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• EXPLAINER: Was officer’s knee on Floyd’s neck authorized?

  05-04-2021 23:56
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A critical factor for jurors to consider at Derek Chauvin’s trial in George Floyd’s death is whether he violated the department’s chokehold policy. The Minneapolis Police Department banned chokeholds after Floyd’s death. But at the time of his May 25 arrest, the neck restraint that Chauvin used was permitted under police department policy — provided certain guidelines and conditions were followed. Prosecutors say even if Chauvin’s knee on
  
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• New Utah law requires dads to pay prenatal child support

  05-04-2021 23:54
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new Utah law will require biological fathers pay half of a woman’s out-of-pocket pregnancy costs. The bill’s sponsor has presented the measure as an effort to decrease the burden of pregnancy on women and increase responsibility for men who have children. Critics argue the legislation doesn’t do enough to adequately address maternal health care needs and could make abusive situations even more dangerous. Anti-abortion activists have lauded the bil
  
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• Man arrested after refusing temperature check during $15K Disney vacation

  05-04-2021 23:53
  
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  ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (NBC News) A Louisiana man arrested at Disney Springs for refusing to have his temperature taken.During the ordeal, the man complained that he spent "too much money" on his Disney vacation to be arrested.The Orange County Sheriff's Office has released body cam video showing the Feb. 13 incident.As you can see, deputies confronted 47-year-old Kelly Sills outside the boathouse restaurant and asked him to leave the site.According to the arrest report, sills ski
  
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• Wisconsin cities: Trump should pay legal bills for challenge

  05-04-2021 23:51
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The cities of Green Bay, Kenosha and Racine are asking a federal judge to make former President Donald Trump pay more than $42,000 in legal fees in a case he brought challenging Wisconsin’s presidential election results. The Wisconsin State Journal reported Monday that the request for legal fees comes just days after Gov. Tony Evers asked a court to award the state more than $145,000 in legal fees from Trump related to the same lawsuit. Trump had sought to have t
  
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• EXPLAINER: Minneapolis chief has sought to reform department

  05-04-2021 23:48
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo has been a star witness for the prosecution at the trial of a former officer charged with killing George Floyd. Arradondo, the city’s first Black chief, fired Derek Chauvin and three other officers the day after Floyd’s death. And soon afterward he called Floyd’s death “murder.” In testimony Monday, he said Chauvin’s actions were counter to his training and to department values. It was a famil
  
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• Biden summons public support as GOP bucks infrastructure

  05-04-2021 23:45
  
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  WASHINGTON (AP) — With an appeal to think big, President Joe Biden is promoting his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan directly to Americans. The administration is summoning public support to push past GOP opposition lining up against the plan. Republicans see it as big taxes, big spending and big government. They are making the politically brazen bet that it’s more advantageous to oppose the costly American Jobs
  
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• Wind gusts could reach 30-35 mph for Tucson tomorrow; 45 mph for Cochise county

  05-04-2021 23:44
  
  TUCSON - The heat will begin to return to normal while the winds will increase over the next twenty-four hours.Temperatures will fall back into the upper 80's and lower 90's Tuesday taking us out of record breaking territory.West to northwest winds 15-25 mph are expected Tuesday, with gusts as high as 40 mph in the afternoon. The strongest winds will be in the higher elevations of Cochise county.
  Blowing dust could as be a factor in the afternoon starting near Wilcox and blowing west towards Tuc
  
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• The Latest: CDC says schools don’t need daily disinfection

  05-04-2021 23:38
  
  NEW YORK — The nation’s top health agency is no longer recommending daily disinfection of schools to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance Monday, saying disinfecting chemicals like ammonia and bleach need be used only within 24 hours after an infected person has been there.
  Last summer, the agency recommended strong disinfecting chemicals be used daily to prevent the spread of the virus in classrooms. Earlier this
  
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• Police: Teacher offered $200 for sex with 2-year-old

