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• The Latest: Hawaii detects community spread of delta variant

  22-06-2021 23:57
  
  HONOLULU — Hawaii health officials say there is community spread of the COVID-19 delta variant, which was first detected in India.Two cases on Oahu and one on the Big Island involve travel from the U.S. mainland. One case involves an Oahu resident with no travel history. The state Department of Health said it is “investigating to determine the extent of household and community transmission.”Acting State Epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Kemble said of the four cases, only one person was
  
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• Western wildfires force evacuations, shut down recreation

  22-06-2021 23:53
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A wildfire in northern Arizona crept closer to the region’s largest city, threatening to force people from their homes. The fire was one of dozens that have scorched large swaths of the U.S. West. The weather has been unrelenting lately, with hot and dry conditions combining with wind to fuel wildfires. The preparedness level for wildfire activity nationally was bumped up Tuesday to reflect more demand for firefighting resources. More large wildfires were burn
  
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• Portland police halt minor traffic stops, citing disparity

  22-06-2021 23:53
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police in Oregon’s largest city are being advised to no longer pursue drivers for low-level traffic infractions — including expired plates and broken headlights — unless related to an immediate safety threat. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler also announced on Tuesday that addition, if police do stop a driver then they must receive recorded consent before searching the vehicle and clearly inform the person that they have the right to refuse. Wheeler said bo
  
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• Chunk, dog missing for 2 weeks, retrieved safe from bay

  22-06-2021 23:53
  
  BARNEGAT, N.J. (AP) — A golden retriever who had been missing for two weeks was rescued Tuesday from a bay in New Jersey. Authorities say that New Jersey State Police troopers Ryan Koehler and Vincent Ferdinandi, of Point Pleasant Station, responded to the report of a dog swimming in Barnegat Bay and were able to bring the 3-year-old named Chunk safely ashore. WABC-TV reports that two joggers recognized Chunk from posters and reported seeing him jump into the water near Mantoloking Bridge
  
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• UN urges world to push Afghanistan from battlefield to talks

  22-06-2021 23:43
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N.’s top envoy for Afghanistan is urging the international community to do everything possible to push the Taliban and the government from the battlefield back to the negotiating table. Deborah Lyons warned that “inertia” and the lack of action might lead to more bloodshed and conflict. She told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that she cannot overstate her concern at the current situation. Lyons said every major trend — politics, sec
  
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• 2 men who targeted wrong truck charged in 2-year-old’s death

  22-06-2021 23:42
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Two young men have been charged with murder in the death of a 2-year-old boy. He was riding with his family when their pickup truck was hit with gunfire last week on Interstate 75. Investigators say the truck was misidentified by Darius Lanier and Eugene Hubbard, who are charged with murder and other crimes. Brison Christian was killed, and a 9-year-old brother, BJ, was injured. They were riding home to Dearborn with their parents after a basketball practice last Thursday. P
  
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• ‘Time to play’: Michigan reopens 15 months after pandemic

  22-06-2021 23:33
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Michigan is fully open again. After facing 15 months of capacity restrictions and being hit by the country’s worst surge of coronavirus infections this spring, restaurants, entertainment businesses and other venues can operate at 100% occupancy starting Tuesday. Limits on indoor gatherings like weddings and funerals are gone. So is a broad requirement that the unvaccinated be masked indoors. Michigan is among the last states to lift capacity caps, which has frustrated
  
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• Texas governor orders special session, but doesn’t say why

  22-06-2021 23:26
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is ordering lawmakers back to work in July. The announcement Tuesday raises expectations of another attempt to pass new voting restrictions after Democrats blocked the GOP’s first try with a dramatic late-night walkout in May. But Abbott didn’t reveal why he was ordering a special legislative session session starting July 8. His office instead only released a two-sentence announcement that said an agenda would come later.&n
  
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• Michigan county seeks vote recount sought by Trump backers

