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• Woman arrested for string of car break-ins in Oro Valley

  21-01-2021 23:56
  
  Oro Valley Police DepartmentKarla ValdezTUCSON (KVOA) - A woman was taken into custody in connection to a string of car break-ins that occurred in December.According to Oro Valley Police Department, 34-year-old Karla Valdez was charged with third-degree burglary, aggravated ID theft, three counts of computer tampering and fraud schemes.
  Follow-up on the string of car break-ins last month in OV.
  The following are the initial felony charges OV has placed against Karla Valdez (34 yrs old):
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• EU leaders agree to keep borders open, want to limit travels

  21-01-2021 23:53
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders agreed that borders should remain open and assessed more measures to counter the spread of coronavirus variants during a video summit Thursday as the bloc’s top disease control official said urgent action was needed to stave off a new wave of hospitalizations and deaths. Expressing great concern about the virus’ mutations, the 27 leaders looked at further border restrictions like limits on all non-essential travel, better tracking of mutat
  
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• Brazil announces incoming vaccine cargo amid supply concerns

  21-01-2021 23:48
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s health ministry has announced that a shipment of 2 million doses of coronavirus vaccine is coming from India. The announcement Thursday comes as public health experts are sounding the alarm over insufficient supply in South America’s biggest nation. Neither the government’s Fiocruz Institute nor Sao Paulo state’s Butantan Institute have yet received the technology from their partners to produce vaccines domestically and instead must im
  
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• Biden signs burst of virus orders, vows ‘Help is on the way’

  21-01-2021 23:46
  
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  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is putting into play his national COVID-19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and businesses and increase the use of masks. It also includes a requirement that Americans mask up for travel. He signed 10 virus-related executive orders on Thursday with the nation deep in the deadliest wave of the pandemic and facing worrisome new mutations. Biden has vowed to take more aggressive measures th
  
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• EU leaders call on Russia to release Navalny

  21-01-2021 23:44
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union calls on Russia to immediately release opposition leader Alexei Navalny and make sure that his rights are fully respected. Navalny was arrested last Sunday at a Moscow airport as he tried to enter the country from Germany, where he had spent five months recovering from nerve agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin. EU summit host Charles Michel said that the leaders “expect Russia to urgently proceed with the independent and transparent invest
  
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• 2,100 doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrive at Pima County clinics that serve rural, semi-urban areas

  21-01-2021 23:44
  
  MARANA, Ariz. (KVOA) - More than 2,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in rural and semi-urban areas of Pima County Thursday to improve vaccine accessibility for residents 75 and older.Back on Jan. 12, UArizona announced that it will help Pima County distribute vaccine shots as it begins vaccinating people in the Phase 1B priority group.Registration for this group, which is the largest priority group under Phase 1 of the county's distribution plan, officially began on
  
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• Health experts blame rapid expansion for vaccine shortages

  21-01-2021 23:43
  
  Public health experts are blaming vaccine shortages around the U.S. in part on the Trump administration’s push to get states to vastly expand their vaccination drives to the nation’s estimated 54 million people age 65 and over. The push that began over a week ago has not been accompanied by enough doses to meet demand, leading to frustration and confusion. President Jo Biden has vowed to turn things around.The post Health experts blame rapid expansion for vaccine shortages appeared f
  
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• Alice Hoagland, gay-rugby godmother and 9/11 activist, dies

  21-01-2021 23:43
  
  Alice Hoagland has died at age 71 after becoming a beloved figure of the gay rugby movement her own son Mark Bingham helped establish shortly before he perished on Flight 93 as a Sept. 11 hero. Longtime family friend Amanda Mark says Hoagland died Dec. 22 in her sleep at her home in California after battling Addison’s disease. Bingham and Hoagland’s stories were chronicled on film and screen. Hoagland became an advocate for airline security and for allowing relatives of 9/11 victims
  
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• Sheriff: Woman upset over husband’s absence kills kids, self

  21-01-2021 23:40
  
  FAIRLEA, W.Va. (AP) — Authorities in West Virginia say five children found dead after a house fire late last year were shot to death by their mother, who then took her own life. Greenbrier County Sheriff Bruce Sloan held a news conference Thursday and revealed details of the shootings and fire last Dec. 8. He said 25-year-old Oreanna Antoinette Myers shot her three children and two stepchildren at their home near Williamsburg. The children ranged in age from 1 to 7. The sheriff said text m
  
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• Transgender youth bills in US states reflect deep divisions

