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• The Latest: Two-thirds of NY adults have at least one shot

  29-05-2021 23:23
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. — The latest federal data shows that two-thirds of adults in New York state have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
  At the same time, hospitalizations statewide are down to 1,143 patients, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday. The total is the lowest since Oct. 31.
  On the vaccine front, about 46% of 20 million residents are fully vaccinated, according to data as of Friday from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The national average is 40%.
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• Chelsea beats City 1-0, wins Champions League for 2nd time

  29-05-2021 23:18
  
  PORTO, Portugal (AP) — Chelsea won the Champions League for the second time by beating Manchester City 1-0 thanks to Kai Havertz’s first-half goal as Pep Guardiola’s overthinking proved costly again in the all-English final. Havertz ran onto Mason Mount’s through-ball and skipped by City goalkeeper Ederson Moraes before slotting the ball home in the 42nd minute. Chelsea added to the first European Cup it won in 2012 and manager Thomas Tuchel got his hands on the trophy a
  
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• 14 abducted from Nigerian university released after 1 month

  29-05-2021 23:14
  
  LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities say that 14 university students and staff abducted from a university in northwestern Nigeria last month have been released by their captors. Gunmen abducted the students and staff from Greenfield University in Kaduna state on April 20. The gunmen had demanded hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom and had killed five other students to pressure the remaining students’ parents to raise the money. Officials in Kaduna state did not say whether any ra
  
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• High temperatures will stay around 100 for the next week

  29-05-2021 22:54
  
  TUCSON - High pressure has parked itself directly over Arizona and this will force Southern Arizona's temperatures to continue to rise.After a hot Saturday, Sunday and Monday will see afternoon temperatures in the mid to upper 90's.The triple digits will be possible everyday between Tuesday and next Saturday with the warmest day coming on Wednesday.
  Overnight low temperatures will stay in the 60's.A significant cool down does not look possible even into the start of next week.There is no good ch
  
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• Reports: Boris Johnson, fiancée Carrie Symonds wed in London

  29-05-2021 22:31
  
  LONDON (AP) — U.K. newspapers are reporting that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancée Carrie Symonds married Saturday in a small private ceremony in London. The Mail on Sunday and the Sun said the couple wed at the Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral in front of a small group of friends and family. Johnson’s office declined to comment. Under current coronavirus restrictions in England, weddings can be attended by a maximum of 30 people. Johnson, who is 56, and 33-year
  
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• More states ease lingering virus rules as vaccine rates rise

  29-05-2021 22:23
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — More cities and states are shrugging off lingering COVID-19 restrictions as vaccination rates rise and the number of infections falls. Massachusetts lifted its mask mandate and restrictions on businesses Saturday. In New York City and Chicago, officials reopened public beaches. Other states, including Minnesota, Virginia and New Jersey, have recently lifted pandemic restrictions. It’s one more sign of progress that reflects increasingly positive health data. F
  
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• UK magnate’s daughter-in-law held in Belize police death

  29-05-2021 22:19
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The daughter-in-law of a politically influential British magnate is in custody in Belize, under investigation in the shooting death of a police superintendent. Police Commissioner Chester C. Williams told 7 News Belize television that Jasmine Hartin initially balked at making a statement, preferring to wait for the presence of her attorney. She was found on a dock near the spot where police Superintendent Henry Jemmoth was found dead early Friday. Williams said that &ldq
  
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• Gavin MacLeod, ‘Love Boat’ captain, dies at 90

  29-05-2021 22:12
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Television actor Gavin MacLeod has died. He was 90. MacLeod’s nephew told the trade paper Variety that MacLeod died early Saturday. Variety reported that MacLeod’s health had been poor recently but no cause of death was given. MacLeod achieved stardom as Murray Slaughter, the sardonic TV news writer on the 1970s comedy “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” He went to a lead role as the cheerful Captain Stubing on “The Love Boat.” Early in his c
  
