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• The Latest: Biden, Harris to speak after Floyd case verdict

  20-04-2021 23:58
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on the murder trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd (all times local):
  4:50 p.m.
  President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver remarks Tuesday evening after the conviction of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd.
  Biden, Harris and first lady Jill Biden called members of the Floyd family moments after the verdict, according to video posted by family attorney Ben Crump.
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• Red Flag Warning issued April 20 at 3:53PM MDT until April 21 at 9:00PM MDT by NWS Tucson AZ

  20-04-2021 23:53
  
  The National Weather Service in Tucson has issued a Red FlagWarning, which is in effect from 11 AM to 8 PM MST Wednesday. AFire Weather Watch has also been issued. This Fire Weather Watchis in effect from Thursday afternoon through Thursday evening.
  * AFFECTED AREA…All Fire Weather Zones in Southeast ArizonaWednesday for the Red Flag Warning. Far eastern Fire WeatherZone 150 and southern portions of Fire Weather Zones 151, 152,153 and 154 for the Fire Weather Watch on Thursday.
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• In Minneapolis, city fortified after Chauvin guilty verdict

  20-04-2021 23:52
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — More than 3,000 National Guard soldiers, along with police officers, sheriffs deputies and other law enforcement personnel have flooded Minneapolis in the wake of a verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer charged with murder in the death last year of George Floyd. The jury on Tuesday found Chauvin guilty on all charges: second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. But in the city that has come to epitomi
  
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• DiCaprio, Fonda urge US not to sign climate deal with Brazil

  20-04-2021 23:41
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Dozens of celebrities including actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Jane Fonda and Joaquin Phoenix are calling on U.S. President Joe Biden to refrain from signing any environmental agreement with his Brazilian counterpart, Jair Bolsonaro. The open letter signed Tuesday by the actors comes just days Bolsonaro joins dozens of other foreign leaders at a U.S.-led summit to tackle the climate crisis. The U.S. and Brazil have been holding bilateral talks since February, and Bolsonaro
  
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• Judge orders LA to offer shelter for homeless on Skid Row

  20-04-2021 23:38
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge overseeing a sweeping lawsuit about homelessness in Los Angeles has ordered the city and county to find shelter for all unhoused residents of Skid Row within 180 days. Judge David O. Carter also ordered an audit of all funding related to the crisis of people living on the streets. The preliminary injunction was released a day after LA Mayor Eric Garcetti vowed to spend nearly $1 billion in the coming year to get people off the streets. Carter ordered that the $1
  
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• Democrats point to Georgia in push for new elections law

  20-04-2021 23:35
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are holding new Georgia voting rules up as a warning as they push a broad legislative overhaul of U.S. elections. Democrats in the Senate say a wave of new Republican measures across the country will restrict access to the polls unless they are stopped. The sweeping new Georgia law was discussed at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday that featured testimony from voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams. She says parts of the new Georgia law are inten
  
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• Biden prayed for ‘the right verdict’ in Chauvin trial

  20-04-2021 23:34
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Before the verdict was announced in Minneapolis, President Joe Biden said he was “praying the verdict is the right verdict” in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin. Biden said he believed the case was “overwhelming.” He told reporters at the White House on Tuesday that he was only weighing in on the trial into the death of George Floyd because the jury in the case had been sequestered. He said he had called Floyd’s fam
  
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• In Minneapolis, a fortified city in wake of Chauvin verdict

  20-04-2021 23:29
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — More than 3,000 National Guard soldiers, along with police officers, sheriffs deputies and other law enforcement personnel have flooded Minneapolis in the wake of a verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer charged with murder in the death last year of George Floyd. The jury on Tuesday found Chauvin guilty on all charges: second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. But in the city that has come to epitomi
  
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• Supporters of lawmaker in rape complaint name his accuser

  20-04-2021 23:18
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — When rape allegations surfaced against a Republican state lawmaker in deep-red Idaho, some rushed to support him — in part by publicly releasing the name of his accuser. Another lawmaker, some far-right blogs and others publicly released the name, with some including her photograph and details about her life. The move has victim advocates warning that identifying accusers without their consent makes it less likely that other women will be willing to file a report.
  
