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16.03.2021 / 01:37

ICON Park levels up with new ‘In the Game’ experience

ORLANDO, Fla. – ICON Park officially opened its new attraction, “In The Game,” to families visiting the entertainment complex Monday.

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Brazil's Bolsonaro eyes 4th health minister as COVID rages

SAO PAULO – Brazil’s health minister Eduardo Pazuello said on Monday that President Jair Bolsonaro is planning to replace him amid the worst throes of COVID-19 in the country yet and after a series of errors decried by public health experts. One of the candidates to replace him, a renowned cardiologist, has already rejected the job.

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With NIL reform in limbo, NCAA heading toward busy June

The NCAA's efforts to allow athletes to earn money from personal endorsement and sponsorship deals are stuck in limbo, and June is shaping up to be a potentially busy and important month for college sports.

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Biden reportedly planning first major tax hike since 1993 in next economic package

President Biden is reportedly planning to include the first major tax hike in close to 30 years in the next economic spending bill set to follow his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package.The next spending initiative — which is expected to be even bigger, costing as much as $4 trillion — won't rely on just government debt as a funding source and could include an increase in both the corporate tax rate and the individual rate for high-income earners, according to Bloomberg News, citing a person familiar with the matter.The planned changes include: raising the corporate tax rate to 28% from 21%, raising the income tax rate on individuals earning more than $400,000, expanding the estate tax, creating a higher capital-gains tax rate for

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'I don’t need the vaccine': GOP worries threaten virus fight

FRONT ROYAL, Va. – In this rural swath of Virginia's Shenandoah valley, former President Donald Trump remains deeply admired, with lawn signs and campaign flags still dotting the landscape. The vaccines aimed at taming the coronavirus, however, aren't so popular.

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Crowds come in steady stream for Bike Week, spring break in Volusia County

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – As businesses are still recovering from a year of shutdowns and lower capacity restrictions, Daytona Beach is coming off Bike Week and just in time for spring break and St. Patrick’s Day.

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Vice President urges calm as Tanzania's leader still unseen

NAIROBI – As Tanzania's president has not been seen in public for more than two weeks, the East African country's vice president on Monday sought to reassure the nation, saying it was “normal” for human beings to suffer colds and other illnesses.

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Doctors’ opinions on masking more important than Trump’s: Biden

U.S. President Joe Biden said Monday that he has been advised the opinions of local doctors and medical experts are more important than former president Donald Trump on the matter of masking, even to his most fervent supporters.

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LGBTQ Catholics stung by Vatican rebuff of same-sex unions

The Vatican’s declaration that same-sex unions are a sin the Roman Catholic Church cannot bless was no surprise for LGBTQ Catholics in the United States — yet it stung deeply nonetheless.

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In early foreign policy tests, Biden takes on world as it is

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden in his early days in office has vowed a dramatic reordering of U.S. foreign policy from his predecessor. Yet on some of the most difficult issues, he's shown a preference for using the scalpel over the sledgehammer as he implements his own agenda and tries to move away from Trumpism.

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Security officials to scale back fencing around US Capitol

WASHINGTON – Security officials will soon start to scale back the perimeter fencing surrounding the Capitol in response to guidance from the U.S. Capitol Police that “there does not exist a known, credible threat" that warrants keeping the temporary barrier in place.

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First lady Jill Biden to visit Burlington County, NJ on Monday

BURLINGTON COUNTY, N.J. - First Lady Jill Biden is making a visit to Burlington County, New Jersey on Monday.The First Lady will tour a school in the afternoon. The nature of the visit is not yet known. Afterward, she's expected to deliver remarks with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy.Her visit to the area comes just a day before President Joe Biden is expected to visit Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Last week, President Biden directed states to make all adults eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine no later than May 1.

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Wells Fargo, Chase criticized over timing of third stimulus check delivery

With cash on the way in the form of pandemic-related stimulus checks, many Americans face a tough question – what to do with the money? (iStock) Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase told customers they may not receive the third round of stimulus checks until at least Wednesday, drawing ire from some Americans who were hoping to see the money arrive sooner.Millions of Americans are poised to receive direct cash payments worth up to $1,400 after President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan last week, injecting another $1.9 trillion into the nation's pandemic-battered economy.

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President Biden to name Sperling to oversee COVID-19 relief package

Gene Sperling, a veteran of the Clinton and Obama administrations, will lead the oversight for distributing funds from President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus rescue package, a White House official said Monday.

