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• Kentucky’s Clarke mourned by teammates, basketball world

  23-04-2021 23:49
  
  The death of former Kentucky guard Terrence Clarke following a car accident in Los Angeles sparked an outpouring of grief and support from around basketball, including reaction from Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James. The university announced Clarke’s death from a two-car crash in a release Thursday night. A player-organized candlelight public vigil outside the team dormitory was announced, just after Wildcats coach John Calipari arrived in California to be with Clarke’s famil
  
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• Summit shows Biden big vision on fighting climate change

  23-04-2021 23:43
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his team of climate experts used a virtual global summit this week to lay out Biden’s vision that fighting climate change not only can benefit the U.S. economy, but the world’s as well. The summit, based at the White House, featured more than 40 world leaders whose views were beamed in online. It offered new details on how the U.S. might hope to supercharge its climate efforts while leveraging international action to spur the technologi
  
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• Expert explains mental health report on newspaper gunman

  23-04-2021 23:35
  
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A key expert for prosecutors in the Capital Gazette shooting says the gunman’s methodical planning both for the attack and his future after it indicate he is legally sane and criminally responsible for killing five people. Dr. Gregory Saathoff testified Friday in the last scheduled pretrial hearing before the second phase of the trial in June to determine whether Jarrod Ramos is criminally responsible. Saathoff, a forensic psychiatrist, interviewed multiple peop
  
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• After COVID relief bill, progressives look for next big win

  23-04-2021 23:32
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Progressives are looking for their next big win now that the COVID-19 relief bill has been signed into law. Many have declared a Democratic countermeasure to the Georgia election law the No. 1 goal. The Derek Chauvin murder trial has resurrected calls for criminal justice legislation. Some liberals want an immigration overhaul. Others seize on expanding the Supreme Court. This week, the House voted to make the District of Columbia a state. And progressives have their own ver
  
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• LGBT activists not excited by Jenner’s campaign for governor

  23-04-2021 23:24
  
  Though Caitlyn Jenner is one of the most famous transgender people in America, the announcement of her candidacy for California governor was greeted hostilely by one of the state’s largest LGBTQ-rights groups. The group — Equality California — said it was eager to help elect a trans governor, but did not trust Jenner because of her past support for Donald Trump. Jenner – the former Olympic gold medalist and reality TV personality — is a Republican and supported Trum
  
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• Honda to phase out gas-powered cars by 2040 in N. America

  23-04-2021 23:18
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Japanese automaker Honda plans to phase out all gasoline-powered vehicles in North America by 2040. The announcement Friday makes Honda the latest major automaker with a goal of becoming carbon neutral. It came as leaders of the major global economies are meeting for President Joe Biden’s climate summit. Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe said the company expects that 40% of all vehicle sales will be battery or fuel-cell powered by 2030, and 80% of all vehicles sold will be ele
  
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• Black parents sue Wisconsin district over slavery lesson

  23-04-2021 23:18
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Three Black parents and their two children are suing a suburban Madison school district after teachers asked students in February how they would punish a slave in ancient Mesopotamia. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that the lawsuit against the Sun Prairie Area School District was filed Friday in Dane County Circuit Court. The lawsuit alleges the district inflicted emotional stress on students and violated their civil rights. The lawsuit seeks $75,000 in damages an
  
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• Resilient redwood forest a beacon of hope for California

  23-04-2021 23:05
  
  BIG BASIN REDWOODS STATE PARK, Calif. (AP) — Big Basin Redwoods State Park, which was scorched last summer after lightning sparked about 650 fires in Northern California, is recovering. Ancient, resilient redwoods are sprouting new growth, and parks officials say the public should expect a new, re-reimaged and re-envisioned place, not a straight rebuilding of California’s oldest state park. An official says the state now can consider ways to make it more equitable and accessible to p
  
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• Racial equity meeting interrupted with racist slurs, images

