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• Coyotes fire assistant general manager Steve Sullivan

  11-02-2021 23:59
  
  GLENDALE. Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Coyotes have fired assistant general manager Steve Sullivan. The team says it will not seek a replacement for Sullivan and offered no other details. Sullivan was hired by Arizona in 2014 under previous general manager John Chayka. He was promoted to assistant GM in 2017 and served as interim GM last year when Chayka left the team. Sullivan also served as general manager of the Tucson Roadrunners, Arizona’s AHL affiliate. He played one season with th
  
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• North Carolina man accused of threatening Biden over phone

  11-02-2021 23:55
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A federal prosecutor has accused a North Carolina man of threatening President Joe Biden and others through phone calls to the White House. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Charlotte says 27-year-old David Kyle Reeves of Gastonia appeared in federal court on Thursday. He was arrested Feb. 5. Authorities say Reeves made multiple phone calls to the White House switchboard between Jan. 28 and Feb. 1 and made threats against the president and others. Authorities say R
  
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• Report: Nicaraguan government closing spaces for opposition

  11-02-2021 23:54
  
  MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — An international rights group says state and paramilitary armed groups in Nicaragua continue to terrorize the population and attempt to close spaces for opposition in the run-up to elections scheduled for November. The Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights said in a report Thursday that state repression aimed at eradicating enemies continues. The federation’s Americas director said in a virtual news conference that “they are the same st
  
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• Charges dropped for officers seen shoving Buffalo protester

  11-02-2021 23:53
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Criminal charges have been dropped against two police officers seen on video last spring shoving a 75-year-old protester to the ground in Buffalo, New York. Erie County District Attorney John Flynn said a grand jury declined to indict Buffalo Officers Robert McCabe and Aaron Torgalski on felony assault charges, ending the matter. Messages seeking comment were left with lawyers representing the officers. One of them, Thomas Burton, has previously said that it was a &ldq
  
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• Trial highlights: ‘We were invited’ and a quick defense

  11-02-2021 23:51
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump incited a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, put his own vice president in danger and later expressed solidarity with rioters who attempted to overturn the 2020 election in his name. That’s what Democrats argued Thursday as they wrapped up their impeachment case against the former president. Over two days of testimony, they asserted that Trump deliberately ordered his supporters to “fight like hell.”  And they bolstered their case using
  
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• C Bryan Holaday agrees to minor league deal with D-backs

  11-02-2021 23:51
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Catcher Bryan Holaday has agreed to a minor league contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks and will report to major league spring training. The 33-year-old hit .161 with four RBIs in 31 at-bats over 20 games for the Baltimore Orioles last year. Holaday is a nine-year major league veterans with a .238 average, 10 homers and 78 RBIs for Detroit, Texas, Boston, Miami and the Orioles.The post C Bryan Holaday agrees to minor league deal with D-backs appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• AP: Over 9,000 virus patients sent into NY nursing homes

  11-02-2021 23:48
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — More than 9,000 recovering coronavirus patients in New York state were released from hospitals into nursing homes under a controversial order that was scrapped amid criticisms it was accelerating outbreaks. That’s according to new records obtained by The Associated Press. The new number of over 9,000 recovering patients sent to hundreds of nursing homes is more than 40% higher than what had been previously released by the state health department. And it raises new que
  
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• Records: Over 9,000 coronavirus patients in New York were released from hospitals into nursing homes under state order

  11-02-2021 23:47
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Records: Over 9,000 coronavirus patients in New York were released from hospitals into nursing homes under state order.The post Records: Over 9,000 coronavirus patients in New York were released from hospitals into nursing homes under state order appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Cubans stranded for 33 days now in US immigration detention

  11-02-2021 23:44
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Three Cubans who capsized and survived 33 days drinking coconut water and eating shellfish and rats on a deserted rocky islet south of Florida are now in U.S. immigration custody. Legal experts said Thursday that the Cubans may be allowed to stay under current federal policies. A Coast Guard helicopter earlier this week hoisted the two men and one woman in baskets from the Bahamian islet close to Cuba. The three were flown to a hospital in Key West and then taken Wednesday to
  
