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• Critics say EPA allowing more time to fix lead-tainted water

  22-12-2020 23:51
  
  The Trump administration has overhauled the country’s widely criticized, 29-year-old framework to eliminate toxic lead from drinking water. But critics charge that Tuesday’s rules give utilities far more time than before to replace old, lead-contaminated pipes and lines. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler announced the final rule changes, saying they require more replacement of lead-contaminated water lines than ever before. But Erik Olson of the Natural Res
  
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• NC Supreme Court removing portrait of slave owner ex-justice

  22-12-2020 23:48
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina Supreme Court says it will remove portrait from its courtroom of a former slave-owning chief justice who once defended slavery through his court rulings. The ex-justice Thomas Ruffin argued in one case that a slaveholder should not be guilty of assault or battery of an enslaved person — and that an owner’s power over his slave was absolute. An advisory commission recently recommended Ruffin’s portrait be taken down. Outgoing state S
  
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• Judge won’t try Black man in courtroom with white portraits

  22-12-2020 23:36
  
  FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A judge has ruled that a Black defendant’s right to a fair trial would be harmed if the jury heard the case in a Virginia courtroom lined with portraits of white jurists. Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David Bernhard ruled that the upcoming trial of Terrance Shipp on charges of eluding police will be held in a courtroom that has no portraits on the wall. In his ruling Sunday, Bernhard said the overwhelmingly white portraits might send an unintended messag
  
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• Israel heads to new elections as government collapses

  22-12-2020 23:35
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s divided government has collapsed, triggering the country’s fourth election in under two years. Parliament had faced a midnight Tuesday deadline to pass a budget. But after failing to do so, the Knesset was automatically dissolved. Elections are now scheduled for March 23. Netanyahu and his rival Benny Gantz formed their coalition last May to take on the coronavirus crisis together. But their partnership was plagued by infighting and mistrust. Opinion p
  
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• Fauci: UK’s COVID-19 mutation strain has probably reached the US

  22-12-2020 23:27
  
  WASHINGTON DC (CNN) - More than 614,000 COVID-19 vaccine shots have been administered across the U.S.That data coming from the CDC.Operation Warp Speed also estimating about 8 million doses from Moderna and Pfizer will be distributed this week.But now, there are new concerns about a mutated form of the coronavirus spreading in the United Kingdom and possibly to the U.S.Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Dr. Anthony Fauci both got their first doses of COVID-19 vaccine on live-tv Tu
  
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• Shelton scores 27 to carry N. Arizona past Denver 68-65

  22-12-2020 23:25
  
  DENVER (AP) — Cameron Shelton had 27 points as Northern Arizona narrowly beat Denver 68-65. Jase Townsend led the Pioneers with 16 points.The post Shelton scores 27 to carry N. Arizona past Denver 68-65 appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• San Diegans left feeling sad as ‘The Murph’ comes down

  22-12-2020 23:24
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The biggest piece of San Diego’s sports history is slowly being knocked down and ground to bits. They’re tearing down the stadium once affectionately known as “The Murph.” Every day, heavy equipment obliterates more and more of 70,000-seat SDCCU Stadium in Mission Valley, where Hall of Fame careers were born and most of the city’s biggest sports moments occurred. Dan Fouts, Junior Seau, Tony Gwynn and Trevor Hoffman were among the stars who pe
  
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• Texas AG pushed to rescind Houston virus relief funding

  22-12-2020 23:23
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A newly revealed document shows that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked Trump administration officials to rescind federal virus relief fuding that Houston used to expand people’s voting options. Paxton said in a May 21 letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that Harris County officials may have misused up to $12 million of the federal funding and violated state law with their plans to expand the use of mail-in ballots for the presidential election. Harr
  
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• Israeli government collapses, triggers new elections

