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• Man pleads guilty to stealing $24 million in COVID relief

  29-06-2021 23:58
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man has pleaded guilty to stealing $24 million in COVID-19 relief money by using fake identities and shell companies to fraudulently apply for financial assistance. Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that Hasan Hakim Brown pleaded guilty to a count of conspiring to commit bank fraud. He will be sentenced in September. He faces up to 30 years in prison. According to federal prosecutors, Brown and his co-conspirators used fake identities and shell compani
  
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• GOP donor funds South Dakota National Guard troops in Texas

  29-06-2021 23:58
  
  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says she will use a donation from a Republican donor to fund a deployment of up to 50 South Dakota National Guard troops to the U.S. border with Mexico. Noem joins a growing list of Republican governors sending law enforcement officers to Texas. Noem’s spokesman says private funding for the deployment will alleviate taxpayer costs. But Democratic state Sen. Reynold Nesiba warns that it sets a dangerous precedent. Arkansas Gov. As
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: President Biden distorts bipartisan infrastructure deal

  29-06-2021 23:57
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden overstated the expected employment gains Tuesday in making his pitch for a bipartisan infrastructure proposal that he said would create “millions” of new jobs. That might or might not have resulted from his initial plan, but there's a smaller one on the table now.He also suggested that the package to boost roads, bridges and airports could be a solution for flight delays, glossing over recent and bigger problems of labor shortages
  
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• ‘America’s Got Talent’ tops TV’s Nielsen ratings

  29-06-2021 23:57
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — There was plenty of competition across the television dial last week — the NBA conference finals, Olympic trials and even “Celebrity Family Feud.” But the most popular is one of the most enduring summer series, NBC’s “America’s Got Talent.” The show is in the midst of auditions for its 16th season, and last Tuesday’s episode was seen by just over seven million people. The Nielsen company said the NBA conference finals drew con
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Biden distorts bipartisan infrastructure deal

  29-06-2021 23:53
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden overstated the expected employment gains Tuesday inmaking his pitchfor a bipartisan infrastructure proposal that he said would create “millions” of new jobs. That might or might not have resulted from his initial plan, but there’s a smaller one on the table now.
  He also suggested that the package to boost roads, bridges and airports could be a solution for flight delays, glossing over recent and bigger problems of labor shortages and
  
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• US will close 4 emergency shelters for migrant children

  29-06-2021 23:51
  
  U.S. officials are closing four emergency facilities set up to house record numbers of migrant children caught crossing the Mexican border alone. But officials Tuesday cautioned that minors are still arriving on the southern border despite the summer heat. The Department of Health and Human Services will shut two facilities in Texas and two at convention centers in California by early August. The juvenile coordinator for the agency’s office of refugee resettlement says four sites will rema
  
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• US proposes to ban air travel between US and Belarus

  29-06-2021 23:50
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is proposing sharp restrictions on travel between the U.S. and Belarus. It’s the latest fallout from the forced landing of a passenger jet to arrest a dissident Belarussian journalist. The Transportation Department says the order would bar airlines from selling tickets for travel between the two countries, with possible exceptions for humanitarian or national security reasons. There are no direct passenger flights between the U.S. and Belarus. The
  
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• The Latest: Missouri hospital turns some COVID-19 cases away

  29-06-2021 23:45
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Some COVID-19 patients are being turned away from an overwhelmed hospital in southwestern Missouri amid a surge in cases, and some are being taken to less-stressed hospitals hundreds of miles away in Kansas City and St. Louis.The Springfield News-Leaders quotes CoxHealth system president Steve Edwards as saying Tuesday that the Cox hospital in Springfield is on “COVID diversion” as the delta variant of the coronavirus gains momentum in the region, where large
  
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• Russian shot at border gets time served for illegal reentry

