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• Immigrant living in church for years wins temporary reprieve

  12-03-2021 23:51
  
  BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — A Guatemalan woman who has been living in a Massachusetts church for more than three years to avoid deportation has been granted a reprieve to remain in the country for now. Rev. John Gibbons, of the First Parish church in Bedford, says Maria Macario was issued a one-year stay of her deportation by federal immigration officials earlier this week. He says the stay allows her to seek a work permit, pursue legal options and come and go freely from the church. The 55-year
  
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• Ducey says Arizona can meet Biden’s vaccine deadline

  12-03-2021 23:46
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey says the state can meet President Joe Biden’s goal to offer vaccines to everyone by May 1, as long as the state gets enough doses. Ducey told KTAR-FM Friday that he’s focused on vaccinating those who want shots but will turn his attention to people who are apprehensive and those who can’t easily access a drive-through mass vaccination venue. Ducey’s health director says the state’s supply of vaccines is projected to incre
  
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• US offers temporary legal residency to people from Myanmar

  12-03-2021 23:45
  
  The Biden administration is offering temporary legal residency to people from Myanmar in the wake of that country’s Feb. 1 coup. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday cited the military’s takeover and ongoing deadly force against civilians. Mayorkas said the designation of temporary protected status for people from Myanmar would last for 18 months. The offer of temporary legal residency applies to people already in the United States. Mayorkas said in a statement th
  
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• Man charged in Capitol riot plot to be released from jail

  12-03-2021 23:44
  
  A judge says a man charged with conspiring with members of the Oath Keepers far-right militia group in the attack on the U.S. Capitol will be released from jail while he awaits trial. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ordered the release of Thomas Caldwell during a hearing held Friday. The decision is a serious blow for prosecutors, who fought to keep Caldwell locked up, calling him a threat to the community and major player in the Oath Keepers’ plot to stop the certification of President Joe
  
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• Schumer, Gillibrand call on NY Gov. Cuomo to resign

  12-03-2021 23:42
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand have called on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign, adding the most powerful Democratic voices yet to calls for the governor to leave office in the wake of allegations of sexual harassment and groping. They said in a joint statement Friday that tackling the COVID-19 “crisis requires sure and steady leadership” and that it’s become clear Cuomo has “lost the confidence of his go
  
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• A look at big settlements in US police killings

  12-03-2021 23:40
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The attorney for George Floyd’s family says a $27 million settlement of a federal lawsuit by the city of Minneapolis is the largest pretrial civil rights settlement ever. Attorney Ben Crump said Friday it is the largest pretrial civil rights settlement ever, and “sends a powerful message that Black lives do matter and police brutality against people of color must end.” Some settlements in police-involved deaths are kept private. Often a settlement inclu
  
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• US Senate Leader Schumer, Sen. Gillibrand say NY Gov. Cuomo should resign amid mounting sexual misconduct allegations

  12-03-2021 23:38
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — US Senate Leader Schumer, Sen. Gillibrand say NY Gov. Cuomo should resign amid mounting sexual misconduct allegations.The post US Senate Leader Schumer, Sen. Gillibrand say NY Gov. Cuomo should resign amid mounting sexual misconduct allegations appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Arizona Supreme Court Justice Andrew Gould to retire

  12-03-2021 23:36
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Supreme Court Justice Andrew Gould is retiring after just over four years on the court. Gould told Republican Gov. Doug Ducey on Friday that his last day will be April 1. The governor will appoint a replacement from a list of candidates provided by a commission that screens candidates under the state’s merit selection process. Gould was sworn in as one of two new justices in December 2016 after being appointed by Ducey following the Legislature’s passage
  
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• Wyoming tables hate crimes law decades after Shepard’s death