  23-04-2021 23:05
  
  Police in Connecticut are trying to find out who interrupted a video conference meeting of a racial equity task force with racist epithets and images of enslaved people. Fairfield Police chief Robert Kalamaras says someone joined the virtual meeting of the city’s Racial Equity and Justice Task Force on Thursday evening and began sharing their screen using the racist images and language. Kalamaras says some of the epithets used by the individual were directed at Black members of the task fo
  
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• The Latest: Health panel urges restarting J&J vaccinations

  23-04-2021 23:04
  
  A U.S. health panel says it’s time to resume use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, despite a very rare risk of blood clots. Out of nearly 8 million people vaccinated before the U.S. suspended J&J’s shot, health officials uncovered 15 cases of a highly unusual kind of blood clot, three of them fatal. All were women, most younger than 50.But advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday the vaccine’s benefits outweigh that serious but
  
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• Ku Klux Klan membership records made public in Denver

  23-04-2021 23:03
  
  DENVER (AP) — History Colorado has debuted an online archive this week of 1,300 pages of original Ku Klux Klan membership records from 1924 through 1926, previously on public display at the History Colorado Center in downtown Denver. The Denver Post reported that History Colorado digitized the hate group’s ledgers, which include 30,000 people, to highlight the widespread racism built into the city’s political and cultural history. History Colorado Chief Operating Officer Dawn D
  
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• Section of Highway 1 that collapsed during storm reopens

  23-04-2021 23:02
  
  BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) — A section of California’s scenic Highway 1 that collapsed during a winter storm has reopened to traffic. Gov. Gavin Newsom and work crews stood on the freshly paved and marked roadway to celebrate the reopening Friday. The highway along Big Sur had been closed since Jan. 28, when heavy rain unleashed torrents of mud and debris left over from a wildfire, washing down a 150-foot chunk of roadway into the sea. Storms in 2017 caused slides that closed off Big Sur f
  
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• Go forth and spend: Call for action closes US climate summit

  23-04-2021 23:02
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In closing President Joe Biden’s global climate summit, world leaders shared stories of their own nations’ drives to break away from climate-wrecking fossil fuels. Friday’s final day of Biden’s 40-leader world summit sought to drive home his message that investing in cleaner, more efficient infrastructure creates jobs and prosperity. Kenyan President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta told of his country’s leapfrogging from kerosene lanterns to solar char
  
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• Navajo students describe pandemic struggles to Jill Biden

  23-04-2021 22:54
  
  ST. MICHAELS, Ariz. (AP) — Students on the largest Native American reservation spoke to first lady Jill Biden on Friday about challenges they’ve faced during the coronavirus pandemic, including poor internet access and feelings of isolation. The hourlong discussion took place at Hunters Point Boarding School, a small, aging grade school on the Navajo Nation. The handful of students were from schools in the surrounding area. Lesley Tohtsoni teaches U.S. history at Navajo Preparatory S
  
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• U.S. man’s defense: fear played role in Italian’s slaying

  23-04-2021 22:53
  
  ROME (AP) — A defense lawyer for a young American man on trial for the slaying of an Italian police officer contended on Friday that psychiatric problems, including constant fear of attack, figured in the fatal stabbing on a Rome street in July 2019. Finnegan Lee Elder, now 21, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, now 20, who were vacationing in Rome, are on trial for attempted extortion and the slaying of a plainclothes Carabinieri officer after a deal to buy cocaine in a nightlife district went ba
  
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• US health panel urges restarting J&J COVID-19 vaccinations

  23-04-2021 22:53
  
  A U.S. health panel says it’s time to resume use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, despite a very rare risk of blood clots. Out of nearly 8 million people vaccinated before the U.S. suspended J&J’s shot, health officials uncovered 15 cases of a highly unusual kind of blood clot, three of them fatal. All were women, most younger than 50. But advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday the vaccine’s benefits outweigh that serious bu
  
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• ‘I’m in!’: Caitlyn Jenner running for California governor

