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• Woman arrested at US border with sloth, crocodile parts

  28-05-2021 23:57
  
  HIGHGATE SPRINGS, Vt. (AP) — A Montreal woman has been arrested on charges of trying to cross the U.S. border into Canada with “numerous undeclared wildlife items,” including a three-toed sloth, 18 crocodile skulls and heads and seven crocodile feet.
  The federal complaint says the boutique owner also was in possession of two horseshoe crabs, 23 racoon feet, eight African antelope horns and one human skull on Wednesday when she tried to cross the border at Highgate Springs, Verm
  
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• Los Angeles Angels extend spring stay in Tempe through 2035

  28-05-2021 23:50
  
  ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels will keep their spring training home in Tempe, Arizona, until at least 2035 after reaching a deal for an extensive renovation of Tempe Diablo Stadium. Tempe officials also unveiled plans for more than $50 million in comprehensive upgrades to the city-owned stadium, which is the oldest in the Cactus League. The first phase of renovations will include a three-story building on the third base side housing a new locker room for the Angels along wit
  
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• GOP blocks Capitol riot probe, displaying loyalty to Trump

  28-05-2021 23:49
  
  Mitch McConnel, (R) Senate Minority LeaderWASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have blocked the creation of a bipartisan panel to study the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The Senate fell short of the 60 votes needed to consider a House-passed bill that would have formed a 10-member commission evenly split between the two parties. It was another sign of GOP fealty to former President Donald Trump and an overtly political effort to shift the focus off of the violent insurrection of his suppo
  
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• High waves wash out Chicago beaches as Lake Michigan reopens

  28-05-2021 23:46
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Beaches in Chicago were washed out by high waves on the first day the city had been set to reopen Lake Michigan to swimming since summer 2019. Waves Friday reached up to 11 feet high. A “beach hazards” alert from the National Weather Service forecast “life-threatening” swimming conditions through Saturday. Chicago’s beach season typically runs from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend, but the city had kept its 22 Lake Michigan beaches
  
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• FAA questions lead to new halt in deliveries of Boeing plane

  28-05-2021 23:41
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Federal regulators are asking more questions about production flaws on Boeing jets, and that’s causing a new halt in deliveries of the 787 model, which Boeing calls the Dreamliner. Boeing said Friday that the company is working with the Federal Aviation Administration to resolve the issue. The FAA’s concern goes back to flaws like tiny gaps found between panels of the carbon-fiber fuselage on 787s Dreamliners. The FAA wants more information about Boeing’s a
  
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• Transportation secretary to visit closed interstate bridge

  28-05-2021 23:28
  
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will visit the Interstate 40 bridge connecting Tennessee and Arkansas that’s been indefinitely closed after a crack was found in one of its steel beams. The U.S. Department of Transportation on Friday announced that Buttigieg will visit Memphis next Thursday to see the bridge spanning the Mississippi River. The bridge spanning the Mississippi River was closed to traffic May 11 after the fracture in a steel beam was fo
  
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• Tennessee shelter for immigrant children opened under Trump

  28-05-2021 23:19
  
  CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee licensed a shelter for immigrant children a year before the state’s Republican governor and U.S. Senators began expressing outrage over unaccompanied minors sent to Chattanooga. Gov. Bill Lee tweeted last week that President Joe Biden’s administration needs to “secure the border & stop scattering children across the country” after a local television station aired footage of immigrant children arriving at a Chattanooga airport.
  