  05-04-2021 23:30
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school district has fired a fourth-grade teacher charged with offering $200 to have sex with a 2-year-old girl. Palm Beach County schools fired 27-year-old Xavier Alexander on Monday. The county sheriff’s office says Alexander confessed to sending text messages to the girl’s father where he tried to arrange an opportunity to abuse the girl. The father reported the texts to detectives. They impersonated the dad as they arranged a meeting wh
  
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• Man on Nebraska death row for killing girlfriend’s kids dies

  05-04-2021 23:25
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska prison officials say a man who had been on death row since 2003 has died. The total number of condemned inmates in the state now stands at 11. Fifty-five-year-old Arthur Gales died Saturday. He was sentenced to death for the 2000 slayings of two children, 13-year-old Latara Chandler and 7-year-old Tramar Chandler, in Omaha. He received a separate 50-year sentence for the attempted murder of their mother, who was severely beaten. The Nebraska Department of Correc
  
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• Safety concerns bring down largest sugar maple tree in US

  05-04-2021 23:24
  
  KENSINGTON, N.H. (AP) — A sugar maple tree in New Hampshire that is considered the largest in the country has been cut down for safety reasons. The tree had recently been battered by wind storms. There were concerns that its branches could come crashing down on an adjacent 18th century farmhouse in Kensington. The tree was indeed a wonder, standing over 100 feet tall with crown that also spread more than 100 feet and a diameter of around seven feet. Janet Buxton’s family has lived on
  
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• Probe wraps up at Colorado supermarket where 10 were killed

  05-04-2021 23:18
  
  BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Police say they have finished collecting evidence at a Colorado supermarket where a gunman killed 10 people two weeks ago, but the store is still closed. A police spokesperson said Monday that the overall investigation into the March 22 shooting is continuing. With work finished at the store in Boulder, the property has been turned back over to King Soopers, a brand owned by Kroger Co., the United States’ largest grocery chain. It’s not clear when the stor
  
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• Pinch-pounder: Black Keys drummer fills in at Indians opener

  05-04-2021 23:16
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Patrick Carney wasn’t nervous before his first live drumming gig in more than a year, just honored. A lifelong Indians fan and one half of Black Keys, the Grammy Award-winning rock duo from Akron, Ohio, Carney filled in at Cleveland’s home opener for drummer John Adams, who is recovering from heart surgery. Adams missed his first home opener since 1973, ending a run that has featured him sitting high in the left-field bleachers and pounding a steady beat whenev
  
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• Alaska snowstorm strands 5 on North America’s tallest peak

  05-04-2021 23:03
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Five people had to ski through a heavy Alaska snowstorm to a mountain chalet after abandoning their airplanes on a glacier on North America’s tallest peak. The five landed Friday on Ruth Glacier on Denali. A fast-moving storm prevented them from flying off, so they spent the night in their planes. The next morning, they called for help. Two guides were temporarily hired by the National Park Service to guide the five to a chalet. They should be flown off the m
  
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• PCC: Student Services phone numbers are currently not working

  05-04-2021 22:54
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Pima Community College is reporting phone line issues Monday afternoon.
  "Pima’s 520-206-4500 and 520-206-6408 phone lines and various registrar and campus Student Services phone numbers are currently not working," PCC Public Info said in a tweet.
  Students are encouraged to the college's Qless callback service, ow.ly/Yxog50Eh3Hy.
  Pima’s 520-206-4500 and 520-206-6408 phone lines and various registrar and campus Student Services phone numbers are currently not working.
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• Harvey Weinstein appeals conviction, blames ‘cavalier’ judge

  05-04-2021 22:49
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers are demanding a new trial more than a year after his rape conviction. They argued in court papers Monday that that landmark #MeToo prosecution that put him behind bars was buoyed by improper rulings from a judge who was “cavalier” in protecting the disgraced movie mogul’s right to a fair trial. In a 166-page brief filed with a state appellate court, Weinstein’s lawyers took repeated aim at Judge James Burke. They argu
  
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• EXPLAINER: Doctor’s testimony details Floyd’s heart activity

