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• Arizona audit of 2020 election resumes after weeklong hiatus

  24-05-2021 23:59
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican-led hand recount of ballots cast in Maricopa County is resuming after a weeklong hiatus. Counters returned Monday to a former basketball arena where contractors working for the state Senate GOP are reviewing the county’s handling of the 2020 election. The recount is taking far longer than expected, and counters had to vacate the facility for high school graduations. Journalists observing the operation were told that Senate liaison Ken Bennett will no-lon
  
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• Nonpartisan budget report says future nuke costs are rising

  24-05-2021 23:49
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office says operating and modernizing U.S. nuclear forces is likely to cost $634 billion over the coming decade. That includes tens of billions more than previously foreseen to operate nuclear-armed submarines and to update Energy Department nuclear weapons laboratories and production facilities. The nonpartisan CBO said that its $634 billion figure is based on the government’s announced plans for nuclear forces in the 2021
  
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• State police director ambushed, killed in northern Mexico

  24-05-2021 23:47
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials say gunmen ambushed the director of state police in the cartel-plagued northern state of Sinaloa and killed him. The state public safety secretary said Monday that Joel Ernesto Soto was found dead in his bullet-riddled car on a highway near the state capital, Culiacan. Public Safety Secretary Cristóbal Castañeda called it “a cowardly attack.” A bodyguard who was with Soto is missing. Soto was an army lieutenant colonel who was
  
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• Prisoner whose beard was forcibly shaved seeks investigation

  24-05-2021 23:47
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Lawyers are seeking a civil rights investigation of the policies that let Arizona corrections workers forcibly shave the beard of a prisoner who is Sikh and told the employees that his religion forbids shaving. Attorneys representing Surjit Singh alleged his religious freedoms were infringed when employees restrained him and shaved his beard before taking his photo as he was entering the state’s prison system. Singh alleged staff tried to shave him again when he was tr
  
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• Large police presence reported at Walmart in Nogales

  24-05-2021 23:46
  
  NOGALES, Ariz. (KVOA) - A large police presence has been reported near the Walmart in Nogales, according to a tweet shared by Nogales Police Department Monday afternoon.According to NPD, the Walmart located at 100 W. White Park Dr. near Grand Avenue has been secured in connection to the police presence.The department said at this time, no suspects are at large.NPD said Grand Avenue between Doe Street and White Park Drive has been closed in connection to the incident.
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• Woman found fatally shot at an apartment complex in Phoenix

  24-05-2021 23:44
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Police say a woman has been found fatally shot at an apartment complex in Phoenix. They say officers were called around 11 p.m. Sunday about a shooting. When police arrived, they reported finding an unidentified woman who was shot.  Phoenix Fire Department paramedics pronounced the woman dead at the scene. Police say they are investigating the death as a homicide. They are searching for a suspect and trying to determine what led to the shooting.The post Woman found fata
  
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• Haiti imposes curfew, orders mask use for pandemic emergency

  24-05-2021 23:39
  
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s government has imposed a nightly curfew and other restrictions under an eight-day “health emergency” meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus. All outdoor activity will be banned from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m. under the decree issued by President Jovenel Moise. The decree also makes the use of face masks mandatory for anyone out in public, while temperature checks and handwashing stations are required for all public or private buildings
  
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• The Latest: Haiti imposes curfew, mask use for pandemic

  24-05-2021 23:38
  
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti’s government has imposed a nightly curfew and other restrictions under an eight-day “health emergency” meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus.All outdoor activity will be banned from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m. under the decree issued Monday by President Jovenel Moise.
  The decree also makes the use of face masks mandatory for anyone out in public, while temperature checks and handwashing stations are required for all public or private buildings
  
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• Police deny man who died in custody was alone for 48 minutes

  24-05-2021 23:34
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officials in a Louisiana city who have been sued by the family of a Black man after he died in police custody deny the man spent 48 minutes in a patrol car without getting medical attention. Tommie McGlothen Jr. died after a confrontation with Shreveport police on April 5, 2020. Four officers have been charged with negligent homicide in his death. In a federal lawsuit, McGlothen’s family says police used excessive force and that McGlothen was left in a patrol car u
  
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• Ex-UCLA doctor faces additional sexual abuse charges

  24-05-2021 23:34
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles faces additional criminal charges in a case where he is accused of sexually abusing seven women. The Los Angeles Times reports that James Heaps was taken into custody Monday on $1.19 million bail after the grand jury’s indictment was unsealed. He was arrested in June 2019. His attorney told the LA Times that his client plans to post bail and denies all wrongdoing. Scores of patients have accused Hea
  
