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• Judge allows Georgia ballot review case to move forward

  24-06-2021 23:56
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A judge has allowed a lawsuit alleging fraud in Georgia’s most populous county during the November election and seeking a review of absentee ballots to move forward. Originally filed in December, the lawsuit says there is evidence of fraudulent ballots and improper ballot counting in Fulton County. A judge on Thursday dismissed the county, county election board and county courts clerk as parties. But he granted a request by the petitioners to add the individual county
  
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• Marana in mourning after Police K9 Atlas dies while on duty

  24-06-2021 23:54
  
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  MARANA, Ariz. (KVOA) - The law enforcement community is in mourning after a Marana Police Department K9 officer died while on duty Wednesday night.According to a post shared by MPD Thursday, K9 Officer Atlas was ceremoniously escorted to Pima Animal Care Center by MPD and Tucson Police Department on Wednesday.Details surrounding the K9 officer's death have not yet been released.Atlas completed K9 Basic Patrol Narcotics School back in January 29, 2020 after completing 40
  
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• Ex-Blackhawk sues team, alleging sexual assault by assistant

  24-06-2021 23:48
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — An unidentified former Chicago Blackhawks player says in a lawsuit against the team that a then-assistant coach sexually assaulted him in 2010 during a playoff run to a Stanley Cup title and that the team did nothing after he informed a now-retired employee. Chicago’s WBEZ reported that former assistant coach Bradley Aldrich was convicted in 2013 in Michigan of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a student. The former player’s attorney says inaction b
  
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• Scaramucci tells banker trial jury about Trump’s transition

  24-06-2021 23:46
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Anthony Scaramucci is lending his voice and memories to the federal government’s case against a Chicago banker charged with trying to parlay $16 million in loans to ex-President Donald Trump’s former 2016 campaign manager for a powerful cabinet post. Scaramucci spent an hour on the witness stand Thursday at the Manhattan federal court trial of Stephen Calk. He described to jurors Calk’s repeated efforts to get Scaramucci to reveal his prospects for a job i
  
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• Minnesota weighs more cameras in courts after Chauvin case

  24-06-2021 23:45
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota’s court system could allow expanded camera coverage of criminal proceedings following the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer in George Floyd’s death. Chief Justice Lorie Gildea says it’s time to consider amending the current rules to accommodate broader public access. Gildea’s order doesn’t specifically cite Derek Chauvin’s trial, which was Minnesota’s first criminal case in which TV coverage was allowed from
  
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• Can’t smell because of COVID-19? Retraining your nose might work, experts say

  24-06-2021 23:45
  
  PHOENIX – If you’ve had COVID-19, chances are you lost your sense of smell, at least temporarily. …
  
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• A snapshot of the bipartisan infrastructure agreement

  24-06-2021 23:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of senators have reached an agreement to significantly boost infrastructure spending, though considerable hurdles remain before the blueprint unveiled Thursday becomes reality. The White House says the agreement calls for about $579 billion in new spending over the next five years for roads, bridges, public transit and other public works. Add on what the federal government is currently projected to spend on those items and it com
  
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• Testimony: Brother confronted father with his feces photos

  24-06-2021 23:28
  
  DENVER (AP) — The older brother of a 13-year-old boy who disappeared in Colorado in 2012 has testified in a trial for his father. Mark Redwine is being tried in the killing of his son Dylan Redwine who disappeared in the Durango during a court-ordered visit during his Thanksgiving break. Dylan’s older brother Cory Redwine testified Thursday that he confronted his father about photos of him dressed in women’s underwear, wearing a diaper and eating feces months before his younger
  
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• US to keep about 650 troops in Afghanistan after withdrawal

  24-06-2021 23:20
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that about 650 U.S. troops are expected to be kept in Afghanistan to provide security for the American diplomatic presence after the Pentagon completes its military withdrawal, which is set to be largely done in the next two weeks. Several hundred additional American forces, however, will remain at the Kabul airport until September to assist Turkish troops providing security. Officials say that will be a temporary move until a more
  