  05-04-2021 22:49
  
  A doctor who treated George Floyd the night he died said Floyd had no pulse and could not be revived by commonly used methods such as shocking his heart back into a normal rhythm. Dr. Bradford Langenfeld testified Monday in the trial of one of the police officers who restrained Floyd the night he died last May.  The doctor said Floyd had “pulseless electrical activity.” That means that some feeble or disorganized electrical activity can be detected on a heart monitor but it&rsqu
  
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• FDA OKs first new ADHD drug in over a decade for children

  05-04-2021 22:39
  
  U.S. regulators have approved the first new drug in over a decade for children with ADHD, which causes inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. The Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to Qelbree late Friday for treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children ages 6 to 17. It’s a capsule taken daily. Unlike nearly all other ADHD medicines, Qelbree is not a stimulant or a controlled substance, making it harder to abuse than older drugs like Ritalin.  Maker
  
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• Houston’s new top cop takes reins as homicides still rising

  05-04-2021 22:36
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s newest police chief has been sworn in during a ceremony in which he asked residents in the nation’s fourth-largest city for their help in bringing down rising crime, including a 37% increase in homicides. Troy Finner officially took the reins Monday of a 5,300-officer police force. Like others across the U.S., the Houston Police Department has seen a rise in violent crime over the past year during the pandemic. Finner succeeds Art Acevedo, who earlier M
  
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• The Latest: Ex-diplomat named as US Global COVID coordinator

  05-04-2021 22:35
  
  WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has appointed a former veteran diplomat and humanitarian aid chief to be a special envoy for U.S. coronavirus vaccine and prevention efforts.
  Blinken announced Monday that he had named Gayle Smith to be America’s Global COVID-19 coordinator as the Biden administration ramps up its efforts to combat the virus at home and abroad.
  “She’s tested. She’s highly respected. She will hit the ground running,” Blinken said.
  
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• Boy Scouts victims committee says claims worth $103 billion

  05-04-2021 22:34
  
  DOVER, Del. (AP) — The official committee representing child sex-abuse victims in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy is seeking permission to file its own reorganization plan. The committee says the BSA’s plan does not fairly compensate victims while shielding local Boy Scouts councils and sponsoring organizations from liability. The plan proposes $300 million from councils for a victims fund and about $115 million in cash and other assets from BSA. It also assigns insurance rights
  
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• Eating our lunch: Biden points to China in development push

  05-04-2021 22:31
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Pushing for trillions of dollars in development spending, President Joe Biden and Democratic lawmakers are pointing to a booming, ambitious China they say is threatening to quickly overtake the United States in global clout and capacity. Biden and top Democrats say the drive to make the United States more competitive in the face of China’s massive infrastructure-building campaign will be a defining aspect of Biden’s administration. Biden says President Xi Jinp
  
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• Lawyer says mediation resolves feud among Jordan royals

  05-04-2021 22:19
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Jordan’s palace and a confidant of a senior royal say mediation has successfully resolved an unprecedented public feud in the royal family. The statements appeared to cap a weekend of palace drama during which King Abdullah II had placed Prince Hamzah, his half brother, under house arrest for allegedly plotting with foreign supporters to destabilize the kingdom. Jordanian authorities had accused Hamzah of being involved in a “malicious plot.” Hamzah has deni
  
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• Pharrell Williams, others honor Virginia man shot by police

  05-04-2021 22:10
  
  VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Grammy-winning musician Pharrell Williams and the Rev. William J. Barber were among those who spoke at the funeral for a Black man who was shot by police in Virginia Beach. Twenty-five-year-old Donovon Lynch was killed March 27 along the city’s popular oceanfront strip shortly after two other shootings unleashed chaos. Police said Lynch had a handgun that was recovered from the scene. But the officer’s body camera hadn’t been activated. An inves
  
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• White House adapts Easter tradition to pandemic

  05-04-2021 22:05
  
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  WASHINGTON — The White House was forced to scratch the annual White House Easter Egg Roll for the second straight year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but that didn’t stop President Joe Biden from giving a nod to the tradition.
  The president on Monday delivered brief remarks from the White House to mark the holiday with his wife, Jill Biden, and the Easter Bunny by his side. The mythical creature was played by the president’s military aide
  
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• Longtime Nebraska death row inmate dies in custody

