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ELECTION 2020 — Americans are making their choice between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, selecting a leader to steer a nation battered by a surging pandemic that has killed more than 231,000 people and cost millions their jobs. By Jonathan Lemire, Zeke Miller and Alexandra Jaffe. SENT: 1,360 words, photos. UPCOMING: Updates throughout the day. With ELECTION 2020-WHAT TO WATCH — Election Day is finally here — even though 100 million people have already cast ballots. SENT: 1,000 words, photos.
ELECTION-2020-VOTING — Election Day in the U.S. is unfolding like no other, with nearly 100 million Americans having already cast their ballots before polls opened. Voters took advantage of absentee balloting and early in-person voting amid a pandemic that has killed more than 230,000 Americans and worries about whether the Postal Service would deliver their ballot on time. Trump has been claiming without evidence that mail ballots will lead to widespread voter fraud and has threated to file lawsuits to stop the counting of late-arriving ballots in some states. By Christina A. Cassidy and Anthony Izaguirre. SENT: 980 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-LEGAL CHALLENGES — Trump says he’s planning an aggressive legal strategy to try prevent Pennsylvania from counting mailed ballots that are received in the three days after the election. Both parties have enlisted legal teams to prepare for the possibility that voting won’t settle the contest. By Mark Sherman. SENT: 970 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-SENATE — Control of the Senate is at stake. Republicans are fighting to retain their majority against a surge of Democratic challengers across a vast political map — New England, the Deep South, the Midwest, the Mountain West — in states once considered longshots for Democrats. By Congressional Correspondent Lisa Mascaro. SENT: 1,090 words, photo.
Find more coverage on the 2020 U.S. Elections featured topic page in AP Newsroom.
AUSTRIA-POLICE-OPERATION — Austrian authorities say five people died, including an assailant, and 17 others were wounded in a shooting in the heart of Vienna hours before a coronavirus lockdown started. The country’s interior minister says the dead attacker was a 20-year-old Austrian-North Macedonian dual national who had a previous terror conviction. By Philipp Jenne and Frank Jordans. SENT: 720 words, photos.
AFGHANISTAN — Afghans are mourning the 22 mostly students killed in a horrific attack a day earlier on Kabul University, an attack claimed by the Islamic State. By Tameem Akhgar and Kathy Gannon. SENT: 450 words, photos.
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WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT
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ELECTION 2020-PENNSYLVANIA VOTES-MISINFORMATION — Conservative commentator Wendy Bell is falsely claiming that the administration of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is attempting to “silence voters” by ordering people who were potentially exposed to the coronavirus to stay home on Election Day. SENT: 480 words.
NETHERLANDS-METRO-WHALE — A salvage operation is underway to lift a runaway metro train off a sculpture of a whale’s tail, where it landed after plowing through the end of an elevated section of rails. SENT: 150 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-MICHIGAN — Meals at Michigan restaurants came with a new side dish: What’s your name and phone number? SENT: 320 words.
WALMART-ROBOTS —Walmart is laying off the robots it had deployed in about 500 stores to keep tabs on what’s on and not on the shelves. SENT: 160 words.
RESTAURANTS-BANKRUPTCIES — The coronavirus pandemic has dealt the final blow to many restaurant chains, the latest being Friendly’s. SENT: 450 words, photo.
ELECTION 2020-BIDEN MASK-MISINFORMATION — Trump’s supporters seize on a photo circulating on Twitter that shows Biden not wearing a mask while he talks to a campaign staffer, although the photo was taken in November 2019. By Amanda Seitz. SENT: 420 words.
ELECTION-2020-THE-DAY-IN-PHOTOS — Election Day is Nov. 3, but the nation has been teeming with voting activity for weeks as the 2020 campaign barrels down the home stretch.
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VIRUS-OUTBREAK-GERMANY-ANTIGEN-TESTS — As Europe tries to break the surging second wave of coronavirus infections, Germany is betting on a new type of test to protect vulnerable populations SENT: 1,000 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-EUROPE — A lockdown has come into effect in northern Greece as the southeastern European country joins the list of the continent’s nations tightening restrictions to restrain rapidly increasing coronavirus infections. SENT: 540 words, photos.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-VIRAL-QUESTIONS-WEATHER — Does weather affect the spread of the coronavirus outside? Not really. SENT: 310 words, photo.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-THE LATEST — The British government plans to trial a new citywide coronavirus testing program in Liverpool, offering regular testing to everyone who lives and works in the city of 500,000 in an effort to slow transmissions. SENT: 1,430 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-IMMIGRATION ORDER — Democratic lawmakers call on the Trump administration to stop the expulsion of unaccompanied children and other asylum seekers at the U.S. border using emergency powers granted during the coronavirus pandemic. SENT: 520 words, photo.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-NAVAJO NATION —Lawmakers on the Navajo Nation has approved legislation to reopen the tribe’s four casinos, even as the tribe’s health director warned that the coronavirus is spreading uncontrollably. SENT: 620 words.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-ALASKA — The leaders of the Alaska House and Senate say they do not have the votes to call the Legislature into special session to extend a disaster declaration for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and asked Gov. Mike Dunleavy for his help. SENT: 580 words.
HONG KONG-CHINA — Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam will travel to Beijing to meet with Chinese officials to seek help in reviving Hong Kong’s economy and discuss reopening the borders with mainland China as coronavirus infections in her city dwindle. SENT: 450 words, photos.
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ELECTION 2020-DIXVILLE NOTCH — Two tiny New Hampshire communities that vote for president just after the stroke of midnight on Election Day have cast their ballots, with one of them marking 60 years since the tradition began. The results in Dixville Notch, near the Canadian border, were a sweep for Biden who won the town’s five votes. In Millsfield, 12 miles (20 kilometers) to the south, Trump won 16 votes to Biden’s five. SENT: 320 words.
