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• Bowman parks 48 in familiar spot in victory lane at Dover

  16-05-2021 23:53
  
  DOVER, Del. (AP) — Alex Bowman won the the NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover International Speedway to led Hendrick Motorsports to a 1-2-3-4 finish. Kyle Larson was second, Chase Elliott third and William Byron fourth. Bowman led the final 98 laps. Larson led a race-high 263 laps. Hendrick Motorsports is the first team to finish 1-2-3-4 since Jack Roush in 2005. HMS led 382 of the 400 laps at Dover.The post Bowman parks 48 in familiar spot in victory lane at Dover appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Brazil city offers COVID immunization to all as part of test

  16-05-2021 23:26
  
  BOTUCATU, Brazil (AP) — As some Brazilian states strain to get coronavirus vaccines to complete immunizing their seniors, a city in the interior of Sao Paulo state devoted all its doses Sunday to a mass immunization for all residents 18 to 60 years old as part of a medical research project for the pandemic. The task forces set up 45 vaccination points at voting sites in Botucatu and people were directed to get their shots at their normal election center. Those showing up for shots also wer
  
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• The Latest: 3 nations urge US to join UN statement on Gaza

  16-05-2021 23:23
  
  UNITED NATIONS — The three U.N. Security Council nations trying to get the U.N.’s most powerful body to take action on the escalating violence between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers say they are still trying to get the U.S. to support a statement including a call to end the fighting.China, Norway and Tunisia tried unsuccessfully at closed meetings Monday and Wednesday to get agreement on a council statement. Diplomats say the U.S. argued such a statement could interfere with di
  
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• Ex-prosecutor disbarred after wrongful convictions in Texas

  16-05-2021 23:22
  
  DALLAS (AP) — A former Dallas County prosecutor has surrendered his law license after the State Bar of Texas said he withheld evidence that led to the wrongful convictions of two men who spent 14 years in prison in the fatal stabbing of a pastor. The Dallas Morning News reports that Richard E. “Rick” Jackson surrendered his law license last month. The State Bar concluded that he failed to inform Dennis Allen and Stanley Mozee’s defense attorneys about evidence that could
  
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• Trump critic Cheney cautions Jan. 6 riot could happen again

  16-05-2021 23:20
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney is criticizing GOP colleagues for downplaying the Jan. 6 riot and condoning former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen. In television interviews Sunday, Cheney cautioned that there is “no question” an attack like Jan. 6 could happen again if Trump’s claims go unchecked. The Wyoming Republican has been ousted from House GOP leadership for challenging Trump. But she says she will continu
  
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• Crews battle Los Angeles wildfire that forced evacuations

  16-05-2021 23:15
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A smoky wildfire churning through a Los Angeles canyon community gained strength Sunday as about a thousand residents remained under evacuation orders. There was zero containment Sunday. No structures have been damaged and no injuries have been reported in the wildfire that broke out late Friday in the Santa Monica Mountains. Vegetation in the area is very dry and hasn’t burned in more than 50 years. The cause of the fire near Topanga State Park has been deemed &ld
  
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• Red Flag Warning issued May 16 at 3:09PM MDT until May 16 at 9:00PM MDT by NWS Tucson AZ

  16-05-2021 23:09
  
  * AFFECTED AREA…Cochise County, southern Graham and GreenleeCounties, Santa Cruz County, and far southern Pima County.
  * TIMING…Through 8 PM MST this evening.
  * WINDS…20-foot winds will be out of the southwest 20 to 25mph with gusts to 35 mph.
  * RELATIVE HUMIDITY…7 to 13 percent.
  * IMPACTS…Any fires that develop or are ongoing will have thepotential to spread rapidly.
  * FOR A DETAILED VIEW OF THE HAZARD AREA…Visitweather.gov/Tucson and click on the Detai
  
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• Moore, short-handed Suns hold off Spurs 123-121

  16-05-2021 22:37
  
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — E’Twaun Moore scored 22 points and made a 3-pointer with 2.2 seconds remaining that lifted the Phoenix Suns past the San Antonio Spurs 123-121 and kept alive their chances at the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference. Playing without Devin Booker and Chris Paul, the Suns were bailed out late by Moore. Utah could secure the top seed in the West with a win over Sacramento on Sunday night, but the Suns would get the top seed if the Jazz lose because Phoenix swept the s
  
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• Calls mount for Gaza-Israel cease-fire, greater US efforts

