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• Breonna Taylor’s death: A push to limit no-knock warrants

  30-03-2021 23:56
  
  FRANKFORT, Ky (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers have passed a partial-ban on no-knock warrants, more than a year after the death of Breonna Taylor during a police raid on the Black woman’s home. The legislation approved Tuesday heads to Gov. Andy Beshear. Taylor was an emergency medical technician who was shot at her Louisville apartment after being roused from sleep by police during a drug raid. A no-knock warrant was approved as part of the narcotics investigation, but no drugs were found
  
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• Volkswagen issued a false news release, saying it was a joke

  30-03-2021 23:55
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Volkswagen of America issued statements Monday and Tuesday saying it would change its brand name to Voltswagen, then contradicted it Tuesday and said the release was false and a joke. Spokesman Mark Gillies confirmed Tuesday that the statement was a pre-April Fool’s Day joke, after saying Monday that the release was legitimate and the name change was accurate. The false release was distributed again Tuesday, saying the brand name change reflected VW’s switch to m
  
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• Florida man guilty of setting store on fire during unrest

  30-03-2021 23:55
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man has been convicted of setting fire to a sporting goods store and shopping center in Tampa during unrest that followed protests over the death of George Floyd last year. Court records show 20-year-old Terrance Lee Hester Jr. pleaded guilty Tuesday in Tampa federal court to damaging or destroying by fire a building used in interstate commerce. He faces between five and 20 years in prison. Officials say surveillance video shows Hester throwing a flaming piece
  
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• Arizona Senate sends 2nd Amendment bill to governor

  30-03-2021 23:53
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Senate on Tuesday voted to prohibit police and sheriffs from enforcing federal gun laws that violate the 2nd Amendment. Backers said it would ensure that the rights of gun owners are protected from what they say is the potential for overreach by President Joe Biden’s administration. Democrats critics say it will undermine the rule of law and is an unconstitutional measure that will cost taxpayers to defend in court. The measure has already passed the House
  
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• UN takes no action on latest North Korea missile tests

  30-03-2021 23:50
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has taken no action after a brief meeting on North Korea’s latest ballistic missile tests. They were the first since U.S. President Joe Biden took office on Jan. 20 and violated U.N. sanctions. Council diplomats said all 15 members encouraged dialogue and negotiations on North Korea’s nuclear program at Tuesday’s closed meeting but disagreed on the need for a statement. U.N. diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity beca
  
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• Leaders of Russia, France, Germany discuss global crises

  30-03-2021 23:36
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says the leaders of Russia, France and Germany had a call to discuss coronavirus vaccines and a slew of international crises, including the situation in eastern Ukraine, Libya, Syria and the Iranian nuclear standoff among other issues. The Kremlin said that President Vladimir Putin also responded to questions about jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny raised by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron in their “frank an
  
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• TikTok Star on cellphone with fiancee as tree limb kills her

  30-03-2021 23:31
  
  WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) — A motorist was talking on her cellphone to her future wife when powerful winds blew a tree limb onto her car and killed her. Rochelle Hager, of Waterville, was an executive chef who posted popular TikTok videos and was engaged to be married this fall. Brittany Lynn Ritchie told the Morning Sentinel she heard a crash Monday while on the phone with Hager and then silence. Police said 31-year-old Hager died instantly in the crash in Farmington. Winds were gusting grea
  
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• 2 Iowa State students who died when boat capsized identified

  30-03-2021 23:27
  
  AMES, Iowa (AP) — Two Iowa State students who died when a school crew club boat capsized have been identified. The Hamilton County Sheriff’s office and Iowa State police said Tuesday the students were 20-year-old Yaakov Ben-David, of Washington D.C., and 19-year-old Derek Nanni, of Normal, Illinois. They died during practice Sunday on Little Wall Lake, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) north of Ames, Iowa. Three other members of the crew were rescued by people who lived around the lake.
  