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• Evacuation orders expand as wildfires burn in Arizona

  24-06-2021 23:19
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Residents in about 90 homes west of Flagstaff were told to evacuate Thursday because of a wildfire burning in the area. The homes are in a small community known as Garland Prairie. A shelter has been set up at Sinagua High School in Flagstaff. Firefighters are working to starve the fire of fuels using natural features and purposely setting fire to the landscape. The lightning-caused fire has burned 54 square miles, making runs through canyons and wilderness areas. I
  
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• All big banks pass latest Federal Reserve ‘stress tests’

  24-06-2021 23:18
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — All 23 of the nation’s biggest banks are healthy enough to withstand a sudden economic catastrophe, the Federal Reserve said Thursday, releasing the results from its latest “stress tests.” It gives the banks the green light to resume paying out dividends to investors and buying back their stock. This year’s harshest test, known as the “severely adverse scenario,” involved a hypothetical global recession lasting from late 2020 to September
  
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• Kentucky to allow college athletes to earn off likeness

  24-06-2021 23:15
  
  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear has signed an executive order allowing college athletes in Kentucky to make money through the use of their name, image or likeness. That includes players on the nationally renowned Kentucky and Louisville men’s basketball teams. The Democratic governor said Thursday he took the action as a matter of fairness for college athletes. He says it will spare Kentucky’s colleges from being at a competitive disadvantage with rivals in other states
  
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• Officials: US to leave about 650 troops in Afghanistan to protect diplomats, will largely complete withdrawal in 2 weeks

  24-06-2021 23:14
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials: US to leave about 650 troops in Afghanistan to protect diplomats, will largely complete withdrawal in 2 weeks.The post Officials: US to leave about 650 troops in Afghanistan to protect diplomats, will largely complete withdrawal in 2 weeks appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Iowa county now named for Black dean, not slave-owning VP

  24-06-2021 23:09
  
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s most liberal county is no longer named for a slave-owning U.S. vice president and instead will honor a trailblazing local Black academic. The Johnson County Board of Supervisors voted Thursday to cut ties with its two-century namesake, former Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson. The lifelong slave owner from Kentucky had no ties to the county. The Wisconsin Territorial Legislature had named the county after Johnson in 1837, years before Iowa became a s
  
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• Special Weather Statement issued June 24 at 3:08PM MDT by NWS Phoenix AZ

  24-06-2021 23:08
  
  At 207 PM MST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8miles southwest of Maricopa, or 22 miles west of Casa Grande, movingnortheast at 15 mph.
  Winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with this storm, whichmay also generate blowing dust.
  Locations impacted include…Maricopa and Ak-Chin Village.
  This includes the following highways…AZ Route 238 between mile markers 39 and 44.AZ Route 347 between mile markers 161 and 180.The post Special Weather Statement issued June 24 a
  
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• The Latest: US to send Afghanistan 3 million vaccine doses

  24-06-2021 22:53
  
  WASHINGTON — The White House says it will provide Afghanistan with 3 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine to help with a coronavirus outbreak fueled by the delta variant.
  White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre made the announcement aboard Air Force One on Thursday as President Joe Biden flew to Raleigh, North Carolina, to encourage Americans to get vaccinated. The announcement also came a day before Biden meets with Afghanistan’s leaders at the White H
  
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• Longtime Havasupai leader was staunch advocate for his tribe

  24-06-2021 22:53
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A longtime leader of the Havasupai Tribe who advocated against uranium mining around the Grand Canyon and snowmaking at an Arizona ski resort has died. Services for Rex Tilousi begin Friday with a traditional wake at the family’s home in the village of Supai. Public events are scheduled over the weekend at the Grand Canyon, where Tilousi retired as a cultural interpreter for the national park. Tilousi’s family says he died last week of natural causes. He
  
