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• Chicago cop may be in trouble after posting negative Yelp review

  17-03-2021 23:54
  
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  CHICAGO (CNN) - A Chicago police officer may have violated a department policy by posting a negative yelp review.Not because of the review itself, but because it included his picture in a uniform.Rock and Roll Vintage Guitars in Ravenswood has been closed to in-store browsing for a year. Signs on the door make that quite clear."Because we have two to three guys working here, we are all unvaccinated," Andrew Marrah, the store's general manager said.So imagine Marrah's surprise when
  
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• Not NCAA Property: Players push for reform on social media

  17-03-2021 23:53
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Some of the top players at the March Madness tournament in Indiana are speaking out against the NCAA. Isaiah Livers of Michigan, Geo Baker of Rutgers and Jordan Bohannon of Iowa were among the players who took to social media demanding equal rights. They used the hashtag #NotNCAAProperty. They want the OK to earn money for things like sponsorship deals, online endorsement and personnel appearances. The NCAA is in the process of changing its rules to allow athletes to pr
  
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• Trump’s taxes in hand, Manhattan DA’s probe heats up

  17-03-2021 23:46
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors are asking new questions about former President Donald Trump’s Seven Springs estate. Among other things, they’re trying to determine whether the value of the century-old mansion was improperly inflated to reduce the former president’s taxes. That’s according to a person who wasn’t authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. Trump’s former personal at
  
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• EXPLAINER: What’s the Senate filibuster and why change it?

  17-03-2021 23:43
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are debating changes to the filibuster. President Joe Biden said the Senate should operate like it did in the “old days,” with senators forced to stand up and speak all day and night if they plan to object to his legislative agenda. It’s an idea backed by some Senate Democrats eager to change filibuster rules to advance Biden’s agenda. But Republicans are warning Democrats off any changes. It takes 51 votes to change the Senate rules, a t
  
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• Mars rover sends back grinding, squealing sounds of driving

  17-03-2021 23:41
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s newest Mars rover has sent back the first-ever sounds of driving on the red planet. The grinding, clanking, banging noises are part of a 16-minute raw audio feed released Wednesday by Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Good thing it’s not a car here on Earth. Otherwise, says one Perseverance rover team member, you might want to call a tow truck. Perseverance’s six wheels are made of metal, thus all the strange bangs and other noises. The rover l
  
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• The Latest: Native American vaccination clinic set for Tulsa

  17-03-2021 23:40
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY — Health officials for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the federal Indian Health Service plan to provide 4,000 coronavirus vaccinations to Native Americans and members of their households during a two-day clinic in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
  Officials said Wednesday that any member of a federally recognized tribe as well as members of their households, whether tribal members are not, are eligible for an appointment to receive the vaccine.About 21,000 of the Creek nation’s estimat
  
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• S. Az. Humane Society takes on Hermitage No-Kill Cat Shelter in March Muttness

  17-03-2021 23:40
  
  The Humane Society of Southern Arizona continues to advance in the 2021 March Muttness, moving on to the Furry Four to take on another Tucson animal rescue organization, The Hermitage No-Kill Cat Shelter & Sanctuary. …
  
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• Kansas governor calls bill on trans athletes ‘regressive’

  17-03-2021 23:33
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly is deriding a proposed Kansas ban on transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s school sports as “regressive” as conservative Republicans prepare to advance it in the GOP-controlled Legislature. Kelly predicted Wednesday ahead of a state Senate debate on a bill that would enact such a ban that the policy would make it more difficult to recruit businesses to the state. But supporters dismissed her criticism, and the mea
  
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• Caretaker PM Rutte seen as winning most seats in Dutch vote

  17-03-2021 23:31
  
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch voters have pushed Prime Minister Mark Rutte towards a fourth term in office in a general election, bolstering his conservative party’s position as the biggest in parliament and boosting a key ally into second place, an exit poll suggests. The Ipsos poll Wednesday for national broadcaster NOS forecast that Rutte’s People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy would win 36 seats of the 150 seats in the lower house of parliament. Rutte has bee
  
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• Bitterly divided House panel OKs big school voucher bill for Arizona

  17-03-2021 23:31
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A bitterly divided Arizona House committee has advanced a massive expansion of the state’s school voucher program just over two years after voters overwhelmingly rejected universal school vouchers.
  Republicans called the measure already passed by the full Senate a lifeline for 600,000 low-income students who would become entitled to state funding for private school tuition.
  Minority Democrats argue it will siphon money from already-underfunded public schools and go aga
  
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• Treasury says state tax cuts OK if separated from virus aid

