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ARIZONA NEWS | Apr 23, 2021Queen Creek man arrested in murder at Wild Horse Pass Casino
A Queen Creek man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a man who was with his former girlfriend at a casino near Chandler last week, according to authorities.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Apr 23, 2021US lifts pause, allowing J&J COVID-19 vaccinations to resume
The U.S. lifted its pause on the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccination on Friday, allowing shots to resume.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Apr 23, 2021Arizona Dems won’t put up $1M to pause Maricopa County audit
Arizona Democrats won't put up the $1 million to pause the Maricopa County election audit, but judge's orders that the Senate and its auditors follow state law on ballot secrecy and voter privacy will remain in place.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Apr 23, 2021
First lady Jill Biden visits tribal school on 2nd day of visit to Arizona
Navajo Nation students in Arizona spoke to first lady Jill Biden on Friday about challenges they've faced during the coronavirus pandemic.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Apr 22, 2021Arizona election bill to purge some from permanent early voter list dies
The Arizona Senate on Thursday voted down an election bill that critics deride as an attempt at voter suppression because of infighting among Republicans. But the measure could come back at a later date.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Apr 22, 2021
First lady Jill Biden in Arizona to visit Navajo Nation on Thursday-Friday
Jill Biden's trip to Arizona this week is her third to Navajo Nation and and her inaugural visit as first lady.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Apr 21, 2021FEMA vaccine site in Pima County nixed, focus shifts to mobile sites
A plan to establish a large federally supported mass vaccination site in metro Tucson is being shelved and Pima County instead is now asking for it in mobile form.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Apr 21, 2021GOP advances Arizona election bill criticized by Democrats, businesses
Arizona Republicans on Tuesday advanced an election bill that's drawn fierce opposition from voting rights advocates, Democrats and prominent business executives
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ARIZONA NEWS | Apr 21, 2021
Appeals court rules against Arizona attorney general over ASU hotel deal
The Arizona Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a judge's ruling against state Attorney General Mark Brnovich in a lawsuit challenging a deal between Arizona State University and hotel developers.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Apr 21, 2021Maricopa County delivering ballots, machines to fairgrounds for audit
Maricopa County started delivering its 2020 election materials to Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Wednesday for an audit ordered by state Senate Republicans.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Apr 20, 2021Arizona Supreme Court hears case about legality of education tax
The Arizona Supreme Court cast doubt on whether millions of dollars in taxes collected under a voter initiative can be legally spent when a provision of the state constitution caps school spending.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Apr 20, 2021Jury finds Chauvin guilty on all 3 charges in George Floyd’s death
A jury found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on Tuesday on all three charges in the May 2020 death of George Floyd in Minnesota.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Apr 20, 2021Out of sight but now center stage, jurors weigh Chauvin’s fate
The jurors who sat quietly off-camera through three weeks of draining testimony in Derek Chauvin's murder trial in George Floyd's death moved into the spotlight Tuesday, still out of sight but now in control of verdicts awaited by a skittish city.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Apr 19, 2021Man arrested in Tempe on suspicion of first-degree murder of girlfriend
A man has been arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of his girlfriend at a Tempe apartment complex’s clubhouse, police said Monday.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Apr 19, 2021US West prepares for possible 1st water shortage declaration
Dropping water levels could trigger the federal government's first-ever official shortage declaration and prompt cuts in Arizona and Nevada.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Apr 19, 2021Phoenix mountain trail closed after bees sting hiker, firefighter
A popular trail on Phoenix’s Camelback Mountain was temporarily closed Sunday after bees stung a hiker and a Phoenix firefighter who was on a rescue mission.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Apr 17, 2021US, China agree to cooperate on climate crisis with urgency
The United States and China, the world's two biggest carbon polluters, have agreed to cooperate with other countries to curb climate change.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Apr 17, 2021After child dies, US regulator warns about Peloton treadmill
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said children and at least one pet were pulled, pinned and entrapped under a treadmill.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Apr 16, 2021FBI previously interviewed gunman who killed 8 in Indianapolis
FBI agents last year interviewed the gunman who fatally shot eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, the bureau said.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Apr 15, 2021Jobless claims in US plunge to 576,000, lowest since pandemic
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits tumbled last week to 576,000, a post-COVID low and a hopeful sign that layoffs are easing as the economy recovers from the pandemic recession.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Apr 14, 2021Biden to pull US troops from Afghanistan, end ‘forever war’
President Joe Biden said Wednesday he will withdraw remaining U.S. troops from the "forever war” in Afghanistan, declaring that the Sept. 11 terror attacks of 20 years ago cannot justify American forces still dying in the nation's longest war.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Apr 14, 2021Arizona Senate renting Veterans Memorial Coliseum for election audit
The Arizona Senate is renting Veterans Memorial Coliseum, aka The Madhouse on McDowell, for its audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Apr 14, 2021Pima County gets $2.1M in federal aid for costs related to asylum seekers
Pima County officials have said the federal government will provide $2.1 million to cover the costs of supporting people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border seeking asylum.
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UNITED STATES NEWS | Apr 14, 2021AP source: Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff has died in prison
Bernie Madoff, the financier who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, died in a federal prison early Wednesday, a source told The Associated Press.