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• ICC prosecutor hopes for new US relations after sanctions

  17-05-2021 23:59
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has expressed appreciation to the Biden administration for lifting sanctions against her and another ICC official, saying her office “hopes to establish a new relationship with the United States.” Fatou Bensouda told a virtual U.N. Security Council meeting Monday that she welcomed the reversal of the “unprecedented measures.” The sanctions were imposed under President Donald Trump over the cour
  
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• Governor’s OK means S Carolina now allows open carry of guns

  17-05-2021 23:58
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Gov. Henry McMaster says he has signed into law a bill allowing people with concealed weapons permits from the state to carry their guns in the open. McMaster said Monday he was keeping his promise to sign any bill that protects or expands gun rights. The proposal allows so-called open carry of guns for people who undergo training and background checks. They can to carry guns hidden under a jacket or other clothing or in their vehicle anywhere there isn’t a sign
  
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• Bidens paid 25.9% rate and earned $607,336, tax returns show

  17-05-2021 23:53
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has said the wealthy should pay more in taxes — and 25.9% of the first couple’s income went to the federal government in 2020. Biden on Monday revived the long-standing presidential tradition of releasing his tax filings, in yet another contrast to his predecessor, former President Donald Trump. Biden and his wife, Jill, earned $607,336 last year while he was running for president. That is down from $985,223 in 2019, when they primarily ear
  
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• The Latest: Biden expresses ‘support’ for Gaza cease-fire

  17-05-2021 23:47
  
  WASHINGTON — The White House says President Joe Biden has expressed “support” for a cease-fire during a call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.A statement says the leaders spoke Monday, which was the eighth day of Israeli-Palestinian fighting.Biden’s move signals U.S. concern for an end to Israel’s part of hostilities with Hamas, although it falls short of joining growing Democratic Party demands for an immediate cease-fire.The White House says the presid
  
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• UAPD helped unprick bunny who was covered in needles after hopping into UArizona Cactus Garden

  17-05-2021 23:41
  
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  TUCSON (KVOA) - A Tucson bunny and her owner had their hair stand on end after a close encounter with a cactus at the University of Arizona campus Sunday morning.According to University of Arizona Police Department, a rabbit named Chloe was spotted hopping into the UArizona Cactus Garden by a UAPD officer who was on patrol Sunday morning.UAPD said despite her human being nearby, Chloe reportedly got covered with a large number of cactus needles.After UAri
  
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• Heavy rains hammer western Louisiana with more to come

  17-05-2021 23:39
  
  LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Heavy rains in western Louisiana flooded streets, left cars stranded and heightened worries in a region hammered by two hurricanes last year and a deep freeze this winter. The Advocate reports that the National Weather Service said between five and 12 inches of rain had already fallen in some areas. The American Press reported that some isolated areas could see as much as 20 inches of rain. Parts of southeastern Texas and western Louisiana were under flash flood wa
  
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• New York suspends Bob Baffert pending Kentucky Derby probe

  17-05-2021 23:36
  
  WASHINGTON DC (AP) - Bob Baffert has been temporarily suspended from entering horses at New York racetracks pending an investigation of the failed drug test by Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit. Baffert's ban in New York includes races at Belmont Park with the Belmont Stakes being run on June 5.
  The New York Racing Association made the announcement Monday. Baffert had not committed to entering any horses in the third leg of the Triple Crown but had many in consideration for other races on Belm
  
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• Biden expresses ‘support’ for cease-fire in Netanyahu call

  17-05-2021 23:36
  
  The White House says President Joe Biden expressed “support” for a cease-fire in a call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, the eighth day of Israeli-Palestinian fighting. Biden’s move signals U.S. concern for an end to Israel’s part of hostilities with Hamas, although it falls short of joining growing Democratic demands for an immediate cease-fire.The post Biden expresses ‘support’ for cease-fire in Netanyahu call appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• White House: Biden expresses ‘support’ for cease-fire in weeklong Gaza violence in call with Israel’s Netanyahu

