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• Court: Universities can be sued over cancer gene mix-up

  12-02-2021 23:59
  
  DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan court has reinstated lawsuits against two universities over mistaken results that were discovered years after two sisters were tested for a high risk of skin cancer. The appeals court says lawsuits filed by a family against the University of Michigan and Yale University were not untimely. In 1999, Michael and Susan Lonsway consulted with a University of Michigan cancer genetics expert because of a family history of melanoma. Blood tests showed one daughter had the
  
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• Trial highlights: Trump grievances and the word ‘fight’

  12-02-2021 23:50
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s attorneys have wrapped up their impeachment defense. They argued Friday the former president bore no responsibility for the deadly attack on the Capitol while accusing Democrats of “hatred” and “hypocrisy” in a whirlwind defense that wrapped up after just over three hours. Echoing themes often heard in conservative media, Trump’s team accused Democrats of elevating a destructive “cancel culture” to the halls o
  
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• Pima County severely cuts back on vaccine appointments after seeing drastic drop in supply

  12-02-2021 23:46
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Pima County will be severely cutting back on the number of COVID-19 vaccinations after county officials shared its new distribution plan Friday in response to vaccine rationing by the state.Last week, Pima County saw a 40 percent cut in its allotment of the COVID-19 vaccine, dropping from 29,000 to 17,895 doses in its weekly shipment. This week, Huckelberry said the county saw another cut in its supply, receiving 16,300 doses this week.Despite Senators Kristen Sinema and Mark Kel
  
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• Father of siblings at Capitol attack touts conspiracies

  12-02-2021 23:45
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The father of two Arizona siblings arrested on federal charges for participating in the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol has suggested without evidence that antifa and Democrats could have instigated the riots. The FBI arrested Felicia Konold and Cory Konold Thursday for their alleged role in the January attack. Prosecutors allege the Konold siblings conspired with the Kansas City chapter of the Proud Boys during the riots. Their 62-year-old father, Robert Konold, also says
  
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• The Latest: Trump didn’t incite riot? ‘Get real,’ Dem says

  12-02-2021 23:43
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on former President Donald Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial (all times local):
  5:40 p.m.
  The lead House prosecutor in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial appears to have had enough of the defense argument that the former president wasn’t responsible for inciting the deadly Capitol siege.
  “Get real,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland.
  The defense lawyers have been arguing that Trump didn’t mean it when he told a rally to
  
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• Streets to reopen, memorial to stay at site of Floyd arrest

  12-02-2021 23:37
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A memorial honoring George Floyd will remain at the Minneapolis intersection where he was pinned to the ground by a police officer in the moments before he died last May. But city leaders said Friday that the streets will reopen to two-way traffic at the conclusion of the officer’s murder trial. The intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue is now known as George Floyd Square. It has been closed since late May, as the corner has become a makeshift memorial. Ma
  
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• Colorado judge maintains charges for Dane accused in fire

  12-02-2021 23:37
  
  DENVER (AP) — A judge has decided against dropping criminal charges against a mentally ill Danish man accused of starting a large Colorado wildfire in 2018 that burned 149 homes. The decision came Friday after a prosecutor said Jesper Joergensen wouldn’t be deported if released from jail because of Biden administration changes to immigration policy. Fearing Joergensen could pose a danger to the public if freed, Judge Gregory Lyman instead ordered him be sent to the state mental healt
  
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• Religion and the death penalty collide at the Supreme Court

  12-02-2021 23:17
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is sending a message to states that want to continue to carry out the death penalty. Inmates must be allowed to have a spiritual adviser by their side as they are executed. The high court around midnight Thursday declined to let Alabama proceed with the lethal injection of Willie B. Smith III. Smith had objected to Alabama’s policy that his pastor would have had to observe his execution from an adjacent room rather than the death chamber. The Supre
  
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• After yearslong separation, Sharpton files for divorce

