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• Attacks on 2 villages in Niger kill at least 100 people

  03-01-2021 23:17
  
  NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Islamic extremists staged attacks on two villages in Niger near its border with Mali, killing at least 100 people, Niger’s prime minister said Sunday. Prime Minister Brigi Rafini travelled to the two villages of Tchombangou and Zaroumdareye a day after the attack. The villages in the insecure Tillaberi region were attacked Saturday after locals killed two fighters, local officials said, taking place the same day as the West African nation’s electoral commis
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s made-up claims of fake Georgia votes

  03-01-2021 23:15
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump put forth a dizzying array of fuzzy accounting and outright false claims in an extraordinary phone callto Georgia’s secretary of state seeking a reversal of his election defeat, fabricating a slew of votes that he said should’ve been counted in his favor.
  In the hourlong conversation Saturday with Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, Trump suggested that the Republican “find” enough votes to hand Trump the vic
  
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• The Latest: Nancy Pelosi reelected speaker of the House

  03-01-2021 22:50
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the new session of Congress (all times local):
  X:XX p.m.
  Nancy Pelosi was narrowly reelected Sunday as speaker, giving her the reins of Democrats’ slender House majority as President-elect Joe Biden sets a challenging course of producing legislation to tackle the pandemic, revive the economy and address other party priorities.The California Democrat, who has led her party in the House since 2003 and is the only woman to be speaker, had been widely expe
  
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• Nancy Pelosi reelected as House speaker, taking reins of narrow Democratic majority entering Biden era.

  03-01-2021 22:49
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nancy Pelosi reelected as House speaker, taking reins of narrow Democratic majority entering Biden era.The post Nancy Pelosi reelected as House speaker, taking reins of narrow Democratic majority entering Biden era. appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Honduran migrant gives birth on Mexico-US border bridge

  03-01-2021 22:45
  
  CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities say a Honduran woman gave birth on the Mexican side of the border bridge linking Matamoros to Brownsville, Texas. The woman was apparently trying to reach the U.S. side, but felt unsteady when she got there and was helped by pedestrians waiting to cross. The woman was identified as Leidy Hernández, 24. Mexico’s National Immigration Institute said Sunday that the incident occurred Saturday afternoon on the border bridge known a
  
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• The new year is starting off sunny and mild

  03-01-2021 22:38
  
  TUCSON - 2020 was the hottest year on record for Southern Arizona with over 30 new record high temperatures, but 2021 is starting off with average temperatures and sunny skies.High temperatures for Pima county will increase into the lower 70's but that is where the warming will stop. Cochise and Santa Cruz counties will still see high temperatures in the mid 60's.Rain is not in the forecast at any point for Tucson over the next week, but Cochise county could see some rain and even some snow
  
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• GOP plans to upend Biden win for Trump rips party apart

  03-01-2021 22:23
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans orchestrating President Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the presidential election are facing intense blowback. Officials in their own party are warning the unprecedented effort is undermining the nation’s civic norms and Americans’ faith in democracy. Trump has enlisted support from a dozen Republican senators and up to 100 House Republicans to challenge the Electoral College vote. Congress is set to convene Wednesday in a joi
  
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• The Latest: Former Speaker Ryan condemns election protest

  03-01-2021 22:17
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the new session of Congress (all times local):
  4:10 p.m.
  Former House Speaker Paul Ryan says in a statement that Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential victory is “entirely legitimate.” He is condemning efforts by some Republicans to object to the results and overturn the election in the congressional count of electoral votes on Wednesday.The group of House and Senate Republicans are echoing President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of wide
  
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• No. 6 Arizona routs Cal 69-33 after loss to No. 1 Stanford

  03-01-2021 22:02
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Trinity Baptiste scored 17 points, Aari McDonald had 12 points and eight assists, and No. 6 Arizona bounced back from its first loss of the season with a 69-33 rout over winless California. Arizona led by 17 after one quarter, 29 at halftime and shot 51% overall. The Wildcats had a 50-22 advantage in the paint, 27-7 on the break and scored 26 points off Cal’s 31 turnovers. McDonald also had six steals. Dalayah Daniels led the Bears with 12 points.The post No. 6 A
  
