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• Judge: Arizona GOP must pay $18K in groundless election suit

  15-03-2021 23:38
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A judge ordered the Arizona Republican Party to pay $18,000 in attorneys’ fees that taxpayers were forced to cover to defend against the party’s failed challenge of President Joe Biden’s victory. Judge John Hannah concluded the state GOP brought a groundless claim to court and filed its case for political reasons while claiming it was trying to protect election integrity. A lawyer representing the Arizona GOP said the decision would be appealed. No evidence
  
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• Banner reports 140% spike in hand sanitizer-related emergencies

  15-03-2021 23:37
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Banner Poison and Drug Information Center saw a 140 percent spike in incidents related to hand sanitizer in 2020, according to a new report shared on Monday.According to Banner, poison centers across the United States saw an "increase in exposures to household cleaning products, chemical and medications."Officials said with many residents continue to stay at home during the pandemic, health officials warn of the dangers related to these household products.“Please be alert a
  
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• Huawei CFO lawyer argues new evidence to be submitted

  15-03-2021 23:31
  
  VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A lawyer for Huawei’s chief financial officer is asking a Canadian judge to admit new evidence in her extradition case. Frank Addario says the evidence should be allowed if the prosecution plans to argue that an international bank at the center of Meng Wanzhou’s fraud case suffered a real risk of loan loss as a result of her alleged actions. Meng is accused of misrepresenting Huawei’s control over technology company Skycom in a presentat
  
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• Haaland OK’d at Interior, 1st Native American Cabinet head

  15-03-2021 23:29
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland as interior secretary, making her the first Native American to lead a Cabinet department and the first to lead the federal agency that has wielded influence over the nation’s tribes for nearly two centuries. Democrats and tribal groups hailed Haaland’s confirmation as historic. For the first time a Native American will lead the powerful department where decisions on relations with the nearly 600 federally re
  
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• Georgia Tech honors Fauci with annual social courage prize

  15-03-2021 23:23
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci has accepted an award that honors his courage in leading Americans through an exceptionally partisan pandemic. The leading infectious disease expert appeared via video call during the Monday afternoon ceremony hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology. He ​called the outbreak the most polarizing public health crisis he’s yet endured. The school’s annual Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage recognizes those who stick to their morals
  
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• New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland confirmed as interior secretary; 1st Native American to lead US Cabinet agency

  15-03-2021 23:21
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland confirmed as interior secretary; 1st Native American to lead US Cabinet agency.The post New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland confirmed as interior secretary; 1st Native American to lead US Cabinet agency appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• The Latest: Some CDC guidance under Trump short of standards

  15-03-2021 23:16
  
  NEW YORK — U.S. health officials say some of the guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the Trump administration fell short of the agency’s standards.A review ordered by President Joe Biden’s CDC director found examples of guidance that was not primarily authored by the agency, used softer language than was warranted or did not incorporate all the latest scientific evidence.
  Under then-President Donald Trump, the White House buried or shelved s
  
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• Sharp jump in US Navy transits to counter China under Trump

  15-03-2021 23:14
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Activity by the U.S. Navy in its campaign to challenge China’s efforts to restrict transit in the South China Sea and in the Taiwan Strait increased sharply over the past two years. According to U.S. Navy data, ships maneuvered close to artificial islands claimed by China 10 times in 2019 and another 10 times last year. That’s at least double the annual number going back to 2014. Navy ships sailed through the Taiwan Strait 13 times in 2020, the highest number
  
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• Hundreds of migrants bused to Texas

  15-03-2021 23:11
  
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  MIDLAND, Texas (AP) - Some of the migrants entering the U.S. from Mexico are taken to a holding facility in Midland, Texas.Gov. Greg Abbott says the decision came from the federal government.The migrants, including some children, arrived at the location early Monday.Abbott says he wasn't aware of the moving plans until Saturday night.Officials say the Midland County Sheriff's Office will be keeping close watch on the facility and the surrounding areas to maintain security.The Depa
  
