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• NSI Nursing Services approved for homebound vaccine distribution

  26-03-2021 23:58
  
  TUCSON - NSI Nursing Service on the Eastside has been approved to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine by Pima County and now they're hoping to get it to as many homebound patients as possible.NSI has been trying to get the vaccine for their patients for more than 5 months and finally got approval this last Tuesday.Dawn Witt is the administrator with NSI and she said, "We have been working on this since November. Lots of zoom calls, everything was remote and then we got the call. They said
  
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• TPD: 50-year-old arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting two in desert

  26-03-2021 23:53
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - A 50-year-old man was taken into custody Thursday in connection to an investigation of the sexually assault of two women.According to Tucson Police Department Chief Magnus, the man, who has not yet been identified, was arrested after detectives "recovered multiple pieces of evidence, used DNA analysis, obtained multiple warrants, (and) did tenacious follow-up which linked (the) suspect to other rapes."TPD said the 50-year-old is suspected sexually assaulting two women in the dese
  
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• Alabama, Georgia, pick up the pieces after deadly tornadoes

  26-03-2021 23:44
  
  NEWNAN, Ga. (AP) — Stunned residents are picking through rubble and communities are banding together to rebuild after tornadoes tore a swath of destruction across the Deep South. At least five people were killed in Thursday’s violent weather. Meteorologists say an estimated eight tornadoes swept through Alabama and two hit Georgia on Thursday. They blame “supercell” thunderstorms. The bad weather continued in other parts of the South. On Friday, officials warned of floodi
  
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• FEMA vaccination sites to close as California ramps up shots

  26-03-2021 23:43
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to stop operating two mass vaccination sites in California next month, just days before the state makes everyone 16 and older eligible for a shot. The two sites in Oakland and Los Angeles opened in February for eight-week pilot programs that will conclude April 15. The sites will give out the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the final two weeks to ensure people don’t need to schedule a second appointment elsewh
  
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• Democrats use state voting laws to fuel federal overhaul

  26-03-2021 23:41
  
  Democrats are seizing on new voting restrictions in Georgia to focus attention on the fight to overhaul federal election laws. They’re setting up a standoff that carries echoes of the civil rights battles of a half-century ago. In fiery speeches, pointed statements and tweets, party leaders are decrying the law signed by the state’s Republican governor as specifically aimed at suppressing Black and Latino votes and a threat to democracy. President Joe Biden calls the law outrageous a
  
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• Daily Mail seeks to reverse order denying trial credentials

  26-03-2021 23:37
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A British newspaper has asked the Minnesota Court of Appeals to swiftly throw out a judge’s order denying it credentials for a former police officer’s trial in George Floyd’s death. Hennepin County Chief Judge Toddrick Barnette on Wednesday sanctioned the London-based Daily Mail for publishing video from police body cameras before its public release. He alleged the footage had been “stolen,” and denied the newspaper access to the media cente
  
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• LSU coach accused of ignoring sexual harassment allegation

  26-03-2021 23:36
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A 74-year-old woman told state lawmakers she spoke directly to Louisiana State University football coach Ed Orgeron about sexual harassment she allegedly endured in 2017 from one of his star players. But the woman, a grandmother, said Orgeron did nothing to reprimand then-LSU running back Derrius Guice when the player harassed her while she was working at her Superdome security job in 2017. The football coach denies ever speaking with Gloria Scott. Her testimony cam
  
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• Montana man pleads not guilty in US Capitol breach

  26-03-2021 23:26
  
  MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man has pleaded not guilty to charges filed for his alleged role in the breach of the U.S. Capitol in January and is asking the judge to release him from custody pending trial so he can provide for his family. Jerod Hughes of East Helena entered not guilty pleas to nine charges, including some that are felonies.  Prosecutors say Hughes and his brother, Joshua Hughes, climbed through a window and were among the first 10 rioters to enter the Capitol. Pro
  
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• FAA investigating pilot whose X-rated rant was recorded