  12-02-2021 23:12
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — More than 16 years after separating, civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton has filed for divorce from his estranged wife, Kathy Jordan Sharpton. Paperwork for a contested divorce was filed Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court. A statement attributed to both of them says: “After years of being separated, Kathy and I have decided to formalize our separation by filing for divorce. We plan to resolve this in an amicable manner. We remain good friends and our highest conce
  
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• The Latest: Democrat questions defense’s clips of minorities

  12-02-2021 23:03
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on former President Donald Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial (all times local):
  5 p.m.
  A House impeachment manager says she questions why lawyers for former President Donald Trump played multiple video clips of people of color or women talking about fighting in a political context.
  Del. Stacey Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands told senators Friday that she noted a particular focus in the lawyers’ presentation on “Black women like mysel
  
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• The Latest: Pentagon OKs 20 more COVID-19 vaccination teams

  12-02-2021 22:59
  
  The Pentagon has approved the deployment of 20 more military vaccination teams that will be prepared to go out to communities around the country, putting the department on pace to deploy as many as 19,000 troops if the 100 planned teams are realized. The troop number is almost double what federal authorities initially thought would be needed.
  Chief Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Friday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s latest approval brings the number of COVID-19 vaccination teams
  
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• Hall of Famer Jordan set for biggest leap yet into NASCAR

  12-02-2021 22:56
  
  DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Forget the green flag. NASCAR needs to roll out the red carpet when the Daytona 500 leads off the season on Sunday. Michael Jordan and Pitbull bring their A-list star power to the sport as team owners in 2021. Pitbull has an ownership stake in Trackhouse Racing with Daniel Suarez as the driver.  Jordan helped launch 23XI Racing with Bubba Wallace as the driver. It’s a high-profile pairing of a Black majority team owner and the only Black driver at NASC
  
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• British barrister Karim Khan elected next ICC prosecutor

  12-02-2021 22:54
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) —  Member states of the International Criminal Court have elected British barrister Karim Khan the next prosecutor of the war crimes tribunal, ending a drawn-out and divisive process to replace Fatou Bensouda when her nine-year term expires later this year. Khan, an assistant secretary-general of the United Nations, was widely seen as the favorite to get the job. But neither Khan nor any other candidate garnered enough support to be appointed by consensus, promptin
  
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• No execution: Courts side with inmate wanting pastor present

  12-02-2021 22:46
  
  ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate has won a reprieve from a scheduled lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court said the state could not proceed without his pastor in the death chamber. Thursday’s planned execution of Willie B. Smith III was called off late at night when the U.S. Supreme Court maintained an injunction. The state prison system said afterward that the execution would not proceed in light of the ruling. Alabama has maintained that non-prison staff should not be
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trump team glosses over his Jan. 6 tirade

  12-02-2021 22:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s legal team thoroughly distorted his remarks from the rally that prefaced the storming of the Capitol last month, seizing on the one instance when Trump spoke of peaceful protest in his “fight like hell” tirade of anger and grievance.
  Trump attorney Michael van der Veen accused House Democratic impeachment managers of showing selectively edited scenesof the violence and Trump’s words Jan. 6.Yet he ignored the incendiary substance and
  
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• The Latest: Trump lawyers mum on steps he took to stop riot

  12-02-2021 22:43
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on former President Donald Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial (all times local):
  4:30 p.m.
  Senators are submitting written questions to the prosecution and the defense in the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump.
  One of the first questions came from Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who have been critical of Trump’s actions. They asked Trump’s lawyers to lay out in detail what Trump did to
  
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• Trump lawyers say Democratic impeachers just want vengeance

  12-02-2021 22:41
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump are making his impeachment defense by accusing Democrats of launching a campaign of “hatred” against the former president and manipulating his words in the lead-up to the deadly siege of the U.S. Capitol. Their presentation to senators on Friday included a blizzard of their own selectively edited comments from Trump and Democrats. In hours of arguments, the Trump legal team characterized the impeachment case as a politically motivated
  