  17-05-2021 23:27
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — White House: Biden expresses ‘support’ for cease-fire in weeklong Gaza violence in call with Israel’s Netanyahu.The post White House: Biden expresses ‘support’ for cease-fire in weeklong Gaza violence in call with Israel’s Netanyahu appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Miami judge who used staff for personal errands resigns

  17-05-2021 23:23
  
  MIAMI (AP) — A Florida judge who publicly accepted responsibility for skipping work and making his staff run personal errands for him has resigned. The Miami Herald reports that Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Martin Zilber submitted his resignation letter Friday as he was facing a discipline hearing on accusations of misconduct. The state Judicial Qualifications Commission found that the judge’s routine mistreatment of his staff included berating his judicial assistant. The commission also
  
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• Lawyers say detainees in Georgia jail are being denied pens

  17-05-2021 23:21
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for inmates in a Georgia jail say their clients are being denied access to pens, effectively eliminating their ability to communicate with counsel by mail. Civil rights groups in July sued Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill and several of his high-ranking subordinates, alleging they weren’t taking proper precautions to protect people in their custody against the coronavirus. A judge approved class-action status for the lawsuit, and attorneys began communicating
  
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• 2 Navy training jets collide over South Texas, injuring 1

  17-05-2021 23:20
  
  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Officials say two Navy training jets collided over South Texas, forcing the two crew members on one plane to bail out and leaving one of them with minor injuries. The Chief of Naval Air Training tweeted that the two British-built T-45C Goshawk jets collided at around 11 a.m. over Ricardo, about 50 miles southwest of Corpus Christi. One jet with a student and instructor aboard managed to land safely at nearby Naval Air Station Kingsville. The other jet crashed n
  
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• Lawyer: US approves release of oldest Guantanamo prisoner

  17-05-2021 23:16
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for the oldest prisoner at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, says authorities have approved his release after more than 16 years in custody. Attorney Shelby-Sullivan Bennis says she was notified Monday that the prison review board determined 73-year-old Saifullah Paracha is deemed to no longer pose a threat to U.S. security. The native of Pakistan has been held at Guantanamo since 2004 for suspected links to al-Qaida but was never charged. Paracha lived in t
  
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• Sudan fires top judge, accepts prosecutor’s resignation

  17-05-2021 23:10
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Sudan has announced the resignation of the country’s chief prosecutor and the firing of the top judge. No reasons were given Monday for the resignation of Public Prosecutor Taj al-Ser Ali al-Hebr and the removal of Neamat Abdullah Mohamed Kheir from her job as chief of the judiciary. The development came amid growing criticism by activists of the justice system for purported delays in trials related to the crackdown on protesters during and after a popular uprising that
  
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• The Latest: Israel says 6 rockets fired from Lebanon

  17-05-2021 23:07
  
  JERSUALEM — Israel’s military says it identified six rockets launched from Lebanon that apparently fell inside Lebanese territory.
  The army said Monday that Israeli artillery returned fire into southern Lebanon. Air raid sirens sounded in a kibbutz near the border, and residents were instructed to prepare bomb shelters.
  The incident took place near the site of protests staged along the Lebanese border Friday. In one incident, protesters breached the border fence and entered Israeli t
  
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• American Airlines jet returns to San Jose after engine issue

  17-05-2021 23:07
  
  SAN JOSE (AP) — Federal officials say they’re looking into an engine incident that caused an American Airlines plane to return to San Jose shortly after takeoff on Monday. The airline says pilots shut down one of the two engines after an indicator light came on. American Airlines flight 2049 was headed for Phoenix but didn’t get very far. Shortly after takeoff, pilots circled around and returned to Mineta San Jose International Airport. The airline says the plane landed without
  
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• Prosecutor to discuss probe into fatal shooting of Black man