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• New Poll: 42% of Republicans say they probably or definitely will not get COVID-19 vaccine

  15-03-2021 22:55
  
  FRONT ROYAL, Virginia (AP) — There is a growing partisan split when it comes to COVID vaccines.
  A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 42% of Republicans say they probably or definitely will not get the shot, compared with 17% of Democrats.
  That's raising alarms among health experts who fear it could undermine efforts to achieve herd immunity and finally move past a pandemic that has left more than 530,000 dead.
  In interviews this week acros
  
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• The road show begins: VP Harris, Jill Biden promote aid plan

  15-03-2021 22:53
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — From a vaccination site in the desert West to a school on the Eastern Seaboard, President Joe Biden’s top messengers have led off an effort to highlight the benefits of his huge COVID relief plan. Biden’s surrogates — his vice president and wife among them —were on the road Monday, and the president himself will be heading out on Tuesday. The promotion road show began with Harris visiting a COVID-19 vaccination site and a culinary academy in Las Veg
  
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• Suspect wanted after javelina shot in face with arrow in Marana

  15-03-2021 22:51
  
  READER DISCLAIMER: This article includes graphic images that may not be suitable for all audiences. Reader discretion is advised.TUCSON (KVOA) - A suspect is wanted after a javelina was found with an arrow in its face in Marana on Monday.According to Arizona Game and Fish Department, a javelina was transported to the Tucson Wildlife Center after it was reportedly shot in the face with an arrow near Continental Ranch Community Park Monday morning.AZGFD said the javelina sustained a fractured jaw
  
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• Denver’s airport reopens after powerful winter storm

  15-03-2021 22:51
  
  DENVER (AP) — Denver’s airport has reopened after a powerful late winter snowstorm dumped over 3 feet of snow to parts of Colorado and Wyoming over the weekend. Four of the airport’s runways were cleared on Monday, enough to meet current demand following many flight cancellations. Major roadways in eastern Wyoming remained closed. Many schools and state legislatures in both states were also cancelled. The storm also interfered with COVID-19 vaccinations. A spokesperson for the
  
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• Ammon Bundy arrested after missing trial on trespass charge

  15-03-2021 22:47
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Anti-government activist Ammon Bundy has been arrested after failing to attend his trial on charges that he trespassed during an Idaho legislative session last fall. Bundy didn’t appear in the courtroom Monday because he was protesting outside the building instead, apparently angry in part over mask requirements put in place during the coronavirus pandemic. Bundy was joined by about two dozen other protesters. Bundy is representing himself in his trespassing case.
  
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• ‘I don’t need the vaccine’: GOP worries threaten virus fight

  15-03-2021 22:45
  
  FRONT ROYAL, Virginia (AP) — There is a growing partisan split when it comes to COVID vaccines. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 42% of Republicans say they probably or definitely will not get the shot, compared with 17% of Democrats. That’s raising alarms among health experts who fear it could undermine efforts to achieve herd immunity and finally move past a pandemic that has left more than 530,000 dead. In interviews this week
  
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• Andrew Cuomo accuser speaks with investigators for 4 hours

  15-03-2021 22:31
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — One of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s sexual harassment accusers met with investigators working for the state attorney general’s office for more than four hours Monday via Zoom. A lawyer for Charlotte Bennett says that during the interview she revealed new details about Cuomo’s behavior and a “sexually hostile work environment.” Bennett also provided investigators with 120 pages of records. Cuomo, a Democrat, has said that he will cooperate w
  
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• The Latest: Georgia to open vaccinations for most adults

  15-03-2021 22:20
  
  ATLANTA — Georgia threw open the doors for COVID-19 vaccination to a majority of adults Monday, as the state seeks to improve its worst-in-the-nation share of the population that has been inoculated against the respiratory illness.Monday was the first day that people aged 55 to 64 could get shots, as well as people with serious health conditions and those who are overweight and obese.Officials with Gov. Brian Kemp’s office say that, overall, another 3.3 million people are eligible, m
  