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• PCHD: Incorrectly filled registration forms delays vaccine appointment process

  12-02-2021 22:40
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - A large number of incorrectly filled registration forms has caused delays in the COVID-19 vaccine appointment process, Pima County Health Department announced on Friday.According to PCHS, a large number of people were recently observed "incorrectly completing the online form by inputting their ZIP code and city in reverse."Officials said the individuals are "inputting 21578 instead of 85712 or noscuT instead of Tucson in the mistaken belief
  
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• Brothers from Kansas, Idaho arrested in Capitol riots

  12-02-2021 22:40
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two brothers from Kansas and Idaho are facing federal charges stemming from the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. The FBI said William Pope, of Topeka, Kansas, and Michael Pope, of Sandpoint, Idaho, were arrested Friday. They both face numerous charges including disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. William Pope was arrested without incident and is being held in the Shawnee County jail. He ran unsuccessfully for the Topeka City Council in 2019 and was an adjunct inst
  
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• Capitol rioter dubbed ‘Doobie Smoker’ to remain jailed

  12-02-2021 22:38
  
  A California man captured on video smoking marijuana during the U.S. Capitol riots will remain jailed while awaiting trial on charges related to the insurrection. During a remote hearing Thursday, a federal prosecutor in Virginia said 32-year-old Eduardo Nicolas Alvear Gonzalez was driven by conspiracy theories to join the deadly attack on Jan. 6. Gonzalez was dubbed “The Capitol Rotunda Doobie Smoker” on a video posted on YouTube. Defense attorney Rodolfo Cejas noted that it isn&rsq
  
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• Information shows economic disparity in Phoenix vaccinations

  12-02-2021 22:33
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — New information released by Maricopa County indicates there are sharp economic disparities in metro Phoenix when it comes to the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine. The Maricopa County Department of Public Health posted a detailed breakdown this week of administered vaccines by age, race, ZIP code and other factors. A coded map reveals that upscale areas like Scottsdale have a high vaccination rate. Neighborhoods in south Phoenix are much lower in comparison. Arizona on Fr
  
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• Trump’s free speech impeachment defense open to dispute

  12-02-2021 22:24
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A key element of former President Donald Trump’s defense is the argument that he can’t be convicted by the Senate because the Jan. 6 speech that House prosecutors say incited the attack on the Capitol is protected by the Constitution’s First Amendment. Trump’s contention is that the Senate can’t ignore the First Amendment’s command that “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech.” But many legal schol
  
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• S&P 500 closes wobbly week at new record high

  12-02-2021 22:22
  
  Stocks are closing higher Friday after a late surge by technology stocks led the S&P 500 to a new high. The wobbly week of trading ended with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq at record highs also. Investors focused on trillions of dollars of potential government aid that could be coming for the economy, as Democrats advance their stimulus package. Companies reported solid earnings, including manufacturer Mohawk Industries and genetic testing company Illumina. Bond yields rose, giv
  
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• Pentagon approves 20 more COVID-19 vaccination teams

  12-02-2021 22:22
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has approved the deployment of 20 more military vaccination teams that will be prepared to go out to communities around the country. This puts the department on pace to deploy as many as 19,000 troops if the 100 planned teams are realized. The troop number is almost double what federal authorities initially thought would be needed. Chief Pentagon spokesman John Kirby says the latest approval brings the number of teams so far authorized to 25, with a total of
  
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• No execution: Supco sides with inmate wanting pastor present

  12-02-2021 22:12
  
  ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate has won a reprieve from a scheduled lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court said the state could not proceed without his pastor in the death chamber. Thursday’s planned execution of Willie B. Smith III was called off late at night when the U.S. Supreme Court maintained an injunction. The state prison system said afterward that the execution would not proceed in light of the ruling. Alabama has maintained that non-prison staff should not be
  
