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• Powell says economy growing rapidly, inflation up ‘notably’

  21-06-2021 23:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says the economy is growing at a healthy clip, and that has accelerated inflation. Still, in written testimony to be delivered at a Congressional oversight hearing Tuesday, Powell reiterated his view that inflation’s recent jump to a 13-year high would prove temporary. Powell’s remarks follow a meeting of the Fed’s policymaking committee last week, when central bank officials signaled they were prepared to raise rates
  
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• Florida man wraps up his own defense in double-murder trial

  21-06-2021 23:56
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A double-murder defendant in Florida who represented himself has wrapped up his case. The jury began deliberating Ronnie Oneal’s fate on Monday. During his closing arguments, O’Neal shouted at jurors and prosecutors, while acknowledging he killed his then-girlfriend. He has denied killing his disabled daughter and attempting to kill his son. The defendant is accusing the state of manipulating call logs and recordings for the night of the March 2018 killings.
  
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• Hot-hitting Stanford sends Arizona packing with 14-5 CWS win

  21-06-2021 23:51
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Brock Jones homered, doubled and drove in five runs to lead one of Stanford’s most productive offensive performances of the season in a 14-5 victory over Arizona in a College World Series elimination game. The Cardinal got their bats cranked up again after losing here to North Carolina State on Saturday. They also got payback for the 20-2 beatdown they took from their Pac-12 rival May 8. Stanford led 10-0 in the fourth inning and tacked on four more runs in the sev
  
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• Chicago cop who owns house where 5 killed disciplined

  21-06-2021 23:51
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s police superintendent says his decision to strip an officer’s police powers was tied in part to the officer’s ownership of a house on the city’s South Side where gunmen killed five people and injured three others. But Superintendent David Brown would not elaborate on why such a drastic step was taken against Enrique Badillo Sr. for his ownership of a building. He said there were “multiple reasons” for the action, which he linked
  
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• Witness describes panic, chaos at fatal Florida Pride parade

  21-06-2021 23:36
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A witness is describing the terror at the South Florida Pride parade that turned deadly when a member of a local gay choir accidentally slammed his truck into two fellow choristers, killing one and injuring another. Wilton Manors police and city officials have said it was a tragic accident. Authorities say the 77-year-old driver is traumatized, along with the 25-member ensemble, and is cooperating with the investigation. Witness Michael Albetta described the pa
  
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• Officer who owns house where shooting occurred disciplined

  21-06-2021 23:27
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s police superintendent says his decision to strip an officer’s police powers was tied in part to the officer’s ownership of a house on the city’s South Side where gunmen killed five people and injured three others. But Superintendent David Brown would not elaborate on why such a drastic step was taken against Enrique Badillo Sr. for his ownership of a building. He said there were “multiple reasons” for the action, which he linked
  
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• Arizona feeling brunt of wildfire activity across US West

  21-06-2021 23:27
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Dozens of wildfires are burning in hot, dry conditions across the U.S. West, including a blaze touched off by lightning that was moving toward northern Arizona’s largest city. The mountainous town of Flagstaff was shrouded in smoke Monday. The national forest surrounding it announced a full closure set to begin later this week _ the first time that has happened since 2006. Wildfire resources were shifting quickly to handle the biggest, most complex blazes arou
  
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• 1 officer hurt, 1 man killed in shooting in Denver suburb

  21-06-2021 23:27
  
  DENVER (AP) — Authorities say shots fired between two men and police officers at a shopping district in a Denver suburb left one person dead and at least one officer injured. Arvada police Detective David Snelling said Monday that a suspect died at the scene and a second suspect was taken to a hospital by ambulance. The officer’s condition wasn’t immediately known. The shooting occurred in Olde Town Arvada, the city’s downtown district with shops, restaurants, breweries a
  
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• The Latest: Companies boost vaccine rollout in Japan

  21-06-2021 23:08
  
  TOKYO — Thousands of Japanese companies began distributing COVID-19 vaccines to workers and their families Monday in an employer-led drive reaching more than 13 million people that aims to rev up the nation’s slow vaccine rollout.
  About 3,500 companies have signed up for the free vaccines, and that number is growing. The companies must present a plan to inoculate at least 1,000 people per site. But they decide whom to include, such as families, affiliate companies and suppliers.
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• Denmark beats Russia 4-1 to advance at Euro 2020

