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• Average US price of gas up 10 cents a gallon to $2.45

  24-01-2021 23:58
  
  CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline jumped 10 cents a gallon over the past two weeks to $2.45. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that a rise in crude oil prices since November is behind the increase. The price at the pump is 15 cents less than it was a year ago. The highest average price in the nation is $3.46 a gallon in the San Francisco Bay Area. The lowest average is $2.07 in Houston. The average price of diesel we
  
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• Biden to reinstate COVID travel rules, add South Africa

  24-01-2021 23:39
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Two White House officials say President Joe Biden on Monday will formally reinstate COVID-19 travel restrictions on non-U.S. travelers from Brazil, Ireland, United Kingdom and 26 other European countries that allow travel across open borders. The officials spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss the upcoming order. The officials also confirmed that South Africa would be added to the restricted list because of concerns about a variant of the
  
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• Center-right incumbent wins Portugal’s presidential election

  24-01-2021 23:30
  
  LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Official results from Portugal’s presidential election give a clear victory to the center-right incumbent candidate, who was returned to office for a final five-year term. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa captured 62% of the vote, with 98% of districts reporting Sunday. He had widely been expected to win. In a stunning development, newly arrived right-wing populist André Ventura was in a close race for second place with Socialist candidate Ana Gomes, with both p
  
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• Official results show center-right incumbent candidate has won Portugal’s presidential election by a clear margin

  24-01-2021 23:15
  
  LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Official results show center-right incumbent candidate has won Portugal’s presidential election by a clear margin.The post Official results show center-right incumbent candidate has won Portugal’s presidential election by a clear margin appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Winter storm 2021, a one-two punch. And Tucson flakes?

  24-01-2021 23:12
  
  TUCSON - Mother nature finally delivered some much needed goodies overnight Saturday and into Sunday.
  Rain, mountain snow, and hail were all observed across the region on Sunday.
  Most spots in Metro Tucson has picked up nearly a 1/4" of rain with more on the way throughout the day Sunday and into the early evening.
  Snow will still be piling up above 6000'. Over 4" of snow has fallen on Mt. Lemmon, with up to 7" possible through late Sunday night.
  We'll see a bit of a break overnight before a col
  
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• 5, including pregnant woman, fatally shot in Indianapolis

  24-01-2021 22:52
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis police say five people, including a pregnant woman, have been shot to death inside a home in the city. The fatal shootings were discovered after officers found a male juvenile with gunshot wounds about 4 a.m. on the city’s near northeast side. Sgt. Shane Foley with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department says officers then received information that led them to a nearby home where they found five adults dead inside. He says one of the five vict
  
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• After failed Trump romance, France seeks reset under Biden

  24-01-2021 22:40
  
  PARIS (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed Sunday to work closely together to fight the coronavirus pandemic and climate change. Their first conversation since Biden’s inauguration aimed at mending ties between the historic allies that frayed under Donald Trump. Biden “stressed his commitment to bolstering the transatlantic relationship” via NATO and the EU. The U.S. and French leaders see eye-to-eye on the importance of internationa
  
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• Ex-cop avoids federal lockup, faces state charges in beating

  24-01-2021 22:38
  
  MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge in Alabama has given five years of probation to a white ex-policeman who admitted trying to obstruct investigators looking into charges that he beat a Black driver who had gotten into an argument with his wife. Former Selma police officer Matthew Blaine Till pleaded guilty in September to three federal counts of obstructing justice. He and former Dallas County sheriff’s deputy John Matthew Taccone face state charges of felony second-degree assault,
  
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• VIRUS TODAY: More hospital ICUs edge nearer a breaking point

  24-01-2021 22:06
  
  U.S. hospital intensive care units in many parts of the country are straining to handle record numbers of COVID-19 patients. These hospital ICUs take care of the sickest of the sick. Some are running out of space and supplies while scrambling to pay the soaring rates of temporary traveling nurses. Hundreds of ICUs are struggling at the same time, with many clustered in the South and West. An Associated Press analysis shows that since November, the share of U.S. hospitals nearing the breaking poi
  
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• Central African Republic alleged rebel handed to intl court

  24-01-2021 21:47
  
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An alleged rebel commander from Central African Republic has been detained and turned over to the International Criminal Court by authorities in the troubled African nation, on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes in the capital, Bangui, in 2013. The court announced the surrender of Mahamat Said Abdel Kani, of the Seleka rebel group, on Sunday night. He was detained on a warrant issued by the court under seal in January, 2019. Fighting raged in Ba
  
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• New leaders named at US-funded international broadcasters

