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• Police: Officer fatally shoots man who entered woman’s home

  06-02-2021 23:43
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police say an armed man who allegedly entered a woman’s home while she was on the phone with 911 was shot and killed by an officer on Saturday. Sgt. Ann Justus said the officer confronted the man in the backyard when the man left the home, ignored a command to drop his gun and instead raised it. Justus said the resident called 911 to report seeing a man in her backyard with a gun and that the man entered the home while she was on the phone. No identities were r
  
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• Florida: Slain FBI agent remembered for protecting children

  06-02-2021 23:24
  
  MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — A slain FBI agent in Florida is being remembered for her strength, infectious laugh, love of family and commitment to protecting children. A memorial service was held Saturday for Agent Laura Schwartzenberger at the Miami Dolphins’ football stadium. Schwartzenberger and fellow agent Daniel Alfin were gunned down Tuesday while serving a search warrant at the home of a child pornography suspect. The suspect killed himself before he could be arrested. FBI Dire
  
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• Israeli protesters call on PM Netanyahu to step down

  06-02-2021 23:14
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of protesters have gathered outside the official residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to demand his resignation. The protesters have been gathering each week in central Jerusalem for over seven months, saying Netanyahu should step down because of his corruption trial and what they say is mismanagement of the country’s coronavirus crisis. The country on Sunday is to begin easing its third lockdown. But most restrictions will remain in place, with co
  
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• Report: Trump campaign listed payment to legislator’s firm

  06-02-2021 23:06
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A newspaper reports that former President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign says it paid over $6,000 to a business belonging to an Arizona lawmaker who sought to have the Legislature overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state. The Arizona Republic reported that the campaign’s financial disclosures include a December payment of $6,037 to a corporation belonging to Republican Rep. Mark Finchem for an expense labeled “recount: legal consulting.” Finche
  
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• Wyoming GOP censures Rep. Liz Cheney over impeachment vote

  06-02-2021 22:55
  
  RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Republican Party has voted overwhelmingly to censure U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney for voting to impeach President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Only eight of the 74-member state GOP’s central committee stood to oppose censure in a vote that didn’t proceed to a formal count. The censure document accused Cheney of voting to impeach even though the U.S. House didn’t offer Trump “formal hearing or due process.
  
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• Sunny skies and mild temperatures will last all week

  06-02-2021 22:50
  
  TUCSON - The last few days saw high temperatures ranging from the mid 60's to the low 80's. Now we will see these temperatures stabilize in the mid 70's for the upcoming week.Sunny skies have been the norm so far in February and that trend will also hold true.
  No significant cold fronts will move into Southern Arizona at any point over the next 6-8 days meaning dry air and high pressure will also hold steady.Those of you looking for a rain and snow chance will need to wait a bit longer, but
  
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• California to revise indoor church guidelines after ruling

  06-02-2021 22:44
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office says it will issue revised guidelines for indoor church services after the Supreme Court lifted the state’s ban on indoor worship during the coronavirus pandemic. In the most significant legal victory against California’s COVID-19 health orders, the high court told California it can’t continue with a ban on indoor services during the coronavirus pandemic, but it can limit attendance to 25% of a building&rsqu
  
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• Moore leads S. Utah over D-III Benedictine Mesa 110-58

  06-02-2021 22:30
  
  CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) — Marquis Moore had 18 points and Southern Utah won its 10th straight home game, easily defeating Division III-member Benedictine Mesa 110-58. Dee Barnes and Aanen Moody added 15 points each for the Thunderbirds. Austin Denham led the Redhawks with 13 points.The post Moore leads S. Utah over D-III Benedictine Mesa 110-58 appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Pioneering Bulgarian alpinist dies during K2 expedition

  06-02-2021 22:27
  
  SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A Bulgarian mountain climber has been found dead during his attempt to reach the peak of the world’s second-tallest mountain, K2. Bulgaria’s Foreign ministry said in a statement that a Pakistani army helicopter crew confirmed the death of 42-year-old Atanas Skatov on Friday. Bulgarian national radio cited the Nepalese organizer of the expedition as saying that Skatov is believed to have fallen while changing ropes during a descent to base camp. Skatov in
  