  26-03-2021 23:14
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Federal officials are investigating a Southwest Airlines pilot whose X-rated rant about liberals in Northern California was captured on air traffic control transmissions. A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed the investigation Friday. He says FAA rules prohibit pilots from talking about things other than the flight while taxiing and at low altitudes. It happened earlier this month as a Southwest plane was getting ready to take off from San Jose, Califo
  
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• Proposed Arizona mine passes federal regulatory hurdle

  26-03-2021 23:13
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The proposed Rosemont Mine in Arizona has passed one federal regulatory hurdle after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decided that the project no longer needs a Clean Water Act permit. The federal agency said Wednesday that the mine is not covered by the Clean Water Act because of Trump administration changes to federal rules that govern which streams receive regulatory control. The decision still does not permit the mine to be built. Other legal hurdles remain before
  
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• #StopAsianHate rallies take place across nation after Atlanta spa shooting

  26-03-2021 23:12
  
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  PITTSBURGH, Penn. (NBC News) - Rallies took place nationwide Saturday in solidarity with the Asian American community following last week's Atlanta spa shooting.Protesters held a "Stop Asian Hate" rally in Pittsburgh Saturday afternoon.They were joined by actress Sandra Oh, who called on community members to reach out to each other in times of need.Another "Stop Asian Hate" rally took place in Chicago's Logan square where protesters denounced racism and hatred targeting Asian A
  
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• Michigan attorney general ends campus probe tied to Nassar

  26-03-2021 23:00
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan attorney general is ending her investigation of what Michigan State University might have known about Larry Nassar, the sports doctor who assaulted gymnasts. Dana Nessel says she can’t move forward because the university has refused to provide thousands of documents. Michigan State says it won’t change its position that the documents are protected by attorney-client privilege. Nassar was a campus doctor who is now serving decades in prison for
  
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• Twins coach Mike Bell, brother of Reds manager, dies at 46

  26-03-2021 22:56
  
  FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Minnesota Twins bench coach Mike Bell has died of kidney cancer. He was 46. He’s the younger brother of Cincinnati Reds manager David Bell. The Twins planned to play their exhibition game as scheduled Friday night, at the request of Bell’s family to take the field in his honor. Mike Bell is survived by his wife and three children. He had surgery in January to remove a growth that was discovered earlier that month. He spent one season with the Twins. Prio
  
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• Beverly Cleary beloved author of Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins dies at age 104

  26-03-2021 22:54
  
  Joe Shlabotnik
  NEW YORK (AP) — Children’s author Beverly Cleary, the writer behind the popular characters Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins, has died.
  She was 104. Cleary's publisher HarperCollins announced that the author died Thursday in Northern California, where she had lived since the 1960s. No cause of death was given.
  Trained as a librarian, Cleary penned more than 30 books, which sold millions of copies, saying she began writing because children told her there were no stories
  
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• Defense contractor pleads guilty to sharing classified info

  26-03-2021 22:52
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman who worked as a contract linguist for the U.S. military in Iraq has pleaded guilty to sharing classified information with a romantic interest linked to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Mariam Taha Thompson was arrested last year in an espionage case that investigators said put the lives of American military members and confidential sources at risk and represented a significant breach of classified information. She pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in Wa
  
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• The eviction moratorium is expiring. What will Biden do?

  26-03-2021 22:45
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is cutting things close on a nationwide eviction moratorium, which is set to expire in less than a week. Housing advocates are expressing confidence that the ban running through March 31 will be extended. But they also warn that the existing moratorium hasn’t been a blanket protection and that thousands of families have still been evicted. Many of these advocates are calling for the moratorium to be strengthened. Meanwhile,
  
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• LSU coach accused of ignoring sexual harassment complaint

  26-03-2021 22:43
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A 74-year-old woman told state lawmakers she spoke directly to Louisiana State University football coach Ed Orgeron about sexual harassment she endured in 2017 from one of his star players. But the woman, a grandmother, said Orgeron did nothing to reprimand then-LSU running back Derrius Guice when the player harassed her while she was working at her Superdome security job in 2017. The football coach denies ever speaking with Gloria Scott. Her testimony came at the s
  
