AP News Coverage Advisory, 10:20
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VIRUS OUTBREAK
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VIRUS OUTBREAK — Monday marked another milestone in the global battle to outwit the new coronavirus, as reported infections in the rest of the world overtook those in China. Millions of people in Europe and the United States began holing up at home amid rapid-fire border closures announced by one nation after the other. SENT: 1,240 words, photos. With VIRUS OUTBREAK-THE LATEST; VIRUS OUTBREAK-WHAT'S HAPPENING (both sent)
FINANCIAL MARKETS — Global stock markets and U.S. futures have fallen in a rebuke from investors to emergency central bank action to shore up economic growth as anti-virus controls shut down business and travel. The selloff followed the Federal Reserve's surprise decision to slash interest rates. London and Frankfurt opened down more than 2%. Sydney's benchmark plunged 9.7% and Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 4%. Japan's benchmark sank 2.5% after the Bank of Japan announced it was expanding its monetary easing and providing 0% loans for companies that are running short of cash due to the virus outbreak. SENT: 1,180 words, photo. With VIRUS OUTBREAK-CHINA-ECONOMY — China’s consumer spending and factory activity fell more than expected in January and February as it fought a virus outbreak, prompting some forecasters to warn this year’s economic growth might slump to its lowest level since the 1970s. SENT: 710 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-BUSINESS-FALLOUT — Global markets and businesses big and small opened the week to a landscape seemingly altered by the coronavirus pandemic. A host of retail chains have shut their doors or diminished hours of business. Banks are taking steps to keep cash on hand, lots of it. Markets in Asia, Europe and the U.S. are plunging. Following is a quick look at how the outbreak is impacting the financial and business sector, as well as millions of workers and customers. SENT: 950 words, photos.
AP EXPLAINS-VIRUS OUTBREAK-FEDERAL-RESERVE — Brandishing an array of financial weapons, the Federal Reserve announced extraordinary action Sunday to try to blunt the heavy damage the coronavirus outbreak has begun to inflict on the U.S. economy. SENT: 860 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-MIDEAST — Iran reported another 129 fatalities from the new coronavirus, the largest one-day rise in deaths since it began battling the Middle East's worst outbreak, which has claimed more than 850 lives and infected a number of senior officials in the country. SENT: 990 words, photo
VIRUS OUTBREAK-WASHINGTON — President Trump is calling on people to stop hoarding groceries and other supplies as one of the nation's most senior public health officials urged Americans to act with more urgency to protect themselves and others against the coronavirus. SENT: 1,230 words, photos. UPCOMING: Developing from 10:30 a.m. briefing. With VIRUS OUTBREAK-WHITE HOUSE — The White House put in place new measures to protect President Trump and his staff during the coronavirus outbreak, including taking the temperature of anyone who enters the complex. SENT: 650 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-TOM HANKS — An Australian television journalist said he has the new coronavirus and assumes he contracted it while meeting with actress-singer Rita Wilson in Sydney. SENT: 660 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-PEACE CORPS — The Peace Corps is telling its volunteers around the world that it is suspending all operations globally and evacuating all volunteers in light of the spread of the new coronavirus. SENT: 240 words, photo.
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WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
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FRANCE-APPLE — France fines Apple $1.2 billion for anti-competitive acts. SENT: 170 words, photo.
JAPAN-KNIFE-ATTACK — A Japanese court sentenced a former care home employee to hang for knifing to death 19 disabled people and injuring two dozen others in the deadliest mass attack in post World War II Japan. SENT: 590 words, photos.
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WASHINGTON/POLITICS
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ELECTION 2020-DEBATE-ANALYSIS — As he campaigns for president, Joe Biden's moderate approach to governing often fails to excite his party's most passionate voters. But on the debate stage, as the nation wrestled with the consequences of a frightening pandemic, Biden's pragmatism broke through in ways that affirmed why he has become the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. SENT: 840 words, photo.