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• University of the South reviewing racial insults during game

  15-03-2021 22:18
  
  SEWANEE, Tenn. (AP) — The University of the South in Tennessee is working to identify students who leveled racial epithets at members of the visiting Emmanuel College men’s lacrosse team during a game. In a letter posted on the school’s website, University of the South Vice Chancellor and President Reuben E. Brigety II said some of the school’s students who attended Saturday’s game hurled “appalling epithets directed at people of color” at the Emmanuel t
  
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• Arkansas attorney general sues Walgreens over opioid crisis

  15-03-2021 21:59
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas’ attorney general is accusing Walgreens of fueling the opioid crisis in the state in a new lawsuit. Attorney General Leslie Rutledge filed the lawsuit Monday in state court, accusing the chain of violating the state’s deceptive trade practices law. The suit accuses the company of not doing enough to safeguard against suspicious orders being filled. Walgreens said it will vigorously defend itself against the lawsuit. Rutledge has filed other law
  
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• Estonia’s prime minister tests positive for COVID-19

  15-03-2021 21:57
  
  HELSINKI (AP) — Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has tested positive for COVID-19 and says she will self-quarantine until she has recovered from the virus. The 43-year-old Kallas, who became the Baltic nation’s first female head of government in January, said late Monday she was feeling well apart from a small fever and hasn’t developed any other symptoms. Estonia, a nation of 1.3 million people, has seen a substantially worsened coronavirus situation in the past few weeks a
  
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• Stocks extend gains for fifth day, led by technology shares

  15-03-2021 21:52
  
  Stocks bounced back from a wobbly start Monday to notch a fifth-straight gain, as Wall Street continued to eye the bond market. Treasury yields pulled back from Friday’s sharp increase. The S&P 500 index rose 0.7% to a new high as technology and consumer discretionary shares’ gains were offset by falling banks and energy stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.5%. The Nasdaq Composite jumped 1.1%. Investors focused on the U.S. and global economic recovery from the pande
  
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• Barbara Rickles, widow of comedian Don Rickles, dies at 84

  15-03-2021 21:47
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Rickles, the widow of Don Rickles and a fictionalized target of his comic insults, died on what would have been their 56th wedding anniversary. Her death was confirmed by spokesman Paul Shefrin, who said she died Sunday at 84. Don Rickles cracked jokes about her constantly, but by many accounts, the Rickles had one of the happiest marriages in show business, right up to his death in 2017. She would help produce the Emmy-winning documentary “Mr. Warmth: The Don
  
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• West Virginia woman cleared in false abduction trial

  15-03-2021 21:42
  
  HUNTINGTON, W. Va. (AP) — A West Virginia woman has been cleared of charges that she made up a story about an Egyptian man trying to kidnap her child in a shopping mall. News outlets report a Cabell County jury on Monday found Santana Renee Adams of Milton not guilty of falsely reporting an emergency. Adams was initially hailed as a hero after claiming she used a gun to thwart the attempted kidnapping of her daughter at a Barboursville mall in 2019. She told authorities the man tried to dr
  
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• African court orders release of ally of Maduro wanted by US

  15-03-2021 21:31
  
  MIAMI (AP) — A regional court in West Africa has ordered the immediate release of a Venezuelan businessman close to President Nicolas Maduro after finding that his arrest in Cape Verde on U.S. money laundering charges was unlawful. In its ruling Monday, a Nigeria-based court belonging to the Economic Community of West African States also instructed Cape Verde to cease all extradition proceedings against Alex Saab and compensate him $200,000 for damages  It’s not clear what impac
  
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• Man charged with spitting at Disney guard who asked for mask

  15-03-2021 21:19
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Florida man spat on a security officer at Walt Disney World after she asked him to put on a mask. According to an arrest report released Monday, 51-year-old Kelly McKin is facing a charge of battery following the encounter last month. According to the report, Disney World security officer Kristen Goldstein asked him to put on a mask. McKin told her he would once he was inside the Contemporary Resort. When Goldstein told him Disney’s policy requi
  
