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• Sinclair Broadcasting ends Eric Bolling’s weekly show

  27-01-2021 23:51
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Sinclair Broadcast Group says it is ending its ‘America This Week’ show with former Fox News personality Eric Bolling. The company said in a statement that Bolling has decided to pursue other professional opportunities. The show was distributed to Sinclair’s 81 stations across the country but has attracted negative attention for comments about the coronavirus. The company had to pull one show last summer when Bolling interviewed a woman who peddled a f
  
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• Cloris Leachman, Oscar and Emmy-winning actor, dies at 94

  27-01-2021 23:51
  
  Cropped Jayel Aheram/ CC BY 2.0LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cloris Leachman, a character actor whose depth of talent brought her an Oscar for the “The Last Picture Show” and Emmys for her comedic work in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and other TV series, has died.
  She was 94.
  Millions of viewers knew her as the self-absorbed neighbor Phyllis in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”
  She also appeared as the mother of Timmy on the “Lassie” series. She played a fro
  
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• Oscar and Emmy-winning actor Cloris Leachman dies at 94

  27-01-2021 23:48
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cloris Leachman, a character actor whose depth of talent brought her an Oscar for the “The Last Picture Show” and Emmys for her comedic work in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and other TV series, has died. She was 94. Millions of viewers knew her as the self-absorbed neighbor Phyllis in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” She also appeared as the mother of Timmy on the “Lassie” series. She played a frontier prostitute in “Butch
  
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• Montana man faces $9.9M fine for racist, harassing robocalls

  27-01-2021 23:47
  
  KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man is facing a $9.9 million fine from the Federal Communications Commission after he sent racist, anti-Semitic and harassing robocalls to tens of thousands of phones across eight states. The Daily Inter Lake reported Wednesday that the 2018 calls targeted Black and Jewish politicians, a journalist, an Iowa community grieving the killing of a local college student and the murder case against an avowed white supremacist who drove into a crowd in Charlottesv
  
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• New law extends COVID-19 tax credit for employers who keep workers on payroll

  27-01-2021 23:43
  
  WASHINGTON D.C. (KVOA) — The Internal Revenue Service is urging employers to take advantage of the newly-extended employee retention credit, designed to make it easier for businesses that, despite challenges posed by COVID-19, choose to keep their employees on the payroll, the agency announced in a news release Wednesday. The Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020, enacted Dec. 27, 2020, made a number of changes to the employee retention tax credits previously made ava
  
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• New PCC virtual exhibit aims to bring awareness to social justice issues

  27-01-2021 23:29
  
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  TUCSON (KVOA) - Despite the Pima Community College’s Bernal Gallery being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, art lovers will still be able to enjoy work from local artists.
  The Rethinking Social Justice exhibit can soon be visited virtually through an online gallery, according to a press release shared by PCC Wednesday afternoon. The exhibit begins on Feb. 12 and will continue through April 12. According to organizers, this exhibit will feature the work of tw
  
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• The Latest: NCarolina governor extends stay-at-home order

  27-01-2021 23:28
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. — Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday extended a trio of executive orders allowing for curbside alcohol sales, a halt to evictions and a requirement for people to remain at home from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.North Carolina’s modified stay-at-home directive that was set to expire on Friday will now remain in place until Feb. 28, while the eviction moratorium and allowance for the sale of “to-go” or delivery of mixed beverages remains in place through March 31.
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• Queen Latifah ‘stoked’ to land post-Super Bowl slot for show

  27-01-2021 23:25
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Queen Latifah says she’s “stoked” to land the post-Super Bowl timeslot for her new CBS series “The Equalizer.” Debuting after the big game on Feb. 7, the Oscar-nominated actress plays an ex-CIA officer who uses her skills to help those who can’t defend themselves. It’s a reboot of the 1980s original series starring Edward Woodward. But Latifah is putting her own spin on it, making her character cool and skilled at work while gett
  
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• Cloris Leachman, Oscar-winning actor also known as TV’s Phyllis Lindstrom, dies at 94, publicist says

  27-01-2021 23:24
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cloris Leachman, Oscar-winning actor also known as TV’s Phyllis Lindstrom, dies at 94, publicist says.The post Cloris Leachman, Oscar-winning actor also known as TV’s Phyllis Lindstrom, dies at 94, publicist says appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Fed stresses its commitment to low rates as economy stumbles

  27-01-2021 23:17
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve pledged on Wednesday to keep its low interest rate policies in place even well after the economy has sustained a recovery from the viral pandemic. The Fed said in a Thastatement after its latest policy meeting that the improvement in the economy and job market has slowed in recent months, particularly in industries affected by the raging pandemic. Fed officials kept their benchmark short-term rate pegged near zero and said they would keep buying Treasu
  