  21-06-2021 23:01
  
  COPENHAGEN (AP) — Denmark finally has a reason to celebrate at the European Championship. Andreas Christensen and Joakim Maehle scored late goals to give Denmark a 4-1 victory over Russia and a spot in the round of 16. Denmark finished second in Group B after Belgium beat Finland 2-0 in St. Petersburg. Denmark players finally celebrated in front of their raucous and jubilant supporters at Parken Stadium after the third and final home game of the tournament.The post Denmark beats Russia 4-1
  
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• 1 officer hurt in shooting in Denver suburb

  21-06-2021 23:00
  
  DENVER (AP) — Police are responding to a shooting in a Denver suburb that authorities said injured an officer. The Arvada Police Department’s tweets Monday didn’t provide details about the officer’s condition or if anyone else was injured. Police described it as an active situation and urged people to stay away. The shooting occurred in Olde Town Arvada, the city’s downtown district with an array of shops, restaurants, breweries and other businesses. While there are
  
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• Paid in full? Biden, GOP struggle over infrastructure costs

  21-06-2021 22:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional negotiators and the White House appear open to striking a roughly $1 trillion deal on infrastructure, but they are struggling with the hard part — deciding who will pay for it. As President Joe Biden jumps back into the talks this week, the question of where the money will come from looms large. And time is running short to solve it. Republicans are opposed to increasing taxes on corporations and the White House is opposed to letting the gas tax rise a
  
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• USVI oil refinery to shutter indefinitely amid violations

  21-06-2021 22:42
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An oil refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands that contaminated the environment in a series of events that forced schools to close and sickened dozens of residents has announced it would remain shuttered indefinitely.Limetree Bay Energy said Monday it would lay off more than 270 workers by September because it faced “severe financial constraints” after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency suspended its petroleum refining and processing operations l
  
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• Witness describes terror at deadly Florida Pride parade

  21-06-2021 22:37
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A witness is describing the terror at the South Florida Pride parade that turned deadly when a member of a local gay choir accidentally slammed his truck into two fellow choristers, killing one and injuring another. Wilton Manors police and city officials have said it was a tragic accident. Authorities say the 77-year-old driver is traumatized, along with the 25-member ensemble, and is cooperating with the investigation. Witness Michael Albetta described the pa
  
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• Youth home exec says ‘words cannot explain’ Alabama crash

  21-06-2021 22:32
  
  CAMP HILL, Ala. (AP) — The chief executive of a Christian youth home in rural Alabama says the community is working toward healing after eight of its children were killed in a fiery crash during the rains of Tropical Storm Claudette. Michael Smith said Monday that the Gulf Coast trip bad been a highlight for the girls in otherwise tough times. Two of the ranch director’s children, four residents and two guests were among the dead in the Saturday crash that killed 10 people on Saturda
  
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• Mexico president to investigate border shooting of innocents

  21-06-2021 22:30
  
  CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s president is vowing to investigate the border shootings that left 19 dead. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday that evidence indicated that 15 of the victims were innocent bystanders. The other four dead were suspected gunmen, from a group that drove into the northern border city of Reynosa and opened fire indiscriminately.  Reynosa is located across the border from McAllen, Texas, and has been the scene of figh
  
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• In Senate vote, Biden sees ‘step forward’ for elections bill

  21-06-2021 22:29
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says the Senate’s work on an elections overhaul and changes offered by Sen. Joe Manchin are a “step forward.” But the Democrats’ priority legislation is still expected to be blocked Tuesday by a Republican filibuster. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden views the effort to protect elections and ensure the right to vote as “a fight of his presidency.” The Democrats will try to open debate Tuesda
  
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• Reporter – Nicole Costantino