  16-05-2021 22:32
  
  The U.N. Security Council and Arab diplomats have convened emergency meetings to demand a stop to civilian bloodshed in the Mideast. Sunday’s urgent appeals came as Israeli warplanes carried out the deadliest attacks yet during nearly a week of unrelenting Hamas rocket barrages and Israeli airstrikes. President Joe Biden has given no signs of pressuring Israel to agree to an immediate cease-fire. That’s despite more calls from some Democrats for the Biden administration to step up me
  
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• The Latest: Watchdog seeks war crime probe of media bombing

  16-05-2021 22:28
  
  PARIS — A media watchdog group is asking the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel’s bombing of buildings housing The Associated Press and other media organizations in Gaza as a possible war crime.
  The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders says in a letter to the court’s chief prosecutor that the offices of 23 international and local media organizations have been destroyed over the past six days.
  The group says the Israeli military’s “intentional target
  
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• High temperatures will fall back into the mid 80’s on Monday

  16-05-2021 22:17
  
  TUCSON - The windy conditions will stay in place on Monday, but the temperatures will cool thanks to that strong wind shifting.
  We have been dealing with a south wind for the last few days that has been gusting as high as 35-40 mph.Starting tomorrow we will see more of a westerly wind that will bring cool Pacific air into Southern Arizona.Highs on Monday will range between 83-87 degrees in Pima and Santa Cruz counties while Cochise county can expect the low 80's.
  We will be back in the 90's for
  
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• Police: Woman kills her 2 kids with meat cleaver in Arizona

  16-05-2021 21:46
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Police say a woman threatened to stab her husband over an argument about money to move to Japan before she allegedly killed their two children with a meat cleaver in a suburban Phoenix apartment. Tempe police say 40-year-old Yui Inoue remains jailed on suspicion of two counts of first-degree murder. It was unclear Sunday if Inoue has a lawyer yet. Police said the woman primarily speaks Japanese and had an interpreter for their interviews. Authorities say Inoue drove to
  
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• Arrests in UK over claims antisemitic abuse hurled from cars

  16-05-2021 21:19
  
  LONDON (AP) — British police say they have arrested four people over videos posted on social media that appear to show violent antisemitic language being shouted from a convoy of cars driving through London. The footage appears to show several cars adorned with Palestinian flags driving through an area of north London on Sunday with a large Jewish population. At one point a man’s voice can be heard through a loudspeaker shouting profanities and saying “rape their daughters.&rdq
  
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• Witnesses: Man who killed Arkansas woman lured out neighbors

  16-05-2021 21:04
  
  FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas man who authorities say fatally shot an 87-year-old neighbor was trying to lure residents of his apartment complex outside before someone shot and killed him. That’s what neighbors tell KFSM television station. Janey Peugh, who lives at the complex, says, “He was yelling and screaming: ‘You guys get out here, come out here, everyone get out of this building right now.’” Police in Fort Smith, Arkansas, say that after 26-year-
  
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• The Latest: UN officials trying to end conflict in Gaza

  16-05-2021 20:46
  
  UNITED NATIONS — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says the United States “has been working tirelessly through diplomatic channels” to try to end the conflict between Palestinians in Gaza and Israel, and is warning that the current cycle of violence will only put a negotiated two-state solution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict further out of reach.
  Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a high-level emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that President Joe
  
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• Israeli paramedics: 2 dead in synagogue bleacher collapse

  16-05-2021 20:30
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli medics say two people are dead and more than 150 injured in a bleacher collapse at an uncompleted West Bank synagogue. The bleacher was packed with ultra-Orthodox worshippers and collapsed during prayers at the beginning of a major Jewish holiday. Magen David Adom spokesman told Channel 13 that paramedics had treated over 157 people for injuries and pronounced two dead, a man in his 50s and a 12-year-old boy. Rescue workers are on the scene, treating the injured an
  
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• Israeli paramedics: 2 dead, over 150 injured in synagogue bleacher collapse

  16-05-2021 20:20
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli paramedics: 2 dead, over 150 injured in synagogue bleacher collapse.The post Israeli paramedics: 2 dead, over 150 injured in synagogue bleacher collapse appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• The Hall calls: Wright, Wallace, Griffith among 2021 class

  16-05-2021 20:14
  
  SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Jay Wright used to sell tickets to games in the long-defunct United States Football League. Ben Wallace was passed over by every NBA team. Yolanda Griffith got a job repossessing cars so she could take care of herself and her infant daughter while playing college basketball. For all of them, those days are long gone. Basketball’s highest honor has come their way. Wright, Wallace and Griffith were part of a 16-person class that was announced Sunday as the 202
  
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• CDC director says mask turnaround based solely on science

