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• Police: 4 people killed in German hospital, woman detained

  28-04-2021 23:57
  
  BERLIN (AP) — German police say a woman has been detained after four people were found dead at a hospital in the eastern city of Potsdam. A spokesman for Brandenburg state police says officers were called to the Oberlin Clinic shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday. They found the four dead people and fifth person who was serious injured. Police spokesman Thorsten Herbst tells The Associated Press that the victims showed signs of significant external violence. He said the detained woman is &ldquo
  
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• Vaccines aplenty but some Californians struggle to get one

  28-04-2021 23:46
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California is in a far different place than it was just weeks ago when simply scoring a vaccine appointment was cause for celebration. But that doesn’t mean that everyone who wants a vaccine in the country’s most populous state can get one. A San Francisco Bay Area doctor says he is pleading for doses to inoculate older patients who want to get a shot from his practice and can’t make appointments online. Health experts say this next phase in vaccinati
  
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• US indicts 3 on hate crime charges in death of Ahmaud Arbery

  28-04-2021 23:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has announced federal hate crime charges in the death of a Georgia man who was killed while out for a run last year. The criminal case charging the three men in connection with the death of Ahmaud Arbery is the most significant civil rights prosecution undertaken to date by the Biden administration Justice Department. Travis McMichael and his father, Gregory, and a third man, William “Roddie” Bryan, are all charged with one count of inte
  
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• Biden to the nation: We’re ‘turning peril into possibility’

  28-04-2021 23:40
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will use his first joint address to Congress to declare the nation is “turning peril into possibility, crisis into opportunity.” He’s urging a $1.8 trillion investment in children, families and education that would fundamentally transform roles the government plays in American life.  Biden is marking his first 100 days in office as the nation emerges from a confluence of crises, making his case Wednesday night before a pared-down
  
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• The Latest: Biden to call for Medicare drug cost negotiating

  28-04-2021 23:36
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Joe Biden’s first joint address to Congress (all times local):
  5:30 p.m.
  The White House says President Joe Biden’s speech to Congress will call on lawmakers to lower prescription drug costs by acting this year to empower Medicare to negotiate prices.
  A White House official confirmed Biden’s plan on condition of anonymity in advance of the president’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night.
  Medicare’s
  
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• Bones dating back to ice age found in Las Vegas backyard

  28-04-2021 23:36
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A couple in Las Vegas said they will have to wait to continue building their pool after construction crews unearthed a set of bones dating back to Earth’s most recent ice age. Matt Perkins and his husband, who recently moved from Washington state to Nevada, said police showed up at their home on Monday to analyze the bones, determining they did not belong to a human. Nevada Science Center Research Director Joshua Bonde said the bones are between 6,000 and 14,000 year
  
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• Amphi looking to hire bus drivers, mechanics at pop-up job fairs

  28-04-2021 23:35
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - The Amphitheater Transportation Department is holding pop-up job fairs at its schools next week.The department is hiring bus drivers and other staff such as mechanics and routing coordinators. They are looking for people who “want to make a positive difference in a rewarding job in driver and support positions.” The pop-up events are open to the public for anyone who is interested. Amphi believes that transportation is an essential service to their students
  
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• Biden to say US ‘turning peril into possibility’

  28-04-2021 23:30
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In his first address to Congress, President Joe Biden will declare that the nation is “turning peril into possibility, crisis into opportunity.”
  The White House released brief excerpts of Biden’s Wednesday night speech, which comes on the eve of his 100th day in office.
  Biden is to say that he inherited the White House amid “the worst pandemic in a century. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The worst attack on our democracy sin
  
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• West Virginia transgender athlete bill signed by governor

  28-04-2021 23:25
  
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s governor has signed a bill that bans transgender athletes from competing in female sports in middle and high schools and colleges. The bill was among 38 signed by the Republican governor on Wednesday. It had narrowly passed the state Senate, which had added the college component, before being overwhelmingly approved in the House of Delegates. Justice said earlier this week that he would proudly sign the transgender bill despite warnings from s
  
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• The Latest: Biden to say US ‘turning peril into possibility’

  28-04-2021 23:23
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Joe Biden’s first joint address to Congress (all times local):
  5:20 p.m.
  In his first address to Congress, President Joe Biden will declare that the nation is “turning peril into possibility, crisis into opportunity.”
  The White House released brief excerpts of Biden’s Wednesday night speech, which comes on the eve of his 100th day in office.
  Biden is to say that he inherited the White House amid “the worst pandemic in
  
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• Report: 4 people killed in German hospital, woman detained