  21-06-2021 22:25
  
  Nicole Costantino
  Nicole Costantino is a Multi-Media Journalist for News 4 Tucson.Nicole comes to News 4 Tucson from KOBI in Medford, Oregon where she was a multimedia journalist, weather forecaster, anchor and producer.
  Born and raised in the Valley of the Sun, Nicole graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University with a minor in meteorology.
  In college, Nicole was an anchor, weather forecaster and reporter for KAET in Phoenix.She als
  
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• ‘World’s most premature’ baby celebrates 1st birthday

  21-06-2021 22:16
  
  CNN NewsourceRichard Scott William Hutchinson
  St. Paul, MN (CNN) - A baby who was born so premature he was given a zero percent chance of survival recently celebrated his first birthday.
  Richard Scott William Hutchinson was born five months prematurely, weighing in at less than a pound.
  At just 21 weeks gestation, the Guinness Book of Records has recognized him as the world's most premature baby.Richard was so small his parents could hold him in the palm of their hand.
  Due to the pandemic, his
  
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• St. Louis city and county sue to block new Missouri gun law

  21-06-2021 22:10
  
  O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis and adjoining St. Louis County have filed a lawsuit seeking to block Missouri’s new law barring state and local authorities from enforcing federal gun laws. The suit filed Monday argues that the Republican-backed law would increase the risk of gun violence. It seeks an injunction to halt enforcement of the law and to overturn it on the grounds that it violates the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, which established that federal law trumps sta
  
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• Judge weighs whether to dismiss Georgia ballot review case

  21-06-2021 22:01
  
  McDONOUGH, Ga. (AP) — A judge is weighing whether to dismiss claims brought by a group of voters who allege that fraud during the November general election in Georgia’s most populous county resulted in the violation of their constitutional rights. He didn’t rule after a hearing on motions to dismiss Monday but said he plans to rule soon. The lawsuit alleges there’s evidence of fraudulent ballots and improper ballot counting in Fulton County. As part of the suit, the nine
  
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• Body of California teenager is recovered from Lake Havasu

  21-06-2021 21:48
  
  LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities have recovered the body of a California teenager who apparently drowned in Lake Havasu. Mohave County Sheriff’s officials said the body of 16-year-old Isaiah Benz of Canoga Park was located around 10 a.m. Monday on the bottom in the lake’s South Basin in about 35 feet of water. Search teams used divers and sonar technology to look for the teen Sunday but had to call off the effort at night fall. Authorities said Benz was part of a grou
  
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• Driver who rammed bicyclists in Arizona race has DUI history

  21-06-2021 21:46
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona man authorities identified as the driver who plowed his pickup truck into a group of bicyclists at a weekend race has a criminal history of driving while intoxicated. Police say Shawn Michael Chock fled the crash Saturday in the mountain town of Show Low and was shot by police as they chased him. Online court records show the 35-year-old was charged in Phoenix in 2007 and 2010 with driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, assault and other offenses. Chock
  
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• Worcester man charged with ID theft to buy luxury car

  21-06-2021 21:42
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man is suspected of stealing the identities of two people in an attempt to buy an $83,000 car. Federal prosecutors said Monday that 27-year-old Brandon Brouillard, of Worcester, was indicted last week on bank fraud and aggravated identity theft charges. He faces arraignment Tuesday. Prosecutors say he used the identity of a New Hampshire resident to buy an $83,000 Chevrolet Camaro in April. When that deal fell through, prosecutors said he tried to use money fr
  
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• Writer says opposition should sit out Nicaragua elections

  21-06-2021 21:40
  
  MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Writer and former Nicaraguan Vice President Sergio Ramírez says that there is “zero possibility” of holding free elections in Nicaragua Nov. 7 and that opposition forces who participate would only be “legitimizing” President Daniel Ortega’s re-election. The writer’s comments came Monday, shortly after Mexico and Argentina recalled their ambassadors to Nicaragua for consultations, a day after Ortega’s government arre
  
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• Biden White House launches public push for child tax credit

  21-06-2021 21:36
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is working to raise awareness of the federal government’s new expanded child tax credit. The credit will start paying out monthly in July to families with children who are 17 years old and younger. Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at a recreation center in Pittsburgh on Monday as part of a broader push for the program in partnership with churches, schools and other organizations. The administration has launched a website at childtaxcredit.gov with
  