  23-04-2021 22:53
  
  Caitlyn Jenner wins the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2015 ESPY's, Photo Date: 7/15/15
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Caitlyn Jenner says she will run for governor of California. In a statement posted Friday on Twitter, the Republican said she has filed initial paperwork to run. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing a likely recall election in the fall. Several other Republicans already have announced candidacies, including ex-san Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer. Jenner, a 71-year-old transgender wom
  
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• US panel urges restarting vaccinations with Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 shot

  23-04-2021 22:50
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — US panel urges restarting vaccinations with Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 shot.The post US panel urges restarting vaccinations with Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 shot appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• CIA head said to have made unannounced trip to Afghanistan

  23-04-2021 22:41
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A senior Afghan politician and a well-placed public figure say CIA Director William Burns made a recent unannounced visit to the Afghan capital of Kabul. The trip by Burns came as concerns mount about Afghanistan’s capability to fight terrorism once the U.S. has withdrawn its remaining troops by summer. Separately, a senior former Afghan security official says two of six counterterrorism units trained and run by the CIA have already been transferred to Afgha
  
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• America’s gas-fueled vehicles imperil Biden’s climate goals

  23-04-2021 22:40
  
  DETROIT (AP) — For President Joe Biden to reach his goal of cutting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, big pollution reductions will have to come from someplace other than automotive tailpipes. That’s because there are just too many gas-powered passenger vehicles on U.S. roads today _ roughly 279 million. Experts say they can’t be replaced by electric vehicles in less than a decade. That means bigger cuts will have to come from other sectors of the economy. Most of
  
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• $25M suit blames energy, boat companies in fatal capsizing

  23-04-2021 22:40
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A $25 million lawsuit blames an energy corporation and the work boat company it hired for an offshore Gulf of Mexico disaster that killed 13 people. The suit was filed in state court in Houston on behalf of Hannah Daspit. Her husband, Dylan Daspit, was aboard the Seacor Power when it capsized on April 13. His body had yet to be recovered as of Friday afternoon. The suit blames both companies for failing to assess weather conditions when the lift boat went out. It accuses
  
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• Court record: Chauvin to be sentenced June 16 in Floyd death

  23-04-2021 22:38
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota court has set a June sentencing date for Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. Online court records say Chauvin will be sentenced on June 16 at 1:30 p.m., by Judge Peter Cahill, the Hennepin County judge who oversaw the trial. Chauvin, 45, was convicted Tuesday of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for pressing his knee against Floyd’s neck for 9 1/2
  
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• Laura Pausini is ready to sing at the Oscars

  23-04-2021 22:36
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Laura Pausini was so emotionally affected by the pandemic last year that she even thought she would never sing again. This Sunday she will perform for the biggest event in Hollywood — the Academy Awards — where she will sing the nominated song “Io sì (Seen)” from “The Life Ahead” during a pre-show ceremony. Co-written by Pausini and Diane Warren, it has already won the Golden Globe and on Sunday could become the first song entirely
  
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• Honolulu bribery scandal prompts permit department overhaul

  23-04-2021 22:33
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu is overhauling its building permit process after a federal investigation resulted in indictments alleging a bribery scheme. Indictments allege that five current and former employees of the city’s Department of Planning and Permitting took bribes in exchange for favors, including approving projects and nullifying code violations. The department announced changes Thursday. They include hiring an outside investigator to examine internal controls. A local archite
  
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• Multiple violations found in probe of detained teen’s death

  23-04-2021 22:31
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s youth correctional agency says it identified multiple policy violations by staff as it investigated the death of a teenager found dead last year in a juvenile detention center. Seventeen-year-old Robert Wright was found dead Aug. 31 at Circleville Juvenile Correctional Facility. Ryan Gies is the director of the Department of Youth Services. Gies said Friday that staff members didn’t properly conduct rounds to check on sleeping youth that morning. He
  
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• Venezuela’s Maduro begins allowing aid against hunger, virus