  12-03-2021 23:33
  
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming lawmakers have again decided not to adopt a hate crimes law in the state where gay college student Matthew Shepard was killed more than 20 years ago. Wyoming is one of just three states that haven’t enacted hate crimes legislation since Shepard was beaten and left for dead in Laramie in 1998. The killing of the University of Wyoming student inspired such laws in other states and at the federal level. A bill tabled Thursday by the Wyoming House Judiciary
  
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• Auto industry urges emissions deal weaker than Obama’s

  12-03-2021 23:32
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A coalition of automakers has told the Biden administration it would agree to raise mileage standards to reduce tailpipe emissions but with tradeoffs and at rates lower than those brokered by California with five other car manufacturers.
  The Associated Press has learned that under the industry proposal, automakers would agree to stricter standards in exchange for a “multiplier” that would give them additional credit toward meeting the standards if they sell mo
  
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• UArizona vaccination pod opens registration for people 55 and up on Saturday

  12-03-2021 23:28
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - The COVID-19 vaccination site at the University of Arizona will officially open its registration for people 55 and older on Saturday after the Pima County officially expanded its COVID-19 vaccine eligibility Friday.Back on Jan. 14, Pima County officially moved into Phase 1B of its vaccination distribution plan, vaccinating population groups including protective services workers; K-12, university and community college educators; childcare workers; and adults 75 and older.Whil
  
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• Mom, kids found in Colorado wilderness after 1-year-old dies

  12-03-2021 23:27
  
  CRAIG, Colo. (AP) — Authorities in Colorado say a woman and her children who were stranded for two nights in the northwestern Colorado wilderness were found Thursday by aircraft after the 1-year-old daughter died. KCNC-TV reported that the Moffat County sheriff’s office said 36-year-old Kaylee Messerly and her 3-year-old daughter were taken to the hospital with exposure-related injuries. The 1-year-old daughter died before the family was found. Lt. Chip McIntyre said an unidentified
  
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• UN increases Central African Republic force by nearly 3,700

  12-03-2021 23:17
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has approved an increase of nearly 3,700 military and police to the U.N. peacekeeping force in Central African Republic to help reverse the deteriorating security situation in the conflict-torn nation where violence has increased since last December’s presidential election. A council resolution, adopted  Friday by a vote of 14-0 with Russia abstaining, will bring the ceiling for military personnel to 14,400 and for police to 3,020.
  
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• VIRUS TODAY: Deaths drop, but health experts urge vigilance

  12-03-2021 23:15
  
  Here’s what’s happening Friday with the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.:
  THE NUMBERS:
  VACCINES: More than 65.9 million people, or 19.9% of the U.S. population, have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some 35 million people, or 10.5% of the population, have completed their vaccination.
  CASES: The seven-day rolling average for daily new cases in the U.S. decreased over the past two weeks from 69,891 on Feb.
  
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• McConnell backs new process to fill Kentucky Senate vacancy

  12-03-2021 23:10
  
  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Mitch McConnell has given his blessing to legislation to change how a vacant U.S. Senate seat would be filled in Kentucky. A McConnell ally says the bill most certainly doesn’t signal an opening is contemplated. The bill was advanced by a Kentucky House committee Friday. That leaves it one step away from clearing the legislature. The measure would remove the Democratic governor’s ability to make his own choice if a Senate seat opened up. Republicans hold b
  
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• Cardinals face tough choices on which veterans to keep

  12-03-2021 23:09
  
  The Arizona Cardinals have some tough choices ahead in trying to decide which veterans to keep as they push for a playoff berth for the first time since 2015. The Cardinals are waiting to see if receiver Larry Fitzgerald is returning for his 18th season. They also have to make decisions on cornerback Patrick Peterson, running back Kenyan Drake and linebacker Haason Reddick. The Cardinals have already made one big move when they signed three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year J.J. Watt to a tw
  
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• Stay or go? Fence, Guard pose Capitol security questions

