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• Biden backs off on TikTok ban in review of Trump China moves

  10-02-2021 23:58
  
  The Biden administration is backing off former President Donald Trump’s attempts to ban the popular video app TikTok, asking a judge to postpone a legal dispute over the proposed ban as the government begins a broader review of the national security threats posed by Chinese technology companies. A court filing Wednesday said the U.S. Commerce Department is reviewing whether Trump’s claims about TikTok’s threat to national security justified the attempts to ban it from smartphon
  
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• Chilling Trump trial video: Police beg help, senators flee

  10-02-2021 23:57
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial have unveiled chilling new security video for Senate jurors and the nation. The video and police audio show the mob of rioters breaking into the Capitol, smashing windows and doors and searching menacingly for Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Overwhelmed police begged on their radios for help. The House prosecutors argued that Trump was no “innocent bystander” but the “incite
  
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• Arizona administers millionth dose of COVID-19 vaccine as death toll rises to 14,462

  10-02-2021 23:57
  
  PHOENIX, Ariz. (KVOA) - Arizona reached has administered one million COVID-19 vaccine doses on Wednesday amid recent reports that claimed the new coronavirus was the No. 1 cause of death in the state.Wednesday morning, Arizona Department of Health Services shared that the state's COVID-19-related death total rose to 14,462 after reporting 176 new related deaths that day.Despite Arizona passing the 14,000 mark this week, the state has seen an overall drop in the rate of related-deaths this month.
  
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• The Latest: French Quarter bar shutdown gets temp jobs plan

  10-02-2021 23:35
  
  NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans officials say hospitality industry workers who will lose income because of an upcoming bar shutdown and other coronavirus restrictions in the French Quarter can apply for five days of part-time work with the city.
  Bars are being shut down throughout the city Friday, the beginning of what is usually a raucous Mardi Gras weekend. There also will be limits on car and pedestrian traffic in the French Quarter, where bars usually cater to shoulder-to-shoulder crowds.
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• The Latest: Police begged for help as mob stormed Capitol

  10-02-2021 23:34
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on former President Donald Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial (all times local):
  5:30 p.m.
  Democrats at former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial are playing audio recordings of police officers begging for more help against rioters storming the Capitol, the fear and panic apparent in many of their voices.
  As the mob breached the Capitol, one officer told dispatch, “We’re still taking rocks, bottles and pieces of flag and met
  
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• State-Run Vaccination Site at UA Will Be Supplied by County's Allocation

  10-02-2021 23:34
  
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• Is one day a week enough? Biden’s school goal draws blowback

  10-02-2021 23:31
  
  President Joe Biden is being accused of backpedaling on his pledge to reopen the nation’s schools after the White House added fine print to his promise. Biden’s initial pledge in December was to reopen “the majority of our schools” in his first 100 days in office. The White House now says schools will be considered opened as long as they teach in-person at least one day a week. White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended the goal Wednesday, but also said it’s a b
  
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• DPS: 4-year-old child killed in cow-involved crash in Pearce

  10-02-2021 23:26
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - A 4-year-old child has died in connection to a cow-involved collision that occurred in Pearce, Ariz. Monday evening.According to officials with Arizona Department of Public Safety, a white van struck a cow while traveling southbound on US Highway 191 at Milepost 37 at around 7:05 p.m. Monday.DPS said due to the impact with the cow, the van reportedly struck the rear driver's side of a silver passenger vehicle traveling northbound on the highway.A 4-year-old passenger of the the s
  
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• Brady-Gronk trophy pass wows Bucs’ Super Bowl boat parade

  10-02-2021 23:21
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers held a boat parade to celebrate their championship on a sun-splashed day with thousands of fans lining the Hillsborough River near downtown Tampa. At one point, quarterback Tom Brady was captured on video Wednesday tossing the championship Lombardi Trophy from his boat to his shirtless teammate Rob Gronkowski in another boat. That brought wild cheers from fans and players. As the parade came to a close, head coach Bruce Arians said that the Bucca
  
