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• Santa Clauses drop in to wish Moscow Children’s Hospital patients a happy new year

  25-12-2020 23:51
  
  MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) - Russian volunteers dressed as Santa Clause descended down the sides of a Moscow Children's Hospital to wish the young patients inside a happy New Year.Several dozen Santas and a snow maiden in the cherry picker of a crane appeared at the windows of the hospital.Bringing the children some festive cheer during the holiday period.Five Moscow hospitals took part in a charity program called "New Year Tree of Kindness" that included festive shows.Santas and fairy tale characters
  
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• Black doctor dies of COVID after racist treatment complaints

  25-12-2020 23:47
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A Black doctor who died battling COVID-19 complained of racist medical care in widely-shared social media posts. It has prompted an Indiana hospital system to promise a “full external review.” According to her Facebook post, Dr. Susan Moore tested positive for COVID-19 in late November and was hospitalized in suburban Indianapolis. The physician said she had to repeatedly ask for medication, scans and routine checks while admitted. She noted a white doctor i
  
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• Ducey thanks virus workers, volunteers; deaths remain high

  25-12-2020 23:44
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Triple-digit daily virus death tolls continued into Christmas Day in Arizona as Gov. Doug Ducey thanks frontline workers for persevering during the pandemic.
  For the second day in a row, state health officials say 115 people have died due to the coronavirus.
  The death toll now stands at 8,409. An additional 6,616 cases are being reported Friday, increasing the total to 486,935.
  Ducey says he hopes that friends and family are finding safe ways to connect and celebrate religio
  
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• Subsurface lakes raise new questions about life on Mars

  25-12-2020 23:30
  
  Arizona in Focus is a podcast from Cronkite News, the news division of Arizona PBS. This season we are focusing on science and technology stories that explore everything from driverless cars to innovating a vaccine during the pandemic.
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• AP source: Duke women end basketball season amid virus

  25-12-2020 23:25
  
  A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press the Duke women’s basketball team has ended its season amid the coronavirus pandemic. The person says the men’s program planned to keep playing. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the school has not publicly announced the decision. The Duke women’s team has been on pause since Dec. 16 because of two positive COVID-19 tests and contact tracing within the program’s travel party. The Blue Devils p
  
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• COVID-19 virus outbreak is Arizona’s top story of 2020

  25-12-2020 23:22
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic is Arizona's top news story of the year.
  What started as a single case of a new coronavirus infecting someone affiliated with Arizona State University in late January spiraled into a vast outbreak afflicting hundreds of thousands in the state. Arizona also made historic shifts in its choice of Joe Biden for president and in sending a second Democrat to the U.S. Senate.
  The year was marked, too, by protests over racial injustice, the death of Arizona'
  
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• AP sources: Authorities have found human remains in the vicinity of the explosion in downtown Nashville

  25-12-2020 23:16
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — AP sources: Authorities have found human remains in the vicinity of the explosion in downtown Nashville.The post AP sources: Authorities have found human remains in the vicinity of the explosion in downtown Nashville appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Downtown Nashville explosion knocks communications offline

  25-12-2020 23:14
  
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  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A recreational vehicle parked in the deserted streets of downtown Nashville exploded early Christmas morning, causing widespread communications outages that took down police emergency systems and grounded flights at the city’s airport. Authorities said they believe the blast was intentional.
  Three people were hurt in the explosion, which shattered windows and damaged buildings. Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake said police were respondi
  
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• The Latest: Greece receives first doses of COVID-19 vaccine

  25-12-2020 22:51
  
  ATHENS — The first vaccines against the coronavirus have arrived in Greece.The first 9,750 doses arrived overland, crossing from the Bulgarian border in the north Friday evening, with the van carrying them escorted by six police cars, a video taken at the border shows.
  Vaccinations will begin at five Athens hospitals Sunday, with health personnel and elderly residents of nursing homes. Greece’s President, Prime Minister, and a total of 42 government, military and police officials dee
  
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• Eight nuns die of COVID-19 complications in Milwaukee

  25-12-2020 22:23
  
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  ELM GROVE, Wis. (NBC News) - Eight nuns living at a retirement home for sisters in suburban Milwaukee died of COVID-19 complications in the last week.Four of those on the same day.They all lived at the school sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific Province in Elm Grove.The facility had been free of the virus for the last nine months, but the congregation that runs the home found out on Thanksgiving Day that one of the roughly 100 sisters who live there had tested positive.Despite social
  
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• ‘Unprecedented’ mail volume delays Christmas gifts