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• NASA sends squid from Hawaii into space for research

  21-06-2021 21:27
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — Dozens of baby squid from Hawaii are in space for study. The baby Hawaiian bobtail squid were raised at the University of Hawaii’s Kewalo Marine Laboratory. They were sent into space earlier this month on a SpaceX resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports researcher Jamie Foster is studying how spaceflight affects the squid in hopes of bolstering human health during long space missions. The squid have a symbiotic relatio
  
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• Arizona reports 384 new COVID-19 cases, no additional deaths

  21-06-2021 21:25
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Health officials in Arizona on Monday reported 384 new cases of COVID-19, but no additional deaths. They say the state now has recorded 890,111 known cases of the disease since the pandemic started more than a year ago. The total of coronavirus-related death remains at 17,843. Nearly 6.3 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered with almost 3.5 million Arizonans _ 48.8% of the state’s population _ having received at least one shot. State health offic
  
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• AP source: Harden commits to US Olympic men’s team for Tokyo

  21-06-2021 21:20
  
  James Harden has committed to playing for U.S. men’s national basketball team that will play in the Olympics that begin next month, says a person familiar with the situation. The men’s roster is getting closer to filled, with Miami’s Bam Adebayo also informing USA Basketball of his intention to play in the Tokyo Games. The eight commitments, for now: Adebayo, Harden, Brooklyn’s Kevin Durant, Golden State’s Draymond Green, Washington’s Bradley Beal, Boston&rsqu
  
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• Suspect in Iowa deputy’s shooting arrested after manhunt

  21-06-2021 21:03
  
  COGGON, Iowa (AP) — A sheriff says a Chicago man who allegedly shot and wounded a sheriff’s deputy during an armed robbery at an Iowa gas station and then evaded an extensive manhunt for hours has been arrested. Linn County Sheriff Brian Gardner identified the suspected shooter as 36-year-old Stanley Donahue. His office announced on its Twitter account Monday afternoon that Donahue had been taken into custody without further violence, and that additional details would soon be release
  
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• Wall Street snaps back following worst week since February

  21-06-2021 20:47
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are rebounding on Wall Street Monday and clawing back most of their sharp loss from last week. The S&P 500 snapped 1.3% higher in afternoon trading as the initial jolt passes from the Federal Reserve’s reminder that it will eventually offer less help for markets. Oil producers, banks and other companies that were hit particularly hard last week were making the biggest gains. High-growth tech stocks lagged. Shorter-term yields fell, and longer-term yields ro
  
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• The Latest: Turkey eases virus restrictions as cases decline

  21-06-2021 20:45
  
  ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced a further easing of coronavirus restrictions, as the number of infections continue to decline and the country’s vaccination program gains momentum.
  Speaking after a Cabinet meeting on Monday, Erdogan said that as of July 1, lockdowns imposed on Sundays and nighttime curfews would be lifted, while public and private sector workers would return to their normal working hours.
  Restrictions on public transport and inter
  
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• Rainstorms bring relief as Europe suffers summer heat wave

  21-06-2021 20:37
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Thunderstorms have brought a much-needed cooldown to parts of Western Europe over the weekend after the continent sweltered under its first summer heat wave. Dozens of people drowned in Europe in the last week trying to seek relief in pools, lakes and rivers. Forecasters predicted further downpours Monday moving east toward Poland, which has seen five days of unusually hot weather. Germany’s national weather service said temperatures in the west and north dropped from o
  
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• Arizona shelter battles to stretch resources for pets forced to evacuate from wildfires

  21-06-2021 20:37
  
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  PHOENIX (CNN) - A shelter in Arizona is helping keep family pets safe for evacuees having to leave their homes because of the Backbone Fire.As crews fight the raging Backbone Fire, there is now a safe haven for people fleeing the area to bring their pets."Our response team deployed today to Payson," Bretta Nelson of Arizona Humane Society said.The Arizona Humane Society set up a temporary animal shelter at Rim Country Middle School in Payson.A team of six is there taking in cats a
  