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• Florida man guilty of laundering stolen COVID relief funds

  27-01-2021 23:15
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors say a Florida man who received more than $1.9 million in coronavirus relief funds faces up to 20 years in federal prison for laundering most of the money through a fake business and purchasing a luxury car and a pickup truck. The U.S. attorney’s office in Tampa says 48-year-old Keith William Nicoletta pleaded guilty Monday to a conspiracy to launder stolen COVID relief funds. Prosecutors say Nicoletta falsely claimed on a loan application last May that
  
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• Brazil VP says military to leave the Amazon rainforest

  27-01-2021 23:13
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Vice President Hamilton Mourão says that the ongoing military-led operation to curb illegal deforestation and fires in the Amazon rainforest will end April 30. Mourão defended on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum the success of Operation Green Brazil 2, which launched last May and saw deployment of thousands of soldiers across the Amazon, but critics of President Jair Bolsonaro’s government have said the military operation has fa
  
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• Monoclonal antibody treatments for COVID-19 are opening up more ICU beds across the state

  27-01-2021 23:04
  
  TUCSON - Tucson Medical Center has been using monoclonal antibody treatment to fight COVID-19 since early January and with its early success it has created more space in the ICU.Monoclonal antibody treatment creates a synthetic antibody that helps your body better fight the coronavirus.Mimi Coomler, the C.O.O. of Tucson Medical Center, is pleased with the results so far, "I'm really excited to say that based on the fact that we have now infused over 500 patients at TMC we are seeing very few pat
  
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• Idaho man faces $9.9M fine for racist, harassing robocalls

  27-01-2021 22:59
  
  KALISPELL, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho man is facing a $9.9 million fine from the Federal Communications Commission after he sent racist, anti-Semitic and harassing robocalls to tens of thousands of phones across eight states. The Daily Inter Lake reported Wednesday that the 2018 calls targeted Black and Jewish politicians, a journalist, an Iowa community grieving the killing of a local college student and the murder case against an avowed white supremacist who drove into a crowd in Charlottesvi
  
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• Biden pauses Trump policies as Blinken takes diplomatic helm

  27-01-2021 22:57
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has paused or put under review a wide swath of Trump-era foreign policies as America’s new top diplomat takes the helm of the State Department. The administration is placing at least temporarily holds on several big-ticket arms sales to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, new Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he is looking urgently at a terrorism designation against Yemen’s Houthi rebels that his predecessor enac
  
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• Facebook Q4 results soar in prelude to an uncertain 2021

  27-01-2021 22:55
  
  Facebook capped a tumultuous 2020 with soaring earnings in the final quarter, its user base boosted by people staying home and its revenue buoyed by a shift to digital advertising amid the pandemic. But the company predicted uncertainty for 2021 and said its revenue in the latter half of the year could face significant pressure. Because revenue grew so quickly in the second half of 2020, the social network could have trouble keeping up that pace. It’s also facing challenges in how it targe
  
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• Arizona still hot spot despite dip in virus hospitalizations

  27-01-2021 22:53
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Hospital administrators across Arizona are warning the public not to become complacent because of a noticeable decline in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
  The chief clinical officer for the Banner Health health care company estimated to be caring for about half the state's COVID-19 patients says enforcement of masks and social distancing are what will be effective.
  Despite statistics trending down, health care officials say Arizona is still recording figures higher than
  
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• Far-right influencer charged in 2016 Clinton voter scheme

  27-01-2021 22:47
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say a self-styled far-right propagandist is facing charges he used social media to try to suppress votes for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. Douglass Mackey was expected to be released on $50,000 bond following an initial court appearance Wednesday in Florida, prosecutors said. A message was left with his defense attorney. A criminal complaint in New York City says that the 31-year-old Mackey conspired in late 2016 to use Tw
  
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• The Latest: Wisconsin to vote on eliminating mask mandate

  27-01-2021 22:43
  
  MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin will become one of only 10 states without statewide mask mandates if the Assembly votes as scheduled Thursday to overturn Gov. Tony Evers’ order, but masks will still be required in some of its largest cities thanks to local ordinances.
  More than two dozen public health organizations, as well as state and local health officials, have urged the Republican-controlled Legislature to reconsider the scheduled vote. Wearing masks is one of the pillars of recommend
  
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• Virginia Senate approves measure rebuking Amanda Chase

