Spencer Schact Updated: September 05, 2021 05:21 PM Created: September 05, 2021 04:31 PM ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - One family is finally getting justice after their father was killed in a car crash back in March.

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Boudin's lawsuit comes amid mounting criticism over his response to rising crime rates and a wave of anti-Asian violence in the city, which has been routinely video-recorded and spread virally. Critics say the city's most powerful law enforcement officer is intolerably lenient, particularly toward those responsible for rampant theft, drug abuse and street crimes. Critics say Boudin, a progressive who ran on police reform, has repeatedly declined to file charges in cases where the perpetrators went on to commit more serious crimes.

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Updated: July 31, 2021 01:20 PM Created: July 31, 2021 01:06 PM TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A U.S. Border Patrol agent and another driver were killed Saturday in a head-on crash near southern Arizona, the Border Patrol said. Both drivers were pronounced dead shortly after the collision occurred about 12:20 a.m. on State Route 86 near Sells, a Border Patrol statement said.

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Richard D. McCullough, vice provost for research at Harvard University, responds to questions asked by the Florida State Presidential Search Committee on Friday, May 14, 2021, in Tallahasse, Fla. The governing board of Florida's university system on Wednesday, June 23, 2021, confirmed McCullough, vice provost for research at Harvard University, to become the 16th president of Florida State University. (Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat via AP) |  Photo: AP Associated Press Updated: June 23, 2021 12:20 PM Created: June 23, 2021 12:11 PM TALLAHASSEE, Fla.

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The two men were taken into custody at a gas station Wednesday afternoon. A Facebook video showed several officers wrestling with both men and forcing them to the ground. One officer is seen throwing punches and a man's face was bloodied. Two officers have been placed on leave and the State Law Enforcement Division is investigating the arrest, Rock Hill Police Chief Chris Watts said at a news conference Thursday where he spoke with a local civil rights leader. "The incident has been under review since yesterday when it occurred.

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T-shirts, drawings and other artwork have become a form of protest over the decision to hold the Games against medical advice and the public's opposition. Officials have responded in some cases by demanding the sometimes satiric art and merchandise be removed, and the artists say their freedoms are being curtailed. "What I can do instead of going to protests is to use my expertise in art," said Sakauchi of her motivation to produce the paintings. She has never participated in street protests or incorporated political issues into her abstract paintings in the past, but the Tokyo Olympics have been a tipping point.

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Doing so, however, may be easier said than done for reasons ranging from vaccine hesitancy to vaccine availability. Even in countries with enough vaccines to go around, some governments are having problems convincing adults that the shots are safe and necessary despite studies demonstrating they are. Such concerns can be amplified when dealing with society's youngest. There's also the issue of approval. Few regulators around the world have evaluated the safety of COVID-19 shots in kids, with the majority of shots approved only for adults right now.

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She was initially connected with the paper through Patricia Pastor, the attorney representing Kim. Pastor told The Associated Press that Logan called her after hearing a media account of Kim's accusations. Stringer, 61, has denied Kim's accusations. In response to Logan's claims, he said in a statement: "While I do not remember Ms. Logan, if I ever did anything to make her uncomfortable, I am sorry." "Uptown Local was a long-ago chapter in my life from the early 1990s and it was all a bit of a mess," he told the Times, In one incident, Logan said Stringer put his hand on her inner thigh and kissed her while they were in a cab together.

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Tuesday will mark one year since Floyd, who was Black, died after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin held his knee on Floyd's neck as Floyd pleaded for air. Chauvin, who is white, has since been convicted of murder and manslaughter for Floyd's death, which sparked worldwide protests and calls for change in policing in the U.S. In New York on Sunday, Floyd's brother, Terrence, attended a Brooklyn gathering in his brother's memory organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton and told supporters not to forget his brother or victims of racist violence.

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FILE - In this Thursday, May 20, 2021, file photo, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, at podium, speaks in front of civic and faith leaders outside City Hall in Los Angeles. Faith and community leaders in Los Angeles called for peace, tolerance and unity in the wake of violence in the city that is being investigated as potential hate crimes. Los Angeles police on Saturday, May 22, 2021 announced the arrest of a suspect in an alleged attack by a pro-Palestinian group on Jewish men outside a restaurant earlier in the week.

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Reasons for leaving vary, but common themes emerge: a lack of opportunity or low pay; not enough to do; a political climate that some find oppressive, and poor cellphone and internet service. According to the Census Bureau, only 79% of West Virginian households have a broadband internet subscription, the fifth-smallest rate in the country. The population has suffered from changing demographics, with deaths outpacing births for the past two decades, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.

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Updated: May 20, 2021 02:40 AM Created: May 20, 2021 02:33 AM LONDON (AP) - Prince William said Thursday he has received his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine as Britain's National Health Service expands it inoculation program to younger people. William, 38, received his shot at London's Science Museum, one of the large-scale vaccination centers opened around the country. A photo of the prince receiving his shot was posted on his social media account.