  24-01-2021 21:26
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has installed new heads of three federally funded international broadcasters after abruptly firing Donald Trump-appointees at the U.S. Agency for Global Media. Kelu Chao, acting CEO of the agency, made the announcement after dismissing the previous directors of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks late Friday. Chao also announced new corporate board directors for the broadcasters. The moves fol
  
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• Greek socialist ex-minister Valyrakis, 77, found dead at sea

  24-01-2021 21:24
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Sifis Valyrakis, a former minister and resistance fighter against Greece’s 1967-74 military dictatorship who twice made daring escapes, was found dead at sea Sunday night, the coast guard has announced. He was 77. Arrested for a series of bombings during the dictatorship, he escaped from prison twice, the second time by swimming from the island of Corfu to neighboring Albania. A dedicated follower of socialist leader Andreas Papandreou, he strongly denied allega
  
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• US judge blocks release of Tennessee man in Capitol riot

  24-01-2021 21:23
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge has blocked the release of a Tennessee man who authorities say carried flexible plastic handcuffs during the riot at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month. The judge in Washington, D.C., on Sunday set aside a lower court’s order concerning the release of Eric Munchel of Nashville pending a review. The lower court judge determined Friday that Munchel wasn’t a flight risk and didn’t pose harm to the public. Munchel is charged with viole
  
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• The Latest: Mexico, Russia leaders to discuss vaccine supply

  24-01-2021 21:18
  
  MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday about obtaining doses of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, his foreign affairs secretary said Sunday.
  Marcelo Ebrard said via Twitter the two leaders would speak Monday morning about the bilateral relationship and supplying doses of the vaccine.
  The vaccine has not been approved for use in Mexico, but the government is desperate to fill supply gaps left by shortag
  
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• Exit poll: Incumbent wins Portugal’s presidential election

  24-01-2021 21:13
  
  LISBON, Portugal (AP) — An exit poll following Portugal’s presidential election has suggested that the center-right incumbent candidate has won reelection to a second and final five-year term. The survey by the Portuguese Catholic University’s Polling Center for public broadcaster RTP indicated that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa captured between 57-62% of the vote Sunday. The poll suggested that Socialist candidate Ana Gomes came second with between 13-16%. In a stunning result, newl
  
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• Exit poll suggests the center-right incumbent candidate has won Portugal’s presidential election

  24-01-2021 21:02
  
  LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Exit poll suggests the center-right incumbent candidate has won Portugal’s presidential election.The post Exit poll suggests the center-right incumbent candidate has won Portugal’s presidential election appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Israel’s struggling Labor party chooses new leader

  24-01-2021 21:00
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Labor Party has chosen Merav Michaeli, a veteran lawmaker and former journalist, as its new leader ahead of March elections. Michaeli, 54, faces a difficult task as she tries to revive the fortunes of the iconic party. Labor guided Israel to independence in 1948 and led the country for its first three decades. But it has struggled to remain relevant over the past two decades as peacemaking with the Palestinians ground to a halt and the electorate embraced Pr
  
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• Growing number of GOP senators oppose impeachment trial

  24-01-2021 20:58
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A growing number of Republican senators say they oppose holding an impeachment trial. That’s a sign of the dimming chances that former President Donald Trump will be convicted on the charge that he incited a siege of the U.S. Capitol. House Democrats, who will walk the impeachment charge of “incitement of insurrection” to the Senate on Monday evening, are hoping that strong Republican denunciations of Trump after the Jan. 6 riot will translate into a con
  
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• Updated info expected Monday about tour bus crash in Arizona

  24-01-2021 20:30
  
  KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — Mohave County authorities expect to release updated information Monday about last week’s tour bus crash that killed one person and injured dozens of others, including five seriously. The Las Vegas-based bus rolled over Friday in northwestern Arizona while headed to a Grand Canyon viewpoint on the Hualapai Reservation. The cause of the crash wasn’t immediately determined and no information was available about the vehicle’s speed before the crash. Coun
  
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• The Latest: Trump’s virus adviser says some saw it as ‘hoax’

  24-01-2021 20:20
  
  WASHINGTON — Dr. Deborah Birx says when she was coordinator of President Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force, she had to grapple with COVID-19 deniers in the White House and that someone gave the president “parallel” streams of data that conflicted with hers.
  Defending her tenure, Birx told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday that she was at times censored by the Trump administration but denied ever withholding information.Birx said she would see Trump &l
  
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• Israel targets flights, religious scofflaws, as virus rages

