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• Liz Cheney spent $58K on security after impeachment vote

  02-06-2021 23:52
  
  CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The Federal Elections Commission has released financial filings that show Wyoming U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney spent $58,500 on security from January to March, about two weeks after voting to impeach then-President Donald Trump. The Casper Star-Tribune reported that Cheney’s campaign spent $22,500 on security firm Command Executive Services and the remaining amount on three former Secret Service agents. Cheney, a Republican, previously never spent any money on security du
  
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• White House science chief wants next pandemic vaccine ready in 100 days

  02-06-2021 23:48
  
  WASHINGTON DC (AP) - The new White House science adviser hopes that for the next pandemic, a vaccine will be ready in 100 days.
  Eric Lander tells The Associated Press in his first interview since he was sworn in that he's pushing for better preparedness for the next pandemic.
  He says that includes the type of vaccine where researchers can plug in genetic material from the new viral threat and be ready to fight that disease.
  He also hopes that approach can make a dent in cancer. Lander paints a r
  
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• Challengers unseat third Exxon board member in climate fight

  02-06-2021 23:45
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Exxon Mobil shareholders have unseated third board member in their bid to force the oil giant to deal more aggressively with climate change. Texas-based Exxon says three candidates nominated by a dissident group of shareholders had been elected to its board of directors. Preliminary tallies last week had two of the challengers winning seats. Nine of the 12-member board supported by Exxon were re-elected. The ouster is another blow as fossil fuel companies face growing press
  
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• By the numbers: LeBron James in a most unusual position

  02-06-2021 23:45
  
  LeBron James has entered unchartered waters. He has been to the NBA playoffs in 15 of his 18 NBA seasons, and has never missed the second round. That streak that is now very much in doubt. James and the Los Angeles Lakers trail their first-round series against Phoenix 3-2, with Game 6 in Los Angeles on Thursday. James’ 14-0 record in first-round series is almost beyond compare in NBA history. Robert Horry and Derek Fisher both played in the first round 16 times; their teams went 16-0 in th
  
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• NASA picks Venus as hot spot for two new robotic missions

  02-06-2021 23:42
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is returning to sizzling Venus, our closest yet perhaps most overlooked neighbor, after decades of exploring other worlds. Bill Nelson, the space agency’s new administrator, announced two new robotic missions Wednesday to the solar system’s hottest planet. One mission will analyze the thick, cloudy atmosphere in an attempt to determine whether Venus ever had an ocean and was possibly habitable. A small craft will plunge through the atmosphere to
  
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• EXPLAINER: The suspension of Arctic refuge drilling leases

  02-06-2021 23:42
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Decades-long political and legal battles over drilling in America’s largest wildlife refuge took another turn when the Biden administration suspended oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The move was a blow to oil and gas proponents, who came the closest they ever have to starting drilling after the refuge was expanded 40 years ago to include the oil-rich coastal plain.The Department of Interior suspension came Tuesday after B
  
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• Man sought after 3 kids and woman found dead in Indiana

  02-06-2021 23:38
  
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  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (CNN) - Three children and a woman were found dead Wednesday morning in Fort Wayne, Ind.Authorities haven't said how the victims were killed, but they did indicate the children were very young.Police are still searching for the suspect who they say is "armed and dangerous."They've identified the suspect as 21-year-old Cohen Bennett Hancz-Barron.Last year, Hancz-Barron was sentenced to six years in prison for felony robbery.However, in February of this year, he was
  
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• Georgia sheriff accused of civil rights violations suspended

  02-06-2021 23:35
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s governor has suspended a sheriff accused of violating the civil rights of several people in his custody. In an executive order Wednesday, Gov. Brian Kemp said a review commission he appointed last month recommended the suspension. A federal grand jury last month indicted Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill. The indictment accuses the sheriff of repeatedly ordering detainees to be put in a restraint chair for hours even though they posed no threat and had compl
  
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• Texas push to close shelters for migrant kids alarms groups