  17-05-2021 22:59
  
  ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina prosecutor says he is ready to discuss the results of a state investigation into the fatal shooting of a Black man by sheriff’s deputies. District Attorney Andrew Womble issued a statement saying he will hold a news conference Tuesday morning to talk about what the State Bureau of Investigation found in its probe of the death of Andrew Brown Jr. A bureau spokeswoman didn’t immediately respond to an email Monday, nor did Womble. Deput
  
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• Michigan flood victims may have to wait for accountability

  17-05-2021 22:59
  
  LANSING, Mich (AP) — An attorney representing nearly 300 clients affected by a flood in Midland County, Michigan last year said Monday he doesn’t expect litigation to be resolved any time soon. It’s been almost one year since the Edenville Dam, which took another dam down with it, caused large-scale destruction to the surrounding areas. Attorney Ven Johnson, alongside affected residents, gave an update on the scope of the flood’s impact and a status on the court cases aga
  
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• Man charged in gender reveal blast that rocked nearby towns

  17-05-2021 22:51
  
  KINGSTON, N.H. (AP) — A man has been charged with disorderly conduct for an explosive gender reveal party that was heard by nearby residents in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Anthony Spinelli was charged Monday. It wasn’t immediately known if he had a lawyer and a phone number couldn’t be found for him. Police in Kingston, a town not far from the Massachusetts stateline, received reports of a loud explosion the night of April 20. They responded to Torromeo quarry, where they
  
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• Chileans favored independents to draft a new constitution

  17-05-2021 22:50
  
  SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chileans favored left-leaning independent candidates in electing an assembly that will draft a new constitution, replacing the one imposed in the 1980s during the military dictatorship. In a major blow to the traditional political forces in Chile, official results released Monday showed the weekend voting for the 155-member constitutional assembly gave 48 seats to independent candidates, most of them identified with leftist ideology. The next biggest group was the go
  
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• US stocks slip further from records amid inflation fears

  17-05-2021 22:39
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks closed modestly lower Monday, tacking more losses onto last week’s stumble, as worries about inflation continue to dog Wall Street. The S&P 500 lost 0.3% following its 1.4% drop last week from its record high. Big Tech stocks weighed most heavily on the market. The sector has been responsible for big swings in either direction over the last few weeks as investors weigh the impact of rising inflation and a broad economic recovery. Energy and materials c
  
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• De Niro says leg injury may prevent Tribeca fest appearance

  17-05-2021 22:38
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A leg injury may keep Robert De Niro from celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Tribeca Film Festival in person. The accident happened last week in Oklahoma while on location for the upcoming Martin Scorsese film, “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The two-time Oscar-winner immediately flew back to New York to get it checked out. On Saturday, while promoting this year’s Tribeca events, the actor said he ripped a ligament in his leg and would need to have it r
  
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• Correction: Virus Outbreak-Detroit Tourism story

  17-05-2021 22:37
  
  DETROIT (AP) — In a story May 15, 2021, about the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on tourism in Detroit, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the 2021 NCAA men’s basketball tournament held in the Indianapolis area brought $620 million in spending to the region and that attendance at each game was limited 250 people. Visit Indy Chief Executive Leonard Hoops said that according to preliminary estimates the tournament brought about $100 million to the region, while att
  
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• The Latest: Biden Administration aims to reduce homelessness

  17-05-2021 22:33
  
  WASHINGTON — The Biden Administration is putting a fresh wave of funding toward its stated goal of making a serious dent in homelessness across the country.
  Despite a wave of public support and a nationwide eviction moratorium, Housing Secretary Marcia Fudge said as many of 580,000 people experienced homelessness in the middle of the pandemic.
  Fudge, who heads the Department of Housing and Urban Development, said Monday that an extra $5 billion would be allocated toward keeping families of
  
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• Case dismissed in officer’s use of pepper spray amid protest

  17-05-2021 22:33
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia judge has dismissed charges against a former police officer seen on video lowering the mask of at least one protester before dousing a group with pepper spray as they knelt on a city interstate during a demonstration last summer. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Municipal Court Judge William Austin Meehan ruled Monday that ex-SWAT officer Richard Paul Nicoletti had been authorized by his commanders to clear the highway during protests over the deat
  