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• Virus outbreak cancels whooping crane count in Texas

  11-02-2021 23:43
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The coronavirus outbreak has canceled this year’s flights to count the world’s rarest cranes in their only natural flock. It’s the first cancellation since at least 1950. This whooping crane flock breeds in Canada and winters in Texas. Wade Harrell of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the current survey takes six flights. Each requires a pilot and at least two observers to spend up to four hours in a small plane, and they often come from different
  
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• Police search Navalny headquarters in late-night raid

  11-02-2021 23:43
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian police conducted a late-night search of the headquarters for jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whose arrest last month set off nationwide protests. The search by a dozen police ended about 1 a.m.There was no statement from police about the reason for the search; the Mediazona news website that focuses on political repressions and human rights abuses cited a Navalny staff member as saying that police said they had received a report that pornography was being pub
  
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• President Biden ends ‘national emergency’ that allowed Trump to fund border wall

  11-02-2021 23:40
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has officially ended the “national emergency” that President Donald Trump declared in order to take money from the Pentagon to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
  The White House released a letter Thursday from Biden to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi notifying Congress that he had rescinded his predecessor's proclamation.
  It was a formality. Biden ordered a halt to border wall construction shortly after he took office.
  The U.S. has been
  
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• Law firm details sexual misconduct by global ministry leader

  11-02-2021 23:35
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A law firm’s investigators have released a scathing report on alleged sexual misconduct by the now-deceased founder of a global Christian ministry. Ravi Zacharias died last May, but the posthumous scandal has plunged Atlanta-based Ravi Zacharias International Ministries into crisis. The Atlanta-based law firm Miller & Martin conducted a four-month investigation. According to its report, Zacharias engaged in sexual misconduct with massage therapists and carried on
  
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• The Latest: Study: SoCal variant has spread to 19 states

  11-02-2021 23:18
  
  A COVID-19 variant first identified in Southern California appears to have spread to at least 19 states and several other countries, a study published Thursday suggests.
  The variant accounted for about 44% of Southern California cases as of late January, nearly double from a month earlier, the study said. It was first identified in a single case in July and reemerged during a holiday surge in cases in the Los Angeles area.
  More research is needed to determine if the variant spreads more easily t
  
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• Bucks and does among mule deer illegally killed, skinned near Congress

  11-02-2021 23:18
  
  WICKENBURG, Ariz. (KVOA) - The illegal killing of several mule deer near Congress, Ariz. in October has prompted an investigation by Arizona Game and Fish Department.According to AZGFD, department officers found the remains of deer, including bucks and does, near the intersection of Date Creek Road and OX Ranch Road between Oct. 18 and 29. Officials say the deer were found skinned with the meat taken from the carcass.Officials say the officers believe the killings were not a one-time event. In a
  
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• Sheriff: Blame for Minnesota clinic attack lies with shooter

  11-02-2021 23:17
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities have charged a Minnesota man with murder in an attack on a health clinic in which a medical assistant was killed and four of her colleagues were wounded. They also released new details Thursday about how Tuesday’s attack on the Allina Health clinic in Buffalo unfolded, but they brushed aside questions about whether more could have been done to prevent it. The charges filed against 67-year-old Gregory Ulrich describe how the attack was similar to one he
  
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• Biden says US is securing 600 million vaccine doses by July

  11-02-2021 23:13
  
  BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — President Joe Biden has visited some of the nation’s leading scientists on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19 and announced that the U.S. will have enough supply of the vaccine by the end of the summer to inoculate 300 million Americans. Biden on Thursday toured the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the sprawling National Institutes of Health complex just outside Washington that created the COVID-19 vaccine now manufactured by Moderna. Biden says the U.S
  
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• Winter weather is latest snag for vaccine rollout

