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• Flagstaff sues to block drilling near its water ranch

  12-12-2020 23:55
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Flagstaff is suing a Canadian energy company in an effort to block drilling of a well the company plans near ranch land the city bought in 2005 to secure its underground water supply. The city announced late Friday that it wants a court to block Vancouver-based Desert Mountain Energy from drilling on state trust land less than 2 miles from its Red Gap Ranch property. The city says drilling for oil, gas or helium at the site and using stimulation methods like frackin
  
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• Arizona fires Sumlin following blowout loss to Arizona State

  12-12-2020 23:50
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona has fired football coach Kevin Sumlin following a blowout loss to rival Arizona State that extended a record losing streak. Sumlin was fired less than 24 hours after a 70-7 loss to Arizona State that stretched the Wildcats’  losing streak to 12 straight games spanning two seasons. Sumlin entered this year on the hot seat after the Wildcats closed the 2019 season with seven straight losses. The Wildcats blew an early 13-point lead to Colorado last wee
  
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• Arizona has fired football coach Kevin Sumlin a day after blowout loss to Arizona State

  12-12-2020 23:39
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona has fired football coach Kevin Sumlin a day after blowout loss to Arizona State.The post Arizona has fired football coach Kevin Sumlin a day after blowout loss to Arizona State appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Kevin Sumlin out as Arizona Head Coach according to report

  12-12-2020 23:01
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Kevin Sumlin is allegedly out as the head coach of the University of Arizona according to Bruce Feldman of FOX Sports.
  BREAKING: #Arizona is expected to dismiss Kevin Sumlin as the Wildcats head coach, sources tell me. U of A is 0-6 and on a 12-game losing streak.— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) December 12, 2020
  The University of Arizona athletic department has yet to confirm.This article will be updated as more information comes into our newsroom.
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• Kevin Sumlin out as Arizona Head Coach according to Arizona Athletics

  12-12-2020 23:01
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Kevin Sumlin is allegedly out as the head coach of the University of Arizona according to the Arizona Athletic Department."University of Arizona Vice President and Director of Athletics Dave Heeke announced today that Head Football Coach Kevin Sumlin has been relieved of his duties effective immediately. Defensive Coordinator Paul Rhoads will serve as the Interim Head Coach."Athletic Director Dave Heeke released this statment on Sumlin's departure., saying “When we hired Ke
  
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• Stolen service dog located a day later in South Florida

  12-12-2020 23:00
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A service dog that was inside a truck when it was stolen outside a South Florida gas station has been located a day after going missing. WPLG in Fort Lauderdale reported that the truck was found Saturday by a friend of owner Luisa Escudero in a Fort Lauderdale apartment complex. The truck’s door was open and the 9-year-old brown and black bull mastiff inside. Escudero’s truck was stolen outside a gas station in Fort Lauderdale on Friday afternoon wh
  
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• Arizona’s 11 Democrat presidential electors a diverse group

  12-12-2020 22:33
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — When Arizona’s 11 presidential electors meet Monday to formally vote for Democrat Joe Biden they’ll be the focus of intense scrutiny during what is normally an afterthought in America’s elections. Arizona’s electors are a diverse group of Democrats chosen by party officials to formalize their rare victory in the state. Representing the party are three tribal leaders, a Latina mayor, three labor union leaders, an openly gay Latino county supervisor, a
  
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• Charley Pride, country’s first Black superstar, dies at 86

  12-12-2020 22:19
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Charley Pride, country music’s first Black star whose rich baritone on such hits as “Kiss an Angel Good Morning” helped sell millions of records and helped make him the first Black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, has died. He was 86.
  Pride died Saturday in Dallas of complications from Covid-19, according to Jeremy Westby of the public relations firm 2911 Media.
  Pride released dozens of albums and sold more than 25 million records during a career
  
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• Hunter Biden subpoena seeks info on Burisma, other entities

