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CLEVELAND (AP) -- The spotlight for change is shining on the Cleveland Indians.

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) -- A federal judge agreed Monday to suspend a rule that requires women during the COVID-19 pandemic to visit a hospital, clinic or medical office to obtain an abortion pill.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A truck driver was sentenced Monday to 9 years in prison for causing a highway construction zone crash in Indianapolis that killed a woman and her 18-month-old twin daughters.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri prisoners are raising health concerns because guards are not always required to wear face masks during the coronavirus pandemic.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Voters will decide in November whether to remove the statutes of President Andrew Jackson from the downtown Kansas City courthouse and the Historic Truman Courthouse in Independence.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A man was charged Monday after allegedly threatening this weekend to use a gun at St. Mary's Hospital in Jefferson City.

WENTZVILLE, Mo. (AP) -- General Motors will temporarily lay off a shift of workers at its assembly plant in Wentzville amid coronavirus concerns that have kept some employees home.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A would-be carjacker was fatally shot Sunday after exchanging gunfire with a man whose car he tried to steal in downtown St. Louis, police said.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A protester has been charged in connection to last week's attack on two city employees who were trying to tow a car from a no-parking zone in front of City Hall, authorities said Monday.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A man has died and woman has been injured in an overnight shooting at Longview Lake in southern Kansas City, sheriff’s officials said.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The Missouri Department of Heath and Senior Services is reporting 310 more confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 27,443.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Authorities say seven people were arrested and two officers were injured Sunday as police worked to clear out a crowd of protesters who had camped outside St. Louis City Hall to call for the resignation of Mayor Lyda Krewson.

CREVE COEUR, Mo. (AP) -- Police investigating a weekend burglary in a St. Louis suburb found a dead woman at the scene.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Executions carried out by federal authorities have stopped, restarted and stopped again for long stretches since the first one in 1790, when U.S. marshals hanged a mariner in Maine for fatally shooting the captain of a slave ship.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Kansas City, Missouri, police are investigating after two people were found dead in a home Friday afternoon.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A judge rejected Friday a motion that that would have immediately made it easier for Missourians to vote with a mail-in ballot during the coronavirus pandemic.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The Missouri Department of Heath and Senior Services is reporting 472 more confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 27,133.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- The father of a missing 3-year-old Kansas girl was arrested late Friday after police said they believe they found her body.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Authorities executed a search warrant at the St. Louis mansion of a white couple whose armed defense of their home during a recent racial injustice protest drew widespread attention, their attorney confirmed Saturday.

BERKELEY, Mo. (AP) -- A man was found fatally shot early Saturday outside a Berkeley gas station, police said.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The U.S. Marshals Service is investigating after a protester was hospitalized in critical condition over the weekend after being hit in the head by a less-lethal round fired by a federal law enforcement officer, authorities said Monday.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Mary Trump can talk about the highly critical book she wrote about her uncle, President Donald Trump, over the objections of the president's brother, a judge ruled Monday.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A coalition of news media outlets is seeking public access to body camera video recorded by former officers charged in the death of George Floyd, while attorneys for the officers are asking that a gag order in the case be lifted, according to court documents filed Monday.

PARIS (AP) -- Amid pervasive backsliding on social distancing, Britain has made masks mandatory in shops and France is weighing whether to require people to wear them in public places.

DETROIT (AP) -- Manuel "Matty" Moroun, a billionaire businessman who owned a critical bridge that connects Michigan to Canada, has died in his suburban Detroit home. He was 93.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- David Pryor, a former Arkansas governor and U.S. senator, is hospitalized in Little Rock after testing positive for COVID-19, his family said in a statement Monday.

In a story July 12, 2020, about schools reopening, The Associated Press misidentified the first name of an American Academy of Pediatrics physician. He is Dr. Nathaniel Beers, not Dr. Nicholas Beers.

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Flames tore through a warship for a second day Monday as a top Navy official revealed that a fire suppression system was inoperable when the blaze erupted while the ship was docked in San Diego.

GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization's chief on Monday slammed some government leaders for eroding public trust by sending mixed messages on the coronavirus and warned that their failures to stop their countries’ spiraling outbreaks mean there would be no return to normal "for the foreseeable future."

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- An independent panel of national legal experts will review the conviction of an African American man sentenced as a teenager to life in prison for the murder of a little girl struck by a stray bullet, Northwestern University’s Center on Wrongful Convictions and the New York-based Innocence Project announced Monday.

LONDON (AP) -- The British government decided Monday to require people to wear face coverings in shops, joining a long list of countries that have made masks mandatory under some circumstances in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Glee" star Naya Rivera ’s 4-year-old son told investigators that his mother, whose body was found in a Southern California lake Monday, boosted him back on to the deck of their rented boat before he looked back and saw her disappearing under the water, authorities said.

MIAMI -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis acknowledged that the disease is spreading after the state set a national record with more than 15,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases reported Sunday, but maintained the spike was because of the expansion of testing.

CLEVELAND (AP) -- The spotlight for change is shining on the Cleveland Indians.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal government incurred the biggest monthly budget deficit in history in June as spending on programs to combat the coronavirus recession exploded while millions of job losses cut into tax revenues.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Two men and two teens have been charged in the death of rising rapper Pop Smoke who was killed during a Los Angeles home-invasion robbery in February, the district attorney’s office said Monday.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- An attorney for two people accused of being involved in a reported assault on a Black man at a southern Indiana lake said Monday his clients are victims of a "smear campaign" and a "rush to judgment."

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Activists against police brutality expressed outrage and pressed their demand for accountability Monday after video emerged over the weekend of an officer placing his knee on a man’s head and neck area outside a Pennsylvania hospital.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- With U.S. virus cases spiking and the death toll mounting, the White House is working to undercut its most trusted coronavirus expert, playing down the danger as President Donald Trump pushes to get the economy moving before he faces voters in November.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- A team of researchers and historians on Monday resumed test excavations of potential unmarked mass graves from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.