  23-04-2021 22:19
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — For a second time this month, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has reached an agreement with the sort of global aid agencies he has often shunned to bring help to his country’s people. Maduro this week signed a deal to let the United Nations World Food Program provide school meals for 1.5 million children. It follows an agreement worked out with another agency to access COVID-19 vaccines under a U.N.-backed program. Maduro for years had rejected nu
  
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• In court, Ghislaine Maxwell pleads not guilty to new charges

  23-04-2021 22:19
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell has faced her trial judge in person for the first time as lawyers squabble over exactly when she should be tried on sex trafficking charges alleging that she procured teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse at his posh residences. Maxwell pleaded not guilty Friday to sex trafficking conspiracy and a sex trafficking charge that were added in a rewritten indictment filed last month in Manhattan federal court. The court proceeding lasted only a fe
  
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• Prosecutor: Man knew toddler was in car when he opened fire

  23-04-2021 22:17
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A prosecutor says the Chicago man charged with attempted murder in a road-rage shooting that left a toddler critically wounded opened fire on the vehicle even after he was told there was a child inside. At a Friday bond hearing, Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Kevin Deboni said Deandre Binion fired four to five shots from inside his SUV on April 6 and four to five times more after he climbed out and stood on the roadway. One of the bullets struck 21-month-old Ka
  
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• COVID vaccines recommended for pregnant women

  23-04-2021 22:15
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that pregnant people receive COVID-19 vaccinations.Agency Director Rochelle Walensky announced the recommendation during an update on the pandemic at a White House briefing. She noted that a CDC study published this week found no safety concerns with Moderna and Pfizer vaccinations given during the third trimester of pregnancy.MORE: Need a vaccine? We break down where you can receive your COVID-19 sho
  
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• Family indicted, accused of selling bleach as COVID cure

  23-04-2021 22:12
  
  MIAMI (AP) — A family accused of selling a toxic industrial bleach as a coronavirus cure through their church has been indicted on federal charges. A federal grand jury returned an indictment Thursday charging Mark Grenon and his three sons with one count each of conspiracy to commit fraud and two counts each of criminal contempt. Grenon is the archbishop of the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing in Bradenton, Florida. Officials say the church sells chlorine dioxide and the Grenons cl
  
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• Vehicle involved in hit-and-run that left toddler in critical condition located, police say

  23-04-2021 22:08
  
  Family of toddler hit in crosswalk begs hit and run driver to turn himself in.
  TUCSON (KVOA) - The suspect vehicle involved in a hit-and-run crash that left a toddler in critical condition last Friday has been located, police say.
  An off-duty detective spotted the vehicle on Interstate 19 near the Irvington Road exit Friday afternoon. Tucson Police Department officers responded to the area and confirmed it was the vehicle involved.
  Police said that Casandra Hernandez was walking with her father
  
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• Vehicle involved in hit-and-run that left toddler in critical condition located

  23-04-2021 22:08
  
  Family of toddler hit in crosswalk begs hit and run driver to turn himself in.
  TUCSON (KVOA) - The suspect vehicle in a hit-and-run crash that left a toddler in critical condition has been located, police said Friday afternoon.
  An off-duty detective spotted the vehicle on Interstate 19 near the Irvington Road exit. Tucson Police Department officers responded to the area and confirmed it was the vehicle.
  The incident happened last Friday just before 6:30 p.m. Police said that Casandra Herna
  
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• No. 3 House Democrat, Rep. Clyburn, fined $5K over screening

  23-04-2021 22:00
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee says the No. 3 House Democratic leader, Rep. Jim Clyburn, has been fined $5,000 after Capitol Police reported he avoided being screened before entering the House chamber. The ethics panel said Friday that the Democrat from South Carolina has appealed the fine. Clyburn is 80 and serving his 15th term in Congress. Clyburn is the first Democrat to be fined under security screening rules the House imposed on its members after the violent Jan. 6 stor
  