  24-01-2021 20:18
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will be closing its international airport to nearly all flights as the government races to bring a raging coronavirus outbreak under control. The entry of highly contagious variants of the coronavirus, coupled with poor enforcement of safety rules in ultra-Orthodox communities, has contributed to one of the world’s highest rates of infections. It also has threatened to undercut Israel’s highly successful campaign to
  
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• Three traffic collisions on I-10 near Avra Valley and Tangerine

  24-01-2021 20:10
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Officials are on the scene of at least three different car crashes, involving a total of 10 vehicles.Northwest Fire says the collisions happened on eastbound and westbound I-10 between Avra Valley and Tangerine.There are no injuries reported at this time, but traffic is delayed in both directions.Stay with News 4 Tucson as we learn more information.
  The post Three traffic collisions on I-10 near Avra Valley and Tangerine appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Plane crash kills 4 soccer players, club president in Brazil

  24-01-2021 20:10
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Four players and the president of Brazilian soccer club Palmas have died in a plane crash in the northern state of Tocantins. The club says Sunday’s accident occurred when the plane suddenly plunged to the ground at the end of the runway while on takeoff. The players were on their way to Goiania, in the central region of the country, to play a match against Vila Nova. There were no survivors. The team was founded in 1997 and plays in Brazil’s fourth divisi
  
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• 2 inmates breach fence, escape from state prison in Florence

  24-01-2021 19:46
  
  FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities were searching Sunday for two inmates who escaped from the state prison in Florence by breaching a fence using tools retrieved from a facility room. Arizona Department of Corrections officials say John Charpiot and David Harmon escaped Saturday from the medium custody south unit. They said the two weren’t accounted for during the 8:30 p.m. inmate count after being there for the 4 p.m. count. Charpiot and Harmon broke into a tool shed by knocking dow
  
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• Grizzly, 34, confirmed as Yellowstone region’s known oldest

  24-01-2021 19:42
  
  JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Wildlife biologists say a 34-year-old grizzly bear captured in southwestern Wyoming has been confirmed as the oldest on record in the Yellowstone region. Grizzly bear 168 was captured last summer after it preyed on cattle. The Jackson Hole Hole News & Guide reports the male had just a few teeth left and weighed 170 pounds. When he was 5 years old, he weighed 450 pounds. Wildlife officials euthanized the old bear in July 2020 because of his poor health and because h
  
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• Mt. Lemmon road closed due to weather conditions

  24-01-2021 19:35
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - The road to Mt. Lemmon has been closed at the base due to weather conditions.The Pima County Sheriff's Department says the road is only open to residents and employees at this time.For road conditions and updated information, call (520) 547-7510.
  https://twitter.com/DenelleConfair/status/1353399790755749892The post Mt. Lemmon road closed due to weather conditions appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Two inmates escape from Florence prison

  24-01-2021 19:18
  
  FLORENCE (KVOA) - Two inmates at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Florence have escaped, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections.Authorities say medium custody Inmates John B. Charpiot and David T. Harmon were not accounted for during the 8:30 p.m. count on Saturday.They believe both inmates escaped between 4 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. from the medium custody south unit.Charpiot was admitted to the Florence prison in 2011 after being convicted out of Maricopa County to serve 35 years for m
  
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• Chicago teachers vote to teach from home, defying district

  24-01-2021 19:03
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago teachers have voted to defy the school district’s order to return to their classrooms for the resumption of in-person instruction despite not being vaccinated against the coronavirus. The Chicago Teachers Union vote was announced Saturday. The nation’s third-largest district wants roughly 10,000 K-8 teachers and other staffers to return to school Monday for the resumption of in-person instruction on Feb. 1. The union opposes the district’s plan out
  
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• Chicago teachers vote to defy district’s orders to return to in-person instruction before vaccinations

  24-01-2021 19:01
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago teachers vote to defy district’s orders to return to in-person instruction before vaccinations.The post Chicago teachers vote to defy district’s orders to return to in-person instruction before vaccinations appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Israel opens embassy in UAE, expanding new relations

  24-01-2021 18:54
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says it has opened its embassy in the United Arab Emirates. The move follows last year’s U.S.-brokered agreement to establish full diplomatic ties with the Gulf country. Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the embassy would be in a temporary office while a permanent location is prepared. Eitan Na’eh, a veteran Israeli diplomat, will serve as the head of mission. The UAE was the first of four Arab countries to establish or renew ties with Israel under a
  
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• Thousands take to streets protesting Brazil’s Bolsonaro