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• Brian Urquhart, early leader of United Nations, dies at 101

  03-01-2021 21:51
  
  TYRINGHAM, Mass. (AP) — Brian Urquhart, an early leader of the United Nations who played a central role in developing the U.N. practice of peacekeeping, has died at his home in Tyringham, Massachusetts, according to his family. He was 101. The New York Times reports that Urquhart’s son confirmed he died on Saturday but didn’t provide a specific cause. Urquhart served in British military and intelligence during World War II and was the second official hired by the U.N. after its
  
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• Police: 1 dead, 1 wounded in shooting at Phoenix gas station

  03-01-2021 21:09
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say one man died and another was critically wounded in a shooting following a weekend dispute at a Phoenix gas station. Phoenix police Sgt. Ann Justus said officers responding to a call of a shooting a little before 9 p.m. Saturday found the injured man at the convenience store. He was taken to a hospital with critical injuries. Officers found another man, who had been shot, dead in a vehicle he apparently drove a couple of blocks away. Neither man was immediatel
  
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• St. Louis’ 2020 homicide rate is highest in 50 years

  03-01-2021 21:01
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis recorded its worst homicide rate for 50 years in 2020, even though the total number of homicides last year fell just short of the city’s all-time record. Police say 262 people were killed in St. Louis last year — five less than the record of 267 set in 1993. But because the city’s population has declined since 1993, the homicide rate was much higher in 2020. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the city’s homicide rate hit 87 killings
  
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• Sheriff: Pastor dead, 2 hurt in shooting at Texas church

  03-01-2021 20:55
  
  WINONA, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a pastor has been killed and two other people were injured during a shooting at an East Texas church. Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith says the man was on the run from authorities late Saturday and had hidden in the Starrville Methodist Church near Winona. Smith says the pastor confronted the man in a church bathroom on Sunday morning. The man shot and killed the pastor, wounded another person and a third was injured in a fall. The shooting suspect fled
  
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• Trump, on tape, presses Ga. official to ‘find’ Trump votes

  03-01-2021 20:44
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump is heard on tape pleading with Georgia’s election chief to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state, suggesting in a telephone call that the official “find” enough votes to hand Trump the victory. The conversation was the latest step in an unprecedented effort by a sitting American president to reverse the outcome of a free and fair election that he lost. The Associated Press obtained a copy of a recording of Trump’s conversa
  
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• ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone:’ Singer Gerry Marsden dies at 78

  03-01-2021 20:33
  
  LONDON (AP) — Gerry Marsden, the British singer who was instrumental in turning a song from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “Carousel” into one of the great anthems in the world of football, has died. He was 78. Marsden was the lead singer of the band that found fame in the Merseybeat scene in the 1960s. Though another Liverpool band, The Beatles, reached superstardom, Gerry and the Pacemakers will always have a place in the city’s consciousness because of ’You&
  
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• Pelosi on track to be speaker again, faces difficult 2021

  03-01-2021 20:33
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Nancy Pelosi seems on track to renew her hold on the House’s top job. The new Congress convened Sunday and the House’s first vote is on electing the chamber’s speaker. Pelosi has led House Democrats since 2003 and is the only woman to ever hold that post. She’s widely expected to retain the job despite a narrow Democratic House majority and absences of a handful of lawmakers due to COVID-19. Ahead of her lies a challenging legislative and p
  
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• Arizona hits new daily high in COVID-19 cases, but no deaths

  03-01-2021 20:21
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona health officials report a record daily high of more than 17,200 new confirmed coronavirus cases. The Arizona Department of Health Services reported Sunday there were 17,234 new cases. That eclipses the previous record of about 12,000 set in early December. No new deaths were reported Sunday. Health officials also reported that just 7% of hospital beds were available statewide and 61% of intensive care unit beds were occupied by people with COVID-19. A department spok
  