  28-04-2021 23:23
  
  BERLIN (AP) — The German news agency dpa says four people have been killed at a hospital in the eastern city of Potsdam. Dpa quotes a police spokesman as saying that a 51-year-old woman has been arrested. The agency says officers were called to the Oberlin Clinic, a specialist center for orthopedic disorders, shortly before 9 p.m. Further details aren’t immediately available. Potsdam is on the southwestern edge of the German capital of Berlin.The post Report: 4 people killed in Germa
  
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• Louisville officer shot in Breonna Taylor raid retiring

  28-04-2021 23:23
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Louisville police officer who fired at Breonna Taylor after being shot during the deadly raid on Taylor’s apartment is retiring. police spokesperson Beth Ruoff tells news outlets that Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly is planning to retire from the Louisville Metro Police Department on June 1. Mattingly was shot in the leg during the March 13, 2020, raid. Taylor’s boyfriend fired at him after believing an intruder was breaking into the apartment. Mattingly was
  
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• Senate votes to reinstate methane rules loosened by Trump

  28-04-2021 23:22
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats are moving to reinstate regulations designed to limit potent greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas fields. It’s part of a broader effort by the Biden administration to combat climate change. The Senate approved a resolution Wednesday that would undo an environmental rollback by President Donald Trump. The rule relaxed requirements of a 2016 Obama administration rule targeting methane emissions from oil and gas drilling. Democrats and envi
  
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• Audio publisher withdraws edition of new Philip Roth bio

  28-04-2021 23:18
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The audiobook publisher of a new Philip Roth biography is pulling the release, following W.W. Norton and Company’s announcement that it was withdrawing the print edition amid multiple allegations against author Blake Bailey of sexual harassment and assault. Norton announced Tuesday that it had stopped publication of the Roth book and a Bailey memoir, “The Splendid Things We Planned,” it released in 2014. “Philip Roth,” which Bailey spent nine y
  
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• Biden to declare nation is ‘turning peril into possibility, crisis into opportunity’ in first address to Congress

  28-04-2021 23:16
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden to declare nation is ‘turning peril into possibility, crisis into opportunity’ in first address to Congress.The post Biden to declare nation is ‘turning peril into possibility, crisis into opportunity’ in first address to Congress appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Judge won’t block Arizona Senate’s 2020 election recount

  28-04-2021 23:07
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A judge is refusing to shut down the Republican-led Arizona Senate’s recount of 2.1 million ballots from the 2020 election in the state’s most populous county. But Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Daniel Martin ordered ballot secrecy and voter privacy procedures the Senate’s contractor is using be made public, barring an appeal. Wednesday’s decision was both a loss and a win for the Arizona Democratic Party. Its lawyers argued the Senate’s s
  
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• Davis Monthan Air Force Base honors airman killed in Afghanistan 10 years ago

  28-04-2021 23:02
  
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  TUCSON (KVOA) - Davis Monthan Air Force Base Community on Tuesday honored Captain Nathan J. Nylander, an airman who was killed during a shooting in Afghanistan 10 years ago.
  Captain Nylander was awarded the Silver Star, the nation's third-highest award for combat valor.
  "He was more about supporting his airmen, leading them by inspiration," said Miriam Hamilton, Nylander's wife.
  Captain Nathan J. Nylander"He was a little unassuming, but I'll tell you what, h
  
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• Feds raid Giuliani’s home, office, escalating criminal probe

  28-04-2021 23:00
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that federal investigators have executed search warrants at Rudy Giuliani’s Manhattan residence and office. The former New York City mayor has been under investigation for several years over his business dealings in Ukraine. Details of the reasons for Wednesday’s searches were not immediately available. The officials who confirmed the execution of the search warrants did not have approval to speak publicly ab
  
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• Early Biden news coverage more policy than character-driven

  28-04-2021 22:59
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Early news coverage of the Biden administration focused more on policy than on character, a marked contrast to the beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency. That’s one finding of a Pew Research Center study of stories on the first two months of each administration in 25 separate news outlets. Nearly two-thirds of the early Biden stories were on policy, and were dominated by the coronavirus. By contrast, three-quarters of stories about Trump in his first two months
  
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• US indicts 3 on hate crime charges in death of Georgia man

  28-04-2021 22:55
  
  The Justice Department has announced federal hate crime charges in the death of a a Georgia man who was killed while out for a run last year. The criminal case charging the three men in connection with the death of Ahmaud Arbery is the most significant civil rights prosecution undertaken to date by the Biden administration Justice Department. It comes as federal officials have moved quickly to open civil rights investigations into troubled police departments.The post US indicts 3 on hate crime c
  
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• The Latest: Detroit to pay for driving residents to vaccine