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• Heat a factor in death of Ohio resident at Grand Canyon

  21-06-2021 20:32
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An Ohio resident on a backpacking trip at the Grand Canyon has died of a suspected heat-related illness. Park officials said Monday that 53-year-old Michelle Meder died over the weekend while hiking down a rocky, strenuous trail amid a heat wave. They say Meder became disoriented and later unconscious. The park is working with the local medical examiner’s office on an exact cause of death. The U.S. West has been enduring a heat wave with triple-digit temperatu
  
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• Erdogan says Turkey and US entering ‘new era’ of relations

  21-06-2021 20:29
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish president says Turkey and the United States are now entering a “new era” in ties, after the allies’ relationship deteriorated in recent years over an array of issues. Speaking after a Cabinet meeting on Monday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan however, called for U.S. respect for Turkey’s sovereign rights — in an apparent reference to its decision to purchase a Russian weapons system — as well as support for Ankara’s fight aga
  
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• Judge delays charging decision for Wisconsin officer

  21-06-2021 20:27
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — A judge has delayed his decision on whether to charge a Wisconsin police officer who killed a man sitting in a parked car. Joseph Mensah shot Jay Anderson Jr. in 2016. Anderson was the second of three people Mensah killed during a five-year stint with the Wauwatosa Police Department. Prosecutors cleared him of any criminal wrongdoing in each case. Anderson’s family invoked a rarely used grand jury-like proceeding that has led to Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Glenn Y
  
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• 6 cyclists still in critical condition after being hit by truck in Arizona, police say

  21-06-2021 20:26
  
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  SHOW LOW, Ariz. (KPNX) — Six bicyclists over the age of 55 remain in critical condition after being hit by a truck during an annual benefit event in Show Low on Saturday, the city's police department said.A Black Super Duty Ford F150 hit multiple bicyclists near the westbound lanes of Highway 60 in front of Horne Auto Collision Center before driving away from the scene, authorities said. The incident happened during the Master Men 55 years and older category of an annual "Bike the
  
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• Brazil sees thousands of young children dying from COVID-19

  21-06-2021 20:21
  
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  BRASÍLIA (CNN) - The COVID-19 crisis in Brazil has yielded a troubling trend; an alarming number of deaths in kids and adolescents.Brazil recently reached half a million COVID-19 deaths, which is second only to the U.S.Experts are warning that number is quickly rising, and one research group says close to 3,000 of those deaths were children under the age of 10.Little Sarah Gois was born this January in Brazil in the midst of a ravaging pandemic.Her 22-year old mother, natur
  
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• Donaldson bids to lead N. Ireland’s biggest unionist party

  21-06-2021 20:20
  
  LONDON (AP) — Jeffrey Donaldson has confirmed that he will stand again for the leadership of the Democratic Unionist Party, just five weeks after narrowly losing the election to become leader of the senior party in Northern Ireland’s government. Donaldson, who is a lawmaker in the U.K. parliament in London, is not expected to be opposed following last month’s bruising party leadership contest that led to arguably the biggest crisis in the history of the DUP. The winner of that
  
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• Police seek Chicago man in shooting of Iowa sheriff’s deputy

  21-06-2021 20:13
  
  COGGON, Iowa (AP) — State and federal authorities are searching for a Chicago man who allegedly shot and wounded a sheriff’s deputy during an armed robbery at a gas station in rural eastern Iowa. Linn County Sheriff Brian Gardner identified the suspected shooter as 36-year-old Stanley Donahue, and said that he hoped Donahue would surrender to authorities so that the situation can be peacefully resolved. Gardner says the deputy is hospitalized in stable condition with serious injuries
  
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• Vaccine technology transfer center to open in South Africa

  21-06-2021 20:12
  
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization says the U.N. organization is in talks to create the first-ever technology transfer hub for coronavirus vaccines in South Africa, a move to boost supply to the continent desperately in need of COVID-19 jabs. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a virtual press briefing Monday that the newly formed consortium, will make vaccines that use a genetic code of the spike protein, known as mRNA vaccines, and train oth
  