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• Miami taps Houston’s top cop for police chief post

  15-03-2021 21:15
  
  MIAMI (AP) — The Houston police chief who forged a national profile by calling for gun control, marching with protesters after George Floyd’s death and criticizing former President Donald Trump was tapped to become Miami’s top cop. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez says he feels he got “America’s best chief,” describing Art Acevedo as the Tom Brady or Michael Jordan of police chiefs. Acevedo spent five years as chief in Houston, overseeing a 5,400-person force. The M
  
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• UN says international diplomacy crucial to end Syria’s war

  15-03-2021 21:13
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Syria says international diplomacy is crucial to end Syria’s 10-year war. Geir Pedersen told the U.N. Security Council on Monday that it’s important to establish a new format to bring together key nations with an influence on the conflict including the United States, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Arab states and the European Union. He said the Syrian conflict is highly internationalized, “with many of the issues that matter most to
  
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• Stocks rise as investors eye bond market; tech shares up

  15-03-2021 21:13
  
  Stocks bounced back from a wobbly start Monday to notch a fifth-straight gain, as Wall Street continued to eye the bond market. Treasury yields pulled back from Friday’s sharp increase. The S&P 500 index rose 0.7% to a new high as technology and consumer discretionary shares’ gains were offset by falling banks and energy stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.5%. The Nasdaq Composite jumped 1.1%. Investors focused on the U.S. and global economic recovery from the pande
  
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• WHO: Vaccine rollout unaffected by concerns over AstraZeneca

  15-03-2021 21:04
  
  GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. health agency says its global rollout of coronavirus vaccines remains unaffected even as a growing number of countries have suspended use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine amid concerns about blood clots in some people who received it. The World Health Organization says the AstraZeneca vaccines being produced for its program called COVAX are being produced in India and South Korea — and the suspensions have been ordered over vaccines made in Europe. COVAX has star
  
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• Immigrant teens to be housed at Dallas convention center

  15-03-2021 21:03
  
  DALLAS (AP) — The U.S. government wants to house up to 3,000 immigrant teenagers at a convention center in downtown Dallas as it struggles to find space for a surge of migrant families who have inundated the border and strained the immigration system just two months into the Biden administration.
  The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center will be used for up to 90 days beginning as early as this week. That's according to written notification sent to members of the Dallas City Council and p
  
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• UArizona expands in-person class capacity to 100 students amid low COVID-19 figures

  15-03-2021 20:59
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - After Arizona saw its lowest COVID-19 figures in months on Monday, the University of Arizona announced that they will allow classes of up to 100 students to meet in-person starting March 29.Back in October, the university decided to cancel all in-person classes after Thanksgiving break in response to the projected holiday surge of COVID-19. As virus cases followed the projections, hitting record-high numbers in the state, UArizona students finished the semester online.When t
  
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• UK police protest response stokes outrage before crime bill

  15-03-2021 20:55
  
  LONDON (AP) — The British police officers’ decision to break up a weekend vigil for a woman killed after being abducted while walking home at night in London has touched off a national debate in Britain. The debate is focused on violence against women but also on the government’s power to restrict protests. Images of burly officers handcuffing women who gathered Saturday night to demand authorities do more to protect them has fueled anger about heavy-handed policing and raised
  
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• US air travel rises to highest levels yet since pandemic hit

  15-03-2021 20:40
  
  Air travel is gaining altitude. More than 1 million people have gone through U.S. airport checkpoints each of the last four days — it was more than 1.3 million on Sunday. That was the first time TSA screened more people than it did on the comparable day in 2020. However, travel is still down sharply from 2019, before the pandemic. Airline stocks are rising after several airlines report that they’ve seen more people booking trips in March. Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian says bookings
  
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• Woman in Uber driver attack to be returned to San Francisco