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• Arizona Senate OKs measure targeting governor’s power

  10-02-2021 23:19
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Senate has voted to ask voters to curtail the governor’s authority to assert emergency powers during future pandemics or other crises. Republicans approved the measure in a 16-14 party-line vote on Wednesday, sending it to the House. If approved by voters, the measure would make a governor’s emergency declaration expire after 30 days unless state lawmakers vote to extend it. Some Republicans have been furious with Gov. Doug Ducey for closing or restri
  
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• Survivor of bus-train crash killed in shootout with deputies

  10-02-2021 23:18
  
  ODESSA, Texas (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a West Texas man who was killed in a shootout with sheriff’s deputies last year. Ector County deputies were looking for Remigio Pineda in December 2020 for allegedly violating his parole. The Odessa American reports that Sheriff Mike Griffis identified Pineda on Tuesday. He was on parole for having a controlled substance and a gun. Griffis said Pineda was in a high-speed chase with deputies on Dec. 10. He said Pineda shot at
  
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• Chino Valley man is arrested after standoff with a SWAT team

  10-02-2021 23:17
  
  CHINO VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — Yavapai County Sheriff’s officials say a Chino Valley man has been arrested after a two-hour standoff with a SWAT team. They say 57-year-old Emery Dodd was booked into the county jail on suspicion of endangerment, weapons misconduct, threatening and intimidating, reckless handling of a weapon, assault and disorderly conduct. Sheriff’s officials say one of Dodd’s family members called 911 to say he allegedly wanted to kill himself or have law enf
  
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• Honduras investigates police in case of murdered student

  10-02-2021 23:15
  
  TEGUCIGALPA, Hondruas (AP) — Relatives have buried the body of a 26-year-old Honduran nursing student who died in a police cell hours after she was arrested for violating the pandemic curfew. The National Police initially suggested it had been a suicide, but authorities are now investigating it as a murder. Keyla Patricia Martínez Rodríguez, a resident of the capital, had traveled to the western Honduras city of La Esperanza with a doctor friend to visit relatives. On Saturda
  
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• Pima County COVID-19 call center expands to Recorder’s office to help ease call volume for registrations

  10-02-2021 23:10
  
  TUCSON - Pima County has been overwhelmed with calls from people wanting to get registered for the vaccine. They recently moved their center and more than doubled their staff to handle the workload.Pima County has vaccinated over 100,000 people, but as even more vaccines become available and more people become eligible to receive them.
  The demand for appointments has put a strain on the county's temporary call center. The county was forced to move to a larger location at the recorder's office.Mi
  
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• El Tour De Tucson postponed to Fall due to COVID-19 concerns

  10-02-2021 23:10
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Arizona's largest cycle event has hit another bump in the road after organizers announced Wednesday that the Banner - University Medicine 38th El Tour de Tucson has been postponed to the Fall.Back on Aug. 20, event organizers announced the first postponement of the El Tour De Tucson, pushing the event from Nov. 21, 2020 to April 10, 2021 citing concerns with the COVID-10 pandemic.
  As COVID-19 continued to plague the nation heading into February, organizers decided to reschedule t
  
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• Report highlights cyber risks to US election systems

  10-02-2021 23:05
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A report out Wednesday says election systems in the U.S. are vulnerable to cyber intrusions similar to the one that hit federal agencies and numerous businesses last year and remain a potential target for foreign hacking. The report by the Center for Internet Security, a nonprofit that partners with the federal government on election security initiatives, focuses on how hardware and software components can provide potential entryways for hackers. The nation’s decentral
  
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• 28 UN peacekeepers injured in an attack in central Mali

  10-02-2021 23:03
  
  DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The United Nations says attackers opened fire on a temporary United Nations base in central Mali in a well-planned assault that wounded28 peacekeepers from Togo.  U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the United Nations condemns Wednesday’s attack in Mali, which remains “the deadliest” of the U.N.’s 12 far-flung peacekeeping missions. He said that so far this year, five peacekeepers have been killed and 46 injured by hostile acts. The U.N.
  