  21-01-2021 23:25
  
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Transgender kids would be banned from playing on school sports teams for the gender with which they identify under a GOP-backed bill that advanced Thursday in Montana.
  The state is one of more than a dozen where lawmakers are proposing restrictions on athletics or gender-confirming health care for trans minors this year.
  The bill now heads to the House floor, despite warnings from opponents that it would risk violating an executive order signed by Democratic President
  
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• Senate passes waiver for Biden Pentagon pick Lloyd Austin, clearing path to confirmation

  21-01-2021 23:23
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate passes waiver for Biden Pentagon pick Lloyd Austin, clearing path to confirmation.The post Senate passes waiver for Biden Pentagon pick Lloyd Austin, clearing path to confirmation appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Arizona gas station manager fired for posting ‘White Pride Month’ sign outside business

  21-01-2021 23:22
  
  PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — The manager of a gas station near downtown Prescott was fired for posting signs this week outside the business that made a baseless sexual derogatory claim about President Joe Biden and were racially offensive.
  Joanne Selena Lopez said she was terminated as manager of the Shepherd Express gas station after the signs went viral on social media.Can my AZ people please help me amplify this? Shepherds Express in Prescott has racist, offensive signs out front. @judy_stahl
  
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• SC abortion limits bill with no rape exception nears debate

  21-01-2021 23:15
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A bill to ban nearly all abortions in South Carolina without exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest is heading to a debate on the Senate floor. The Senate Medical Affairs Committee voted 9-8 Thursday to send the bill to the full Senate. It would ban abortions when a heartbeat can be detected — or about six weeks after conception. Measures seeking stricter abortion limits have been debated for years in the General Assembly, regularly failing in the S
  
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• Native Americans question use of folk song at inaugural

  21-01-2021 23:03
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Native Americans celebrated as Joe Biden revoked a pipeline permit and halted border wall construction on his first day as president. But amid the revelry, some saw a glitch in his swearing-in ceremony with the lyrics of the song “This Land is your Land.” The folk tune is popular around campfires and in schools, but it also called to mind the nation’s long history of land disputes involving tribes. Woody Guthrie wrote the song in the 1940s as a ret
  
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• CNN Poll: 66% willing to get COVID-19 vaccine

  21-01-2021 23:03
  
  WASHINGTON DC (CNN) - A new poll finds Americans are more willing to get a coronavirus vaccine.The CNN poll was conducted by SSRS.It found two-thirds of Americans say they will try to get vaccinated now that multiple vaccines are approved and beginning to be publicly available.That's up from about half in October, before any vaccines had been approved.The random national sample of more than a thousand people was conducted from Jan. 9-14.It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage po
  
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• Chicago teachers begin vote to defy order to return to class

  21-01-2021 23:02
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago teachers have starting voting on whether they’ll return to in-person class next week ahead of elementary students’ return. The Chicago Teachers Union has opposed reopening plans over safety concerns, saying Chicago Public School’s isn’t doing enough to protect educators. The union’s House of Delegates approved a resolution for teachers for kindergarten through 8th grade to stay home Monday and teach remotely. Union members started voting
  
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• Kentucky to study warrant process after Taylor shooting

  21-01-2021 23:01
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s attorney general has formed a task force to study the search warrant process nearly a year after the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. Officers used a narcotics warrant to enter her home. Attorney General Daniel Cameron says the Taylor shooting put “significant attention” on the safe execution of search warrants in Kentucky. Cameron was the special prosecutor who investigated the police actions on the night of Taylor’s death. No off
  
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• Biden halts border wall building after Trump’s final surge

  21-01-2021 22:55
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — President Joe Biden has ordered a “pause” on all border wall construction within a week, one of 17 executive orders he issued on his first day in office. The move Wednesday leaves projects throughout the border unfinished but still under contract after his predecessor, Donald Trump, worked feverishly to successfully to build 450 miles. In Arizona, crews have been blasting dynamite in remote mountains to complete work. In Texas, construction equipment lay idle T
  
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• The Latest: Fauci to resume virus updates in White House

  21-01-2021 22:51
  
  WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci is back in the White House briefing room.
  Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, was tasked by President Joe Biden to give an update on the coronavirus pandemic after largely being sidelined in recent months by former president Donald Trump.
  Fauci said the new administration would “be completely open and honest” in dealing with the pandemic and, in an implicit rebuke to the Trump administration, said everything now would be &
  
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• Guard troops head home after helping secure Biden inaugural

  21-01-2021 22:48
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As many as 15,000 National Guard members are preparing to leave Washington, D.C. and head home now that the inauguration of President Joe Biden is over. Enforcement agencies say the inaugural went off with only a handful of minor arrests and incidents. The National Guard Bureau says that of the nearly 26,000 Guard troops deployed to D.C. for the inaugural, just 10,600 remain on duty. The bureau said the Guard is helping states with coordination and the logistics so that t
  