  22-12-2020 23:16
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli Knesset spokesman’s office confirms that the country is heading to its fourth elections in two years. A deadline for parliament to pass a new budget passed at midnight Tuesday, forcing the Knesset to dissolve and automatically triggering new elections on March 23. The failure to reach a budget brings about the collapse of Israel’s current government. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival, Benny Gantz, formed their coalition in May to
  
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• Court: Nassar won’t be resentenced despite judge’s remarks

  22-12-2020 23:16
  
  DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan appeals court says a judge who sentenced sports doctor Larry Nassar to 40 years in prison made “wholly inappropriate” remarks about him. But the court says they’re not enough to violate Nassar’s rights and upset the punishment for sexual assault. The appeals court notes that Judge Rosemarie Aquilina stuck to the sentencing agreement. Nassar was a doctor at Michigan State University and at USA Gymnastics, which trains Olympians. In 2018, A
  
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• $250M facility to help NJ lead offshore wind power industry

  22-12-2020 23:13
  
  New Jersey is doubling down on its drive to dominate the offshore wind energy supply chain in the U.S., adding a $250 million facility to build the huge poles supporting wind turbines to a second planned facility where blades would be built. On Tuesday, Gov. Phil Murphy unveiled plans for a facility to build monopiles, the steel columns that support offshore wind turbines at the Paulsboro Marine Terminal. It comes six months plans for the $400 million New Jersey Wind Port in Lower Alloways Creek
  
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• Lawsuit challenges Indiana laws on disposal of fetal remains

  22-12-2020 23:11
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis abortion clinic is suing the state of Indiana, challenging provisions of a state law upheld last year by the U.S. Supreme Court requiring fetal remains to be buried or cremated after an abortion. The federal lawsuit, filed Monday, contends that requirement and other statues requiring the same disposition method of fetal remains following a miscarriage violate the Constitution because they force the state’s definition of a person onto women who migh
  
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• Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine arrives at SAVHCS

  22-12-2020 23:08
  
  Southern Arizona VA Health Care System
  TUCSON (KVOA) - The second FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine officially made its way to Tucson after the Southern Arizona Veterans Health Care System confirmed that it has received a shipment Tuesday afternoon.On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it has authorized emergency use Moderna's vaccine. Shortly after this announced, Arizona Department of Health Services shared that the new vaccine could be on the ground here beginning as early a
  
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• Moderna vaccine arrives at SAVHCS

  22-12-2020 23:08
  
  Southern Arizona VA Health Care System
  TUCSON (KVOA) - The second FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine officially made its way to Tucson after the Southern Arizona Veterans Health Care System confirmed that it has received a shipment Tuesday afternoon.On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it has authorized emergency use Moderna's vaccine. Shortly after this announced, Arizona Department of Health Services shared that the new vaccine could be on the ground here beginning as early a
  
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• The Latest: Tunisia extends curfew past New Year’s holiday

  22-12-2020 23:03
  
  TUNISIA — Tunisia is extending its curfew until Jan. 15 to cover the New Year’s holiday and urging people not to hold end-of-year festivities or travel around the country to slow the virus spread.
  Health Minister Faouzi Madhi announced the decision Tuesday, saying the country has seen an average of 50 virus-related deaths per day over the last quarter of this year. He blamed the infections on growing complacency toward masks and social distancing.
  The head of the Pasteur Institute in
  
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• Spokesman’s office: Israeli parliament fails to pass budget by deadline, triggering new election

  22-12-2020 23:01
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Spokesman’s office: Israeli parliament fails to pass budget by deadline, triggering new election.The post Spokesman’s office: Israeli parliament fails to pass budget by deadline, triggering new election appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Mexico alleges Luz del Mundo, 4 other groups laundered money

  22-12-2020 23:00
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican investigators say they have filed money-laundering complaints against five religious groups in Mexico, including the Luz del Mundo church whose leader is charged in the United States with child rapes. The announcement Tuesday from the Financial Intelligence Unit does not identify the groups involved in the complaints. But an official says Luz del Mundo is among the five. The unit says reviews of the groups’ transactions revealed some that “are unrelat
  