  22-06-2021 23:24
  
  CHEBOYGAN, Mich. (AP) — A rural county in northern Michigan wants an audit of its 2020 presidential election results. The Cheboygan County Board of Commissioners voted 4-3 Tuesday to seek the state’s permission to recount the ballots and hire an outside firm to examine its voting equipment for signs of manipulation. President Donald Trump carried the county with 64% of the vote last November. But Joe Biden won statewide. The push for an audit is similar to efforts by Trump supporters
  
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• US gives more asylum-seekers waiting in Mexico another shot

  22-06-2021 23:23
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. Homeland Security Department says thousands of asylum-seekers whose claims were dismissed or denied under a Trump administration policy that forced them to wait in Mexico for their court hearings will be allowed to return for another chance at humanitarian protection. The Associated Press has learned that registration begins Wednesday for asylum-seekers who were subject to the “Remain in Mexico” policy and either had their cases dismissed or denied for
  
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• US says it will give another chance to thousands denied asylum under Trump-era policy that forced them to wait in Mexico

  22-06-2021 23:14
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — US says it will give another chance to thousands denied asylum under Trump-era policy that forced them to wait in Mexico.The post US says it will give another chance to thousands denied asylum under Trump-era policy that forced them to wait in Mexico appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Louisiana governor vetoes transgender sports ban proposal

  22-06-2021 23:12
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards has struck down a bill prohibiting transgender athletes from competing on girls’ sports teams in Louisiana schools. The decision pushes back against legislation that has passed several Southern states. Tuesday’s veto from the Democratic governor was expected, since Edwards repeatedly called the measure discriminatory. Bill backers said they were trying to protect female athletes from unfair competition. Edwards noted they couldn&rsq
  
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• 15 GOP governors urge release of Census redistricting data

  22-06-2021 23:07
  
  Fifteen Republican governors have sent a letter to the U.S. Commerce Secretary, urging that the U.S. Census bureau release redistricting data as soon as possible. Tuesday’s letter to Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo says the governors recognize difficulties associated with completing the decennial Census during the coronavirus pandemic, which has postponed release of redistricting data until mid-August. But the letter also says the ongoing delay puts states “in a nearly impossible
  
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• Walnut Fire closes I-10 near Willcox

  22-06-2021 22:57
  
  Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire ManagementWILLCOX, Ariz. (KVOA) - Interstate 10 is closed in both directions near Willcox due to the Walnut Fire, the Arizona Department of Transportation said Tuesday afternoon.Westbound lanes are closed at milepost 331 at US 191 and traffic is being diverted onto US 191.Eastbound lanes are closed at milepost 321 near East Dragoon Road.The Texas Canyon Rest Area near milepost 321 is also closed.There is no estimated time for reopening the highway. Motori
  
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• Man pleads guilty to threatening candidates Biden, Harris

  22-06-2021 22:55
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — A Maryland man has pleaded guilty in federal court to threatening now-President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris before last year’s election. The U.S. attorney’s office announced in a news release that James Reed of Frederick pleaded guilty Tuesday to the federal charge of threats to a major candidate for president or vice president. He was convicted of related state charges. According to Reed’s plea, a door camera at a home with signs supportin
  
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• US wildfire officials see increasing demand for firefighters

  22-06-2021 22:50
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. wildfire officials expecting increased fire activity and more demand for firefighters have raised the national preparedness to the level 4, which is unusual for June. The National Interagency Fire Center raised the level on Tuesday and says it’s the second earliest it reached that level on the 1-5 scale since 1990. It’s also only the fourth time in the last 20 years to reach that level in June. Officials say more than 8,700 wildland firefighters are cur
  
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• Biden urges shots for young adults as variant concern grows

  22-06-2021 22:48
  
  Anthony Fauci - American physician-scientist and immunologist who serves as the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Photo Date: March 31, 2020
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is stepping up efforts to get younger Americans vaccinated for COVID-19 amid growing concern about the spread of a new variant that threatens to set the country back in the months ahead. It also comes as the White House acknowledges it will miss two key vaccination benchm
  
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• Pima County offers financial assistance for children to attend preschool