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• Spain: Catalan separatists fail on 1st try to pick new chief

  26-03-2021 22:32
  
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A dispute among Catalonia’s separatists has scuttled a first attempt by the parliament of Spain’s restive northeast to elect a new regional chief. Pere Aragonès failed Friday to win the endorsement of the regional legislature based in Barcelona to form a government after he received only 42 votes. That left him far from the 68 “yes” votes needed for the required absolute majority of the 135-seat house. The separatist Together for Catal
  
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• Biden assails Ga. voting law as ‘atrocity,’ Kemp lashes back

  26-03-2021 22:30
  
  President Joe Biden says a Republican-sponsored overhaul of Georgia’s elections laws is an “atrocity.” In response, Georgia’s governor accuses the president of trying to “destroy the sanctity and security of the ballot box.” Biden is urging Congress to move quickly to bolster voting rights across the U.S. in response to the Georgia law. Biden commented after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law new restrictions on voting by mail and greater legislative cont
  
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• Beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary dies at 104

  26-03-2021 22:30
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Children’s author Beverly Cleary, the writer behind the popular characters Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins, has died. She was 104. Cleary’s publisher HarperCollins announced that the author died Thursday in Carmel, California, where she had lived since the 1960s. No cause of death was given. Trained as a librarian, Cleary penned more than 30 books, which sold millions of copies, saying she began writing because children told her there were no stories about kids
  
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• Pirates prospect Gonzales focusing on present, not future

  26-03-2021 22:26
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Pirates top prospect Nick Gonzales is trying to absorb what he can during his first spring training. The Pirates grabbed Gonzales with the seventh overall pick in the 2020 first-year player draft with an eye toward making him their second baseman of the future. The 21-year-old Gonzales says he is in no rush to get to the majors and is simply happy to play games after last year’s minor league season was canceled. Gonzales hit his first home run of spring t
  
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• News outlet Indian Country Today has new a owner: itself

  26-03-2021 22:22
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Indigenous news organization Indian Country Today has changed ownership. The National Congress of American Indians on Friday transferred its interests in the outlet to IndiJ Public Media, a newly incorporated Arizona nonprofit. Indian Country Today has operated as an independent limited liability company under NCAI since 2017, when the Oneida Indian Nation donated the outlet to the country’s oldest and largest tribal organization. It will now operate as an independent
  
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• EXPLAINER: What does Georgia’s new GOP election law do?

  26-03-2021 22:20
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — The sweeping rewrite of Georgia’s election rules that was signed into law by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp represents the first big set of changes since former President Donald Trump’s repeated, baseless claims of fraud following his presidential loss to Joe Biden. Georgia has been at the center of that storm. Trump zeroed in on his loss in the state, even as two Democrats won election to the U.S. Senate in January, flipping control of the chamber to their party. Ge
  
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• Feds charge Arizona man in National Guard holdup in Texas

  26-03-2021 22:17
  
  LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Federal officials have charged a man accused of forcing off a West Texas road a National Guard convoy transporting COVID-19 vaccines, then holding 11 Guard soldiers at gunpoint. Federal prosecutors say 66-year-old Larry Harris of Willcox, Arizona, is charged with assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon. Police say Harris followed the three National Guard vans from a gas station and tried multiple times to run them off the road before turning his vehicle into
  
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• UArizona proposes no tuition increase for incoming resident students, 1.4% for nonresidents

  26-03-2021 21:59
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. — As the Arizona Board of Regents prepares to hear tuition proposals for the 2021-2022 academic year, the University of Arizona has proposed no increase in base tuition for all new resident undergraduate students and a 1.4% increase for new nonresident undergraduate students.According to UArizona, the tuition rates will be guaranteed for four years under the university's Guaranteed Tuition Plan. All continuing students will see no increase.In addition, UArizona also proposes
  
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• ‘Stay the course to prevent COVID-19 spike’: PCHD releases Public Health Advisory