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• S. Prestley Blake, co-founder of Friendly’s, dead at 106

  12-02-2021 22:06
  
  SOMERS, Conn. (AP) — Friendly’s restaurant chain co-founder S. Prestley Blake has died at 106. His niece Holly Schroeder said Blake died Thursday after a short illness at a hospital near his home in Stuart, Florida. Blake and his brother Curtis opened the first Friendly ice cream shop in Springfield in 1935, using a $547 loan from their mother. The shop began selling coffee and hamburgers in the winter months, eventually growing into the restaurant chain Friendly’s, which had m
  
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• Information shows economc disparity in Phoenix vaccinations

  12-02-2021 22:05
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — New information released by Maricopa County indicates there are sharp economic disparities in metro Phoenix when it comes to the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine. The Maricopa County Department of Public Health posted a detailed breakdown this week of administered vaccines by age, race, ZIP code and other factors. A coded map reveals that upscale areas like Scottsdale have a high vaccination rate. Neighborhoods in south Phoenix are much lower in comparison. Arizona on Fr
  
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• The Latest: Trump defense wraps up case in three hours

  12-02-2021 21:52
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on former President Donald Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial (all times local):
  3:20 p.m.
  The defense attorneys for Donald Trump have wrapped up their presentation in the former president’s impeachment trial.
  Lawyers argued for three hours Friday that Trump didn’t incite the Jan. 6 rally crowd to riot at the U.S. Capitol and that his words were merely figures of speech. They say the case against Trump was a political witch hunt by Democr
  
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• The Latest: Trump defense wraps up closing in three hours

  12-02-2021 21:42
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on former President Donald Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial (all times local):
  3:20 p.m.
  The defense attorneys for Donald Trump have wrapped up their presentation in the former president’s impeachment trial.
  Lawyers argued for three hours Friday that Trump didn’t incite the Jan. 6 rally crowd to riot at the U.S. Capitol and that his words were merely figures of speech. They say the case against Trump was a political witch hunt by Democr
  
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• Maryland lawmakers move ahead with first tax on internet ads

  12-02-2021 21:37
  
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland lawmakers are moving forward with a first-in-the-nation tax on internet ads for big companies like Facebook and Google to help pay for an ambitious and costly measure to improve K-12 education. The Maryland General Assembly, which is controlled by Democrats, overrode Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto of legislation for the tax Friday. Lawmakers also voted to override Hogan’s veto of the separate education measure, which has been years in the maki
  
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• Arkansas man twice convicted of killing son faces 3rd trial

  12-02-2021 21:33
  
  BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — The state Supreme Court has ruled that an Arkansas man who was twice convicted of sexually assaulting and killing his 6-year-old son will face a third trial in the case. Mauricio Torres is accused of capital murder and battery in the 2015 death of Isiah Torres. Judges declared mistrials in Torres’ 2016 and 2020 convictions. The state attorney general’s office appealed the decision last year. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the Arkansas Suprem
  
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• Fan favorite Iditarod musher Zirkle retiring after ’21 race

  12-02-2021 21:31
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Fan favorite Iditarod musher Aliy Zirkle says she will retire after this year’s race, her 21st. She made the announcement on her webpage. She says the race has always been a spectacular adventure, but it’s been physically and mentally demanding. Zirkle says she knows that in the not-so-distant future she won’t be able to give 100%. So she says she’s retiring before she has to. Zirkle’s goal was to become the race’s third female w
  
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• Biden will try to close Guantanamo after ‘robust’ review

  12-02-2021 21:29
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden will seek to close the prison on the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay following a review process. Press secretary Jen Psaki says it’s the “intention” of the Biden administration to close the detention facility, something President Barack Obama pledged to do within a year of taking office in January 2009. Psaki gave no timeline, telling reporters that the formal review would be “robust” and would require the
  
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• Draghi forms new govt blending experts, political operatives