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• The Latest: Ex-cop guilty of murder, manslaughter of Floyd

  20-04-2021 23:15
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on the murder trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd (all times local):
  5:07 p.m.
  Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, the explosive case that triggered worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S.The jury reached its verdict Tuesday after deliberating about 10 hours over two days i
  
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• A look at high-profile cases over killings by US police

  20-04-2021 23:15
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — It’s been rare to charge police with crimes in the death of civilians, and winning a conviction is harder in part because juries are often reluctant to second guess an officer’s split-second decisions. Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter charges in George Floyd’s death after pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck as he cried out: “I can’t breathe.” The defense argued that
  
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• Chauvin found guilty of murdering George Floyd

  20-04-2021 23:11
  
  Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek ChauvinGeorge FloydDefense Attorney Eric NelsonProsecutor Steve SchleicherJudge Peter Cahill
  Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty Tuesday afternoon on murder and manslaughter charges in connection with the death of George Floyd.The verdicts come one day after the jury began deliberations.
  Chauvin, 45, faced three charges in connection with the death of 46-year-old George Floyd. The charges included second-degree murder, third-de
  
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• Chauvin found guilty of murder, manslaughter in relation to death of George Floyd

  20-04-2021 23:11
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP/KVOA)-- A jury on Tuesday found a former Minneapolis police officer guilty in the death of George Floyd.
  The verdict, arrived at after about 10 hours of deliberations over two days, was read Tuesday afternoon.
  Chauvin, 45, faced three charges in connection with the death of 46-year-old George Floyd. The charges included second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.The jury found Chauvin guilty on all three counts.Floyd died on May 25, 2020, after
  
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• Ex-cop guilty of murder and manslaughter in Floyd case

  20-04-2021 23:10
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, the explosive case that triggered worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S. The jury deliberated about 10 hours over two days in a city on edge against another outbreak of unrest. Floyd died last May after Chauvin, a white officer, pinned his knee on or close to the 46-year-old Black man’s neck
  
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• Ex-cop Derek Chauvin convicted of murder and manslaughter in George Floyd death that stirred worldwide protests

  20-04-2021 23:07
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ex-cop Derek Chauvin convicted of murder and manslaughter in George Floyd death that stirred worldwide protests.The post Ex-cop Derek Chauvin convicted of murder and manslaughter in George Floyd death that stirred worldwide protests appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• AP sources: Biden to pledge halving greenhouse gases by 2030

  20-04-2021 23:06
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will pledge to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions at least in half by 2030 as he convenes as a virtual climate summit Thursday with 40 world leaders. That’s according to three people with knowledge of the plans who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the White House pledge. The nonbinding but symbolically important pledge is a key element of the summit, as world leaders gather online to share strategies to c
  
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• Videos: Police take bike, cuff Black youth, sparking anger

  20-04-2021 23:05
  
  PERTH AMBOY, N.J. (AP) — A roughly one-minute video clip showing New Jersey police officers handcuffing a young Black person and confiscating his and others’ bicycles drew angry comments about policing online on Tuesday. But a second video clip filmed by the same person shows a widely different scene with the group at times weaving in and out of traffic on their bikes and seeking to evade police cars. The Perth Amboy police have not responded to requests for information on Tuesday. I
  
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• The Latest: Crowd awaits verdict at trial over Floyd’s death

  20-04-2021 22:58
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on the murder trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd (all times local):
  3:50 p.m.
  At the Minneapolis intersection that has been dubbed George Floyd Square, about 100 people have gathered around a large painting of Floyd in anticipation of the verdict in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin.
  The site is located outside of Cup Foods, the convenience store linked to Floyd’s fatal
  
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• Sikh group wants probe of gunman’s possible supremacist link

  20-04-2021 22:56
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A Sikh civil rights organization is calling for law enforcement to investigate whether a former employee who fatally shot eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis had any links to hate or white supremacy groups. The Sikh Coalition’s request Tuesday came a day after Indianapolis police released a report from last year in which they said they had found “white supremist websites” on Brandon Scott Hole’s computer in March 2020. An FBI special
  
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• Apple unveils new products, schedules privacy crackdown

  20-04-2021 22:50
  
  SAN RA,MON, Calif. (AP) — Apple is sprucing up its own product line as it prepares next week’s rollout of a long-awaited software update could hurt other companies by preventing apps from tracking the online activities and whereabouts of iPhone users. The timing of the free software upgrade to the iPhone trickled out during a series of announcements that Apple made Tuesday during a pre-recorded event. Apple revealed in a footnote that an software update called iOS. 14.5 will come out
  
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• Netflix’s subscriber growth, stock zapped as pandemic eases

  20-04-2021 22:44
  
  SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Netflix’s rapid subscriber growth is slowing far faster than anticipated as people who have been cooped at home during the pandemic are able to get out and do other things again. The video streaming service added 4 million more worldwide subscribers from January through March, its smallest gain during that three-month period in four years. The performance announced Tuesday was about 2 million fewer subscribers than both management and analysts had predicted N
  