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• The Latest: Group of senators urges Biden’s win be certified

  03-01-2021 20:01
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the new session of Congress (all times local):
  1:55 p.m.
  A bipartisan group of 10 senators has issued a statement calling for Congress to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s win.The senators, including four Republicans, said in the statement on Sunday that efforts by some Republicans to overturn the results in favor of President Donald Trump “are contrary to the clearly expressed will of the American people and only serve to undermine Americans&r
  
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• Fire strikes fuel warehouse on Syria-Lebanon border, 7 hurt

  03-01-2021 19:52
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s army and Red Cross say a massive fire has torn through a warehouse where fuel and gas canisters were stored along the border between Lebanon and Syria. Sunday’s fire caused loud explosions and injured seven people. The warehouse is in the border area of al-Qasr, where the line between the two countries is permeable. The Lebanese army said the explosions occurred away from one of its checkpoints, and none of its members were injured. It was not immediatel
  
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• ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ adds $5.5 million in 2nd US weekend

  03-01-2021 19:44
  
  In its second weekend in U.S. theaters, “Wonder Woman 1984” earned an estimated $5.5 million in ticket sales. That’s according to studio estimates Sunday. It’s a 67% drop for the superhero sequel, which is playing on 2,151 screens and is also currently streaming free for HBO Max subscribers. “Wonder Woman 1984” has made $28.5 million to date from the U.S., where about 39% of theaters are open. Disney and Pixar’s “Soul,” which skipped U.S. the
  
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• Israeli prosecutors spell out allegations against Netanyahu

  03-01-2021 19:09
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli prosecutors have released an amended indictment spelling out detailed charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a corruption case in which he is accused of trading favors with a powerful media mogul. The case alleges Netanyahu promoted regulations worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the Bezeq telecom company. That was in exchange for positive coverage on its popular Walla news site. In response to a request from Netanyahu’s lawyers for more de
  
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• Businessman and family die when plane hits Michigan house

  03-01-2021 19:09
  
  A small plane crashed into a house in southeastern Michigan, killing the pilot and two family members. Five people inside the two-story house in Lyon Township were able to avoid injury. Fire severely damaged the home, 40 miles northwest of Detroit. The plane was flying to the New Hudson airport from Cherokee County Regional Airport in Canton, Georgia. The victims were identified as David S. Compo, former president of the Home Builders Association of Southeastern Michigan, his wife Michele and th
  
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• The Latest: Graham criticizes Cruz’s bid to dispute election

  03-01-2021 19:06
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the new session of Congress (all times local):
  1 p.m.
  Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham is calling the effort by Sen. Ted Cruz and other Republican senators to overturn the presidential election a “dodge” that doesn’t go far enough in helping President Donald Trump.
  Graham said in a statement Sunday that Cruz has a “high bar” to show there was evidence of problems with the election. The South Carolina senator also said Cruz’s
  
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• Sheriff’s deputy: 1 dead, 1 hurt in shooting at Texas church

  03-01-2021 18:51
  
  WINONA, Texas (AP) — Authorities say one person has been killed and another was wounded in a shooting at an East Texas church. Smith County Sheriff’s Sgt. Larry Christian says deputies were called to the Starrville Methodist Church in Winona for a reported shooting around 9:20 a.m. Sunday. Christian says two people were found shot and that a suspect who fled the scene has been arrested. He says there were no services going on when the shooting took place. He couldn’t immediatel
  
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• Kenosha prepares for charging decision on police shooting

  03-01-2021 18:49
  
  KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Kenosha city officials say they are preparing for possible protests when a charging decision comes in the police shooting of Jacob Blake. A decision is expected within the next two weeks. Mayor John Antaramian and Police Chief Daniel Miskinis said Sunday that they will designate a demonstration space in the Wisconsin city, limit bus routes, close roads and impose curfews, among other measures. Blake, who is Black, was shot in the back seven times on Aug. 23 after walki
  
