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• Union leader blames underfunding for Iowa prison killings

  06-04-2021 23:54
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The leader of the union representing Iowa prison workers said Republican state political leaders and Iowa Department of Corrections officials are to blame for the death of two Anamosa State Prison workers two weeks ago because state prisons have been underfunded and understaffed for years. Danny Homan, local council president of the AFSCME union says grossly inadequate staffing led to the deaths of Correctional Officer Robert McFarland and Nurse Lorena Schulte. They
  
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• Woman alleges she was terrorized by assault from Texans QB

  06-04-2021 23:44
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — The first woman to accuse Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual assault and harassment in a lawsuit has spoken publicly, alleging she was terrorized by her encounter with the NFL player and he needs to be held accountable for his actions. Ashley Solis said during a news conference Tuesday that she was assaulted when she tried to give Watson a massage in March 2020. The Associated Press usually does not name victims of sexual assault, but Solis has chosen to pub
  
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• Study: Drought-breaking rains more rare, erratic in US West

  06-04-2021 23:42
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Rainstorms grew more erratic and droughts much longer across most of the U.S. West over the past half-century as climate change warmed the planet. That’s the conclusion of a sweeping government study released Tuesday that finds the situation for the region is worsening. The most dramatic changes have been seen in the desert Southwest, where the average dry period between storms increased from 30 days to 45 days since the 1970s. The consequences of intense dry p
  
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• LSU’s Orgeron gives lawmakers statement on Guice complaint

  06-04-2021 23:38
  
  LSU coach Ed Orgeron maintains in a statement provided to state lawmakers that he does not recall speaking with an elderly female security worker who says then-Tigers running back Derrius Guice made offensive sexual advances toward her in 2017. Orgeron said in the statement Tuesday that he recalls only a brief phone conversation with a man claiming to represent Gloria Scott. Orgeron says he was told soon after that LSU administrators and lawyers were handling Scott’s complaint. Orgeron was
  
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• Senators press for more on SolarWinds hack after AP report

  06-04-2021 23:31
  
  Key lawmakers say they’re concerned they’ve been kept in the dark about what suspected Russian hackers stole from the federal government and they pressed Biden administration officials for more details about the scope of what’s known as the SolarWinds hack. In letters to top officials, Sens. Gary Peters and Rob Portman say recent reporting by The Associated Press “raised the troubling possibility that some federal agencies did not fully report” the extend of the bre
  
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• High pressure will leave us warm and dry through the week

  06-04-2021 23:30
  
  TUCSON - The winds will begin to subside overnight, but the warm temperatures will stay in place for at least the next five days.Temperatures will stay around the upper 80's and lower 90's taking us out of record breaking territory.The sunshine will also stay in place until more clouds head our way next Monday.Overnight low temperatures will also be above average staying around 60 degrees.There is no good chance of rain over the next 7 to 10 days for any part of Southern Arizona.
  Tonight: Clear
  
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• Backpage founders lose bid for new judge at upcoming trial

  06-04-2021 23:29
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — An appeals court rejected a bid by the former operators of Backpage.com to recuse an Arizona judge from presiding over their Aug. 23 trial on prostitution facilitation charges. The former site operators argued Judge Susan Brnovich should be recused because of statements made by her husband, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, about the now-shuttered classified ad site. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals concluded Judge Brnovich made no clear error in rejecting the recusal
  
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• Senate gives Biden a big tool to work around GOP filibuster

  06-04-2021 23:27
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — With a powerful new tool, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has fresh options for advancing President Joe Biden’s priorities over Republican obstruction in the 50-50 split Senate. Though Republicans still pledge to do all they can to halt Biden’s agenda, the parliamentarian’s opinion this week is a potential game-changer. It unleashes multiple options for Democrats to advance certain parts of Biden’s agenda with a 51-vote threshold, rather than
  
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• Red Flag Warning issued April 6 at 3:26PM MDT until April 6 at 8:00PM MDT by NWS Tucson AZ

