s ex-wife accused him of domestic abuse in a court filing, which the actor strongly denied. The story has been updated to make clear that following a police investigation, Oldman was never charged.The post Clarification: Film-Gary Oldman story appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• ‘Full warning’: Older basketball coaches at work in pandemic

  08-12-2020 21:56
  
  Oklahoma basketball coach Lon Kruger has been spared from the coronavirus so far, even with his Sooners having to briefly shut down because of cases within the program. Some of his colleagues over age 65 haven’t been so fortunate. Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim, Michigan State’s Tom Izzo and Tennessee’s Rick Barnes are among the coaches 65 and up who have contracted COVID-19. While many people with regular jobs in Kruger’s age group are staying at home, college basketball c
  
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• Trump hails vaccine ‘miracle,’ with millions of doses soon

  08-12-2020 21:53
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump celebrated the expected approval of the first U.S. vaccine for the coronavirus, as the White House worked Tuesday to instill confidence in the distribution that will largely be executed by President-elect Joe Biden. Trump sought to emphasize that the expected approvals came before most people thought possible. “They say it’s somewhat of a miracle and I think that’s true,” Trump said. Biden officials were not invited, and repr
  
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• The Latest: California asking millions to stay home

  08-12-2020 21:53
  
  LOS ANGELES — California authorities sent a cellphone text alert Tuesday to two major regions to tell millions of people that the novel coronavirus is spreading rapidly and asking them to stay home except for essential activities.
  The noon blast to the state-designated 11-county Southern California region and 12-county San Joaquin Valley region was sent by the Office of Emergency Services.
  The text also urged people to wear masks and physically distance.
  Both regions came under increased r
  
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• Police respond to ‘break-in,’ find music video shoot instead

  08-12-2020 21:42
  
  PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. (AP) — Police in South Florida descended on what they thought was an armed break-in at a men’s clothing store Tuesday morning after people were spotted storming in with rifles — but arrived to find a music video filming. A Pembroke Pines Police spokeswoman says the rifles were fake, and the men holding them were actors in a video. The Miami Herald reports a store manager says the shopping center was closed at the time and a film crew was allowed in the stor
  
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• Fans, Ono, bandmates mark 40 years since John Lennon’s death

  08-12-2020 21:41
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Fans have remembered John Lennon on the 40th anniversary of the former Beatle’s death with flowers, candles and songs in New York’s Central Park. In the Strawberry Fields section steps from where he was shot, musicians played Tuesday. Photos of Lennon and other memorabilia ringed the inlaid “Imagine” mosaic. Lennon’s wife, Yoko Ono, posted on social media an image of Lennon’s bloody eyeglasses and listed the number of people she said have
  
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• Hawaii’s top court rejects complaint challenging Nov. 3 vote

  08-12-2020 21:36
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — The Hawaii Supreme Court is dismissing an elections complaint challenging the entirety of the Nov. 3 general election in the islands. The move clears the way for the results of the state’s presidential vote to be certified. The state’s highest court unanimously ruled the plaintiffs lack standing to challenge the results of all federal, state and county races. The justices say that even if the plaintiffs had standing, they failed to prove any facts in support of
  
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• Limited fans, limited views to start new year on PGA Tour

  08-12-2020 21:33
  
  The PGA Tour plans to start the new year with spectators. There just won’t be very many, and the views will be limited. The Sentry Tournament of Champions is offering two ticket options for Kapalua. Tournament organizers don’t expect more than about 200 or 300 fans. And they will have views of the 18th hole but won’t be allowed to walk the rest of the Plantation Course. The next three tournaments after Kapalua have said they won’t have fans, while the Phoenix Open plans a
  
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• The Latest: Arizona sets daily record of 12,314 virus cases

  08-12-2020 21:28
  
  PHOENIX — Arizona set a new daily record with 12,314 confirmed coronavirus cases. The Department of Health Services says it eclipses the previous record of 10,322 cases set Dec. 1. That figure was inflated by delayed reporting over the Thanksgiving weekend.Arizona’s case total increased to 378,157. The state reported 23 more deaths, increasing the confirmed total to 6,973.Department officials before Thanksgiving warned that gatherings of more than one household would increase the spr
  
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• Mississippi official questions 1 name on lynching memorial

  08-12-2020 21:23
  
  OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi official says he doesn’t want to approve a memorial for lynching victims because one Black man who would be listed on it was accused in a killing. Lafayette County supervisors delayed final approval Monday of the marker that’s proposed for outside the courthouse on the Square in Oxford. Supervisor David Rikard said he had concerns with it listing Lawson Patton, who was accused of killing a white woman in 1908. Rikard says Patton was “cau
  
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• Appeals court to rehear Texas abortion case in January