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• Trump accused as ‘inciter in chief’ of Capitol insurrection

  10-02-2021 23:02
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial are arguing that he was no “innocent bystander” but the “inciter in chief” of last month’s deadly attack at the Capitol. It’s the first full day of arguments at the trial, with House prosecutors focusing on the aftermath of Trump’s urging his supporters to “fight like hell” over his election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. He spurred them on with a fiery speech outside
  
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• The Latest: Democrats say Capitol mob sought to kill Pelosi

  10-02-2021 22:59
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on former President Donald Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial (all times local):
  4:55 p.m.
  Democrats say Capitol Police evacuated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from the Capitol complex entirely because they feared for her safety on Jan. 6.
  Prosecutors at Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial on Wednesday played audio of Pelosi’s barricaded staffers whispering for help and showed images of the mob trying to break down a door into Pelosi&rsq
  
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• Feds fight release of woman in pink hat during Capitol riot

  10-02-2021 22:58
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Federal prosecutors are appealing the release of a Pennsylvania woman accused of using a large pipe to break a window in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. and giving directions to fellow insurrectionists about how to take the building. A magistrate found that Rachel Marie Powell poses a “danger to the community,” but that she could be released on $10,000 unsecured bond with home detention and electronic monitoring. Prosecutors are appealing the decision, saying Wedn
  
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• Former executive pleads guilty in college admissions scandal

  10-02-2021 22:54
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A former private equity executive who cofounded an investment firm with U2′s Bono has pleaded guilty to paying $50,000 to have someone secretly correct his son’s ACT answers as part of the college admissions bribery scheme. William McGlashan pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a count of wire fraud and honest services wire fraud before a Boston federal court judge in a hearing held via videoconference. U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton said he would accept or reject
  
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• Local researchers: COVID-19 variants could increase related fatalities

  10-02-2021 22:51
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - The COVID-19 variants spreading in the U.S. could increase the number of fatalities from the virus, Mayo Clinic researchers said during a briefing held Wednesday morning. Viruses naturally mutate. The researchers said the longer it takes to vaccinate Americans, the greater chance new virus variants will spread and take hold in the U.S., exponentially increasing deaths."We are looking at variant viruses that in fact combine aspects of increased lethality and increased transmi
  
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• Florida gov takes aim at media for Super Bowl virus coverage

  10-02-2021 22:49
  
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is again lashing out at the news media over what he suggests is a bias in coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. The Republican governor asserted at a news conference in Venice, Florida, that the media is overly concerned about so-called super-spreader events after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ victory in last weekend’s Super Bowl. DeSantis brushed aside a question about how celebratory gatherings among maskless throngs might contri
  
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• Now-adult in same-sex custody battle seeks removal from suit

  10-02-2021 22:48
  
  The now-18-year-old woman at the center of a yearslong, same-sex custody dispute says she wants her name removed from 2012 civil lawsuit filed in her name. Lisa Miller is facing federal criminal charges in Buffalo for taking Isabella to Nicaragua in 2009 rather than sharing custody of her with her former civil union partner, Janet Jenkins, of Fair Haven, Vermont. In an affidavit written in Nicaragua, but filed in federal court in Burlington, Vermont, on Wednesday, Isabella Miller says she is hap
  
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• The Latest: Hero officer Goodman warned Romney away from mob

  10-02-2021 22:46
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on former President Donald Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial (all times local):
  4:45 p.m.
  U.S. Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman warned Republican Sen. Mitt Romney that rioters were headed his way shortly after the building was breached by a mob of Donald Trump supporters.
  Prosecutors at Trump’s impeachment trial on Wednesday played security footage from inside the Capitol on Jan. 6. Footage showed Goodman running toward Romney to warn him
  
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• Fox News gives satirist Greg Gutfeld a weeknight talk show