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• FBI: White supremacists plotted attack on US power grid

  22-12-2020 23:00
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The FBI alleges in an affidavit that white supremacists schemed to attack power stations in the southeastern U.S. and one Ohio teenager wanted the group to be “operational” on a faster timeline if President Donald Trump lost his re-election bid. The FBI makes the allegations in an affidavit that was filed in March in Wisconsin federal court and mistakenly unsealed last week before it was resealed. It outlines an FBI investigation into several alleged white su
  
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• Man charged with cyberstalking woman, soliciting a killer

  22-12-2020 22:59
  
  COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — A New York man has been arrested on charges that he has been cyberstalking a Maryland woman for months, making threats that included soliciting people online to rape, kill and decapitate her in exchange for Bitcoin. In a court filing unsealed Tuesday, a federal agent says 19-year-old Desmond Babloo Singh has used more than 100 different social media, electronic communication and phone accounts to send harassing and unsolicited messages to the woman. Singh also is a
  
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• Man shows symptoms after aiding flight passenger with virus

  22-12-2020 22:56
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — An emergency medical technician says he has COVID-19 symptoms after performing CPR on a man infected with the coronavirus who later died after going into cardiac arrest during a United Airlines flight. KNBC-TV reported that Tony Aldapa, a Navy veteran, said his training kicked in when he saw the passenger needed medical help during the Dec. 14 flight from Orlando, Florida, to Los Angeles. USA Today reported that an autopsy found the man died of acute respiratory failure
  
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• US hospitals facing worrisome shortage of nurses, doctors

  22-12-2020 22:47
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. hospitals are becoming increasingly worried about the lack of nurses, doctors and other medical staff as COVID-19 cases are continuing to climb across the nation. North Carolina’s governor says he’s more worried now about staffing shortages than having enough space in critical care units. California’s leaders are reaching out to places like Australia and Taiwan to fill the need for 3,000 temporary medical workers. Some states have enlisted retire
  
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• New poll shows that most Americans would support nationwide mask mandate

  22-12-2020 22:37
  
   CHARLOTTE (NBC News) - As COVID-19 cases continue to surge in the U.S., the majority of Americans would support a Biden administration mask mandate.That's according to a new Harris Poll of more than 2,000 adults taken in mid-December.It shows 75 percent of the public approves of a mask mandate, as well as required testing for people with symptoms.Two-thirds of the poll takers think President-elect Biden should ban gatherings of more than 10 people.But fewer than 60-percent believ
  
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• Biden: Trump ‘failed’ to shore up nation’s cybersecurity

  22-12-2020 22:32
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is assailing the Trump administration for failing to fortify the nation’s cyber defenses. Biden is calling on President Donald Trump to publicly identify the perpetrator of a massive breach of U.S. government agencies — a hack some of Trump’s top allies have blamed on Russia. Biden is being briefed on high-level intelligence in preparation for taking office next month, and he says planning for the hack began as early as 20
  
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• Writing off more of that 3-martini lunch is causing a stir

  22-12-2020 22:31
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Stuffed into the new emergency relief package is a morsel that President Donald Trump has long had on the buffet of his economic wish list: restoring full tax breaks for restaurant business meals. But not everyone’s happy about that. Experts say it’s not much help for an industry reeling from the pandemic. And critics deride it as an insensitive “three-Martini lunch” giveaway to business. The under-the-radar provision in the bill restores the full
  
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• Sheriff: Missouri girl’s killers sought to remove ‘demon’

  22-12-2020 22:30
  
  COLE CAMP, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri sheriff says a 4-year-old girl died after being dunked in an icy pond and beaten by two neighbors who claimed it was necessary to remove a “demon.” Ethan Mast and Kourtney Aumen are charged with second-degree murder, sexual abuse and three counts of assault. Benton County Sheriff Eric Knox says the crime appears to be the result of “some kind of honest-to-goodness religious-type episode.” Deputies were called Sunday to a rural home n
  