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• Bernie’s inauguration mittens go viral

  21-01-2021 22:47
  
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  WASHINGTON DC (CNN) - Mittens haven't been this popular since they were worn by three little kittens.Bernie Sanders' "Clutch" mittens are creating a buzz on social media.The Vermont senator wore them to president Biden's inauguration Wednesday and they immediately caught the eye of many.Twitter went wild with the look saying Sanders looked like he was a grandpa headed to the post office.Buzzfeed news says the mittens were made by a Vermont teacher, Jen Ellis.She gave them to him m
  
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• EU leaders assess more restrictions to stop virus’ variants

  21-01-2021 22:44
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders assessed more measures to counter the spread of coronavirus variants during a video summit Thursday as the bloc’s top disease control official said urgent action was needed to stave off a new wave of hospitalizations and deaths. Expressing great worry about the virus’ mutations, the 27 leaders looked at further border restrictions like limits on all non-essential travel, better tracking of mutations and improving coordination of lockdowns,
  
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• Buckeye man accused of fatally running over friend in Topock

  21-01-2021 22:41
  
  TOPOCK, Ariz. (AP) — Mohave Valley Sheriff’s officials say a Buckeye man has been arrested in a homicide case in Topock. They say 50-year-old James Richard Edwards is jailed on suspicion of felony second-degree murder. Sheriff’s deputies were called out to Topock around 8 p.m. Wednesday in reference to a pedestrian getting struck by a vehicle. They say 48-year-old John Michael Bondello of Topock was pronounced dead at the scene. Detectives say their investigation revealed the t
  
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• Prescott gas station manager fired for offensive signs

  21-01-2021 22:40
  
  PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — The manager of a gas station near downtown Prescott was fired for posting signs this week outside the business that made a baseless sexual derogatory claim about President Joe Biden and were racially offensive. Joanne Selena Lopez said she was terminated as manager of the Shepherd Express gas station after the signs went viral on social media. She said she considered her sign saying “March is white pride month y’all” to be a joke. Lopez said she was
  
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• EU leaders asses more restrictions to stop virus’ variants

  21-01-2021 22:39
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders assessed more measures to counter the spread of coronavirus variants during a video summit Thursday as the bloc’s top disease control official said urgent action was needed to stave off a new wave of hospitalizations and deaths. Expressing great worry about the virus’ mutations, the 27 leaders looked at further border restrictions like limits on all non-essential travel, better tracking of mutations and improving coordination of lockdowns,
  
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• Canada’s governor general resigns after harassment report

  21-01-2021 22:39
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s governor general has resigned after an independent review of workplace harassment allegation.  The governor general is the representative of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as head of state, and holds a mostly ceremonial position.  A senior government official confirmed the resignation of Julie Payette. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appo
  
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• Settlement in racial bias case includes sheriff’s apology

  21-01-2021 22:35
  
  COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — A Latina immigrant has reached a $125,000 settlement after she says her detention during a traffic stop fit a pattern of racially discriminatory policing in a Maryland county. The settlement includes a written apology from the county’s sheriff. Lawyers for Sara Haidee Aleman Medrano on Thursday announced terms of her settlement of a federal lawsuit that she filed against Frederick County Sheriff Charles Jenkins and others. In his apology letter, Jenkins says
  
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• US vaccine shortages force cancellations and postponements

  21-01-2021 22:34
  
  Some COVID-19 vaccination sites in New York City are canceling or postponing shots or stopped making new appointments amid vaccine shortages around the U.S. that President Joe Biden has vowed to turn around. Smaller-than-expected vaccine deliveries from the federal government have caused frustration and confusion and limited states’ ability to attack the outbreak that has killed over 400,000 Americans. Over the past few days, authorities in California, Ohio, West Virginia, Florida and Hawa
  
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• Trump returns to his financial empire ravaged by pandemic

  21-01-2021 22:27
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is returning to a family business ravaged by pandemic shutdowns, with revenue plunging more than 40 percent at his Doral golf property, his Washington hotel and both his Scottish resorts.
  Trump’s financial disclosure released as he left office this week was just the latest bad news for his financial empire after banks, brokerages and golf organizations announced they were cutting ties with his company following the storming of the Capitol by his political
  
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• Biden halts oil and gas leases on US land, water for 60 days

  21-01-2021 22:16
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration has suspended new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits on U.S. lands and waters for 60 days as part a review of programs at the U.S. Department of Interior. The move follows campaign pledges by President Joe Biden to halt new drilling on U.S. lands and end the leasing of publicly owned energy reserves as part of his plan to address climate change. The suspension went into effect immediately under an order signed Wednesday by Acting Interi
  
