LOS ANGELES (AP) — ‘The Queen's Gambit' wins best limited series Emmy Award, capping a sweep of the show's top honors by streaming services.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/09/19/the-queens-gambit-wins-best-limited-series-emmy-award-capping-a-sweep-of-the-shows-top-honors-by-streaming-services/

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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's oil minister says the country's oil sector is rebounding after a catastrophic year triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, with key investment projects on the horizon. But he also is warning that enduring bureaucratic culture of fear threatens to stand in the way. Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail spoke to The Associated Press on Friday. He said that Iraq is currently trading oil at $68 per barrel, close to the approximately $76 needed for the state to operate without reliance on the central bank to meet government expenditures.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/06/11/ap-interview-iraq-oil-minister-says-gas-sector-a-priority/

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LONDON (AP) — Retail sales in Britain slipped back in May as people ventured out to spend money on restaurants and pubs instead following the easing of coronavirus lockdown restrictions. The Office of National Statistics said Friday that retail sales during May were 1.4% lower than the previous month, when they surged 9.2% after shops selling nonessential items were allowed to reopen after a months-long shutdown. It said the biggest downward contribution to the May figures came from food sales, which fell by 5.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/06/18/uk-retail-sales-dip-as-lockdown-easing-lifts-socializing/

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NEW YORK (AP) — Ranked choice voting makes its debut in New York City's mayoral primary Tuesday. Rather than pick just one candidate, voters get to rank several in order of preference. Even if a voter's top choice doesn't have enough support to win, their rankings of other candidates still play a role in determining the victor. One downside of the system is it makes it tough to forecast a winner before the vote count is complete. That means people shouldn't expect to learn who won on election night.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/06/21/explainer-ranked-choice-voting-gets-big-test-in-nyc/

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BANGKOK (AP) — Shares are mixed in Asia after a listless day of trading on Wall Street as the recent bout of nerves over Federal Reserve policy fades. Markets advanced in Tokyo, Seoul and Hong Kong while Sydney and Shanghai declined. On Wednesday, the S&P 500 slipped 0.1% after meandering between very modest gains and losses. It's 0.3% below its record high set a week and a half earlier. The Dow fell 0.2%, while the Nasdaq added 0.1% to its record set a day earlier. The majority of stocks in the S&P 500 fell, but gains for companies that do best when the economy is healthy helped limit the losses.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/06/24/asian-shares-mixed-after-listless-session-on-wall-street/

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — In a story published July 28, 2021, about coronavirus infection concerns for large gatherings, The Associated Press erroneously reported when the RAGBRAI bike ride across Iowa will end. It ends Saturday, not Friday.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/07/29/covid-19-rates-a-worry-as-1-million-head-for-iowa-state-fair/

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TOKYO (AP) — Two Belarus team coaches have been removed from the Olympics after being involved in trying to send sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya back to their country. The International Olympic Committee says the credentials of Artur Shimak and Yury Maisevich have been canceled and removed. Both men are due to be interviewed by an IOC disciplinary panel formed to investigate what happened to Tsimanouskaya. Shimak and Maisevich continued to have contact with Belarusian athletes since Sunday. The IOC linked them to taking Tsimanouskaya in a car to the airport to put her on a plane to Belarus because she criticized team coaches.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/08/05/two-coaches-removed-from-tokyo-olympics-in-belarus-case/

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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chloé Zhao's history-making Oscars sweep, winning best director and best picture, is being met with a muted response in her country of birth, and even censorship. Zhao's 'Nomadland' is the second film directed by a woman to win a best picture Oscar. She is the first woman of color and second woman ever to win the Oscars for best director. Yet, in China, where Zhao was born, her history-making success has not been trumpeted. State media in China remained silent with only old mentions of the Oscars themselves.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/04/26/zhaos-oscars-get-muted-reaction-even-censorship-in-china/

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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City voters will be casting their last ballots next month in an election that's sure to have consequences for former President Donald Trump. Democrats will be voting in party primary for Manhattan's next district attorney. The winner could end up taking over an ongoing investigation of Trump's business dealings. Current District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is leaving office at the end of the year. The eight candidates have made clear they're not afraid of taking on the former president, but most have been cautious to stay away from overtly anti-Trump rhetoric.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/05/23/trump-criminal-investigation-looms-over-manhattan-da-race/

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ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter is sometimes called a better former president than he was president. The backhanded compliment has always rankled Carter allies and, they say, the former president himself. Yet now, 40 years removed from the White House, the most famous resident of Plains, Georgia, is riding a new wave of attention as biographers, filmmakers, climate activists and Carter's fellow Democrats push for a recasting of his presidential legacy. It's particularly important for the wide swath of Americans, from young Generation X votes to Millennials and Generation Z, who are getting perhaps their first in-depth look at a president who left the White House more than 40 years ago after a landslide defeat.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/08/19/jimmy-carter-trounced-in-1980-gets-fresh-look-from-history/