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• Georgia sued for ban on gender-affirming care under Medicaid

  24-06-2021 22:53
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Two transgender women are suing the state of Georgia, saying they’ve been denied access to gender-affirming health care under Georgia’s Medicaid program. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the federal lawsuit Thursday in Atlanta on behalf of Shon Thomas and Gwendolyn Cheney. The suit says the state of Georgia bans gender-affirming surgeries in violation of the U.S. Constitution, the Affordable Care Act and the Medicaid Act. A spokeswoman for the Georgia Dep
  
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• Arizona House GOP limits debate on budget, speeding passage

  24-06-2021 22:53
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona House Republicans angered at a Democratic walkout earliier in the week limited debate as they began pushing through a Senate-approved state budget that slashes income taxes and contains a conservative wish list of policy changes. House Speaker Rusty Bowers on Thursday blamed Democratic obstruction for allowing only 30 minutes of debate on each of the 11 bills in the $12.8 billion budget plan. Such debate typically takes up hours on each bill. Minority Democrats were
  
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• Congress repeals Trump-era regulations on payday lenders

  24-06-2021 22:51
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Congress has overturned a set of regulations enacted in the final days of the Trump administration that effectively allowed payday lenders to avoid state laws capping interest rates. The House voted 218-208 to overturn the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s payday lending regulations with one Republican voting with Democrats. Thursday’s vote to overturn the OCC’s “true lender rules” marked the first time Democrats in Congress successfu
  
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• Tennessee activist charged in traffic cone toss into truck

  24-06-2021 22:48
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee prosecutor has filed charges of reckless endangerment against a Black protester accused of throwing a traffic cone into the driver’s side window of a pickup truck in downtown Nashville last summer during a protest against racial injustice. Court records show Justin Jones was arrested on the charges stemming from the June 2020 protest in which officials say Jones and others demonstrators blocked vehicles near the state Capitol. Nashville District At
  
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• Streets renamed for Isley Brothers in 2 New Jersey towns

  24-06-2021 22:48
  
  TEANECK, N.J. (AP) — Two New Jersey towns have renamed streets in honor of the Isley Brothers, the legendary R&B group that behind songs including “Shout,” “Twist and Shout” and “It’s Your Thing.” Ron Isley and Ernie Isley attended separate ceremonies Thursday in Teaneck and Englewood, neighboring towns outside New York City where they lived during the band’s heyday in the 1960s. The group originally came from Cincinnati and at one time i
  
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• Families demand information on relatives jailed in Nicaragua

  24-06-2021 22:48
  
  MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Relatives of 16 Nicaraguan opposition figures jailed in recent weeks are demanding that President Daniel Ortega’s government let them see their loved ones, know where they are and how they are doing. The families said during a virtual news conference Thursday that they believe most if not all of the prisoners are in the infamous El Chipote prison in Managua, where many those detained for participating in street protests in 2018 were taken. The majority of th
  
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• San Francisco to require vaccinations for all city employees

  24-06-2021 22:46
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco city workers will be required to be vaccinated against the coronavirus when a vaccine receives full federal approval. The San Francisco Chronicle says the policy covering 35,000 municipal workers may be the first by any city or county in the U.S. Employees who refuse to get vaccinated and don’t get a medical or religious exemption could be fired. The three COVID-19 vaccines currently available in the U.S. have emergency authorization by the Food and
  
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• 4 more suspects held in Mexico border attack that killed 19

  24-06-2021 22:32
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have arrested four more suspects in the weekend shootings in the northern Mexico border city of Reynosa that killed 19 people, 15 of whom appeared to be innocent bystanders. Another suspect was detained earlier after being wounded during Saturday’s gun attacks. Prosecutors in the border state of Tamaulipas said Thursday that the latest arrests came during the raids that also freed 18 kidnap victims, four of who are believed to be U.S. citizens.
  