  02-06-2021 23:31
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A move by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to shutter dozens of shelters housing about 4,000 migrant children is threatening to disrupt a national program offering care for minors who cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday that it didn’t intend to close any facilities but that it was “assessing” the Republican governor’s late Tuesday disaster declaration. The proclamation directs a state agency to den
  
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• Science chief wants next pandemic vaccine ready in 100 days

  02-06-2021 23:20
  
  The new White House science adviser hopes that for the next pandemic, a vaccine will be ready in 100 days. Eric Lander tells The Associated Press in his first interview since he was sworn in that he’s pushing for better preparedness for the next pandemic. He says that includes the type of vaccine where researchers can plug in genetic material from the new viral threat and be ready to fight that disease. He also hopes that approach can make a dent in cancer. Lander paints a rosy future wher
  
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• Stolen Confederate chair monument back in place — with glue

  02-06-2021 23:18
  
  SELMA, Ala. (AP) — A Confederate monument that was stolen and became the object of an odd ransom scheme is back in an Alabama cemetery where it once stood. But who took the chair is still in dispute. A Louisiana man charged in the odd disappearance of the so-called Jefferson Davis Chair surrendered to authorities Wednesday and was freed on $30,000 bail. But his lawyer says Jason Warnick had nothing to do with the chair’s removal from a cemetery in Selma earlier this year. Warnick&rsq
  
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• State seeks 30 years for Chauvin; defense wants time served

  02-06-2021 23:18
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors are seeking a 30-year sentence for the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murder in the death of George Floyd, but a defense attorney is asking that Derek Chauvin be sentenced to probation and time already served. Chauvin is scheduled to be sentenced June 25 following his conviction on murder and manslaughter charges. Judge Peter Cahill had previously ruled there were aggravating factors in Floyd’s death, which would allow him to give Chauvi
  
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• Same strong field at Memorial gets new look for golf course

  02-06-2021 23:04
  
  DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — The field at Memorial is as stronger as ever. The course looks the same at first glance. But it feels like a brand new Muirfield Village. Jack Nicklaus has made changes big and small at the course he designed. The most noticeable ones are on the par 5s. Jon Rahm is the defending champion at the Memorial. Collin Morikawa has reason to feel like one. He also won at Muirfield Village last summer when the course hosted back-to-back tour events. The crowd returns this year.
  
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• Pair flees juvenile home, engages in gunbattle with deputies

  02-06-2021 23:01
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff says his deputies did everything they could to de-escalate the situation after a 14-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy broke into a home, found weapons and opened fire on officers. Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood says deputies eventually shot the girl after she raised a shotgun at them, and the boy surrendered with an AK-47. The sheriff says the pair ran away from a juvenile home Tuesday night and were heard breaking into a house nearby. Deputie
  
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• Arizona Democratic secretary of state joins governor race

  02-06-2021 22:59
  
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  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2022 while denouncing the Republican-controlled state Senate’s ongoing audit of the 2020 presidential election. Hobbs says in a statement Wednesday that she is running for governor “to deliver transparency, accountability, and results for Arizonans.” The Arizona Senate’s audit of election results in the county that incl
  
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• Union considers strike at meat plant that was virus hotspot

  02-06-2021 22:57
  
  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Workers at a South Dakota meatpacking plant that became a coronavirus hotspot last year are considering a strike after contract negotiations between Smithfield Foods and the union have stalled. The Sioux Falls chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union threatened to move for a walkout and work stoppage if the company, based in Virginia, does not resume negotiations on a new four-year contract. The dispute has centered on the wages for meatpacking emplo
  
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• NY transit officials confirm cyberattack; say harm limited

  02-06-2021 22:54
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Officials are confirming hackers infiltrated computer systems for North America’s largest transit system in April. That set off a scramble to counter a potentially crippling cyberattack against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York. The MTA insisted on Wednesday that it quickly shut down the breach. It said a follow-up forensic analysis also found that no sensitive information was stolen and that rail service for millions of riders each day and other o
  