ELECTION 2020-DEBATE -- Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders sought in the Democratic debate to cast themselves as best-positioned to lead the nation through a global pandemic, uniting in their criticism of President Donald Trump's response to the fast-moving coronavirus but diverging in how they would confront the spiraling public health and economic crisis. SENT: 1,010 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-DEBATE TAKEAWAYS — Former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders launched a new phase of the 2020 presidential election Sunday night, with a one-on-one debate held in a Washington studio without a studio audience. Some key takeaways. SENT: 1300 words, photo.
ELECTION 2020-DEBATE-FACT CHECK — Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders sparred one-on-one Sunday in a Democratic debate held without a live audience in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic. The growing crisis prompted some questionable statements from the presidential rivals, as did issues they argued about for months on once-crowded stages. A look at how some of their claims compare with the facts. SENT: 1100 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-DEBATE-NO AUDIENCE — They came together to bump elbows, then retreated by six feet — and stood there in awkward silence. The visual, dictated by the threat of coronavirus, came to define Sunday's audience-free debate as Democrats Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders struggled to step together against President Donald Trump in the time of COVID-19. SENT: 590 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-BIDEN-RUNNING MATE — Former Vice President Joe Biden commits to naming a woman as his running mate if he's the Democratic presidential nominee, making a definitive assertion clamored for by some voters who have watched a historically diverse candidate field dwindle to two white men. SENT: 335 words, photo.
ELECTION 2020-DEBATE-MEDIA — From its location in a Washington studio to podiums placed 6 feet apart, CNN's handling of Sunday's Democratic presidential debate illustrated how much the world had changed since the last time Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders met onstage. SENT: 640 words, photo.
ELECTION 2020-OLD-NEW AMERICA — Sharing the primary calendar Tuesday are two states that represent different pieces of America: Ohio, a largely white state that’s barely growing and looking to rebound from a decline in manufacturing, and Arizona, a state where one-third of the population is Latino and growth is exploding. One looks more like the nation's past, the other could be its future. SENT: 1170 words, photos.
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INTERNATIONAL
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SYRIA-IDLIB ON THE BRINK — The city of Idlib is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year on Monday, has shrunk in geographical scope to a corner of the country but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. The Associated Press traveled to Idlib last week, witnessing the scale of the displacement and violence brought upon the area that's home to over 3 million people in a recent government offensive. SENT: 1,520 words, photos.
82nd AIRBORNE IN COLOMBIA — Under a covered pavilion near a steaming runway at Colombia's Tolemaida Air Base, dozens of American paratroopers lie sweating on a concrete slab. Green and brown camouflage face paint drips from their brows.The Associated Press was given rare access to accompany the group on its January joint training mission with Columbia, amid a humanitarian crisis in neighboring Venezuela that has sent thousands of refugees fleeing over the border. By Sarah Blake Morgan. UPCOMING: 920 words, photos, video at 9 a.m. This is the Tuesday spotlight.
FRANCE-ATTACKS — French judges investigating the 2015 Islamic State attacks that left 130 people dead in Paris have ordered charges against 20 people, including a Belgian accused of masterminding the attacks who was held for years in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq before being freed and returned home. SENT: 140 words, photo.
MOZAMBIQUE-CYCLONE ANNIVERSARY — A year after hundreds of people were killed by one of the southern hemisphere's worst cyclones, Mozambique's port city of Beira is rebounding. But more than a million people need food aid there and in the surrounding countryside. UNICEF estimates that 1.6 million people in the southern African country don’t have enough food to eat. SENT: 580 words, photos.
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MISSOURI-SHOOTING — Five people including a police officer and a gunman have died in a shooting at a Missouri gas station after the gunman went inside and opened fire, police said Monday. SENT: 250 words, photos. UPCOMING: Developing.
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SPORTS
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SPORTS TV-TAPED WEEKEND: Networks scrambled to fill weekend sports programming. CBS aired championship games from past Big Ten and Atlantic 10 tournaments on Saturday and Sunday. During the hour that CBS was supposed to be showing the tournament selections, viewers in New York saw the news while Los Angeles aired an infomercial. NBC and Golf Channel showed the final two rounds of last year's Players Championship after the PGA Tour canceled the final three rounds on Friday. SENT: 620 words, photos.
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