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• The Latest: Congress opens to swear in new members

  03-01-2021 18:22
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the new session of Congress (all times local):
  12:15 p.m.
  The 117th U.S. Congress is beginning as the House and Senate have gaveled in to swear in new members.Both chambers are holding rare Sunday sessions to open the new Congress on Jan. 3, as the Constitution requires. All members of the House and roughly one-third of the Senate will be sworn in.Democrat Nancy Pelosi was set to be reelected as House speaker by her party, which retains the majority in the H
  
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• Fauci: Vaccinations are ramping up in a `glimmer of hope’

  03-01-2021 18:18
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci says the U.S. ramped up COVID-19 vaccinations in the past few days after a slower-than-expected start, bringing to 4 million the number of Americans who have received shots. The government’s top infectious-disease expert also said on ABC’s “This Week” that President-elect Joe Biden’s pledge to administer 100 million shots of the coronavirus vaccine within his first 100 days in office is achievable. And he rejected President Donald Trump’s fal
  
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• Egypt to probe 4 virus patients’ ICU deaths amid controversy

  03-01-2021 18:17
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian prosecutors have opened an investigation into the deaths of at least four coronavirus patients at a public hospital. The deaths have stirred controversy after a video of nurses struggling to keep the patients alive was shared widely on social media. A relative of one of the patients alleged the deaths early Sunday were caused by a lack of oxygen at the government-run hospital. They offered no immediate evidence. The governor of Sharqia province in the Nile Delta has d
  
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• Last days in Georgia runoffs that will decide Senate control

  03-01-2021 18:14
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — It’s two days before dueling runoffs in Georgia that will determine U.S. Senate control. On Sunday, GOP incumbent Kelly Loeffler said she hasn’t decided whether to join Republican colleagues in challenging the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump. Meantime, the Democratic candidates whose wins Tuesday would help clear roadblocks for the new administration’s agenda awaited a campaign visit from Vice President-elect Kamala Harri
  
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• Correction: Fruits of Labor-The Children story

  03-01-2021 18:02
  
  Correction to Fruits of Labor-The Children storyThe post Correction: Fruits of Labor-The Children story appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• IS gunmen kill 11 minority Shiite coal miners in SW Pakistan

  03-01-2021 17:51
  
  QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani official says gunmen abducted and shot a group of minority Shiite Hazara coal miners in a southwestern province, killing 11. The Islamic State group later claimed responsibility for the attack. An official with the Levies Force, which that serves as police and paramilitary in the area, described the attack early Sunday. He says armed men identified the miners as being from the Hazara community. They were taken away to nearby mountains for execution, leav
  
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• IRS says executors undervalued Prince’s estate by 50%

  03-01-2021 17:27
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The controversy over Prince’s estate is heating up again after the Internal Revenue Service said administrators have undervalued it by 50%, or about $80 million. The rock star, who died of a fentanyl overdose in 2016, did not leave a will. The IRS determined that Prince’s estate is worth $163.2 million, overshadowing the $82.3 million valuation submitted by Comerica Bank & Trust, the estate’s administrator. The Star Tribune reports that the discrepa
  
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• The Latest: Hawley defends rationale for contesting election

  03-01-2021 17:20
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the new session of Congress (all times local):
  11:15 a.m.
  Republican Sen. Josh Hawley is hitting back at GOP colleagues who are criticizing his attempt to overturn the presidential election won by Joe Biden.
  In a lengthy email, the Missouri Republican defended his rationale for challenging President Donald Trump’s defeat. He and other Republicans are planning to mount objections to the results when Congress convenes for a joint session Wednesday to con
  
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• Cuts likely as Fiat Chrysler-PSA tie-up nears approval