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• Romania launches drive to vaccinate 12 to 15-year-olds

  02-06-2021 22:53
  
  BUCHAREST (AP) — Romania has started administering COVID-19 vaccines to young teenagers aged 12 to 15, after the European Medicines Agency approved use of the Pfizer jab last week for that age group. National vaccination committee chief Valeriu Gheorghita said Wednesday more than 2,100 appointments were made for children in the past 24 hours. Vaccination centers will also accept no-appointment walk-ins, he said at the inauguration of a children’s vaccination center in the capital, Bu
  
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• Hundreds of lakes in U.S., Europe are losing oxygen

  02-06-2021 22:48
  
  Oxygen levels have dropped in hundreds of lakes in the United States and Europe over the last four decades, a new study found. Using data on nearly 400 temperate lakes throughout the world, researchers examined dissolved oxygen levels and temperatures of these aquatic ecosystems. They found that dissolved oxygen dropped 5.5% in surface waters and 18.6% in deep waters between 1980-2017.  And one of the authors says this oxygen decline could lead to increased fish kills, algal blooms and meth
  
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• MacKenzie Scott’s no-strings gifts extend beyond grantees

  02-06-2021 22:34
  
  MacKenzie Scott stormed the philanthropy world last year with $5.7 billion in unrestricted donations to hundreds of charities. The seven- and eight-figure gifts were the largest many had ever received. At the time, few people understood the multiplier effect those gifts would have or how truly wide a net she was casting. The many tentacles of her giving are poised to touch charities far beyond those that received money directly from Scott. Many nonprofits that received donations are distributing
  
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• Churchill Downs suspends Bob Baffert for 2 years

  02-06-2021 22:32
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky.  (KVOA) - Trainer Bob Baffert has been suspended for two years, Churchill Downs Incorporated announced Wednesday.
  Earlier on Wednesday, Baffert’s lawyer said a split-sample test of Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit came back positive for the presence of the steroid betamethasone. "The suspension prohibits Baffert, or any trainer directly or indirectly
  employed by Bob Baffert Racing Stables, from entering horses in races or applying for stall occupancy at all CDI
  
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• Netanyahu opponents reach coalition deal to oust Israeli PM

  02-06-2021 22:31
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opponents announced they have reached a deal to form a new governing coalition, paving the way for the ouster of the longtime Israeli leader. The dramatic announcement by opposition leader Yair Lapid and his main coalition partner, Naftali Bennett, came moments before a midnight deadline and prevented the country from plunging into what would have been its fifth consecutive election in just over two years.The post Netanyahu opponen
  
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• Crews clean up oil leaking from remains of Georgia shipwreck

  02-06-2021 22:29
  
  ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Crews on the water and nearby beaches are cleaning up oil leaking from the remains of an overturned cargo ship being dismantled along the coast of Georgia. Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Himes says responders began mopping up oil from the shipwreck Monday and were still finding some sheen on the water Wednesday as well as small globules on the sandy shores of St. Simons Island and Jekyll Island. Most of the oil onboard the Golden Ray was siphoned
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Manchin, Sinema do not vote with GOP more

  02-06-2021 22:27
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is stretching the facts when he suggests that two moderate Democrats in the Senate might be a reason why his legislative agenda, such as a sweeping voting rights bill, isn’t quickly getting done on Capitol Hill.
  In a Senate divided 50-50 where legislation effectively needs 60 votes to pass, Biden points to an obstacle that doesn’t exist. He said the lawmakers, Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, actually &ldquo
  
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• Israeli PM Netanyahu’s opponents say they have reached coalition deal, paving the way for ouster of longtime leader

  02-06-2021 22:26
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli PM Netanyahu’s opponents say they have reached coalition deal, paving the way for ouster of longtime leader.The post Israeli PM Netanyahu’s opponents say they have reached coalition deal, paving the way for ouster of longtime leader appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Medina Spirit drug test confirmed; Baffert suspended 2 years