  27-01-2021 22:36
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Senate has approved a measure rebuking one of its most far-right members for a “pattern of unacceptable conduct.” On a vote of 24-9 Wednesday, the Democrat-controlled chamber advanced a resolution censuring Amanda Chase, a senator from suburban Richmond who is seeking the GOP nomination for governor. The vote followed a long debate that featured scathing rebukes from Chase’s colleagues on both sides of the political aisle. She launched in
  
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• In fight over GameStop, smaller investors outduel big funds

  27-01-2021 22:36
  
  Across most of America, GameStop is just a place to buy a video game. On Wall Street, though, it’s become a vortex battleground where swarms of smaller investors see themselves making an epic stand against the 1%. And the funds serving the financial elite are starting to walk away in defeat, after bets they made for GameStop’s stock to fall left them facing billions of dollars in collective losses. The stunning seizure of power gives validation to smaller-pocketed investors. It also
  
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• US House data not ready until April, states’ data after July

  27-01-2021 22:35
  
  The U.S. Census Bureau is aiming to deliver the long-delayed numbers used for divvying up congressional seats by the end of April. But a holdup on redistricting data could disrupt several states’ abilities to redraw their own legislative maps ahead of upcoming elections. Census Bureau official Kathleen Styles said Wednesday that the bureau needs time to fix any data irregularities. The delay in the release of redistricting data could be problematic for states that have deadlines this year
  
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• Facebook 4Q results soar, in prelude to an uncertain 2021

  27-01-2021 22:33
  
  Facebook capped a tumultuous 2020 with soaring earnings in the final quarter, its user base boosted by people staying home and its revenue buoyed by a shift to digital advertising amid the pandemic. But the company predicted uncertainty for 2021 and said its revenue in the latter half of the year could face significant pressure. Because revenue grew so quickly in the second half, the social network could have trouble keeping up that pace. It’s also facing challenges in how it targets adver
  
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• More than half a million doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Arizona

  27-01-2021 22:26
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - More than half a million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to Arizonans as of Wednesday, according to the latest data from Arizona Department of Health Services. To date, Arizona has administered 518,125 COVID-19 vaccines to 430,673 individuals. The state-run site at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona accounts for a large share of the total. As of Jan. 11 the site began to operate seven days a week, 24 hours a day. More vaccination sites are openi
  
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• Stocks have their worst day since October as Big Tech sinks

  27-01-2021 22:10
  
  The stock market posted its biggest drop since October Wednesday, led by declines in several Big Tech companies. The S&P 500 gave up 2.6%. The benchmark index had set a record high just two days earlier. The selling was broad, though technology giants including Facebook, Netflix and Google’s parent company accounted for a big part of the pullback. The stock of beleaguered video game seller GameStop more than doubled as an army of small investors ganged up against hedge funds that made
  
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• New supercomputer in Wyoming to rank among world’s fastest

  27-01-2021 22:02
  
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A new supercomputer in Wyoming will rank among the fastest in the world. The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, announced Wednesday that Houston-based Hewlett Packard Enterprise will provide the machine. The supercomputer should rank among the 25 fastest in the world and will be used to study phenomena including climate change, severe weather, wildfires and solar flares. It will theoretically be able to perform almost 20 quadrillion calcula
  
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• FBI needs help identifying woman seen with child sexual assault victim

  27-01-2021 21:57
  
  (KVOA) - On Wednesday, the FBI asked the public to come forward with any information that may help agents identify a woman who was seen with a child sexual assault victim.According to an FBI news release, agents are working to obtain, "identifying information regarding an unknown female who may have critical information pertaining to the identity of a child victim in an ongoing sexual exploitation investigation."
  The FBI is referring to the individual as "Jane Doe 43". She is described as a whit
  
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• The Latest: PM: Vaccine export controls won’t impact Canada

  27-01-2021 21:55
  
  TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the President of the European Commission has reassured him any vaccine export controls the EU enacts won’t impact shipments of Canada’s doses from Europe.Trudeau says he spoke to EU President Ursula von der Leyen who he says told him transparency measures taken by the EU will not affect Canada’s Pfizer and Moderna vaccine deliveries from Europe.The EU has threatened to impose export controls on vaccines produced within
  
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• In a war over GameStop, big funds yield to smaller investors

  27-01-2021 21:54
  
  Across most of America, GameStop is just a place to buy a video game. On Wall Street, though, it’s become a vortex battleground where swarms of smaller investors see themselves making an epic stand against the 1%. And the funds serving the financial elite are starting to walk away in defeat, after bets they made for GameStop’s stock to fall left them facing billions of dollars in collective losses. The stunning seizure of power gives validation to smaller-pocketed investors. It also
  
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• Big technology companies lead US stock indexes sharply lower

