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Nov 14, 2024 | 
ktar.com | Bailey Leasure |Shanyn Lancaster
Gov. Katie Hobbs announced efforts to advance the state’s technology during a speech at the Governor’s Celebration of Innovation Awards on Wednesday. During her speech, Hobbs announced the creation of an AI steering committee which will help the deployment of artificial intelligence in Arizona. Using GenAI, the group will identify opportunities of when the technology can be used to drive productivity and security in the state.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
ktar.com | Shanyn Lancaster
HONOLULU (AP) — Navy officials “lacked sufficient understanding” of the risks of maintaining massive fuel storage tanks on top of a drinking water well at Pearl Harbor where spilled jet fuel poisoned more than 6,000 people in 2021, a U.S. military watchdog said Thursday. That lack of awareness came even though officials had engineering drawings and environmental studies that described the risks, the U.S. Department of Defense’s inspector general said.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
ktar.com | Serena O'Sullivan |Bailey Leasure |Shanyn Lancaster
PHOENIX — Each month, the team at KTAR News 92.3 FM throws roses at the stages of various donors that serve local charities. This month, the Community Spotlight is on Trajan Wealth, which spearheads a yearly initiative to improve the lives of domestic violence victims during the holiday season.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
ktar.com | Shanyn Lancaster
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers on Thursday postponed a vote on a key bill in Gov. Jeff Landry’s sweeping and complex tax reform package. Most of Landry’s proposed bills, granting approximately $2 billion in income and corporate tax cuts, have moved smoothly through the House of Representatives during the state’s third special legislative session of the year.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
ktar.com | Shanyn Lancaster
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has chosen North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to head the Interior Department. Some things to know about the two-term Republican governor of a sparsely populated state: Burgum’s background is in businessBurgum, 67, grew up in tiny Arthur, North Dakota, population 328. He earned a bachelor’s degree from North Dakota State University and his master’s of business administration from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
ktar.com | Bailey Leasure |Shanyn Lancaster
PHOENIX — Alternative rock band Linkin Park will perform in Phoenix in September during its 2025 From Zero World Tour. The 50-plus date tour will hit Footprint Center on Sept. 6 and will be in support of the band’s eighth studio album “From Zero,” which will be released on Friday. The concert will feature special guest Jean Dawson. Presales start Monday and tickets go on sale to the general public at 12 p.m. MST Thursday. “From Zero” is the band’s first album with new lead singer Emily Armstrong.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
ktar.com | Shanyn Lancaster
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — The man accused of killing seven people at a 2022 Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago was denied his constitutional right to legal representation while being interrogated by police hours after the shooting, defense attorneys alleged Thursday in court. Authorities have said Robert Crimo III confessed to the shooting that also left dozens injured.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
ktar.com | Shanyn Lancaster
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was building up a following with his anti-vaccine nonprofit group, Children’s Health Defense, and becoming one of the world’s most influential spreaders of fear and distrust around vaccines. Now, President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate Kennedy to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, which regulates vaccines. Kennedy has long advanced the debunked idea that vaccines cause autism.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
ktar.com | Shanyn Lancaster
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia state Senate Democrat wants to make it a crime for people to give children access to guns and require a 10-day waiting period for assault rifle purchases unless someone is licensed to carry weapons, two proposals highly unlikely to gain Republican support. But some of the policies Sen. Emanuel Jones of Decatur proposed Wednesday, including tax credits for safe gun storage devices, could advance when the state legislature reconvenes in January.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
ktar.com | Shanyn Lancaster
WASHINGTON (AP) — A computer expert who stole bitcoin worth billions of dollars at current prices — and then spent years laundering some of the hacked cryptocurrency with help from his wife — was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison. Ilya Lichtenstein masterminded one of the largest-ever thefts from a virtual currency exchange before he and his wife, Heather Rhiannon Morgan, carried out an elaborate scheme to liquidate the stolen funds, according to federal prosecutors.