  17-03-2021 23:28
  
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department says states can cut taxes without penalty from a federal pandemic relief law — so long as they use their own funds to offset those cuts. Republican governors, lawmakers and attorneys general in numerous states have expressed concern about the relief act signed by President Joe Biden. It prohibits states from using federal aid “to either directly or indirectly” offset a reduction in tax revenue. A treasury spokesperso
  
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• New Mexico governor signs alcohol bill OK’ing home delivery

  17-03-2021 23:27
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The governor has signed a sweeping liquor reform law that will allow home delivery in New Mexico.
  The bipartisan law makes it easier for businesses to get a liquor license. To compensate existing license holders, it provides for a tax break.
  Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says she signed the reform in part to increase revenue opportunities for the hospitality industry, which has been hit hard by shutdowns during the pandemic. The bill directs officials to study the effec
  
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• Man arrested on weapons charge near vice president’s home

  17-03-2021 23:20
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities in Washington, D.C., have arrested a Texas man near the vice president’s official residence on a weapons charge. Vice President Kamala Harris has not yet moved into the home, which is undergoing renovations. The Metropolitan Police Department says in a statement issued Wednesday that the man was seen on Massachusetts Avenue and then detained by Secret Service stationed near the residence following an intelligence bulletin from Texas. Police say Paul Murr
  
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• Ex-CEO at Goodyear charter school gets prison in fraud case

  17-03-2021 23:18
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A former CEO at a now-closed Goodyear charter school has been sentenced to four years in prison in a fraud case. State prosecutors say Daniel Hughes also was ordered to pay restitution for his role in the theft of more than $2.5 million from the Arizona Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Federal Communications Commission. The Bradley Academy of Excellence abruptly closed its doors in January 2018. Authorities
  
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• Woman refuses to wear mask in Texas, again, gets arrested

  17-03-2021 23:15
  
  GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — An Oregon woman who was recorded on police body camera video refusing to wear a mask at a Texas bank has been arrested after declining to wear a mask inside another Texas business. Police say they arrested 65-year-old Terry Wright on Wednesday at the Office Depot in Texas City. She already had a warrant out for her arrest after she refused to wear a mask in a Bank of America branch in Galveston, Texas, last Thursday. Police say she was arrested on Galveston warrants
  
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• Texas man charged in connection with deadly migrant crash

  17-03-2021 23:15
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who drove a pickup truck involved in a deadly head- on crash near a Texas border city following a police chase that left eight migrants dead has been named in a criminal complaint. Federal authorities said two people in the car that 24-year-old Sebastian Tovar hit remain hospitalized in stable condition. The complaint says 12 other undocumented immigrants were detained in connection with the same human smuggling attempt. The collision happened weeks after o
  
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• AP EXPLAINER: Why Georgia attack spurs fears in Asian Americans

  17-03-2021 23:14
  
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  CHICAGO (AP) — Asian American lawmakers have expressed outrage and heartbreak over the shootings at three Georgia spas.
  The attacks Tuesday are the latest in a wave of attacks against Asian Americans since the coronavirus entered the United States.
  Nearly 3,800 incidents have been reported to Stop AAPI Hate, a California-based reporting center for Asian American Pacific Islanders, and its partner advocacy groups, since March 2020.
  Lawmakers point to anti-Asian rhetoric fr
  
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• For Biden, questions about Cuomo grow harder to ignore

  17-03-2021 23:10
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The growing calls for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign are testing President Joe Biden’s relentless effort to avoid the day-to-day distractions of the political world as he tries to navigate a historic confluence of crises. Biden’s team has been trying to sell its $1.9 trillion COVID relief package to the public. But Biden has in recent days been pulled into the debate over the fate of the governor who became the national face of his party’s pandemic r
  
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• Scientists in US and Canada set to battle murder hornets

  17-03-2021 23:01
  
  SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Scientists in the U.S. and Canada are opening new fronts in the war against so-called murder hornets as the giant insects begin establishing nests this spring. The scientists said Wednesday that the battle to prevent the apex predators from establishing a foothold in North America is being fought mostly in Whatcom County, Washington, and the nearby Fraser Valley of British Columbia, where the hornets have been spotted in recent years. Paul van Westendorp of the Britis
  
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• Tanzania’s populist President John Magufuli has died at 61

  17-03-2021 22:59
  
  NAKURU, Kenya (AP) — President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic in Africa whose populist rule often cast his East African country in a harsh international spotlight, has died. He was 61 years old. Magufuli’s death was announced on Wednesday by Vice President Samia Suluhu, who said the president died of heart failure. Magufuli had not been seen in public since the end of February and top government officials had denied that he was in ill health even as rumors sw
  
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• AP EXPLAINS: Is the US border with Mexico in crisis?