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• US warns against all travel to Japan as Olympics loom

  24-05-2021 23:20
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the State Department are warning Americans against all travel to Japan because of a surge in coronavirus cases in the country as it prepares to host the Olympics in just two months. The twin alerts issued Monday don’t ban U.S. citizens from visiting the country, but they could have an impact on insurance rates for travelers and may factor into decisions by Olympic athletes and spectators on whether to compete in or
  
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• Middle school yearbook invited students to mock peers

  24-05-2021 23:18
  
  KILN, Miss. (AP) — Parents in a Mississippi Gulf Coast community are outraged after they say a middle school yearbook was turned into a “burn book” where students were invited to mock and criticize their classmates. The Sun Herald reports the yearbook for Hancock Middle School’s 1,100 students contained prompts like, “Which friend would you not invite on spring break?” and “I would like to spike a volleyball at…”  District officials sai
  
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• Family identifies 3-year-old boy who died after being pulled from Phoenix canal

  24-05-2021 23:17
  
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  PHOENIX (KPNX) — A boy died after drowning in a canal in the area of Indian School Road and 59th Avenue on Sunday evening. The boy was publically identified by family on Monday as Anthony King Tolano.Officers responded to the area to conduct a welfare check. They were told by a passerby that there was a small child floating in a canal, police said. When they arrived, they pulled the child from the water, police said. Fire personnel administered CP
  
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• Jokes abound over Yang’s choice for favorite subway station

  24-05-2021 23:16
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Forget which sports team to root for, or who makes the best pizza. New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang apparently hit a nerve with his answer to a question that people may not have realized was a burning issue — what’s your favorite subway station? Yang’s response was Times Square. His choice of the midtown Manhattan, tourist-heavy station launched an onslaught of social media responses, with some questioning how much of a New Yorker he could reall
  
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• Russian to be deported after failed Tesla ransomware plot

  24-05-2021 23:11
  
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Russian man was sentenced to what amounted to time already served and will be deported for trying to pay a Tesla employee $500,000 to install computer malware in a bid to steal company secrets for ransom. Egor Kriuchkov apologized to a federal judge on Monday in Reno, Nevada. The judge acknowledged the attempted hack wasn’t successful and the company network wasn’t compromised. The 27-year-old Kriuchkov has been in custody since his arrest last August in Los
  
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• Families urge legal changes to prevent more police killings

  24-05-2021 23:05
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Parents and siblings of Black men killed by police urged people during a discussion in the city where George Floyd was killed a year ago to join them in pursuing legal changes they say can make more deaths less likely in the future. The families gathered in Minneapolis on Monday for a discussion about the state of policing in the U.S. and racial inequities in the frequency of fatal encounters with law enforcement. The families also discussed the role of lawmakers in maki
  
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• Suspect in court after fire destroys re-created cabin

  24-05-2021 22:49
  
  CLARKSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A man has appeared in court to face a charge he set a fire that destroyed a cabin built as a re-creation of the home where Revolutionary War figure George Rogers Clark spent his retirement years in southern Indiana. Appearing via Zoom, 36-year-old Jason Fosse of Clarksville shook his head as Clark Circuit Judge Vicki Carmichael read an arson charge against him and entered a not guilty plea for him. The News and Tribune reports bond was set at $25,000 court cash. A
  
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• Malian soldiers take president, PM to military headquarters

  24-05-2021 22:44
  
  BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Witnesses say Malian soldiers have rounded up the president and prime minister and taken them to military headquarters. The development came Monday just hours after a government reshuffle left out two members of the junta that seized power in a coup nine months earlier. There is no immediate confirmation as to why a meeting was abruptly called at the military headquarters in Kati, but it came just hours after the new Cabinet positions were announced, As the meeting at K
  
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• eegee’s Opening ‘Prototype’ Location at Irvington, I-19

  24-05-2021 22:41
  
  On Tuesday, eegee's will open a new prototype location in South Tucson that will feature an “eegee-only” drive-thru window. The new location is at the Landing shopping area, 4765 S. Landing Center Dr., near Interstate 19 and Irvington Road.…
  
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• Witnesses say Malian soldiers have taken president, prime minister to military headquarters

  24-05-2021 22:40
  
  BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Witnesses say Malian soldiers have taken president, prime minister to military headquarters.The post Witnesses say Malian soldiers have taken president, prime minister to military headquarters appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• More than dozen slain in Peru, allegedly by Shining Path