  12-12-2020 22:03
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department’s subpoena to Hunter Biden sought information involving more than two dozen entities to examine some of his foreign business ties, including with Ukrainian gas company Burisma. That’s according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke The Associated Press. The subpoena was issued this week as part of the Justice Department’s tax investigation of the president-elect’s son. It’s unclear what the significance is of t
  
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• Arizona’s known COVID-19 cases top 400,000 after 8K report

  12-12-2020 22:02
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona on Saturday passed the 400,000 mark of known COVID-19 cases while reporting over 8,000 additional cases, one of the state’s largest daily case figures since the pandemic began. The state reported 8,076 additional known cases and 77 additional deaths, increasing the state’s totals to 402,589 cases and 7,322 deaths. The additional cases reported Saturday eclipsed Friday’s 6,983 as the third largest daily case report, behind 12,314 on Tuesday and 10,32
  
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• Israelis maintain anti-Netanyahu protests in wintry weather

  12-12-2020 21:45
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — A few thousand Israelis protested against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, demanding he resign in the face of corruption charges and the pandemic. Some 2,000 people demonstrated outside Netanyahu’s official residence in Jerusalem on Saturday. The size of the crowds has shrunk in recent weeks with the arrival of winter. The protesters say Netanyahu can’t properly manage the country under charges of fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes. Netanyahu denies
  
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• New Orleans stage and screen actor Carol Sutton dies at 76

  12-12-2020 21:37
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Carol Sutton, a fixture on stages in her native New Orleans, has died from complications from COVID-19. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced the death. Sutton was 76. Her roles included the 1989 comedy “Steel Magnolias” and the TV series “Queen Sugar.” After making her acting debut in the late 1960s in Dashiki Project Theatre productions, Sutton appeared in productions such as “The Last Madam,” “Native Tongues” an
  
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• VIRUS TODAY: With vaccine coming, daily deaths set a record

  12-12-2020 21:29
  
  U.S. officials say the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine will begin arriving in states Monday morning. It comes after the U.S. hit another grim daily record Friday, recording 3,309 deaths related to COVID-19. In California, officials are hoping that a three-week stay-at-home order imposed this week on the agricultural San Joaquin Valley will relieve a COVID-19 burden that has filled up 97% of the area’s intensive-care beds. The post VIRUS TODAY: With vaccine coming, daily deaths s
  
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• Driver arrested after car plows into Manhattan protesters

  12-12-2020 21:28
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who plowed her car into protesters Friday in New York City, injuring six of them, has been arrested and charged with reckless endangerment. Police said 52-year-old Kathleen Casillo was released from custody after being given a notice to appear in court at a later date. A message seeking comment was left at a number listed for Casillo. Online records did not list a lawyer who could speak on her behalf. Another woman, whom police described as a protester, was arrested
  
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• The Latest: US reaches record daily toll of 3,309 deaths

  12-12-2020 21:21
  
  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The U.S. has reached a record 3,309 daily coronavirus deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
  The deaths reported Friday exceeded by 6% the previous high of 3,124 deaths reported Wednesday.
  The U.S. also reached a record daily confirmed infections at 231,775, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. That’s nearly 4,000 more than the previous high on Dec. 4.
  The increases come as millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed b
  
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• F1 star Hamilton vows to fight to improve human rights

  12-12-2020 21:17
  
  World champion Lewis Hamilton has vowed not to ignore pleas to improve human rights in Bahrain and other countries where Formula One hosts races. He spoke after reading letters from alleged torture survivors and being sent a drawing from the young son of a Bahraini man on death row. Hamilton received personally addressed letters from three alleged torture victims in Bahrain ahead of the race there two weeks ago, and has since read them. Included with the letters to Hamilton is a photo of 11-year
  
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• Albanian police easily disperse smaller anti-police protest