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• Man arrested after roommate shot, killed on east side

  30-03-2021 23:23
  
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  TUCSON (KVOA) - A man was charged with second-degree murder after his roommate died from gunshot injuries at an eastside residence Monday evening.According to Tucson Police Department, 42-year-old Devon Dee Lewis was found with obvious signs of gunshot trauma at the 5700 block of East 12th Street near Broadway Boulevard and Craycroft Road.Despite the first-responding immediately rendering first-aid on the 42-year-old, Lewis succumbed to his injuries shortly
  
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• Beyond bridges: Biden redefines infrastructure to add people

  30-03-2021 23:19
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Beyond roads and bridges, President Joe Biden is trying to redefine infrastructure not just as an investment in America the place. He sees it as an investment also in its workers, families and people. The president is preparing to unveil his “Build Back Better” package Wednesday in Pittsburgh. New details and proposals are emerging of a massive investment on par with the New Deal or Great Society programs. Swelling to $3 trillion or $4 trillion, the plan could
  
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• Bill in Washington state would ban private immigration jail

  30-03-2021 23:17
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington Legislature has approved a bill aimed at shutting down one of the country’s largest for-profit, privately run immigration jails. Led by majority Democrats, the the state Senate voted 28-21 Tuesday in favor of the measure that would ban for-profit detention centers in the state. The measure already passed the House and now heads to Gov. Jay Inslee, who opposes for-profit detention centers. The 1,575-bed Northwest detention center in Tacoma is operated by
  
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• Woman accused of striking Arizona trooper with car arrested

  30-03-2021 23:16
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Department of Public Safety officials say a woman who allegedly struck a trooper during an attempted traffic stop in Phoenix has been arrested. They say 18-year-old Salina Avila of Phoenix has been booked into jail on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault on an officer, theft and possession of a dangerous drug. DPS officials say the incident occurred March 6 around 3 a.m.  A trooper clocked a car at more than 100 mph on Interst
  
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• ‘Concrete Cowboy’ shows Philadelphia’s Black cowboy culture

  30-03-2021 23:02
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Historians estimate that 1 in 4 American cowboys were Black but you would be hard pressed to find a movie genre whiter than the Western. “Concrete Cowboy,” an urban Western about African American riders in Philadelphia starring Idris Elba, is about an often unseen — and persisting — Black cowboy culture. “Concrete Cowboy” is a father-son drama set around Fletcher Street Stables, one of the oldest and last-remaining of Philadelphia’s
  
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• UA Women's Basketball Team Is Headed for the Final Four on Friday

  30-03-2021 23:00
  
  Aari McDonald will probably never have to pay for another meal in Tucson for as long as she lives. The Arizona Wildcat All-American point guard—an absolute Diminutive Badass—scored 33 points and made a dramatic late-game return to the court after suffering a cringe-inducing ankle sprain to lead Arizona into the Final Four for the first time in school history.…
  
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• Stimulus payments headed to Social Security recipients soon

  30-03-2021 22:59
  
  Social Security recipients and other federal beneficiaries who don’t normally file a tax return should expect their relief payments soon. The federal government began distributing the third round of economic impact payments in mid-March to millions of Americans. But a paperwork delay temporarily held up payments to Social Security, Supplemental Security Income and Railroad Retirement Board beneficiaries who did not file a 2019 or 2020 tax return or did not use the tool made available on IR
  
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• Student loan relief extended to some privately held loans

  30-03-2021 22:57
  
  The federal government has extended its pause on student loan payments to more than 1 million borrowers who have defaulted on student loans held by private lenders. Tuesday’s action is meant to bring relief to the hardest-hit borrowers in a now-defunct program that provided federally backed student loans through private vendors. President Joe Biden previously halted collection of student loan payments through at least Sept. 30. But it applied only to loans held directly by the federal gove
  
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• The Latest: Variant identified in UK found on Navajo Nation

  30-03-2021 22:51
  
  WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — A coronavirus variant first identified in Britain has been found on the Navajo Nation.Tribal health officials said that the United Kingdom strain was confirmed in a sample obtained in the western part of the reservation.The Navajo Department of Health is working with states and other public health entities to identify any more variant cases.Navajo President Jonathan Nez says the finding reinforces the need for social distancing, wear masks, washing hands and limiting t
  