  28-04-2021 22:55
  
  DETROIT — Detroit is adding to the gig economy: Drivers who take a city resident for a COVID-19 shot can get $50.
  There is a $150 three-person cap per vehicle, but there’s no limit on the number of trips. Compensation will come in the form of a prepaid debit card.
  “There shouldn’t be a single barrier for any Detroiter to get a vaccination, and certainly not transportation,” Mayor Mike Duggan said Wednesday.
  Nearly half of Michigan residents 16 and older have receive
  
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• US government taking creative steps to counter cyberthreats

  28-04-2021 22:53
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI operation gave law enforcement remote access to hundreds of computers to counter a massive hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software. Now, the Justice Department’s top national security official says that kind of tool is likely to be deployed “judiciously” in the future as the government develops a framework for the tool’s use. The department had announced earlier this month that it had obtained a warrant from a federal judge in an op
  
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• Man linked to Capitol riot convicted of threats to lawmakers

  28-04-2021 22:53
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A social media agitator linked to the U.S. Capitol riot has been convicted on federal charges he threatened to kill members of Congress in a verdict rejecting his claims that he meant no harm. A jury found Brendan Hunt guilty on Wednesday at the close of a weeklong trial in federal court in Brooklyn. The 37-year-old Hunt wasn’t at the Capitol. But he admitted creating a series of menacing-sounding posts. He also told jurors he never thought they would be taken serious
  
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• Justice Department indicts 3 men on federal hate crime charges in death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia

  28-04-2021 22:51
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department indicts 3 men on federal hate crime charges in death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia.The post Justice Department indicts 3 men on federal hate crime charges in death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Turkish Cypriots to UN: two-state basis best for Cyprus deal

  28-04-2021 22:50
  
  GENEVA (AP) — Cyprus’ rival leaders are remaining polar opposites on what is needed for a peace deal on reunifying the ethnically divided island nation as U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres continues trying to get dormant negotiations restarted. Guterres on Wednesday held successive contacts during the second of a three-day informal gathering he is hosting in Geneva with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and Greek Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, but no breakthrough appear
  
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• Apple profit soars in latest quarter on higher iPhone sales

  28-04-2021 22:50
  
  Demand for the iPhone led Apple’s profits to more than double in the January-March period as the tech giant continued to capitalize on smartphone addiction. Profit and revenue topped analyst expectations. The iPhone, Apple’s crown jewel, hadn’t been selling quite as well in the past few years as people held on to their existing models for longer. But the release of four iPhone 12 models last fall appears to have unleashed purchases. Sales of the iPhone climbed 66% on top of a h
  
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• Feds release videos of Jan. 6 riot showing police assault

  28-04-2021 22:28
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities have released videos showing Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick being attacked with a chemical spray as the pro-Trump mob descended on the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection. The videos were released Wednesday after media outlets, including The Associated Press, went to court to demand that they be made available to the press. Sicknick died after defending the Capitol. The Washington medical examiner’s office found that Sicknick suffe
  
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• North Carolina sheriff’s deputies shot, wounded in standoff

  28-04-2021 22:27
  
  BOONE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say two North Carolina sheriff’s deputies were shot and wounded during a standoff. The Watauga County Sheriff’s Office says in a news release that deputies were dispatched to  home in Boone on Wednesday morning after the homeowner and his family didn’t appear at work or answer telephone calls. The news release says deputies entered the home and were fired upon. According to the news release, one deputy was shot, removed from the house a
  
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• 3 more officers on leave over arrest of woman with dementia

  28-04-2021 22:21
  
  DENVER (AP) — Three more police officers involved in the rough arrest of a 73-year-old Colorado woman with dementia have been placed on leave. A Loveland police spokesperson said Wednesday that officers Daria Jalali and Tyler Blackett and Sgt. Phil Metzler were placed on administrative leave last week in connection with the arrest of Karen Garner last year. The arresting officer was also placed on leave after Garner filed a federal lawsuit and her lawyer released body camera footage of her
  
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• South Dakota Supreme Court weighs pot legalization battle

  28-04-2021 22:20
  
  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Supreme Court has heard final arguments in a legal battle sparked by an attempt by Gov. Kristi Noem’s administration to strike down a voter-passed constitutional amendment legalizing marijuana. The high court will decide whether recreational pot use, medical marijuana and hemp cultivation are enshrined in the state’s constitution. Voters passed the measure in November. But Highway Patrol Superintendent Col. Rick Miller mounted a legal c
  
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• Stock indexes slip after Federal Reserve leaves rates alone