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• Police: Man dead following skydiving accident

  17-05-2021 22:17
  
  DELAND, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a man is dead after an apparent skydiving accident at a Florida airport. Police say officers were called Sunday to the DeLand Municipal Airport, where a man landed hard in a parking lot and was found unresponsive. Witnesses told officers that two skydivers collided in the air with their parachutes open and got tangled. Officials say one person was able to regain control, but the other was not able to get his parachute to reopen. Bystanders attempted to r
  
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• EXPLAINER: How AT&T-Discovery deal affects consumers, rivals

  17-05-2021 22:06
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T said Monday it will combine its massive WarnerMedia media assets, which includes HBO and CNN, with Discovery Inc. to create a new media heavyweight in a $43 billion deal. The deal, which isn’t slated to close until next year, will create new publicly traded company that will enter a streaming arena that has been flooded in the past two years with new players including those owned by AT&T and Discovery, which operate HBO Max and Discovery+, respectively. T
  
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• World War II jackets restored and displayed at Pima Air & Space Museum

  17-05-2021 22:01
  
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  TUCSON (KVOA) - A new exhibit debuted Saturday at the 390th Memorial Museum.
  The museum has more than 40 A-2 flying jackets -- one of the largest collections in the country.The jackets have been repaired and restored over the past year. They were worn by the men of the 390th Bombardment Group. It was part of the 8th Air Force.
  The men decorated their jackets with squadron patches, nose art, slogans and bombs, which represented the number of missions they fle
  
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• EXPLAINER: The Supreme Court takes a major abortion case

  17-05-2021 21:52
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to decide a major abortion case that could dramatically alter decades of rulings on abortion rights and eventually lead to dramatic restrictions on abortion access. The case the justices will hear is an appeal from Mississippi in which the state is asking to be allowed to ban most abortions at the 15th week of pregnancy. The state is not asking the court to overrule the Roe v. Wade decision that women have a constitutional right to abortion. B
  
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• Officer charged in Daunte Wright death to stand trial Dec. 6

  17-05-2021 21:51
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A December trial date has been set for a former suburban Minneapolis police officer charged with second-degree manslaughter in Daunte Wright’s death. Former Brooklyn Center Officer Kim Potter is scheduled to stand trial Dec. 6, barring any future scheduling conflicts. The date was set during a Monday pretrial hearing, during which Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu found there was probable cause for the case to proceed. Potter appeared at the hearing via videoconfere
  
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• Judge to Durst jurors after delay: ‘Where did we leave off?’

  17-05-2021 21:51
  
  INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — The murder trial of multimillionaire Robert Durst has resumed without the defendant present and with arguments about whether the case should continue at all after a 14-month recess. Judge Mark Windham said Monday that Durst refused to leave the jail, though his lawyer disputed that account. Windham denied a defense request to suspend the case further because Durst has bladder cancer and other health problems that require hospitalization. The judge planned to questi
  
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• EXPLAINER: Do I still have to wear a mask? What about kids?

  17-05-2021 21:49
  
  The government’s new guidance on masks for vaccinated people has left some Americans confused and businesses and states scrambling. Target and CVS on Monday became the latest retailers to say vaccinated shoppers and workers don’t have to wear masks in stores. New York is also adopting the new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while California is waiting a month. The CDC last week said people who are fully vaccinated no longer need to wear a mask indoors or
  
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• Ariana Grande, Dalton Gomez tie the knot

  17-05-2021 21:44
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Ariana Grande is a newlywed. A representative for the singer confirmed that she recently married real estate agent Dalton Gomez. Grande’s rep told People that they tied the knot in a small and intimate wedding, where less than 20 people attended. It wasn’t not clear when the wedding took place. The 27-year-old singer and 25-year-old Gomez announced their engagement in December. They began dating in January 2020 and quarantined together during the pandemic. Grand
  