  11-02-2021 23:10
  
  O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Add another obstacle to the already stuttering rollout of COVID-19 vaccines — brutal winter weather creating dangerously frigid and treacherous conditions and forcing tens of thousands of would-be shot takers to wait a little longer. Limited vaccine supply, varying state plans and other points of confusion have slowed the vaccination effort. Now comes a bitter spell of winter weather from the West Coast through the South. Worse still, the stretch of nasty w
  
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• Chick Corea, jazz great with 23 Grammy Awards, dies at 79

  11-02-2021 23:07
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Chick Corea, a towering jazz pianist with a staggering 23 Grammy Awards, has died at age 79. Corea pushed the boundaries of the genre and worked alongside Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock. Corea died Tuesday of a rare for of cancer, his team posted on his website. His death was confirmed by Corea’s web and marketing manager, Dan Muse. In 1968, Corea replaced Herbie Hancock in Miles Davis’ group, playing on the landmark albums “In a Silent Way” and &ldq
  
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• Plane slides off taxiway at Pittsburgh Airport; no injuries

  11-02-2021 23:06
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — No injuries have been reported after a plane with 77 people on board slid off a taxiway in light snow before takeoff at Pittsburgh International Airport. Delta Air Lines flight 2231 was about to depart from Pittsburgh International Airport when it slid partway into a ditch around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. The Boeing 717 was headed to Atlanta. The plane was safely evacuated and all those on board were driven by bus back to the terminal. Delta says many passengers chose to conti
  
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• Rioters acted on Trump’s ‘order,’ Democrats insist in trial

  11-02-2021 23:05
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic prosecutors in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial say rioters believed they were acting on the “president’s orders” to storm the Capitol to undo Joe Biden’s election victory. The House prosecutors wrapped up their opening arguments Thursday, with the Trump legal team getting its chance to make its case on Friday. Biden said he believes “some minds may be changed” after gripping video of the deadly siege, but conviction s
  
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• The Latest: Los Angeles closing 5 mass vaccination sites

  11-02-2021 23:01
  
  LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles is temporarily closing five mass vaccination sites including Dodger Stadium for lack of supply as the state faces continuing criticism over the vaccine rollout.
  Mayor Eric Garcetti says the city will exhaust its supply of Moderna first doses — two are required for full immunization — forcing it to close drive-through and walk-up vaccination sites Friday and Saturday.
  They may not reopen until the city gets more supplies, perhaps next Tuesday or Wednesd
  
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• Louisiana hospital shooting: 2 people hurt, woman arrested

  11-02-2021 23:01
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police say two bystanders have been shot and wounded after an argument outside a hospital culminated in gunfire. Police said a woman was arguing with a man outside University Medical Center when she fired multiple shots. Authorities say two people were hit, a woman outside the hospital and a man inside. Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said the woman was struck in the hip and the man in the shoulder, but neither wound is life-threatening. He says the woma
  
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• US stock indexes wobble as investor caution offsets optimism

  11-02-2021 22:59
  
  Stocks are closing nearly flat on Wall Street Thursday as investors remain cautiously optimistic about prospects for a new round of government aid as the economic recovery seemingly stalls. Wall Street continued to digest solid corporate earnings and updates on a decline of new virus cases. The latest government report on jobless claims, though, reaffirmed that employment remains a weak spot in the economy as vaccine distribution ramps up in the hopes of eventually ending the pandemic and its im
  
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• PACC battles increase of distemper cases at clinic

  11-02-2021 22:51
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) – Pima Animal Care Center is battling an increase in distemper cases that are coming through the clinic.The virus, which is is a contagious disease of dogs, coyotes and other wildlife, spread in the respiratory secretions and urine of infected animals, PACC said in a press release. While it is easily prevented with routine vaccinations, PACC said distemper can cause fever, lethargy, anorexia and respiratory illness. The disease can also cause neurological issues once in the t
  
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• Cops: Man admits using van to hit woman in Phoenix suburb