  05-04-2021 22:04
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska prison officials say a man who had been on death row since 2003 has died. The total number of condemned inmates in the state now stands at 11. Fifty-five-year-old Arthur Gales died Saturday. He was sentenced to death for the 2001 slayings of two children, 13-year-old Latara Chandler and 7-year-old Tramar Chandler, in Omaha. He received a separate 50-year sentence for the attempted murder of their mother, who was severely beaten. The Nebraska Department of Correc
  
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• AP’s Nixon wins News Leader of the Year award from NLA

  05-04-2021 22:00
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The News Leaders Association has given Ron Nixon of The Associated Press its first-ever News Leader of the Year award. Nixon has been global investigations editor at the AP for the past year, and his team produced an award-winning series on labor abuses in the palm oil industry. He was also credited for building diversity and bringing a greater investigative capacity to the company. The association also gave awards to The Guardian, Kaiser Health News and The Los Angeles Tim
  
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• The Latest: Illinois outbreak traced to indoor event at bar

  05-04-2021 21:58
  
  CHICAGO — An indoor event at a rural Illinois bar led to 46 cases of COVID-19, a school closure and one resident of a long-term care facility being hospitalized.
  That’s according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Monday. The Illinois Department of Public health was notified on Feb. 17 of an outbreak.The positive cases include 26 bar patrons, three staff members and 17 secondary cases. The report doesn’t name the establishment or local health depart
  
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• Wrong-way driver ID’d; Among 5 who died in Arizona car crash

  05-04-2021 21:57
  
  MORRISTOWN, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine if a Cave Creek man was driving his pickup truck impaired without headlights on in a fiery crash that killed him and four people in an SUV last week. Arizona Department of Public Safety officials say 37-year-old Michael Glen Sytsma was driving the wrong way on U.S. 60 when it struck an SUV head-on about 10:30 p.m. last Friday in Morristown, some 50 miles northwest of Phoenix. They say Sytsma died in the crash while the SUV burst
  
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• McConnell downplays need for aid to home state’s government

  05-04-2021 21:56
  
  LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has downplayed a new infusion of federal relief for his home state’s government. He questioned the need Monday as the economy rebounds from the COVID-19 pandemic. During a Kentucky event, McConnell touted federal pandemic aid passed last year with bipartisan support. The Kentucky senator was dismissive of the latest round of federal relief championed by Democratic President Joe Biden that passed over united GOP oppos
  
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• Tesla appeals federal order to delete Musk tweet about union

  05-04-2021 21:53
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tesla is asking a court to set aside a federal agency’s order that a Twitter post discouraging union organizing be deleted from CEO Elon Musk’s account. The National Labor Relations Board found that a May 2018 tweet by Musk unlawfully threatened employees with loss of stock options if they decided to be represented by a union. The board ordered that the post be deleted. The March 25 board ruling also orders Tesla to reinstate an employee who was fired for uni
  
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• EXPLAINER: Doctor testifies about Floyd’s heart activity

  05-04-2021 21:48
  
  A doctor who treated George Floyd the night he died said Floyd had no pulse and could not be revived by commonly used methods such as shocking his heart back into a normal rhythm. Dr. Bradford Langenfeld testified Monday in the trial of one of the police officers who restrained Floyd the night he died last May.  The doctor said Floyd had “pulseless electrical activity.” That means that some feeble or disorganized electrical activity can be detected on a heart monitor but it&rsqu
  
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• Police chief: Kneeling on Floyd’s neck violated policy

  05-04-2021 21:47
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis police chief says now-fired Officer Derek Chauvin violated departmental policy in pinning his knee on George Floyd’s neck and keeping him down after Floyd had stopped resisting and was in distress. Chief Medaria Arradondo took the stand on Day Six of Chauvin’s trial in the death of the 46-year-old Black man last May. Arradondo said continuing to kneel on Floyd’s neck once he was handcuffed behind his back and lying on his stomach was &l
  
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• Weinstein appeals conviction blaming ‘cavalier’ judge