  16-05-2021 20:04
  
  The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is defending the decision to ease mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, stressing that increasing political pressure had nothing to do with the abrupt shift in guidelines. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told FOX News Sunday that she delivered the science as soon as it was available. To date more than 156 million Americans, or more than 47% of the population, have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and more than
  
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• Dozens hurt in bleacher collapse at Israeli synagogue

  16-05-2021 19:16
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli medics say dozens of people have been hurt in a bleacher collapse in a West Bank synagogue. The bleacher was packed with ultra-Orthodox worshippers and collapsed during prayers at the beginning of a major Jewish holiday. The Magen David Adom rescue service says some 60 people were hurt, including 10 in serious or critical condition. Rescue workers are on the scene, treating the injured and taking people to the hospital. The collapse comes weeks after 45 ultra-Ortho
  
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• A tough sell: In Dubai amid clash, Israel promotes tourism

  16-05-2021 19:14
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel is promoting tourism in Dubai even amid a surge of airstrikes on Gaza City that killed at least 42 people in just the last day. That might seem a hard sell at a time when major airlines have suspended flights to Israel amid the clash with Hamas in Gaza and while the spread of coronavirus remains a threat. But a senior Israeli tourism official attended a travel and tourism conference in Dubai on Sunday to promote the country as a must-see destinatio
  
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• The Latest: Fauci says pandemic highlights racism’s impact

  16-05-2021 19:10
  
  ATLANTA — The immunologist who leads the COVID-19 response in the United States said Sunday that “the undeniable effects of racism” have led to unacceptable health disparities that especially hurt African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans during the pandemic.
  COVID-19 has highlighted “our own society’s failings,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said during a graduation ceremony for Emory University.
  Speaking by webcast from Washington, Fauci told the graduates in At
  
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• The Latest: Palestinian official alleges Israeli war crimes

  16-05-2021 19:05
  
  UNITED NATIONS — Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Al-Malki is accusing Israel of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza and carrying out a policy of “apartheid” in Jerusalem.
  Al-Malki told a high-level emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Sunday that “there are no words that can describe the horrors that our people are enduring,” listing families and children and infants killed by Israeli airstrikes.
  “Israel is killing Palestin
  
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• Severe cyclone heading toward southern India; 6 dead

  16-05-2021 19:04
  
  NEW DELHI (AP) — A severe cyclone is roaring in the Arabian Sea off southwestern India with winds of up to 140 kph (87 mph). Officials said Sunday it has already caused heavy rains and flooding that have killed at least six people. Cyclone Tauktae, the season’s first major storm, is expected to make landfall early Tuesday in Gujarat state. The massive storm will likely hamper India’s fight against a coronavirus surge that’s sweeping the country with devastating death toll
  
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• 2 boys who couldn’t swim drown in Massachusetts lake

  16-05-2021 19:04
  
  BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — Authorities say two boys who drowned at a Brockton park were cousins who did not know how to swim. The Plymouth County district attorney on Sunday identified the victims as 13-year-old Rafael Andrade and 12-year-old Tiago Depina, both of Brockton. They died Saturday night in Waldo Lake in D.W. Field Park. An 11-year-old boy who was rescued earlier in the evening was hospitalized. Mayor Robert Sullivan said grief counselors were available Sunday at the middle school t
  
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• A tough sell: Israel promotes tourism in Dubai amid conflict

  16-05-2021 19:01
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel is promoting tourism in Dubai even amid a surge of airstrikes on Gaza City that killed at least 42 people in just the last day. That might seem a hard sell at a time when major airlines have suspended flights to Israel amid the clash with Hamas in Gaza and while the spread of coronavirus remains a threat. But a senior Israeli tourism official attended a travel and tourism conference in Dubai on Sunday to promote the country as a must-see destinatio
  
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• The Daily Saguaro, Sunday 5/16/21

  16-05-2021 19:00
  
  This week we feature blooming saguaros... …
  
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• CDC director defends decision to ditch masks

  16-05-2021 18:55
  
  The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is defending the decision to ease mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, stressing that increasing political pressure had nothing to do with the abrupt shift in guidelines. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told FOX News Sunday that she delivered the science as soon as it was available. To date more than 156 million Americans, or more than 47% of the population, have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and more than
  
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• Medics: Dozens hurt in Israeli bleacher collapse

  16-05-2021 18:44
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli medics say dozens of people have been injured in a bleacher collapse in a West Bank synagogue. Amateur footage showed the collapse occurring during prayers Sunday evening at the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. Eli Bin, head of the Magen David Adom rescue service, said dozens were injured, some severely.  The synagogue was packed with hundreds of people. The Magen David Adom rescue service said some 60 people were injured, including 10 in serious or
  