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• Foxconn deal with Wisconsin lowers tax breaks to $80 million

  20-04-2021 22:41
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Foxconn Technology Group will qualify for up to $80 million in state tax incentives under a new contract that downsizes the scale of credits as the size of the envisioned manufacturing facility has also shrunk. Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday announced details of the new contract. Under the original deal, signed in 2017, Foxconn would have qualified for $2.85 billion in state tax credits if it invested $10 billion and created 13,000 jobs. Under the new deal, Foxconn will qu
  
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• Suspected Chinese hackers spied on US, European targets

  20-04-2021 22:36
  
  A prominent cybersecurity firm says suspected state-backed Chinese hackers exploited widely used networking devices to spy for months on dozens of high-value government, defense industry and financial sector targets in the U.S. and Europe. FireEye said Tuesday that it believes two hacking groups linked to China broke into several targets through Pulse Connect Secure devices, which numerous companies and governments use for secure remote access to their networks. The new disclosure comes at a tim
  
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• The Latest: Jury reaches verdict at trial over Floyd’s death

  20-04-2021 22:34
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on the murder trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd (all times local):
  3 p.m.
  The jury has reached a verdict at the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, the Black man who was pinned to the pavement with a knee on his neck in a case that set off a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S.
  The verdict, arrived at after about 10 hours of deliberations over two day
  
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• Oklahoma seeks coordination on Indigenous peoples cold cases

  20-04-2021 22:32
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed into law a bill intended to coordinate state and federal law enforcement efforts when investigating missing or murdered Indigenous people. Stitt on Tuesday signed a bill requiring the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation to coordinate with the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Department of Justice to obtain federal funding and coordinate efforts to gather information and data about missing and murdered Indigenous people in Okl
  
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• Yavapai County closes administration building due to threat

  20-04-2021 22:26
  
  PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — Yavapai County’s administration building in Prescott has been closed to the public for up to two weeks because of an alleged threat by a person described as a disgruntled former employee. County spokesman David McAtee said the threat was one of violence. He declined to elaborate but The Daily Courier reported that a county news release said officials were taking the alleged threat seriously. The news release said the closure that began Monday would last five to
  
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• Mayor releases investigation into officer accused of abuse

  20-04-2021 22:24
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Acting Mayor Kim Janey has released redacted copies of an internal affairs investigation into a former Boston police officer and union chief charged with molesting children as far back as the mid-1990s. Retired officer and one-time president of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association Patrick Rose Sr. has pleaded not guilty to 33 charges involving six alleged victims. Janey released 13 pages of internal affairs records Tuesday saying previous leaders of the police depa
  
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• Ducey to deploy Arizona National Guard to southern border

  20-04-2021 22:24
  
  PHOENIX (KVOA) - Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday announced he is deploying the Arizona National Guard to the state’s southern border.
  In a news release, he said the action is to "support local law enforcement efforts as the nation experiences a rapid increase in apprehensions and migrant children in federal custody".According to Ducey, the state will provide up to $25 million in initial funding for the deployment.He says that up to 250 Guardsmen will go to border communities.
  "The situa
  
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• Ex-cop Derek Chauvin returns to the courthouse to hear verdict at his murder trial in George Floyd’s death

  20-04-2021 22:23
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ex-cop Derek Chauvin returns to the courthouse to hear verdict at his murder trial in George Floyd’s death.The post Ex-cop Derek Chauvin returns to the courthouse to hear verdict at his murder trial in George Floyd’s death appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Red Flag Warning issued April 20 at 2:21PM MDT until April 21 at 9:00PM MDT by NWS Phoenix AZ

  20-04-2021 22:21
  
  The National Weather Service in Phoenix has issued a Red FlagWarning for strong winds, low relative humidity and high firedanger, which is in effect from 11 AM to 8 PM MST Wednesday.
  * AFFECTED AREA…Central Deserts to include all of MaricopaCounty and northern Pinal County.
  * TIMING…
  * WINDS…Southwest 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.
  * RELATIVE HUMIDITY…As low as 7 percent.
  * IMPACTS…Fuels are dry and fire danger is high. Theseconditions combined with low
  
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• First lady Jill Biden to visit Albuquerque, Navajo Nation