  05-04-2021 21:46
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers are demanding a new trial more than a year after his rape conviction. They argued in court papers Monday that that landmark #MeToo prosecution that put him behind bars was buoyed by improper rulings from a judge who was “cavalier” in protecting the disgraced movie mogul’s right to a fair trial. In a 166-page brief filed with a state appellate court, Weinstein’s lawyers took repeated aim at Judge James Burke. They argu
  
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• No egg roll again, but Easter Bunny still visits White House

  05-04-2021 21:46
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is giving a nod to Easter tradition even though the White House was forced to scratch its annual Easter Egg Roll for the second straight year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The president and first lady Jill Biden appeared on a White House balcony Monday with a mask-wearing Easter Bunny. In brief remarks, Biden said the virus had forced many Americans to forgo “familiar comforts of the season,” but he expressed hope that people would be ab
  
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• Gaetz says he won’t resign over ‘false’ sex allegations

  05-04-2021 21:42
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Embattled Rep. Matt Gaetz says he will not resign from Congress. The Florida Republican made his statement less than a week since reports emerged that he’s under federal investigation for possible sex crimes. Gaetz wrote a column that appeared Monday in the Washington Examiner, a conservative news outlet. Gaetz denies accusations that he had sex with an underage girl. He also suggests he’s being targeted by political foes because he “loathes the swamp.&r
  
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• Federal lawsuit alleges brutality by Rochester police

  05-04-2021 21:34
  
  A lawsuit accuses Rochester officials of allowing a culture of police brutality against racial minorities to fester in the New York city and asks a court to force reforms. The civil rights lawsuit was filed on behalf of named and unnamed residents it says have been victimized by officers over the last three years, including while protesting last year in the wake of the restraint and death of Daniel Prude. The 96-page federal lawsuit names the city of Rochester, Monroe County, Mayor Lovely Warren
  
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• Washington state apple exports drop substantially in 2020-21

  05-04-2021 21:33
  
  YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state apple industry officials say the fruit’s exports have dropped substantially compared to recent figures. Data from the Washington Apple Commission says the state exported 18.8 million 40-pound boxes of apples from the 2020-21 crop as of last week, which is down 20.5% from this time last year and down 16.4% compared to the 2018-19 shipping season. And while nearly 28% of state-produced apples were shipped abroad, the percentage of exports for the 2
  
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• Red Flag Warning issued April 5 at 1:30PM MDT until April 6 at 8:00PM MDT by NWS Tucson AZ

  05-04-2021 21:30
  
  * AFFECTED AREA…The eastern half of fire weather zone 151, themajority of fire weather zones 152 and 153, and the easternmountain ranges of fire weather zone 154. This does notinclude the Alpine District of the Apache-Sitgreaves NationalForest.
  * TIMING…10 AM MST Tuesday morning through 7 PM MST Tuesdayevening.
  * WINDS…West to northwest winds of 15 to 25 mph with gusts to40 mph in the warning area. The strongest winds will be inthe higher elevations of Cochise county.
  * RELA
  
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• UN: Attack in Mali killed 4 UN peacekeepers and 23 attackers

  05-04-2021 21:26
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. says a fierce attack on a U.N. peacekeeping base in northern Mali last week killed 4 peacekeepers and at least 23 attackers, and injured another 34 peacekeepers. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric gave the updated figures Monday. He reiterated Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ salute on Friday to the bravery of Chadian peacekeepers who defended their camp in Aguelhok in the Kidal region, and his tribute to the four Chadians who lost their lives in the a
  
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• Abbott won’t throw pitch, rebuffing MLB voting-rights stance

  05-04-2021 21:25
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he won’t throw the ceremonial first pitch at the Texas Rangers’ home opener. The Republican governor said he made his decision after Major League Baseball moved the MLB All-Star Game from Atlanta in response to Georgia’s sweeping new voting laws. It’s the latest jab in an ongoing fight that’s pushing corporate America into the political battle over voting rights. Abbott’s decision Monday came hours before
  
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• Lawyer says mediation among feuding Jordan royals successful