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• Soderbergh, Cheadle return to Detroit in ‘No Sudden Move’

  24-06-2021 22:26
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — At a time when much of Hollywood is going through profound change, director Steven Soderbergh has seized an uncertain moment. During the pandemic, Soderbergh has shot two feature films, released a pair of movies, written a sequel to his first film, 1989′s “Sex, Lies and Videotape,” re-edited some of his older movies and co-produced the Academy Awards. His latest is the crime drama “No Sudden Move.” The movie returns Soderbergh to Detroit, a pro
  
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• Songwriter Diane Warren saves escaped cow from slaughter

  24-06-2021 22:20
  
  PICO RIVERA, Calif. (AP) — Songwriter Diane Warren has stepped in to save a cow that eluded capture for more than a day after a herd escaped from a Southern California slaughterhouse and stampeded through a suburb. Pico Rivera city manager Steve Carmona says Warren contacted the city to arrange to have the cow sent to a sanctuary. Carmona says the transfer is dependent on a state agriculture health check. The cow became a celebrity as it vanished in the nation’s most populous county
  
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• Bipartisan policing deal unlikely this week in blow to talks

  24-06-2021 22:17
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional negotiators are likely to miss their latest deadline for completing a bipartisan deal on overhauling policing practices.  Bargainers have been hoping to complete an agreement by Thursday, before the Senate departs for a two-week recess. Unresolved issues include whether to make individual police officers liable for civil penalties and easier to prosecute for crimes. The stalemate persists 13 months after George Floyd’s killing and with the shadow
  
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• Police killings, other racial injustice cases pending in US

  24-06-2021 22:14
  
  Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin’s sentencing in George Floyd’s death will hardly be the last word in the case, with federal civil rights charges still pending, appeals expected and three more officers facing trial. Even as that case grinds forward, many other cases are being closely watched as the U.S. grapples with the racial injustice exposed anew by Floyd’s death. Most involve killings by police, although some — like Ahmaud Arbery’s death in Georg
  
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• Holy cow, not again! More bovines get loose in a US town

  24-06-2021 22:14
  
  HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — The revenge of the cows has heated up with yet another instance of a herd getting loose in a U.S. community. This time a cattle-hauling truck rolled over Wednesday along Interstate 64 in Huntington, West Virginia. An emergency dispatcher says a stretch of interstate as well as a bridge leading into Ohio had to be shut down. It’s the third time that week that cows have gotten out and prompted responses in U.S. cities On Wednesday, 40 cows escaped a slaughterho
  
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• Uber pays $3.4M for Seattle gig worker leave law mistakes

  24-06-2021 22:13
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Uber has agreed to pay more than $3.4 million to 15,000 drivers after making mistakes regarding Seattle’s pioneering paid sick leave law covering gig workers. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Seattle City Council last year temporarily extended sick and safe leave protections to gig workers. The law allows the workers to take paid days off to care for themselves or family members who get sick or to care for children whose schools closed. Uber conducted audits that showed
  
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• Foo Fighters, Lizzo, Ludacris to play New Orleans Jazz Fest

  24-06-2021 22:11
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Foo Fighters, Lizzo, Demi Lovato, Ludacris, The Isley Brothers, Melissa Etheridge and Trombone Shorty are among the acts slated to take the stage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The event is returning this fall after a one-year hiatus brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The 2021 festival is scheduled to run over two weekends in October. Festival producer Quint Davis said he believes fans are eager to return. Jazz Fest celebrates the indigenous music
  
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• Man who gave tortillas thrown at game denies racist intent

  24-06-2021 22:04
  
  CORONADO, Calif. (AP) — A California man who claims he provided the tortillas that San Diego-area high school students threw at the basketball team of a mostly Latino high school said his intentions were not racist. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Wednesday that Coronado High School alumnus Luke Serna said he gave packs of tortillas to players for a celebration. Serna says throwing them was a tradition at University of California, Santa Barbara, where he attended. Serna also criticize
  
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• The Daily Saguaro, Thursday 6/24/21