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• Fiat Chrysler recalls big Ram trucks; wheels could fall off

  28-05-2021 23:18
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Fiat Chrysler is recalling more than a half-million heavy-duty Ram trucks to fix a problem that can cause the wheels to fall off. The recall covers certain 2012 through 2021 Ram 3500 heavy-duty pickups, and Ram 4500 and 5500 chassis cab trucks. The recalled vehicles are mainly in North America. The trucks have dual rear wheels and flanged lug nuts. Fiat Chrysler says some service and owner’s manuals had the wrong torque specifications for tightening the nuts that hold
  
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• Senate OKs Biden nominees to postal board amid mail changes

  28-05-2021 23:04
  
  All three of President Joe Biden’s nominees to the governing board of the U.S. Postal Service have been approved by the Senate. That will strengthen Democratic influence over the agency as its leaders move to overhaul mail operations. Lawmakers on Friday approved the nomination of Anton Hajjar, the former general counsel of the American Postal Workers Union. Ron Stroman, a former deputy postmaster general, and Amber McReynolds, who leads the nonprofit National Vote at Home Institute, were
  
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• FDA OKs 1st targeted drug for common lung cancer mutation

  28-05-2021 23:00
  
  FAIRLESS HILLS, PA. (AP) — U.S. regulators have approved the first medicine for patients with the most common type of lung cancer whose tumors have a genetic mutation long considered untreatable with drugs. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday said it’s approved Amgen’s drug Lumakras for non-small cell lung cancer patients with the mutation whose cancer worsened after initial treatment with different drugs. This is the first targeted therapy for tumors with a so-called KR
  
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• Eyeing calendar, Biden to end GOP infrastructure talks soon

  28-05-2021 22:57
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden wants to wrap up infrastructure negotiations soon with Senate Republicans. He is finding their idea of tapping COVID-19 relief funds to pay for the investment unworkable, according to a White House adviser granted anonymity to discuss private deliberations. Even as Biden plans to meet with lead GOP negotiator Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia next week and is open to hearing from other Republican senators, he is eying the short timeline remain
  
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• Biden budget highlights: Lots of spending, taxing the rich

  28-05-2021 22:48
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s $6 trillion budget proposal offers major new initiatives like child and elder care subsidies, generous tax credits for families and the working poor, and free community college. It also promises politically freighted tax increases on the wealthy and corporations and would give domestic Cabinet departments significantly bigger budget increases than the Pentagon. But like all presidential budget plans, Biden’s proposal needs the approval of
  
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• US says agencies largely fended off latest Russian hack

  28-05-2021 22:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says it believes U.S. government agencies largely fended off the latest cyberespionage onslaught blamed on Russia intelligence operatives, saying the spear-phishing campaign should not further damage relations with Moscow ahead of next month’s planned presidential summit. Officials downplayed the cyber assault as “basic phishing.” Microsoft, which disclosed the effort, said it believed most of the hacking attempts had been blocked by auto
  
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• 3 officers plead not guilty in Black man’s restraint death

  28-05-2021 22:35
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Three Washington state police officers have pleaded not guilty to charges in the restraint death of a Black man who repeatedly told them he couldn’t breathe. Attorney General Bob Ferguson charged Tacoma officers Christopher Burbank and Matthew Collins, who are both white, with second-degree murder Thursday after witnesses said they attacked Manuel Ellis. Officer Timothy Rankine, who is Asian, is charged with manslaughter. They pleaded not guilty Friday in Pierce County
  
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• Bear attacks, injures hiker in Yellowstone National Park

  28-05-2021 22:32
  
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park officials say a bear has attacked and injured a hiker. Park officials in a statement say it is the first bear attack inside the park which a person was injured this year. The 39-year-old man was hiking alone on a trail near Mammoth Hot Springs Friday morning when he encountered what he believed to be two grizzly bears. One of the bears attacked and injured the hiker. The man suffered significant injuries in his lower extremities but managed to
  
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• Michael Jordan donates $1M to Morehouse journalism, sports

  28-05-2021 22:30
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Basketball great Michael Jordan and Nike’s Jordan Brand re giving $1 million to Morehouse College in Atlanta to boost journalism and sports-related studies. The gift announced Friday will help enrich the school’s journalism and sports program that was originally launched with a donation from director and actor Spike Lee. The school said the donation will help fund scholarships, technology and educational programming for students in those fields. The program has f
  
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• CDC loosens mask guidance for summer campers