  26-03-2021 21:58
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Health officials in Pima County released a Public Health Advisory Friday afternoon.
  The advisory comes out as Arizona's Gov. Doug Ducey announced the lift of the state's COVID-19 mitigation measures on Thursday.
  Soon after the announcement was made, Pima County health officials released a statement saying they "disagree" with the governor's executive order.
  In its advisory, the county is asking the community and local businesses to continue wearing face coverings when in public o
  
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• VP to focus on border diplomacy; no immediate plans to visit

  26-03-2021 21:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris won’t be on the ground at the U.S. border anytime soon as she leads efforts to address a rise in migrants trying to enter the country. Spokeswoman Symone Sanders on Friday ruled out a trip to the Southwest border in the immediate future for the vice president. Sanders emphasized that Harris is expected to focus on addressing the root causes of migration, much of it from the Northern Triangle countries of Central America. But Sanders told
  
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• Virginia House speaker calls for July marijuana legalization

  26-03-2021 21:56
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s House speaker says she supports moving up the date for legalizing adult recreational use of marijuana to this summer. That is a key change pushed by advocates who have sharply criticized legislation recently approved by lawmakers that would delay legalization until 2024. Democratic Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn announced on Twitter that she will back an amendment to the bill with a July 1 legalization date. Filler-Corn says she will also push for other am
  
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• Indiana nurse allegedly removed COVID-19 patient’s oxygen

  26-03-2021 21:56
  
  CLARKSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana nurse has been charged with practicing medicine without a license for allegedly removing a nursing home resident’s oxygen mask hours before he died from COVID-19 last year. Fifty-two-year-old Connie Sneed was charged Thursday with the felony in the April 2020 death of a man who was a resident at a nursing home in the Ohio River city of Clarksville. Authorities began investigating his death after learning of a social media post Sneed made wh
  
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• Business as usual: Thousands cross Mexico’s southern border

  26-03-2021 21:54
  
  FRONTERA COROZAL, Mexico (AP) — On the day this week that Mexico imposed new measures at its southern border to shut down non-essential crossings, 1,200 migrants crossed from Guatemala at a single remote jungle outpost without showing a document to anyone. A man who helps board the migrants for the five-minute trip across the Usumacinta River knows because each migrant received a ticket. Mexico wants to again appear cooperative, like in 2019, when under threat of tariffs from then-Presiden
  
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• The Latest: UN-backed program disappointed in vaccine delays

  26-03-2021 21:52
  
  GENEVA — A leader of the U.N.-backed program to ship COVID-19 vaccines to needy people in low- and middle-income countries has expressed disappointment about supply delays from a key Indian manufacturer, but says he hopes the United States can begin sharing shots soon.Dr. Seth Berkley, the CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, said doses for health care workers and other high-risk groups in such countries to be delivered through the COVAX program will be set back weeks.He was elaborating on a
  
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• UN renews mandate of North Korea experts, asks missile probe

  26-03-2021 21:47
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution to renew the mandate of U.N. experts monitoring sanctions against North Korea hours after members met to discuss Pyongyang’s latest test firings of banned ballistic missiles. They were the first since U.S. President Joe Biden took office on Jan. 20 and appeared aimed at increasing pressure on his administration following the 2019 collapse of nuclear negotiations between then President Donald Trump an
  
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• Ruling denying adoption by same-sex Nebraska couple reversed

  26-03-2021 21:45
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has reversed a ruling by a Dixon County judge who denied a same-sex couple’s petition to adopt a child. The reversal comes in the case of two married women who sought last year to adopt a 3-year-old child. Dixon County Judge Douglas Luebe denied the petition, saying he had no jurisdiction to grant the request to the women, who were listed in their petition as “wife and wife,” because a law dictionary defined “wife”
  
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• S&P 500 returns to a record high after best day in weeks

  26-03-2021 21:39
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks burst to their best day in three weeks Friday, helping Wall Street to return to record heights and avoid what could have been a second straight weekly loss. The S&P 500 added 1.7%, and both it and the Dow set all-time highs. Some of the biggest gains came from companies whose profits are likely to jump the most if COVID-19 vaccinations and massive spending by the U.S. government juice the economy as much as economists expect. Banks got a boost from some loos
  