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• The Latest: COVID vaccines recommended for pregnant women

  23-04-2021 21:57
  
  WASHINGTON — The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that pregnant people receive COVID-19 vaccinations. Agency Director Rochelle Walensky announced the recommendation during an update on the pandemic at a White House briefing. She noted that a CDC study published this week found no safety concerns with Moderna and Pfizer vaccinations given during the third trimester of pregnancy.
  ‘’We know that this is a deeply personal decision, and I encourage
  
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• Arsenal fans protest against owner for Super League debacle

  23-04-2021 21:57
  
  LONDON (AP) — Several hundred Arsenal fans are protesting outside Emirates Stadium before the team’s English Premier League match against Everton. The fans want owner Stan Kroenke to leave the club over its bid to join the Super League. Fans gathered on the stadium’s concourse more than two hours before kickoff, banging metal screens above the main box office, lighting flares and setting off fireworks. They chanted “We want Kroenke out,” and “We want our Arsen
  
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• Ex-NFL pro who killed 6 was ID’d by phone found at scene

  23-04-2021 21:54
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Newly released search warrants show that police identified a former NFL player as the primary suspect in a mass shooting at a South Carolina home earlier this month after finding his iPhone at the house. Authorities say that Phillip Adams fatally shot six people including a prominent physician in Rock Hill, South Carolina, on April 7 before killing himself. Authorities also searched Adams’ parents’ home and found numerous notebooks “with cryptic writ
  
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• Georgia AG quits chair of prosecutors’ group in riot fallout

  23-04-2021 21:46
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s attorney general has resigned as chairman of the national Republican Attorneys General Association. Chris Carr says he has a “fundamental difference of opinion” with some other members of the group. That split dates back to a robocall the group sent encouraging the crowd that breached the Capitol on Jan. 6. Carr said in his resignation letter that he tried to restore the group’s reputation. But now the board has made Peter Bisbee the executi
  
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• Calls mount for video release in fatal shooting by deputies

  23-04-2021 21:38
  
  ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — Leaders of a North Carolina city where a Black man was shot and killed by deputies serving search and drug-related warrants are planning to urge a court to release body camera video of the shooting. The calls for transparency come amid growing concern that Andrew Brown Jr. was killed as he was fleeing. A notice posted by the City Council in Elizabeth City said it intended on Friday to have the city attorney petition a local court to make the video public. In Nor
  
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• US Capitol Police officer testifies in lawmaker threat case

  23-04-2021 21:33
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. Capitol Police officer testified Friday against a New York man accused of threatening to kill members of Congress, recounting how police struggled to quell the “surreal” Jan. 6 riot in Washington. Defendant Brendan Hunt wasn’t part of the siege. But prosecutors sought to use the testimony of Special Agent Christopher Desrosiers to frame the episode as a further catalyst for Hunt’s alleged call to massacre members of Congress. Prosecutors alleg
  
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• Biden speaks to Erdogan as Armenian genocide question looms

  23-04-2021 21:29
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden spoke with Turkey’s president on Friday as he is weighing whether to move forward with a campaign pledge to formally recognize that atrocities committed against the Armenian people by the Ottoman Empire more than a century ago were genocide. The White House statement on the call made no mention of the looming decision on the Armenian genocide recognition. It says Biden told the Turkish president he wants to improve the two countries’ relati
  
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• Police: Van sought after 911 call indicates ‘woman appeared to be in distress’

  23-04-2021 21:22
  
  Police in Tucson are looking for a vehicle on the south side after a 911 call was made Friday morning.
  According to Tucson Police Department, the call said a woman inside a van "appeared to be in distress."Police say the vehicle could be a '09-15 Chrysler minivan with chrome wheels. It was last seen at 8 a.m. Friday going south on Santa Clara Avenue from Calle Margarita, near Valencia Road and 12th Avenue.
  The driver is described as a man, stocky build, between 20 to 30 years old.
  Police say the
  