  29-06-2021 23:41
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A Russian immigrant who once staged a hunger strike at an Arizona detention center and was shot months later in a 2019 struggle with a federal agent near the Mexican border was sentenced to time served for illegally reentering the United States after he was deported. The plea deal Evgenii Glushchenko previously made said it was a virtual certainty he’ll be deported. He was shot by a Border Patrol agent who tried to apprehend him near Lukeville, Arizona. About fiv
  
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• Judge won’t dismiss case against Florida virus whistleblower

  29-06-2021 23:34
  
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida judge has refused to dismiss a criminal case against a former state employee who suggested she was asked to manipulate COVID-19 data. Judge Francis Allman in Tallahassee didn’t explain his reasons for rejecting a motion to dismiss on Tuesday. Jones helped build the state’s online presentation of its COVID-19 data until she was fired. She received national attention last year when she suggested that Health Department managers wanted her to mani
  
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• Paul keeps up complaints over handling of COVID-19 pandemic

  29-06-2021 23:32
  
  GREENSBURG, Ky. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is keeping up his complaints about the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. During a speech in his home state of Kentucky, Paul said Tuesday that Americans should make their own decisions on whether to be vaccinated. He says people have “good sense” and don’t need elitists to tell them what to do. Paul also defended the continuation of the Senate filibuster during his remarks in Greensburg, Kentucky. A
  
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• G-20 talks in Italy yield pledge to fight hunger in Africa

  29-06-2021 23:31
  
  MATERA, Italy (AP) — A meeting of G-20 foreign and development ministers has ended with officials vowing to join efforts to fight hunger in the world, especially in Africa, in the wake of the pandemic, as well as climate change. But there were also notes of discord at the gathering Tuesday in southern Italy. Germany and China exchanged jabs over vaccine policy for developing countries. The Group of 20 ministers explored how to better cooperate with the pandemic providing painful lessons on
  
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• Dixie State trustees vote on another new name after backlash

  29-06-2021 23:30
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dixie State University trustees have voted for the school to change its name to Utah Tech University. That came Tuesday after the school’s previous name recommendation faced backlash and confusion. The board voted unanimously to drop the earlier recommendation of Utah Polytechnic State University after it was widely mocked online and some critics voiced confusion over the term “polytechnic.” Calls to change the name gained steam after a national outc
  
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• Special Weather Statement issued June 29 at 3:23PM MDT by NWS Tucson AZ

  29-06-2021 23:23
  
  At 222 PM MST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm nearKaka, or 34 miles east of Ajo, moving southeast at 15 mph.
  Wind gusts of 50 mph and blowing dust will be possible with thisstorm.
  Locations impacted include…Santa Rosa, Anegam, Palo Verde Stand, Ventana, Vaya Chin, San Luisand Santa Rosa School.The post Special Weather Statement issued June 29 at 3:23PM MDT by NWS Tucson AZ appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Immigration judges union moves toward regaining authority

  29-06-2021 23:19
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has dropped opposition to reviving a union of immigration judges that had been stripped of authority during the final months of the Trump administration. The Federal Labor Relations Authority ruled that the nearly 500 immigration judges in the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review were management officials and therefore ineligible for collective bargaining rights. Under pressure from labor groups and Democrats in Co
  
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• EXPLAINER: Why and when are companies criminally charged?

  29-06-2021 23:19
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers representing former president Donald Trump’s company say they believe the Manhattan district attorney plans to ask a grand jury to indict the Trump Organization in an investigation that involves fringe benefits paid to employees. Charging a corporate entity isn’t unusual. State and federal prosecutors have a long history of filing criminal charges against corporations for mostly the same reasons prosecutions are brought against individuals. Trump says he
  
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• Chief: Slain Colorado officer had ‘fundamental goodness’

  29-06-2021 23:06
  
  DENVER (AP) — A suburban Denver police officer who was ambushed and killed last week has been remembered as someone with “fundamental goodness” who knew how to love others. Speaking at a memorial service Tuesday, the Arvada police chief said he believed 51-year-old Officer Gordon Beesley found his true calling working as a school resource officer, identifying students who needed help. Family and friends recalled his love of music, having fun and being silly, going on outdoor ad
  