  28-04-2021 22:07
  
  Major U.S. stock indexes ended slightly lower on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged near zero, even as it noted recent improvement in the economy. The S&P 500 ended down just 0.1% after some earlier gains evaporated. Investors were also dealing with a wave of earnings reports from major U.S. companies and looking ahead to an evening speech from President Joe Biden to lay out his $1.8 trillion spending plan. Google’s parent company rose 3% after t
  
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• Tempe police: Shooting at apartment building leaves 1 dead

  28-04-2021 22:05
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Police in Tempe say one man is dead and another injured after a shooting at an apartment building near the Arizona State University campus. Police say they were called about shots being fired around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. When officers arrived, they reported seeing a car leaving the scene. Police pulled the vehicle over and say two men inside had gunshot wounds. They say one man was pronounced dead at a hospital and the other suffered injuries that don’t appear to be
  
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• Al Schmitt, Grammy winning engineer and producer, dead at 91

  28-04-2021 22:05
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — One of the world’s most honored musical producers and engineers has died. Twenty-time Grammy winner Al Schmitt, who worked with everyone from Sam Cooke to Steely Dan to Frank Sinatra, was 91. His family says he died Monday in California. Schmitt worked on more than 150 gold records, in a wide range of styles. Schmitt engineered such classic records as Cooke’s “Another Saturday Night” and George Benson’s live cover of “On Broadway.”
  
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• Chicago-based Poetry Foundation hires new president

  28-04-2021 22:01
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Poetry Foundation has chosen Michelle T. Boone as its new president. It’s the first time a woman and a person of color will be leading the wealthy, Chicago-based institution. The Poetry Foundation oversees the century-old Poetry magazine, organizes workshops and other programs, and distributes millions of dollars in awards and grants. The 59-year-old Boone has extensive experience in government and foundation work. The Poetry Foundation, like many cultural organiz
  
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• Rowdy Facebook food page erupts over harvesting of ramps

  28-04-2021 21:51
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A popular, food-focused Facebook page bearing the name of The New York Times erupted in unruly debate Wednesday over unsustainable harvesting of a basketful of coveted ramps. The wild spring onions were purchased by artist Tom Brauer of Norwich, New York. He posted a photo and asked The New York Times Cooking Community page how to prepare the ramps he had bought from a local forager. Detractors complained that the ramps’ bulbs had been pulled, threatening to endanger
  
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• BioNTech boss strikes upbeat note on Europe’s vaccine drive

  28-04-2021 21:48
  
  BERLIN (AP) — The head of German pharmaceutical company BioNTech says more than half of Europe’s population should have received the coronavirus vaccine in the next two months, allowing lockdown rules to be eased. BioNTech and U.S. partner Pfizer developed the first widely approved COVID-19 vaccine and aim to produce 3 billion doses this year. Its chief executive said Wednesday he’s confident the vaccine works against variants but will adapt the shot if necessary. BioNTech is i
  
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• US eyes major rollback in Iran sanctions to revive nuke deal

  28-04-2021 21:46
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is weighing a near wholesale rollback of some of the most stringent Trump-era sanctions imposed on Iran, in a bid to get the Islamic Republic to return to compliance with a landmark 2015 nuclear accord. That’s according to current and former U.S. officials and people familiar with indirect negotiations now taking place in Vienna on how to revive the struggling accord. American officials have refused to discuss which specific sanctions are un
  
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• In new Electoral College map, shifting battleground dynamics

  28-04-2021 21:41
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — The 2020 census is shifting the clout of some states in presidential politics. And while the changes won’t upend the parties’ basic strategies for securing the votes needed to win the White House, they do hint at new paths emerging. New population counts announced this week will result in 13 states seeing a change in their number of votes in the Electoral College. Rust Belt and upper Midwestern states will hand some of their votes to Sun Belt and Western states i
  
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• Biden to keep intelligence inspector general Trump appointed

  28-04-2021 21:39
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden intends to keep the inspector general overseeing the U.S. intelligence community who was appointed by former President Donald Trump. Biden on Tuesday announced that he intended to nominate Thomas Monheim for Senate confirmation as the permanent inspector general. Monheim was appointed acting inspector general after Trump fired his predecessor, Michael Atkinson, for his role in Trump’s first impeachment. The inspector general investigates and audi
  
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• The Latest: Spain expects increase in vaccine shipment

  28-04-2021 21:36
  
  MADRID — Spain’s health officials say that vaccination efforts are picking up pace after a record week in both the arrival of doses and the number of shots administered.
  Spanish Health Minister Carolina Darias said Wednesday that the European country would receive 4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines this week. That would be a high mark for Spain, whose vaccination campaign had suffered like the rest of the European Union from shipment delays by drugmakers.
  Darias added that the 1.8
  