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• Powwows across US adapt to pandemic for a second year

  23-04-2021 21:21
  
  Powwows across US adapt to pandemic for a second yearThe post Powwows across US adapt to pandemic for a second year appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Judge calls temporary halt to Arizona election audit

  23-04-2021 21:18
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona judge is calling a halt to an audit of 2020 election results from the state’s largest county. Maricopa County Superior Court judge Christopher Coury ruled Friday that the audit must stop between 5 p.m. Friday and noon Monday as long as the state Democratic party puts up a $1 million bond to cover potential higher costs. The audit includes a hand recount of 2.1 million ballots. It’s being conducted on behalf of Republicans in the state Senate, who hired
  
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• France opens terrorism probe in police station stabbing

  23-04-2021 21:17
  
  RAMBOUILLET, France (AP) — French prosecutors have opened a terrorism investigation and detained three people after a police official was stabbed to death inside a police station outside Paris. The assailant was shot and killed by officers in the town of Rambouillet outside Paris. France’s national anti-terrorism prosecutor said his office took over the probe because the attacker had staked out the station, because of statements he made during the attack, and because he targeted a po
  
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• Stocks rise, erasing most of S&P 500’s weekly losses

  23-04-2021 21:14
  
  Stocks were rising in afternoon trading Friday and pulling the overall market out of its week-long rut. Most of the losses for the S&P 500 were erased near the end of a choppy week. Investors continue to focus on individual company earnings, getting results late Thursday from chip giant Intel and, on Friday, companies like American Express and Honeywell. Technology stocks and banks led much of the gains. Bond yields ticked higher. Investors are weighing economic growth against threats from t
  
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• ACLU: Oregon city sues BLM activists over public records fee

  23-04-2021 21:14
  
  BEND, Ore. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union will represent a social justice organization in Bend, Oregon, in a lawsuit filed by the city about how much the nonprofit should pay in fees related to a public records request. The Central Oregon Peacekeepers requested city documents about a clash between supporters of then-President Donald Trump and Black Lives Matter activists at a park last October. The city charged the Peacekeepers $3,600 for the records and is suing after the local
  
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• Arrested NH youth center workers described as ‘hit squad’

  23-04-2021 21:10
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire state trooper says four recently arrested youth detention center workers were known as the “hit squad” and “muscle” of their dormitory. Eleven men have been arrested this month as part of an ongoing investigation into the Youth Development Center in Manchester, including several who were in court Friday. A judge found probable cause to advance the case against Bradley Asbury, who is accused along with another man of holding down
  
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• Whale of a time: NYC offers walk-up vaccinations for all

  23-04-2021 21:08
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Appointments are no longer necessary at any of the coronavirus vaccination sites run by New York City. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday that anyone eligible for the vaccine could walk up to any of the city’s mass vaccination sites and get a shot. The change comes as supplies of the vaccine have increased. Just weeks ago, most people trying to get an appointment for a vaccination in the nation’s biggest city had to game online appointment syste
  
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• 10,000 march in Armenian capital to commemorate killings

  23-04-2021 21:08
  
  YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — About 10,000 people have held a torchlight parade in Armenia’s capital to commemorate the estimated 1.5 million Armenians killed in Ottoman Turkey more than a century ago. Friday evening’s march began with activists burning a Turkish flag. Historians estimate that, in the last days of the Ottoman Empire, up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks in what is widely regarded as the first genocide of the 20th century. Armenians have long pushe
  
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• Mexican union vote halted at GM plant; vote fixing alleged

  23-04-2021 21:07
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has faced its biggest challenge yet to labor-freedom reforms under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement: An old-guard union was caught apparently destroying negative ballots at a General Motors plant in northern Mexico. Labor Secretary Luisa Maria Alcalde says the vote tampering at the pickup truck and transmission factories in the northern city of Silao were a sign that some union leaders “haven’t gotten the message” that they can no longer op
  
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