  12-03-2021 23:01
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nobody, it seems, wants to keep the security fence around the U.S. Capitol anymore — except the police who fought off the horrific mob attack on Jan. 6. Lawmakers call the razor-topped fencing “ghastly.” That, along with armed National Guard troops stationed at the Capitol for two more months, is raising questions from lawmakers. Some say it’s too much security, not at all representative of the world’s leading icon of democracy. Others privat
  
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• US resumes aid to Yemen’s rebel north as famine threatens

  12-03-2021 23:00
  
  The United States is resuming humanitarian assistance to Yemen’s rebel-held north to counter a looming famine in the country. U.S. Yemen envoy Tim Lenderking made that announcement Friday. A Saudi-led coalition has been fighting since 2015 to dislodge Iran-allied Houthi rebels who’ve seized much of Yemen’s north. The Trump administration cut much of its aid to Yemen last year, saying the Houthis were diverting humanitarian assistance to themselves. U.S. officials say they are r
  
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• Documentary Screening on Homelessness in Tucson

  12-03-2021 23:00
  
  Tucson photographer and filmmaker Patrick McArdle has spent years documenting the life and struggles of homeless populations. First spending six months photographing the homeless in San Diego in stark black and white, McArdle says that project felt unresolved because of the city’s lack of effort to fix the problem.…
  
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• Black Lives Matter backs Amazon union push in Alabama

  12-03-2021 22:51
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Organizers trying to form the first union at an Amazon warehouse are getting support from another big name: Black Lives Matter. The advocacy group plans to hold an event Saturday near the warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, making it the latest high-profile supporter of the union push, the biggest in Amazon’s nearly 30-year history. Union organizers say most of the workers in the warehouse are Black, and the backing from Black Lives Matter could help further legitimize th
  
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• NC officer under investigation after flashing apparent white power symbol in photo

  12-03-2021 22:44
  
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  ANSON COUNTY, NC (CNN) - A North Carolina police chief says his department is investigating one of its officers for allegedly flashing the white power sign in a family photo.African American community leaders in Wadesboro say this is not the first time they have had issues with the officer in question."I was so shocked that he did it so blatantly," Jeffery Bennett, Anson County resident said. "I wasn't shocked that he did it because we all know his history and pretty much his mind
  
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• Task force urges independent oversight of St. Louis jail

  12-03-2021 22:39
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — A task force appointed to examine concerns about a St. Louis jail is urging the city to create an independent oversight board to help oversee the lockup. Task force leaders shared the group’s findings with Mayor Lyda Krewson on Friday. Its chairman, the Rev. Darryl Gray, called the creation of an oversight board an “urgent priority.” Inmate frustration at the downtown City Justice Center boiled over in the predawn hours of Feb. 6, when 117 inmates got out
  
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• EXPLAINER: How will US make more shots available by May 1?

  12-03-2021 22:39
  
  President Joe Biden’s pledge that all U.S. adults will be eligible for coronavirus vaccines by May 1 puts a new challenge in front of the nation. To achieve that goal, the federal government must deliver doses to hundreds of new vaccination sites and recruit more health care workers to administer the shots — all within in the next seven weeks. The government also aims to simplify the often-frustrating sign-up process and to bring shots to communities that are having the hardest time
  
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• US says ranger tried to diffuse run-in before using Taser

  12-03-2021 22:38
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The National Park Service says a ranger used a stun gun on a man who identifies as Native American after trying repeatedly to diffuse a confrontation on federal land in New Mexico. The agency said Friday that an internal investigation determined the ranger’s actions at Petroglyph National Monument were consistent with policy and appropriate given the circumstances. Darrell House posted video that drew outcry from Indigenous activists. House, who identifies as
  
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• D-backs coach McKay breaks rib, cuts spleen in dugout fall

  12-03-2021 22:38
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona Diamondbacks first base coach Dave McKay suffered a broken rib and lacerated spleen after a fall in the dugout earlier this week. Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said the 70-year-old McKay was wearing a new pair of shoes on Tuesday, tripped on the bottom step of the dugout and fell against the bench. He quickly recovered and stayed at the park, but began to feel more pain on Wednesday morning and that’s when the extent of the injury was discovered. Lovu
  