  06-04-2021 23:26
  
  * 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 not includethe Alpine District of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest.
  * TIMING…Through 7 PM MST Tuesday evening.
  * WINDS…West to northwest winds of 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40mph in the warning area. The strongest winds will be in thehigher elevations of Cochise county.
  * RELATIVE HUMIDITY…Min
  
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• Navy medic shoots 2 US sailors; is stopped, killed on base

  06-04-2021 23:26
  
  FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — Authorities say a Navy medic shot and wounded two U.S. sailors at a military facility before fleeing to a nearby Army base where security forces shot and killed him. Frederick police and Fort Detrick officials identified Tuesday’s shooter as 38-year-old Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, a petty officer third class assigned to Fort Detrick who lived off base. Frederick Police Chief Jason Lando said Woldesenbet used a rifle in the shooting. He says detectives are still
  
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• At Disney World, smiles won’t be hidden for much longer

  06-04-2021 23:26
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — At Walt Disney World, the smiles won’t have to be hidden for much longer. Starting Thursday, visitors to the theme park resort will be able to remove their masks temporarily for outdoor photos. The change announced Tuesday tweaks a requirement that all workers and visitors age 2 and up wear masks except when they are actively eating or drinking, provided they are socially distanced and not moving about. The mask mandate includes those who already have been vaccin
  
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• Tribes talk priorities with ‘formidable guardian’ Haaland

  06-04-2021 23:19
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Native American leaders in New Mexico say they see U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland as a “formidable guardian” and steward of their interests. The Laguna Pueblo woman is the first-ever Native American cabinet secretary. On Tuesday, she made her first official trip to her home state, where she met with tribal officials, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation. The round-table discussion highlighted federa
  
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• Evacuation order lifted at Florida leaky phosphate reservoir

  06-04-2021 23:12
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A mandatory evacuation order near a leaking Florida wastewater reservoir that affected more than 300 homes and additional businesses has been lifted. Officials said with Tuesday’s announcement that the situation is under control. More than two dozen pumps have been deployed, along with other equipment. That has eased fears that the reservoir from an old phospate fertilizer plant would burst through its earthen walls and cause widespread flooding in Manatee
  
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• US weighs Beijing Olympics boycott with partners, allies

  06-04-2021 23:02
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says the Biden administration is considering a possible boycott of the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics to protest China’s human rights record. Department spokesman Ned Price said Tuesday the U.S. is discussing China strategy, including participation in the Olympics, with a number of partners and allies in order to present a united front. Human rights groups are protesting China’s hosting of the Games, which are set to start in February 20
  
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• The Latest: Chile delays several elections amid virus surge

  06-04-2021 22:57
  
  SANTIAGO, Chile — With new COVID-19 infections rising and hospital space critical, Chilean lawmakers approved postponing an election to select an assembly tasked with rewriting the country’s dictatorship-era constitution.Under the approval Tuesday, the assembly election, along with local and gubernatorial elections, will be postponed until mid-May.
  The elections had been originally scheduled for April 10-11, but with Chile experiencing the worst days since the arrival of the pandemic
  
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• Biden makes all adults eligible for a vaccine on April 19

  06-04-2021 22:56
  
  Joe Biden, President of the United States, Photo Date: January 28, 2021
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced that he’s bumping up his deadline by two weeks for states to make all adults eligible for coronavirus vaccines. With states gradually expanding eligibility beyond such priority groups as seniors and essential, front-line workers, the president said Tuesday that every adult in the U.S. will now be eligible to be vaccinated by April 19. But even as he expressed o
  
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• Texas, Louisiana sue US government over deportation holds

  06-04-2021 22:53
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Texas and Louisiana are suing the federal government, alleging immigration officials have declined to take custody of people who’ve been convicted of crimes and are subject to deportation. The states sued in a federal court in Houston on Tuesday. They contend President Joe Biden’s policy changes allow immigrants convicted of crimes to be released rather than held for deportation at the end of their sentences. The lawsuit comes after Texas officials said Immigratio
  