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• 1 dead, several injured in shooting at Chicago-area hotel

  06-02-2021 22:18
  
  BLOOMINGDALE, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a shooting during a large gathering at a suburban Chicago hotel left one man dead and several other people wounded. Police in Bloomingdale said officers who responded about 2:35 a.m. Saturday to a report of shots fired on the fifth floor of the Indian Lakes Hotel saw several people fleeing. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the medical examiner’s office identified the person killed as 27-year-old James McGill Jr., of Chicago. Bloomingdale Pu
  
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• Suspect in 2016 Las Vegas killing arrested at Mexican border

  06-02-2021 22:00
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal authorities in Arizona have arrested a man near the U.S.-Mexico border who is suspected in a 2016 homicide case in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas police department said on Friday that 27-year-old Victor Delgado Jr. was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection near a border crossing in Nogales, Arizona. Delgado is awaiting extradition to Las Vegas, where he faces multiple charges including murder. Police say two men allegedly began fighting at a gas station in Las V
  
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• Bulgarian alpinist dies in Himalayas expedition

  06-02-2021 21:51
  
  SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A Bulgarian mountain climber has been found dead during his attempt to reach the peak of the world’s second-tallest mountain, K2, in the Himalayas. Bulgaria’s Foreign ministry said in a statement that a Pakistani army helicopter crew confirmed the death of 42-year-old Atanas Skatov on Friday. Bulgarian national radio cited the Nepalese organizer of the expedition as saying that Skatov is believed to have fallen while changing ropes during a descent to bas
  
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• Things to Know: Virus experts hope Super Bowl won’t sack US

  06-02-2021 21:39
  
  Health officials are on edge as the coronavirus clashes with a Sunday sports event that typically brings millions of people together: the NFL Super Bowl. They fear that the game could seed new COVID-19 cases if fans attend parties to watch Tampa Bay play Kansas City. The new coronavirus strain that spread quickly in the United Kingdom was confirmed in Kansas after turning up in several other states. States, meanwhile, are in a race to vaccinate. The game will be played in front of about 22,000 m
  
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• The Latest: Rio’s Carnival site hosts drive-thru vaccines

  06-02-2021 21:38
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Normally, Rio de Janeiro’s Sambadrome would be preparing for its greatest time of the year: The world’s most famous Carnival parade.But a week before the start, the coronavirus pandemic has replaced the pageantry. The celebration is on hold until next year as Rio struggles with a rise in coronavirus cases. The city on Saturday opened a drive-thru immunization station at the Sambadrome, where a line of cars queued up on a broad avenue built for floats.“Thi
  
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• Chicago cop accused of attempted murder in off-duty shooting

  06-02-2021 21:30
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police officer faces attempted murder and other charges in an off-duty shooting in which he allegedly confronted a couple while intoxicated. Thirty-eight-year-old Joseph Cabrera is accused of shooting at a 22-year-old man, who was not injured. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that court records show that he’s also accused of lying about what happened by claiming that “he had been attacked and knocked to the ground” before he opened fire. Prosecutors
  
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• Thousands protest wave of violence in Israel’s Arab sector

  06-02-2021 21:21
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Arab citizens of Israel have protested a rising crime wave and what is seen as poor police protection in Israel’s Arab community. The demonstration on Saturday in northern Israel’s Arab town of Tamra took place in the wake of the death of a 22-year-old nursing student who was killed in a shootout between police and criminals after he walked out of his home. Protesters held white flags stained with blood and raised banners calling for ending the wid
  
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• El Salvador kept paying DC lobbyist after claim he was fired

  06-02-2021 21:04
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Washington lobbyist Robert Stryk continued working for El Salvador’s government even after the country’s president claimed he had annulled a $450,000 contract that triggered a wave of criticism in the poor Central American country. Newly filed foreign lobbying records disclosed Saturday show that Stryk’s Sonoran Policy Group continued making calls to congressional offices and collected $214,000 in payments from El Salvador’s state intelligence agency ev
  