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• House approves waiver for Biden Pentagon pick Lloyd Austin, moving him step closer to confirmation

  21-01-2021 22:11
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House approves waiver for Biden Pentagon pick Lloyd Austin, moving him step closer to confirmation.The post House approves waiver for Biden Pentagon pick Lloyd Austin, moving him step closer to confirmation appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Stocks drift to mixed close; S&P 500 ekes out another record

  21-01-2021 22:09
  
   Stocks drifted to a mixed close on Wall Street Thursday as the earnings reporting season for U.S. companies ramped into higher gear. The S&P 500 edged up just one point, enough to mark another record high. The Dow and other market measures fell, as did most stocks. Insurer Travelers jumped after reporting a stronger-than-expected profit, as most companies have been doing so far in this earnings season. United Airlines fell after reporting a worse loss than expected. Economic reports we
  
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• Nevadan plans to celebrate 100th birthday by skydiving

  21-01-2021 22:09
  
  GARDNERVILLE, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada resident says he’ll celebrate his 100th birthday by jumping out of an airplane. Charlie Montanaro’s birthday is Sunday. Days later, he plans to fly from his home near Gardnerville to Tucson, Arizona, where he’s going skydiving. He told The Record-Courier he flew airplanes for years so now he’s going to try jumping out of one. The World War II veteran has lived in the Carson Valley the last two years. He told the newspaper that his
  
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• Bernie Sanders spawns splash of memes with inaugural attire

  21-01-2021 22:08
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Wearing mittens made out of recycled materials and a warm winter jacket, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders pulled off a casual inauguration outfit — and vibe — that only he could. Many people quickly highlighted the 79-year-old independent Vermont senator’s look, and created endless memes, from Wednesday’s inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Sanders said the look was more about keeping warm than fashion, noting that Vermonters like him know ho
  
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• Coroner identifies 21-year-old man killed in police shootout

  21-01-2021 22:06
  
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Officials in Alabama have identified a man who police fatally shot after authorities said he fired at them multiple times. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified the man Thursday as 21-year-old Eusi Malik Kater Jr. Birmingham Police Sgt. Rod Mauldin told AL.com that authorities were called to a neighborhood Wednesday due to reports of shots fired. Mauldin said that when officers arrived they encountered a suspect who ran away and fired several shots.
  
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• Judge: Georgia lawyer’s mind poisoned by violent ideology

  21-01-2021 22:04
  
  MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — A federal judge lashed out at a Georgia lawyer accused of storming the U.S. Capitol, saying the lawyer was seduced by a dangerous ideology that “poisoned this man’s mind.” The comments came during a Thursday telephone hearing in U.S. District Court in Georgia. The judge rejected William McCall Calhoun Jr.’s request to be allowed to stay at his sister’s house as the case progresses. Instead, the judge ordered Calhoun to remain behind bars f
  
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• Judge says Amazon won’t have to restore Parler web service

  21-01-2021 22:03
  
  Amazon won’t be forced to restore web service to Parler after a federal judge ruled Thursday against a plea to reinstate the fast-growing social media app favored by followers of former President Donald Trump. U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein in Seattle said she wasn’t dismissing Parler’s “substantive underlying claims” against Amazon but said it fell short in demonstrating the need for an injunction forcing it back online. Amazon kicked Parler off its web-host
  
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• TPD: 2 injured in south side shooting

  21-01-2021 21:57
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Police are investigating a shooting Thursday afternoon on Tucson's south side.
  Two men were found with obvious signs of gunshot trauma near Park Avenue and Bilby Road, police say.
  According to Tucson Police Department, one of the victims sustained life-threatening injuries and the other suffered serious injuries.
  No suspects are in custody.
  TPD says there is no danger to the public at this time.
  Details are limited, stay with News 4 Tucson as we obtain more information.The post T
  
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• The Latest: Biden boosts US response to COVID-19 pandemic

  21-01-2021 21:57
  
  WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is signing 10 executive orders aimed at combating the coronavirus pandemic, including one broadening the use of the Defense Production Act to expand vaccine production.
  Biden also signed an order Thursday mandating masks for travel, including in airports and planes, ships, trains, buses and public transportation, as well as one directing the Federal Emergency Management Agency to reimburse states for some costs related to their COVID-19 response and to prov
  
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• Biden inherits damaged economy, with signs of hope emerging