  15-03-2021 20:38
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A woman arrested in Las Vegas several days after an attack on an Uber driver that was widely viewed on social media agreed Monday to be transferred in custody to San Francisco to face criminal charges. Malaysia King’s court appearance in Las Vegas came just hours after a second woman, Arna Kimiai, surrendered to police in San Francisco to also face robbery, assault and battery, conspiracy and other charges. Her attorney says Kimiai is free on $75,000 bond. In Las Veg
  
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• Brazil’s Bolsonaro moves to arm base, alarming gun experts

  15-03-2021 20:36
  
  SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is pushing to deliver on his promise to arm every person that wants it. His newly-issued gun decrees, which will take effect in April unless congress or courts intervene, worry public security analysts, but excite his base. The two decrees causing most concern would boost the number of guns average Brazilians can own — to six, from four currently — and enable them to carry two simultaneously. Policemen, core supporters of the
  
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• How well do COVID vaccines protect after organ transplant?

  15-03-2021 20:31
  
  A new study is raising questions about how well the COVID-19 vaccines protect organ transplant recipients. They take powerful immune-suppressing drugs to prevent organ rejection. But that may lower vaccine effectiveness. Johns Hopkins University researchers tested about 400 transplant recipients a few weeks after their first vaccine dose and found just 17% had antibodies against the virus. Most people with strong immune systems start building protection right away. Researchers hope the second do
  
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• Grijalva announces bill to reverse land swap for copper mine

  15-03-2021 20:28
  
  SUPERIOR, Ariz. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva has introduced a bill to keep the U.S. Forest Service from turning over land in Arizona for a massive copper mine. The parcel of land in the Tonto National Forest east of Phoenix was set to be transferred to Resolution Copper this week. But the Biden administration pulled back an environmental review that cleared the way for the land transfer to further consult with Native American tribes. The land exchange was included in a must-pa
  
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• Federal agents arrest rapper who was on the run for months

  15-03-2021 20:28
  
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — U.S. Marshals in Tennessee have arrested a Georgia rapper who was wanted for nearly three months after violating his probation by melting off his court-ordered ankle monitor. The Athens Banner-Herald reported Monday that Memphis police said Kwame Khalil Brown was arrested by a U.S. Marshal’s task force Thursday on a fugitive from justice warrant. The 27-year-old Atlanta-based rapper goes by the name Foogiano and is represented by Gucci Mane. The two are also inv
  
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• DeFeo, convicted killer in ‘Amityville Horror’ case, dies

  15-03-2021 20:17
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The man convicted of slaughtering his parents and four siblings in a home that later inspired the “The Amityville Horror” book and movies has died. The state Department of Corrections and Community Services Prison officials said Monday that Ronald DeFeo died Friday at Albany Medical Center. The 69-year-old was taken to the hospital Feb. 2 from a prison in New York’s Catskill Mountains. DeFeo was serving a sentence of 25 years to life in the 1974 killin
  
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• Top Portugal court nixes euthanasia law, says it’s imprecise

  15-03-2021 20:14
  
  LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s Constitutional Court has blocked a law passed by parliament that allows euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill and gravely injured people. The court said Monday the law is imprecise in identifying the circumstances under which those procedures can occur. Portugal’s president asked the Constitutional Court last month to evaluate the law, which parliament passed early this year. The law requires the president’s approv
  
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• Nebraska declares pro-meat day on Colorado meatless day

  15-03-2021 20:12
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts is railing against a proclamation by the governor of Colorado that encourages people to avoid meat for one day a week, calling it a “direct attack on our way of life” and signing a pro-meat declaration of his own. Ricketts surrounded himself with top officials from Nebraska’s meat, agricultural and restaurant industries on Monday as he declared Saturday “Meat on the Menu Day” in Nebraska. The day was chosen to coi
  
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• VP Harris, Jill Biden hit the road to promote relief plan

  15-03-2021 20:06
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses are hitting the road on a cross-country tour this week to highlight the benefits of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan. The road show started Monday with Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, heading to Las Vegas while first lady Jill Biden visited Burlington, New Jersey. The president plans to stop in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, and he has an appearance with Harris in Atlanta on Frid
  