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• Police: Officers fatally shoot woman during Miami eviction

  06-04-2021 22:53
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say police fatally shot a woman while trying to evict her from a South Florida apartment. Miami-Dade police say the shooting occurred as a task force was serving an eviction warrant Tuesday afternoon at a downtown Miami building. Officials say that as the team breached the door, the woman fired at police and at least one officer returned fire. The woman was taken to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Officials didn’t release the names or races
  
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• Suit seeks to reverse Trump changes to sea turtle protection

  06-04-2021 22:50
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Conservation groups have sued to reverse changes made under former President Donald Trump to rules to keep sea turtles from drowning in inshore shrimp nets. Their lawsuit comes a week after federal regulators said they were reconsidering those changes. An official with one group says they hope that President Joe Biden’s administration will act quickly. But Jaclyn Lopez say they want the department to return to rules proposed in 2016. Those would require escape hatc
  
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• AGs from Kentucky, Tennessee sue over stimulus tax rule

  06-04-2021 22:44
  
  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Republican attorneys general of Kentucky and Tennessee have added their voices objecting to a rule in the $1.9 trillion pandemic aid plan that bars states from using relief money to offset tax cuts. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron and Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery III accuse the federal government of an “unprecedented power grab.” They filed suit Tuesday in Kentucky. They’re requesting an injunction to block enforcement of t
  
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• NCAA may consider single site for part of future tourneys

  06-04-2021 22:43
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An NCAA official says the governing body may consider using a single site for later rounds of men’s college basketball tournaments following a successful run in Indianapolis. Senior vice president of basketball Dan Gavitt told reporters Tuesday that it was unlikely to occur before 2027 or that all 68 teams would play at one site. But if schools and coaches are interested, Gavitt says the model could work for future regional games and the Final Four.The post NCAA m
  
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• Facebook removes accounts tied to Iranian exile group

  06-04-2021 22:42
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts linked to an Iranian exile group and a troll farm in Albania. The company said Tuesday that the accounts used fake profiles and sometimes computer generated profile pictures to post information criticizing Iran’s government and supporting Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, a dissident group known as MEK. Facebook traced the accounts to Albania, where it believes a team of people were posting the information for the organization. MEK was
  
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• Harris: Vaccinated can be ‘role models’ for friends, family

  06-04-2021 22:40
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is urging Chicago union members to share their experience receiving a COVID-19 vaccine and act as “role models” for family and friends who may be reluctant even as Illinois prepares to open access to all adults. Harris on Tuesday visited a vaccination site in Chicago that opened last week for union workers. Chicago officials also hope the dedicated site will improve vaccination rates among Black and Latinx city residents. Earlier Tues
  
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• Millionaires in NYC set to face highest tax rate in US

  06-04-2021 22:38
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The highest-earning New Yorkers would face the nation’s steepest income tax rate under a budget debated by lawmakers Tuesday. The expected tax hike is a win for the Democratic party’s left wing, who say that millionaires in Manhattan penthouses have fared far better amid the pandemic then struggling small businesses and low-income New Yorkers. States including California, Minnesota and Washington are also considering wealth taxes, raising taxes on capital ga
  
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• Mexico’s vaccine campaign faces problems, successes

  06-04-2021 22:27
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president is lashing out at criticism of the country’s coronavirus vaccination effort, dismissing a pair of scandals as the work of conservative opponents or grumpy “elderly people who go grumbling because they don’t like to be vaccinated.” An 84-year-old man suffered a heart attack and at least three others fainted after waiting in line for hours outside one vaccination station in the northern state of Coahuila, and a man was stuck
  
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• Police: 17-year-old killed in shooting on Tucson’s west side