  22-06-2021 22:43
  
  PIMA COUNTY, Ariz. (KVOA) - Families in Pima County may qualify to get financial assistance for children to attend preschool.According to the county, the Pima Early Education Program Scholarships, or PEEPs, are meant to help economically disadvantaged families.In May, the Board of Supervisors approved a plan to allocate up to $10 million in county funds and nearly $3 million from cities, towns and other partners. The county says the plan will assist families of 1,245 children with preschool cos
  
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• US to review dark history of Indigenous boarding schools

  22-06-2021 22:42
  
  U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is launching an inquiry into her agency’s past oversight of the federal government’s boarding school program for Indigenous children. Haaland told tribal leaders from across the nation during a virtual address Tuesday that the investigation will focus on compiling and reviewing decades of records to better understand the loss of life at the schools while they were in operation. She said the process will be long and difficult and won’t undo th
  
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• Gunmen kill 11 police officers in Burkina Faso; 4 missing

  22-06-2021 22:39
  
  OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Authorities in Burkina Faso say at least 11 police officers are dead and four others are missing after they were ambushed by gunmen. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Monday’s attack in Burkina Faso, where attacks by Islamic extremists are escalating.  The ambush is the deadliest attack on police since the insurgency began in the West African nation. Only seven police officers are known to have survived the ambush, authorities sa
  
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• Biden pushes effort to combat rising tide of violent crime

  22-06-2021 22:30
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to announce a partnership between federal law enforcement and local police to help combat a rising tide of violent crime. The effort is aimed at building on his administration’s gun control efforts so far and is to including new strike forces to tackle gun trafficking. But the president is trying to strike a delicate political balance, expressing concern for a very real increase in violent crime like murders, shootings and assaults, w
  
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• US takes down Iran-linked news sites, alleges disinformation

  22-06-2021 22:26
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — American authorities have taken down a range of Iran’s state-linked news websites they accuse of spreading “disinformation.” The move Tuesday appears to be a far-reaching crackdown on Iranian media amid heightened tensions between the two countries. A U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the case had not yet been officially announced by the American government, said the U.S. had seized roughly three dozen websites,
  
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• Iowa court blocks mandatory waiting period for abortion

  22-06-2021 22:26
  
  An Iowa judge has blocked a state law that would have imposed a 24-hour waiting period before women could get abortions, likely setting up a legal battle before the state Supreme Court. Judge Mitchell Turner ruled Monday that because legislators passed the law last year as an amendment to an unrelated bill, it violated the Iowa Constitution’s single-subject rule, which requires amendments and bills to naturally relate to one another. Furthermore, he found that the law also ran afoul of a 2
  
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• Wall Street rises, pushing S&P 500 back near record high

  22-06-2021 22:11
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks finished higher on Wall Street Tuesday, nudging the S&P 500 closer to the record high it reached last week. The benchmark index added 0.5%. The Nasdaq did a bit better, climbing 0.8%, with an assist from gains in several big technology stocks. Markets were relatively calm through the Congressional testimony of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who said he expects recent increases in inflation to subside soon. Consumer prices jumped 5% in May compared with a ye
  
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• DC statehood facing long odds in the Senate

  22-06-2021 22:05
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill that would make Washington, D.C., the 51st state has begun working its way through the Senate. Even though the prospects are dim, proponents of statehood are vowing to keep pushing. Mayor Muriel Bowser told a Senate committee on Tuesday that “We will not quit until we achieve full democracy. … We will keep pushing until D.C.’s tragic disenfranchisement is rectified.” Republicans, however, are dismissing the bill as a cynical Democratic powe
  
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• Vehicle sought after 50-year-old found dead on south side

  22-06-2021 21:58
  
  Tucson Police DepartmentInformation is wanted on the vehicle above, a tan 2002 Chevy Tahoe with Arizona license plate CCF-1386. Anyone with information is asked to call 88-CRIME.
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Police on Tuesday identified the victim in last week's homicide on Tucson's south side as a 50-year-old man.
  On June 14, police responded to the intersection of S. Greasewood Rd. and W. Sand Juan Trail for a report of an unresponsive male lying on the side of the road.Ramon Ramirez Gastelum was pronounc
  