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• Snap-decision defense may not work for Minneapolis officer

  26-03-2021 21:36
  
  For most police officers going on trial, the argument that they made a split-second decision in a life-or-death situation often carries significant weight for a jury. It’s a reason why officers are so rarely convicted. But it’s an argument that’s almost certainly not available to Derek Chauvin, the fired Minneapolis police officer who goes on trial Monday in George Floyd’s death. Bystander video caught him pinning Floyd’s neck with his knee for about nine minutes ev
  
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• UN-backed program laments vaccine supply woes, looks to US

  26-03-2021 21:33
  
  GENEVA (AP) — A leader of a U.N.-backed program to ship COVID-19 vaccines to needy people in low- and middle-income countries has expressed disappointment about supply delays from a key Indian manufacturer, but says he hopes the United States can begin sharing shots soon.  Dr. Seth Berkley of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, said Friday doses for health care workers and other high-risk groups in such countries to be delivered through the COVAX program will be set back weeks. A day earlier,
  
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• Sao Paulo governor seeks tests of 1st Brazilian COVID-19 jab

  26-03-2021 21:30
  
  SAO PAULO (AP) — The governor of Sao Paulo says he will seek federal approval for phase 1 and 2 trials of Brazil’s first homemade COVID-19 vaccine candidate. Gov.  João Doria said in a press conference his state’s Butantan Institute has concluded promising trials in animals in India and could deliver shots in July, pending quick approval from Brazil’s health regulator. He expects trials in Brazil to start next month, and Vietnam and Thailand will also particip
  
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• Dr. Christ: Health department has authorized Pima County to work with FEMA

  26-03-2021 21:27
  
  PIMA COUNTY, Ariz. (KVOA) -Arizona's top health officials said Friday afternoon that the health department has authorized Pima County to work with FEMA.
  Last week, the state had rejected the offer.
  JUST IN: @AZDHS Director Cara Christ says the health department has authorized Pima County to work with #FEMA to bring a fedeally-run vaccine site to Pima County. Last week the state rejected the offer. But now the county can work with feds independent of state. @KVOA— Eric Fink (@EricMillerFin
  
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• ADHS: Health department has authorized Pima County to work with FEMA

  26-03-2021 21:27
  
  PIMA COUNTY, Ariz. (KVOA) -Arizona's top health officials said Friday afternoon that the health department has authorized Pima County to work with FEMA.
  Last week, the state had rejected the offer.
  JUST IN: @AZDHS Director Cara Christ says the health department has authorized Pima County to work with #FEMA to bring a fedeally-run vaccine site to Pima County. Last week the state rejected the offer. But now the county can work with feds independent of state. @KVOA— Eric Fink (@EricMillerFin
  
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• Correction: Police Review Boards story

  26-03-2021 21:09
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — In a story March 25, 2021, about proposed legislative changes to rules governing police civilian review boards, The Associated Press misspelled Rep. John Kavanagh’s last name as KavanaughThe post Correction: Police Review Boards story appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Thousands cross Mexico’s southern border despite new efforts

  26-03-2021 21:07
  
  FRONTERA COROZAL, Mexico (AP) — On the day this week that Mexico imposed new measures at its southern border to shut down non-essential crossings, 1,200 migrants crossed from Guatemala at a single remote jungle outpost without showing a document to anyone. A man who helps board the migrants for the five-minute trip across the Usumacinta River knows because each migrant received a ticket. Mexico wants to again appear cooperative, like in 2019, when under threat of tariffs from then-Presiden
  
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• Stocks climb, erasing weekly losses for the S&P 500 index

  26-03-2021 21:06
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose on Wall Street Friday, erasing the market’s losses from earlier in the week and avoiding a second straight weekly drop for the S&P 500. The index rose 1.7% Friday, and some of the biggest gains came from companies whose profits are likely to jump the most if COVID-19 vaccinations and massive spending by the U.S. government juice the economy as much as economists expect. Bank stocks got a boost from some loosening of regulatory restrictions by the Feder
  