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• AP’s top editor calls for probe into Israeli airstrike

  16-05-2021 18:38
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press’ top editor is calling for an independent investigation into the Israeli airstrike that targeted and destroyed a Gaza City building housing the AP, broadcaster Al-Jazeera and other media. Sally Buzbee, AP’s executive editor, says the Israeli government has yet to provide clear evidence supporting its attack, which leveled the 12-story al-Jalaa tower. The Israeli military has claimed that Hamas used the building for a military intelligence
  
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• Israeli medics: Dozens injured in bleacher collapse in synagogue, ambulances on way to scene

  16-05-2021 18:34
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli medics: Dozens injured in bleacher collapse in synagogue, ambulances on way to scene.The post Israeli medics: Dozens injured in bleacher collapse in synagogue, ambulances on way to scene appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Fauci says pandemic exposed ‘undeniable effects of racism’

  16-05-2021 18:26
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — The immunologist who leads the COVID-19 response in the United States says “the undeniable effects of racism” have led to unacceptable health disparities. Dr. Anthony Fauci says those especially hurt African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans during the pandemic. Fauci spoke Sunday by webcast from Washington, to a graduation ceremony for Emory University in Atlanta. He says many people in minority groups face obstacles starting at birth, including lack of
  
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• UK police probe video of antisemitic abuse hurled from cars

  16-05-2021 18:16
  
  LONDON (AP) — British police say they are investigating videos posted on social media that appear to show violent antisemitic language being shouted from a convoy of cars driving through London. The footage appears to show several cars adorned with Palestinian flags driving through an area of north London on Sunday with a large Jewish population. At one point a man’s voice can be heard through a loudspeaker shouting profanities and saying “rape their daughters.” The Metro
  
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• Britain yet to decide on Pfizer offer to vaccinate Olympians

  16-05-2021 18:14
  
  LONDON (AP) — The British government is still deciding whether to accept an offer from Pfizer to fast-track Olympic and Paralympic athletes for coronavirus vaccines. Jabs are only being given to Britons aged 38 or older  – though this will be extended to those over 35 from next week – with younger people only getting inoculated if they have an underlying health condition. British Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston says “Pfizer have offered for the Olympics and we&rsquo
  
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• Arrest made after boy, 4, found slain on Dallas street

  16-05-2021 18:05
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Dallas police say a man has been arrested in the slaying of a 4-year-old boy whose body was found lying on a neighborhood street. Dallas police announced the arrest late Saturday night but have not yet released the man’s name. Police received a call that there was a child dead in the street at about 6:50 a.m. Saturday. Assistant Police Chief Albert Martinez has said it appeared the child suffered a violent death and that “an edged weapon” was used. He said i
  
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• Minneapolis suburb OKs roadmap for policing changes

  16-05-2021 17:59
  
  BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — Elected officials in a Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in April have approved a proposal to dramatically change the city’s policing practices. The Brooklyn Center City Council voted 4-1 Saturday for a resolution to create new divisions of unarmed civilian employees to handle non-moving traffic violations and respond to mental health crises. It would also limit situations in which officers can mak
  
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• Arizona reports 482 new COVID-19 cases with 7 more deaths

  16-05-2021 17:55
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Health officials in Arizona on Sunday reported 482 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and seven new deaths amid growing vaccination rates. The state Department of Health Services says the latest figures increased the totals to 872,978 cases and 17,466 known deaths since the coronavirus pandemic began more than a year ago. Arizona had reported 474 cases and 12 deaths on Saturday. Health officials say more than 5.5 million vaccine doses have been administered in the state with over
  
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• The Latest: Netanyahu renews claims on Israeli airstrike

  16-05-2021 17:48
  
  ISRAEL —Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday renewed his claim that a Gaza building leveled by an Israeli airstrike housed a Hamas office as well as American and Middle East news organizations, but gave no evidence.
  Netanyahu spoke to CBS’s Face the Nation about ongoing violence between Israeli forces and the armed Palestinian group Hamas, and about Saturday’s airstrike that leveled the building housing Gaza offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera news org
  
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• Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb launching a streaming network

  16-05-2021 17:22
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona sheriff is launching his own streaming network featuring sheriff’s departments from across the country. Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb said this is a passion project aimed to showcase law enforcement in the best way. Lamb told Phoenix TV station KPHO that no taxpayer dollars are being used for the project. The subscription-based network is called “American Sheriff” and will cost $4.99 per month. Lamb said the money will go to the production crew,
  
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• Groups call for reintroduction of jaguars in US Southwest