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• Mullens injury clears way for Beathard to start for 49ers

  22-12-2020 22:24
  
  Nick Mullens will miss the rest of the season with a serious elbow injury, moving third-stringer C.J. Beathard into a starting role for the final two games and sending the San Francisco 49ers on a desperate search for a backup. Coach Kyle Shanahan says Mullens will likely need reconstructive surgery on his throwing elbow. Starter Jimmy Garoppolo has been cleared to return to practice from an ankle injury that has sidelined him the past six games but won’t be ready to play against Arizona.
  
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• Mexico sees most journalists killed in 2020, group says

  22-12-2020 22:24
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A report says Mexico has had the most journalists killed in retaliation for their work in 2020, followed by Afghanistan and the Philippines. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists says that worldwide at least 30 journalists were killed through Dec. 15. It says that was up from 26 in 2019. At least 21 of this year’s killings were in retaliation for the journalists’ work, compared to 10 in 2019. In Mexico, at least four journalists were the victims
  
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• The Latest: Colombia not freely vaccinating immigrants

  22-12-2020 22:22
  
  BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s president says that Venezuelan migrants who are living in the country without residence permits won’t be given free COVID-19 vaccines when those arrive in the South American country — possibly leaving hundreds of thousands unvaccinated.In an interview Monday with Blu Radio, President Ivan Duque said that giving free vaccines to undocumented immigrants could “unleash a stampede” of Venezuelans crossing into neighboring Colombia to
  
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• 2 passengers, puppy exit NYC flight via slide before takeoff

  22-12-2020 22:20
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say a New York City flight was halted after a Florida couple traveling with a Great Dane puppy fled the aircraft with the pet using an emergency slide. Delta spokesperson Morgan Durrant said on Tuesday the incident occurred on Monday as a jet was departing from LaGuardia Airport en route to Atlanta. A witness said the man had ignored a flight attendant’s order to sit during takeoff, he said, because he had post-traumatic stress disorder. The two were arres
  
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• Train carrying crude oil derails, burns north of Seattle

  22-12-2020 22:13
  
  BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say a train carrying crude oil has derailed and caught fire north of Seattle close to the Canadian border. Whatcom County officials said Tuesday on Twitter that the train derailed in the Custer area, there was a large fire response, and nearby streets were closed. State traffic cameras showed a large black smoke plume. Washington State Patrol Trooper Heather Axtman said everyone within a half-mile of the derailment in the town of several hundred people
  
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• California first: A Latino U.S. senator to replace Harris

  22-12-2020 22:12
  
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  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Secretary of State Alex Padilla as the state’s next U.S. senator. He will fill the seat being vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Padilla is the child of Mexican immigrants and will be California’s first Latino senator. His appointment gives a new level of representation to the demographic group that makes up nearl
  
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• Stocks drift mostly lower, even as Nasdaq sets another high

  22-12-2020 22:10
  
  Stocks drifted to a mostly lower close on Wall Street Tuesday, even as more gains for technology companies pushed the Nasdaq to another all-time high. The S&P 500 slipped 0.2%, pulled down by losses in banks and communications companies including Facebook. The weak showing came despite the long-awaited passage in Congress of a $900 billion coronavirus relief package. Indexes crossed between small gains and losses several times through the day, and trading was relatively thin ahead of the Chr
  
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• The Latest: Biden says months to fix Trump border policies

  22-12-2020 22:07
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):
  4 p.m.
  President-elect Joe Biden says he won’t immediately roll back President Donald Trump’s actions on immigration despite some advocates pushing for action as soon as he takes the oath of office in January.
  Biden said Tuesday that he will work to undo his predecessor’s actions and will focus on “humane” immigration policies that reunify families separated by the Trump adminis
  