  20-04-2021 22:16
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — First lady Jill Biden plans to visit an Albuquerque health care facility as part of a three-day, two-state visit to the U.S. Southwest this week. The White House announced that Biden will be accompanied Wednesday afternoon by New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham when she visits a health clinic in the city’s South Valley. Biden is scheduled to visit the Navajo Nation on Thursday where she will meet with Navajo President Jonathan Nez and First Lady Phefelia N
  
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• Alleged neo-Nazi group leader accused of assault in Arizona

  20-04-2021 22:16
  
  CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — A man believed to be the leader of a neo-Nazi group has been arrested after allegedly threatening some Black men at gunpoint in a Chandler parking lot. Chandler police say 45-year-old Burt Colucci was taken into custody Monday on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. A group of Black men told police Colucci was throwing trash at their car Monday, using racial slurs and allegedly threatening to kill one of them. The group also says Colucci pulled out a
  
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• Stocks close lower on Wall Street, led by tech and banks

  20-04-2021 22:10
  
  Stocks closed lower on Wall Street, led by drops in technology companies and banks. The S&P 500 gave back 0.7%, pulling the index further below the record high it set on Friday. Small-company stocks, which have been beating the rest of the market in recent months, fell more than other sectors. Investors are focusing on company earnings reports that are steadily coming out this week. On average, analysts expect profits across the S&P 500 to be up 24% from a year earlier, according to Fact
  
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• Brazil COVID cases still soaring among unprotected majority

  20-04-2021 22:09
  
  SAO PAULO (AP) — Death certificate data shows Brazil’s slowly unfolding vaccination program appears to have slowed the pace of deaths among the nation’s elderly. But COVID-19 is still taking a rising toll as unprotected younger people get sick. People 80 and over accounted for a quarter of the nation’s COVID-19 deaths in February, but less than a fifth in March. That’s according to data from thousands of the notaries who record death certificates in Brazil. But rela
  
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• US military: 32 of 40 Guantanamo prisoners now vaccinated

  20-04-2021 22:08
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military says most prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center have now received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Southern Command said in a statement that 32 of the 40 prisoners had received the first dose by Tuesday, a day after the military resumed an effort to inoculate them that was halted months early because of criticism from Congress. The announcement in January that the military intended to offer the vaccine to prisoners sparked intense criti
  
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• Yemen launches coronavirus vaccination campaign

  20-04-2021 22:04
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s internationally recognized government began a coronavirus vaccination campaign as the U.N. warned the pandemic has been “roaring back” in recent weeks. The campaign started Tuesday in the southern city of Aden, which serves as an interim capital for the government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. That’s according to the U.N. children’s agency. Health Minister Wasim Buhaibeh and UNICEF Representative Philippe Duamelle were the first to
  
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• Searchlight Pictures chairs Nancy Utley, Steve Gilula retire

  20-04-2021 22:03
  
  Veteran film executives Nancy Utley and Steve Gilula who in their two decades at Searchlight Pictures oversaw the releases of major hits including “Juno,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” “Little Miss Sunshine” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel” are retiring. Disney Studios Content said Tuesday that Searchlight’s longtime heads of production Matthew Greenfield and David Greenbaum will now jointly run the company as co-presidents. It’s the latest lead
  
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• Arizona governor set to OK or veto strict sex ed legislation

  20-04-2021 21:54
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Gov. Doug Ducey faces a deadline to either sign or veto legislation making Arizona’s sex education laws among the strictest in the nation when it comes to teaching about LGBTQ issues. The proposed law would prohibit all discussions about gender identity, sexual orientation or HIV/AIDS in sex education classes unless parents specifically opt in for the instruction. The proposal also applies to discussions of sexual orientation outside of sex ed classes and bans sex ed b
  
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• Biden nominates 4 for Tennessee Valley Authority board

  20-04-2021 21:44
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — President Joe Biden has nominated four people to the board of a federal utility. The White House on Tuesday announced that Biden picked Beth Geer, Robert Klein, Kimberly Lewis and Michelle Moore to sit on the Tennessee Valley Authority’s nine-member board. Geer is the chief of staff to former Vice President Al Gore. Klein is a retired line foreman for the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga and served with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. L
  
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• Belarus decries sanctions US reimposed on 9 state companies

  20-04-2021 21:44
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus’ Foreign Ministry has expressed regret over sanctions the United States reimposed on nine state-owned companies in the ex-Soviet country, citing human rights violations. Belarus has become a target of Western sanctions after authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko won his sixth term in office in a widely disputed election in August and unleashed a harsh crackdown on subsequent mass protests that demanded he steps down. On Monday, the U.S. Treasury De
  