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• Fed’s Powell says high inflation temporary, will ‘wane’

  22-06-2021 21:57
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that he expects recent price spikes will soon subside and reduce inflation to a sustainable level. Consumer prices jumped 5% in May compared with a year earlier, the largest increase in 13 years. Powell said in prepared testimony that the increase mostly reflected temporary supply bottlenecks, and the fact that prices fell sharply last spring at the onset of the pandemic, which make inflation figures now, compared with a ye
  
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• Rescued sea turtles: some to be released, some still sick

  22-06-2021 21:55
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Mississippi Aquarium plans to release seven endangered sea turtles this week. Meanwhile, other institutions in Louisiana and Mississippi are still treating turtles rescued in the fall from frigid New England waters. News outlets in Mississippi report that the aquarium in Gulfport plans to release its final group of seven on Thursday. The head of the Institute for Marine Mammal Study,  which is also in Gulfport, says 10 or 12 turtles are being treated there. Thre
  
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• Some used vehicles now cost more than original sticker price

  22-06-2021 21:51
  
  DETROIT (AP) — High demand and low supply have driven up used vehicle prices so much that many are now selling for more than their original sticker price when they were new. The auto research firm Black Book found 73 models of 1- to-3-year-old vehicles with prices higher than the original sticker, even though they’re used. It’s all because of factory shutdowns last year at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and a worldwide shortage of computer chips that have forced auto pro
  
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• US seizes Iranian news sites under unclear circumstances

  22-06-2021 21:47
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — American authorities have taken down a range of Iran’s state-linked news websites under unclear circumstances. The move Tuesday appeared to be a rare and far-reaching crackdown on Iranian media amid heightened tensions between the two countries. An American official says the U.S. seized roughly three dozen websites, the majority of which are linked to Iranian disinformation efforts. Iranian state-run news agency IRNA announced the U.S. government se
  
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• Tucson Metro Chamber: Nominate a small business, non-profit for the Copper Cactus Awards

  22-06-2021 21:45
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - Tucson Metro Chamber announced two new categories for this year’s Copper Cactus Awards.
  Pima Community College will sponsor Employer/Employee Development and DPR Constructions will sponsor Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
  Champion.To nominate a Southern Arizona small business or charitable non-profit business visit TucsonChamber.org/Copper-Cactus-Awards. The nomination deadline is July 12.The Copper Cactus Awards will be at Casino Del Sol Resort on Oct. 1 from 6 to 10 p.m.
  
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• US appeals court ruling setback for St. Louis-area pipeline

  22-06-2021 21:44
  
  A federal appeals court panel has struck down the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval of a natural gas pipeline that runs through parts of Missouri and Illinois. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Tuesday that the commission “failed to adequately balance public benefits and adverse impacts” in approving the Spire STL Pipeline. The court also says the commission failed to prove that the line was really needed.
  
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• Dragoon rest area closed as Walnut Fire progresses toward I-10

  22-06-2021 21:44
  
  Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire ManagementDRAGOON, Ariz. (KVOA) - A wildfire burning in Cochise County has prompted the closure of a few rest areas on westbound Interstate 10 near Dragoon after the fire progressed toward the highway Tuesday morning.According to an update released by the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management at 8:52 a.m. Tuesday, the Walnut Fire has grown to 2,500 acres with zero percent contained.
  Extreme temps & winds cont. to push #WalnutFire's growth
  
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• Opera singer says Paris police detained, strip searched her

  22-06-2021 21:36
  
  PARIS (AP) — South African opera star Pretty Yende says she was detained by French authorities, strip searched and held in a dark room at Paris’ main airport after arriving this week for a starring role at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. Yende, who is Black flew into the city on Monday where she said she was subjected to “ill-treatment and outrageous racial discrimination and psychological torture and very offensive racial comments.” A French official told The Associated
  