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• Tucson Fire deploys 4-person crew to help contain Backbone Fire

  21-06-2021 20:05
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Tucson's fire department has sent Brush 22 and a four-person crew to help contain the Backbone Fire west of Strawberry.
  The fire ignited by lightning on June 16, closing the famed Fossil Creek Recreation area and all Tonto, Coconino and Prescott National Forest lands, roads and trails in the area.
  Tucson Fire Department says Mike Reichling, the Fire Marshal and head of the Southwest Incident Management Team, is calling this fire a “top priority fire for the United States.&r
  
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• Serbia and Montenegro clash over 1995 Srebrenica massacre

  21-06-2021 20:03
  
  BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia and Montenegro have clashed over Belgrade’s denial that genocide happened in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica during the Balkan war, further straining relations between the two former close allies. Montenegro’s parliament last week adopted a resolution on the 1995 massacre of about 8,000 Bosniak men and boys in Srebrenica by Bosnian Serb troops that has been branded genocide by a U.N. war crimes court.  Montenegro’s resolution banned p
  
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• Police ID driver who rammed bike riders during Arizona race

  21-06-2021 19:57
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities have identified the man accused of plowing his pickup truck into a group of bicyclists in a weekend race in an Arizona mountain town as a resident of a nearby community. Show Low police said Monday that 35-year-old Shawn Michael Chock of White Mountain Lakes is still hospitalized in stable condition after police shot him. Chock is accused of speeding his truck into bike racers gathered Saturday in Show Low. Witnesses described seeing bodies of cyclists flying lef
  
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• After causing 14 deaths, Claudette heads out to sea

  21-06-2021 19:52
  
  CAMP HILL, Ala. (AP) — Claudette has returned to tropical storm strength and headed out to sea off the North Carolina coast. The system had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph Monday morning, less than two days after moving through Alabama, where it was blamed for 14 deaths. A highway crash killed eight children who were riding in a van for a youth home for abused or neglected kids. The wreck also claimed the lives of a Tennessee man and his infant daughter. Separately, a tree fell on a home
  
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• Armani shows off scar from arm fracture in recent fall

  21-06-2021 19:47
  
  MILAN (AP) — Giorgio Armani has told reporters that he spent two weeks in the hospital after fracturing his arm in a fall coming out of a movie theater. The 86-year-old designer closed Milan Fashion Week with a menswear show in the garden of his original atelier in the center of Milan, in the same building where he lives. Armani recounted that two people were blocking the steps outside the theater, and he missed a step, falling to the ground. He showed off a long scar Monday where he had 1
  
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• Angelina Jolie visits Burkina Faso as U.N. Special Envoy

  21-06-2021 19:35
  
  GOUDOUBO, Burkina Faso (AP) — Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has visited war-weakened Burkina Faso to show solidarity with people who continue to welcome the displaced, despite grappling with their own insecurity, and said the world isn’t doing enough to help. As Special Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Jolie marked World Refugee day on Sunday in Burkina Faso’s Goudoubo refugee camp in the Sahel. While Burkina Faso has been battling a five-year Isla
  
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• Tortillas thrown at team from Latino California school

  21-06-2021 19:29
  
  CORONADO, Calif. (AP) — A San Diego-area school district has apologized for an incident in which tortillas were hurled at a basketball team from a mostly Latino high school after a championship game. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that the tortillas were thrown at players from Orange Glen High after they lost a hard-fought game to a team from mostly white Coronado High School on Saturday. Coronado trustees said in a letter to Orange Glen that the incident was demeaning and they condem
  
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• Woman who shot at police killed by cop at Juneteenth event

  21-06-2021 19:19
  
  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a 19-year-old Michigan woman died after exchanging gunfire with a police officer who was controlling traffic near a weekend Juneteenth parade. The shooting occurred Saturday in Flint. State police say the Flint officer was fired upon by the lone occupant of a vehicle. The woman was identified as Briana Sykes. No one else was injured. A Flint resident, Keith Lewis, says the shooting was shocking on a day that commemorates the end of slavery. Lewis says, &
  
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