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• Tunisians defy police to mark killings of left-wing leaders

  06-02-2021 20:57
  
  TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Thousands of Tunisians pushed through a heavy security cordon and marched down the main avenue in their country’s capital to mark the eighth anniversary of the killing of a left-wing political leader. The Feb. 6, 2013 killing of Chokri Belaid outside his home and the slaying six months later of another left-wing leader plunged Tunisia into chaos. No one has been convicted in either case. Participants in the anniversary event in Tunis on Saturday chanted “N
  
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• With Carnival scrapped, Rio’s Sambadrome hosts vaccinations

  06-02-2021 20:31
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — In a normal year, Rio de Janeiro’s Sambadrome would preparing for its great moment of the year: the world’s most famous Carnival parade. But a week before what should be the start of Carnival, the pandemic has replaced pageantry. The great celebration has been put on hold until next year as Rio struggles to quash a rise in COVID-19 cases. The city on Saturday opened a drive-thru immunization station at the Sambadrome, where a line of cars queued up on a br
  
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• A look inside how CBS planned Super Sunday coverage

  06-02-2021 20:17
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — CBS and NBC trading Super Bowls is one of the rare times it might end up benefitting both networks. While NBC gets an Olympic/Super Bowl doubleheader next year,  CBS gets one of the best quarterback matchups in the game’s 55-year history on Sunday with Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers facing Patrick Mahomes’ Kansas City Chiefs. The matchup also is the lynchpin to a day of programming that has been planned for over a year _ and in the midst of the c
  
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• Sahuarita Police Department searching for missing man

  06-02-2021 19:56
  SAHUARITA (KVOA) - The Sahuarita Police Department have confirmed that they are searching for 78-year-old Manuel Campos who was last seen Friday leaving his residence by foot in the 200 block of E. Corte Rancho Dorado.Campos is a hispanic male, 5'4 and around 135lbs and was last seen wearing a white and brown sweater with black pants and brown shoes.If you see anyone matching this description you are asked to call your local police department.
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• Flooding hits some French towns as water recedes elsewhere

  06-02-2021 19:41
  
  PARIS (AP) — Floodwaters that devastated vineyards and orchards are receding in southwest France but rising elsewhere, including in a French town where people were evacuated from flooded homes. In the Paris region, the Seine River overflowed its embankments for a fifth day. North of  Bordeaux, the Charente River flooded dozens of streets and homes in the western town of Saintes, and was expected to keep rising. Mayor Bruno Drapron called on authorities Saturday to declare a natural di
  
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• The Latest: CDC: Keep Super Bowl gatherings within household

  06-02-2021 19:26
  
  WASHINGTON — The nation’s top health officials are sounding the alarm about Super Bowl gatherings as a potential coronavirus superspreader event.They’re urging people to gather with friends over Zoom, not in crowds or at bars and parties. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs will play Sunday in a partly filled stadium in Tampa, Florida. The city has acquired 150,000 donated masks that officials will be handing out.
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• Biden gives Calif. woman pep talk in weekly address revival

  06-02-2021 18:54
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden has given a pep talk to a California woman who was laid off because of the coronavirus pandemic. Michele from Roseville, California, wrote a letter to Biden after she lost her job at a startup clothing company. He read it, then called her. Biden is reviving the long tradition of presidents speaking to the American people weekly, a tradition that lapsed under Donald Trump. The White House on Saturday released a short video clip of Biden’s lo
  
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• Police: Man shot, killed after ‘prank’ robbery for video

  06-02-2021 18:48
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Tennessee are investigating after a man was shot and killed Friday night during a robbery “prank” for a YouTube video. According to the Metro Nashville Police Department, officers responded to the parking lot of an Urban Air indoor trampoline park at 9:25 p.m., where 23-year-old David Starnes Jr. admitted shooting 20-year-old Timothy Wilks. Witnesses told detectives that Wilks and a friend were participating in a “prank” robbery whe
  
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• Former Indiana first lady Susan Bayh dies at 61 from cancer