  24-05-2021 22:30
  
  LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian authorities say more than a dozen people were slain in a remote area of central Peru by suspected members of the Shining Path rebel group, just two weeks ahead of the presidential runoff election. Peru’s police chief told the local TV channel N on Monday that at least 18 people were killed, while the military said there were 14 victims. The killings took place in an area of the Peruvian Amazon that authorities believe is being used as a hideout by remnants
  
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• Dan Frank, revered editor at Pantheon Books, dead at 67

  24-05-2021 22:26
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Dan Frank, a revered and longtime editor at Pantheon Books who worked with such prize-winning authors as Art Spiegelman, Charles Baxter and Jill Lepore, died Monday at age 67. Frank joined Pantheon, now part of Penguin Random House, in 1991 and since 1996 as editorial director. He previously served as editorial director of Viking, where he worked with James Gleick and Bruce Chatwin among others. Pantheon publisher Reagan Arthur noted that Frank was so identified with the im
  
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• NBA’s young superstars showing their time is now in playoffs

  24-05-2021 22:23
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Trae Young silenced a rocking road crowd in New York in his first playoff game. Ja Morant and Devin Booker were just as impressive in their debuts. Throw in Luka Doncic picking up where he left off last year, and the opening weekend of the playoffs may have proven that the time is now for some of the NBA’s best young guards. Booker and Doncic will be back in action Tuesday, hoping to send both Los Angeles teams into 2-0 holes. Brooklyn hosts Boston in the other game.&
  
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• New $1.7B Los Angeles International Airport concourse opens

  24-05-2021 22:13
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A massive new $1.73 billion concourse with 15 gates has opened at Los Angeles International Airport. The West Gates expansion went into service Monday after a ceremony marking more than four years of work as part of a $14.5 billion airport modernization project. The concourse will serve international and domestic flights. Located just west of the Tom Bradley International Terminal, the five-level, 750,000-square-foot West Gates concourse is 1,700 feet long. Officials say
  
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• Stocks climb on Wall Street as appetite for risk returns

  24-05-2021 22:11
  
  Stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street as investors regained an appetite for risk following two straight weeks of losses. The S&P 500 rose 1% Monday, with technology stocks leading the gains. Microsoft and Google’s parent company both rose more than 2%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq rose 1.4%. Safe-play sectors like utilities lagged the rest of the market. Virgin Galactic jumped almost 28% after the company made its first rocket-powered flight from New Mexico to the fringe of space in
  
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• Russian to be deported after foiled Tesla ransomware plot

  24-05-2021 22:06
  
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Russian man was sentenced to what amounted to time already served in U.S. government custody and will be deported for trying to pay a Tesla employee $500,000 to install computer malware in a bid to steal company secrets for ransom. Egor Kriuchkov apologized to a federal judge on Monday in Reno, Nevada. He acknowledged the attempted hack wasn’t successful and the company network wasn’t compromised. The 27-year-old Kriuchkov has been in custody since his arres
  
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• EU leaders agree on Belarus sanctions after plane diversion

  24-05-2021 22:03
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders have agreed on a set of sanctions against Belarus, including a ban on the use of the 27-nation bloc’s airspace and airports amid fury over the forced diversion of a passenger jet flying between two EU countries in order to arrest an opposition journalist. In what EU leaders have called a brazen “hijacking” of Irish carrier Ryanair’s plane flying from Greece to Lithuania on Sunday, they demanded the immediate release of Raman Pr
  
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• Whitmer administration rescinds rule she ignored at bar

  24-05-2021 22:01
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration has rescinded a rule limiting restaurant tables to no more than six people. The move comes a day after she apologized for ignoring the COVID-19 regulation while gathering with friends at an East Lansing bar. The Democratic governor has said tables at the Landshark Bar & Grill were pushed together as more people arrived in her party of fully vaccinated people. A revised order no longer includes the six-patrons-p
  
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• European Union leaders agree on new sanctions against Belarus, including ban on use of EU airspace, airports

  24-05-2021 21:59
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders agree on new sanctions against Belarus, including ban on use of EU airspace, airports.The post European Union leaders agree on new sanctions against Belarus, including ban on use of EU airspace, airports appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Texas constable’s office accused of abusing female deputies

  24-05-2021 21:55
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Three female deputies have filed a federal lawsuit accusing a Texas constable of turning the office’s undercover operations into a “a booze-fueled playground for sexual exploitation.” The deputies either work or worked for the Harris County Precinct 1 Constable’s Office in Houston. They alleged women were subjected to unwarranted touching and kissing, molestation and sexual ridicule during their work with the office’s human trafficking unit. The
  