  11-02-2021 22:42
  
  PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — Police in a Phoenix suburb say a man accused of kidnapping his infant son in a custodial dispute that led to the death of the boy’s mother told police he intentionally hit the woman with a stolen van. A judge on Thursday ordered 30-year-old Eric Maes to stay jailed in lieu of $2 million bail on suspicion of premeditated first-degree murder and other crimes. Maes was arrested Wednesday in the death in Peoria Tuesday of Brittany Martie and the abduction of their so
  
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• The Latest: Dems end opening arguments in Trump trial

  11-02-2021 22:39
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on former President Donald Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial (all times local):
  4:30 p.m.House Democrats prosecuting President Donald Trump’s impeachment have wrapped up their opening arguments.
  Rep. Jamie Raskin implored senators in his closing speech to exercise “common sense about what just took place in our country” and find Trump guilty of inciting an insurrection. Raskin is the lead prosecutor for the House.
  He said senators
  
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• Republicans legislators order audit of Wisconsin election

  11-02-2021 22:35
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican state lawmakers have ordered an audit of Wisconsin’s election, three months after Donald Trump’s narrow loss that was affirmed during a partial recount and following rejection of several lawsuits alleging wrongdoing. The GOP-controlled Joint Legislative Audit Committee on Thursday ordered the audit to be done by the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported the audit will examine such issues as how the state ma
  
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• Georgia: Potential vote fraud case handed to prosecutors

  11-02-2021 22:30
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia election officials say they’re referring for possible criminal prosecution a potential voter fraud case involving The New Georgia Project, which had recent ties to one of the state’s newest Democratic U.S. senators. It’s among 35 cases involving potential violations of election law being sent from the State Election Board to Georgia’s attorney general or local prosecutors. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger made the announcement in
  
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• Feds: Man charged in riot suggested bringing weapons by boat

  11-02-2021 22:30
  
  Prosecutors say a man investigators have described as a leader of far-right the Oath Keepers militia group who led other extremists in the attack on the U.S. Capitol discussed the possibility of getting a boat to ferry “heavy weapons” across the Potomac River. Court papers filed Thursday in the case against Thomas Caldwell provide chilling new evidence in the plot on Capitol Hill as Democrats prosecuting Donald Trump’s impeachment made their case to convict the former president
  
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• Wisconsin biologist charged with lying about caviar scheme

  11-02-2021 22:26
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ top sturgeon expert with obstructing an investigation into allegations that DNR workers have been funneling sturgeon eggs to processors in exchange for jars of caviar. Ryan Koenigs was charged in Calumet County on Thursday with a misdemeanor count obstructing a conservation warden. According to a criminal complaint, Koenigs told a DNR warden and a federal agent in January 2020 that he didn&rs
  
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• The Latest: CDC says no quarantine for vaccinated people

  11-02-2021 22:19
  
  NEW YORK — U.S. health officials are now recommending that people who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus do not have to go into a 14-day quarantine after exposure to an infected person.
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly posted the updated guidance this week. It says vaccinated people may skip quarantine if they are asymptomatic, and if their contact with an infected person came at least two weeks after receipt of the final dose in the two-shot vaccination ser
  
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• Rioters acted on Trump’s ‘order,’ Democrats say in trial

  11-02-2021 22:17
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic prosecutors in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial say rioters believed they were acting on the “president’s orders” to storm the Capitol to undo Joe Biden’s election victory. The House is ready to wrap up opening arguments. Biden says he believes “some minds may be changed” after the previous day’s gripping video of the deadly siege. The Democrats say the siege was part of Trump’s pattern of violent rhetoric.
  