  24-06-2021 22:00
  
  This is, literally, the biggest saguaro I've ever seen. My friend Tim is over 6 feet tall and the top of his hat reaches the top of the arm on the bottom.…
  
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• Pima County Department of Transportation to begin Magee Road repair

  24-06-2021 21:58
  
  PIMA COUNTY, Ariz. (KVOA) –According to the Pima County Department of Transportation (PDOT), road repair work on Magee Road from Thornydale Road to Camino de Oeste will take place Monday through Tuesday between 6:00 a.m. and 6 p.m.In a news release, PDOT stated that work will consist of setting traffic control, lowering utilities, milling and repaving, and temporary striping. Thermo striping is scheduled for the week of July 19."Please approach the area with caution and obey all traffic co
  
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• Preliminary hearing set in Wisconsin bar shooting

  24-06-2021 21:57
  
  KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A judge has set a preliminary hearing for a Wisconsin man charged with killing three people and wounding three others in a shooting at a crowded bar. Twenty-four-year-old Rakayo Vinson, of Kenosha, faces three counts of first-degree intentional homicide and three counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide in the April 18 shooting in the village of Somers. He would face life in prison if convicted on any of the counts. Kenosha County Court Commissioner Loren
  
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• Suns’ Paul expected to play after being listed as available

  24-06-2021 21:51
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Paul is expected to play for the Phoenix Suns Thursday night in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals against the Los Angeles Clippers. Paul was upgraded to available from probable on the league’s injury report and participated in the team’s shootaround Thursday afternoon. He missed the first two games while in the NBA’s health and safety protocols since June 16. The 36-year-old point guard averaged 25.5 points, 10.2 assists and 5.0 rebounds in
  
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• Affidavit: FBI feared Pennsylvania would seize fabled gold

  24-06-2021 21:45
  
  An FBI agent applied for a federal warrant in 2018 to seize a cache of gold that he said had been “stolen during the Civil War” while en route to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, and was “now concealed in an underground cave” in northwestern Pennsylvania. That’s according to court documents unsealed Thursday. The FBI had long refused to confirm why exactly it went digging on state-owned land in Elk County in March 2018. Federal authorities say the dig came up empty. T
  
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• Biden vows to evacuate thousands of Afghans who helped US

  24-06-2021 21:41
  
  President Joe Biden is vowing that Afghans who helped the U.S. military “are not going to be left behind” as his administration steps up planning to evacuate thousands of Afghan interpreters while their applications for U.S. entry are processed. A senior administration official says planning has accelerated in recent days to relocate the Afghans and their families to other countries or U.S. territories, while their visa applications are sorted. The official spoke on the condition of
  
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• New York to add ‘X’ gender mark on government IDs

  24-06-2021 21:40
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New Yorkers will be able to designate their sex as “female,” “male” or “X” on a driver’s license and birth certificate under a law that Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he signed Thursday. Nonbinary New Yorkers sued in March arguing the state was discriminating against them by failing to provide the “X” option to indicate nonbinary, intersex, undesignated or other. The new law will take effect in 180 days. Bill supporters, inc
  
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• UK plans to ease quarantine rules for travel to US, EU

  24-06-2021 21:38
  
  LONDON (AP) — Britain says it intends to relax travel restrictions by allowing people who  are fully vaccinated to visit a wide range of countries without having to self-isolate on their return. The Department for Transport said it expects to implement the new policy in phases later this summer. The change would apply to fully vaccinated people traveling to destinations on the government’s “amber” list, which currently covers much of the world, including the U.S. and
  
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• Iowa county shifts eponym from slave-owning VP to Black dean

  24-06-2021 21:28
  
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s most liberal county is no longer named for a slave-owning U.S. vice president and instead will honor a trailblazing local Black academic. The Johnson County Board of Supervisors voted Thursday to cut ties with its two-century namesake, former Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson. The lifelong slave owner from Kentucky had no ties to the county. The Wisconsin Territorial Legislature had named the county after Johnson in 1837, years before Iowa became a s
  