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• IRS to release stimulus payments to Social Security recipients

  30-03-2021 22:41
  
  (CNN) - Americans who do not usually file taxes will soon receive their part of the stimulus package.
  The Treasury Department and IRS are working on rolling out payments for social security recipients.
  Recipients could receive up to $1,400 as part of the nearly $2 trillion COVID-19 Relief Bill President Joe Biden signed into law.
  Officials say the majority of these payments will be sent electronically and disbursed by direct deposit or existing "direct express" cards.People should expect to rec
  
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• Car crash kills 1, injures another; rail service interrupted

  30-03-2021 22:37
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Officials say a two-vehicle crash killed one driver and severely injured a pedestrian while interrupting light rail service in east Phoenix during the Tuesday morning commute. Police say a woman driving one vehicle was fatally injured in a collision with a second vehicle that witnesses said ran a red light. According to police, one of the vehicles then struck a pedestrian who was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. Both vehicles ended up on the train tracks.
  
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• Brother of Honduran president sentenced to life in drug case

  30-03-2021 22:34
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The brother of Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández has been sentenced to life in prison for his conviction on drug charges. Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernández, a former Honduran congressman, was sentenced Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel also ordered him to forfeit $138 million. He was convicted in October 2019 of charges that carried a mandatory minimum sentence of 40 years in prison. Hernandez’s lawye
  
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• Next slide, please: Inside wonky White House virus briefings

  30-03-2021 22:31
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House coronavirus briefings these days have a more restrained and predictable rhythm to them than the tumultuous sessions of the last administration. In those days, Donald Trump often upstaged the medical experts and delivered questionable information. Biden’s team says its goal is to deliver “just the straight story.” The briefings are more wonky now but still deliver occasional moments of drama. Communications experts say the sessions are reh
  
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• World’s last Blockbuster more popular after Netflix show

  30-03-2021 22:27
  
  BEND, Ore. (AP) — The Blockbuster video rental store in Bend, Oregon soared to international fame when it became the last such franchise on Earth in 2019. Now, a new Netflix documentary called “The Last Blockbuster” has spurred even more visitors to the unassuming location in a strip mall 170 miles east of Portland. The movie focuses on the manager’s day-to-day work running the store, which became the last in the world when the Blockbuster in Perth, Australia, closed two
  
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• Brazil military chiefs quit as Bolsonaro seeks their support

  30-03-2021 22:24
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The leaders of all three branches of Brazil’s armed forces have jointly resigned following President Jair Bolsonaro’s replacement of the defense minister. That’s causing widespread apprehension of a military shakeup to serve the president’s political interests. The Defense Ministry reported  the resignations on Tuesday without giving reasons. Replacements were not named. But analysts expressed fears the president, increasingly under pressu
  
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• 2 ex-Texas sheriff deputies indicted in Black man’s death

  30-03-2021 22:20
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors say two former Texas sheriff deputies have been indicted on manslaughter charges in the March 2019 death of a 40-year-old Black man named Javier Ambler. The announcement Tuesday comes two years after Ambler’s death was filmed by the police reality TV series “Live PD.” The former postal worker was shocked repeatedly with a stun gun after being pulled over in suburban Austin for allegedly failing to dim his headlights to oncoming traffic. Fo
  
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• Motorist was on phone with fiancee when tree limb killed her

  30-03-2021 22:15
  
  WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) — A motorist was talking on her cellphone to her future wife when powerful winds blew a tree limb onto her car and killed her. Rochelle Hager, of Waterville, was an executive chef who posted popular TikTok videos and was engaged to be married this fall. Brittany Lynn Ritchie told the Morning Sentinel she heard a crash Monday while on the phone with Hager and then silence. Police said 31-year-old Hager died instantly in the crash in Farmington. Winds were gusting grea
  
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• Janitor gets 20 years for camera in girls’ locker room