  25-12-2020 22:11
  
  SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Some Christmas gift-givers discovered their presents didn’t arrive in time for the holiday despite ordering weeks ahead. The U.S. Postal Service says it faces “unprecedented volume increases and limited employee availability due to the impacts of COVID-19.” A 21-year-old man from Grand Rapids, Michigan, had to tell his father that an online order he placed Nov. 30 for a collector’s model diecast of a NASCAR racing car would have to wait. An
  
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• Chief hails ‘overwhelming’ response to boy found in cemetery

  25-12-2020 21:45
  
  HINCKLEY, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio police chief is hailing what he called an “overwhelming” response to the story of a young boy found in a cemetery two days before Christmas. Chief David Centner of the Hinckley police department said on Christmas Eve that the child, believed to be about 3 1/2 years old, was doing well “in the loving home” of a Medina County foster family. Police were called Wednesday to Hope Memorial Gardens Cemetery where a witness reported seeing a ca
  
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• Reenactment of Washington’s crossing Delaware goes online

  25-12-2020 21:39
  
  WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) — An annual reenactment of George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River on Christmas morning is taking place in this COVID-19 impacted year, but onlookers will have to watch it via video online. Washington Crossing Historic Park said the reenactment filmed earlier in the month provided a “close-up view” of the event since crowd-size restrictions barred holding it this year. Normally, thousands gather every Christmas morning on the banks
  
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• Flights out of Nashville airport halted because of telecommunications issues associated with explosion downtown

  25-12-2020 21:35
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Flights out of Nashville airport halted because of telecommunications issues associated with explosion downtown.The post Flights out of Nashville airport halted because of telecommunications issues associated with explosion downtown appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Armenia’s prime minister offers to discuss early election

  25-12-2020 21:01
  
  YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia’s prime minister says he’s ready to discuss the possibility of holding an early parliamentary election. But he rejected the opposition’s demands to step down over his handling of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan. Opposition supporters have rallied for weeks, urging Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to step down over the Nov. 10 peace deal that saw Azerbaijan reclaim control over large parts of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding area
  
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• Police: Man steals mini-snow plow, crashes into Target

  25-12-2020 20:40
  
  BAY SHORE, N.Y. (AP) — A Long Island man has been arrested after a Christmas morning crime spree that gave new meaning to the term doorbuster. Police say it happened shortly before 2 a.m. Friday when Justin Shuffle stole a skid steer snow pusher from a Bay Shore shopping center and crashed it through the front doors of a Target. Authorities say Shuffle then swiped a coat and several gift cards before police caught him in the electronics section of the big-box retailer. The 33-year-old plea
  
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• Top associate of Russian opposition leader Navalny detained

  25-12-2020 20:38
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — A top associate of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been detained after doorstepping an alleged security operative who has inadvertently revealed details of Navalny’s supposed poisoning with a Soviet-era nerve agent. Lyubov Sobol, a key figure in Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, was detained for 48 hours Friday after being interrogated for hours on charges of violent trespassing. The move followed Sobol’s attempt on Monday to enter the Mosco
  
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• A pandemic Christmas: Services move online, people stay home

  25-12-2020 20:36
  
  ROME (AP) — The coronavirus upended Christmas traditions, but determination and imagination kept the day special for many. Intimate gatherings that didn’t require travel replaced large family reunions. Churches moved services online to avoid big crowds. With economies reeling around the world, it wasn’t a year for lavish gifts. In his Christmas Day message, Pope Francis appealed to world leaders to make sure the most vulnerable and needy are first in line to get coronavirus vac
  
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• Sheriff’s deputy shoots man after exchanging fire in Houston

  25-12-2020 20:07
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a sheriff’s deputy fatally shot a 31-year-old man at a Houston apartment complex after the man shot at the deputy. Harris County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Robert Minchew says the events that led up to the shooting on Christmas morning began late Thursday. He says a woman called police around 10:20 p.m. to report that her ex-boyfriend was at her apartment and threating to “shoot up the place.” The man left but later returned and the woman ag
  
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• Army says 2 rockets fired from Gaza toward southern Israel

  25-12-2020 20:05
  
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military says Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have fired two rockets toward southern Israel. The rockets Friday weere aimed at the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon, but air defenses intercepted them. There have been no reports of casualties or damage. No Palestinian group in the Hamas-ruled Gaza claimed responsibility for the rocket fire, which broke months of cross-border calm. Rocket attacks and Israeli retaliatory artillery and aerial str
  
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• Report: Chicago cops in botched raid had prior complaints