  06-04-2021 22:26
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Police are investigating the death of a 17-year-old on Tucson's west side Monday night.
  Officers were dispatched to an apartment complex at 41 S. Shannon Rd., just after 10:30 p.m. for a report of a shooting.
  According to Tucson Police Department, officers located a vehicle that had collided with a utility pole in the area. The driver of the vehicle has been identified as a 25-year-old man. He was reportedly found with gunshot trauma and transported to the hospital.
  In a news rel
  
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• Petty officer shoots 2 sailors; is stopped, killed on base

  06-04-2021 22:20
  
  FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — Authorities say a Navy medic shot and critically wounded two U.S. sailors at a military-related facility before fleeing to a nearby Army base where he was shot and killed. Frederick police and Fort Detrick officials identified Tuesday’s shooter as 38-year-old Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, a petty officer third class assigned to Fort Detrick who lived off base. Frederick Police Chief Jason Lando said Woldesenbet used a rifle in the shooting. He says detectives are
  
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• Wildfire in Theodore Roosevelt National Park 45% contained

  06-04-2021 22:16
  
  MEDORA, N.D. (AP) — Firefighters are making headway against a blaze in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. The fire in the park’s North Unit tripled in size on Sunday, threatening park staff housing, maintenance buildings and the CCC Campground. North Dakota Forest Service Acting Outreach and Education Manager Beth Hill said Tuesday that the blaze is 45% contained. But she said the campground, other infrastructure and some private homes on the fire’s north end rem
  
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• Police: Man kills 3, himself at daughter’s birthday in NYC

  06-04-2021 22:11
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a man shot the mother of his child and two of her daughters dead inside a Brooklyn apartment before turning the gun on himself. The victims were shot shortly after 11 p.m. Monday in an apartment in the Van Dyke Houses in the Brownsville neighborhood. Officers found 45-year-old Rasheeda Barzey, 20-year-old Solei Spears and 16-year-old Chloe Spears dead from gunshot wounds. Police say 46-year-old Joseph McCrimons was found shot to death in a walkway nearby. Police
  
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• UN warns over 27 million Congolese suffer from acute hunger

  06-04-2021 22:09
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Two U.N. agencies are warning that over 27 million people in Congo are suffering from acute hunger, a record high. They said this means almost one-third of the conflict-wracked African nation’s estimated 87 million people urgently need food. The Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Program said nearly 7 million people of the needy are at the emergency level. They said all 27.3 million Congolese need urgent action to save lives, reduce gaps in foo
  
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• Florida governor rebuts vaccine ‘pay-to-play’ report on CBS

  06-04-2021 22:06
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed back aggressively against a “60 Minutes” report that suggested he initially made a deal to distribute COVID-19 vaccines in a South Florida county at Publix Super Markets pharmacies after the company made a donation to his political action committee. The Republican governor on Tuesday warned of unspecified “consequences” over the report that aired on CBS. Sunday night’s report focused on the vaccine rollout
  
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• Refugee families urge Biden to keep promise to up admissions

  06-04-2021 21:59
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The families of refugees and their supporters, including 124 elected officials, have sent President Joe Biden a letter urging him to make good on his promise to boost refugee admissions to the United States. Biden presented a plan to Congress two months ago to raise the number of admissions to 62,500 for the 2021 budget year, and to eliminate restrictions imposed by former President Donald Trump. But Biden has not issued a presidential determination since his administratio
  
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• US boosts aid to Palestinians as some in Congress cry foul

  06-04-2021 21:58
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is moving again to increase U.S. assistance to the Palestinians as it fires up a new Mideast policy that is directly opposite of the one pursued by its predecessor. On Monday, the administration informed lawmakers that it would provide the Palestinians with $40 million for law enforcement and security costs in the West Bank and Gaza. That’s on top of $75 million in assistance for infrastructure, health and civil society groups and $15 millio
  
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• NJ blames bacteria for dead fish in rivers, bays since fall