  30-03-2021 22:10
  
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A former janitor at a Florida high school has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for hiding a camera in a girls’ locker room. Records show 45-year-old Jason Brian Goff was sentenced last week in Jacksonville federal court. He pleaded guilty in September to attempted production of child pornography. According to a plea agreement, two 14-year-old girls reported a suspected camera in August 2019 at Clay High School in Green Cove Springs. Officials fou
  
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• In stark warning, Egypt leader says Nile water ‘untouchable’

  30-03-2021 22:08
  
  ISMAILIA, Egypt (AP) — Egypt’s president says his country’s share of the Nile River’s waters are “untouchable” in a stark warning to Ethiopia, which is building a giant dam on the Nile’s main tributary. The comment Tuesday from President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi comes amid a deadlock in talks over the dam between the Nile Basin countries, which also includes Sudan. In a news conference, el-Sissi warned of “instability that no one can imagine” in
  
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• GOP governors ignore Biden’s latest plea on mask mandates

  30-03-2021 22:08
  
  Joe Biden, President of the United States, Photo Date: January 28, 2021
  President Joe Biden’s pleas for states to stick with mask mandates to slow the spread of the coronavirus are being largely ignored.
  Several Republican governors are staying on track to drop the requirement in their states.
  RELATED: Tucson mayor has ‘no intention of removing’ mask mandate after state lifts all COVID-19 mitigation measures
  On Monday, Biden and the director of the Centers for Disease Control
  
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• ‘Lovecraft Country’ part of virtual festival celebrating TV

  30-03-2021 22:05
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Lovecraft Country,” “The Queen’s Gambit” and “What We Do in the Shadows” are among the series featured in a virtual edition of the Paley Center’s annual festival. The event celebrates TV programs and their stars and producers. A 20th-anniversary reunion of the cast and creator of “Six Feet Under” also is part of PaleyFestLA, on demand starting this week on Yahoo Entertainment. This is the second year the festiv
  
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• Democrats dispute police report in Georgia lawmaker’s arrest

  30-03-2021 22:01
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Allies of a Democratic lawmaker arrested last week during a protest of Georgia’s new Republican-backed election law are pushing back on a police report that compares that protest to the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob in January. Democratic Rep. Park Cannon was arrested Thursday after she said she wanted to see GOP Gov. Brian Kemp sign the legislation, which adds new restrictions on mail voting, into law. Cannon was charged with obstruction of l
  
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• Virus variant identified in Britain found on Navajo Nation

  30-03-2021 21:55
  
  WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — A coronavirus variant first identified in Britain has been found on the Navajo Nation. Tribal health officials said Tuesday that the United Kingdom strain was confirmed in a sample obtained in the western part of the reservation. The Navajo Department of Health is working with states and other public health entities to identify any more variant cases. Navajo President Jonathan Nez says the finding reinforces the need for social distancing, wear masks, washing hand
  
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• Volkswagen changing it’s name to ‘Voltswagen?’

  30-03-2021 21:52
  
  (CNN) — Volkswagen of America is looking at making a name change.The automaker says it is switching from Volkswagen to “Voltswagen.” The move is supposed to reflect the company’s new push towards electric vehicles.Volkswagen has already changed it’s official Twitter page.“Volts-wagen” will also appear in ads and on the chrome badges on the back of the company’s electric cars. But the automaker the says the new name will not show up on it’s g
  
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• 2 members of Salt Lake City’s ‘Real Housewives’ arrested

  30-03-2021 21:48
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Two members of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” reality television show have been arrested on federal fraud charges related to a telemarketing scheme. Authorities announced that Jennifer Shah and Stuart Smith were arrested Tuesday in Utah on charges unsealed in New York City. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said Shah portrays herself as a wealthy and successful businessperson on television while Smith is cast as her first assistant. But Strauss say
  
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• UN experts blame Yemen’s Houthis for Aden airport attack