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• Environmentalists sue over Florida wastewater reservoir leak

  24-06-2021 21:25
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Environmental groups claim in a lawsuit that efforts to clean up a leaky Florida reservoir that dumped tens of millions of gallons of potentially hazardous gypsum wastewater into Tampa Bay must be overseen by a federal judge to guard against continued mismanagement. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in Tampa federal court against the governor and others over leaks at the Piney Point reservoir that many blame for fish kills and other hazards. The reservoir contains
  
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• EU pushes on with migrant policy outsourcing plans

  24-06-2021 21:18
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are pushing ahead with plans to outsource the bloc’s migration woes by spending billions of euros to boost cooperation with countries that people leave or cross to get to Europe. They say that “mutually beneficial partnerships and cooperation with countries of origin and transit will be intensified.” No countries were named but the focus is on northern Africa. Many migrants set out from there on dangerous voyages across the Mediterra
  
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• 3 servicemen dead in Russian helicopter crash

  24-06-2021 21:06
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s National Guard says three of its members died when a helicopter crashed during a training flight south of St. Petersburg. The cause of Thursday evening’s crash near the hamlet of Korpikyulia, 25 kilometers (15 miles) from of the city, has not been determined. The national guard said the Mi-8 helicopter was not carrying arms on the flight. The national guard is Russia’s internal military force, separate from the armed forces under the defense ministr
  
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• Pacific Northwest braces for record-breaking heat wave

  24-06-2021 21:04
  
  SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Record-high heat is forecast in the Pacific Northwest this weekend, raising concerns about wildfires and the health of people in a region where many don’t have air conditioning. The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat watch and predicted “dangerously hot” conditions Friday through at least Tuesday. The agency said the lengthy heat wave will cover portions of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Temperatures are expect to reach 114 degrees.
  
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• The Latest: Thousands of vaccines set to expire in Romania

  24-06-2021 21:03
  
  BUCHAREST, Romania — Romania’s national vaccination committee chief announced tens of thousands of doses of AstraZeneca vaccine are set to expire and will likely have to be destroyed.“On June 30, 35,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses expire. We probably won’t be able to use them. They will enter the destruction procedure,” Valeriu Gheorghita said in a press conference Thursday.AstraZeneca is one of four authorized vaccines currently being administered in Romania but has
  
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• Uber pays $3.4M for Seattle gig worker leave law violations

  24-06-2021 21:02
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Uber has agreed to pay more than $3.4 million to 15,000 drivers after acknowledging violations of Seattle’s pioneering paid sick leave law covering gig workers. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Seattle City Council last year temporarily extended sick and safe leave protections to gig workers. The law allows the workers to take paid days off to care for themselves or family members who get sick or to care for children whose schools closed. Uber conducted audits that show
  
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• Anne Rice’s ‘Interview with the Vampire’ set for AMC in 2022

  24-06-2021 21:02
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anne Rice’s “Interview with the Vampire” is rising again on screen, this time for TV. The bestselling novel, which was adapted for the 1994 Brad Pitt-Tom Cruise film, will be the basis for a new AMC and AMC+ series set for 2022.  AMC Networks acquired last year 18 works by Rice, including 1976′s “Interview with the Vampire” and its sequels. The company said the books will be developed as a “streaming and television franchise
  
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• Stocks add to weekly gains, helped by infrastructure deal

  24-06-2021 21:01
  
  Stocks were higher in afternoon trading Thursday, helped by some modestly positive economic data as well as a continued belief that the U.S. economy is recovering from the pandemic and that inflation, while higher than usual, will not be a long-term problem. Major indexes added to their gains after President Joe Biden announced a bipartisan $953 billion infrastructure deal. The S&P 500 index rose 0.6%. Markets have calmed notably since the Federal Reserve surprised investors last week by say
  
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