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• US stock indexes mixed after Fed leaves rates unchanged

  28-04-2021 21:34
  
  Major U.S. stock indexes are mixed in afternoon trading Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it is leaving its key interest rate unchanged near zero, while noting recent improvement in the economy. Investors were dealing with a wave of earnings reports from major U.S. companies and looking ahead to prime-time speech from President Joe Biden to lay out his $1.8 trillion spending plan. The S&P 500 was up 0.1%, with companies slightly more companies falling than rising. Google’s paren
  
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• Dems laud racial diversity as panel turns focus to judges

  28-04-2021 21:33
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The first Senate hearing for President Joe Biden’s judicial nominations featured two African American nominees for appeals court openings. It gave Democrats an early chance to promote racial diversity on the bench and provide a contrast to the Trump era, when no Blacks were among the 54 such judges confirmed. The Biden nominees said at the hearing Wednesday that they did not believe race would play a role in their decisions, though they said diversity helps increase
  
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• Court upholds conviction of officer in slaying of black man

  28-04-2021 21:32
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — An appeals court has upheld the manslaughter and attempted murder convictions of a Florida police officer who gunned down a stranded Black motorist. The state Fourth District Court of Appeal on Wednesday rejected the contention by Nouman Raja’s attorneys that his 2019 convictions for the shooting of Corey Jones should be overturned. Raja killed Jones in 2015 during a confrontation after Jones vehicle broke down. Raja’s attorneys had argued that sinc
  
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• Watching from afar, Congress will make or break Biden agenda

  28-04-2021 21:12
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The most striking part of President Joe Biden’s address to Congress may be the absence of most members of Congress. Invitations to Wednesday night’s speech are slim, thanks to coronavirus restrictions. Fewer lawmakers than usual will attend, and security remains tight at the Capitol months after the insurrection. Yet even out of sight, it is the very House and Senate lawmakers who will determine whether Biden’s sweeping $4 trillion proposals to invest in
  
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• Vegas agency links more liver ailments to ‘Real Water’ brand

  28-04-2021 21:11
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas health officials reported six more cases of liver illness this week that they link to the widely marketed bottled water brand Real Water. It faces a U.S. Food and Drug Administration probe and lawsuits alleging people were sickened and hospitalized. Attorneys for bottler Affinitylifestyles.com Inc. and company president Brent Jones acknowledged the FDA investigation in state court last week, but not that Real Water caused illnesses. They don’t dispute the w
  
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• Harris, Pelosi to make history seated behind Biden at speech

  28-04-2021 21:09
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are set to make history as the first two women to share the stage in Congress during a presidential address. President Joe Biden is delivering his first prime-time speech before a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night. Millions of viewers will see two women sitting behind a president for the first time in U.S. history. Pelosi will be there as leader of the House. Harris, the first woman and first person of
  
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• Columbus mayor requests federal probe of police force

  28-04-2021 20:59
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther sent a letter Wednesday to the Department of Justice asking for an investigation into the city’s police department following a spate of police killings of Black people. The Democratic mayor said that while the city is committed to reform and has already established a number of “significant” changes in the past few years, it is not enough. The Justice Department recently announced it’s opening probes into policing i
  
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• Arkansas man charged in Capitol riot released pending trial

  28-04-2021 20:57
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas man who posed for photos with his feet on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol will be allowed to return home pending trial. U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper granted a motion Tuesday allowing Richard Barnett’s release from federal custody in Washington, D.C. According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the judge’s order will include “specific conditions of release,” including
  
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• A halal taco truck helps vaccinate Orange County Muslims

  28-04-2021 20:54
  
  For more than three years, Rida Hamida has used a halal taco truck as a way to unite Muslims and Latinos across Southern California. She’s also used it to mobilize people to fill out the census, register residents to vote and now as a way to host vaccinations at mosques in Orange County. As a reward, she feeds people with free halal tacos. With the month of Ramadan underway, Hamida is organizing mobile vaccination sites at local mosques after sunset to vaccinate and feed Muslims as they br
  
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• US stocks little changed after Fed leaves rates unchanged

  28-04-2021 20:52
  
  Stocks were little changed in afternoon trading Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it is leaving its key interest rate unchanged at near zero, while noting recent improvement in the economy. Investors were weighing a big wave of earnings reports from major U.S. companies and looking ahead to prime-time speech from President Joe Biden to lay out his $1.8 trillion spending plan. The S&P 500 index was up 0.1%, with companies slightly more companies falling than rising. Google’s pare
  
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