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• Two Arizonans among five linked to Proud Boys, arrested in Capitol breach

  11-02-2021 22:16
  
  KANSAS CITY (AP) - Five people prosecutors have linked to a Kansas City metro chapter of the Proud Boys have been arrested on federal charges for their roles in the Jan. 6 breach at the U.S. Capitol.
  A probable cause affidavit alleges they conspired to impede certification of the Electoral College vote.
  William Norman Chrestman and Christopher Charles Kuehn, both of Olathe, Kansas, and Louis Enrique Colon, of Blue Springs, Missouri, were charged with conspiracy civil disorder, obstruction of an
  
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• 5 linked to Kansas City metro chapter of Proud Boys arrested

  11-02-2021 22:09
  
  Five people prosecutors have linked to a Kansas City metro chapter of the Proud Boys have been arrested on federal charges for their roles in the Jan. 6 breach at the U.S. Capitol. A probable cause affidavit alleges they conspired to impede certification of the Electoral College vote. William Norman Chrestman and Christopher Charles Kuehn, both of Olathe, Kansas, and Louis Enrique Colon, of Blue Springs, Missouri, were charged with conspiracy civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding
  
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• Officials offer $4.5M settlement over Alton Sterling’s death

  11-02-2021 22:08
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — After a $5 million proposed settlement fell through, officials in Louisiana are now offering $4.5 million to settle the civil lawsuit brought by the family of Alton Sterling. The 37-year-old Black man was killed in 2016 by police who approached him while he was selling homemade CDs in front of a convenience store. News outlets report the East Baton Rouge Metro Council voted 7-4 Wednesday in favor of the latest settlement offering. A Baton Rouge police officer shot S
  
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• Ludacris is cooking in the kitchen on new streaming show

  11-02-2021 22:07
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ludacris is cooking. In the kitchen, that is. The Grammy-winning rapper is upping his game behind the stove in “Luda Can’t Cook,” a one-hour special debuting Feb. 25 on the discovery+ streaming service. He gets schooled by a chef who introduces him to international flavors and techniques. Ludacris says one of the reasons he’s never been talented in the kitchen is because his Africa-born wife does all the cooking. But he says the show’s title
  
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• Biden tours Maryland lab that developed COVID-19 vaccine

  11-02-2021 22:05
  
  BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — President Joe Biden visited some of the nation’s leading scientists on the frontlines in the fight against COVID-19 Thursday, as his administration looks to boost supplies of vaccines to end the pandemic. Biden toured the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the sprawling National Institutes of Health complex just outside of Washington, which created the COVID-19 vaccine that now is manufactured by Moderna and is being rolled out in the U.S. and multiple other countr
  
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• UAE sheikh’s investment in Israeli soccer club put on hold

  11-02-2021 22:01
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Plans for an Emirati sheikh to purchase a 50% ownership stake in Israel’s famed and controversial Beitar Jerusalem soccer club have been put on hold following reports questioning the sheikh’s finances. The purchase was announced to great fanfare in December, billed as the fruit of a U.S.-brokered normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. It was also seen as a turning point for a club that had gained notoriety for its racist fans and i
  
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• HUD reverses Trump policy, bans gender identity housing bias

  11-02-2021 22:00
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Housing and Urban Development will begin enforcing a ban on housing discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The move is a major reversal of the department’s position under the Trump administration’s housing secretary, Ben Carson. The change announced Thursday acts off an interpretation of the Fair Housing Act and a Supreme Court ruling last summer that gender identity and sexual orientation are protected by the 1964 Civ
  
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• Burt Reynolds’ remains find home at Hollywood cemetery

  11-02-2021 21:58
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Burt Reynolds finally reached his final resting place at the historic Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. A small, private ceremony with relatives taking part remotely via Zoom, was held Thursday morning at the cemetery, where cremated remains of the “Smokey and the Bandit” and “Boogie Nights” star were placed in a grave next to a lake. A temporary headstone now marks the site, but a bust of Reynolds is being commissioned. Reynolds died in
  
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• TFD crews battle attic fire in midtown

  11-02-2021 21:55
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Tucson Fire crews battled an attic fire at a home in midtown late Thursday morning.At 11:15 a.m., TFD posted a video on Twitter showing crews at the scene of the attic fire in the 1100 block of E Halcyon Rd. near Ft. Lowell Rd. and Mountain Ave.Just a few minutes after the original tweet, TFD tweeted that the fire is under control and firefighters were working to contain hotspots.TFD says one victim was able to evacuate the home safely.Stay with News 4 Tucson for the latest updat
  