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• World Bank allocates $2 billion to fund projects in Sudan

  24-05-2021 21:49
  
  CAIRO (AP) — The World Bank says it has allocated $2 billion to cash-stripped Sudan as the transitional government has struggled to address the county’s decades-long economic woes. It said Monday the funds would be used to finance big infrastructure projects along with others to help displaced people over the next 12 months. In March, Sudan cleared its overdue payments to the World Bank after the U.S. administration provided bridge financing of $1.15 billion. Sudan is now on a fragil
  
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• Prosecutor on Wright’s death case resigns, citing ‘vitriol’

  24-05-2021 21:22
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A prosecutor who was handling the case against a former suburban Minneapolis police officer charged in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright has resigned, saying “vitriol” and “partisan politics” have made it hard to pursue justice. Imran Ali had been working on the case of Kim Potter, a former Brooklyn Center officer who fatally shot the 20-year-old Black motorist on April 11. Ali and Washington County Attorney Pete Orput charged Potter with second
  
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• The Latest: Alabama governor signs ‘vaccine passport’ ban

  24-05-2021 21:20
  
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday signed legislation banning so-called vaccine passports as Alabama becomes the latest state to try to prohibit proof of a coronavirus vaccination to enter a business, school or event.
  The legislation by Republican Sen. Arthur Orr of Decatur would prohibit government entities from issuing “vaccine or immunization passports” or other “standardized documentation for the purpose of certifying immunization status” although standa
  
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• Nebraska inmates’ fight to wed ends after one of them dies

  24-05-2021 21:19
  
  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A man and a woman convicted in separate murders who fought the state of Nebraska for years for the right to marry each other will never have that chance after one of them died earlier this year. The death of 40-year-old Nicole Wetherell in February also ended the court case she and 49-year-old Paul Gillpatrick had waged since 2014. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed their case Wednesday. Gillpatrick and Wetherell got engaged in 2011, but officials consiste
  
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• Mexico to buy Shell share of Texas refinery for $600 million

  24-05-2021 21:17
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico will says it will buy Shell’s 50% share in the jointly owned Deer Park refinery near Houston, Texas. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday that Mexico will pay $600 million for the plant, which already processes a lot of Mexican crude. It comes as part of López Obrador’s central policy to build, acquire or renovate oil refineries, in an era when most countries are trying to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels. The Mex
  
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• This week's Pima County vaccination sites

  24-05-2021 21:16
  
  Here are this week's vaccination sites in Pima County.…
  
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• No damage, injuries found after bicyclist pronounced dead on north side

  24-05-2021 21:16
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - The cyclist who was found dead in connection to a report of a collision on the northside was identified by Pima County Sheriff's Department Monday afternoon.At around 7 a.m. Monday, 68-year-old Craig King was found on the shoulder of the roadway in reference to a report of a collision near River Road between Dodge Road and Alvernon Way.King was pronounced dead at the scene.After further investigation, PCSD released that King's bicycle had no damage. The department also stated tha
  
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• UN envoy warns of possible civil war in Myanmar, seeks talks

  24-05-2021 21:09
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar is warning of possible civil war in the country. Christine Schraner Burgener says people are arming themselves against the military junta and protesters are shifting from defensive to offensive actions, using homemade weapons and training from some ethnic armed groups.  She told a virtual U.N. news conference Monday that people are starting self-defense actions because they are frustrated and fear attacks by the military, which
  
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• Georgia park with giant Confederate carving approves changes

  24-05-2021 21:09
  
  STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — The board overseeing a mountain park near Atlanta with a giant carving of Confederate leaders has voted to relocate Confederate flags from a busy walking trail and create a museum exhibit that acknowledges the site’s connection to the Ku Klux Klan. The proposals approved Monday were part of an effort by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association to address criticism of the park’s Confederate legacy and shore up its finances. The board did not address the
  
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• Stocks rise after two weeks of losses; Bitcoin up 16%

  24-05-2021 21:04
  
  Stocks are broadly higher in afternoon trading on Wall Street Monday as investors regained an appetite for risk after the market notched two straight weeks of losses. The S&P 500 was up 1.3%, with technology stocks leading the gains. Communications stocks, like Facebook, and a variety of companies that rely on direct consumer spending also made solid gains. Sectors that are viewed as safer investments, like utilities, lagged the broader market. Virgin Galactic jumped 24.5% after the company
  
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• Many displaced after fire ignites in second-story of apartment balcony