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• 6 charged in care home fire where firefighter, resident died

  29-06-2021 23:06
  
  SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. (AP) — Six people are facing charges in connection to a fire at an assisted living facility in a New York City suburb earlier this year that killed a firefighter and a facility resident. Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Walsh says the charges range from arson and manslaughter to filing a false instrument and criminal impersonation. Volunteer firefighter Jared Lloyd was killed in the fire on March 23 at the Evergreen Court Home for Adults in Spring Valley, New Yo
  
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• Lawyer: Newspaper gunman insane, not criminally responsible

  29-06-2021 23:01
  
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A defense attorney says the man who killed five people at a Maryland newspaper was delusional and believed the state’s judicial system was conspiring with the Capital Gazette to ruin his life. Hours later in court Tuesday, jurors saw photographs of the dead in the newsroom. Attorney Katy O’Donnell said Jarrod Ramos believed he was being intentionally persecuted after the newspaper wrote about his case of harassing a former high school classmate. Ramos has
  
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• Rolling blackouts in parts of US Northwest amid heat wave

  29-06-2021 22:58
  
  SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — As the Pacific Northwest swelters in an unprecedented heat wave, an electrical utility in the Washington state city of Spokane has announced that there will be more rolling blackouts that will cut off electricity and air conditioning. The announcement came as the heat started to ease in Seattle and Portland, Oregon but moved into inland areas. Avista Utilities says it took temporary measures to cut power and conserve it on Monday in Spokane to meet demand as the tempe
  
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• Opioid makers, distributors go on trial in New York

  29-06-2021 22:51
  
  CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A landmark trial targeting multiple opioid manufacturers and distributors opened Tuesday with lawyers for the government accusing the companies of bringing death and destruction to communities. The case bought by Suffolk and Nassau counties and state Attorney General Letitia James is part of a slew of litigation over an epidemic linked to nearly 500,000 deaths over the last two decades. But this case is unique in targeting the entire opioid supply chain and for b
  
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• Tigray fighters in Ethiopia reject cease-fire as ‘sick joke’

  29-06-2021 22:49
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The spokesman for the fighters retaking parts of Ethiopia’s Tigray region says they will pursue soldiers from neighboring Eritrea back into their country and chase Ethiopian soldiers to Addis Ababa ”if that’s what it takes” to weaken their military powers. Getachew Reda tells The Associated Press that “we’ll stop at nothing to liberate every square inch” of the Tigray region of 6 million people, nearly eight months after fight
  
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• The Latest: Pandemic hotel housing for homeless nears end

  29-06-2021 22:48
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Street musician Charles Adams has spent the last three months living at a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, motel paid for with federal money aimed at preventing the spread of COVID-19 by taking homeless residents off the streets. But as hotels reopen to tourists and funding wanes, tens of thousands of homeless nationwide are being forced from the motels.
  Several cities like New Orleans ended their programs months ago amid financing shortages. Experts warn there aren’
  
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• Spokesman for Tigray fighters rejects Ethiopia cease-fire, threatens to chase Eritrean soldiers back into their country

  29-06-2021 22:46
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Spokesman for Tigray fighters rejects Ethiopia cease-fire, threatens to chase Eritrean soldiers back into their country.The post Spokesman for Tigray fighters rejects Ethiopia cease-fire, threatens to chase Eritrean soldiers back into their country appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Russian shot at border gets time served for illegal re-entry

  29-06-2021 22:43
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A Russian immigrant who once staged a hunger strike at an Arizona detention center and was shot months later in a 2019 struggle with a federal agent near the Mexican border was sentenced to time served for illegally re-entering the United States after he was deported. The plea deal Evgenii Glushchenko previously made said it was a virtual certainty he’ll be deported. He was shot by a Border Patrol agent who tried to apprehend him near Lukeville, Arizona. About fi
  