  25-12-2020 20:03
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — One of 12 officers placed on desk duty in the botched 2019 police raid on the home of a Black woman was also accused in an earlier mistaken raid. Another officer was involved months later in a fatal shooting. That’s according to the Chicago Sun-Times, which found 18 complaints filed against the officers by civilians, though none was sustained. The February 2019 mistaken raid on the home of social worker Anjanette Young has drawn wide criticism because police officers d
  
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• AZ Gov thanks virus workers, volunteers; deaths remain high

  25-12-2020 20:03
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Triple-digit daily virus death tolls continued into Christmas Day in Arizona as Gov. Doug Ducey thanks frontline workers for persevering during the pandemic. For the second day in a row, state health officials say 115 people have died due to the coronavirus. The death toll now stands at 8,409. An additional 6,616 cases are being reported Friday, increasing the total to 486,935. Ducey says he hopes that friends and family are finding safe ways to connect and celebrate religio
  
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• Fully driverless cars available in Chandler, Mesa, Tempe

  25-12-2020 19:30
  
  Arizona in Focus is a podcast from Cronkite News, the news division of Arizona PBS.…
  
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• Jets make $1 million donation among 4 organizations

  25-12-2020 19:21
  
  The New York Jets made a $1 million donation to four organizations as part of the team’s social justice, inclusion and diversity efforts. All Stars Project, Innocence Project, New York Urban League, and Year Up , which have the the goal of reducing barriers and creating opportunities for individuals in need, each will get $250,000. Jets players, coaches, and staff will volunteer time and expertise on various upcoming projects with each organization.  “We wanted to contribute to
  
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• Turkey to require negative COVID-19 test result for travel

  25-12-2020 19:17
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey is enacting precautions for international travel, requiring a negative COVID-19 test for passengers to enter the country starting Monday until March. The health minister tweeted a statement Friday saying travelers would need to present a negative result from a PCR test taken in a 72-hour window to board international flights en route to Turkey. Tests weren’t previously required for travel to Turkey. The country has among the worst infection rates in the world,
  
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• Relative: Yemeni rebels kill woman in front of her children

  25-12-2020 19:15
  
  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A family member says a 25-year-old woman has been beaten to death in front of her two children by Houthi rebels in Yemen’s Ibb province. Houthi militia members raided the house of Ahlam al-Ashary late Thursday looking for her husband. When they did not find him they kicked al-Ashary and beat her with sticks and the backs of their pistols until she died. That’s according to the relative, who declined to be named for fear of reprisals. The militants were searc
  
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• Amid anguish of pandemic, sports offered memorable moments

  25-12-2020 19:01
  
  The year in sports was about cancellations, shutdowns, infections and quarantines. Still, for all the anguish, 2020 offered memorable and inspirational moments. Vanderbilt’s Sarah Fuller had one when she became the first woman to play and score in a Power 5 football game. The Los Angeles Lakers honored the late Kobe Bryant the best way they could — by winning their record-tying 17th NBA championship. The Kansas City Chiefs won their first Super Bowl in 50 years. And the Los Angeles D
  
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• Mali opposition leader Cissé dies after contracting COVID-19

  25-12-2020 18:55
  
  BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Malian opposition leader Soumaila Cissé, who was held hostage for six months by jihadis earlier this year and was considered a leading contender for the 2022 presidential election, has died in Paris. He was 71. Cisse’s family told The Associated Press on Friday that he died after contracting COVID-19. The death throws Malian politics into new uncertainty. Cisse was the runner-up in three presidential elections and many thought he had the best chances of win
  
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• 2 children die in Detroit fire; mom, 3 kids leap to safety

  25-12-2020 18:45
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Fire department officials say a 4-year-old and a 6-year-old died in a Christmas morning fire at a home on Detroit’s east side, while other family members were hurt when they jumped to safety from a second-floor window. Officials say the two children were found dead Friday in a living room of the two-story house. Three children and their mother were injured leaping from the upper-level window. The mother was holding a 3-year-old in her arms when she jumped. An 8-year-ol
  
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• Saudi TV: Houthi sea mine strikes cargo ship in Red Sea

  25-12-2020 18:36
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s state-owned news channel is reporting that a sea mine planted by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has struck a cargo ship in the southern Red Sed. Al-Ekhbariya channel on Friday quoted the Saudi-led coalition, which has been fighting Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen since 2015. The channel provided no additional details and it was unclear whether an explosion took place or to what country the ship belongs. The report comes less than two weeks after an oil tanker su
  
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• VIRUS TODAY: Make-or-break in California, Midwest reprieve