  28-05-2021 22:22
  
  NEW YORK — Kids at summer camps can skip wearing masks outdoors, with some exceptions.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted the guidance Friday. Children who aren’t fully vaccinated should still wear masks outside when they’re in crowds or in sustained close contact with others – and when they are inside.But fully vaccinated kids need not wear masks, indoors or outside. It’s the first in a wave of guidance updates that seek to incorporate recent CDC
  
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• Senate confirms geneticist Lander as Biden science adviser

  28-05-2021 22:15
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed geneticist Eric Lander to be President Joe Biden’s chief science adviser. Lander, founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, was approved by a voice vote Friday to serve as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Lander, who also is a mathematician and molecular biologist, was lead author of the first paper announcing the details of the human genome. His nomination was delayed for months as sena
  
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• US blocks seafood from Chinese fleet over crew mistreatment

  28-05-2021 22:12
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has blocked imports of seafood from the fleet of a Chinese company that authorities say forced crew members to work in slave-like conditions. Customs and Border Protection said Friday that it will place an immediate hold on any imports linked to the more than 30 vessels operated by Dalian Ocean Fishing, under a U.S. law that bars goods suspected to have been produced with forced labor. It’s the first time the U.S. has sought to block imports from
  
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• US stocks cling to modest gains and end the week higher

  28-05-2021 22:11
  
  Stocks held on to modest gains on Wall Street Friday, ending the week higher for the first time in three weeks. The S&P 500 added 0.1%, led by gains in technology and health care companies. The benchmark index added 1.2% for the week. Salesforce.com rose 5.4%, the biggest gain in the S&P 500, after reporting solid results for its latest quarter. Investors took in stride a report showing that a closely watched measure of inflation came in somewhat hotter than expected last month. The yiel
  
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• Two Oklahoma tribes consider tribal citizenship for Freedmen

  28-05-2021 22:11
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Choctaw and Muscogee nations in Oklahoma are considering making changes to allow descendants of Freedmen to become tribal citizens. Freedmen are the Black people once enslaved by tribal citizens. Choctaw Nation Chief Gary Batton and the Muscogee Nation said in separate statements they are considering changes to their constitutions that, if approved, would allow Freedmen to become citizens. The issue of tribal citizenship for Freedmen has long been the subject of li
  
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• Lawyers: Biden in office makes 2020 protest suit unnecessary

  28-05-2021 22:05
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers say lawsuits filed by protesters who were forcefully removed from a park near the White House before a photo op by former President Donald Trump should be dismissed. They say that’s because the new administration is not likely to repeat the events of last June. Government attorneys say the lawsuits seek to prevent a recurrence of what happened but because Joe Biden is in office, they likely won’t. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Trump admin
  
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• Arizona governor wants budget, vetoes bills to make point

  28-05-2021 22:05
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is tired of waiting for the Legislature to send him a state budget package and is making his point by vetoing a series of bills and saying he won’t sign any more until he gets a spending plan for the coming year. Friday’s move by the Republican governor came after a week of delays by the GOP-controlled Legislature as leaders tried to get enough votes to pass a budget they negotiated with Ducey. The House gave up trying on Wednesday and the
  
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• John Davis, real singer behind Milli Vanilli, dies at 66

  28-05-2021 22:04
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — John Davis, one of the real singers behind the lip-synching duo Milli Vanilli, died of the coronavirus this week. The South Carolina native was 66. Davis was credited as a backup singer on the pop duo’s albums. Following a string of hits, Milli Vanilli’s Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus won the 1989 Best New Artist Grammy Award. The award was later revoked after revelations that neither actually sang on their records. Davis told a podcast earlier this year t
  
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• 3 officers plead not guiilty in Black man’s restraint death

  28-05-2021 22:04
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Three Washington state police officers have pleaded not guilty to charges in the restraint death of a Black man who repeatedly told them he couldn’t breathe. Attorney General Bob Ferguson charged Tacoma officers Christopher Burbank and Matthew Collins, who are both white, with second-degree murder Thursday after witnesses said they attacked Manuel Ellis. Officer Timothy Rankine, who is Asian, is charged with manslaughter. They pleaded not guilty Friday in Pierce County
  