  08-12-2020 21:20
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court in New Orleans will next month reconsider a ruling that struck down a Texas law banning a common second-trimester abortion procedure. The Texas law used the non-medical term “dismemberment abortion” to describe the procedure. Abortion rights groups say the procedure is known as dilation and evacuation and is the safest and most common second-trimester abortion procedure. A divided three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe
  
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• Execution staff have COVID-19 after inmate put to death

  08-12-2020 21:19
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As the U.S. government rushes to complete executions in a pandemic before President Donald Trump leaves office, the Justice Department disclosed that eight staff members who took part in an execution last month tested positive for the coronavirus. And five of those staffers will take part in executions scheduled for this week. The disclosure that the execution team members had tested positive for the virus, in addition to the spiritual adviser of the inmate put to death,
  
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• Los Angeles deputies break up underground party, arrest 158

  08-12-2020 21:10
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officials say Los Angeles County deputies arrested nearly 160 people — many of whom were not wearing masks — who attended an illegal “super-spreader” party over the weekend despite surging coronavirus cases. Authorities announced Tuesday that the party in Palmdale resulted in the arrests of 158 people, 35 of whom were juveniles. Deputies found six weapons at the home and were able to rescue a 17-year-old human trafficking victim. The sheriff said
  
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• US virus deaths hit record levels with the holidays ahead

  08-12-2020 21:08
  
  Deaths from the coronavirus in the U.S. have soared to more than 2,200 a day on average. That mirrors the frightening peak set last April. And cases per day have eclipsed 200,000 on average for the first time on record. The crisis is all but certain to get worse from the fallout of Americans traveling in droves around Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s.The post US virus deaths hit record levels with the holidays ahead appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• UK starts virus campaign with a shot watched round the world

  08-12-2020 21:06
  
  LONDON (AP) — A 90-year-old retired shop clerk has received the first shot in the United Kingdom’s COVID-19 vaccination program. It is the start of an unprecedented global immunization effort seeking to end a deadly pandemic. The U.K. is the first Western country to deliver a broadly tested and independently reviewed vaccine to the general public. British regulators last week authorized the use of a COVID-19 shot developed by U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech. U.S. a
  
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• Judge peppers lawyer with questions on Arizona election suit

  08-12-2020 21:05
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge in a lawsuit seeking to decertify the election results that gave Democrat President-elect Joe Biden his Arizona victory has peppered a lawyer with questions about why the challenge should remain alive in court. The lawsuit alleges Arizona’s election systems have flaws that let election workers and foreign countries manipulate results. Officials have said the lawsuit uses conspiracy theories to make allegations without any proof. Judge Diane Humetewa sai
  
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• 50 people won a Massachusetts lottery game, most on record

  08-12-2020 21:04
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Fifty people won the Massachusetts lottery game Mass Cash on Sunday, a record according to the state lottery agency. For a dollar, players of the game choose five numbers between 1 and 35 and mark the choice on a slip. WCVB reported on Monday that 50 people chose the winning combination of numbers, making them all winners. Usually, the jackpot for the game is $100,000. But when total prizes exceed a certain percentage of sales, the state agency uses a formula to determine the
  
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• High tide floods Venice as dike-on-demand wasn’t activated

  08-12-2020 21:01
  
  High tides have flooded St. Mark’s Square in Venice, propelled by winds that were stronger than predicted. Because such a high tide hadn’t been predicted, a new system of inflatable barriers wasn’t activated on Tuesday in a bid to prevent the waters from invading the lagoon city. Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said that with another peak tide predicted the next day, the barriers would be activated early Wednesday. The barrier system, in its experimental phase, gets activated when
  
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• Pornhub calls halt to unverified users posting on its site

  08-12-2020 20:58
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The pornographic website Pornhub says it has called a temporary halt to unverified users posting material on its site, and will set up procedures next year to better keep track of these users. The site is responding to a report in The New York Times alleging that videos of rape and underage sex can be found there, which led to Visa and Mastercard saying they are reevaluating their business relationship with Pornhub. Pornhub says it is committed to scrubbing its site of any
  
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• Minnesota school drops name of 1st governor amid complaints

  08-12-2020 20:55
  
  MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — A Twin Cities-area high school will no longer be named after Henry Sibley, Minnesota’s first governor. The West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan Area School Board voted Monday evening to drop the name, following complaints by community members and alumni about Sibley’s treatment of the state’s Dakota people. Sibley, who commanded troops in the U.S.-Dakota War, established the military commission that in 1862 sentenced 303 Dakota men to death. T
  
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• French prosecutors seek jail in Sarkozy corruption trial

  08-12-2020 20:48
  
  PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors have requested two years of prison and a two-year suspended sentence for former President Nicolas Sarkozy in a landmark corruption and influence peddling trial in Paris. The 65-year-old Sarkozy is accused of having tried to illegally obtain information from a senior magistrate in 2014 about an investigation involving him. Prosecutors on Tuesday requested the same sentence for Sarkozy’s codefendants, his lawyer and friend Thierry Herzog and magistrate G
  
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