  12-12-2020 20:02
  
  TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian police swiftly have dispersed a smaller crowd of demonstrators as part of their ongoing protests this week after a fatal shooting by police enforcing a coronavirus curfew. A higher police presence, including water cannon trucks, had surrounded the main government building of Prime Minister Edi Rama and other ministries in the capital Saturday. Albanians have defied a ban on public gatherings because of the pandemic, and have clashed with police in recent day
  
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• Flagstaff suing to block drilling near its water ranch

  12-12-2020 20:00
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Flagstaff is suing a Canadian energy company in an effort to block drilling of a well the company plans near ranch land the city bought in 2005 to secure its underground water supply. The city announced late Friday that it wants a court to block Vancouver-based Desert Mountain Energy from drilling on state trust land less than 2 miles from its Red Gap Ranch property. The city says drilling for oil, gas or helium at the site and using stimulation methods like frackin
  
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• States will start getting COVID-19 vaccine Monday, US says

  12-12-2020 19:58
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine will begin arriving in states Monday morning. Army Gen. Gustave Perna said Saturday that trucks will roll out Sunday morning as shipping companies UPS and FedEx begin delivering Pfizer’s vaccine to nearly 150 distribution centers across the states. An additional 425 sites will get shipments Tuesday, and the remaining 66 on Wednesday. Perna is with Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s vacc
  
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• Doctor says Biden’s fractured foot is healing as expected

  12-12-2020 19:58
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joe Biden’s doctor says the president-elect’s fractured foot has been healing. Biden made the drive from his Delaware home to a Philadelphia hospital on Saturday for a special CT scan that was able to obtain a “weight-bearing” image. His doctor says in a statement released after the visit that the small fracture was “healing as expected” and that no more extensive injury was found. The 78-year-old Biden suffered the small fracture two
  
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• Trump loses Wisconsin case while arguing another one

  12-12-2020 19:57
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump has lost a federal lawsuit while his attorney is arguing his case before a skeptical Wisconsin Supreme Court in another lawsuit that liberal justices said “smacks of racism” and would disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters only in the state’s most diverse counties. U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig dismissed Trump’s federal lawsuit Saturday asking the court to order the Republican-controlled state Legislature to nam
  
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• The Latest: 1st Pfizer vaccine to arrive in states Monday

  12-12-2020 19:50
  
  WASHINGTON — U.S. officials say the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine will begin arriving in states Monday morning.Army Gen. Gustave Perna says trucks will roll out Sunday morning as shipping companies UPS and FedEx begin delivering Pfizer’s vaccine to nearly 150 distribution centers across the states. An additional 450 sites will get the vaccine between Tuesday and Wednesday.Perna is with Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s vaccine development program. He says
  
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• Federal judge rejects Trump campaign lawsuit in Wisconsin

  12-12-2020 19:44
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge has rejected President Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s win in Wisconsin, the latest in a string of defeats in the extraordinary attempts to undo his loss. U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig dismissed the case Saturday, while the Wisconsin Supreme Court was hearing an appeal in another case that Trump lost in state court. The federal ruling comes ahead of Monday’s Electoral College meeting where Wisconsin&r
  
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• Federal judge rejects Trump campaign lawsuit seeking to overturn Joe Biden’s win in Wisconsin

  12-12-2020 19:40
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Federal judge rejects Trump campaign lawsuit seeking to overturn Joe Biden’s win in Wisconsin.The post Federal judge rejects Trump campaign lawsuit seeking to overturn Joe Biden’s win in Wisconsin appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Rocket motor fails to ignite on Virgin Galactic test flight

  12-12-2020 19:38
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A Virgin Galactic test flight Saturday ended prematurely as the spacecraft’s rocket motor failed to ignite and it then glided down safely to its landing site in southern New Mexico. Virgin Galactic said the rocket motor’s ignition sequence “did not complete” but that the spacecraft and two crew members were “in great shape.” The brief statement said Virgin Galactic has several “several motors ready at Spaceport America&rdqu
  