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Here’s when Wells Fargo and Chase bank customers can expect their stimulus payments

ORLANDO, Fla. – Wells Fargo and Chase bank customers will not receive their stimulus payments until mid-week at the earliest.

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Automakers embrace electric vehicles. But what about buyers?

DETROIT – The world’s major automakers have made something abundantly clear: They believe electric vehicles will dominate their industry in the years ahead.

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Cities, groups aim to stop Ohio's push for early census data

A coalition of cities, counties and civil rights groups sued the U.S. Census Bureau last year to stop it from ending the 2020 census early out of fear a premature finish would undercount minority communities. Now, that coalition is attempting to block the state of Ohio from trying to force the statistical agency, under a new administration, into releasing data used for drawing congressional and legislative districts earlier than planned.

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Deb Haaland: Biden's pick for interior secretary faces final historic vote

WASHINGTON - The Senate is set to vote Monday on the likely confirmation of Deb Haaland, President Joe Biden’s pick as interior secretary. The historic move would make her the first Native American to lead a Cabinet agency.Earlier this month, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved Haaland's nomination, 11-9, sending it to the Senate floor.

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‘I don’t think I’ll be the last:’ Meet Florida’s first Black female winemaker

Florida’s first Black female vintner said her family’s love story inspired her to start her own wine company.

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Biden, Harris and others to promote COVID-19 relief plan's benefits

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses are opening an ambitious, cross-country tour this week to highlight the benefits of his $1.9 trillion plan to defeat the coronavirus and boost the economy.The roadshow — dubbed the "Help is Here" tour by the White House — begins Monday with Harris heading to a COVID-19 vaccination site and a culinary academy in Las Vegas and first lady Jill Biden touring a New Jersey elementary school.The president will have more to say about the plan Monday at the White House, and he plans to visit a small business in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday.

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Myanmar junta orders martial law in 6 Yangon townships

YANGON – Myanmar's ruling junta has declared martial law in six townships in the country's largest city, as security forces killed dozens of protesters over the weekend in an increasingly lethal crackdown on resistance to last month’s military coup.

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1st US ministers' Japan visit under Biden to focus on China

TOKYO – Concerns about China's growing influence in the region is expected to be a main focus when two ministers of President Joe Biden's administration visits Japan for their first in-person talks with their Japanese counterparts.

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Biden, Harris and others to promote relief plan's benefits

WASHINGTON – Let the sales push begin.

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Biden breaks his silence on Cuomo sexual harassment scandal, declines to call for his resignation

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Biden declines to call for Cuomo to resign, awaits probe

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Sunday passed up an opportunity to join other Democrats calling for the resignation of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is under investigation after multiple allegations of sexual harassment.

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Pelosi pledges swift work on major infrastructure package

WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday pledged swift work by Congress on a job and infrastructure package that will be “fiscally sound,” but acknowledged she wasn’t sure whether the next major item on President Joe Biden’s agenda will attract Republican backing.

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Mexico's last island penal colony may now host cruise ships

MEXICO CITY – Mexican officials said ferries and cruise ships may soon be visiting the former Isla Marias prison, after the last island penal colony in the Americas was closed and turned into an environmental education center in 2019.

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Fauci: Trump should urge his followers to get vaccinated

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday he wishes former President Donald Trump would use his popularity among Republicans to persuade his followers to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Brazil wonders about whereabouts of vaccine mascot

RIO DE JANEIRO – Rumors and conspiracy theories swirled this past week regarding the whereabouts of Zé Gotinha, the mascot for the nation’s national vaccination program.

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Immigrant victims of crime hope Congress eases visa hurdles

HARRISBURG, Pa. – In a bid to become a legal permanent resident of the United States, she says she lives in fear, afraid both of being deported and of retribution after she testified against men who were convicted of killing her boyfriend.

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Congressman Soto talks $1.9 trillion relief bill, Puerto Rico statehood

President Biden last week signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan as the world marked one year since the World Health Organization declared the virus a pandemic.

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Democrats bank on relief aid to win back wary working class

JEANNETTE, Pa. – When Joe Biden visited this corner of southwestern Pennsylvania in the final weeks before the election, his goal wasn't to win it so much as to show the area's overwhelmingly white working-class electorate that his party was at least willing to try.

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Call me? US-Turkey reset faces long list of hurdles

ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has toned down his anti-Western and anti-US rhetoric in an apparent effort to reset the rocky relationship with his NATO allies, but so far he's been met by silence from U.S. President Joe Biden.