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• Despite growing chorus, DOJ is limited in police probes

  20-04-2021 21:43
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Calls have grown for federal investigations into police killings across the nation since President Joe Biden took office and said he believes racial disparities in policing must change. But the U.S. Justice Department is still bound by the same laws that present a high bar for bringing federal charges. And that may leave victims’ families disappointed. Still, the department is shifting its priorities to focus more on civil rights issues, criminal justice overhauls and
  
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• Jury reaches verdict at trial over George Floyd’s death

  20-04-2021 21:37
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The jury has reached a verdict at the murder trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd.
  The verdict is to be read late Tuesday afternoon.
  Floyd died last May after Chauvin, a white officer, pinned his knee on the 46-year-old Black man’s neck for about 9 1/2 minutes in a case that triggered worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S.
  The jury deliberated over parts of two day
  
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• Arizona Supreme Court questions new education tax legality

  20-04-2021 21:32
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court appears to doubt whether hundreds of millions of dollars in new taxes collected under a voter initiative enacted in November can be legally spent when a provision of the state constitution caps school spending. The justices raised the questions during a hearing Tuesday on an expedited constitutional challenge to the new tax on high-earning Arizonans designed to boost school funding. Opponents of Proposition 208 say the spending cap means $600 millio
  
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• Chad president Deby dies at 68 after three-decade rule

  20-04-2021 21:30
  
  N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — President Idriss Deby Itno, who ruled Chad for more than 30 years and became an important ally to Western nations in the fight against Islamic extremism in Africa, has been killed while battling rebels in the north according to the military. He was 68. The news of his death, announced Tuesday by the military, came hours after he had been declared the winner of an election that would have given him another six years in power. The circumstances of his death remai
  
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• Jury reaches a verdict at murder trial of ex-cop Derek Chauvin in George Floyd’s death — will be read Tuesday afternoon

  20-04-2021 21:29
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jury reaches a verdict at murder trial of ex-cop Derek Chauvin in George Floyd’s death — will be read Tuesday afternoon.The post Jury reaches a verdict at murder trial of ex-cop Derek Chauvin in George Floyd’s death — will be read Tuesday afternoon appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Man bitten while using barbecue tongs to remove rattlesnake

  20-04-2021 21:28
  
  CORONA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a Southern California man is recovering after he was bitten by a rattlesnake when he tried to pick up the poisonous reptile using barbecue tongs. The man spotted the snake Saturday near his home in Riverside County and was worried about it coming into contact with children. He was treated at a hospital and later released. After the man was taken away by ambulance, a crowd gathered as an animal control officer removed the snake. It was later euthanized.
  
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• Italy’s Grillo derided for defending son in sex assault case

  20-04-2021 21:25
  
  MILAN (AP) — Former Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte has derided the founder of the 5-Star Movement for a video message defending his son against allegations of sexual assault. Conte, a lawyer by training who has been tapped as the next leader of the movement, said in a statement Tuesday that he understands Beppe Grillo’s “anguish of a father, but we cannot overlook that there are also other people … who must be protected and whose feelings must be absolutely respected, na
  
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• New St. Louis mayor pledges to fight all discrimination

  20-04-2021 21:20
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Tishaura Jones has called systemic racism the biggest obstacle to progress in St. Louis, and the city’s new mayor used her inauguration speech on Tuesday to pledge to fight back against all types of discrimination. Jones was sworn in during a coronavirus-mandated socially distanced ceremony at City Hall that included fewer than 100 people on the first-floor, seated six feet apart, though many others watched from balconies. Jones, a Democrat, is St. Louis’ third
  
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• Russian shot at border pleads guilty to illegal re-entry

  20-04-2021 21:09
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A Russian immigrant who once staged a monthlong hunger strike at an Arizona detention center and was shot several months later during a struggle with a federal agent near the Mexican border has pleaded guilty to illegally re-entering the United States after he was deported. Evgenii Glushchenko acknowledged at a hearing in Tucson that he illegally crossed the border near Lukeville, Arizona, in 2019. He was shot in the thigh by a Border Patrol agent who tried to apprehend him.
  
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• NTSB: Obstructed views, lack of alerts caused midair crash

  20-04-2021 21:09
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board has found that obstructed views and problems with a system that alerts pilots to nearby planes combined to cause the midair crash of Alaska sightseeing planes that killed six people two years ago. The board determined that the pilots’ views were limited by the planes’ structure or a passenger. That prevented them from seeing each other in the critical moments before the May 2019 crash. The board also cited a lack of
  
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