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• Russian court arrests top Navalny’s associate in absentia

  29-06-2021 22:43
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has ordered the arrest of a top associate of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, though the man lives outside the country out of the reach of authorities. The Navalny associate, Ivan Zhdanov, dismissed Tuesday’s ruling as a “pseudo judicial procedure.” Zhdanov headed Navalny’s Foundation for Fighting Corruption, which was outlawed as extremist along with other Navalny groups earlier this month. Navalny is Russian President Vlad
  
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• House Republicans won’t say if they’ll support Jan. 6 probe

  29-06-2021 22:40
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders won’t say whether they’ll support or participate in a proposed select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise demurred when asked if House Republicans will sit on the panel, telling reporters that “I can’t answer that question.” When asked if Republicans will vote for a resolution to create the committee, he said “we’ll see how the vote goes.” Tha
  
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• First Lady Jill Biden, Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff to visit Arizona

  29-06-2021 22:39
  
  First Lady Jill Biden, Photo Date: June 11, 2021 Douglas Emhoff
  PHOENIX (KVOA) - First Lady Jill Biden and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff are set to visit Phoenix Wednesday to encourage the community to get vaccinated against COVID-19.In Phoenix, both Biden and Emhoff are scheduled to meet with Mayor Kate Gallego to tour a vaccination site at Isaac Middle School.
  On Tuesday, the first lady and second gentlemen visited another vaccination site in Texas.
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• Last German troops leave Afghanistan after nearly 20 years

  29-06-2021 22:34
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s defense minister says the country’s last troops have left Afghanistan after a nearly 20-year deployment in the country. Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer tweeted that the last Bundeswehr soldiers “left Afghanistan safely” on Tuesday evening. She thanked the more than 150,000 troops who have served there since 2001 and said that “they can be proud of this mission.” The German military said that the last troops were on the
  
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• US House votes to ease entry process for Afghan interpreters

  29-06-2021 22:33
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House of Representatives has easily passed legislation that would make it easier for Afghans who worked for the American military or NATO to relocate to the U.S. The bill, which drew bipartisan support, eliminates a requirement that special visa applicants get a medical exam before they leave Afghanistan. They would be able to get the exam once they are in the U.S. Additional legislation is still under consideration to increase the number of visas and make other
  
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• Stocks hold steady at records in quiet day on Wall Street

  29-06-2021 22:32
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks drifted further into record heights in a listless day of trading on Tuesday, as Wall Street waits for the heavyweight economic data coming at the end of the week. The S&P 500 inched up by less than 0.1% and added to its all-time high set a day earlier. More stocks fell than rose within the index, but gains for tech companies made up for weakness for banks and utilities. The Nasdaq added 0.2% to its record. This week’s main event arrives Friday, when th
  
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• Paris conference aims to fast-track road to gender equality

  29-06-2021 22:30
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N.’s premiere global body fighting to empower women says an international conference opening in Paris on Wednesday aims to fast-track the slow road to gender equality and mobilize millions of dollars to achieve the long-sought goal quickly. UN Women’s Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said in an interview with The Associated Press that the underfunding of women’s programs and the slow implementation of a 150-platform to achi
  
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• US stocks close mixed; banks gain after raising dividends

  29-06-2021 22:19
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Major U.S. stock indexes drifted to a mixed close on Wall Street Tuesday, while gains for a handful of big tech companies like Apple and Microsoft nudged the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq composite higher. That despite the fact that most stocks in the S&P 500 fell. The index closed up less than 0.1%, and the Nasdaq rose 0.2%. A measure of small-company stocks fell 0.6%. Investors are waiting for the heavyweight economic data coming at the end of the week, the government&rs
  
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• UAW-represented auto workers won’t need masks if vaccinated