  30-03-2021 21:45
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts say it’s highly likely a deadly missile attack on the airport in Yemen’s key southern port of Aden as the country’s new government was arriving was carried out by Houthi rebels. Yemen’s Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed has said the Dec. 30 attack, which killed at least 25 people and wounded 110 others, was meant “to eliminate” the new government. He blamed the Iranian-backed Houthis. In a key section of the U.N. re
  
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• Donors pledge more than $6 billion to tackle Syria’s crisis

  30-03-2021 21:36
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — Dozens of international donor nations have pledged a total of $6.4 billion in aid to help tackle war-ravaged Syria’s deepening humanitarian and economic crises and help neighboring countries hosting refugees. The annual pledging event Monday and Tuesday was co-hosted by the EU and the United Nations. Syria’s civil war has entered its 11th year without a political solution in sight. The decade of bloodshed has killed more than a half million people and sparked a
  
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• Trump’s launch post-presidency website

  30-03-2021 21:31
  
  (CNN) — The Office of Former President Donald Trump released a statement Monday announcing the launch of Trump and former First Lady Melania’s website.The site, aptly named “The Official website of the 45th President of the United States,” serves mostly as a way to connect with supporters.It gives supporters the chance to do things like request personalized greetings and ask the Trump’s to participate in events.According to the site, it is committed to quote &ldquo
  
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• Bend’s last Blockbuster even more popular after Netflix show

  30-03-2021 21:31
  
  BEND, Ore. (AP) — The Blockbuster video rental store in Bend, Oregon soared to international fame when it became the last such franchise on Earth in 2019. Now, a new Netflix documentary called “The Last Blockbuster” has spurred even more visitors to the unassuming location in a strip mall 170 miles east of Portland. The movie focuses on the manager’s day-to-day work running the store, which became the last in the world when the Blockbuster in Perth, Australia, closed two
  
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• The Latest: Germany restricts use of AstraZeneca vaccine

  30-03-2021 21:27
  
  BERLIN — German health officials have agreed to restrict the use of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine in people under 60, amid fresh concern over unusual blood clots reported in a tiny number of those who received the shots.
  Health Minister Jens Spahn and state officials agreed unanimously to only give the vaccine to people aged 60 or older, unless they belong to a high-risk category for serious illness from COVID-19 and have agreed with their doctor to take the vaccine despite the s
  
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• Brazil army leaders quit as Bolsonaro seeks greater support

  30-03-2021 21:27
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The leaders of all three branches of Brazil’s armed forces have jointly resigned following President Jair Bolsonaro’s replacement of the defense minister. That’s causing widespread apprehension of a military shakeup to serve the president’s political interests. The Defense Ministry reported  the resignations on Tuesday without giving reasons. Replacements were not named. But analysts expressed fears the president, increasingly under pressu
  
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• Arizona Senate proposal would ban nearly all abortions

  30-03-2021 21:19
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A proposal in the Arizona Senate would effectively ban most abortions by making it a felony for a physician to perform the procedure if a fetal heartbeat can be detected. The amendment proposed by Republican Sen. Sine Kerr of Buckeye to an unrelated bill is set for a hearing in the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday. A fetal heartbeat can often be detected as early as six weeks, before many women even know they are pregnant. Abortion rights groups called Kerr&rsquo
  
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• Biden rolls out diverse first slate of judicial nominees

  30-03-2021 21:17
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has named a racially diverse and overwhelmingly female group to federal and other judgeships. His first list of judicial nominees includes three Black women for U.S. courts of appeals. Those courts are considered a pathway to the U.S. Supreme Court. Biden promised as a candidate that he would nominate an African American woman to the nation’s highest court if there’s a vacancy. The nomination list he released Tuesday has nine women and two
  
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• Oscars add UK hub for broadcast after concerns about travel

  30-03-2021 21:12
  
  With less than a month until showtime, the 93rd Oscars are taking another pass at the script. Show producers Steven Soderbergh, Jesse Collins and Stacey Sher remain determined to have an in-person ceremony on April 25 in Los Angeles but told nominees Tuesday in a virtual meeting that they’ve added a British hub after some backlash from nominees about international travel restrictions. The main event will still take place at Los Angeles’ Union station and will include a red carpet com
  