  17-03-2021 22:57
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Migration flows to the U.S. from Mexico are surging for the third time in seven years under Republican and Democratic presidents — and for similar reasons.
  Numbers grew steadily over President Donald Trump's final months in office but demographics shifted more recently. Families and children traveling alone, who enjoy more legal protections and require greater care than adults, have accounted for 29% of all Border Patrol encounters in February, up from 13% two months
  
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• Lebanon president to PM designate: Form Cabinet now or quit

  17-03-2021 22:54
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s president is calling on the prime minister-designate to form a government immediately or step aside as the country plunges deeper into economic crisis. The call comes months after Saad Hariri was named to the post. Lebanese President Michel Aoun said in a televised statement on Wednesday that Cabinet lists proposed by Hariri didn’t meet the minimum requirements needed to preserve national accord. Aoun urged Hariri to meet him at the presidential palace s
  
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• Man charged with killing 8 people at Georgia massage parlors

  17-03-2021 22:53
  
  (Crisp County Sheriff's Office via NBC News Channel This booking photo shows Robert Aaron Long on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Long was arrested as a suspect in the fatal shootings of multiple people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors, most of them women of Asian descent, authorities said.
  ATLANTA (AP) — A white gunman has been charged with killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors in an attack that sent terror through the Asian American community. Robert Aaron Long told p
  
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• Warning issued not to drink Vegas-based ‘Real Water’ product

  17-03-2021 22:52
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Health officials are warning people not to drink a Las Vegas-based bottled water brand, Real Water, after linking it to liver illness in five hospitalized children. Company President Brent Jones on Wednesday said stores should stop selling the product until the issue is resolved. It comes in boxy blue plastic bottles labeled “alkalized” and “infused with negative ions” at stores in Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and the Los Angeles area. The comp
  
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• Maryland lawmakers approve $577M to settle HBCU lawsuit

  17-03-2021 22:52
  
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland General Assembly has passed a measure to set aside $577 million over 10 years to settle a federal lawsuit that raised allegations of discrimination and underfunding at the state’s four historically Black colleges and universities. The House of Delegates gave the bill final approval Wednesday on a 120-14 vote. That sends the measure to Gov. Larry Hogan, who vetoed a similar bill last year after citing economic difficulties created by the COVID-19 pan
  
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• EXPLAINER: Role of alternate jurors in ex-officer’s trial

  17-03-2021 22:47
  
  Attorneys in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death are wrangling over not just the 12 jurors who will decide the verdict but also two alternates. Derek Chauvin’s trial is moving forward amid national attention around Floyd’s death, plus a pandemic that could potentially disrupt proceedings expected to last several weeks. That’s why the two alternates will play an important role, ready to sub in for other jurors who are unable to
  
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• House passes domestic violence bill, pushes issue to Senate

  17-03-2021 22:46
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — With a nod to Women’s History Month, the Democratic-led House has passed two measures, one designed to protect women from domestic violence, the other to remove the deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.  The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act passed 244-172 on Wednesday with 29 Republicans joining Democrats in supporting the legislation. The resolution to repeal the ERA’s ratification deadline passed 222-204. Both measur
  
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• Cards add WR A.J. Green, C Rodney Hudson in pair of moves

  17-03-2021 22:42
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals made a pair of big offseason moves, adding seven-time Pro Bowl receiver A.J. Green on a one-year deal and trading for three-time Pro Bowl center Rodney Hudson. The Cardinals acquired Hudson and a seventh-round pick in the upcoming draft from the Raiders and will send a third-round pick back to Las Vegas. The 32-year-old Green has played nine seasons in the NFL, all for the Cincinnati Bengals. He made the Pro Bowl in each of his first seven seasons
  
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• California officials appeal for Asian attorney general

  17-03-2021 22:42
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Elected officials from California’s Asian and Pacific Islander communities want Gov. Gavin Newsom to appoint an attorney general of Asian descent. They said at a Wednesday news conference that it’s critical to have a top law enforcement official who understands and will combat rising anti-Asian violence. Newsom, a Democrat, will appoint the state’s next attorney general if Xavier Becerra is confirmed as the federal health secretary. California is
  
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• Report: World demand for gasoline may never recover

  17-03-2021 22:41
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The world’s once-insatiable demand for gasoline is unlikely to recover to pre-pandemic levels. That’s according to the International Energy Agency. Gasoline use cratered during the pandemic as cities shut down and many people began working from home. Many governments also have been pushing for low-carbon alternatives. The agency, however, still expects oil demand to continue to rise as developing countries with growing populations use more of the fuel. But gasol
  