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• Nearly 150 arrested at Paris protest over security bill

  12-12-2020 19:27
  
  PARIS (AP) — Paris police took nearly 150 people into custody at what quickly became a tense and sometimes ill-tempered protest against proposed security laws. Officers waded into the crowds Saturday to haul away suspected trouble-makers. Police targeted protesters they suspected might coalesce together into violent groups. The interior minister reported 142 arrests. Long lines of officers and police vehicles with blue lights flashing escorted marchers. A police water cannon doused demonst
  
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• Algeria decries neighbor Morocco’s normalized Israel ties

  12-12-2020 19:18
  
  ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria’s prime minister has lashed out at the decision by neighbor Morocco to normalize relations with Israel. Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad on Saturday decried the diplomatic breakthrough as an effort to destabilize his country. He also complained of “a desire to bring the Israeli and Zionist entity to our borders.” The normalization of relations between Israel and Morocco was announced Thursday by U.S. President Donald Trump. In a related majo
  
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• Loss of ‘snowbirds’ amid pandemic another hit to US tourism

  12-12-2020 19:11
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Many so-called snowbirds who live part time in warmer climates to escape cold weather won’t be flocking south this winter. For Canadians who drive to places like Arizona and Florida, they’re facing travel restrictions at the border. For some, it’s fear of COVID-19 infections and deaths that are surging in the United States. Their absence is being felt by vacation rentals, restaurants and shops. Yet RV parks and campgrounds are seeing an increase in campers
  
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• Authorities in Tennessee, Kentucky look for escaped inmates

  12-12-2020 19:06
  
  PARIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say they are searching for two Tennessee inmates who escaped prison, kidnapped a Kentucky highway department employee and stole a resident’s truck. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Robert Brown and Christopher Osteen escaped Friday morning from Northwest Correctional Complex in Lake County, Tennessee. The inmates are considered armed and dangerous. Authorities say an employee of the highway department in Fulton County, Kentucky, was kidnapped
  
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• Austria seizes weapons destined for Germany’s far right

  12-12-2020 19:02
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Austria say they have seized a large cache of weapons and ammunition that were intended to be sold to far-right extremists in Germany. Officials said Saturday that police raids in recent days led to the seizure of 70 automatic and semi-automatic firearms, more than 100,000 rounds of ammunition and explosives. Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said the main suspect is a 53-year-old Austrian. Nehammer said the police operations had uncovered “a network that s
  
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• Trump helicopter buzzes supporters rallying in Washington

  12-12-2020 18:55
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump have returned to Washington on Saturday for rallies to back his desperate efforts to subvert the election that he lost to Joe Biden. They cheered as Trump flew overhead on the Marine One helicopter on his way out of town for the Army-Navy football game in West Point, New York. The rallies are intended as a show of force just two days before the Electoral College meets to formally elect Biden as the 46th president. Trump re
  
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• Barcelona concert tests use of same-day COVID-19 screening

  12-12-2020 18:52
  
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Five hundred music fans eager for a live show without social distancing are volunteering to test the effectiveness of same-day coronavirus screening at a concert in Barcelona. The concert goers must pass an antigen test before entering the concert. Face masks and hand hygiene are musts inside the show. The 500 concert goers and another 500 people in a control group will all undergo PCR tests both before the concert and again eight days later. The PCR tests will let
  
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• As leaders set fresh climate goals, Biden pledges US support

  12-12-2020 18:47
  
  PARIS (AP) — U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to rejoin the Paris climate accord on the first day of his presidency as world leaders staged a virtual gathering to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the international pact aimed at curbing global warming. Heads of state and government from over 70 countries joined Saturday’s online event to pledge greater efforts in cutting the greenhouse gas emissions that fuel global warming. The United States, which quit the Paris accord u
  
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• Virus rages as new rules challenge California city’s mettle