  06-04-2021 21:55
  
  RED BANK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey environmental authorities say a bacteria appears to be killing fish in several waterways. There have been numerous instances since November of dead menhaden washing ashore or floating in waterways, including in the Raritan Bay and the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers. Similar fish kills were reported in other states including New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Hundreds of dead menhaden have been washing ashore in New Jersey in the Navesink and Shrewsbury
  
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• White House: No credential to show if vaccinated

  06-04-2021 21:54
  
  WASHINGTON — The White House is stressing that it won’t back any system “that requires Americans to carry a credential” to show they’ve been vaccinated.
  White House press secretary Jen Psaki says “there will be no federal vaccinations database and no federal mandate requiring everyone to obtain a single vaccination credential.”
  She says companies or nonprofit groups might offer that kind of “tool” but the White House wants to be sure that &l
  
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• 2-year-old boy, 7 adults wounded in latest Chicago shootings

  06-04-2021 21:49
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Police say a 2-year-old boy is in critical condition after being shot in the head while riding in a car along Chicago’s famed Lake Shore Drive. The 11 a.m. shooting happened about 12 hours after seven people involved in a fight on a sidewalk on the city’s South Side were shot and wounded. Nobody is in custody in either shooting, which marked the latest bursts of violence in what is shaping up to be one of Chicago’s most violent years in memory. Police have
  
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• Cherokee Nation AG: Congress must allow state-tribe compacts

  06-04-2021 21:48
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The attorney general for the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma says the U.S. Congress must allow tribes to compact with state and federal governments to prosecute crimes in Indian Country. Sara Hill said during a news conference Tuesday that her tribe has filed charges in 440 criminal cases since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that Oklahoma prosecutors lack jurisdiction for crimes on tribal reservations in which the defendants or victims are tribal citizens. Hill say
  
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• The Latest: California aims to reopen more widely in June

  06-04-2021 21:44
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — California plans to lift most coronavirus restrictions on businesses and workplaces June 15, with officials saying enough people should be vaccinated by then to allow for life to almost get back to a pre-pandemic normal.
  Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly said Tuesday that the mask mandate in the nation’s most populated state will remain in effect and cautioned that California will reopen more widely in mid-June only if vaccine supply remains sufficient an
  
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• Nearly half of new US virus infections are in just 5 states

  06-04-2021 21:42
  
  Nearly half of new coronavirus infections nationwide are in just five states — a situation that is putting pressure on the federal government to consider changing how it distributes vaccines by sending more doses to hot spots. New York, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania and New Jersey together reported 44% of the nation’s new COVID-19 infections. That’s nearly 197,500 new cases in the latest available seven-day period. Total U.S. infections during the same week numbered more than
  
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• North Macedonia crime ring sold passports to criminals

  06-04-2021 21:41
  
  SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Nine officials in North Macedonia’s interior ministry have been arrested on suspicion of illegally issuing passports to overseas criminals. Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski told reporters Tuesday that the suspects worked in the ministry’s passport office and were arrested following a two-year surveillance operation. His government received support from U.S. authorities and Interpol, the minister said. Spasovski said the 215 people who received t
  
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• Ukraine says 24 soldiers killed in country’s east this year

  06-04-2021 21:37
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president says his country’s armed forces this year have lost 24 soldiers in the east, where tensions have escalated in recent weeks. The conflict with Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine erupted shortly after Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea. More than 14,000 people have been killed in the fighting. In Tuesday’s call with Canadian Prime Minister Canada Justin Trudeau, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zele
  
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• Arkansas lawmakers enact transgender youth treatment ban

  06-04-2021 21:36
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas lawmakers have made the state the first to ban gender confirming treatments and surgery for transgender youth, enacting the prohibition over the governor’s objections. The majority-Republican Legislature on Tuesday voted to override Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s veto. The measure prohibits doctors from providing gender confirming hormone treatment, puberty blockers or surgery to anyone under 18 years old, or from referring them to other prov
  