  16-05-2021 17:20
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Environmental groups and scientists with two universities want U.S. wildlife managers to consider reintroducing jaguars to the American Southwest. In a recently published paper, they say habitat destruction, highways and segments of the U.S.-Mexico border wall mean that natural reestablishment of the large cats in the region would be unlikely over the next century without human intervention. Jaguars are currently found in 19 countries, but they’ve lost about
  
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• Israel kills 42 in Gaza as Netanyahu warns war will go on

  16-05-2021 17:19
  
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City have flattened three buildings and killed at least 42 people, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled the fourth war between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza would rage on despite international efforts to broker a cease-fire. In a televised address, Netanyahu said Sunday evening the attacks were continuing at “full-force” and will “take time.“ He said Israel “wants to levy a heavy price&
  
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• Durst trial to resume after long delay; will jury be ready?

  16-05-2021 17:18
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors are returning to court 14 months after the murder trial of New York real estate heir Robert Durst was put on hold because of the coronavirus. A Los Angeles judge will question jurors Monday to find out if they can continue to serve in the case that is expected to last four to five months. Jurors had only heard two days of testimony before the trial was halted in March 2020. Durst has pleaded not guilty in the shooting death of his best friend in 2000. Durst’
  
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• Minneapolis suburb OKs sweeping changes in policing policies

  16-05-2021 17:17
  
  BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — Elected officials in a Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in April have approved a proposal to dramatically change the city’s policing practices. The Brooklyn Center City Council voted 4-1 Saturday for a resolution to create new divisions of unarmed civilian employees to handle non-moving traffic violations and respond to mental health crises. It would also limit situations in which officers can mak
  
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• Second Amendment sanctuaries facing 1st court test in Oregon

  16-05-2021 17:08
  
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The first court test of whether local governments can ban police from enforcing certain gun laws is playing out in a rural Oregon county. It’s one of a wave of U.S. counties declaring itself a Second Amendment sanctuary. The measure Columbia County voters narrowly approved last year prohibits local officials from enforcing most federal and state gun laws. Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions have been adopted by some 1,200 local governments in states like Virgini
  
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• The Latest: Yemen’s national soccer coach dies of COVID-19

  16-05-2021 16:44
  
  SANAA, Yemen – Yemen’s soccer association said the country’s national team coach died Sunday from COVID-19.
  The Yemen Football Association says Sami al-Naash died in a hospital in the southern port city of Aden.
  Local reports say al-Naash was infected while in a camp for the national team in the southern province of Shabwa last month.
  Yemen’s national team was preparing for three games in the coming weeks in hopes to qualify for the Asian Cup and the 2022 World Cup finals
  
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• Virus testing strategies, opinions vary widely in US schools

  16-05-2021 16:41
  
  MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Children are having their noses swabbed or saliva sampled at school to test for the coronavirus in cities such as Baltimore, New York and Chicago. In other parts of the U.S., school districts are reluctant to check even students showing signs of illness for COVID-19. Education and health officials around the country have taken different approaches to testing students and staff members, and widely varying positions or whether to test them at all. Officials in districts
  
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• Israeli strikes kill 42, topple buildings in Gaza City

  16-05-2021 16:38
  
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City have flattened three buildings and killed at least 42 people, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled the fighting between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza would continue despite international efforts to broker a cease fire. In a televised address, Netanyahu said Sunday evening the attacks were continuing at “full-force” and will “take time.“ He said Israel “wants to levy a heavy price&r
  
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• The Latest: Deadliest single attack in latest Gaza conflict

  16-05-2021 16:35
  
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City flattened three buildings and killed at least 42 people Sunday, medics said. It is the deadliest single attack since heavy fighting broke out between Israel and the territory’s militant Hamas rulers nearly a week ago.The violence, which came as international mediators worked to broker a cease-fire and stave off an Israeli ground invasion of the territory, marked the worst fighting here since the devastating 2014 war in Gaza.The
  
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• As GOP restricts voting, Democrats move to expand access

  16-05-2021 16:35
  
  As Republicans roll back access to the ballot, Democrats in certain states have been quietly moving to expand voting rights. In Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, Virginia and other states where Democrats control the legislature, lawmakers are making it easier to cast ballots by mail, expanding early voting and requiring greater oversight of changes to election laws. Their moves come as Republicans have enacted voting restrictions in Florida, Georgia and Iowa, and are in the process of adding new li
  
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• Israeli PM: Military campaign at full force, will take time

  16-05-2021 16:33
  
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the military campaign is continuing “full-force” and will “take time“ despite a mounting death toll in fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. In a televised address, Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel “wants to levy a heavy price” on Hamas and “return peace and security and restore deterrence” after nearly a week of fighting.The post Israe
  
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