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• Mesa police arrest suspect in theft of car with boy inside

  12-03-2021 22:33
  
  MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Surveillance video, cellphone tracking and some good old-fashioned detective work helped lead police in Arizona to a suspect accused of stealing a car parked outside a convenience store with a 2-year-old boy inside. Mesa police located the BMW with the unharmed boy inside about 90 minutes after it was stolen last Friday. They arrested 24-year-old Rodrigo Garcia on Thursday and booked him on suspicion of three felonies, including kidnapping. Police say Garcia told officer
  
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• ‘Obamacare’ boost easy for some, but others face paperwork

  12-03-2021 22:27
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Some consumers will find it quick and easy to take advantage of generous health insurance subsidies in the new COVID relief package, but others face extra paperwork and a wait, federal officials said Friday. Biden’s “Obamacare” expansion reduces costs for new customers, for those already enrolled in the program, for people who experience unemployment this year, and it may also help many whose incomes were too high to previously qualify for subsidies. New
  
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• Arizona Republican Party chair sued over party election

  12-03-2021 22:22
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Two candidates for the Arizona Republican Party’s executive committee who lost their January elections are suing state party Chair Kelly Ward to force an audit of the results. The lawsuit filed Friday in Maricopa County Superior Court by William Beard and Sandra Dowling also names the state party. The lawsuit says there were concerns about ballot security and overall confusion after Jan. 23 state party elections. Dowling was initially declared a winner of one at-large
  
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• Governors applaud Biden’s vaccine timeline, but need supply

  12-03-2021 22:14
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Governors are applauding President Joe Biden’s declaration that all Americans should be eligible for coronavirus vaccinations by May 1. But the goal will require a shift for states that have been methodical in how they roll out the shots. Governors in Florida and Colorado say they’ll meet the goal ahead of time, and a handful of other state leaders say they’re on track to hit it. But they’re adding that it must come with a dramatic increase
  
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• Stocks mostly shake off a weak start, edge to more records

  12-03-2021 22:13
  
  Stocks are closing mostly higher on Wall Street, shaking off an early slide and notching more record highs for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Drops in several big technology companies, however, pulled the Nasdaq lower. The S&P 500 edged up 0.1% after spending nearly all day in the red, while the Dow added 0.9%. The Nasdaq fell 0.6%. Another climb in bond yields helped pull money out of Big Tech companies, which have started to look expensive after months of soaring thr
  
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• Workload worries: MLB teams ponder how to protect pitchers

  12-03-2021 22:10
  
  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The challenge of balancing the present and the future is nothing new for Major League Baseball teams. They’re particularly careful with young star pitchers, often limiting innings to keep them healthy. The calculus might be even tougher in 2021 because pitchers are coming off a much smaller workload during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. Most pitchers threw 60 to 80 innings last season but will now ramp up to 180 to 200 in a full season. Teams are conside
  
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• Tanzanian PM rejects claims COVID-denying leader is unwell

  12-03-2021 22:08
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzanian government officials are denying opposition assertions that the country’s COVID-denying president is sick with the disease due his nearly two week absence from public view. The prime minister said Friday that President John Magufuli is busy with office duties and called on the public to ignore widespread reports that he is unwell. Magufuli announced in June last year that Tanzania had defeated COVID-19 through three days of prayer. The country, one of
  
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• Bolivia: Arrest order for former interim president, others

  12-03-2021 22:05
  
  LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s former interim president says she faces an arrest warrant for terrorism and sedition as prosecutors move against officials who backed the ouster of former leader Evo Morales, which his party — now back in power — considers a coup. Jeanine Añez who headed a conservative administration that took power after Morales resigned in November 2018. His Movement Toward Socialism party regained power in last year’s elections. Á&nt
  