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China, NKorea loom as Blinken, Austin head to Asia

WASHINGTON – Threats from China and North Korea will loom large over the Biden administration's first Cabinet-level trip abroad, part of a larger effort to bolster U.S. influence and calm concerns about America's role in Asia.

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Hondurans to vote in primaries amid corruption allegations

TEGUCIGALPA – Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández’s name keeps popping up in the New York trial of an alleged drug trafficker. And one of the candidates running to replace him in Sunday’s primary elections has been convicted in the same court of laundering money for the same cartel.

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For President Biden, there’s no place like a weekend home in Delaware

WILMINGTON, Del. - As he stood in the Rose Garden celebrating his first big legislative win, President Joe Biden gestured to the White House and said it’s a "magnificent building" to live in.Except on weekends.Of the eight weekends since Biden took office, he has spent three at his longtime home outside Wilmington, Delaware, including this weekend. Tentative plans for another weekend visit were scrubbed due to Senate action on Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan.Biden also spent a weekend at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland.Many presidents have complained at one point or another about feeling confined in the White House.

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Military aircraft seen flying over Delaware County ahead of President Biden's visit

DELAWARE COUNTY - Residents in Delaware County and neighboring areas reported seeing a military aircraft flying overhead on Saturday as the region prepares for a visit from President Joe Biden early next week. The West Goshen Police Department said the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) designated Delaware County and roughly 12 surrounding nautical miles as "restricted airspace for a VIP until roughly 10 p.m. Saturday."President Biden, who is currently in his home city of Wilmington, will be in Delaware County on Tuesday.

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Critics call Sen. Ron Johnson's insurrection comments racist

MILWAUKEE – Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson is being called racist for an interview in which the white Republican said he wasn't worried about the predominantly white supporters of President Donald Trump during the deadly insurrection at the Capitol, but that he might have been if they had been Black Lives Matter protesters.

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AP Interview: Afghan minister warns US against hasty retreat

KABUL – Afghanistan’s Interior Minister Masoud Andarabi warned on Saturday against a hasty U.S. retreat from the war-ravaged country, saying that the Taliban's ties to al-Qaida remain intact and that a swift pullout would worsen global counterterrorism efforts.

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AP Interview: Morey embraces challenges of leading 76ers

PHILADELPHIA – Like any top NBA executive this time of the season, Daryl Morey is trying to better his roster. Sure, NBA Top Shot — sort of a collectible highlight reel — is in its infancy, but Morey is all in on the frenzy stirred by digital dunks and nonfungible fast breaks.

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Rescue aid package may reduce inequality, but for how long?

WASHINGTON – Democrats have celebrated President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan as a blow against one of America’s most entrenched economic woes: The vast inequality that divides the richest from the rest — a gap made worse by the viral pandemic.

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How Cuomo investigation, possible impeachment could play out

NEW YORK – Gov. Andrew Cuomo has urged New Yorkers to “wait for the facts."

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Police detain participants in Russian opposition forum

MOSCOW – Russian police on Saturday detained more than 170 participants of a forum of independent members of municipal councils, an action that comes amid the authorities’ multi-pronged crackdown on dissent.

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Democratic push to revive earmarks divides Republicans

WASHINGTON – Can lawmakers bring home the bacon without it being pork?

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Biden played 'sheriff' on '09 aid, now salesman on COVID law

WASHINGTON – In 2009, then-Vice President Joe Biden was "Sheriff Joe,” the enforcer making sure federal dollars from a massive economic aid package were getting to the right places and quickly.

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Democrats find support for Biden in small-city America

MANKATO, Minn. – Mary McGaw grew up in a Republican home on the rural prairie of south central Minnesota. But as she moved from her tiny town of Amboy to the nearest city of Mankato to study nursing, her politics migrated too.

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Biden boosts US vaccine stockpile as world waits

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden has directed his administration to order another 100 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, growing a likely U.S. surplus of doses later this year while much of the rest of the world struggles with deep shortages.

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Top Dems call on Cuomo to resign amid harassment allegations

NEW YORK - Both of New York's Senators and multiple members of its congressional delegation joined the growing chorus of legislators calling for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign over sexual misconduct allegations and a nursing home scandal.In a statement released on Friday, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, both Democrats, called on Cuomo to resign."Due to the multiple, credible sexual harassment and misconduct allegations, it is clear that Governor Cuomo has lost the confidence of his governing partners and the people of New York," the joint statement read.

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