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The Latest: China says 1 billion vaccine doses administered

By The Associated Press, 5 Reads
Sun, 06/20/2021 - 4:32 AM
BEIJING — China has announced that more than 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered in the country.
The National Health Commission did not say Sunday how many people had been vaccinated. As elsewhere, most of the vaccines in China are given in two doses.
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Libyan guards accused of sexually assaulting minors

By SAMY MAGDY and RENATA BRITO - Associated Press, 6 Reads
Sun, 06/20/2021 - 1:03 AM
CAIRO (AP) — When Libyan security forces rescued her earlier this year, the young Somali woman thought it would be the end of her suffering. For more than two years, she had been imprisoned and sexually abused by human traffickers notorious for extorting, torturing and assaulting migrants like her trying to reach Europe.
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Life-threatening flash flooding rises in Claudette's path

By KEVIN McGILL and RUSS BYNUM - Associated Press, 11 Reads
Sun, 06/20/2021 - 12:22 AM
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Forecasters warned of life-threatening flash flooding in parts of the Deep South, particularly across central Alabama, as Tropical Depression Claudette traveled over coastal states early Sunday.
Heavy rain led to high water late Saturday into early Sunday in the Birmingham and Tuscaloosa metropolitan areas.
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Today in History

By The Associated Press, 14 Reads
Mon, 06/14/2021 - 10:04 AM
Today in History
Today is Sunday, June 20, the 171st day of 2021. There are 194 days left in the year. This is Father’s Day. Summer begins at 11:32 p.m. EDT.
Today’s Highlight in History:
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Southwest US states bake, wildfire threatens Arizona towns

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press, 16 Reads
Sat, 06/19/2021 - 7:09 PM
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Southwest U.S. continued to bake Saturday, and weather forecasters kept warnings in effect for excessive heat in Arizona, Nevada and desert areas, at least through the weekend.
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Driver crashes into crowd at Pride parade in Florida; 1 dead

By The Associated Press, 19 Reads
Sat, 06/19/2021 - 7:02 PM
WILTON MANORS, Fla. (AP) — A driver slammed into spectators Saturday evening at the start of a Pride parade in South Florida, killing one man and seriously injuring another, authorities said.
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Reports: US student found killed in Russia, suspect arrested

By The Associated Press, 16 Reads
Sat, 06/19/2021 - 12:00 PM
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian news reports said searchers on Saturday found the body of an American student who went missing several days earlier and that a man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
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As Brazil tops 500,000 deaths, protests against president

By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA - Associated Press, 19 Reads
Sat, 06/19/2021 - 4:12 PM
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Anti-government protesters took to the streets in more than a score of cities across Brazil on Saturday as the nation's confirmed death toll from COVID-19 soared past half a million — a tragedy many critics blame on President Jair Bolsonaro's attempt to minimize the disease.
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Juneteenth, recalling end of slavery, is marked across US

By ED WHITE - Associated Press, 26 Reads
Sat, 06/19/2021 - 2:57 PM
Parades, picnics and lessons in history were offered Saturday to commemorate Juneteenth in the U.S., a day that carried even more significance after Congress and President Joe Biden created a federal holiday to observe the end of slavery.
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Editor of paper that endured newsroom shooting says goodbye

By The Associated Press, 25 Reads
Sat, 06/19/2021 - 2:05 PM
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The editor of the Capital Gazette, which won a special Pulitzer Prize citation for its coverage and courage in the face of a massacre in its newsroom, is leaving the Maryland newspaper.
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