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• Audit: California should track homeless spending, set policy

  11-02-2021 21:52
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s state auditor says the state has spent $13 billion in the last three years to tackle a massive homelessness problem likely to worsen with the pandemic. But state auditor Elaine Howle says its approach is so fragmented and incomplete as to hinder efforts at getting people into stable housing. The state lacks a centralized way to track spending, so it’s unable to determine where efforts are duplicative. Howle recommends that the Legislature grant
  
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• White House says it will defer to CDC on reopening schools

  11-02-2021 21:47
  
  The White House says it’s aiming for a full reopening of schools but will defer to science experts on how to get there in the middle of a pandemic. Press secretary Jen Psaki made the comment on Thursday amid criticism that President Joe Biden has not acted aggressively enough on reopening schools. The White House drew criticism this week when it said schools would be considered opened if they teach in-person at least one day a week. Republicans say that bar is too low and that schools are
  
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• Springsteen wouldn’t take breath test, court papers say

  11-02-2021 21:47
  
  A federal court document says a park officer saw Bruce Springsteen take a shot of tequila and then get on his motorcycle before arresting him in November on suspicion of drunken driving. The statement of probable cause filed Thursday indicates the rocker told the officer he had done two shots in the previous 20 minutes but wouldn’t take a breath test. The officer at New Jersey’s Gateway National Recreation Area wrote that Springsteen “smelt strongly of alcohol” Nov. 14 an
  
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• ABC News to air newsmagazine on the Black experience

  11-02-2021 21:46
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — ABC News says it will air `Soul of a Nation’ next month, which it believes is the first prime-time network newsmagazine focused on Black life in America. The network has committed to six episodes to air on consecutive Tuesday nights. No premiere date or time slot has yet been announced. The network said each episode will center on a theme, such as spirituality or activism in sports. Journalist Jemele Hill and ‘Black-ish’ actress Marsai Martin are signed on
  
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• RFK Jr. kicked off Instagram for vaccine misinformation

  11-02-2021 21:38
  
  Instagram has banned Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for repeatedly sharing misinformation about vaccine safety and COVID-19. Kennedy, the son of Robert F. Kennedy, is a leading source of debunked claims about the safety of vaccines and has amassed a huge following on social media. Kennedy remains on Instagram’s owner, Facebook, despite that platform’s moves to restrict vaccine misinformation. The controversial environmental lawyer has for years helped to popularize a debunked conspiracy theor
  
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• Race to vaccinate older Americans advances in many states

  11-02-2021 21:38
  
  Two months after the first COVID-19 shots were administered, the race to vaccinate older Americans is gaining traction. More than half of states report that a third of people 65 and up have received their first dose. That’s according to an Associated Press analysis of data from 27 states. Some public health experts welcomed the news. They say it’s a positive sign that the system is working. But the effort is uneven. Many other states still lag behind on vaccinations of the higher-ris
  
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• US stock indexes wobble as investors weigh caution, optimism

  11-02-2021 21:37
  
  Stocks are wavering between small gains and losses on Wall Street in afternoon trading Thursday as investors remain cautiously optimistic about prospects for a new round of government aid as the economic recovery seemingly stalls. Wall Street continued to digest solid corporate earnings and updates on a decline of new virus cases. The latest government report on jobless claims, though, reaffirmed that employment remains a weak spot in the economy as vaccine distribution ramps up in the hopes of
  
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• Navalny staff say police searching his Moscow headquarters

  11-02-2021 21:32
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s staff say police are conducting a late-night search at his organization’s headquarters. Reports of the search began on social media about 10:30 p.m. Thursday. The Mediazona news website that focuses on political repressions and human rights abuses cited a Navalny staff member as saying by telephone that police said they had received a report that pornography was being published at the office. Navalny was arrested o
  
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