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• NTSB: Pilot error caused fatal helicopter crash in Bahamas

  28-05-2021 22:02
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Federal officials say pilot error caused the helicopter crash that killed coal billionaire Chris Cline and six others in the Bahamas in 2019. A National Transportation Safety Board released Thursday says the two pilots’ decision to take off over water in dark night conditions with no external visual reference resulted in spatial disorientation and the subsequent crash off Big Grand Cay. Killed in the July 2019 crash were Cline, the two pilots, Cline’s adult daughte
  
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• Ex-Southwest Airlines pilot sentenced for lewd act on flight

  28-05-2021 21:57
  
  COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — A retired Southwest Airlines pilot has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to exposing his genitals to a female co-pilot and watching pornography in the cockpit during a flight from Philadelphia to Florida last year. Sixty-year-old Michael Haak said during a remote hearing Friday that the August 2020 incident on the plane started as a “consensual prank” with the first officer who was co-pilot. Haak apologized and expressed remorse for his
  
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• Shallow quake hits beneath Lake Tahoe; no injuries or damage

  28-05-2021 21:56
  
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — A shallow magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck beneath Lake Tahoe Friday but there were no immediate reports of any injuries of serious damage. The quake reported at 8:25 a.m. was about 5.5 miles west of Tahoe’s east shore. Hundreds of people as far away as Reno reported on the U.S. Geological Survey web site they felt the temblor but nearly all indicated the shaking was weak. The Washoe County sheriff’s office hasn’t received any reports of damage. Spokeswom
  
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• Court rules against using race, sex to allocate federal aid

  28-05-2021 21:48
  
  A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a conservative legal group that sought to stop President Joe Biden’s administration from giving priority status for COVID-19 relief to restaurants and bars owned by women and certain minorities. The U.S. Sixth Circuit Appeals Court issued a 2-1 opinion Thursday that said the government cannot allocate limited coronavirus relief funds based on race and sex. It issued an order for the government to stop using the criteria when processing an appli
  
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• Feds: Ex-FBI agent defraud woman with ‘secret probation’

  28-05-2021 21:44
  
  DALLAS (AP) — A former FBI agent has been charged with fraud for allegedly conning a Texas woman out $800,000 by convincing her she was on “secret probation.” Prosecutors say the retired agent told the woman he’d have her probation lifted after she married him. William Roy Stone, Jr. was indicted Tuesday on 11 federal counts including wire fraud, conspiracy and impersonation of a federal officer. He made an initial appearance in a court in Dallas Friday. Prosecutors say S
  
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• Farm laborer convicted in 2018 stabbing death of Iowa runner

  28-05-2021 21:44
  
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A jury has found a farm laborer guilty of murder in the abduction and killing of a University of Iowa student who vanished while out for a run in 2018. The jury on Friday found Cristhian Bahena Rivera guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Mollie Tibbetts, a friendly and bright 20-year-old who was studying to become a child psychologist. Bahena Rivera, who came to the U.S. illegally from Mexico as a teenager, will be sentenced to life in prison witho
  
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• Palestinian killed by Israeli troops in West Bank protest

  28-05-2021 21:26
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli troops during a protest against settlement expansion in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The protest erupted over a settlement outpost near the town of Beita. It is one of dozens of outposts dotting hilltops in the West Bank in what Palestinians see as an ongoing Israeli land grab. Friday’s clash came at a time of heightened tensions following an 11-day war between Israel and the Islamic militant group Hamas, which rule
  
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• Schumer sets up June vote on elections overhaul bill

  28-05-2021 21:23
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is setting up a June vote on an elections overhaul bill. The Democratic leader announced the plans Friday after a failed vote on legislation establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. The elections bill is a Democratic priority that confronts restrictive new voting laws emerging from the states after President Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat. It will test the party’s willingness to change th
  
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• Man charged in deaths of children returned to Nebraska

