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Indianapolis warns fines coming for virus rules violations

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press
    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis businesses not following the city's coronavirus restrictions will face a greater chance of fines as officials said Tuesday that they will ramp up enforcement.

Outcry in Somalia as new bill would allow child marriage

By CARA ANNA Associated Press
    JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An outcry is rising in Somalia as parliament considers a bill that would allow child marriage once a girl's sexual organs mature and would allow forced marriage as long as the family gives their consent.

Shooting near White House interrupts Trump's briefing on TV

By COLLEEN LONG, MICHAEL BALSAMO and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press

Inaction by Congress leaves states to pay for election costs

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press
    ATLANTA (AP) — Congress' failure so far to pass another round of coronavirus aid leaves state and local officials on their own to deal with the soaring costs of holding a presidential election amid a deadly pandemic.

Powerful derecho leaves path of devastation across Midwest

By RYAN J. FOLEY and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press

Seattle police chief to resign following department cuts

By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press
    SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle's police chief says she is stepping down, a move made public the same day the City Council approved reducing the department by as many as 100 officers through layoffs and attrition.

Racist videos bring attention to US House race in Georgia

By BEN NADLER Associated Press

Constraints gone, GOP ramps up effort to monitor voting

By ERIC TUCKER and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press

New York's true nursing home death toll cloaked in secrecy

By BERNARD CONDON, MATT SEDENSKY and MEGHAN HOYER Associated Press
    NEW YORK (AP) — Riverdale Nursing Home in the Bronx appears, on paper, to have escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, with an official state count of just four deaths in its 146-bed facility.

Virus surge makes US weak link in global economic recovery

By DAVID McHUGH, PAUL WISEMAN and JOE McDONALD AP Business Writers