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• ‘A moving moment.’ Grandma prescribed a post-vaccine hug

  17-03-2021 22:41
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — For Laura Shaw Frank, seeing her mother hug her daughter for the first time since the onset of the pandemic was a light at the end of the tunnel. Frank’s mother and daughter hugged for the first time last week after they were fully vaccinated. A note from the family doctor gave Evelyn Shaw the all clear to hug her 23-year-old granddaughter Ateret once they had been vaccinated. Frank said coming together as a family during religious holidays is the next challenge. Afte
  
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• Severe weather: Storms batter the South with more on the way

  17-03-2021 22:34
  
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) —  A wave of storms is pounding the Deep South, leaving a trail of splintered trees and damaged buildings. And forecasters said still more severe weather was on the way Wednesday with the potential for massive tornadoes, downpours and hail the size of tennis balls. The weather service says roughly 16 million people in the Southeast could see powerful storms through early Thursday. And a region of nearly 3 million stretching from southeastern Arkansas and northeas
  
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• Court tosses $8M verdict in ‘Walking Dead’ stuntman’s death

  17-03-2021 22:26
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — An appeals court has thrown out an $8 million jury verdict awarded to the family of a stuntman who was fatally injured while filming an episode of “The Walking Dead.” The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that civil claims brought by the parents of stuntman John Bernecker were barred by the Workers’ Compensation Act. Bernecker’s family sued AMC Networks, production company Stalwart Films and others after he fell 25 feet from a balcony during a stunt and
  
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• Canada: Detained Canadians to go on trial in China shortly

  17-03-2021 22:21
  
  TORONTO (AP) — The Canadian government says China will soon begin trials for two Canadians who were arrested two years ago in apparent retaliation for Canada’s detention of a senior executive for Chinese communications giant Huawei Technologies.  Foreign Minister Marc Garneau says the Canadian Embassy in Beijing has been notified that court hearings for Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig are scheduled to take place on Friday and Monday. Kovrig and Spavor were arrested in December
  
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• Arizona DPS to investigate Apache Junction police shooting

  17-03-2021 22:21
  
  APACHE JUNCTION, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Department of Public Safety has taken over the investigation into a shooting that involved an Apache Junction police officer. Police say Officer Brian Brugman was shot and wounded Tuesday after a pursuit involving a stolen car. The 29-year-old Brugman was listed in stable condition after undergoing surgery late Tuesday at a Mesa hospital. According to police, the shooting occurred on unincorporated Maricopa County land near Mesa after officers chas
  
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• Navajo Nation to reopen 2 casinos in northwestern New Mexico

  17-03-2021 22:18
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise is planning to reopen two of its casinos this week with reduced capacity. The casinos in northwestern New Mexico near Gallup and Farmington will open Friday after being closed for a year amid the coronavirus pandemic. The move comes as the tribe eases its restrictions on businesses and sees a downward swing in COVID-19 cases and deaths. The casinos will operate at 25% capacity with no food or drink services and allow only resident
  
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• The Daily Saguaro

  17-03-2021 22:16
  
  Today, Tucson Weekly is debuting a new feature, The Daily Saguaro. I'll post a new photo of a saguaro (or saguaros) every day, Monday through Friday.…
  
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• Block a bill? Biden wants old-school Senate filibusters

  17-03-2021 22:16
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden wants the Senate to change its filibuster rules to force senators to stand and talk for hours if they want to block his legislative agenda. It would be a dramatic shift for the Senate, a throwback, embraced by leading Democrats looking for ways to prevent a Republican blockade of the Biden’s priorities. A single senator can now signal an intent to filibuster, setting a 60-vote threshold to advance most legislation. But the “talking filibust
  
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• Wild’s Soucy banned 1 game for high hit on Coyotes’ Garland

  17-03-2021 22:14
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The NHL has suspended Minnesota Wild defenseman Carson Soucy for one game for charging Arizona Coyotes forward Conor Garland. Soucy was given a five-minute major for charging Garland in the first period of Tuesday night’s 3-0 win by Minnesota. Soucy left his feet and made contact with Garland’s head. The league’s Department of Player Safety announced the suspension Wednesday. Soucy will forfeit $23,706.90 based on his average annual salary, with the money
  
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• Wall Street closes higher after Fed says will keep rates low