  29-06-2021 22:11
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Unionized auto workers in the U.S. who have been fully vaccinated against the novel coronavirus will no longer have to wear face masks at work. A virus task force with representatives from Ford, General Motors, Fiat Chrysler (now Stellantis) and the United Auto Workers union made the decision Monday. It’s effective July 12. About 150,000 factory workers from all three companies have been wearing masks, keeping safe distances, cleaning equipment and taking other precaut
  
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• Democrat Eric Adams’ lead shrinks after 1st round of ranked choice vote tabulation in New York City mayoral primary

  29-06-2021 22:05
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Democrat Eric Adams’ lead shrinks after 1st round of ranked choice vote tabulation in New York City mayoral primary.The post Democrat Eric Adams’ lead shrinks after 1st round of ranked choice vote tabulation in New York City mayoral primary appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Does Breyer follow big term with retirement, or hang around?

  29-06-2021 22:04
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The end of the current Supreme Court term is coming up, and Stephen Breyer is the justice to watch. After writing two of the court’s biggest decisions this year, Breyer could say he’s come to a fitting end with nearly 27 years as a justice and announce his retirement. Or the 82-year-old liberal justice could reason that his pragmatic, collaborative approach to judging has never been more needed on the high court and decide to stick around. Breyer has given no
  
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• Ukrainian parliament approves key judicial reform bill

  29-06-2021 21:57
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian lawmakers have approved a much-anticipated judicial reform, a move long sought by the West. The Ukrainian parliament, Verkhovna Rada, voted Tuesday to endorse a bill that sets up an independent panel to appoint judges. It includes a provision that gives international experts a decisive voice in selecting the nominees. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed the bill’s approval and promised to quickly sign it into law. He emphasized that the High Qualific
  
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• Spain reopens talks with Catalan separatists after pardons

  29-06-2021 21:49
  
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s prime minister has met with the chief of Catalonia for the first time since his government pardoned nine separatist leaders of the affluent region’s separatist movement. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez sat down with Catalan regional president Pere Aragonès on Tuesday for two and a half hours in Madrid. Aragonès repeated his demand for an authorized referendum on independence and a complete amnesty for all those facing legal trou
  
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• Man sentenced to 30 years for killing Navajo police officer

  29-06-2021 21:46
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A man who shot and killed a tribal police officer in a remote corner of the nation’s largest American Indian reservation has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. Kirby Cleveland was sentenced Monday for the 2017 killing of Navajo Nation Officer Houston James Largo. Cleveland’s attorneys had sought several delays over the last year because of the coronavirus pandemic and to find witnesses to testify on Cleveland’s mental condition in hopes
  
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• Brazil’s Bolsonaro under fire after vaccine deal allegations

  29-06-2021 21:46
  
  BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Threats to Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency have emerged after accusations that the Brazilian leader turned a blind eye to possible corruption in a deal to purchase vaccines. The claims have prompted Senate committee members to plan recommending he face at least one criminal charge, and have added impetus to the opposition’s impeachment drive. Bolsonaro, who has been targeted by nationwide street protests in recent weeks, has called the Senate committee inves
  
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• NJ Attorney General Gurbir Grewal stepping down to join SEC

  29-06-2021 21:44
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The U.S.’s first Sikh state attorney general is resigning to join the Securities and Exchange Commission. That’s according to the SEC and Gov. Phil Murphy, who announced New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal’s departure Tuesday. Grewal leaves July 26 after serving since January 2018 as the state’s top law enforcement officer. He will serve as director of the SEC’s Enforcement Division, the agency announced in a statement. Murphy, a Dem
  
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• Florida officials pledge multiple probes into condo collapse

  29-06-2021 21:40
  
  Miami-Dade Fire Rescue conducting search and rescue operations in the rubble of the Surfside building collapse in Florida., Photo Date: June 28, 2021
  SURFSIDE, Florida (AP) — Elected officials are vowing to conduct multiple investigations into the deadly collapse of an oceanfront Florida condo building. State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said Tuesday that she will pursue a grand jury investigation to examine factors that led to Thursday’s collapse of the 12-story Champlain To
  