  25-12-2020 18:18
  
  Here’s what’s happening Friday with the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.:
  THREE THINGS TO KNOW TODAY
  — California’s deadly Christmas was marked by pleas to avoid holiday gatherings outside the home and indoor church services in what could be amake-or-break effort to curb a coronavirus surge that already has filled some hospitals well beyond normal capacity.
  — U.S. factories have been cranking out goods during much of the pandemic at rates that are remarkably close t
  
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• Morocco acquires 65 million vaccine doses from China, UK

  25-12-2020 18:15
  
  RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco announced it has acquired 65 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from China’s Sinopharm and Britain’s AstraZeneca. The North African kingdom is preparing to launch a massive COVID-19 vaccination program aiming to immunize 80% of the country’s adult population. The government did not indicate whether the vaccines were purchased or provided by Covax, the global project to provide vaccines to developing countries, or a combination of both. An off
  
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• Queen Elizabeth pays tribute to ‘kindness of strangers’

  25-12-2020 18:04
  
  LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has delivered a heartfelt message of hope in her Christmas address, praising the “indomitable spirit” of those who have risen “magnificently” to the challenges of the pandemic. Seated behind a desk at Windsor Castle, the queen expressed sympathy for the ordeal of the past few months while also laying out hope of a return to normality. The queen wrote her address, as she does every year, and her words are likely to have added poignanc
  
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• Broussard, Jefferson headline AP All-Pac-12 football team

  25-12-2020 18:04
  
  Colorado’s Jarek Broussard and Oregon State’s Jermar Jefferson are co-offensive players of the year on The Associated Pres All-Pac-12 football team. Southern California’s Talanoa Hufanga is the defensive player of the year and Utah running back Ty Jordan is the newcomer of the year. Colorado’s Karl Dorrell is the coach of the year after leading the Buffaloes to their first winning record since 2016.The post Broussard, Jefferson headline AP All-Pac-12 football team appeare
  
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• The Latest: Italy virus cases rise for fourth straight day

  25-12-2020 17:52
  
  ROME — For a fourth straight day, Italy’s daily new caseload of confirmed coronavirus infections has climbed higher.Adding 19,037 COVID-19 cases on Friday, the nation raised its overall tally of confirmed infections in the pandemic to 2,028,354.The figures from the Health Ministry on Christmas Day included 459 deaths registered since Thursday. That brings the number of known pandemic dead in Italy to 71,359.As it has had most recently, the northeast Veneto region reported the highest
  
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• 4 pregnant women among 20 migrants dead in Tunisia sinking

  25-12-2020 17:49
  
  TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian authorities say four pregnant women are among 20 migrants whose bodies were found off the coast of Tunisia after their smuggling boat sank. Search efforts continued for 13 others believed missing. Tunisian authorities said Friday that 19 of the 20 migrants who died in Thursday’s sinking were women. Coast guard officials and local fishermen retrieved the bodies and brought them to shore, and transferred them in white body bags to a nearby hospital where
  
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• Virus outbreak is Arizona’s top story of 2020

  25-12-2020 17:43
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic is Arizona’s top news story of the year. What started as a single case of a new coronavirus infecting someone affiliated with Arizona State University in late January spiraled into a vast outbreak afflicting hundreds of thousands in the state. Arizona also made historic shifts in its choice of Joe Biden for president and in sending a second Democrat to the U.S. Senate. The year was marked, too, by protests over racial injustice, the death of Ar
  
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• Japan confirms cases of new coronavirus variant

  25-12-2020 17:35
  
  TOKYO -- Japan’s health ministry has confirmed the country’s first cases of infection with the new variant of the coronavirus that was identified in Britain.The five people arrived between Dec. 18 and Dec. 21, before Japan stepped up border control on Friday for entrants from Britain. A man in his 60s developed fatigue, but the other four were without symptoms.Health Minister Norihisa Tamura said the five were sent to quarantine straight from the airports.After they tested positive f
  
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• Experts say experience convinced Midwest of virus dangers

  25-12-2020 17:11
  
  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A reprieve from a devastating surge of the coronavirus across the Upper Midwest has given cautious relief to health officials, though they worry that infections remain rampant and holiday gatherings could reignite the worst outbreaks of the pandemic. Johns Hopkins researchers say states in the northern stretches of the Midwest and Great Plains have seen average daily cases drop in the past two weeks, with decreases ranging from 20% in Iowa to 66% in North Dakota. S
  
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• The Latest: Japan confirms cases of new coronavirus variant

  25-12-2020 17:05
  
  TOKYO — Japan’s health ministry has confirmed the country’s first cases of infection with the new variant of the coronavirus that was identified in Britain.The five people arrived between Dec. 18 and Dec. 21, before Japan stepped up border control on Friday for entrants from Britain. A man in his 60s developed fatigue, but the other four were without symptoms.Health Minister Norihisa Tamura said the five were sent to quarantine straight from the airports.After they tested posit
  
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• Democrats in Georgia Senate contests take in more than $200M

  25-12-2020 16:52
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — The latest campaign finance figures show the Democrats running for Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats each raised more than $100 million over two months. The massive haul by Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock eclipsed contributions to their Republican opponents and reflects the high stakes of the twin contests. The two races will determine which party controls the Senate _ and likely how ambitious President-elect Joe Biden can be with his agenda. Ossoff’s opponent, Sen.
  