  03-01-2021 17:06
  
  MILAN (AP) — Shareholders of Fiat Chrysler and France’s PSA Group are meeting Monday to vote on a merger that will create the world’s fourth-largest automaker. The new company called Stellantis will be run by PSA CEO Carlos Tavares, who is known for cutting vehicles or ventures that don’t make money. Experts say that means Tavares is likely to shed brands and vehicles that don’t pull their weight. Early cost-cutting moves will likely be in Europe, where PSA and Fiat
  
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• The Latest: Johnson insists vote challenge helps democracy

  03-01-2021 16:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the new session of Congress (all times local):
  10:30 a.m.
  Sen. Ron Johnson is insisting that the extraordinary effort by congressional Republicans to challenge Joe Biden’s presidential victory is not intended to thwart the democratic process but “to protect it.”
  In a interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the Wisconsin senator pointed to an “unsustainable state of affairs” where he claimed that many people in t
  
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• Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan resume talks over disputed dam

  03-01-2021 16:44
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Officials say Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan resumed their years-long negotiations over a controversial dam Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile. The resumption Sunday came six weeks after Sudan boycotted talks in November. It urged the African Union to play a greater role in reaching a deal over the disputed Ethiopian dam. The negotiations have centered on the filling and operation of the giant dam. Key questions remain about how much water Ethiopia will release downstream if a m
  
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• Video of Egypt virus patients’ ICU death stirs controversy

  03-01-2021 16:43
  
  CAIRO (AP) — The deaths of at least four coronavirus patients at a public Egyptian hospital have stirred controversy, after a video of nurses struggling to keep the patients alive was shared widely on social media. A relative of one of the patients alleged the deaths early Sunday were caused by a lack of oxygen at the government-run hospital in the Nile Delta. The governor of Sharqia province has denied the allegations. Egypt is facing a surge in confirmed virus cases and renewed calls for
  
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• Arizona sets daily record with 17,234 new COVID-19 cases

  03-01-2021 16:41
  
  PHOENIX (KVOA) - 17,234 Arizonans tested positive for the coronavirus, according to Sunday's dashboard. No new people lost their lives to the virus, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services. So far, the state has seen 556,384 known cases and 9,061 total deaths. WHAT TO KNOW: Deaths are not recorded until the health department receives a death certificate naming COVID-19 as the cause of death. The data includes people who have recove
  
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• AP Interview: India bars company from exporting vaccines

  03-01-2021 16:38
  
  NEW DELHI (AP) — The head of Serum Institute of India, which has been contracted to make 1 billion doses of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, says India won’t allow the export of the vaccine for several months. Serum Institute — the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer — is likely to make most of the inoculations for developing countries. The ban on exports, however, means poorer nations will probably have to wait a few months before receiving t
  
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• Small-town Alabama resident transformed to protest leader

  03-01-2021 16:34
  
  ALBERTVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A Black woman who says she gained new racial awareness after leaving her majority-white hometown in Alabama is now leading protests against a Confederate monument in the city. Unique Morgan Dunston has been leading protests since August in Albertville, where she grew up. Dunston says she didn’t often think about the rebel monument when she was growing up as one of only a few Black people in the city. She says that changed after she went away to college, and s
  
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• Spanish-flagged boat rescues 265 migrants in Mediterranean

  03-01-2021 16:08
  
  ROME (AP) — A Spanish-flagged humanitarian ship is seeking a port of safety for 265 migrants its crew rescued from the Mediterranean Sea in the last few days. The Open Arms charity tweeted that its vessel on Saturday had safely brought aboard 96 migrants who had been adrift in a wooden boat with without life vests in international waters. It said the passengers, most of them from Eritrea, included two women and 17 minors and were suffering from hypothermia. In a separate operation two days
  
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• Sheriff: 3 killed when plane crashes into Michigan house

  03-01-2021 15:52
  
  A plane crashed into a house in southeastern Michigan, killing the pilot and two people aboard. Five people inside the two-story house in Lyon Township were able to avoid injury. Fire severely damaged the home, 40 miles northwest of Detroit. Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard confirmed three people in the single-engine Piper PA-24 died. The plane was flying to the New Hudson airport from Cherokee County Regional Airport in Canton, Georgia.The post Sheriff: 3 killed when plane crashes into Mich
  