  12-02-2021 21:25
  
  ROME (AP) — Former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi has accepted the Italian president’s bid to form a new government, announcing a Cabinet of experts mixed with political operatives, at once seeking to assure financial markets and tame a potentially unruly coalition. The formation of a broad-based government of national unity was widely expected after most political parties across the spectrum signaled their support for Draghi serving as Italy’s next premier. Italy is
  
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• Nebraska Sen. Sasse bets political future on opposing Trump

  12-02-2021 21:18
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse is defying his state party and almost every ambitious would-be Republican leader by betting there’s a GOP future that doesn’t involve bowing to Donald Trump’s fervent base of supporters. Sasse is under threat of censure by the state party for linking Trump’s words to the riot on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol. The senator is urging a return to a more traditional conservative movement while blasting members of his own party as b
  
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• Airlines push White House to reject testing for US flights

  12-02-2021 21:18
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. airlines are pressing their case against requiring coronavirus testing of passengers on domestic flights. The CEOs of several major airlines met Friday with the White House’s coronavirus-response coordinator to lobby against a testing requirement. They say it would further undermine air travel, which is still running at less than half its pre-pandemic level. A person familiar with the discussions says the Biden administration isn’t currently planning to i
  
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• The Latest: Dems say Trump defense ‘distraction’ from facts

  12-02-2021 21:14
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on former President Donald Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial (all times local):
  3 p.m.
  Democrats in the Senate chamber chuckled and whispered among themselves as Donald Trump’s defense team played videos of them saying “fight” over and over again at the former president’s impeachment trial — an effort to counter Trump’s call to his supporters to “fight like hell” before they laid siege on the U.S. Capi
  
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• Trump lawyers say Democrats urge supporters to ‘fight,’ too

  12-02-2021 21:13
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump are making his impeachment defense by accusing Democrats of launching a campaign of “hatred” against the former president and manipulating his words in the lead-up to the deadly siege of the U.S. Capitol. Their presentation to senators on Friday included a blizzard of their own selectively edited comments from Trump and Democrats. In hours of arguments, the Trump legal team characterized the impeachment case as a politically motivated
  
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• Sheriff’s office offers Valentine’s Day ‘special’ for exes

  12-02-2021 21:06
  
  NASHVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina sheriff’s office is giving people a chance on Valentine’s Day weekend to show their former lover they’re still wanted by turning them in if they have outstanding warrants. The Nash County Sheriff’s Office is offering what it calls a “Valentine’s Day Weekend Special” that includes what they describe as a set of limited-edition platinum bracelets, free transportation with a chauffeur and a one-night minimum sta
  
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• Some first dose COVID-19 vaccine recipients at Green Valley PODs confused about how to get second dose

  12-02-2021 20:58
  
  GREEN VALLEY (KVOA)- Some people reached out to News 4 Tucson asking how they can sign up for their second COVID-19 vaccine dose after they received their first dose at one of the two COVID-19 vaccination PODs in Green Valley.The Green Valley Council said that 3,000 vaccines were given out between the two PODs, which are the Santa Cruz Valley Regional Hospital and the Community Performing Arts Center from February 3rd-5th.
  The GVC President Debbie Kenyon said that they have been told they will b
  
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• Dwayne Johnson has ‘surreal’ look back in TV’s “Young Rock”

  12-02-2021 20:57
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Dwayne Johnson sold the idea for a TV comedy about his colorful early years to NBC in early 2020, he was happy to share the news with his family. But days later, his father died at age 75. Johnson says his dad’s death changed “Young Rock” and that he decided to lean more into his dad’s ability to make anyone feel good.  Johnson plays himself in the sitcom, with a trio of actors playing him in childhood, as a teen and a young man. Johnson
  
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• The Latest: CDC offers guidance for in-person schooling