  24-01-2021 18:45
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Thousands of Brazilians have taken to the streets for a second day to call for the impeachment of President Jair Bolsonaro. He’s under fire for his government’s response to rampant cases of COVID-19, which has claimed more than 216,000 lives in the country. Horn-honking cars paraded through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and a dozen or more other cities as other protesters marched on foot, some calling, “Get out Bolsonaro!” Sunday&rsq
  
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• The Latest: Turkey’s COVID-19 death toll tops 25,000

  24-01-2021 18:41
  
  ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey on Sunday passed 25,000 Covid-19-related deaths since the start of the outbreak in March, the health ministry said.
  A daily toll of 140 fatalities saw the total figure rise to 25,073. Turkey has recorded more than 2.4 million infections since the first case was recorded on March 11 last year.
  The government reintroduced restrictions at the start of December, including weekday evening curfews and weekend lockdowns, to stem a second wave of infections.
  Restaurants and
  
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• Biden attends Mass at DC church where he worshipped as VP

  24-01-2021 18:41
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden attended Mass for the first time since taking office, worshipping Sunday at the church he frequented when he was vice president. Biden is the nation’s second Catholic president, and he picked Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood, a few miles from the White House. It’s where the nation’s only other Catholic president, John F. Kennedy, often went to Mass. White House press secretary Jen Psaki told r
  
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• Turkey passes 25,000 COVID-19-related deaths

  24-01-2021 18:38
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish health ministry says the country has seen more than 25,000 COVID-19-related deaths since the start of the outbreak in March. A toll of 140 fatalities reported Sunday saw the total figure rise to 25,073. Turkey has recorded more than 2.4 million infections since the first case was recorded on March 11. The government reintroduced restrictions at the start of December, including weekday evening curfews and weekend lockdowns, to stem another surge of infectio
  
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• 2 injured after police car drives through crowd at race

  24-01-2021 18:27
  
  TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — At least two people were injured when a police officer responding to a report of a street race plowed his car through a crowd of pedestrians that had gathered around him and were pounding on the car’s windows in downtown Tacoma on Saturday night. Police say a crowd of about 100 was gathered. A witness says the police car was driven through the crowd after people tried to block the vehicle. A video shows the patrol car surrounded by groups of shouting people befor
  
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• Burundi ruling party selects hardliner as secretary-general

  24-01-2021 18:26
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Burundi’s ruling party has selected as the former president of the country’s senate to be the new secretary-general. Reverien Ndikuriyo was picked Sunday by the ruling party, the National Council for the Defense of Democracy–Forces for the Defense of Democracy, known by its French acronym CNDD-FDD. Ndikuriyo was named to the position at the party’s convention in Gitega, Burundi’s capital. He replaces President Evariste Ndayishimiye who wa
  
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• Israel to close airport to bring outbreak under control

  24-01-2021 18:12
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will be closing its international airport to nearly all flights as the government races to bring a raging coronavirus outbreak under control. The entry of highly contagious variants of the coronavirus, coupled with poor enforcement of safety rules in ultra-Orthodox communities, has contributed to one of the world’s highest rates of infections. It also has threatened to undercut Israel’s highly successful campaign to
  
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• Movie Roundup: Movies Continue to Stream and Play Outdoors at The Loft; a Stunning, Heartbreaking Film Starring Dakota Johnson and Case Affleck Screens at Harkins and Roadhouse Cinemas

  24-01-2021 18:11
  
  The big movie event in Tucson this week would be The Loft Cinema Sundance Film Festival event featuring Open Air Cinema presentations of this year's festival qualifiers. For more details on that event, go ahead and click right here.…
  
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• Estonia to get first female PM as government deal clinched

  24-01-2021 18:04
  
  TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s two biggest political parties say they have clinched a deal to form a new government to be led by a female prime minister for the first time in the Baltic country’s history, replacing the previous Cabinet that collapsed into a corruption scandal earlier this month.  The party councils of the the opposition, center-right Reform Party and the ruling. left-leaning Center Party were expected on Sunday to vote in favor of joining a Cabinet head
  
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• The Latest: Fauci says vaccine goal would cover 67 million

  24-01-2021 17:57
  
  WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that President Joe Biden’s goal of administering 100 million vaccinations in the first 100 days actually means about 67 million Americans should be protected from COVID-19 during that time.
  Fauci, the government’s top infectious diseases expert, said the president’s goal refers to 100 million shots, not people. Current vaccines require two shots.
  Fauci maintained that goal could be difficult to meet even though the U.S. recently
  
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• 85-year-old fan’s streak of Packers playoff games will go on