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• Minority-owned companies waited months for loans, data shows

  03-01-2021 15:00
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of minority-owned small businesses were at the end of the line in the government’s coronavirus relief program as many struggled to find banks to accept their applications. Or, they were disadvantaged by the program’s terms. Data from the Paycheck Protection Program analyzed by The Associated Press show many minority owners desperate for a loan didn’t receive one until the PPP’s last weeks. Meanwhile, many more companies owned by whites were
  
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• Britons flying home to Spain caught in post-Brexit red tape

  03-01-2021 14:52
  
  MADRID (AP) — Some British citizens trying to return to their homes in Spain have been barred from boarding flights this weekend. Airlines are refusing documents that before Brexit had been valid proof of their status as residents in Spain. It’s not clear whether Brexit or new travel restrictions against people coming from Britain are to blame. Their ordeal comes amid heightened travel restrictions due to a coronavirus variant that has been blamed for faster contagion in the United K
  
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• Prelate blocked for months by Belarus resigns Minsk post

  03-01-2021 14:45
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of the Minsk’ archbishop who had been blocked for months by Belarusian authorities from returning to his homeland after criticizing a crackdown on anti-government protesters there. Monsignor Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, in charge of the Minsk-Mohilev diocese, had only returned to Belarus on Dec. 24, just in time to celebrate Christmas Mass. That was nearly four months after he was blocked entry while traveling b
  
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• Rally in Baghdad marks 1 year since Iran general’s killing

  03-01-2021 14:42
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Thousands of Iraqis are converging on a landmark Baghdad square on the anniversary of the killing of a powerful Iranian general and a top Iraqi militia leader in a U.S. drone strike. Roads leading to Tahrir Square were closed and security was tight Sunday. The crowds gathered in response to a call by a group of powerful Iraqi militias for a rally demanding the expulsion of U.S. troops from Iraq. The Iranian general’s killing last year dramatically ratcheted up tensions
  
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• Zimbabwe returns to restrictions amid rise in virus cases

  03-01-2021 13:58
  
  MUTARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — In response to rising COVID-19 numbers, Zimbabwe has reintroduced a night curfew, banned public gatherings, and indefinitely suspended the opening of schools. Funerals are now limited to 30 people while other gatherings such as weddings and church services are banned for 30 days. Restaurants and beer taverns have also been closed. The government has postponed indefinitely the opening of schools for a new term that was supposed to start on Monday, Jan. 4. But the new
  
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• Senate race thrusts ‘Black America’s church’ into spotlight

  03-01-2021 13:55
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Ebenezer Baptist Church, the historic congregation in the heart of Atlanta, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preached, sits at the intersection of national politics and the culture war. The church’s senior pastor, the Rev. Raphael Warnock, is seeking election to the U.S. Senate, where bitter partisanship has blunted the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic and to calls for criminal justice reform. This month’s runoff election for both of Georgia&rsqu
  
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• Airport in Yemen receives 1st flight since deadly attack

  03-01-2021 12:56
  
  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Officials say a plane has landed at the airport in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden, the first commercial flight to arrive since a deadly missile attack last week on the facility that killed 25 people and wounded 110 others. The flight’s arrival Sunday comes four days after missiles exploded just moments after a plane carrying members of Yemen’s Cabinet landed on a flight from Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh. Three precision-guided missiles that
  
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• UK’s Johnson warns of more lockdown measures as virus soars

  03-01-2021 12:45
  
  LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned that more onerous lockdown restrictions in England are likely as the country reels from a new variant of the coronavirus that has seen infection rates soar to their highest recorded levels. The U.K. is in the midst of an acute outbreak, recording more than 50,000 new coronavirus infections a day over the past five days. In an interview on Sunday, Johnson laid out the hope that “tens of millions” of people will have b
  
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