  17-03-2021 22:08
  
  Stock indexes are closing higher Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it expects its key interest rate to remain near zero through 2023. The central bank’s commitment to keeping rates at rock bottom lows comes even as it forecasts the economy will accelerate this year. Wall Street has been anxious about the potential for higher inflation and has been looking for signs that the central bank shares investors’ concerns. The S&P 500 index finished 0.3% higher. The Dow Jones Indus
  
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• Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died at 61

  17-03-2021 22:05
  
  NAKURU, Kenya (AP) — President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic in Africa whose populist rule often cast his East African country in a harsh international spotlight, has died. He was 61 years old. Magufuli’s death was announced on Wednesday by Vice President Samia Suluhu, who said the president died of heart failure. Magufuli had not been seen in public since the end of February and top government officials had denied that he was in ill health even as rumors sw
  
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• Public reaction to killings at Atlanta-area massage parlors

  17-03-2021 22:05
  
  Politicians, celebrities, activists and athletes are expressing outrage over the killing of eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors. Six of the victims of Tuesday’s shootings were identified as Asian and seven were women. A 21-year-old white man has been charged with eight counts of murder. Police say Robert Aaron Long told them he has a “sex addiction” and that the killings were not racially motivated. But many saw the violence as an attack on Asian Americans, who h
  
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• Treasury says some state tax cuts OK under Biden relief act

  17-03-2021 22:02
  
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department says states can cut taxes without penalty from a federal pandemic relief law — so long as they use their own funds to offset those cuts. Republican governors, lawmakers and attorneys general in numerous states have expressed concern about the relief act signed by President Joe Biden. It prohibits states from using federal aid “to either directly or indirectly” offset a reduction in tax revenue. A treasury spokesperso
  
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• Former worker gets new trial in fake-gun McDonald’s stickup

  17-03-2021 21:59
  
  A man convicted of using a fake gun to try robbing a McDonald’s where he once worked has been granted a new trial. New Jersey’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a trial judge unfairly prevented Thomas Outland from acting as his own attorney. Outland was convicted of conspiracy and possession of an imitation firearm after he and an accomplice were accused of trying to rob a McDonald’s in Union County in 2015. The alleged robbery was foiled when a store employee noticed the shotg
  
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• EXPLAINER: Why Georgia attack spurs fears in Asian Americans

  17-03-2021 21:58
  
  Chicago (AP) — Asian American lawmakers have expressed outrage and heartbreak over the shootings at three Georgia spas. The attacks Tuesday are the latest in a wave of attacks against Asian Americans since the coronavirus entered the United States. Nearly 3,800 incidents have been reported to Stop AAPI Hate, a California-based reporting center for Asian American Pacific Islanders, and its partner advocacy groups, since March 2020. Lawmakers point to anti-Asian rhetoric from politicians, in
  
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• Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died of heart failure, says the East African country’s vice president

  17-03-2021 21:53
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died of heart failure, says the East African country’s vice president.The post Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died of heart failure, says the East African country’s vice president appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Bitterly divided House panel OKs big school voucher bill

  17-03-2021 21:53
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A bitterly divided Arizona House committee has advanced a massive expansion of the state’s school voucher program just over two years after voters overwhelmingly rejected universal school vouchers. Republicans called the measure already passed by the full Senate a lifeline for 600,000 low-income students who would become entitled to state funding for private school tuition. Minority Democrats argue it will siphon money from already-underfunded public schools and go aga
  
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• IRS will delay tax filing due date until May 17

  17-03-2021 21:50
  
  The IRS will delay the traditional April 15 tax filing due date until May 17 to cope with added duties and provide Americans more flexibility, according to a House committee. The IRS and Treasury did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday. The House Ways and Means Committee confirmed and applauded the decision, saying the extension is necessary to give Americans “some needed flexibility” as they continue to navigate the coronavirus pandemic. The extension also giv
  
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• Boil advisory lifted for all of Jackson, one month later

  17-03-2021 21:49
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Jackson residents are finally able to drink the water from the tap after 30 days of boiling their water to get rid of contaminants and sometimes no water at all. Officials lifted a boil water advisory put in place in mid-February when a deep freeze wrecked their water infrastructure. The city’s 43,000 surface water connections were released from the boil advisory Wednesday. A boil notice had previously been lifted for the city’s 16,000 well water connectio
  
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• Lawyer says authorities disregarded Huawei exec’s rights

  17-03-2021 21:46
  
  VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A lawyer for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou is accusing officials involved in her arrest of negligence. He argues there was “deliberate and flagrant″ disregard for her rights. Tony Paisana made the remarks at the start of a British Columbia. Supreme Court hearing on arguments alleging there was misconduct by Canadian and U.S. officials involved in her arrest over two years ago. Meng’s legal team is trying to convince the judge overseeing
  
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