  24-01-2021 17:43
  
  GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — An 85-year-old Green Bay Packers fan who has never missed a playoff game at Lambeau Field thought her streak was coming to an end this week until two charitable brothers heard her story. Fritzie Neitzel went to her first Packers game with her father in October 1945, when she was 10. As longtime season ticket holders, her family unsuccessfully tried buying seats for the NFC championship game once they went on sale. That’s when the Spirit of Wisconsin Booster Clu
  
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• Dutch police clash with anti-lockdown protesters in 2 cities

  24-01-2021 17:41
  
  URK, Netherlands (AP) — Rioters have set blazes in the center of the southern Dutch city of Eindhoven and pelted police with rocks at a banned demonstration against coronavirus lockdown measures. Officers responded with tear gas and water cannon and arrested at least 30 people. Police in the capital of Amsterdam also used a water cannon to disperse an outlawed demonstration against the lockdown on a major square ringed by museums. Video showed police spraying people grouped against a wall
  
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• The Latest: US passes 25 million confirmed cases of COVID-19

  24-01-2021 17:37
  
  NEW YORK — The United States has surpassed 25 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began. The new milestone, reported Sunday by Johns Hopkins University, is a grim reminder of the coronavirus’ wide reach in the U.S., which has seen far more confirmed cases and deaths than any other country in the world.
  The U.S. accounts for roughly one of every four cases reported worldwide and one of every five deaths. India has recorded the second most cases, with about 10.7 mill
  
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• Arizona reports 7,217 new COVID-19 cases and 68 more deaths

  24-01-2021 17:36
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Health officials in Arizona on Sunday reported 7,217 new COVID-19 cases and 68 more deaths. The latest numbers increased the state’s totals to 722,574 cases and 12,238 known deaths since the pandemic began. On Saturday, the Arizona Department of Health Services reported 7,316 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases and 169 deaths. The number of cases and hospitalizations in Arizona are declining despite the state having the nation’s worst infection rate. Still, COVID
  
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• Ex-CIA engineer tells judge he’s incarcerated like an animal

  24-01-2021 17:22
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A former CIA software engineer charged with leaking government secrets to WikiLeaks says he’s held in solitary confinement in an area of a jail where inmates are treated like “caged animals.” Joshua Schulte asked a Manhattan federal judge Tuesday to find that the conditions imposed on him for the last two years at the Metropolitan Correctional Center are unconstitutional. Schulte is held under rules often used against terrorism defendants to prevent them f
  
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• States eye allowing concealed carry of guns without a permit

  24-01-2021 17:14
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican lawmakers in several more states want to loosen gun restrictions by allowing people to carry concealed firearms without having to get a permit, continuing a trend that gun control advocates call dangerous. Fifteen states already allow concealed carry without a permit, and lawmakers in nine others have proposed allowing or expanding the practice. Most states require people to do things like get weapons training and undergo a background check to get a permit
  
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• 19 burned bodies found near Mexico-US border town

  24-01-2021 17:13
  
  CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities say they’ve found 19 shot and burned bodies near a town across the Rio Grande from Texas. It’s an area that has seen violent territorial disputes between organized crime groups in recent years. The Tamaulipas state prosecutor’s office said late Saturday that the bodies were discovered along a dirt road outside Camargo after residents reported a burning vehicle. Authorities found two vehicles on fire, one containing four b
  
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• Palestinians ask Europe to send monitors for elections

  24-01-2021 17:09
  
  Palestinian election officials have invited the European Union to send observers to monitor upcoming elections planned for the Palestinian legislature and presidency. The elections are seen as an important step toward ending a rift that has left the Palestinians divided between rival governments since the Islamic militant group Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip from the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority in 2007. Past attempts at reconciliation have repeatedly failed. But Sund
  
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• 2nd bridge proposed connecting Bullhead City with Laughlin

  24-01-2021 17:03
  
  BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Construction bids are being taken for a proposed second bridge over the Colorado River that would connect Bullhead City, Arizona and Laughlin, Nevada. The Mohave Valley Daily News reports that the invitation to bid required an agreement with the Nevada Department of Transportation to be approved by the Clark County Board of Commissioners and that occurred last Friday. Clark County Commissioner Michael Naft, who represents the town of Laughlin, said the proposed
  
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• Dutch police clash with protesters in Amsterdam, Eindhoven

  24-01-2021 16:39
  
  URK, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch police have clashed with protesters demonstrating against the country’s lockdown in the capital, Amsterdam and the southern city of Eindhoven. The unrest comes a day after rioting youths protesting on the first night of the country’s curfew torched a coronavirus testing facility in a Dutch fishing village. In Amsterdam, police used a water cannon to disperse protesters taking part in a banned demonstration Sunday on a major square ringed by museums
  
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