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• Ty Gibbs heads to desert seeking another surprise NASCAR win

  12-03-2021 22:04
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Ty Gibbs pulled off a stunning upset by winning his first career race at the NASCAR national level. His victory in the Xfinity Series race at Daytona last month led to an additional 14 races on his national schedule. The 18-year-old grandson of Joe Gibbs will make his second start on Saturday at Phoenix Raceway. He’ll first race in Friday night’s ARCA Series event. Gibbs is racing for the ARCA championship but dabbling in Xfinity for an eventual move to t
  
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• ‘Gonna be sore:’ La. troopers boasted of beating Black man

  12-03-2021 22:04
  
  New court filings show Louisiana State Police troopers joked in a group text about beating a Black man after a high-speed chase last year, saying the beating would give the man “nightmares for a long time.” The May 2020 arrest of Antonio Harris bears strong resemblance to the State Police pursuit a year earlier that ended in the still-unexplained death of Ronald Greene. Jacob Brown is one of the troopers charged in Harris’ beating. He resigned from the State Police on Wednesday
  
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• The Latest: Dr. Deborah Birx joins George W. Bush Institute

  12-03-2021 21:50
  
  WASHINGTON — Former White House coronavirus coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx is joining the George W. Bush Institute as a senior fellow.
  Birx, who was tapped by former Vice President Mike Pence to manage the Trump administration’s response to the pandemic, clashed with President Donald Trump and other officials who moved to set aside science and promote “reopening” the country. Birx, who initially was interested in a job in the Biden administration, faced criticism for not sp
  
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• Man charged in NJ slaying, questioned in 4 deaths extradited

  12-03-2021 21:49
  
  WOODSTOWN, N.J. (AP) — A man who is a person of interest in the death of his ex-wife and three others in New Mexico has been extradited to New Jersey for a separate murder investigation. Sean Lannon was arrested in St. Louis on Wednesday morning after a manhunt stretching from New Jersey to Missouri ended when he was arrested driving a car stolen from the New Jersey victim. Authorities say that Lannon was processed this morning and is now in custody at Salem County Correctional Facility. L
  
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• Union seeks vote of 87 workers at Nissan Tennessee plant

  12-03-2021 21:47
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A union wants to hold a vote for representation of 87 workers out of thousands at the Nissan vehicle assembly plant in Tennessee. The company opposes the push by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers because the effort doesn’t stretch more broadly across the workforce at the Smyrna plant, about 25 miles from Nashville. The union says an overwhelming majority of the highly specialized tool and die maintenance technicians have signale
  
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• Okahoma prep game broadcaster denounced for racist comments

  12-03-2021 21:46
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An announcer for a live stream of an Oklahoma girls high school basketball game cursed and called one team by a racial epithet as the players kneeled during the national anthem. The incident occurred before the Norman High School-Midwest City quarterfinal game. The broadcasters told their listeners on the NFHS Network stream they would return after a break and then one, apparently not realizing the audio was still live, used the epithet as the Norman players kneeled. &
  
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• The Latest: Dr. Deborah Brix joins George W. Bush Institute

  12-03-2021 21:40
  
  WASHINGTON — Former White House coronavirus coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx is joining the George W. Bush Institute as a senior fellow.
  Birx, who was tapped by former Vice President Mike Pence to manage the Trump administration’s response to the pandemic, clashed with President Donald Trump and other officials who moved to set aside science and promote “reopening” the country. Birx, who initially was interested in a job in the Biden administration, faced criticism for not sp
  
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• Labor movement targets Amazon as a foothold in the South

  12-03-2021 21:34
  
  BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) — The South has never been hospitable to organized labor. But that may be changing, with an important test in Alabama, where thousands of workers at an Amazon campus are deciding whether to form a union. Labor organizers and advocates see the David-and-Goliath fight as a potential turning point in the region with a long history of undervalued labor and entrenched hostility to collective bargaining rights. A win could have economic and political ripples for the movement
  