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BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese citizens living in Thailand have begun being vaccinated as part of China's global campaign to inoculate its nationals living and working abroad. The vaccines were donated by China to be administered to its nationals as Thailand slowly rolls out shots for its own citizens to contain a coronavirus surge that has sickened tens of thousands in the past two months. It was unclear how many of the 150,000 Chinese citizens living in Thailand will be inoculated under Beijing's 'Spring Sprouts' program in this round of inoculations, but China recently donated 500,000 vaccine doses to Thailand.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/05/20/china-in-global-campaign-vaccinates-its-people-in-thailand/

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ISLANDTON, S.C. (AP) — State police have released a brief timeline as part of their investigation into the shooting deaths of a mother and son from one of South Carolina's prominent legal families. The State Law Enforcement Division said Tuesday that Alex Murdaugh called 911 at around 10 p.m. June 7, saying he had found the bodies of his wife and son. Local authorities then asked state police for help investigating the case. State police agents have released little information in the deaths of Maggie Murdaugh and her son, Paul Murdaugh.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/06/15/south-carolina-police-release-timeline-of-mother-son-deaths/

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has begun voting in a presidential election tipped in the favor of a hard-line protege of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Polls opened at 7 a.m. local time Friday for the vote. Public apathy has been widespread after a panel under Khamenei barred hundreds of candidates, including reformists and those aligned with the outgoing president, the relatively moderate Hassan Rouhani. State-linked opinion polling and analysts have put hard-line judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi as the dominant front-runner among the four candidates.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/06/18/iran-votes-in-presidential-poll-tipped-in-hard-liners-favor/

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REPUBLIC, Mo. (AP) — Hundreds of workers are now clocking in at Amazon's newest distribution warehouse in southwestern Missouri. The Springfield News-Leader reports that the 1.3 million square-foot fulfillment center opened for business Monday in Republic. According to Amazon, the facility in Republic employs more than 200 people with a starting salary of $15.50 an hour. Amazon is the world's largest online retailer and already operates more than 110 fulfillment centers across North America. Amazon says in a release that the warehouse in Republic packs and ships big items like patio furniture, outdoor equipment and rugs.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/08/03/amazon-warehouse-opens-for-business-in-republic-missouri/

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota's attorney general says a St. Paul professor who led a campaign to pay off student lunch debts in Philando Castile's name spent less than half of the $200,000 she raised on the intended purpose. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison's office filed a civil enforcement action against Pamela Fergus on Thursday. The professor at Metropolitan State University created the online crowdfunding effort a year after Castile was fatally shot during a traffic stop by a St. Anthony officer in 2016.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/06/03/ag-woman-misused-funds-raised-in-philando-castiles-name/

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement official: US officials have seized cryptocurrency payment that was made after Colonial Pipeline hack. More Stories

https://wsiltv.com/2021/06/07/law-enforcement-official-us-officials-have-seized-cryptocurrency-payment-that-was-made-after-colonial-pipeline-hack/

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SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni security and medical officials say that an explosion in the southern province of Abyan has killed at least five separatist troops and wounded six people, including civilians. They say the blast took place on Friday, moments after a convoy of the secessionist Southern Transitional Council arrived at a market that sells khat leaves, which are highly popular in Yemen and widely chewed by men for the plant's stimulant properties. The source of the explosion was not immediately known and no group immediately claimed responsibility for an attack.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/06/11/officials-explosion-kills-5-separatists-in-southern-yemen/

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ARVADA, Colo. (AP) — Police say a man who intervened in a shooting that killed a police officer near Denver was shot and killed by a responding officer while holding the suspect's AR-15. Police say Johnny Hurley shot suspect Ronald Troyke on Monday after Troyke shot Officer Gordon Beesley twice. Authorities have described Hurley as a hero who prevented further bloodshed. After shooting Beesley with a shotgun, police say Troyke returned to his truck to get an AR-15 and was confronted by Hurley, who shot him.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/06/25/police-man-who-shot-colorado-gunman-was-killed-by-officer/

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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Louisville woman has won the $1 million prize in Kentucky's first ‘Shot at a Million Vaccine' incentive drawing. Gov. Andy Beshear announced the winner Friday. Ginger schultz said she never expected to win. Kentucky launched the lottery June 4 seeking to persuade more people to get vaccinated. More than 692,000 adult Kentuckians and more than 40,900 youth have signed up for the lottery. Vaccinations have also started to tick up slightly. Beshear said the state has recorded almost 6,000 new vaccinations in a recent period, up from the normal amount of about 1,800 to 2,200 vaccinations.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/07/30/louisville-women-wins-1m-vaccine-lottery-prize-in-kentucky/

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NEW YORK (AP) — The federal government is making money available to build and improve electric transmission lines. It's part of a bid to improve the nation's aging electric grid and meet President Joe Biden's ambitious clean-energy goals. The administration is also pledging to speed up a sluggish permitting process that has delayed the types of major transmission projects that are crucial to meeting Biden's goal. The president has said he wants the nation to produce 100% clean energy by 2035. But that goal faces huge hurdles, including an electric grid which needs enormous expansion to carry electricity from the renewable energy sources to densely populated regions.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/04/27/biden-releases-money-in-push-to-modernize-us-electric-grid/