  10-02-2021 22:36
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel says it will give a weeknight talk show to its hard-edged satirist, Greg Gutfeld, starting this spring. Gutfeld has been hosting a weekend talk show and been a panelist on “The Five.” With a show that will air at 11 p.m. Eastern starting this spring, Gutfeld will bring a conservative voice to a late-night comic fraternity that skews left with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Trevor Noah. Together with a recently-launched program that airs at 7
  
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• Liberty get Howard, Samuelson to Storm, 1st pick to Dallas

  10-02-2021 22:34
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Liberty have acquired Natasha Howard from the Seattle Storm as part of a three-team trade. The three-time WNBA champion goes to the Liberty for the overall No. 1 pick in the draft this year and the Phoenix Mercury’s first-round pick next year. The Liberty acquired that choice from Phoenix by sending Kia Nurse and Megan Walker to the Mercury for the sixth pick this year and their first-round pick next year. The No. 1 pick didn’t stay in Seattle long
  
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• The Latest: Democrats use rally footage to argue incitement

  10-02-2021 22:33
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on former President Donald Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial (all times local):
  4:30 p.m.
  Prosecutors at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial are using footage of the rally he headlined ahead of the riot on the Capitol to argue he incited the crowd.
  Rep. Madeleine Dean says that one of Trump’s key defenses is that he says during his speech: “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peace
  
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• United: Small electric air taxis will zip people to airports

  10-02-2021 22:30
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines says it could be using small electric-powered air taxis to take customers to the airport within a few years. United said Wednesday that it will buy up to 200 small aircraft capable of helicopter-style takeoffs and landings from startup Archer. That company hopes to deliver its first aircraft in 2024. The aircraft are designed to fly up to 60 miles at speeds of up to 150 mph, meaning they could zip customers from downtown areas to airports in New York, Chicago
  
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• Isbell to donate his share of Morgan Wallen’s sales to NAACP

  10-02-2021 22:30
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Grammy-winning singer songwriter Jason Isbell says he is going to donate money that he makes from Morgan Wallen’s cover of his song “Cover Me Up” to the NAACP.Wallen, who has had the No. 1 album in the country for the past four weeks, was caught on camera last week saying a racial slur, butsales of his record increased after radio stations removed him from their playlists.Isbell, a popular Americana artist and former member of the Drive-By Truckers
  
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• Arizona Senate panel OKs changes to virus care standards

  10-02-2021 22:30
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Facing complaints from advocates for people with disabilities, the Arizona Senate is eyeing legislation that would bar hospitals from considering a person’s potential lifespan or disability when the facilities are forced to ration care during the current or any future pandemic. The proposal from Republican Sen. Nancy Barto of Phoenix instead requires hospitals assessing patients under state crisis standards of care to only consider a patient’s ability to survive
  
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• Stocks end mixed after a day of wavering; bond yields fall

  10-02-2021 22:10
  
  Major U.S. stock indexes ended another up-and-down day of trading more or less where they started out, although a small gain nudged the Dow Jones Industrial Average to another record high. The S&P 500 ended down less than 0.1%, while the Nasdaq gave back 0.3%. Treasury yields fell after a government report showed that inflation remained tame last month. That’s encouraging for investors because it suggests the U.S. economy will be able to receive more stimulus without overheating. The y
  
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• Aging desktop source of attorney’s accidental cat filter

  10-02-2021 22:06
  
  RICHMOND, Texas (AP) — Texas attorney Rod Ponton’s appearance as a fluffy kitten during an online court hearing provided a moment of levity to a Zoom-fatigued world. But that specific, adorable filter may be tough to find for anyone looking to replicate the viral moment. Ponton tells The Associated Press that he was using his assistant’s 10-year-old computer when he logged in to Tuesday’s hearing. Ponton said he believes the computer’s built-in software and the assi
  
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• Budget deficit totals record $735.7 billion through January