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• Cyprus peace group condemns arrests over ‘Love Erdogan’ sign

  12-03-2021 21:26
  
  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Left-wing peace organizations on both side of Cyprus’ ethnic divide have condemned the arrest in the breakaway north of four Turkish Cypriot activists for allegedly damaging signs that professed adoration for Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan. The Cyprus Peace Council umbrella group said in a statement Friday that the arrest of four Sol Hareket movement members is part of an attempt to “muzzle our Turkish Cypriot compatriots for their political belief
  
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• WOMEN: Cats using hiatus to get up shots

  12-03-2021 21:21
  
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  TUCSON (KVOA) -- No. 11 Arizona quietly returned to the lab this week to try and prepare for the program’s first appearance in the NCAA Tournament in 16 years. The week-long wait for the expected March 15 announcement is being met with a sense of unease as the Wildcats (16-5) have lost three of their last four games. UA was the No. 2 seed at the Pac-12 Tournament but failed to make the final, falling in the semis
  
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• Named a head coach at 20? Pima CC’s Smith reaching goals ‘earlier in life than expected’

  12-03-2021 21:15
  
  TUCSON – At 21, Marcus Smith is already in unique company. …
  
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• Whitmer offers plan to supply propane after pipeline closes

  12-03-2021 21:11
  
  TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is releasing a plan to provide adequate supplies of propane in Michigan if a controversial pipeline is shut down. The Democratic governor wants Enbridge to decommission Line 5, which carries oil and liquids used in propane. Her plan calls for more state investment in rail and propane storage infrastructure and pledges efforts to find new suppliers. It proposes more energy efficiency and greater use of other sources, including renewables. En
  
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• Gunmen abduct 39 students from school in northwest Nigeria

  12-03-2021 21:11
  
  LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities say gunmen have attacked a school in northwestern Nigeria and kidnapped 39 students just weeks after a similar attack in the region blamed on bandits. The latest abduction took place Thursday night at the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization in Nigeria’s Kaduna state. The state’s commissioner for International Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, said the missing students are both male and female. The latest kidnapping comes just week
  
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• Conflict grows between US and allies over vaccine supply

  12-03-2021 20:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of coronavirus vaccine doses are in cold storage in the U.S. but can’t be injected because they are not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration. But the Biden administration is not yet allowing those doses to be sent overseas, where American allies are struggling to get enough vaccine for vulnerable populations. U.S. partners are prodding President Joe Biden to release supplies of AstraZeneca’s vaccine that are sitting idle, noting that the a
  
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• Brazil reaches deal for 10 million shots of Russian vaccine

  12-03-2021 20:39
  
  SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s federal government says it has reached a deal to purchase 10 million doses of the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, though the shot is yet to be approved by the South American nation’s health agency. The Brazilian Health Ministry said on Twitter Friday that the jabs will be imported by União Química, a company with experience based on other medical products. Brazil’s government expects to receive 400,000 shots in Apri
  
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• Cuomo defiant as wave of lawmakers calls for him to resign

  12-03-2021 20:35
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Facing unprecedented political isolation, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is insisting he won’t step down after allegations of sexual harassment. On Friday, the third-term Democratic governor condemned the sprawling coalition of Democrats calling for his resignation as “reckless and dangerous.” He says he “did not do what has been alleged.” He also has faced sweeping criticism for keeping secret how many nursing home residents died of COVID-19 f
  
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• Thousands of ideas offered for Vegas mass shooting memorial

  12-03-2021 20:33
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — More than 5,100 responses have come in to a panel planning a permanent memorial to the 2017 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip that became the deadliest in modern U.S. history. Ahead of a deadline on Sunday, Clark County officials said an online questionnaire about the 2017 massacre has drawn responses from Nevada and states including California about where a memorial should be located and other ideas. The 1 October Memorial Committee wants to identify a location, size, desig
  
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