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• Family of American killed in Kenya wants separate probe

  29-05-2021 22:08
  
  NAIROBI (AP) — The family of an American investor of Somali origin whose body was found with torture wounds days after he went missing in Nairobi wants Kenya’s director of public prosecutions to run a separate investigation from one being done by police. In a letter sent through their lawyer, relatives of Bashir Mohamed Mohamud question the behavior of police after the 36-year-old disappeared. The family specifically questioned the time it took police to ask them to positively identi
  
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• Military weapon system test fails to intercept target

  29-05-2021 22:02
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — A weapon system test conducted by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii failed to intercept the target Saturday. According to an agency statement, the objective of the test was to demonstrate the capability of a ballistic missile defense-configured Aegis ship to detect, track, engage and intercept a medium range ballistic missile target with a salvo of two Standard Missile-6 Dual II missiles. However, an intercept was not achieved. Program officia
  
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• Convicted spy for Russia moves to withdraw guilty plea

  29-05-2021 22:00
  
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former Army Green Beret sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for spying for Russia has filed paperwork seeking to withdraw his guilty plea. Peter Debbins of Gainesville, Virginia, filed the handwritten motion earlier this week from his jail cell in Alexandria, Virginia. He gave no reason for doing so, but the filing came less than two weeks after he was sentenced to 188 months in prison for violating the federal Espionage Act. The sentence he received was sign
  
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• Black fear of Tulsa police lingers 100 years after massacre

  29-05-2021 21:30
  
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — There’s been some progress in the relationship between the Tulsa police and the city’s Black community in the 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre left as many as 300 Black people dead and thousands of Black residents displaced. Among the positive steps, the police chief is now a Black man from north Tulsa, the area that includes Greenwood and its famed Black Wall Street — America’s wealthiest Black business district before it was burned down
  
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• Texas GOP puts final touches on sweeping voting restrictions

  29-05-2021 21:24
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans are digging for a final weekend vote on some of the most restrictive new voting laws in the U.S. A sweeping bill finalized Saturday would eliminate drive-thru voting, reduce polling hours and scale back Sunday voting. The changes would have to be approved before the GOP-controlled Legislature adjourns at midnight on Sunday, when it wraps up a session dominated by staunchly conservative measures pertaining to guns, abortion voting access. Republican Go
  
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• Partiers protest Belgium virus rules; medics demand support

  29-05-2021 20:57
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — Thousands of protesters angry at pandemic-related restrictions marched to European Union headquarters in Brussels and had minor tussles with police over their unauthorized gathering. The crowd initially assembled in a Brussels park for a party designed to flout Belgium’s COVID-19 rules and a related gathering calling for Europeans to claim back their freedom. Participants then marched to the district of the Belgian capital that houses key EU buildings. Police officers
  
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• Correction: Congress-Filibuster-Explainer story

  29-05-2021 20:42
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story May 27, 2021, about the Senate filibuster, The Associated Press erroneously reported that South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond was a Republican when he spoke for more than 24 hours against the 1957 Civil Right Act. Thurmond was a Democrat at that time.The post Correction: Congress-Filibuster-Explainer story appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Partiers protest Belgium’s virus rules medics demand support

  29-05-2021 20:26
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — Thousands of protesters angry at pandemic-related restrictions marched to European Union headquarters in Brussels and had minor tussles with police over their unauthorized gathering. The crowd initially assembled in a Brussels park for a party designed to flout Belgium’s COVID-19 rules and a related gathering calling for Europeans to claim back their freedom. Participants then marched to the district of the Belgian capital that houses key EU buildings. Police officers
  
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• Arizona reports 557 additional COVID cases, 19 more deaths

  29-05-2021 20:26
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona on Saturday reported 557 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases and 19 more deaths as the state’s pandemic totals increased to 880,466 cases and 17,628 deaths. The 19 additional fatalities were the state’s largest daily increase in deaths in more than two weeks and Johns Hopkins University data indicates that the state’s seven-day rolling average of daily deaths rose over the past two weeks . However, new fatalities for months have remained far below t
  