  12-02-2021 20:47
  
  WASHINGTON — The nation’s top public health agency has released a roadmap for reopening U.S. schools in the middle of a pandemic.
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is emphasizing mask wearing and social distancing. It says vaccination of teachers is important but not a prerequisite for reopening.CDC officials say there is strong evidence in-person schooling can be done safely, especially at lower grade levels, and the guidance is targeted at schools that teach kindergart
  
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• Algerian president returns home after virus-linked operation

  12-02-2021 20:40
  
  ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria’s president has returned home following a month’s hospitalization in Germany after contracting COVID-19 in October. It was Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s second stint in a German hospital, this time for an operation on his right foot related to the illness’ after-effects. Tebboune, 74, was met by senior officials at a military airport 30km (miles) west of Algiers.The post Algerian president returns home after virus-linked operation appeared f
  
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• Court rejects claim over Arizona voter registration deadline

  12-02-2021 20:39
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A federal appeals court has sided with a lower court that ruled against an Arizona man who says he was denied the right to vote in 2016 because the voter registration deadline fell on Columbus Day. Plaintiff David Isabel registered to vote the day after the deadline. He argued that Arizona’s deadline was illegally early that year. He says that because government offices were closed for the holiday, he was effectively required to register more than 30 days before the el
  
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• Trump lawyers decry his trial, say Democrats cry ‘fight’ too

  12-02-2021 20:33
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump are making his impeachment defense by accusing Democrats of launching a campaign of “hatred” against the former president and manipulating his words in the lead-up to the deadly siege of the U.S. Capitol. Their presentation to senators on Friday included a blizzard of their own selectively edited comments from Trump and Democrats. In hours of arguments, the Trump legal team characterized the impeachment case as a politically motivated
  
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• Ducey renews moratorium that limits regulation on job growth through executive order

  12-02-2021 20:31
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) – Gov. Doug Ducey signed an executive order on Friday to renew a moratorium on all new regulatory rulemaking by state agencies.This will limit government regulations that inhibits job growth.  Moratorium on rulemaking to provide job creation and economic development, definition by the Arizona governor website. “Today’s order will help foster economic growth as Arizona overcomes the effects of the pandemic and businesses continue to safely operate and ser
  
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• Professor quits after posing as female immigrant on Twitter

  12-02-2021 20:28
  
  A white, male University of New Hampshire chemistry professor has resigned after being accused of posing as a female immigrant color on Twitter to make racist and sexist comments and attack users he disagreed with. The university confirmed the professor’s resignation Friday after a four-month investigation over what it said were allegations on social media. An email obtained by The Associated Press shows it was a white male chemistry professor who created a Twitter account as an impostor.
  
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• Stock indexes hover near recent highs in more wobbly trading

  12-02-2021 20:27
  
  Stocks drifted between small gains and losses Friday afternoon, as the market closed in on its second straight weekly gain after a wobbly week of trading. The market remains focused on trillions of dollars of potential government aid that could be coming for the economy, as Democrats move forward with their stimulus package. Companies continued reporting mostly solid earnings, including manufacturer Mohawk Industries and genetic testing company Illumina. Bond yields rose, giving banks a boost. B
  
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• Man charged with threats to politicians, media personalities

  12-02-2021 20:27
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man has been arrested on charges that he threatened past and present political figures and media personalities on social media. Authorities announced Friday that Rickey Johnson was charged in Manhattan federal court with making threatening interstate communications and threatening U.S. officials. He was arrested Thursday night. A message seeking comment was sent to his attorney. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said Johnson was charged with threatening to k
  
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• Bail set at $750K in Vegas for trucker in bicyclists crash

  12-02-2021 20:12
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A judge in Las Vegas has set bail at $750,000 for an Arizona truck driver jailed since December on felony driving under the influence charges in a crash that killed five bicyclists on a Nevada highway. Jordan Barson’s lawyer said Friday his client is being improperly held on unattainably high bail that the judge set Thursday knowing that he could not meet. Barson is due for a hearing March 4 to determine if he should stand trial in state court. Prosecutors allege he
  
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