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• Riz Ahmed, Leslie Odom Jr, Vanessa Kirby react to Oscar nods

  15-03-2021 20:02
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Riz Ahmed says he greeted his best actor Oscar nomination with quiet thanks, but leapt for joy when he heard co-star Paul Raci and writer-director Darius Marder’s names called on Monday. Leslie Odom Jr. used the moments after he became a double nominee to reflect on the strength of Sam Cooke, who he played in “One Night in Miami.” They are among the actors who spoke to The Associated Press after receiving Oscar nominations. Thomas Vinterberg called his
  
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• Lin Emery, sculptor of movement, nature, dies at 94

  15-03-2021 20:01
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans-based artist whose delicately balanced moving sculptures can be seen worldwide has died. Lin Emery died Thursday at the age of 94. Emery’s career began when she was 23 and wandered into a Paris studio on a whim and asked about lessons. She found a lasting passion. Her work conveyed the movement of nature, and she often used silver, metallic materials that mirrored the nature around the sculpture. She worked into her 90s on commissions at her studio. H
  
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• Vice President urges calm as Tanzania’s leader still unseen

  15-03-2021 19:59
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s vice president on Monday sought to reassure the nation amid the continuing absence of the country’s president, saying it was “normal” for human beings to suffer colds and other illnesses. Addressing a public rally in Tanzania’s Tanga region, Samia Suluhu offered no update on the whereabouts of President John Magufuli even as she said she had been sent by him to calm the East African nation. “I want to assure you Tanzania
  
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• The Latest: Mississippi makes all adults eligible for shots

  15-03-2021 19:58
  
  JACKSON, Miss. — All Mississippi residents will be eligible for the coronavirus vaccine starting Tuesday. Gov. Tate Reeves made the announcement Monday.“Starting tomorrow, ALL new appointments will be open to ALL Mississippians,” Reeves tweeted Monday. “Get your shot friends – and let’s get back to normal!”
  Vaccinations in Mississippi are currently available for anyone ages 50 or over, staff at K-12 schools, first responders, health care workers and thos
  
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• California ethnic studies debate: Whose stories get told?

  15-03-2021 19:57
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Race and ethnicity can be tricky topics to discuss, especially in the classroom. But the California Department of Education had no idea how heated the debate would get when it set out to draft a model ethnic studies curriculum for high schools across the state. After several years and nearly 100,000 public comments on the curriculum, it is expected to be approved this week. The challenges of creating the curriculum highlight some of the challenges educators will face i
  
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• Three die when car hits 9 people in San Diego; driver in custody

  15-03-2021 19:53
  
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  SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego authorities say a driver plowed through a crowd on a sidewalk in downtown San Diego on Monday morning, killing three people and injuring six others.
  San Diego Police Chief David Nisleit says two are hospitalized in critical condition.
  Police say the driver has been arrested. Nisleit said the 71-year-old man appeared to be driving while impaired.
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• 3 teachers abducted in latest Nigeria school kidnapping

  15-03-2021 19:49
  
  LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in northwestern Nigeria say three teachers have been abducted in the latest attack on a school. The Monday morning kidnappings took place as pupils were arriving at the Rema Primary School in Kaduna state. No pupils were taken by the attackers, though, authorities said. The attack came hours after the Nigerian media circulated a video of some of the 39 students abducted last week from another school in Kaduna state.The post 3 teachers abducted in latest Ni
  
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• Security officials to scale back fencing around US Capitol

  15-03-2021 19:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Security officials are starting to scale back the perimeter fencing surrounding the Capitol. The acting House sergeant-at-arms says in new a memo that the inner perimeter of fencing will be moved closer to the Capitol building this week. Strings of razor wire atop the fence will also be removed. But an inner perimeter of fencing closer to the Capitol will remain in place. How to protect lawmakers while keeping the grounds open to the public has emerged as one of the more
  
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