  10-02-2021 22:03
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government’s budget deficit hit $735.7 billion through the first four months of the budget year — an all-time high for the period. The shortfall accumulated as a pandemic-triggered recession cut into tax revenues while spending on COVID relief measures sent outlays soaring. The Treasury Department reported Wednesday that the deficit for the budget year that began Oct. 1 is 89% higher than the $389.2 billion deficit run up in the same period a year ago
  
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• The Latest: Chicago teacher union OKs deal on school return

  10-02-2021 22:02
  
  CHICAGO — The Chicago Teachers Union has approved a deal with the nation’s third-largest school district to get students back to class during the coronavirus pandemic, union officials announced early Wednesday.
  The vote ends the possibility of an immediate teacher lockout or strike. The agreement follows months of negotiations with Chicago Public Schools, which had intensified in recent weeks, with plans that included more teacher vaccinations and metrics to allow school closures whe
  
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• Germany to reopen schools, hairdressers as virus cases drop

  10-02-2021 22:00
  
  BERLIN (AP) — German officials have agreed to reopen schools and hairdressers in the coming weeks, while extending much of the country’s coronavirus lockdown until March 7 amid concern that new virus variants could reverse the decline in confirmed cases. Chancellor Angela Merkel and the country’s 16 governors decided to leave in place many facets of the current lockdown that were due to expire Sunday and set a new target of 35 weekly cases per 100,000 inhabitants before letting
  
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• Kate Winslet turns TV sleuth, says she’d flop in real life

  10-02-2021 21:59
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kate Winslet is playing a police detective on TV, and that’s where her crime-busting ambition ends. The British actor says she’d be good at coffee and beers, but that’s it. Winslet says she has stamina, but not the kind sleuths require. In the HBO limited series “Mare of Easttown,” Winslet’s character is investigating a murder in her small Pennsylvania town while struggling with family issues. The actor said capturing the regional acce
  
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• Jason Isbell to donate money from Morgan Wallen’s sales

  10-02-2021 21:56
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Grammy-winning singer songwriter Jason Isbell says he is going to donate money that he makes from Morgan Wallen’s cover of his song “Cover Me Up” to the NAACP.Wallen, who has had the No. 1 album in the country for the past four weeks, was caught on camera last week saying a racial slur, butsales of his record increased after radio stations removed him from their playlists.Isbell, a popular Americana artist and former member of the Drive-By Truckers
  
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• University of Arizona vaccine site to become state-run venue

  10-02-2021 21:51
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — State officials have announced that Arizona will expand a COVID-19 vaccination site on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson and convert it into a state site with higher capacity for administering shots. It will be the third state site and the first in metro Tucson, where Pima County already has distribution points. State officials said Wednesday in a statement that the new site will be a partnership between the state, the university and the county. The transition will
  
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• Georgia prosecutor investigates election after Trump call

  10-02-2021 21:48
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia prosecutor says she has opened a criminal investigation into “attempts to influence” the outcome of last year’s general election. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis did not specifically mention former President Donald Trump in the letters she sent to state officials Wednesday announcing her investigation. But Willis spokesman Jeff DiSantis told The Associated Press that a call Trump made to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger last month
  
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• California deputy drops suit against Toronto Raptors’ boss

  10-02-2021 21:48
  
  SAN FRANCSICO (AP) — A law enforcement officer in California who sued the president of the Toronto Raptors over a 2019 scuffle following the team’s NBA Finals victory over the Golden State Warriors has dropped his lawsuit. The Raptors had just won their first title at Oracle Arena in Oakland on June 13, 2019, when Raptors President Masai Ujiri went onto the court to join his celebrating team. Alameda County sheriff’s deputy Alan Strickland claimed in a federal lawsuit filed las
  
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• Arizona Corporation Commission seeks applicants for Power Plant and Transmission Line Siting Committee