ELECTION 2020-NEVADA LAWSUIT — Trump’s re-election campaign and Nevada Republicans filed notice that they’ll ask the state Supreme Court to stop the count of mail-in ballots in Clark County, the state’s most populous and Democratic-leaning county, including Las Vegas. SENT: 650 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-TEXAS — A federal judge has rejected a last-ditch Republican effort to invalidate nearly 127,000 votes in Houston. SENT: 880 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-SENATE-ALASKA — The major candidates in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race are making their last push for votes ahead of Tuesday’s election, with the campaigns calling Alaskans and knocking on doors and the candidates doing last-minute rallies and stops. SENT: 800 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-NEW MEXICO — New Mexico election officials are bracing for a final day of in-person voting and absentee-ballot deliveries as Democratic candidates seek to extend their domination in federal elections and Republicans try to reclaim a footing in Congress and reelect the president. SENT: 780 words, photo.
ELECTION 2020-SENATE-ALABAMA — U.S. Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama has made a flurry of campaign stops as the Deep South Democrat tries to avoid being swept away by Republican Tommy Tuberville and a red wave on Election Day. SENT: 610 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-ARIZONA — Republican Sen. Martha McSally and other GOP candidates barnstormed Arizona as they worked to get out their voters with their traditional election eve rallies. SENT: 960 words, photos.
ELECTION-2020-SENATE-IOWA — Six years after Iowa voters overwhelmingly elected Joni Ernst to the U.S. Senate, the Republican is in a tight contest with Democrat Theresa Greenfield in one of the nation’s most expensive races. SENT: 480 words, photos.
A separate wire advisory has moved outlining our complete Election 2020 coverage.
Find more coverage on the 2020 U.S. Elections featured topic page in AP Newsroom.
SUPREME COURT-JUVENILE LIFE IN PRISON — The Supreme Court hears arguments in a case that could put the brakes on what has been a gradual move toward more leniency for children who are convicted of murder. SENT: 470 words, photos. UPCOMING: 650 words after 10 a.m. arguments.
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TURKEY-EARTHQUAKE — Turkish rescuers in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir have pulled a young girl out alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building four days after a strong earthquake hit Turkey and Greece. SENT: 570 words, photos.
TROPICAL WEATHER — Dangerously powerful Hurricane Eta is churning toward Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast with potentially devastating winds and rain. SENT: 600 words, photo.
IRAN — Iran’s supreme leader mocked America’s presidential election in a televised address, quoting Trump’s own baseless claims about voter fraud to criticize the vote as Tehran marked the 1979 U.S. Embassy hostage crisis. SENT: 590 words, photos.
PUERTO RICO-ELECTION — Voters across Puerto Rico are choosing new leaders they hope can help heal a U.S. territory wracked by corruption, hurricanes, earthquakes and the coronavirus. SENT: 560 words, photos.
QATAR — Qatar’s emir announced on Tuesday that the country will hold elections for its top advisory panel next year, a long-promised step that aims to give the country’s citizens more say on how their hereditary emirate is governed. SENT: 400 words, photo.
THAILAND-PROTESTS — A top leader of Thailand’s pro-democracy protests is insisting that the student-led movement will not back down from its most controversial demand, that the country’s monarchy undergo reforms. SENT: 440 words, photos.
FRANCE-MALI — Officials say French military forces fighting Islamic extremists in West Africa killed more than 50 jihadists and detained four in an operation last week in Mali. SENT: 280 words.
UGANDA-BOBI WINE — Ugandan police have again arrested Bobi Wine, a popular singer and opposition presidential hopeful, just after he was successfully certified as a candidate in next year’s election. SENT: 370 words, photo.
IVORY-COAST-ELECTIONS — Ivory Coast’s electoral commission says President Alassane Ouattara has overwhelmingly won a third term in office after his two main opponents boycotted the election. SENT: 770 words, photos.
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IMMIGRATION-PUBLIC BENEFITS-LAWSUIT — A federal judge in Chicago has struck down a Trump administration rule that would deny green cards to immigrants who use food stamps or other public benefits. SENT: 660 words, photo.
BLACK-CHURCH-FIRES — A Louisiana man who admitted to burning down three predominantly African American churches has been sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to pay the churches $2.6 million. SENT: 500 words, photo.
STUN GUN DEATH — Georgia’s highest court has found that a lower court was wrong to grant immunity from prosecution to three sheriff’s deputies facing murder charges arising from a man’s stun gun death. SENT: 730 words.
INDUSTRIAL-ACCIDENT-DEADLY-FALL — Two men have died in Delaware after a strong wind tipped over a lift that was holding them about 120 feet in the air. SENT: 90 words.
LSU-HAZING INVESTIGATION — Louisiana State University says a fraternity member has been arrested on charges including hazing in connection with an incident that news outlets reported had hospitalized a student. SENT: 290 words.
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FINANCIAL-MARKETS — Asian stock markets have followed Wall Street higher as investors await U.S. election results. SENT: 590 words, photos.
AUSTRALIA-ECONOMY — Australia’s central bank has cut its benchmark interest rate by 0.15 of a percentage point to a record low 0.10% in a bid to lift the economy from a pandemic-induced recession. SENT: 670 words, photo.
CHINA-ANT-GROUP-IPO — Chinese regulators have summoned Ant Group founder Jack Ma and two other senior executives to a formal meeting just days before the company’s shares are due to begin trading in Shanghai and Hong Kong. SENT: 390 words, photos.
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CAROL-ARTHUR-DELUISE -- Carol Arthur DeLuise, an actor who appeared in several Mel Brooks films and was the widow of Dom DeLuise, has died. SENT: 180 words.
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