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• Writer Michael Lewis’ 19-year-old daughter dies in crash

  29-05-2021 20:19
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Moneyball” writer Michael Lewis and former MTV correspondent Tabitha Soren are morning the death of their 19-year-old daughter. Dixie Lewis was killed Tuesday in a Northern California highway crash. According to family and authorities, Dixie Lewis was a passenger in the car driven by former high school classmate Ross Schultz. A California Highway Patrol officer told the community news site Berkeleyside that Schultz and Lewis were heading north from Lake Taho
  
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• White House asks court to dismiss lawsuit over drug imports

  29-05-2021 20:15
  
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Biden administration is urging a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit that could stand in the way of states like Florida in allowing prescriptions drugs to be imported from Canada. The administration is arguing that the lawsuit filed on behalf of U.S. pharmaceutical companies was premature because the federal government has yet to approve any importation programs. States like Florida argue that allowing federally approved drugs to be imported from Canada would sa
  
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• Belarusians abroad protest repression in homeland

  29-05-2021 20:00
  
  VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Belarus’s exiled opposition leader has vowed to persist fighting the country’s authoritarian regime despite intensifying repression that was thrown into high relief by the diversion of a commercial airliner and the arrest of a dissident journalist who was aboard. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said at a rally of about 150 demonstrators in the capital of Lithuania on Saturday, “We will not back down.” Along with Tsikhanouskaya, thousands of Belaru
  
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• Tow truck collides with cyclists in Flagstaff intersection

  29-05-2021 19:33
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Flagstaff police say a tow truck ran a red light and collided with a group of bicyclists at an intersection, killing one and injuring at least four others. Police identified the cyclist killed Friday as 29-year-old Joanne Wheaton of Flagstaff and said five other cyclists also were struck. Four of those who were taken to a hospital for treatment of unspecified injuries. A Police Department spokesman said the tow truck driver, Normand Cloutier of Wildomar, California,
  
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• How Tulsa massacre spent most of last century unremembered

  29-05-2021 19:33
  
  The toll from the 1921 massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was horrific. A thriving Black community was gutted by a white mob. The nightmare cried out for attention, but the horror and violence visited upon Tulsa’s Black community didn’t become part of the American story. Instead, it was pushed down, unremembered and untaught until efforts decades later started bringing it into the light. U.S. history is filled with dark events that haven’t been made part of the national fabric. They
  
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• The Latest: Paris concert tests letting 5K dance in arena

  29-05-2021 19:31
  
  PARIS — Thousands of people packed inside a Paris arena for a concert Saturday as part of a public health experiment to prepare France to host big events again.
  The show at AccorHotels Arena in eastern Paris featured 1980s French rock band Indochine and DJ Etienne de Crecy. But the attention was mostly on the concert-goers.
  The Paris public hospital authority helped organize the event to determine whether it’s safe to allow 5,000 people wearing masks to dance together in the open pit
  
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• Group: Spot where car hit ‘School of Rock’ actor is unsafe

  29-05-2021 19:28
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A traffic safety nonprofit has renewed its calls for improvements at the Chicago intersection where an actor from the movie “School of Rock” was struck by a car and killed while cycling. The Active Transportation Alliance identified the intersection on the city’s northwest side as “notoriously unsafe and hazardous” in a 2018 report but says no improvements were made. Kevin Clark, who played drummer Freddy “Spazzy McGee” Jones in the
  
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• Egypt: Suez Canal ship case adjourned for compensation talks

  29-05-2021 19:27
  
  CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has adjourned the case of a massive cargo vessel that blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week earlier this year. The move is to allow more time for negotiations aiming at resolving a financial dispute between the Suez Canal Authority and the vessel’s owner. The dispute centers on the compensation amount the Suez Canal Authority is claiming for the salvage of Ever Given vessel that ran aground in March, blocking the crucial waterway for six days in Marc
  