  06-02-2021 18:33
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The family of former Indiana first lady Susan Bayh says she has died at age 61 after years of surgeries and treatments for brain cancer. A family spokesman said Saturday that Bayh died Friday night in McLean Virginia. Bayh was Indiana’s first lady for eight years after her husband, Democrat Evan Bayh, won election to the first of two terms as governor in 1988. Susan Bayh first underwent brain surgery in 2015 to remove a benign tumor. But she later had multiple sur
  
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• Police shooting sets off fiery protests in southern Chile

  06-02-2021 18:32
  
  SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The shooting of a street juggler has set off protests over alleged police violence in southern Chile, where several buildings were set ablaze and an officer held in custody for investigations. Local news media showed about 10 buildings set ablaze following Friday’s shooting. Police say 27-year-old Francisco Martínez Romero resisted officers at a routine identity check. A video circulated on social media showed an officer shooting toward the feet of the m
  
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• Officials plead: Don’t let Super Bowl become superspreader

  06-02-2021 18:29
  
  The nation’s top health officials are sounding the alarm about the Super Bowl being a potential superspreader event. They urge people to gather with friends over Zoom, not in crowds or at bars and parties. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs will play Sunday in a partially filled stadium. The game is happening as the nation sees a dramatic drop in new virus cases — a sign that the infection spike from holiday gatherings is easing. Health officials fear the game could seed
  
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• Egypt releases Al-Jazeera journalist detained since 2016

  06-02-2021 18:29
  
  CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian lawyer says authorities have freed an Al-Jazeera journalist after more than four years in detention. Mahmoud Hussein walked free from a police station Saturday afternoon, a few days after a court ordered his conditional release pending investigations into the charges. Hussein, an Egyptian working for the Qatar-based satellite network, was detained at the Cairo airport in December 2016, when he arrived on a family vacation from Doha. His release came a month after E
  
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• The Latest: Calls for more rapid tests in US to fight virus

  06-02-2021 18:27
  
  WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden vows to get younger students back to the classroom by spring, and some health experts look forward to the U.S. refocusing coronavirus tests to rapid home screenings.Biden is using the Defense Production Act to scale up supplies needed for rapid tests. On Friday, the White House announced six manufacturers will mass produce the tests, with the goal of providing 60 million by the end of the summer.
  Some experts say rapid home tests are cheaper, faster and may
  
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• Lawyer says Egyptian authorities release Al-Jazeera journalist, Mahmoud Hussein, detained since 2016

  06-02-2021 18:22
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Lawyer says Egyptian authorities release Al-Jazeera journalist, Mahmoud Hussein, detained since 2016.The post Lawyer says Egyptian authorities release Al-Jazeera journalist, Mahmoud Hussein, detained since 2016 appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Hifter’s forces welcome appointment of interim Libyan gov’t

  06-02-2021 18:08
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Eastern Libyan forces have welcomed the appointment of an interim government to lead the war-torn North African country through to national elections later this year. The self-styled Libyan Arab Armed Forces said Saturday in a statement that it congratulated the “national figures” chosen through the U.N.-brokered process. The eastern-based forces are led by Khalifa Hifter, a powerful commander in Libya’s years-long war. The country has been divided since 2015
  
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• Calendar timing means virus deaths won’t be seen in census

  06-02-2021 18:05
  
  The human loss from the pandemic will not be reflected in the U.S. population count used for divvying up congressional seats among the states. That could save a congressional seat for New York but cost Alabama one. The pandemic’s start and the April 1 reference date used for the nation’s head count were just weeks apart. Because of that, the loss of life from the virus won’t show up in the 2020 census numbers. New York is slotted to get the last of 435 congressional seats, base
  
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• Nabisco plant to close, leaving as many as 600 jobless

  06-02-2021 17:55
  
  FAIR LAWN, N.J. (AP) — Officials say a Nabisco plant in New Jersey will close for good by summer’s end after 63 years of operation, leaving as many as 600 people without jobs. The plant in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, produces baked goods under the Nabisco brand, including famous treats such as Oreo, Lorna Doone and Teddy Grahams, filling a portion of Route 208 with the smell of fresh-baked cookies. Mondelez International, the North American division of Nabisco’s parent company, had
  