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• The Latest: Columbia not freely vaccinating immigrants

  22-12-2020 22:06
  
  BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s president says that Venezuelan migrants who are living in the country without residence permits won’t be given free COVID-19 vaccines when those arrive in the South American country — possibly leaving hundreds of thousands unvaccinated.In an interview Monday with Blu Radio, President Ivan Duque said that giving free vaccines to undocumented immigrants could “unleash a stampede” of Venezuelans crossing into neighboring Colombia to
  
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• Mayor: Body cam not activated in police killing of Black man

  22-12-2020 22:03
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The mayor of Ohio’s capital city says an officer who shot and killed a Black man holding a cell phone  early Tuesday morning did not activate his body camera beforehand. Andrew Ginther is the mayor of Columbus. He said the result is that an automatic “look back” feature captured video of the shooting but not the audio. Ginther called that unacceptable. He said the officer has been removed from duty and his gun and badge turned over. The shooting
  
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• Body recovered of Georgia pilot killed in small plane crash

  22-12-2020 22:03
  
  MIDWAY, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say the pilot of a small plane was killed when the Cessna 210 crashed in southeast Georgia. The Federal Aviation Administration says the plane went down Monday afternoon in a marshy area in Midway, Georgia. Liberty County Sheriff Steve Sikes tells The Coastal Courier that emergency responders waded through the woods and marsh waters to recover the body. The name of the pilot wasn’t immediately released. Authorities say the FAA and National Transportatio
  
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• Retired judge to lead outside probe of botched Chicago raid

  22-12-2020 21:58
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A retired federal judge and a law firm will lead an independent investigation of a wrongful police raid on the home of a Black woman who wasn’t allowed to put on clothes before being handcuffed. Retired Judge Ann Claire Williams and law firm Jones Day will conduct a full review of the search warrant executed in February 2019 on social worker Anjanette Young’s home. That’s according to a Tuesday letter from Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Police video of the raid, fir
  
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• Train carrying crude oil derails, buns north of Seattle

  22-12-2020 21:54
  
  CUSTER, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say a train carrying crude oil has derailed and caught fire north of Seattle close to the Canadian border. Whatcom County officials said Tuesday on Twitter that the train derailed in the Custer area, there was a large fire response, and nearby streets were closed. Washington State Patrol Trooper Heather Axtman said everyone within a half-mile of the derailment in the town of several hundred people needed to evacuate. Custer is about 100 miles north of Seatt
  
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• The Latest: Biden says he won’t press his attorney general

  22-12-2020 21:52
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):
  3:45 p.m.
  President-elect Joe Biden says he is not discussing the investigation of his son with any prospective candidates for attorney general.Biden said Tuesday that the attorney general “is not the president’s lawyer,” and that he will appoint someone who will “enforce the law as the law as written,” and will not be guided by him.
  A federal investigation into the finances of
  
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• Russia sends 300 instructors to Central African Republic

  22-12-2020 21:48
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia says it has sent 300 military instructors to the Central African Republic to help train its army that’s facing an offensive by rebel groups ahead of elections. The mineral-rich nation has seen a spike of violence in the run-up to presidential and legislative elections set for Sunday. Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the instructors were sent at the request of the Central African Republic’s government. The ministry noted that recent events in the Central
  
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• Nicaragua opposition ban draws international condemnation

  22-12-2020 21:47
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Countries and international groups around the world are condemning a law approved by Nicaragua’s ruling party-dominated Congress that would essentially ban opposition candidates from running in the 2021 presidential elections.  The law gives the government of President Daniel Ortega the power to unilaterally declare citizens “terrorists” or coup-mongers, classify them as “traitors to the homeland” and ban them from running as candidates
  
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• Britain finds itself isolated over new version of the virus

