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October 16, 2020 12:06 a.m.

Editorial Roundup: Idaho

Recent editorials from Idaho newspapers:

October 16, 2020 12:06 a.m.

AP News in Brief at 11:09 p.m. EDT

Trump, Biden go at it -- from a distance -- in town halls

October 16, 2020 12:06 a.m.

Activist fined for dislodging African art from Paris museum

PARIS (AP) — A Congolese activist was fined 2,000 euros ($2,320) on Wednesday for trying to take a 19th-century African funeral pole from a Paris museum in a protest against colonial-era injustice that he streamed online.

October 16, 2020 12:06 a.m.

Lives Lost: A woman of uncommon kindness, succumbs to virus

She was the little girl whose vocabulary burgeoned as she devoured book after book, and the student who earned a degree and went back for one more. She was the woman who children flocked to and teens turned to for mentoring or tutoring or to be spoiled with clothes and sneakers.

October 16, 2020 12:06 a.m.

Egyptian actor Mahmoud Yassin dies at age 79

CAIRO (AP) — Mahmoud Yassin, an Egyptian actor and pillar of the country's film industry during the second half of the 20th century, has died. He was 79.

October 16, 2020 12:03 a.m.

Black man's family views graphic video of in-custody death

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Family members viewed long-secret body-camera video this week of a Black man who died in Louisiana State Police custody, their attorney calling it damning footage that shows troopers choking and beating the man, repeatedly jolting him with stun guns and dragging him face-down across the pavement.

October 15, 2020 9:30 p.m.

Lives Lost: A woman of uncommon kindness, unshackled again

She was the little girl whose vocabulary burgeoned as she devoured book after book, and the student who earned a degree and went back for one more. She was the woman who children flocked to and teens turned to for mentoring or tutoring or to be spoiled with clothes and sneakers.

October 15, 2020 8:33 p.m.

AP News in Brief at 11:09 p.m. EDT

Trump, Biden go at it -- from a distance -- in town halls

October 15, 2020 6:36 p.m.

AP News in Brief at 9:04 p.m. EDT

Trump, Biden go at it -- from a distance -- in town halls

October 15, 2020 3:03 p.m.

Black man's family views graphic video of in-custody death

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Family members viewed long-secret body-camera video this week of a Black man who died in Louisiana State Police custody, their attorney calling it damning footage that shows troopers choking and beating the man, repeatedly jolting him with stun guns and dragging him face-down across the pavement.

October 15, 2020 7:33 a.m.

Editorial Roundup: Idaho

Recent editorials from Idaho newspapers:

October 15, 2020 6:06 a.m.

Over 5,600 Afghan families displaced by fighting in south

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (AP) — Renewed fighting between the Taliban and Afghan government forces in southern Helmand province has forced more than 5,600 families to flee their homes, officials said Thursday, the latest flareup that could undermine U.S. efforts to broker peace in the war-torn country.

October 15, 2020 12:09 a.m.

Former AP sports writer Ken Rappoport dead at age 85

Some people light up a room with their smile. Ken Rappoport could energize an entire arena or stadium with his laugh.

October 15, 2020 12:09 a.m.

Activist fined for dislodging African art from Paris museum

PARIS (AP) — A Congolese activist was fined 2,000 euros ($2,320) on Wednesday for trying to take a 19th-century African funeral pole from a Paris museum in a protest against colonial-era injustice that he streamed online.

October 15, 2020 12:09 a.m.

Egyptian actor Mahmoud Yassin dies at age 79

CAIRO (AP) — Mahmoud Yassin, an Egyptian actor and pillar of the country's film industry during the second half of the 20th century, has died. He was 79.

October 15, 2020 12:09 a.m.

Disney recruits Rapsody, others for EP honoring Black lives

NEW YORK (AP) — Grammy-nominated gifted lyricist Rapsody has written “maybe 15 verses this year to reflect the times” — as she put it — about the Black experience. So when Disney asked the rapper to pen a new tune for a new EP honoring Black lives and social justice, she thought to herself: “How else can I talk about what’s going on?”

October 15, 2020 12:09 a.m.

AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EDT

Trump, Biden go at it — from a distance — in town halls

October 15, 2020 12:09 a.m.

Former Idaho governor candidate indicted in 1984 killing

DENVER (AP) — A former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate was indicted Tuesday in the murder of Jonelle Matthews, a 12-year-old Colorado girl whose disappearance after a holiday concert in 1984 was a mystery for decades.

October 15, 2020 12:03 a.m.

COVID spike arrives late, hits hard in rural Kansas county

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — With COVID-19 cases surging in rural areas across the Midwest, a county sheriff in northwestern Kansas found himself struggling to breathe and landed in a hospital room more than an hour from home because there was no space at the local medical center.

October 15, 2020 12:03 a.m.

Kansas sets records for increases in COVID-19 cases, deaths

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas on Wednesday reported its largest seven-day increases in both COVID-19-related deaths and new coronavirus cases.