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• Biden plan would pick winners, losers in move to green jobs

  17-05-2021 21:43
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Some companies are looking to President Joe Biden’s giant infrastructure proposal to help transform the automotive sector as electric vehicles shift from a luxury niche to mainstream America. Biden’s plan reflects an effort to accelerate certain sectors of the economy with the belief they’ll become the engines for growth in the decades to come. In Georgia, school bus-maker Blue Bird has visions of going from selling a few hundred electric buses a year to
  
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• Arizona Republicans fight back against election fraud claims

  17-05-2021 21:42
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Republican officials in Arizona’s largest county are escalating their defense of their vote count in the 2020 presidential election. The move is putting them increasingly at odds with former President Donald Trump and a sizeable chunk of their party that believes without evidence that something was amiss. Maricopa County’s top officials, almost all Republicans, are scheduled Monday to refute allegations of election wrongdoing raised by the Republican state Senate
  
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• Around 3,000 Moroccan migrants cross into Spanish territory

  17-05-2021 21:40
  
  MADRID (AP) — Authorities in Spain say around 3,000 Moroccans, 1,000 of whom are presumed to be minors, crossed into the Spanish northern African enclave of Ceuta. A spokesman for the Spanish government’s delegation in Ceuta said that the Moroccans swam or boarded inflatable boats Monday to get around breakwaters that go several meters into the Mediterranean Sea from the land border with Morocco. Ceuta and nearby Melilla, another Spanish territory, are seen as a stepping stone into E
  
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• Dozens more men sue Ohio State over doc’s sexual misconduct

  17-05-2021 21:37
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Dozens more men are suing Ohio State over the university’s failure to stop sexual abuse and misconduct decades ago by team doctor Richard Strauss. They echo claims filed previously by over 400 men, many of whom allege they were groped during medical exams. The newest claims were filed in federal court ahead of Monday, which marked two years since OSU released a law firm report that concluded university employees knew of concerns about Strauss but didn’t st
  
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• Erdogan: High-ranking PKK militant killed in Iraq operation

  17-05-2021 21:36
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s president says a Turkish security forces have killed an alleged high-ranking Kurdish militant in an operation in northern Iraq. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday the slain militant was allegedly responsible for the Syria operations of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. He identified him by his codename, Sofi Nurettin and said he was a Syrian national. Erdogan said Nurettin was responsible for numerous “bloody acts” against T
  
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• The Latest: Israel to keep striking ‘terror targets’ in Gaza

  17-05-2021 21:25
  
  JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will “continue to strike terror targets” in the Gaza Strip after a week of fighting with Palestinian militants.
  In an address after meeting with top defense officials, Netanyahu said Monday that Israel will “continue to operate as long as necessary in order to return calm and security to all Israeli citizens.”
  The fighting broke out May 10, when Hamas fired long-range rockets at Jerusalem after weeks of clash
  
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• Streaming landscape shifts with $43B AT&T Discovery deal

  17-05-2021 21:22
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T said Monday it will combine its massive WarnerMedia media assets, which includes HBO and CNN, with Discovery Inc. to create a new media heavyweight in a $43 billion deal. The deal, which isn’t slated to close until next year, will create new publicly traded company that will enter a streaming arena that has been flooded in the past two years with new players including those owned by AT&T and Discovery, which operate HBO Max and Discovery+, respectively. T
  
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• Cuomo set to earn $5M from book on COVID-19 crisis

  17-05-2021 21:15
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has disclosed that he was paid a $3.1 million advance to write his COVID-19 leadership book last year and under his publishing contract will make another $2 million on the memoir over the next two years. The Democrat had declined for months to say how much money he made from writing “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The disclosure of his big payday was made on the day his mandatory financial disclosu
  
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• NY Gov. Cuomo discloses he could earn $5.1 million from book on pandemic leadership