  27-01-2021 21:54
  
  The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down more than 600 points in afternoon trading Wednesday as a broad sell-off on Wall Street puts the market on track for its worst day since late October. The S&P 500 was down 2.8% as of 3:47 p.m. Eastern time, its biggest decline since it lost 3.5% on October 28. The selling was broad, though Big Tech companies such as Facebook, Netflix and Google’s parent company led the pullback. The Federal Reserve stressed its commitment to low rates for the lon
  
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• Banner Leader Warns Arizona is On Track to Surpass 18,500 COVID-19 Deaths by May

  27-01-2021 21:52
  
  Although last week, Banner hospitals’ top official announced a decrease in COVID-19 cases and the resumption of some elective surgeries, Arizona’s largest hospital system is still caring for a record number of coronavirus patients. …
  
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• S. Carolina Senate OKs initial vote to ban most abortions

  27-01-2021 21:50
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Senate has given initial approval to a bill preventing abortions on fetuses when a heartbeat can be detected. Just one Republican joined Democrats in a 29-17 vote Wednesday. The proposal likely faces a final vote in the Senate on Thursday before being sent to the House. Democrats promised a tough fight both through filibuster and any legislative machinations, but their chances appear dim. Fetal heartbeats are usually around the sixth week of pregnan
  
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• New Mexico senators, advocates back Biden oil and gas plans

  27-01-2021 21:50
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Local officials and residents in New Mexico’s oil patches are anxious as the Biden administration takes aim at the oil and natural gas industry with a series of new executive orders. But the state’s two U.S. senators support the actions, saying it’s time to rethink the nation’s energy policies and move toward what Democrat Martin Heinrich described as a zero-pollution economy. Freshman Republican U.S. Rep. Yvette Herrell says the president&r
  
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• Democrat floats Trump censure as conviction grows unlikely

  27-01-2021 21:49
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine says he’s discussing with colleagues whether a censure resolution to condemn former President Donald Trump for his role in the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol could be an alternative to impeachment, even as the Senate proceeds with a trial. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has said the impeachment trial will move forward. But talk of finding a punishment that more senators could rally around flared a day after just five Rep
  
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• Record 4.2 tons of cocaine seized near French Caribbean

  27-01-2021 21:47
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Officials with the French army stationed in the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe say they seized a record 4.2 tons of cocaine in nearby waters. The Armed Forces of the Antilles said Wednesday that  it found the 177 bricks of cocaine aboard a fishing vessel in the Atlantic Ocean on Jan. 17. Eight people aboard the vessel were arrested. Authorities say the seizure was a result of close cooperation with several countries that it did not identify
  
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• DOJ: Arizona man sentenced to federal prison for assault with a dangerous weapon in Indian Country

  27-01-2021 21:42
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KVOA)–On Tuesday,the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a man from Arizona was sentenced to federal prison for assault with a dangerous weapon in Indian Country.According to a DOJ news release, the man was 25-year-old Travis Clitso from Pinon. He was an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation.In October, Clitso pled guilty and he was sentenced in federal court on Friday.According to the DOJ, he admitted to hitchhiking near Cortez, Colorado in February 2019 when
  
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• Cybercops derail malware botnet, FBI makes ransomware arrest

  27-01-2021 21:38
  
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — European and North American cyber cops have joined forces to disrupt what may be the world’s largest network for seeding malware infections, striking a major blow against criminal gangs that have been using it for years to install ransomware in extortion schemes, steal data and engage in financial theft. Authorities in the Netherlands, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Lithuania, Canada and Ukraine took part in the international ope
  
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• Pennsylvania teacher fights suspension over DC protest

  27-01-2021 21:34
  
  A Pennsylvania public school teacher who attended Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington says he is fighting to restore his reputation and get back into the classroom. Jason Moorehead says his district falsely accused him of being at the U.S. Capitol during the deadly siege. Moorehead says he was never any closer than a mile and a quarter to the Capitol that day and did nothing wrong. The Allentown School District says Moorehead’s social media posts ab
  
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• Renewed US-Russia nuke pact won’t fix emerging arms threats

  27-01-2021 21:28
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration was quick to breathe new life into the last remaining treaty limiting U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons. The going will be slower when it turns to other arms control problems that are either festering or emerging as potential new triggers of an international arms race. China is modernizing its arsenal of nuclear weapons and has shown no interest in negotiating limits. North Korea is at or near the point of being able to threaten the U.S. homeland w
  
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• Former teacher extradited from Israel lands in Australia

  27-01-2021 21:22
  
  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A former Israeli teacher has arrived in the Australian city of Melbourne where she faces charges of child sex abuse. Israeli authorities on Monday extradited Malka Leifer after a six-year legal battle that had strained relations between the two governments and antagonized Australia’s Jewish community. The 54-year-old Leifer faces 74 charges of child sex abuse in Australia. She maintains her innocence. Media reported that she flew through airports in Frankf
  