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• Endangered wolves sent from Arizona to Texas to aid species

  06-02-2021 17:28
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Two endangered Mexican gray wolves and three of their pups have moved from the Phoenix Zoo to the El Paso Zoo in a bid to bolster the number of predators. The Arizona Republic reports that three other pups stayed in Phoenix and are now adjusting to an emptier den and establishing a new hierarchy. Phoenix Zoo officials say that while it doesn’t have a breeding pair anymore, it plans to change the enclosure to make it appealing to a breeding female wolf. The other wolves
  
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• PJ Morton 1st artist in residence at Dillard University

  06-02-2021 17:23
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Grammy-winning musician PJ Morton is the first artist in residence at a historically Black private university in New Orleans. Dillard University announced Monday that Morton will teach master classes in songwriting, music publishing, studio production and talent management during the 2021-22 academic year. A news release says students can also get internships with Morton’s team in merchandising, studio production, management and videography. And a student contest w
  
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• 1 dead, several injured in hotel shooting in Chicago suburb

  06-02-2021 17:22
  
  BLOOMINGDALE, Ill. (AP) — Police say one person was killed and several others were injured in a shooting at a hotel in the Chicago suburb of Bloomingdale. Police said officers who responded about 2:35 a.m. Saturday to a report of shots fired on the fifth floor of the Indian Lakes Hotel saw several people fleeing the hotel. Bloomingdale Public Safety Director Frank Giammarese tells WLS-TV that those who were shot were taken to hospitals. A man in his 20s was later pronounced dead. He says t
  
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• Arizona death toll tops 14K; caution urged for Super Bowl

  06-02-2021 17:18
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s death toll from the pandemic passed 14,000 on Saturday as health officials urged football fans to forego Super Bowl gatherings outside members of their own households. The Department of Health Services reported 63 additional deaths, increasing the state’s total to 14,011 deaths. It also reported 3,471 additional known COVID-19 cases Saturday. Arizona recently has seen its rates of additional cases, hospitalizations and deaths decrease since the holiday
  
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• Music to my fears: Man swallows earbud while sleeping

  06-02-2021 17:12
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A man is warning people against using headphones while falling asleep after a doctor had to remove a wireless earbud from his esophagus. Brad Gauthier went to bed Monday listening to music and woke up Tuesday to find one of the headphones missing. He realized something was blocking his esophagus when he tried to drink water but it wouldn’t go down. An X-ray at an urgent care clinic revealed the lost earbud, which was removed during an emergency endoscopy. Gauthier, who
  
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• Nabisco plant in to close, leaving as many as 600 jobless

  06-02-2021 16:56
  
  FAIR LAWN, N.J. (AP) — Officials say a Nabisco plant in New Jersey will close for good by summer’s end after 63 years of operation, leaving as many as 600 people without jobs. The plant in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, produces baked goods under the Nabisco brand, including staples such as Oreo, Lorna Doone and Teddy Grahams, filling a portion of Route 208 with the smell of fresh-baked cookies. Mondelez International, the North American division of Nabisco’s parent company, had said i
  
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• Teen charged in fatal mall shooting extradited to Wisconsin

  06-02-2021 16:54
  
  GRAND CHUTE, Wis. (AP) — A teenager charged in a fatal shooting at a shopping mall in eastern Wisconsin has been extradited from Iowa, where he was arrested days after the slaying. Law enforcement officers traveled to Iowa on Friday to pick up 17-year-old Dezman Ellis. He was arrested in Des Moines on Thursday. Online records show Ellis was booked into the Outagamie County Jail in Appleton, Wisconsin, shortly before midnight. Ellis waived his right to an extradition hearing in Iowa. Ellis
  
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• Calendar quirk means virus deaths won’t be seen in census