  10-02-2021 21:41
  
  PHOENIX (KVOA) — On Wednesday, the Arizona Corporation Commission announced it is seeking applicants who would like an appointment as a member of the Arizona Power Plant and Transmission Line Siting Committee (Siting Committee).
  According to an ACA news release, members of the committee decide if statutorily defined proposed electric transmission lines and power plants should be granted a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility.
  "The Siting Committee's decision is reviewed by the Corpor
  
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• Mavs’ Cuban relents on anthem after NBA reiterates policy

  10-02-2021 21:34
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has relented  on not playing the national anthem before home games this season. The move came shortly after the NBA reiterated its “longstanding league policy” to include the anthem. The league’s initial reaction to Cuban’s decision was to say teams were free to conduct pregame activities as they wished with the unusual circumstances created by the coronavirus pandemic. The NBA abruptly reversed course with Cuban&
  
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• Case nixed against protester accused of causing hearing loss

  10-02-2021 21:32
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped an assault charge against one of two people accused of using megaphones during a coronavirus protest and causing permanent hearing loss to a Cleveland restaurant employee. The county prosecutor’s office this week dropped the charge against Josiah Douglas of Cleveland. But the assault charge still stands against 21-year-old Sydney Yahner of Willoughby. A defense attorney who says the charges are an attack on the pair’s First Amendment ri
  
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• The Latest: Florida governor lashes out over media coverage

  10-02-2021 21:30
  
  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis again lashed out at the news media when he suggested Wednesday a bias in coverage of the pandemic, even as concerns swirl over more contagious strains of COVID-19 potentially spreading at gatherings celebrating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ victory in the Super Bowl.
  “The media is worried about that, obviously,” DeSantis said during a news conference in Venice.
  “You don’t care as much when it’s a peaceful protest,” he continued. &ld
  
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• The Latest: Many GOP senators indifferent to Democrats’ case

  10-02-2021 21:29
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on former President Donald Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial (all times local):
  3:25 p.m.
  At a break in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, many Republicans appeared indifferent to the Democratic prosecutors’ case that the former president incited the violent attack on the Capitol Jan. 6 — and made clear they were unlikely to convict.Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley said the prosecutors’ case was “predictable” and included
  
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• Louisiana governor at odds with Biden over oil, gas policy

  10-02-2021 21:29
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards disagrees with President Joe Biden’s actions targeting fossil fuel industries. Edwards administration officials told lawmakers Wednesday that the Democratic governor wants the White House to reconsider its decision to pause new oil and gas drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico. Environmental groups have praised Biden’s decision, saying it’s the kind of urgent action needed to slow climate change. But Biden’s ap
  
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• Opposition calls on Haitians to ‘rise up’ as strife deepens

  10-02-2021 21:22
  
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of Haitians chanted “Down with kidnapping! Down with dictatorship!” as they marched through the streets of Port-au-Prince, bolstering opposition leaders who stepped up their demands that President Jovenel Moïse resign.Wednesday’s protest is the biggest one yet this year, and it comes just days after Moïse announced that police had arrested nearly two dozen people accused of an alleged coup conspiracy Among those arrested is
  
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• Board reaches tentative deal to lower Puerto Rico debt

  10-02-2021 21:22
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances says it has reached an agreement in principle with creditors to reduce a portion of the U.S. territory’s more than $70 billion public debt load. The board said Wednesday that the tentative deal followed a mediation process with creditors holding some $7 billion worth of bonds issued by the U.S. territory. Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said that while details of the agreement have not been made publ
  
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• Priest in Vatican youth seminary trial denies abuse claims

  10-02-2021 21:08
  
  ROME (AP) — An Italian priest is denying that he sexually molested a fellow altar boy when both were teenagers at the Vatican’s youth seminary. The Rev. Gabriele Martinelli took the stand for the first time Wednesday in the Vatican criminal tribunal. He said the allegations against him were unfounded and implausible. He said they were the fruit of divisions in the seminary over the celebration of the Latin Mass as well as “jealousy” among former seminarians that he w
  
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