  28-05-2021 21:19
  
  BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — A Bellevue man charged in the deaths of his two young children has been returned to Nebraska and appeared in court Friday for a bond hearing. The Omaha World-Herald reports that 36-year-old Adam Price was returned to Nebraska from California on Thursday night. On Friday, he was ordered held on $2.5 million bail. Price is charged with two counts of negligent child abuse resulting in the deaths of his children, 5-year-old Emily and 3-year-old Theodore. The children had
  
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• Lightfoot sued for limiting interviews to reporters of color

  28-05-2021 21:18
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A white reporter for a conservative media outlet is suing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot over her decision to grant interviews at the midpoint of her first term only to journalists of color. Thomas Catenacci and his employer, the Daily Caller News Foundation, argue in the lawsuit filed Thursday that Lightfoot violated their First Amendment rights and discriminated against him because of his race. They say Lightfoot’s office didn’t respond to interview requests on t
  
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• Florida urges US to import less expensive Canadian drugs

  28-05-2021 21:14
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing the Biden administration to approve a program he says would save tens of millions of dollars by importing drugs from Canada. The Republican governor signed a bill in 2019 allowing prescription drugs to be imported from the neighboring country after federal health officials made a ruling that year opening the door for states to pursue importing less expensive prescription drugs. On Friday, DeSantis said Florida has met all fe
  
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• One dog dead, one transported to hospital after full-alarm fire burns midtown duplex

  28-05-2021 21:13
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - A dog has died in connection to a fire that burned a duplex in midtown Friday morning.According to Tucson Fire Department, crews were dispatched to the 2600 block of North Estrella Avenue near Grant Road and Stone Avenue at around 10 a.m. Friday in reference to a report of a tree fire.The blaze was then upgraded to a full alarm fire as flames after new reports shared that flames were spreading quickly to a second apartment and into the eaves of another building.
  Crews responded t
  
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• The Latest: CDC loosens mask guidance for summer campers

  28-05-2021 21:11
  
  NEW YORK — Kids at summer camps can skip wearing masks outdoors, with some exceptions.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted the guidance Friday. Children who aren’t fully vaccinated should still wear masks outside when they’re in crowds or in sustained close contact with others – and when they are inside.But fully vaccinated kids need not wear masks, indoors or outside. It’s the first in a wave of guidance updates that seek to incorporate recent CDC
  
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• Bill Cosby refuses sex offender program, so is denied parole

  28-05-2021 21:05
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Actor Bill Cosby has been denied parole after refusing to participate in sex offender programs during his nearly three years in state prison in Pennsylvania. The 83-year-old Cosby has long said he would serve the full 10-year sentence rather than acknowledge wrongdoing and take part in the programs. This is the first year he was eligible for parole under the three- to 10-year sentence handed down in 2018. Cosby meanwhile hopes the state Supreme Court will reverse his co
  
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• Probe clears UK PM in cash for curtains redecorating scandal

  28-05-2021 20:58
  
  LONDON (AP) — An investigation has cleared British Prime Minister Boris Johnson of wrongdoing in the scandal over the redecoration of his official Downing Street residence. It concluded that he knew “nothing about″ how the project was financed until reports surfaced in the media. But Christopher Geidt, whom Johnson appointed as independent adviser on ministerial standards last month, criticized the prime minister for not being more rigorous in determining the source of funding
  
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• STORY REMOVED: US–Sexual Misconduct-Danny Masterson

  28-05-2021 20:56
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Please disregard US–Sexual Misconduct-Danny Masterson, published on May 28, 2021, and datelined in LOS ANGELES. It is a story from May 21, 2021, that was inadvertently retransmitted.The post STORY REMOVED: US–Sexual Misconduct-Danny Masterson appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Farm laborer guilty in 2018 stabbing death of Iowa runner