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• Dancing like there’s no COVID-19: Paris hosts test concert

  29-05-2021 18:50
  
  PARIS (AP) — Thousands of people have packed inside a Paris area for a concert as part of a public health experiment to prepare France to host big events again. The show at AccorHotels Arena on Saturday features 1980s French rock band Indochine and DJ Etienne de Crecy. The Paris public hospital authority helped organize the event to determine whether it’s safe to allow 5,000 masked people to dance together in the open pit of an indoor concert arena without social distancing. The atte
  
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• The Latest: Scientists in Vietnam identify new virus variant

  29-05-2021 18:15
  
  HANOI — Vietnam has discovered a new coronavirus variant that’s a hybrid of strains first found in India and the U.K., the Vietnamese health minister said.
  Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said Saturday that scientists identified the variant while examining the genetic makeup of the virus that had infected some recent patients. He said lab tests suggested it might spread more easily than other versions of the virus.
  Long says the new variant has spread to 30 of Vietnam’s 63 mu
  
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• UK: Anti-immigration protest blocks traffic in port of Dover

  29-05-2021 17:54
  
  LONDON (AP) — Anti-immigration demonstrators protesting the rising numbers of people attempting to reach the U.K. by crossing the English Channel in small boats have blocked trucks traveling to a cargo terminal. Carrying the England flag and chanting “English streets,″ about 50 demonstrators disrupted travel into the busy port of Dover on Saturday. A heavy police presence was in the area as authorities anticipated protests over the long holiday weekend that marks the unofficial
  
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• I-10 eastbound reopened near Marana after crash

  29-05-2021 17:36
  
  MARANA (KVOA) - The Arizona Department of Transportation has confirmed that eastbound I-10 is now open after a crash near milepost 235 near Marana.The cause of the crash is still unclear. We will be updating this article as more information comes in.
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• I-10 eastbound closed near Marana after crash

  29-05-2021 17:36
  
  MARANA (KVOA) - The Arizona Department of Transportation has confirmed that eastbound I-10 is closed due to a crash near milepost 235 near Marana.There is no estimated time of the eatbound lanes reopening. We will be updating this article with more information as it comes into our newsroom.If you are expecting to use eastbound I-10, alternative routes are encouraged.
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• Indonesia ferry catches fire at sea; all 195 aboard safe

  29-05-2021 17:33
  
  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Officials in eastern Indonesian say a ferry caught fire with nearly 200 people on board, forcing passengers and crew to jump into the sea but causing no casualties. The fire broke out Saturday morning as the ferry was headed for Sanana, a port on the remote island of Limafatola. A spokesperson for the sea transportation directorate general said all 181 passengers, including 22 children, and 14 crew members were rescued. He said authorities were still investigating
  
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• Phoenix police: Shooting leaves 1 dead, 2 critically wounded

  29-05-2021 17:29
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police say one man was killed and another man and a women were critically wounded in a shooting Saturday. No identities were released and a Police Department statement said investigators were trying to determine circumstances of the incident and that no information was immediately available on a suspect. Police said they wanted to hear from anyone with information on the incident which occurred in the west of West Thomas Road and North 43rd Avenue. The post Phoe
  
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• Belarusians in Ukraine protest repression in homeland

  29-05-2021 17:25
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarusians distraught by an intensifying crackdown on political opposition in their homeland demonstrated against the country’s authoritarian president in the capital of neighboring Ukraine. The protest of about 100 people came a week after Belarus sparked outrage in the West by diverting a commercial airline flight over its territory and arresting a dissident journalist who was on board. Belarus claims the diversion was necessary because of a bomb threat. The d
  
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• 100 years after Tulsa Race Massacre, Black mistrust remains