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• House Democrats don’t show up, blocking Arizona budget vote

  22-06-2021 21:32
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona House Democrats have delayed passage of a state budget including a major tax cut primarily benefitting the wealthy. All but one Democrat stayed away from the Capitol Tuesday as the House was scheduled to debate and pass the budget. That left the House short of the quorum required to conduct business. House Republicans adjourned until Thursday, while the Senate pressed on the budget. House Democratic Leader Reginald Bolding says Democrats and the public need more time
  
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• Biden to ‘bring every resource’ to manage busy storm season

  22-06-2021 21:32
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says his administration needs to “bring every resource to bear” to deal with natural disasters as huge swaths of the country have endured a spurt of extreme weather just as the summer season is starting. Biden was briefed on preparedness Tuesday by officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and his homeland security adviser. Biden says he plans to meet next week with Western governors to discuss preparation for heat, drought and
  
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• Aid group halts work in migrant detention centers in Libya

  22-06-2021 21:30
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Aid group Doctors Without Borders says it is suspending activities in two overcrowded Libyan detention centers in Tripoli due to increased violence, abuse and ill treatment of migrants and refugees held there by Libyan authorities. Beatrice Lau, MSF’s head of mission in Libya, said in a statement Tuesday the decision was not an easy one to make. She says: “However, the persistent pattern of violent incidents and serious harm to refugees and migrants, as well as the
  
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• Migrant youth describe desperation to leave large shelters

  22-06-2021 21:28
  
  Over a dozen immigrant children have described poor conditions and desperation to get out of emergency facilities set up by the Biden administration to address a record rise in the number of children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. The accounts were filed late Monday with a federal court in Los Angeles that oversees a settlement governing custody conditions for migrant children. A 13-year-old girl says she ate only popsicles because the food smelled foul, and a 17-year-old girl says she had to
  
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• Thousands of kids still in HHS custody as President Biden considers ending another border policy

  22-06-2021 21:25
  
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  WASHINGTON DC (CNN) - The Biden administration is considering ending a policy that has turned away almost 650,000 migrants at the border.A health policy known as "Title 42" has given officials authority to turn migrants away since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.Immigration advocates say the policy has put migrants in harm's way by subjecting them to dangerous conditions in Mexico.The Biden administration has been identifying vulnerable migrant families in Mexico and allowing t
  
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• The Latest: Delta variant represents 20% of U.S. infections

  22-06-2021 21:21
  
  WASHINGTON — The so-called COVID-19 delta variant which was first detected in India now represents more than 20% of coronavirus infections in the U.S. in the last two weeks, or double what it was when the Centers for Disease Control last reported on the variant’s prevalence.
  Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, warned that the U.S. could be following the United Kingdom’s course, where the variant has become the dominant strain due to rapid spread
  
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• American Airlines cutting flights as summer season starts

  22-06-2021 21:20
  
  DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines is cutting flights to protect its network from getting overloaded as summer travel season arrives. American scrubbed more than 130 flights by Tuesday afternoon, according to tracking service FlightAware. An American Airlines spokeswoman says the cancellations will average 50 to 60 flights a day the rest of June and between 50 and 80 a day in the first half of July. That’s a little more than 1% of its schedule. American has fewer employees than before t
  
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• Infighting in Gulf cartel blamed for Mexico border killings

  22-06-2021 21:16
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The top prosecutor in Mexico’s border state of Tamaulipas says infighting between rival factions of the Gulf drug cartel was the apparent motive behind weekend shooting that killed 19 people, 15 of them apparently innocent bystanders. State prosecutor Irving Barrios told local media Tuesday that apparently two gangs which operate just outside the border city of Reynosa launched the attack Saturday to weaken the rival Metros faction. The Metros have long dominated R
  
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• Man dies after found lying in street with multiple gunshot wounds in Sierra Vista