  21-01-2021 21:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has inherited a badly damaged economy pulverized by the pandemic, with 10 million fewer jobs than a year ago and as many as one in 6 small businesses shut down. Yet there are also signs of resilience and recovery that suggest the prospect of a rebound, perhaps a robust one, by the second half of his first year in office. Despite the bleakness of the economic landscape, Biden by most accounts faces a less daunting challenge than he confronted as vice pr
  
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• Brothers denounce lawmaker who challenged Biden victory

  21-01-2021 21:51
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus has been castigated by his two brothers over his efforts to cast doubt about President Joe Biden’s victory. The siblings of Republican Rep. Andy Biggs wrote in a letter to his hometown newspaper The Arizona Republic that Biggs is “at least partially to blame” for the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. William Biggs told the newspaper that he’s a Democrat and isn’t close to the congressman
  
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• Ontario leader blames Pfizer for COVID-9 vaccine delays

  21-01-2021 21:38
  
  TORONTO (AP) — The leader of Canada’s most populous province says he isn’t buying the excuse from Pfizer about why Pfizer deferred all its COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to Canada next week. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says it unacceptable that other countries are getting the doses and Canada is not.  Pfizer announced a temporary reduction in deliveries last Friday so it could upscale its Puurs, Belgium plant, which supplies all shots delivered outside the United States. Ford s
  
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• Biden cleans house at VOA after revolt over Trump changes

  21-01-2021 21:38
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has moved quickly to remove a number of senior officials aligned with former President Donald Trump from the Voice of America and the agency that oversees all U.S.-funded international broadcasting. The actions address fears that the U.S. Agency for Global Media was being turned into a pro-Trump propaganda outlet. The agency announced Thursday that VOA’s director and his deputy had been removed from their positions and that the head of the O
  
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• Biden suspends oil, gas leases on public lands for 60 days

  21-01-2021 21:33
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration has suspended new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits on public lands and waters for 60 days as part a review of programs at the U.S. Department of Interior. The move follows campaign pledges by President Joe Biden to halt new drilling on U.S. lands and end the leasing of publicly owned energy reserves as part of his plan to address climate change. The suspension went into effect immediately under an order signed Wednesday by Acting Inte
  
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• Man arrested in 3 slayings at NYC senior housing project

  21-01-2021 21:32
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Police have arrested a man in the unsolved slayings of three women in the same building at a New York City housing project for seniors. Officials announced the arrest of 66-year-old Kevin Gavin on Thursday, about a week after a 78-year-old victim was found dead in her Brooklyn apartment with a telephone cord around her neck. The building was the scene of two other killings of elderly women in 2015 and in 2019 that had raised concerns about security lapses in the building. I
  
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• "Stolen Election" is Not a Just a Lie, It's a Racist Dogwhistle

  21-01-2021 21:30
  
  We know that the allegation that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen somehow is a massive fraud and a lie. But many of those who say it, also know it is a lie.…
  
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• Biden revokes Trump order banning some diversity training

  21-01-2021 21:26
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Civil rights groups are celebrating President Joe Biden’s swift revocation of a Trump administration order that had banned federal agencies, contractors and recipients of federal funding from conducting certain diversity training. The order had targeted workplace trainings that explored systemic racism and privilege, which former President Donald Trump had deemed “un-American” and harmful to white workers. The Department of Labor had already suspended enfo
  
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• The Latest: Spain hits daily record of 44,357 virus cases

  21-01-2021 21:21
  
  MADRID — Spain posted a new daily record of 44,357 coronavirus infections.The Health Ministry reported 404 deaths on Thursday, increasing the confirmed total to 55,041 deaths and 2.5 million cases.
  The country’s 14-day average case rate rose to 796 per 100,000 inhabitants, up from 736 on Wednesday.Despite the numbers, government coronavirus expert Fernando Simón says the country could be reaching a plateau. But he says a decrease in new “hospitalizations and admissions t
  
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• Biden signs burst of virus orders, requires masks for travel

  21-01-2021 21:16
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is putting into play his national COVID-19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and businesses and increase the use of masks.It also includes a requirement that Americans mask up for travel.He signed 10 virus-related executive orders on Thursday with the nation deep in the deadliest wave of the pandemic and facing worrisome new mutations.Biden has vowed to take more aggressive measures than his predecessor to contain the virus,
  
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• VIRUS TODAY: Biden tightens virus rules, boosts vaccinations

  21-01-2021 21:15
  
  Here’s what’s happening Thursday with the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.:
  THREE THINGS TO KNOW TODAY
  — President Joe Biden outlined his national COVID-19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and businesses and increase the use of masks — including a requirement that Americans mask up for travel. Biden has vowed to take more aggressive measures than his predecessor and is seeking to pass a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package.
  — Dr. Anthony
  
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