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GEO seeks a preliminary injunction and also argues the state law would force the detention center to shutter in September, which is much earlier than many people assumed. The struggle over the 1,575-bed Northwest ICE Processing Center - one of the country's largest for-profit, privately run immigration jails - follows years of criticism by activists and human-rights advocates saying immigrants held there are given inadequate food and medical care, and spend much longer on average in solitary confinement than at other such institutions.

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Updated: May 15, 2021 11:20 PM Created: May 15, 2021 10:00 PM JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli military said Sunday it has targeted the home of Gaza's top Hamas leader after nearly a week of heavy airstrikes and rocket fire into Israel from the territory ruled by the Islamic militant group. Brig. Gen. Hidai Zilberman, an army spokesman, told Israel's army radio Sunday that the military targeted the home of Yehiyeh Sinwar, the most senior Hamas leader inside the territory, who is likely in hiding along with the rest of the group's upper echelon.

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Palestinians attend the funeral of two women and eight children of the Abu Hatab family in Gaza City, who were killed after an Israeli air strike, Saturday, May 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) |  Photo: AP Updated: May 15, 2021 11:20 PM Created: May 15, 2021 10:56 PM JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli military said Sunday it has targeted the home of Gaza's top Hamas leader after nearly a week of heavy airstrikes and rocket fire into Israel from the territory ruled by the Islamic militant group. Brig.

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Grace Reader Updated: May 15, 2021 09:20 PM Created: May 15, 2021 07:11 PM ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A group of local hot air balloon pilots ascended to the sky early Saturday to honor their late friend and fellow pilot, Dean Donley.  'This is our memorial flight to him,' said Scott Appelman, CEO and founder of Rainbow Ryders Hot Air Balloon Company.

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He'll be the first person to pay his own way to the space station in more than a decade, according to Virginia-based Space Adventures, which brokered the deal. A Space Adventures spokeswoman declined to divulge the cost. The company has sent seven other tourists to the space station, from 2001 to 2009. Maezawa's trip to the moon aboard Elon Musk's Starship is tentatively scheduled for 2023. He'll fly around the moon - not land - with eight contest winners. Maezawa, 45, who founded an online retail clothing business, will be joined by photographer and assistant Yozo Hirano.

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For years, he and other Facebook executives have insisted that Facebook should not be the "arbiter of truth" and that as a tech company it shouldn't be making decisions on thorny societal matters such as free speech. Zuckerberg has stated publicly numerous times that he supports government regulation, although the rules Facebook wants aren't always the same as those regulators might seek. The company said this week it has no updates on its plans for Trump's accounts beyond what it said last week, when it said it will review the board's decision and "determine an action that is clear and proportionate.

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That is a similar technology to the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. But unlike AstraZeneca's two-dose vaccine, the Russian approach uses a slightly different adenovirus for the second booster shot. Mexico's assistant health secretary, Hugo López-Gatell, said the Russians have found that the first adenovirus grows much more quickly than the second. López-Gatell said Russian scientists are now pushing the idea of abandoning the idea of giving the two separate compounds several weeks apart and instead giving a second booster shot of the first compound six months apart, an approach called "Sputnik Light.

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By JON GAMBRELL Updated: May 09, 2021 12:20 AM Created: May 09, 2021 12:12 AM DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Dubai's long-haul carrier Emirates will begin shipping aid for free into India to help fight a crushing outbreak of the coronavirus, the airline said Sunday. The offer by Emirates, which has some 95 flights weekly to nine cities, comes as air freight costs have skyrocketed. That's as air cargo demand has risen to its highest recorded level ever amid the pandemic, which has seen carriers including Emirates fly cargo in otherwise-empty passenger seats.

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Release window: summer 2021 Price: starting at $33,995 2022 HYUNDAI IONIQ 5 Today's Hyundai Ioniq Electric serves as the entry point to Hyundai's electrified offerings, but the automaker will soon apply that name to a line of sedans and crossover SUVs built on a dedicated EV platform. First up is the 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5. The Ioniq 5 is similar in size to the Honda CR-V, but since there's no engine, its front end is shorter. The extra length is between the wheels, which should translate to legroom that rivals that of a midsize crossover.

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People walk with a view of smoke from the gorse fire spreading across the Mourne Mountains in the background, seen from Newcastle, County Down, in Northern Ireland, Saturday, April 24, 2021. Firefighters in Northern Ireland are spending a second day batting fires through demanding terrain on the Mourne Mountains. Helicopters from both Britain and Ireland are set to join the effort Saturday to put out the fires. They have been raging since Friday morning in the Slieve Donard area - the highest point in Northern Ireland with a peak of 850 meters (2,780 feet).

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About three-quarters of the western United States is in what is called a megadrought Last week, hundreds of farmers who rely on a massive irrigation project spanning the Oregon-California border were told they'll get a fraction of the water they need as federal regulators attempt to balance agriculture with federally threatened and endangered fish species central to the heritage of several tribes. The two California counties spotlighted by Newsom are part of the Russian River watershed, which is about 110 miles (177 km) long and stretches from the Redwood Valley and Ukiah down to Santa Rosa.

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