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• Police: Texas woman confesses to killing her 2 young kids

  06-04-2021 21:27
  
  IRVING, Texas (AP) — Police say a woman who called 911 from the lobby of a suburban Dallas police department and said she’d killed her two young daughters has been charged with two counts of capital murder. Irving police say 30-year-old Madison McDonald was arrested and charged in the slayings of her two daughters, 6-year-old Archer Hammond and 1-year-old Lillian Mae McDonald. Police said she walked into the Irving Police Department at about 10 p.m. Monday and used the phone in their
  
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• Police official: Chauvin trained to avoid neck pressure

  06-04-2021 21:27
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jurors at the murder trial of ex-Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin have been told that he received extensive training in how to defuse tense situations and how to properly restrain suspects. A use-of-force trainer testified Tuesday that officers aren’t trained to use their legs or knees on somebody’s neck, and are told to avoid neck pressure when possible. And a sergeant in charge of crisis-intervention training also testified that officers are taught
  
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• Consumer privacy push in Florida limps forward

  06-04-2021 21:24
  
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Big Data has won a key concession from Florida lawmakers after persuading a committee to defang a proposal against what Republicans portray as tech giants’ unfettered powers to share and sell users’ personal information. Intense lobbying from business advocates prompted lawmakers to strip away a provision that would have allowed consumers to sue for unauthorized use of their data. Lobbyists for the business community then attempted to kill the bill in i
  
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• UN says death toll now 56 from clashes in Sudan’s Darfur

  06-04-2021 21:23
  
  CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. says the death toll from tribal violence in Sudan’s Darfur region is at least 56. The announcement comes as sporadic clashes continued on Tuesday. The deadly clashes in West Darfur province grew out of a shooting on Saturday that killed two people from the Masalit tribe in a camp for displaced people in Genena, the provincial capital. That’s according to the U.N. humanitarian affairs agency. Fighting ensued between the Rizeigat and the Masalit tribes, with
  
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• The Latest: Turkey’s daily virus cases reach nearly 50,000

  06-04-2021 21:17
  
  ANKARA, Turkey — The daily coronavirus cases hit a record of nearly 50,000 in Turkey on Tuesday.
  The Health Ministry reported 49,685 confirmed single-day cases. The number of daily deaths also reached the highest level this year, with 211 confirmed in the past 24 hours.Infections in this country of 84 million have surged since the government eased restrictions at the start of March.Last week, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced renewed weekend lockdowns and the closure of cafes and re
  
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• EXPLAINER: How long did it take medics to reach Floyd?

  06-04-2021 21:14
  
  Derek Chauvin’s defense attorney has attempted to shift blame from the former Minneapolis police officer in George Floyd’s death, questioning paramedics on delays in their efforts to resuscitate Floyd. But one paramedic told jurors that he thought Floyd was already dead when he checked for his pulse while Chauvin was still pinning Floyd’s neck with his knee. Defense attorney Eric Nelson seemed to suggest a drawn-out response time in his cross-examination of the paramedics and a
  
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• Texas governor bans mandated COVID-19 ‘vaccine passports’

  06-04-2021 21:12
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is using his executive power to ban state government and some private entities from requiring COVID-19 “vaccine passports” to access services. Abbott signed the mandate Tuesday. It blocks state agencies, political subdivisions and public and private organizations that receive public funding from requiring proof that someone in Texas has been inoculated against the coronavirus. It’s the latest move from a Republican governor pitt
  
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• Study: Drought-breaking rains more erratic, rare in US West

  06-04-2021 21:12
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Rainstorms grew more erratic and droughts much longer across most of the U.S. West over the past half-century as climate change warmed the planet. That’s the conclusion of a sweeping government study released Tuesday that finds the situation for the region is worsening. The most dramatic changes have been seen in the desert Southwest, where the average dry period between storms increased from 30 days to 45 days since the 1970s. The consequences of intense dry p
  
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