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• Sculpture honors 1st Black president of an American college

  25-12-2020 16:51
  
  RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — The first Black president of an American college is being honored with a sculpture in the Vermont city where he was born. The larger-than-life-sized marble bust of Martin Henry Freeman was installed in Rutland last month, as part of its sculpture trail. It’s the eighth sculpture to be added to the sculpture trail aimed at celebrating local history and drawing more people to visit the working-class community. Among the pieces is a marble relief honoring the Vermont
  
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• Lawyers seek relief for ‘broken’ convicted philanthropist

  25-12-2020 16:41
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Opera-loving philanthropist Alberto Vilar — once worth nearly a billion dollars — is seeking financial relief from what his lawyers describe as a destitute existence that leaves him sleeping on a couch in a shared studio apartment. The lawyers asked a Manhattan federal judge Thursday to let him keep his monthly $2,200 social security check rather than have a portion siphoned off to provide restitution to investors he defrauded. The 80-year-old Vilar left prison
  
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• VIDEO: President-elect Biden’s dogs send Christmas wishes

  25-12-2020 16:38
  
  President-elect Joe Biden’s dogs are "woofing" you happy holidays this Christmas.This new video shows champ peacefully lying under a Christmas tree while "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" plays gently.Then, it cuts to Major, gleefully dashing down the stairs with a chew toy, while electric guitar music takes over.It cuts between the two German Shepherds before ending with a message that says, "No Matter How You Celebrate, Merry Christmas."Biden's been wearing a walking boot because he injure
  
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• Arizona reports 6,616 new COVID-19 cases, 115 deaths

  25-12-2020 16:26
  
  PHOENIX (KVOA) – More than 6,000 Arizonans tested positive for the coronavirus, according to Friday's dashboard.
  Another 115 people lost their lives to the virus, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services. This is the seventh time in nine days the figure has been in the triple digits.
  So far, the state has seen 486,935 known cases and 8,409 total deaths.WHAT TO KNOW:Deaths are not recorded until the health department receives a death certificate naming COVID-19
  
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• US plants hope to maintain production despite virus threat

  25-12-2020 16:17
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — U.S. factories have been cranking out goods at a rate that is remarkably close to normal, despite the ongoing spread of the coronavirus. Yet with cases rising in many states, people who run factories are wondering if production can keep up until most of the country gets vaccinated. For the most part, safeguards put in place after the initial wave of the virus appear to have prevented the kinds of large outbreaks that sickened hundreds of workers and forced automakers, me
  
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• Pope on COVID-19 vaccine: Needy, vulnerable must come first

  25-12-2020 15:59
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has made a Christmas appeal to nations to ensure that COVID-19 vaccines are available for all. In his annual Christmas message on Friday, he urged that the vulnerable and the needy be first in line to get the vaccine shots. Francis said the laws of the markets and patents can’t come before the “laws of love and health of humanity. ”  Francis lamented that the pandemic has “only worsened” grave economic and social imbalance
  
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• Police call explosion in downtown Nashville on Christmas Day “an intentional act”

  25-12-2020 15:55
  
  NASHVILLE (AP) — Police call explosion in downtown Nashville on Christmas Day “an intentional act.”The post Police call explosion in downtown Nashville on Christmas Day “an intentional act” appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• ‘My story is not done’: Eddie Johnson begins 20th season as voice of Phoenix Suns

  25-12-2020 15:30
  
  PHOENIX – His story is full of chapters. Some are complete, defined by adversity and accomplishments, and others remain unwritten, blank pages waiting to be filled with more life experiences.…
  
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• Russian professor sent to prison for killing student

  25-12-2020 15:16
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — A court in St. Petersburg has convicted a prominent history professor on charges of murdering and dismembering a female student and sentenced him to 12 1/2 years in prison. The court found 64-year-old Oleg Sokolov, who taught at St. Petersburg State University, guilty of shooting and killing 24-year-old doctoral student Anastasia Yeshchenko at his apartment in November 2019 and then dismembering her body. Sokolov was detained after being pulled from the Moika
  
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