  28-05-2021 20:55
  
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A jury has found a farm laborer guilty of murder in the abduction and killing of a University of Iowa student who vanished while out for a run in 2018. The jury on Friday found Cristhian Bahena Rivera guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Mollie Tibbetts, a friendly and bright 20-year-old who was studying to become a child psychologist. Bahena Rivera, who came to the U.S. illegally from Mexico as a teenager, will be sentenced to life in prison withou
  
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• New Poll: 23 percent of Republicans believe QAnon conspiracy theories

  28-05-2021 20:52
  
  WASHINGTON DC (CNN) - A new report from PRRI shows 23 percent of Republicans believe conspiracy theories linked the QAnon movement.So what does that actually mean?Those respondents said they mostly, or completely, agree with the following statements:That "The government, media and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global sex trafficking operation."That "There is a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore
  
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• Thousands rally against Slovenian PM ahead of EU presidency

  28-05-2021 20:48
  
  LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Thousands of people have joined in a protest against Slovenia’s right-wing Prime Minister Janez Jansa, reflecting mounting pressure on the government weeks before the country takes over the European Union’s rotating presidency. Critics have accused Jansa of assuming increasingly authoritarian ways similar to those of his ally, Hungary’s hardline Prime Minister Viktor Orban. They say Jansa’s government has pressured Slovenian media and spur
  
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• NASA releases stunning new pic of Milky Way’s ‘downtown’

  28-05-2021 20:46
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has released a stunning new picture of our galaxy’s violent, super-energized “downtown.” It’s a composite of hundreds of images taken by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory over the past two decades. Astronomer Daniel Wang of the University of Massachusetts Amherst said Friday he spent a year working on this while stuck at home during the pandemic. The picture depicts billions of stars and countless black holes at the center, or h
  
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• Biden marks vaccine progress, thanks troops ahead of holiday

  28-05-2021 20:46
  
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — President Joe Biden started the Memorial Day weekend by visiting a rock climbing gym in northern Virginia as the state lifted all COVID-19 distancing and capacity restrictions at private businesses and much of the nation pushes toward a greater sense of normalcy. Biden sought to use the stop on Friday at Sportrock Climbing Centers to celebrate progress made as the country looks to turn the corner on the coronavirus pandemic. Biden later traveled to Joint Base Langley
  
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• Immigrant found guilty in 2018 stabbing death of Iowa runner

  28-05-2021 20:44
  
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A jury has found a farm laborer guilty of murder in the abduction and killing of a University of Iowa student who vanished while out for a run in 2018. The jury on Friday found Cristhian Bahena Rivera guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Mollie Tibbetts, a friendly and bright 20-year-old who was studying to become a child psychologist. Bahena Rivera, who came to the U.S. illegally from Mexico as a teenager, will be sentenced to life in prison withou
  
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• Farm laborer convicted of first-degree murder in 2018 abduction and stabbing death of University of Iowa student

  28-05-2021 20:43
  
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Farm laborer convicted of first-degree murder in 2018 abduction and stabbing death of University of Iowa student.The post Farm laborer convicted of first-degree murder in 2018 abduction and stabbing death of University of Iowa student appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• NJ to give beachgoers COVID shots over Memorial Day weekend

  28-05-2021 20:41
  
  FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) — Beachgoers at three popular Jersey Shore spots will be able to get vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus over the Memorial Day weekend. Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday announced the “Shots At The Shore” campaign that will offer free vaccinations Saturday and Sunday at Sandy Hook, Long Branch and Asbury Park. The announcement came on the day that New Jersey dropped its indoor mask mandate, which Murphy called “one of the biggest steps we can take to move f
  
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• Motorcycle theft investigation prompts heavy police presence at El Con Mall

  28-05-2021 20:40
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - A large police presence was observed near El Con Mall Friday morning in connection to a vehicle theft investigation.According to Tucson Police Department, Tucson Police Department officers were dispatched to the area near Broadway Boulevard and Alvernon Way in order to recover a stolen motorcycle.Officials say while one of the individuals were well armed, the officers were able to detain all suspects involved in the incident.There is currently no danger to the public and the area
  
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