  12-12-2020 18:26
  
  LODI, Calif. (AP) — The coronavirus is spreading rapidly in California’s San Joaquin Valley and filling its hospitals. It has the fewest available intensive care unit beds of any region in California, a frightening reality that health officials hope will convince more people to wear masks and socially distance. Denis Xenos won’t be one of them. The owner of Denis Country Kitchen in Lodi is defying the state’s shutdown order and offering inside dining. He doesn’t ask
  
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• Israel, Bhutan establish formal relations

  12-12-2020 18:26
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and Bhutan have announced the establishment of full diplomatic relations between the two countries. The agreement Saturday will “open the path to greater cooperation and further strengthen relations” between Israel and the South Asian kingdom, according to a joint statement. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the deal, writing on Twitter that it is an “additional fruit of the peace agreements.” He added that Israel was in cont
  
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• More than 100 arrested at Paris protest over security bill

  12-12-2020 18:17
  
  PARIS (AP) — Paris police took more than 100 people into custody at what quickly became a tense and sometimes ill-tempered protest against proposed security laws. Officers waded into the crowds Saturday to haul away suspected trouble-makers. Police targeted protesters they suspected might coalesce together into violent groups. Police reported at least 107 arrests. Long lines of officers and police vehicles with blue lights flashing escorted marchers. A police water cannon doused demonstrat
  
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• Armenians, Azerbaijan trade blame over breach of peace deal

  12-12-2020 18:06
  
  YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenian officials and Azerbaijan have accused each other of breaching a peace deal that ended six weeks of fierce fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh. Separatist officials in Nagorno-Karabakh said the Azerbaijani military launched an attack late Friday that left three ethnic Armenian servicemen wounded. The Armenian Defense Ministry later charged that the Azerbaijani army mounted an attack Saturday in the south of Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev acc
  
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• The Latest: Vatican City to get vaccine early next year

  12-12-2020 18:02
  
  VATICAN CITY — Vatican citizens, employees and their families will begin to receive the coronavirus vaccine early next year, according to Vatican News.The head of the Vatican health service, Dr. Andrea Arcangeli, says the Pfizer vaccine has been chosen, but others might be introduced later. Arcangeli says the Vatican health services planned a campaign to underline the importance of the vaccine, which can be administered to anyone over 18.The Vatican, a tiny city state of about 600 people i
  
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• Virgin Galactic makes first flight from New Mexico site

  12-12-2020 17:51
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Virgin Galactic on Saturday completed its first rocket-powered flight from Spaceport America in southern New Mexico. The flight was the first from Virgin Galactic’s new headquarters at the futuristic desert outpost but it wasn’t immediately clear from information released by the space tourism company whether the hour-long test flight actually reached space as planned. After delays due to the coronavirus pandemic and some dicey weather earlier this week,
  
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• US says COVID-19 vaccine to start arriving in states Monday

  12-12-2020 17:51
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine will begin arriving in states Monday morning. Army Gen. Gustave F. Perna said Saturday that shipping companies UPS and FedEx will deliver Pfizer’s vaccine to nearly 150 state locations. Another 450 sites will get the vaccine on Tuesday and Wednesday. Perna is with Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s vaccine development program. He says the vaccine was timed to arrive Monday morning so th
  
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• UK homeowner delays sale of home after Banksy mural appears

  12-12-2020 17:51
  
  LONDON (AP) — Banksy’s latest mural is delaying a homeowner’s plans to sell in Bristol, England after it recently appeared on the house’s exterior wall. The British street artist’s piece, titled “Aachoo!!”, depicts an elderly woman sneezing, sending her dentures flying out of her mouth. The creation was discovered on the wall of the semidetached house on Thursday. The homeowners told the BBC on Saturday that British media reports that the sale is now off
  
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• American Legion, Pelosi joining calls for VA chief’s ouster