  02-06-2021 22:25
  
  NBC/TODAY/You TubeDoping allegations of dogged horse trainer Bob Baffert over the last several years (Photo courtesy: NBC/TODAY/YouTube)
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Trainer Bob Baffert has been suspended for two years by Churchill Downs after an additional drug test of Medina Spirit confirmed the presence of the steroid betamethasone in the Kentucky Derby winner’s system. Disqualification of Medina Spirit could be next. The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission is still completing its investi
  
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• Judge to mull contempt request against Arpaio’s successor

  02-06-2021 22:25
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge is scheduled to hear arguments Thursday over whether the sheriff of metro Phoenix, like his predecessor Joe Arpaio, should face a contempt of court of hearing in a longstanding racial profiling case. The lawyers who won the racial profiling case eight years ago are now arguing Sheriff Paul Penzone should face a civil contempt hearing for not complying with a court-ordered overhaul of his agency’s much-criticized internal affairs operation. The agency ha
  
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• Lebanese leaders exchange barbs as country sinks into crisis

  02-06-2021 22:17
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s president and prime minister-designate have traded barbs, accusing one another of obstruction, negligence and insolence. Their rhetoric escalates a war or words that has for months obstructed the formation of a new government in a country hit by a devastating economic and financial crisis. The power struggle has worsened despite warnings from world leaders and economic experts of the dire economic conditions the small country is facing. The World Bank says Leb
  
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• Stocks manage modest gains overall; AMC nearly doubles

  02-06-2021 22:12
  
  Stocks managed to end with modest gains on Wall Street after a day of wavering back and forth. The S&P 500 edged up 0.1% Wednesday, with help from technology stocks. Energy companies also rose along with the price of crude oil. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq also rose about 0.1%. Movie theater operator AMC Entertainment nearly doubled in another bout of heavy trading as the company embraced its status as a “meme” stock being driven higher by hordes of individual
  
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• California urges EPA to let state set car-emissions standard

  02-06-2021 22:11
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials from California, New York and other states want the Environmental Protection Agency to allow California to set its own automobile tailpipe pollution standards. That would reverse a key Trump administration policy and could help usher in stricter emissions standards nationwide for new passenger vehicles. Allowing California to set more stringent pollution standards for cars and SUVs would give the state greater leverage in discussions with automakers as states an
  
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• Lufthansa gets green light to resume flights to Russia

  02-06-2021 21:53
  
  BERLIN (AP) — German airline Lufthansa says it has received the green light from Russia to resume flights there, after being briefly denied permission, which resulted in a reciprocal blocking of flights by Germany. In a statement, Lufthansa said Wednesday Russian authorities issued approval for its flights from Frankfurt to Moscow and St. Petersburg for the month of June. Lufthansa had been forced to cancel two flights Tuesday and Wednesday after failing to get approval from Russia’s
  
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• Broadcaster Brenly apologizes for comment about Stroman

  02-06-2021 21:53
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Diamondbacks broadcaster Bob Brenly issued an apology for a comment about New York Mets pitcher Marcus Stroman’s head covering that the right-hander said had racist undertones. Brenly was working for Bally Sports Arizona when he made a crack about Stroman’s headwear during the fourth inning of the Diamondbacks’ 6-5, 10-inning win Tuesday in Arizona. Brenly said he was pretty sure the durag Stroman was wearing was the same one Tom Seaver used to wear
  
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• Video: Black man killed by police aimed gun at officer

  02-06-2021 21:50
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Dramatic video footage released by California police shows a Black man walking around an unmarked police vehicle, opening the door and pointing a gun at an undercover officer inside before the man was fatally shot. Officials released the video and explanation Wednesday, a day after more than 100 demonstrators marched along streets and a freeway to protest the Memorial Day killing of 31-year-old Demetrius Stanley in San Jose. Family members say Stanley thought he was
  
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• Netanyahu’s opponents race against clock on unity government