  05-04-2021 21:22
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — A lawyer for Jordan’s outspoken Prince Hamzah says mediation has been successful and that a resolution of an unprecedented public feud in the royal family shaking the kingdom is expected shortly. The statement appeared to cap three days of palace drama during which King Abdullah II had placed the prince, his half-brother, under house arrest for allegedly plotting with foreign supporters to destabilize the kingdom. Jordanian authorities had accused Hamzah of being involv
  
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• George Floyd death leads states to require cops to intervene

  05-04-2021 21:16
  
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — When a police officer knelt on the neck of George Floyd in Minneapolis, other officers at the scene didn’t intervene, even while he said he couldn’t breathe and then stopped moving. That lack of action, seen in videos being replayed in former Officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial, sparked nationwide protests against racial injustice. It has also led several states to compel police to intervene in misconduct. Since Floyd’s death, Colorado, Connectic
  
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• Lawyer for Jordan’s Prince Hamzah says mediation successful, resolution expected of rare public feud in royal family

  05-04-2021 21:12
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Lawyer for Jordan’s Prince Hamzah says mediation successful, resolution expected of rare public feud in royal family.The post Lawyer for Jordan’s Prince Hamzah says mediation successful, resolution expected of rare public feud in royal family appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Border Patrol dog sniffs out 60 pounds of meth at Yuma checkpoint

  05-04-2021 21:05
  
  YUMA, Ariz. (KVOA) – According to a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol news release, a Yuma Sector Border Patrol canine sniffed out 60 pounds of methamphetamine hidden in a vehicle at the Highway 78 immigration checkpoint on Friday.  “This is yet another example of the great work our agents and their canine partners do to keep deadly drugs off of the streets and out of our communities,” Chris T. Clem, Yuma Sector Chief Patrol Agent said.After the dog let agents know it su
  
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• After new law, McConnell warns CEOs: ‘Stay out of politics’

  05-04-2021 21:05
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says it’s a “big lie” to call the new voting law in Georgia restrictive. And he warned big business to “stay out of politics” after major corporations distanced themselves from the state’s new rules amid vast public pressure. McConnell particularly slammed President Joe Biden’s criticism of the Georgia bill as racist, a return to Jim Crow-era restrictions in the Southern states aimed limiti
  
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• Mayor demands to know how teen killed by Chicago cop got gun

  05-04-2021 21:04
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she has ordered the police department to capture and bring to justice whoever provided the 13-year-old boy the handgun he was carrying last week when he was fatally shot by a police officer. Adam Toledo was shot in the chest after he ran from officers on March 29. He died at the scene and a gun was recovered. Lightfoot said at a news conference Monday that the city will “use every resource” to track down the origins of that gun.
  
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• The Latest: UN COVAX program ramps up, but inequity persists

  05-04-2021 21:00
  
  UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations says the U.N.-backed program to provide COVID-19 vaccines to the world’s most vulnerable people has delivered more than 36 million doses to 86 poor and developing countries to date.
  U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Monday that COVAX expects to allocate 201 million doses by the end of May. Still, he stressed that “the issue of vaccine inequity and unequal distribution of the vaccine remains clear for all to see and remains troubling.&rdqu
  
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• Death of ‘Miracle on Ice’ standout Pavelich ruled suicide

  05-04-2021 20:44
  
  ANOKA, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota medical examiner says last month’s death of “Miracle on Ice” Olympic hockey player Mark Pavelich was ruled a suicide. The Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office in Anoka County says the 63-year-old Pavelich died of asphyxia. His body was found March 3 at the Eagle’s Healing Nest in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. Pavelich was undergoing treatment there as part of a civil commitment for assaulting his neighbor in August 2019. He was charged w
  
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• Class-action lawsuit alleges brutality by Rochester police

  05-04-2021 20:43
  
  A class-action lawsuit accuses Rochester city officials of allowing a culture of police brutality against racial minorities to fester and asks a court to force reforms. The civil rights lawsuit was filed on behalf of named and unnamed residents it says have been victimized by officers over the last three years, including while protesting last year in the wake of the restraint and death of Daniel Prude. The 96-page federal lawsuit names the city of Rochester, Monroe County, Mayor Lovely Warren an
  
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