  22-06-2021 21:13
  
  SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (KVOA) - The man who was found with multiple gunshot wounds in Sierra Vista Monday evening has died, according to a release shared by Sierra Vista Police Department Tuesday.Late Monday evening, 23-year-old Luis Armenta Rivas was found with lying in the street with gunshot wounds to his chest and neck in the 1400 block of Calle Ladero.After receiving some treatment, first responders transported Rivas to Canyon Vista Medical Center, where Rivas died shortly after arriving.Furth
  
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• Wembley capacity increased for Euro 2020 semifinals, final

  22-06-2021 21:12
  
  LONDON (AP) — The British government says more than 60,000 fans will be allowed into the semifinals and final of the European Championship at Wembley Stadium. No details have been provided yet on how fans from overseas can attend without having to quarantine after flying into London. The government had already agreed to increase the current group-stage capacity of about 22,000 to at least 40,000 for one game in the round of 16 game and the final three matches of the Euro 2020 tournament at
  
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• Veteran lawmaker to lead N. Ireland’s DUP after turmoil

  22-06-2021 20:56
  
  LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party has named veteran lawmaker Jeffrey Donaldson its new leader. The choice comes just weeks after Donaldson narrowly lost an election to lead the senior partner in Northern Ireland’s government. The party said that when nominations closed at noon Tuesday no one had come forward to challenge Donaldson, the sole candidate to replace Edwin Poots. Party chairman Maurice Morrow said the choice of Donaldson would be ratified by
  
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• Wrong-way driver crashes head-on into DPS vehicle on I-10 near Alvernon Way

  22-06-2021 20:48
  
  TUCSON (KVOA) - A man was arrested after he allegedly struck an Arizona Department of Public Safety patrol vehicle head-on on Interstate 10 near Alvernon Way Tuesday morning.According to DPS, the agency received several reports about a wrong-way driver traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 at around 4:39 a.m. that morning.Shortly after the reports, the wrong-way driver, later identified as 42-year-old Carlos Madril, reportedly crashed head-on into a trooper's vehicle at Alv
  
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• Fed’s Powell says high inflation temporary, will ‘abate’

  22-06-2021 20:47
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that he expects recent price spikes will soon subside and reduce inflation to a sustainable level. Consumer prices jumped 5% in May compared with a year earlier, the largest increase in 13 years. Powell said in prepared testimony that the increase mostly reflected temporary supply bottlenecks, and the fact that prices fell sharply last spring at the onset of the pandemic, which make inflation figures now, compared with a ye
  
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• Greek pilot jailed before trial over UK wife’s murder

  22-06-2021 20:37
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A helicopter pilot charged with the murder of his young British-Greek wife, Caroline Crouch, and faking a robbery has been jailed to await trial, while a prosecutor will decide on the custody of their infant daughter. Babis Anagnostopoulos, 33, testified for more than five hours before being led to prison, wearing a bulletproof vest and under heavy police guard. The pilot had claimed that armed robbers broke into their home at night, tying up and gagging him and his w
  
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• Dust Advisory from TUE 6:37 PM MST until TUE 8:30 PM MST

  22-06-2021 20:37
  
  Issued by National Weather Service – Phoenix, AZ
  Pinal County
  The National Weather Service in Phoenix has issued a
  * Dust Advisory for…Maricopa County in south central Arizona…Pinal County in southeastern Arizona…
  * Until 830 PM MST.
  * At 634 PM MST, an area of blowing dust was located across portionsof southeastern Maricopa and northern Pinal Counties.
  HAZARD…Less than one mile visibility with strong wind in excessof 40 mph.
  SOURCE…Doppler radar.
  IMPACT&
  
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• EU approves 191.5 billion euros in recovery funds for Italy

  22-06-2021 20:21
  
  ROME (AP) — The European Union’s executive branch has given the formal nod to 191.5 billion euros in pandemic recovery funds for Italy. Premier Mario Draghi said the money will help make the EU’s third-largest economy “more just, more competitive and more sustainable in its growth.” The Commission’s approval of the plan to help relaunch the Italian economy after the pandemic on Tuesday is an important step toward the distribution of funds for Italy’s vas
  
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