  29-05-2021 17:23
  
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — There’s been some progress in the relationship between the Tulsa police and the city’s Black community in the 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre left as many as 300 Black people dead and thousands of Black residents displaced. Among the positive steps, the police chief is now a Black man from north Tulsa, the area that includes Greenwood and its famed Black Wall Street — America’s wealthiest Black business district before it was burned down
  
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• Tulsa Race Massacre long buried chapter of US history

  29-05-2021 17:20
  
  The toll from the 1921 massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was horrific. A thriving Black community was gutted by a white mob. The nightmare cried out for attention, but the horror and violence visited upon Tulsa’s Black community didn’t become part of the American story. Instead, it was pushed down, unremembered and untaught until efforts decades later started bringing it into the light. U.S. history is filled with dark events that haven’t been made part of the national fabric. They
  
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• Defense for some Capitol rioters: election misinformation

  29-05-2021 17:18
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Falsehoods about the election helped bring insurrectionists to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and now some who are facing criminal charges for their actions during the riot hope their gullibility might save them in court or at least produce some sympathy. Lawyers for at least three defendants charged in connection with the violent siege tell The Associated Press that they’ll blame election misinformation and conspiracy theories, including those pushed by then-Presiden
  
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• Duchess of Cambridge ‘hugely grateful’ for 1st vaccine dose

  29-05-2021 16:59
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Duchess of Cambridge has received her first dose of COVID-19 vaccine as Britain extends its inoculation program to younger residents. Kate, the 39-year-old wife of Prince William received her shot at London’s Science Museum, a mass vaccination center near the couple’s home at Kensington Palace. A photo posted on their Twitter feed showed she got vaccinated Friday, a few weeks after her husband. Britain this week extended its COVID-19 vaccination program to eve
  
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• The Latest: Duchess of Cambridge ‘hugely grateful’ for shot

  29-05-2021 16:44
  
  LONDON — The Duchess of Cambridge has received her first dose of COVID-19 vaccine as Britain extends its inoculation program to younger residents.
  The 39-year-old wife of Prince William formerly known as Kate Middleton received her shot at London’s Science Museum, a mass vaccination center near the couple’s home at Kensington Palace, according to a photo posted on their Twitter feed.Kate got her shot Friday, a few weeks after her husband.“I’m hugely grateful to ever
  
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• Vietnam finds new virus variant, hybrid of India, UK strains

  29-05-2021 16:41
  
  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam says it has discovered a new coronavirus variant that’s a hybrid of strains first found in India and the U.K. The Vietnamese health minister made the announcement Saturday. He said scientists examined the genetic makeup of the virus that had infected some recent patients, and found the new version of the virus. He said lab tests suggested it might spread more easily than other versions of the virus. The minister says the new variant could be responsible
  
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• Advocates in US push new efforts to bring back deportees

  29-05-2021 16:20
  
  MIAMI (AP) — With President Joe Biden in office, advocates are pushing new campaigns and proposals to bring back immigrants they believe were unfairly deported from the U.S. One of them urges creating a centralized Department of Homeland Security office to consider requests from deported immigrants trying to reunite with their families in the United States. It’s a long shot: White House officials have never publicly mentioned the idea, and it doesn’t yet have a supporter in Con
  
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• State GOP lawmakers try to limit teaching about race, racism

  29-05-2021 16:14
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican-controlled legislatures across the country are advancing measures to limit how students can be taught about race and racism. Democrats, teachers and racial justice scholars say the measures will have a chilling effect on educators. They also worry that students could be given a whitewashed version of the nation’s history. The bills have been signed into law in Idaho, Oklahoma and Tennessee, and are under consideration in many more states controlled by
  
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• Standoff south of St. Louis leaves man dead, officer wounded

  29-05-2021 16:01
  
  CEDAR HILL, Mo. (AP) — A St. Louis-area man has been shot to death and an officer has been wounded in what authorities said was an hourslong standoff between the man and a sheriff’s department tactical team investigating a potential homicide. Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Marshak said deputies were serving a search warrant Friday evening at a home outside of Cedar Hill, a town of about 1,700 residents 20 miles southwest of St. Louis. He said the man immediately began firing at office
  