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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is still using refrigerated trucks to store bodies of coronavirus victims, more than a year after they were first set up as temporary morgues as deaths surged at at the height of the pandemic. The city's medical examiner's office said Friday that 750 bodies are being kept in long-term storage in refrigerated trailers at a Brooklyn pier while family members sort out plans for their final resting places. Dina Maniotis, a deputy commissioner with the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, told a city council committee many of the bodies held at the 39th Street Pier could end up buried in the city's potter's field on Hart Island.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/05/07/nyc-still-storing-covid-19-victims-in-refrigerated-trucks/

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The Country Music Association will provide 4 million meals in cities with large populations of musicians and music industry professionals in its new partnership with Feeding America. The trade organization will also launch a donation challenge to fund an additional 1 million meals through its Music Industry COVID Support (MICS) Initiative. Helping musicians and music industry professionals get through the next few months is the reason the Country Music Association opted to expand its MICS initiative Monday.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/05/10/blake-shelton-joins-drive-to-help-feed-out-of-work-musicians/

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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's executive arm has signed a third vaccine contract with Pfizer and BioNTech through 2023 for an additional 1.8 billion doses of their COVID-19 shots. The European commission said the deal will allow the buying of 900 million doses of the current shots and of a serum adapted to the virus' variants, with an option to purchase an extra 900 million shots. To avoid delivery delays, the deal with Pfizer-BioNTech stipulates that the production of doses must be based in the EU and that essential components are sourced from the region.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/05/20/eu-finalizes-deal-with-pfizer-biontech-for-1-8-billion-doses/

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AURORA, Mo. (AP) — A 69-year-old southwestern Missouri man has died in a tractor accident. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the accident happened Sunday afternoon along a farm road south of Aurora. The patrol says Burl Baum of Crane fell off the tractor and was run over when it rolled backward. Baum was pronounced dead at the scene.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/06/09/man-killed-after-fall-from-tractor-in-southwestern-missouri/

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says President Joe Biden's massive proposed spending on infrastructure, families and education won't fuel inflation because the plans would be phased in gradually over 10 years. Some economists have warned that the Federal Reserve's current ultra-low interest rates, and the administration's proposed $4 trillion in new spending, atop about $5 trillion already approved by Congress, risk accelerating inflation. Yellen says she doesn't believe that inflation 'will be an issue, but if it becomes an issue, we have tools to address it.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/05/02/yellen-bidens-phased-in-spending-plan-wont-fuel-inflation/

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Paul DeJong hit two of the St. Louis Cardinals' five homers in a 12-5 victory at the Washington Nationals. DeJong hit a solo shot in the second inning and a grand slam in the fifth. Tommy Edman and Paul Goldschmidt went deep back-to-back off Nationals starter Joe Ross. Justin Williams homered off Ross' replacement, Kyle Finnegan. Ross had not allowed an earned run this season. St. Louis had lost six of its last eight games and was shut out by Ross last week. Jack Flaherty allowed two earned runs in six innings and improved to 3-0 in 2021.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/04/19/dejong-hits-2-of-cardinals-5-hrs-in-12-5-win-at-nationals/

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NEW YORK (AP) — A more complete count by the Nielsen company has pushed Sunday's telecast of the Academy Awards to 10.4 million viewers. Nielsen's preliminary estimate a day earlier had pegged the Oscars at 9.85 million viewers. Either way, it's a record low audience for the movie awards show that only a half a decade ago was routinely reaching more than 30 million viewers each year. The Oscars were enough to give ABC the victory in the prime-time ratings last week, but not by a large margin over CBS.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/04/27/more-complete-count-pushes-oscars-to-10-4-million-viewers/

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean activist says he launched 500,000 propaganda leaflets by balloon into North Korea in defiance of a new law that criminalizes such actions. If confirmed, it would be the first violation of the law that carries punishment of up to three years in prison. The law has invited criticism South Korea is sacrificing freedom of expression to improve ties with North Korea. Police couldn't immediately confirm the launches. The activist said the 10 balloons he sent this week carried leaflets criticizing Kim Jong Un's government and 5,000 dollar bills.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/04/29/activist-says-he-flew-500k-leaflets-across-koreas-border/

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BARGNY, Senegal (AP) — In Bargny and other coastal villages of Senegal, traditional fishing and processing of the catch is a livelihood and a pride. Methods have been passed down through generations. Women work as processors — drying, smoking, salting and fermenting the catch brought home by men. These women like to say they were baptized by fish. But the pandemic devastated this industry that employs hundreds of thousands. Families lacked savings; they struggled for meals. Then late last month, a true fishing season began, with the catch coming off vast colorful boats and women again processing.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/05/10/hit-by-covid-senegals-women-find-renewed-hope-in-fishing/

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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials in Poland have defied an injunction by the top European Union court, saying that the ordered closure of a major brown coal mine would shake the nation's energy system and lay off thousands of employees. The development minister said Poland would not shut the lignite mine in Turow, on the border with Germany and the Czech Republic, but instead was engaged in intensive diplomatic and legal efforts to secure undisturbed operation of the mine and connected power plant.

https://wsiltv.com/2021/05/24/polands-energy-giant-defies-eu-court-ruling-to-close-mine/

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