BC-AP News Coverage Advisory, 10:15 Advisory
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HIGHLIGHTING
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TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT (sent, developing)
TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-DERSHOWITZ (sent)
TRUMP-ABORTION (sent, developing)
AP POLL-TRUMP-FOREIGN POLICY (sent)
TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-EPSTEIN (Upcoming)
CLERGY-ABUSE-NEW-ORLEANS SAINTS (sent)
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WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
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HOUSTON EXPLOSION — Authorities say one person is missing following a large explosion at an apparent industrial building in Houston. SENT: 375 words, photos.
GERMANY SHOOTING — German news agency dpa reports that six people were killed, several injured in a shooting. SENT: 105 words.
BACHELORETTE CONTESTANT DIES — Tyler Gwozdz, a former contestant on the reality TV show “The Bachelorette” has died of an apparent drug overdose. He was found unresponsive in a Florida apartment, police said. SENT: 155 words.
RUSSIA-ELEPHANTS ESCAPE — Two elephants decide to escape from a circus, wander, roll and cavort on the snowy streets of a Russian city. SENT: 225 words, photos.
S-TOWN LAWSUIT — Lawsuit over popular 'S-Town' podcast headed to mediation. SENT: 350 words.
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WASHINGTON/POLITICS
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TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT — Democratic House prosecutors made an expansive case at Donald Trump's impeachment trial that he abused power like no other president in history, swept up by a “completely bogus” Ukraine theory pushed by attorney Rudy Giuliani. SENT: 1150 words, photos, video. UPCOMING: Developing from 1 p.m. Senate trial resumption, 1,100 words by 6 p.m., with updates into the evening as Democrats finish their statements.
TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-DERSHOWITZ — Retired law professor Alan Dershowitz says he hasn't changed at all and has a long history of representing people whose views he doesn't necessarily agree with. Dershowitz is part of President Donald Trump's defense team at the Senate impeachment trial. It’s the latest high-profile case Dershowitz has participated in over the last half-century, but perhaps no other work he's done has so befuddled his associates, friends and former students. SENT: 1057 words, photo.
TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT HIGHLIGHTS — Highlights of the Senate trial. SENT: 760 words. UPCOMING: Developing, updates from Friday events by 8 p.m., photo.
TRUMP-ABORTION — As he heads into the 2020 election, President Trump is set to become the first sitting president to address the “March for Life,” the annual anti-abortion gathering that is one of the movement's highest profile and most symbolic events. SENT: 1100 words. UPCOMING: Developing from noon events, 1000 words by 3:20 p.m., photos, video.
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AP POLL-TRUMP-FOREIGN POLICY — A new poll shows Americans are more likely than not to support President Donald Trump’s decision to order a drone strike that killed an Iranian general, even amid widespread skepticism about his foreign policy overall. The poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research was taken about two weeks after the Jan. 3 strike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Iraq. SENT: 750 words, photo. (Only on AP)
MEDIA-DIVERGENT VIEWS — For many Americans, how they feel about issues raised during President Donald Trump's impeachment has much to do with where they get their news. A study released by the Pew Research Center illustrated these tendencies, along with the growing Republican suspicion of media sources during the Trump administration. By David Bauder. SENT: 625 words, photos.
TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-ABSOLUTE RIGHT — Donald Trump has repeatedly said he has the “absolute right” to do what he wants. That principle has governed how he operates with his staff, world leaders and lawmakers. His impeachment defense team is signaling it'll be a strategy in his Senate trial. By Colleen Long and Michael Warren. UPCOMING: 1100 words by 4:30 p.m., photos.
TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-EPSTEIN — Two of the lawyers on President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team have had another client in common: Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr both helped the late billionaire hedge fund manager and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein win a lenient sentence for abusing underaged girls. UPCOMING: 800 words by 5 p.m., photos.
TRUMP-MAYORS — President Donald Trump speaks to mayors from around the country about “transforming” communities. UPCOMING, developing from 4:15 p.m. remarks, 500 words by 6 p.m., photos.
ELECTION 2020-EARLY VOTING — The Iowa caucuses haven't yet happened, but millions of Americans are already free to vote. Many of the Super Tuesday states that hold primaries on March 3 offer early voting. That gives campaigns a chance to bank votes before results in the first four voting contests can reshape the trajectory of the race. SENT: 1,000 words, photo.
ELECTION 2020-DEMOCRATS — With Iowa caucus voting just over a week away, each of the Democratic Party's leading presidential candidates has glaring holes in his or her political bases. The gaps raise questions about the candidates' ability to build a coalition like the one Barack Obama built. SENT: 1200 words, photo.
ELECTION 2020-TRUMP-BLOOMBERG — Two wealthy, swaggering New Yorkers are battling it out for the nation's top office. But the similarities end there. Now Michael Bloomberg is trying to win the Democratic presidential nomination and deny President Donald Trump a second term, and he is doing it largely by running ads that attack Trump on a scale never seen. The president has started to notice. SENT: 1,300 words, photo.
BORDER PATROL — The Trump administration has named a new head of the U.S. Border Patrol. Rodney Scott will take over for Carla Provost, who is retiring, according to an announcement obtained by The Associated Press. SENT: 150 words, developing.
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NATIONAL
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CLERGY-ABUSE-NEW-ORLEANS SAINTS — The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area's Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis. By Jim Mustian. SENT: 985 words, photos.
SEXUAL MISCONDUCT-WEINSTEIN — It's the defense's go-to question at Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial: If the once-revered Hollywood mogul is a revolting sexual predator, as prosecutors and scores of women allege, why did some of his accusers keep interacting with him for years after their alleged assaults? SENT: 870 words, photos.
RARE COLUMBUS LETTER-RECOVERED — Federal agents in Delaware have recovered a more than 500-year-old copy of a letter penned by Christopher Columbus that vanished from an Italian library decades ago. SENT: 545 words.
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INTERNATIONAL
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IRAQ-US PROTEST — Thousands of supporters of an influential, radical Shiite cleric gather in central Baghdad for a rally to demand that American troops leave the country amid heightened anti-U.S. sentiment after a drone strike ordered by Washington earlier this month killed a top Iranian general in the Iraqi capital. SENT: 880 words, photos.
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HEALTH & SCIENCE
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CHINA-OUTBREAK — China is swiftly building a 1,000-bed hospital dedicated to patients infected with a new virus that has killed 26 people, sickened hundreds and prompted unprecedented lockdowns of cities during the country's most important holiday. By Yanan Wang. SENT: 960 words, photos.
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BUSINESS/ECONOMY
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FINANCIAL MARKETS — World stocks are rising after the outbreak of a new virus in China was not declared a global emergency. SENT: 415 words, photos. UPCOMING: Will be updated through 5 p.m.
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ENTERTAINMENT
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FILM-SUNDANCE-TAYLOR SWIFT – The normally private Taylor Swift premiered an intimate documentary Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival in which the pop star discloses a past eating disorder, chronicles her inner battle over speaking forthrightly about politics and says her victorious 2017 sexual assault court case was a dramatic turning point in her life. By AP Film Writer Jake Coyle. SENT: 650 words, photos, video.
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SPORTS
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TEN-AUSTRALIAN OPEN — Perhaps Serena Williams, now 38, will win a 24th Grand Slam title someday. And maybe Coco Gauff, still just 15, never will earn her first major championship. Sure felt, though, as if a generational shift was being signaled at the Australian Open, with a pair of monumentally significant third-round results hours apart in the same stadium: a surprising first-week loss by Williams, then a historic victory by Gauff. By Howard Fendrich. SENT: 1,120 words, photos.
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