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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s High Court on Friday granted bail to three young female opposition activists who assert they were tortured and sexually assaulted by state agents but were then arrested for allegedly lying about the ordeal. They face up to 20 years in prison.

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — A social media video showing a white man calling the police on a group of Black and Hispanic men in Connecticut has prompted a police investigation and is drawing comparisons to a similar incident in New York's Central Park last month.

NEW YORK (AP) — Police are investigating the fatal street-corner shooting of a young woman in a Manhattan shopping district.

KINLOCH, Mo. (AP) — A St. Louis rapper who went by the stage name Huey was killed in a shooting that also wounded another man, authorities say.

Texas and Florida clamped down on bars again Friday in the biggest retreat yet amid a surge across the South and West that sent the number of confirmed new coronavirus infections per day in the U.S. to an all-time high of 40,000.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The leader of a group for Black students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison wants a statue of President Abraham Lincoln in place for more than 100 years the heart of campus removed.

Muir Woods National Monument, the historic preserve of old growth coastal redwoods 20 miles north of San Francisco, will reopen to visitors on Monday after being closed for over three months due to the coronavirus pandemic.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-controlled House is moving toward approval of a bill to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, saying Congress has both the moral obligation and constitutional authority to ensure that the city's 700,000 residents are allowed full voting rights, no longer subject to "taxation without representation.''

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia school officials are making changes regarding how the district handles security.

Geoffrey Berman, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, is still searching for a buyer for his home in Princeton, NJ.

LONDON (AP) — A police officer in the Scottish city of Glasgow has been stabbed while a male suspect has been shot by an armed officer in the heart of the city Friday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon said Friday that it is buying self-driving technology company Zoox, which envisions a future where people will request a ride on their phones and a car will drive up without a driver.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Heavily armed gunmen attacked and wounded Mexico City’s police chief in a brazen operation that left an unspecified number of dead, Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said Friday.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — As families deal with disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, several state agencies are teaming up to distribute 25,000 health and wellness kits to New Hampshire families that include dental supplies, medication disposal pouches, and flyers on monitoring emotional and mental well-being.

Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street, led by declines in banks after regulators told them they had to cap their dividends and halt stock buybacks in order to shore up their defenses in case the recession gets worse. The S&P 500 fell 0.5% in early trading Friday. Nike also fell after reporting a big loss as most of its stores were forced to close. Investors were disappointed to see that the number of confirmed new coronavirus cases per day in the U.S. hit an all-time high of 40,000, surpassing... Читать дальше...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — One person was killed and three others were wounded in a shooting Thursday night in Bridgeport that police officials attribute to years-long tensions between violent groups.

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A northern Illinois man was electrocuted when he came into contact with power lines in Rockford, authorities said.

RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — Eight police officers in Vermont who were involved in the arrest and transfer of a Pennsylvania woman later found to have COVID-19 have tested negative in their first round of tests, a police chief said Friday.

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Southeast Asian leaders held their annual summit by video Friday to show unity and discuss a regional emergency fund to respond to the immense crisis brought by the coronavirus pandemic. Long-divisive South China Sea conflicts were also in the spotlight.

WASHINGTON (AP) — American consumers increased their spending by a record 8.2% in May, partly erasing record plunges the previous two months, against the backdrop of an economy that’s likely shrinking by its steepest pace on record this quarter.

CA Medford, OR Zone Forecast for Friday, June 26, 2020

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time a Supreme Court justice announced his retirement in a presidential election year, most of the current justices were too young to vote.

NEW YORK (AP) — If it weren’t for Grammy-winning rapper Young Thug, Lil Yachty’s latest album might be filled with slow, melodic love songs, the opposite of what fans received last month.

Is your dog or cat taking over the house? Here are genius ideas and products that'll keep pet fur, toys, and odors at bay.

What a time, what a time.

What day is it? What month is it? Why does it feel like we’ve been living through decades’ worth of history over the past few months — yet the actual hours are passing by so slowly?

The first half of 2020 has been a time warp.

Maybe that’s how a new era is supposed to feel.

No, we won’t be going back to “normal.” I realize we all have moments when we want to return to what’s comfortable. Some people’s desire for what was “normal” is so strong that they’re refusing to wear masks... Читать дальше...