  24-05-2021 21:04
  
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  TUCSON (KVOA) - Several people have been displaced by a fire after it ignited on the second-story of an apartment balcony on Monday.According to Tucson Fire Department, the fire reportedly began in an attic.Officials said that while no injuries were reported in connection to the incident, many residents were displaced in the fire.TFD said most of the displaced individuals told first-responders that they will be staying with friends and family while the complex is being re
  
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• Feds OK new Arizona tribal casino and sports betting deal

  24-05-2021 21:01
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Gambling on sporting events and online fantasy sports betting is legal in Arizona after the U.S. Department of the Interior approved an updated tribal gaming compact with the state. Monday’s approval puts into effect emergency legislation Gov. Doug Ducey signed in April that was a counterpart to the new agreement. The deal with the tribes lets them expand their casino gambling offerings with sports and fantasy betting. Outside the reservation casinos, professional spor
  
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• Witness remembers George Floyd on the anniversary of his death

  24-05-2021 20:56
  
  MINNEAPOLIS - ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNN) - Tuesday marks one year since George Floyd was murdered at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.One witness says Floyd has become his brother over the last year, even though they never met.As the world prepares for the anniversary of George Floyd's death, Charles McMillian, whose testimony during the Derek Chauvin trial echoed across the world, is thinking back to that fateful day."I just feel sad because I'm going to go back on Tuesday and relive what I
  
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• Atlantic City 1st quarter casino earnings more than triple

  24-05-2021 20:54
  
  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The Atlantic City casinos’ gross operating profit soared in the first quarter of this year to more than $95 million, more than three times the amount they earned in the first quarter of 2020, when the COVID-19 shutdown wiped out half of March. Figures released Monday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement show eight of the nine casinos posted increases in their gross operating profit, with only Bally’s posting an operating loss. Gross operat
  
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• Italy’s Eurovision song winner tests negative for drugs

  24-05-2021 20:52
  
  ROME (AP) — Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest say the lead singer of Italian glam rock band Maneskin has tested negative for drug use. The European Broadcasting Union says that should put an end to speculation that had tarnished the band’s victory. EBU said Monday it came to the conclusion after it reviewed all the available footage of the TV broadcast Saturday night and saw the negative results of Maneskin singer Damiano David’s voluntarily drug test. Rumors had swirle
  
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• Gonzaga hires Stephen Gentry as assistant basketball coach

  24-05-2021 20:49
  
  SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Former Gonzaga player Stephen Gentry has been hired as an assistant coach on the Bulldogs’ basketball staff to replace Tommy Lloyd, who became the head coach at Arizona. Gentry was most recently an assistant coach at Illinois, where he oversaw schematic changes on offense and defense the past two seasons. The Illini posted back-to-back 20-win seasons for the first time since 2013-14 and earned two straight NCAA Tournament berths during Gentry’s time there.
  
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• Gaza-based journalists in Hamas chat blocked from WhatsApp

  24-05-2021 20:49
  
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A number of Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip say they are being blocked from accessing WhatsApp messenger. The app is a crucial tool used to communicate with sources and the world beyond the blockaded strip. The Associated Press reached out to 17 journalists in Gaza who confirmed their accounts had been blocked since Friday. Only four had been able to restore access by Monday. Twelve of the 17 journalists contacted by the AP said they had been part of
  
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• AP: Top cop in Black man’s deadly arrest withheld cam video

  24-05-2021 20:45
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In perhaps the strongest evidence yet of an attempted cover-up in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, the ranking Louisiana State Police officer at the scene denied the existence of his own body camera video for nearly two years until the footage emerged last month. A new report says the video shows the beaten, shackled Black man suffering and gasping for air. New state police documents obtained by The Associated Press show numerous inconsistencies between Lt. John
  
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• Former banker Guillermo Lasso becomes president in Ecuador

  24-05-2021 20:36
  
  QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Former banker Guillermo Lasso was sworn in as president of Ecuador, saying he will escalate efforts to vaccinate people to protect them from COVID-19 and work to revive an economy hit hard by the pandemic. So far, Ecuador has vaccinated just 3% of the total population of 17 million, and the country is struggling with high unemployment and debt levels. Lasso wants his new government to vaccinate nine million people in his first 100 days in office, and he has reached ou
  
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• Arizona Health Director Says It's OK To Waste a Little Vaccine If More People Get Vaccinated

  24-05-2021 20:31
  
  The Arizona Department of Health Services is asking health care providers, especially pediatricians, to prioritize vaccinations over the fear of vaccine wastage.…
  
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