  17-05-2021 21:09
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — NY Gov. Cuomo discloses he could earn $5.1 million from book on pandemic leadership.The post NY Gov. Cuomo discloses he could earn $5.1 million from book on pandemic leadership appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Oprah and CNN: AT&T is merging media business with Discovery

  17-05-2021 21:07
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. telecom giant AT&T Inc. is combining its WarnerMedia operations with Discovery Inc. The deal will marry the likes of HBO and CNN with HGTV and Oprah Winfrey. And it’s another illustration of the head-spinning speed in which streaming has transformed the media world. The $43 billion agreement was announced Monday after AT&T CEO John Stankey and his Discovery counterpart, David Zaslav, worked out the details in Zaslav’s Manhattan brownstone over the p
  
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• Inspector who failed to catch interstate bridge crack fired

  17-05-2021 20:56
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An inspector who failed to discover a crack in the Interstate 40 bridge linking Arkansas and Tennessee that prompted the span’s closure has been fired. The Arkansas Department of Transportation on Monday said the inspector was fired after drone video showed the crack on the bridge in May 2019. The department says the crack was not noted by the inspector in his reports that fall or the following year. The bridge has been closed since Tuesday after inspectors f
  
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• Arizona mom denies killing 2 children with meat cleaver

  17-05-2021 20:55
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona woman accused in the grisly slaying of her two children with a meat cleaver has made her first court appearance, where she denied harming them. Yui Inoue said Monday through a Japanese interpreter that she “did not kill anybody.” A Maricopa County Superior Court commissioner told the 40-year-old not to talk about the case except with an attorney. The Tempe woman is facing two counts of first-degree murder. She was ordered held on a $2 million cash bond
  
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• Alabama judge handling domestic cases accused of stalking

  17-05-2021 20:52
  
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — State judicial investigators are accusing an Alabama judge of multiple violations of judicial ethics rules. A complaint by the Judicial Inquiry Commission says Jefferson County Circuit Judge Nakita Blocton used fake social media accounts to harass people with cases before her. It also claims she verbally abused office workers and lawyers and showed signs of drug use and mental instability. The judge has been temporarily removed from duties, and an attorney represent
  
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• Tennessee gov signs transgender ‘bathroom bill’ for schools

  17-05-2021 20:51
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s Republican governor has signed legislation putting public schools and districts at risk of losing civil lawsuits if they let transgender students or employees use multi-person bathrooms that do not reflect their gender at birth. Gov. Bill Lee signed the bill Friday, cementing another policy into law in Tennessee that LGBTQ advocates say discriminates against their community. Similar proposals have advanced in other Republican-led statehouses across
  
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• US stocks fall further from records amid inflation fears

  17-05-2021 20:41
  
  Stocks fell in afternoon trading on Wall Street Monday as the market comes off of its worst weekly decline since February. Big Tech stocks were the heaviest weights pulling the major indexes lower. The sector has been responsible for big swings in either direction over the last few weeks as investors weigh the impact of rising inflation and a broad economic recovery. The S&P 500 was down 0.5% following its 1.4% drop last week from its record high. Energy and materials companies were doing be
  
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• EXPLAINER: How Ohio’s Vax-a-Million lottery will work

  17-05-2021 20:41
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — With the first drawing for Ohio’s Vax-a-Million lottery system scheduled for May 26, state officials announced major changes to the process Monday, including an opt-in only entry and verification process. The lottery system unveiled by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine last week will begin next Wednesday and continue for five weeks, offering residents a $1 million prize or a full-ride scholarship to a four-year university in the state. Ohio had initially planned to us
  
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• California won’t lift its mask requirement for another month

  17-05-2021 20:39
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California won’t lift its mask requirement until June 15 to give the public time to prepare and ensure cases stay low. State Health Director Dr. Mark Ghaly said Monday that a four-week delay will allow businesses time to make adjustments and get more people vaccinated. Many other states lifted their mask requirements last week after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it’s safe for fully vaccinated people to skip face coverings and soci
  
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