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• Arizona GOP wants felony for protesters who damage statues

  26-03-2021 21:06
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Republicans in the Arizona Legislature are reacting to last year’s wave of damage to Confederate monuments by civil rights protesters by trying to make it a felony to damage any public or private monument. Rep. John Kavanagh supported his proposal at a Senate committee hearing Thursday by saying public monuments are a statement by the community that demand more protection. Democrats call Kavanagh’s an effort to criminalize protests against pro-slavery statues. Th
  
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• The Latest: Czech Republic votes, extends state of emergency

  26-03-2021 21:02
  
  PRAGUE — The Czech Republic’s lower house of Parliament has voted to extend the state of emergency in one of the hardest hit European Union countries till April 11. The house’s approval enables the government to keep in place a tight lockdown through Easter that ends on April 5.
  Among the restrictions that became effective on March 1, people have been banned from traveling to other counties unless they go to work or have to take care of relatives. They are part of the measures
  
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• Biden assails Georgia voting law as an ‘atrocity’

  26-03-2021 21:02
  
  President Joe Biden is calling a sweeping Republican-sponsored overhaul of Georgia’s elections laws “outrageous” and an “atrocity.” He’s urging Congress to move quickly to bolster voting rights across the U.S. in response. Biden commented after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law new restrictions on voting by mail and greater legislative control over how elections are run. Biden says that amounts to “Jim Crow in the 21st Century.” Biden assaile
  
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• Tech company founder gets 8 years in prison for stock fraud

  26-03-2021 20:56
  
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The former CEO of a northern Virginia tech startup has been sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to duping investors out of more than $18 million by lying about the company’s financial performance. Forty-one-year-old Daniel Boice was sentenced Friday in federal court. He pleaded guilty in December to fraud. Defense lawyers had sought a five-year sentence but Judge T.S. Ellis III accepted prosecutors’ recommendation of eight years. Boic
  
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• Feds arrest armed Colorado man after remark about Boulder

  26-03-2021 20:46
  
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Court records show an Iowa gun store refused to sell a semi-automatic rifle to a heavily armed and agitated Colorado man who said he was surprised his friends didn’t suspect he was the Boulder mass shooter. Federal agents say Adam Vannoy made the remark Tuesday when he was trying to purchase an AR-style rifle from Sportsman’s Warehouse in Ankeny, Iowa. The store denied the sale and notified federal authorities. Vannoy allegedly said he had 500 rounds of a
  
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• Biden calls Georgia voting law ‘Jim Crow in 21st century’

  26-03-2021 20:43
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden is criticizing Georgia’s new voting law again. Biden said Friday that the law’s Republican sponsors were trying to deny people the right to vote and that the measure represented an attack on the Constitution. The Democratic president renewed his call for Congress to approve nationwide voting standards in a major bill that passed the Democratic-controlled House earlier this month. The legislation faces opposition from Republicans who call it a
  
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• Biden assails Georgia voting law as ‘outrageous’

  26-03-2021 20:42
  
  President Joe Biden is calling a sweeping Republican-sponsored overhaul of Georgia’s elections laws “outrageous.” He’s urging Congress to move quickly to bolster voting rights across the U.S. in response. Biden commented after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law new restrictions on voting by mail and greater legislative control over how elections are run. Biden says that amounts to “Jim Crow in the 21st Century.” Biden assailed provisions in the Georgia la
  
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• Saints’ Lattimore suspected of possessing stolen handgun

  26-03-2021 20:34
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Police in Cleveland say New Orleans Saints cornerback Marshon Lattimore has been arrested there on suspicion of possessing a weapon. A Cleveland police spokesperson says Lattimore was arrested Thursday night in Cleveland after authorities stopped a car he was riding in for traffic violations. Police say Lattimore had a loaded handgun that had been reported stolen in a Cleveland suburb. Lattimore is suspected of receiving stolen property and failing to inform an officer he
  
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