  12-12-2020 17:47
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s largest veterans organization and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are joining the growing calls for the ouster of President Donald Trump’s Veterans Affairs chief. This comes after a government audit found that VA Secretary Robert Wilkie acted unprofessionally, if not unethically, in the handling of a congressional aide’s allegation of sexual assault at a VA hospital. The national commander of the American Legion is urging Wilkie and several other
  
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• Loss of snowbirds due to pandemic another hit to US tourism

  12-12-2020 17:42
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Many snowbirds who live part time in warmer climates to escape cold weather won’t be flocking south this winter. For Canadians who drive to places like Arizona and Florida, they’re facing travel restrictions at the border. For some, it’s fear of COVID-19 infections and deaths that are surging in the United States. Their absence is being felt by vacation rentals, restaurants and shops. Yet RV parks and campgrounds are seeing an increase in campers as other p
  
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• US government expects shipments of the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine to start arriving in states Monday morning

  12-12-2020 17:40
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — US government expects shipments of the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine to start arriving in states Monday morning.The post US government expects shipments of the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine to start arriving in states Monday morning appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Pandemic forces ‘virtual’ Virgin of Guadalupe day in Mexico

  12-12-2020 17:23
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — For the first time in decades, Mexico’s Roman Catholics had to abandon what many consider the world’s largest religious pilgrimage, in which millions visit Mexico City’s Basilica of Guadalupe on Dec. 12. The pilgrimage marks the day in 1531 when the Virgin of Guadalupe, patroness of Latin America’s Catholics, is said to have appeared on the hillside behind the basilica. This year, church officials agreed to close the basilica to prevent the spread
  
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• Arizona reports over 8,000 additional known COVID-19 cases

  12-12-2020 17:15
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona on Saturday reported over 8,000 additional known COVID-19 cases, one of the state’s largest daily case figures since the pandemic began. The Department of Health Services reported 8,076 additional known cases and 77 additional deaths, increasing the state’s totals to 402,589 cases and 7,322 deaths. The additional cases reported Saturday eclipsed Friday’s 6,983 as the third largest daily case report, behind 12,314 on Tuesday and 10,322 on Dec. 1. COV
  
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• President Trump attacks Governor Ducey in latest Twitter outburst

  12-12-2020 16:56
  
  (KVOA) - President Donald Trump has once again targeted Arizona Governor Doug Ducey in his latest outburst on his Twitter account Saturday morning.The President claiming that Governor Ducey is a 'Republican in name only."
  Who is a worse governor, @BrianKempGA of Georgia or @dougducey of Arizona??? These are two RINO Republicans who fought against me and the Republican Party harder than any Democrat. They allowed states that I won easily to be stolen. Never forget, vote them out of office!—
  
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• Dozens arrested at Paris protest over proposed security law

  12-12-2020 16:50
  
  PARIS (AP) — Paris police took dozens of people into custody at what quickly became a tense and sometimes ill-tempered protest against a proposed security law. Police targeted protesters they suspected might coalesce together into violent groups like those that vandalized stores and vehicles at previous demonstrations. Paris police made at least 81 arrests, the interior minister tweeted. Cohorts of officers with riot shields escorted Saturday’s march through the rain-slickened street
  
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• Wisconsin lawmakers withhold funds to counties for recount

  12-12-2020 16:45
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Republican-led Wisconsin Legislature’s budget committee is withholding reimbursements to two counties for their election recount costs. President Donald Trump’s campaign paid $3 million for recounts in Dane and Milwaukee counties, Wisconsin’s two most Democratic areas. Two Republican lawmakers said Friday they were holding back the money from the counties for now but did not explain why. Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson says lawmakers “
  
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• Critics of Electoral College push for popular vote compact

  12-12-2020 16:45
  
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — When the Electoral College meets Monday, its detractors hope it marks the beginning of the end of a system that twice this century has vaulted the loser of the popular vote to the presidency. This year’s presidential race provides the latest motivation for change to supporters of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. It would compel member states to award their electoral votes to the winner of the nationwide popular vote. So far, 15 states and the District
  
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