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• China launches cargo rocket with supplies for space station

  29-05-2021 15:51
  
  BEIJING (AP) — An automated cargo rocket carrying supplies for China’s new space station has blasted off from an island in the South China Sea. The official Xinhua News Agency said a Long March 7 rocket carrying the Tianzhou-2 capsule took off from the Wenchang launch center on Hainan Island. The Tianhe station’s core module was launched into orbit April 29. Earlier news reports said the cargo flight wouldcarry fuel and other supplies for the Tianhe.  The Chinese space age
  
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• As South Carolina execution looms, firing squad debated

  29-05-2021 15:47
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Death penalty opponents have been making stops in South Carolina to speak out about why they feel the firing squad shouldn’t be used here. Death Penalty Action has been hosting conversations on the issue Friday and Saturday in Columbia and Greenville. Earlier this month, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed into law a bill forcing inmates to choose death by firing squad or electric chair, if lethal injection drugs aren’t available. The state hasn&rsqu
  
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• Afghan officials: Roadside bomb kills 4, wounds 11 students

  29-05-2021 15:42
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials say a roadside bomb has struck a minivan full of university lecturers and students in Afghanistan’s northern Kapisa province, killing at least 4 people and wounding 11 others. They say that the minivan was targeted while travelling to bring the group to Alberoni University, and that the bomb was detonated by remote control. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Previous deadly attacks on Kabul university in November last
  
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• The Latest: Europeans plan summer vacations as cases plummet

  29-05-2021 15:24
  
  ROME — Coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and deaths are plummeting across the continent, after Europe led the world in new cases last fall and winter in waves that cost hundreds of thousands of lives, forced more rolling lockdowns and overwhelmed intensive care units.
  Now, vaccination rates are accelerating across Europe, and with them, the promise of summer vacations on Ibiza, Crete or Corsica. There are hopes for a rebirth of a tourism industry that in Spain and Italy alone accoun
  
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• London teenager charged in shooting of BLM activist

  29-05-2021 15:04
  
  LONDON (AP) — A teenager from south London appeared in court Saturday on charges that he was involved in the shooting of a prominent member of the Black Lives Matter movement.  Cameron Deriggs, 18, is charged with conspiracy to murder Sasha Johnson, who was shot in the head Sunday at a house party in southeast London. Johnson, a 27-year-old mother of two, remains hospitalized in critical condition. Deriggs, who didn’t enter a plea, was ordered to remain in custody until his next
  
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• Since the nose doesn’t know pot is now legal, K-9s retire

  29-05-2021 15:03
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Drug-sniffing police dogs from around Virginia are being forced into early retirement as the state prepares to legalize adult recreational use of marijuana on July 1. Virginia is following a trend in other states where legalization has led to K-9s being put out to pasture earlier than planned. Police dogs trained to detect the odor of marijuana will no longer be used to establish probable cause for a search. Virginia state police are retiring 13 K-9s, while smaller pol
  
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• More than 200 bodies found at Indigenous school in Canada

  29-05-2021 15:03
  
  KAMLOOPS, British Colombia (AP) — The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school. First Nations Chief Rosanne Casimir says the remains were confirmed last weekend with the help of ground-penetrating radar. And more bodies may remain to be found. An earlier report by a Truth and Reconciliation Commission detailed harsh mistreatment inflicted on Indigenous children at the the
  
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• Rioters blame their actions on 2020 election misinformation

  29-05-2021 15:00
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Falsehoods about the election helped bring insurrectionists to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and now some who are facing criminal charges for their actions during the riot hope their gullibility might save them in court or at least produce some sympathy. Lawyers for at least three defendants charged in connection with the violent siege tell The Associated Press that they’ll blame election misinformation and conspiracy theories, including those pushed by then-Presiden
  
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