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• UniCredit designates investment banker Orcel as new CEO

  27-01-2021 21:20
  
  MILAN (AP) — Italian bank UniCredit says Andrea Orcel, one of Europe’s leading investment bankers, will replace outgoing CEO Jean Pierre Mustier, who offered his resignation this fall over strategic differences with the board. Orcel, a 57-year-old Italian, faces a shareholder vote before being confirmed in the role running Italy’s largest bank. Orcel spent 20 years at Merrill Lynch, where he helped manage some of the biggest bank mergers n Europe, including the merger of Credit
  
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• The Latest: Biden WH: Recommit to virus safety to save lives

  27-01-2021 21:16
  
  WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is projecting as many as 90,000 Americans will die from the coronavirus in the next four weeks.That warning came Wednesday as the administration held its first televised science briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic. In the briefing, experts outlined efforts to improve the delivery and injection of vaccines.The administration is examining additional ways of speeding vaccine production, a day after President Joe Biden announced the U.S. plans to have delive
  
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• Judge: Corps must decide next move on Dakota Access pipeline

  27-01-2021 21:16
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must outline its plans after an appeals court confirmed that the Dakota Access pipeline is operating without a key permit. Pipeline opponents want it shut down immediately. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has set a status hearing for Feb. 10 to discuss the impact of Tuesday’s opinion by the D.C. Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals that upheld Boasberg’s ruling ordering the Corps to conduct a full en
  
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• Pascua Yaqui win water funds, first of $150 million for Arizona projects

  27-01-2021 21:15
  
  WASHINGTON – Pascua Yaqui Council members called it “a blessing.”…
  
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• Biden: ‘We can’t wait any longer’ to address climate crisis

  27-01-2021 21:14
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says “we can’t wait any longer″ to address the climate crisis, and that’s driving his ambitious effort to stave off the worst effects of global warming.
  He’s issued executive orders to cut oil, gas and coal emissions and double energy production from offshore wind turbines.
  They target federal subsidies for oil and other fossil fuels and halt new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters.
  The orders also aim to conser
  
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• Biden, Japan PM discuss China action near Senkaku Islands

  27-01-2021 21:14
  
  President Joe Biden has assured Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga of his administration’s commitment to protecting the Senkaku Islands, a group of uninhabited islets administered by Tokyo but claimed by Beijing. Biden has previously expressed commitment to the 1960 Japan-U.S. security treaty that covers the islands. But they are the cause of growing anxiety in Japan after China last week passed legislation authorizing coast guard ships to use weapons against foreign ships deemed
  
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• Crews respond to structure fire on Tucson’s south side

  27-01-2021 21:02
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Crews are responding to a structure fire Wednesday afternoon on Tucson's south side.Tucson Fire Department units were dispatched to the 300 block of E. Benson Highway.Motorists are asked to avoid the area.The post Crews respond to structure fire on Tucson’s south side appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Bernie Sanders’ mittens, memes help raise $1.8M for charity

  27-01-2021 20:58
  
  About those wooly mittens that Sen. Bernie Sanders wore to the presidential inauguration that sparked quirky memes across social media?Sanders says they’ve helped to raise $1.8 million in the last five days for charitable organizations in his home state of Vermont through the sale of T-shirts, sweatshirts and stickers with the iconic image of him sitting with his arms and legs crossed in his brown parka and recycled wool mittens. The independent senator says multiple groups will benefit fr
  
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• SCAM ALERT: Text message claiming to be ADOT is not real

  27-01-2021 20:49
  
  PHOENIX (KVOA) - The state's Department of Transportation is warning Arizonans about a scam.
  Reportedly, Arizonans are receiving texts says that they need to update their driver license.
  The Arizona Department of Transportation says it's a scam.
  The texts, which claim to be from ADOT, are an attempt to get people to hand over their personal identifying information. ADOT customers should conduct their personal business only on AZMDVNow.gov or ServiceArizona.com.The post SCAM ALERT: Text mess
  
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• Yemeni security official found dead, day after abduction

  27-01-2021 20:42
  
  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni officials say a senior security official was found dead in the southern port city of Aden, just a day after his abduction. The officials say Brig. Ibrahim Harad was abducted late on Tuesday in front of his house in an Aden district. His body was found in the same district on Wednesday with multiple bullet wounds. No group has so far claimed responsibility for Harad’s abduction and death. Yemen has been convulsed by civil war since 2014, with Iran-backed Hou
  
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