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• G-20 talks in Italy yields pledge to fight hunger in Africa

  29-06-2021 21:37
  
  MATERA, Italy (AP) — A meeting of G-20 foreign and development ministers ended with officials vowing to join efforts to fight hunger in the world, especially in Africa, in the wake of the pandemic, as well as climate change. But there were also notes of discord at the gathering Tuesday in southern Italy. Germany and China exchanged jabs over vaccine policy for developing countries. The Group of 20 ministers explored how to better cooperate with the pandemic providing painful lessons on how
  
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• Body found after explosion at suburban Kansas City duplex

  29-06-2021 21:34
  
  RAYTOWN, Mo. (AP) — Authorities have found a body in the basement of a suburban Kansas City duplex where multiple people were injured in an explosion. John Ham, spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Kansas City division, told The Kansas City Star on Tuesday that the body will be taken to the medical examiner for identification once the Raytown building is secure. About half the structure was reduced to rubble in Monday night’s blast. Police said
  
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• Roads, bridges, jobs: Biden selling big infrastructure deal

  29-06-2021 21:32
  
  LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — President Joe Biden is in Wisconsin, looking to sell voters on the economic benefits of the $973 billion infrastructure package. He declared on Tuesday that there is an urgent need for a “generational investment, hoping to boost support for the bipartisan agreement that is held together in large part by the promise of millions of new jobs. White House officials issued an internal memo that highlights how the largest investment in transportation, water systems a
  
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• Florida baby picked as Gerber spokesbaby;’ wins $25,000

  29-06-2021 21:23
  
  WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) — A four-month-old baby boy from Florida is the new “spokesbaby” for the Gerber baby food company. Zane Kahin, of Winter Park, Florida, was chosen for the role, and given the title of Chief Growing Officer, after winning a baby photo contest sponsored by Gerber Products Company. The contest is 11 years old and was started because the company receives countless photos from parents who say their babies resemble the original Gerber baby, Ann Turner Cook. A d
  
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• Solicitor: More time needed to probe Black man’s jail death

  29-06-2021 21:19
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina prosecutor investigating the January jail death of a mentally ill Black man says she needs more time to decide whether she will press criminal charges in the case. Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson said Tuesday that she has gathered new evidence and additional interviews in the past week related to the death of Jamal Sutherland in the Charleston County jail. The 31-year-old mentally ill Black man died shortly after jail deputies forced him t
  
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• Mural depicting Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, others defaced

  29-06-2021 21:08
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Officials say a mural in Louisville, Kentucky that depicts Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and other Black people recently killed by law enforcement has been defaced. News outlets report the “Say Their Names” mural unveiled last July was found Monday with light blue paint covering areas of the artwork. Louisville Metro Police Department spokesman Dwight Mitchell said the agency was investigating. An artist who helped create the mural said it would be restore
  
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• Facebook message leads to warrant in years-old rape claim

  29-06-2021 21:03
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities in Pennsylvania have filed an arrest warrant in a 2013 campus attack at Gettysburg College after a years-long campaign by the woman who said she was raped. Police say they are looking for 28-year-old Ian Cleary of Saratoga, California, but have not yet located him. The affidavit filed Tuesday accuses Cleary of stalking 18-year-old Shannon Keeler at a party in December 2013, following her home to her dorm and then sexually assaulting her. Keeler says she cont
  
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• Condo board boss warned of worsening damage before collapse

  29-06-2021 21:01
  
  Weeks before a Florida condo building collapsed, the president of its board wrote that structural problems identified in a 2018 inspection had “gotten significantly worse” and owners needed to pay a hefty price to get them fixed. The April 9 letter from Champlain Towers South Condominium President Jean Wodnicki hinted at an ongoing debate over the repairs and a reluctance by some condo owners to pay for major work that would cost at least $15.5 million. She noted that costs had only
  
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