  06-02-2021 16:49
  
  The human loss from the pandemic will not be reflected in the U.S. population count used for divvying up congressional seats among the states. That could save a congressional seat for New York but cost Alabama one. The pandemic’s start and the April 1 reference date used for the nation’s head count were just weeks apart. Because of that, the loss of life from the virus won’t show up in the 2020 census numbers. New York is slotted to get the last of 435 congressional seats, base
  
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• Arizona reports 3,471 new COVID-19 cases; 63 new deaths

  06-02-2021 16:47
  
  PHOENIX (KVOA) - Arizona is reporting more than 3,471 new COVID-19 cases and 63 additional deaths.The state Department of Health Services released its latest figures on additional confirmed cases and hospitalizations Saturday.The total number of cases in Arizona since the pandemic started now stands at 779,093 and the death toll at 14,011.Meanwhile, the number of people hospitalized due to the virus is on a steady decline.
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• Inmates at St. Louis jail set fires, break out windows

  06-02-2021 16:34
  
  Officials say inmates at a St. Louis jail have set fires, broken out windows and thrown things from fourth-floor windows in the latest disturbance over conditions amid the coronavirus pandemic. A spokesman for Mayor Lyda Krewson says dozens of law enforcement officers are working to bring the situation under control Saturday morning at the St. Louis City Justice Center. He said about 115 inmates are involved and described the group as “extremely violent and noncompliant” in an interv
  
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• Calls grow for US to rely on rapid tests to fight pandemic

  06-02-2021 16:29
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — With President Joe Biden vowing to get younger students back to the classroom by spring, some experts want the U.S. to refocus its COVID-19 testing system less on medical precision than on mass screening that they believe could save hundreds of thousands of lives. As vaccinations slowly ramp up, they say turning to millions more rapid tests that are cheaper and faster but technically less accurate than the predominant genetic tests may improve the chances of identifying s
  
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• Somalia’s talks on troubled election fail 2 days before vote

  06-02-2021 16:27
  
  MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A meeting on Somalia’s troubled election has ended in failure as the federal government and regional states could not reach agreement on remaining issues two days before the scheduled vote, and President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has blamed unnamed “foreign interventions.” Lawmakers in parliament booed the president, pounding their desktops, as he addressed them after days of discussions fizzled. He accused Puntland and Jubbaland states of refusi
  
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• German firm to remove dangerous material from Beirut port

  06-02-2021 16:23
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Germany’s ambassador to Lebanon says a German company is ready to remove and ship abroad dozens of containers of hazardous material stored at Beirut’s port. The German ambassador tweeted Saturday that the treatment at Beirut’s port for 52 “containers of hazardous and dangerous chemical material” has been completed. He added that the material is ready to be shipped to Germany. The decision to remove the material stored at Beirut’s port came
  
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• Italy’s Draghi wins support of 2 rival parties for new govt

  06-02-2021 16:01
  
  MILAN (AP) — Italian Premier-designate Mario Draghi ‘has secured preliminary support from two key parties for forming a new government that will decide how to spend more than 200 billion euros ($240 billion) in European Union pandemic-recovery funds. The populist 5-Star Movement and the right-wing League both signaled support for a Draghi-led government on Saturday. The leaders of the two parties said they are ready to put aside bitter rivalries for the good of the country. Their dec
  
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• The Latest: AP: Federal executions likely superspreader

  06-02-2021 15:57
  
  WASHINGTON — The executions at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency likely acted as a superspreader event.That’s according to records reviewed by The Associated Press. It was something health experts had warned could happen when the Justice Department insisted on resuming executions during a pandemic.Of the 47 people on death row, 33 tested positive for the coronavirus between Dec. 16-20. Guards were ill. Traveling prisons staff on the execution team caught the virus. So did me
  
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• Chinese whistleblower doctor honored on death anniversary

  06-02-2021 15:48
  
  WUHAN, China (AP) — The message was tucked into a bouquet of chrysanthemums left by a mourner at the back of Wuhan Central Hospital to honor a Chinese whistleblower doctor who died from the coronavirus a year ago. It was simply the number of a Bible verse: Matthew 5:10. “Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven,” the verse reads. A year ago, Dr. Li Wenliang died from the virus first detected in this Chinese city. A small
  
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