  22-12-2020 21:47
  
  LONDON (AP) — Stranded Europe-bound truckers are hoping to receive the green light to get out of Britain soon, after some of the most dramatic travel restrictions of the pandemic were imposed on the country following the discovery of a potentially more contagious variant of the coronavirus. Backups of trucks near Britain’s Channel ports illustrated the scale of the country’s isolation after nations from Canada to India banned flights from the U.K. and France barred the entry of
  
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• Reversing course, feds say some US inmates get virus vaccine

  22-12-2020 21:46
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Bureau of Prisons says it has started to give the coronavirus vaccine to some high-risk inmates but won’t say how many inmates have been vaccinated or how it selects those to receive the vaccine. The revelation, in a statement to The Associated Press on Tuesday, contradicts the agency’s previous policy that initial doses are for staff members. The AP reported last month that internal prison documents detailed that initial allotments of the vaccine
  
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• Man who aided sick flight passenger shows virus symptoms

  22-12-2020 21:46
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — An emergency medical technician from Southern California says he is showing COVID-19 symptoms after performing CPR on a man who later died after going into cardiac arrest during a United Airlines flight from Florida to Los Angeles. KNBC-TV reported that U.S. Navy veteran Tony Aldapa said his training kicked in on Dec. 14 to help the passenger, and that he knew the risks when he performed CPR on the man, whose wife said he had virus-like symptoms. Aldapa said he had plans
  
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• No immediate ruling after hearing on fate of DACA program

  22-12-2020 21:37
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge didn’t immediately issue a ruling following a court hearing on the fate of a U.S. program shielding immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. During a nearly 3 1/2 hour hearing on Tuesday, Texas and eight other states asked U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which provides limited protections to about 650,000 people. The program was enacted by former President Barack Obama
  
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• One dead, 1 injured after Sunday’s shooting on south side; suspect sought

  22-12-2020 21:34
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Detectives with the Tucson Police Department continue to investigate a homicide that happened Sunday evening on the south side.
  Just before 6:30 p.m., officers were dispatched to the intersection of E. Mossman Road and S. Jeanette Boulevard for reports of a shooting.
  Two men with obvious signs of gunshot trauma were located near the roadway, police say.
  Both men were transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. Jose Roberto Martinez Rascon, 28, died at the hospital
  
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• Biden addresses COVID bill, holiday pandemic precautions

  22-12-2020 21:33
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden has expressed empathy with struggling families and applauded Congress for a passing the coronavirus relief as the nation deals with a COVID-19 surge that’s casting a shadow over the Christmas holiday. Speaking in Wilmington, Delaware, he also called out to frontline workers, scientists, researchers, clinical trial participants and those with deployed family members during the holiday season. Biden said: “Our hearts are always wi
  
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• The Latest: Biden urges Americans to avoid big holiday dos

  22-12-2020 21:25
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):
  3:25 p.m.
  President-elect Joe Biden says that the nation has a long way to go in fighting the coronavirus pandemic and is encouraging Americans to avoid large gatherings over the Christmas holidays.
  Biden says that “we all have to care enough for each other that we have to stay apart for just a little bit longer. I know it’s hard.”
  Biden spoke Tuesday in a live year-end address from his hom
  
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• Report: Prison failed to protect women inmates from staff

  22-12-2020 21:20
  
  OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Federal investigators say a Florida women’s prison has likely violated inmates’ constitutional rights by failing to protect them from sexual abuse by staff. According to a report released Tuesday, the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida concluded that there is reasonable cause to believe that the conditions at Lowell Correctional Institution in north Florida violate the
  
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• New trial date set for R Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago

  22-12-2020 21:16
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has again delayed R. Kelly’s trial in Chicago on child pornography and other charges because of concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber on Tuesday rescheduled the trial to begin Sept. 13, 2021, and said the date could yet change again. It had already been postponed twice this year because of the pandemic. The 53-year-old R&B star has been behind bars since his arrest in July 2019 on charges accusing him of film
  
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