  02-06-2021 21:47
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opponents are racing to finalize a coalition government to end his 12-year rule ahead of a midnight deadline. Centrist Yair Lapid and ultranationalist Naftali Bennett have joined forces and agreed to rotate the premiership between them, with Bennett going first. Lapid announced a coalition deal with the United Arab List, a small Islamist party whose support is key to securing a coalition. But they are still working to cobble togeth
  
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• Europe sees progress in latest rounds of Iran nuclear talks

  02-06-2021 21:40
  
  VIENNA (AP) — European diplomats say the latest round of talks over Iran’s nuclear program has made progress, expressing hope that agreement can be reached next week. Delegations from Russia, China, Germany, France, Britain, Iran and the United States have been holding talks in Vienna aimed at making Tehran comply with a 2015 deal curbing its atomic ambitions and also bringing the United States back into the accord. Enrique Mora, the European Union official who chaired the talks, sai
  
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• Family: Black students in Washington upset by school project

  02-06-2021 21:35
  
  SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A family in Spokane, Washington, is demanding that a school administrator be removed after he suggested he could segregate two Black middle school students who were directed to clean freshly picked cotton as part of a classroom assignment. That’s according to  lawyers for the family. Taylor Skidmore, assistant principal at Sacajawea Middle School, offered to remove the two 14-year-old twins from their social studies class when their mother called to raise c
  
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• Nicaragua police detain government opponent

  02-06-2021 21:32
  
  MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaraguan police have raided the home of Cristiana Chamorro a potential presidential candidate and daughter of former President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro. Wednesday’s raid came one day after the government filed money laundering charges against the journalist. Her brother Carlos Fernando Chamorro is director of the independent news outlet Confidencial and confirmed the raid via Twitter, and said his sister had been detained. The judicial system said in a
  
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• Iran and CAR lose voting rights in UN General Assembly

  02-06-2021 21:25
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief says Iran and the Central African Republic are in arrears on paying their dues to the United Nations’ operating budget and will lose their voting rights in the 193-member General Assembly. In a letter circulated Wednesday, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said three African countries — Comoros, Sao Tome and Principe and Somalia — are in arrears, but the assembly passed a resolution saying they can still vote in the current session wh
  
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• Fed survey sees faster growth despite supply-chain problems

  02-06-2021 21:23
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is reporting that that the U.S. economy grew at a somewhat faster pace in April and May despite disruptions that choked supplies to the nations manufacturers. The Fed’s latest survey of economic conditions around the nation published Wednesday showed that several of the Fed’s districts reported positive effects on the economy from increased vaccination rates and relaxed social distancing measures. But offsetting those gains were economic he
  
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• Suspect sought after woman, 3 children slain in Indiana home

  02-06-2021 21:22
  
  FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Three children and a woman have been found slain in a Fort Wayne home, and police are asking for the public’s help finding a man they call the suspect in the killings. Fort Wayne police said 21-year-old Cohen Bennet Hancz-Barron was last seen driving a stolen pickup truck and is “considered armed and dangerous.” Fort Wayne Police spokesman Sgt. Jeremy Webb calls the scene in the home “gruesome.”  Webb says the children were very yo
  
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• 2 migrants dead, more than 100 rescued off Tunisian coast

  02-06-2021 21:20
  
  TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Officials say the bodies of two migrants have been recovered from the Mediterranean Sea and another 20 remain missing a day after two Europe-bound boats foundered off the coast of Tunisia. Tunisian naval units rescued a total 109 people, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday. Most of the migrants were from sub-Saharan Africa. The separate sinkings were the latest in a series of accidents involving migrant boats off the North African country. Fifty migrants drowned off T
  
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• Bill Gates company to build reactor at Wyoming coal plant

  02-06-2021 21:14
  
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Business and government officials say a next-generation small nuclear plant will be built at a soon-to-be retired coal-fired power plant in Wyoming in the next several years. Bellevue, Washington-based TerraPower is led by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and working with electric utility Rocky Mountain Power on the project announced Wednesday. Gates says the TerraPower plant featuring a sodium reactor and molten salt energy storage system will perform better, be safer
  