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• New rules to protect turtles from shrimp nets postponed

  30-03-2021 21:09
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The federal government is postponing new rules designed to keep endangered and threatened sea turtles from drowning in some inshore shrimp nets. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it also is considering whether to expand the rules. NOAA Fisheries said Tuesday that coronavirus pandemic restrictions limited in-person workshops and training sessions. So instead of starting Thursday, the new rules will take effect Aug. 1. The rule requires escape hatche
  
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• Hundreds of migrants set out from Honduras, dreaming of US

  30-03-2021 21:08
  
  SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — A few hundred Honduran migrants have set out for the Guatemalan border before in hopes of eventually reaching the United States — though all other recent caravans have been broken up far short of that goal. Young men and women joined families toting small children along a busy six-lane road heading out of San Pedro Sula Tuesday. Calls to form a new migrant caravan had circulated for days, but the turnout was smaller than one that formed January. That c
  
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• Arizona county keeps mask mandate in defiance of governor

  30-03-2021 21:08
  
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  PHOENIX (AP) — Pima County officials say they will continue to enforce a mask mandate to contain the spread of COVID-19 despite Gov. Doug Ducey’s attempt to block public health measures by local governments. Leaders of Arizona’s second largest county said Tuesday that they expect their decision will be challenged but they believe they are on solid ground. Officials say health inspectors will continue enforcing mask requirements in restaurants, and other businesses face fin
  
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• Over 4,000 migrants, many kids, crowded into Texas facility

  30-03-2021 21:03
  
  DONNA, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration for the first time Tuesday allowed journalists inside its main border detention facility for migrant children, revealing a severely overcrowded tent structure where more than 4,000 migrants, including children and families, were crammed into pods and the youngest kept in a large play pen with mats on the floor for sleeping.
  With thousands of children and families arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border in recent weeks and packing facilities, Presiden
  
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• Mark Messier book on leadership, teamwork coming in October

  30-03-2021 21:02
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Hockey great Mark Messier wants fans to know he had a lot of help on his path to the NHL Hall of Fame. Messier’s memoir “No One Wins Alone” will be published in October, by Gallery Books, a Simon & Schuster imprint. Messier, 60, will write about being the son of a hockey player and coach, Doug Messier; a teammate of Wayne Gretzky on the Edmonton Oilers and captain of the New York Rangers, among other highlights. In 2007, the NHL started the Mark Messie
  
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• Lawyer: FBI enlisted Proud Boys leader to inform on antifa

  30-03-2021 20:59
  
  A defense attorney says FBI agents recruited a Proud Boys leader to provide them with information about anti-fascist activists several months before he was charged with joining other members of the far-right extremist group in storming the U.S. Capitol. In a court filing late Monday, the lawyer for Proud Boys organizer Joseph Biggs says the Florida man agreed to provide the FBI with information about “antifa networks” after an agent contacted him in late July 2020 and arranged to mee
  
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• Olympic gold medalist charged with child sex abuse in Utah

  30-03-2021 20:52
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A sledding gold medalist at the 2002 Winter Olympics has been charged with sexual abuse of a child in Utah. Court documents show James “Jimmy” Shea made his first court appearance Monday. Shea’s attorney, Rudy Bautista, said Tuesday that the charges are a result of a family dispute and a misunderstanding about what his client contends was loving and affectionate touching. Bautista says the 52-year-old Shea plans to plead not guilty. The Associated Pr
  
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• Less than half of Americans are members of houses of worship

  30-03-2021 20:50
  
  Membership at churches and other houses of worship is at its lowest levels since the late 1930s, according to a new report from Gallup. Less than half (47%) of Americans surveyed say they are members of a house of worship, down from 70 percent in the mid-1990s. Pollsters at Gallup say the decline correlates to the rise of the so-called Nones, Americans who claim religious affiliation. Gallup’s survey found that about one in five Americans is a None. Gallup also found that even Americans wh
  
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