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  • Tropical Storm Claudette brings rain, floods to Gulf Coast

    June 19, 2021 - 9:45 AM

    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Thunderstorms and high winds on the east side of Tropical Storm Claudette battered the Florida panhandle and much of Alabama on Saturday, as the weather system moved toward the North Carolina coast.

  • Reports: US student found killed in Russia, suspect arrested

    June 19, 2021 - 10:00 AM

    MOSCOW (AP) — Russian news reports said searchers on Saturday found the body of an American student who went missing several days earlier and that a man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

  • Hard-line judiciary head wins Iran presidency as turnout low

    June 19, 2021 - 9:31 AM

    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's hard-line judiciary chief won a landslide victory Saturday in the country's presidential election, a vote that both propelled the supreme leader's protege into Tehran's highest civilian position and saw the lowest turnout in the Islamic Republic's history.

  • Myanmar rejects UN resolution urging arms embargo

    June 19, 2021 - 9:20 AM

    BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday rejected a U.N. General Assembly resolution calling for an arms embargo against the Southeast Asian nation and condemning the military's February seizure of power.

  • Warsaw pride parade back after backlash and pandemic break

    June 19, 2021 - 8:34 AM

    WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The largest gay pride parade in central Europe took place again in Warsaw for the first time in two years after a pandemic-induced break — and amid a backlash in Poland and Hungary against LGBT rights.

  • Afghanistan running out of oxygen as COVID surge worsens

    June 19, 2021 - 8:28 AM

    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's is racing to ramp up supplies of oxygen as a deadly third surge of COVID-19 worsens, a senior health official told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday.

  • Memphis erases Confederate general from its public spaces

    June 19, 2021 - 7:12 AM

    MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s polarizing presence has hung over Memphis since he moved here in 1852 — his legacy cemented by a giant statue that loomed over all who passed his gravesite in a popular park.

  • Amid reform movement, some GOP states give police more power

    June 19, 2021 - 7:11 AM

    COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — After a year of protests over police brutality, some Republican-controlled states have ignored or blocked police-reform proposals, moving instead in the other direction by granting greater powers to officers, making it harder to discipline them and expanding their authority to crack down on demonstrations.

  • Partygoers, police injured at curfew-busting rave in France

    June 19, 2021 - 6:46 AM

    PARIS (AP) — French police clashed with party-goers as they tried to break up an unauthorized rave in western France, authorities said Saturday. A 22-year-old man lost his hand and several others were injured amid the violence, including police.

  • Guinea declares end to latest Ebola outbreak that killed 12

    June 19, 2021 - 6:00 AM

    DAKAR, Senegal (AP) —
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    Malbec is a Bordeaux grape that you may not be too familiar with in our industry as a single varietal. Very popular in Argentina, Malbec is used in many of our B.C. blends and does not see the spotlight alone very often in B.C. Narrative wi

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