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• Biden, GOP senator meet as infrastructure deadline looms

  02-06-2021 21:12
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is meeting with the top Republican negotiator on infrastructure, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito. Time is running out to strike a bipartisan deal. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said tapping unspent COVID-19 aid is “key” to reaching a deal. Biden has already sized up that offer as unworkable. The administration says the deadline for a deal is June. 7. Biden and GOP senators appear to be pulling farther apart as they try to narrow their
  
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• Nicaragua police seek arrest of government opponent

  02-06-2021 21:05
  
  MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaraguan police have raided the home of Cristiana Chamorro a potential presidential candidate and daughter of former President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro. Wednesday’s raid came one day after the government filed money laundering charges against the journalist. Her brother Carlos Fernando Chamorro is director of the independent news outlet Confidencial and confirmed the raid via Twitter. The judicial system said in a statement that a judge had issued searc
  
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• Prosecutors drop case against man charged in Capitol riot

  02-06-2021 21:04
  
  Federal prosecutors have dropped the criminal case against a New York man who was accused of participating in the riot at the U.S. Capitol. It appears to be the first such move by the Justice Department in its sprawling Jan. 6 prosecution. The dismissal of charges against Christopher M. Kelly was disclosed in a court filing Wednesday. The filing doesn’t elaborate on the decision, and the Department of Justice refused to provide more information. Meanwhile, prosecutors have secured a second
  
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• Colorado shooting victims demand answers on public donations

  02-06-2021 21:04
  
  DENVER (AP) — Several families and survivors of those killed in the March mass shooting at a Colorado supermarket have demanded the appointment of a special master to help distribute public donations for victims to a centralized account. They say the nonprofit groups handling the funds are not being transparent about donations provided to victims.
  Their campaign has reopened a debate that emerged after past mass shootings over how Americans can best help alleviate the anguish of personal a
  
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• National Enquirer owner fined for illegal Trump campaign aid

  02-06-2021 21:00
  
  A federal election watchdog fined the publisher of the National Enquirer $187,500 for a payment it made to keep under wraps a story about former President Donald Trump’s alleged affair with a former Playboy model. The FEC fined A360 Media, formerly known as American Media, for paying Karen McDougal $150,000 in August 2016, saying the payment that was made to keep her story from becoming public before the presidential election in concert with an agent of Trump was an illegal campaign contri
  
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• The Latest: Studies on vaccines, need for possible boosters

  02-06-2021 20:58
  
  NEW YORK — The world’s leading COVID-19 vaccines may offer lasting protection that diminishes the need for frequent booster shots.That’s according to scientists, who are finding clues in how the body remembers viruses. But they say more research is needed and that virus mutations are still a wild card.Critical studies are underway, and evidence is mounting that immunity from the mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna doesn’t depend exclusively on antibodies that dwindle
  
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• Canadian minister says pope needs to apologize to Indigenous

  02-06-2021 20:58
  
  TORONTO (AP) — A Canadian Cabinet minister says the Pope needs to issue a formal apology for the role the Catholic Church played in Canada’s residential school system, days after the remains of 215 children were located at what was once Canada’s largest such school. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government also pledged again to support efforts to find more unmarked graves at former residential schools for Indigenous students – institutions that held Indigenous chi
  
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• 1 injured, others displaced after apartment fire on Tucson’s south side

  02-06-2021 20:55
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - A person sustained minor burns in an apartment fire Wednesday morning on Tucson's south side.
  Tucson Fire Department units were dispatched to Wood Apartments in the 1900 block of W. Valencia Road.
  Other residents were also displaced from their homes, TFD said in a tweet. The Red Cross has been called to assist.APARTMENT FIRE#TucsonFire has controlled an apartment fire at the Woods Apartments in the 1900 block of W. Valencia. One victim suffered minor burns, and the residents from
  
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