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VIRUS OUTBREAK - Stricken by COVID-19, a feverish and fatigued President Donald Trump is flown to a military hospital after being injected with an experimental drug combination in treatment at the White House. By Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin and Jonathan Lemire. SENT: 1,350 words, photos, video. With VIRUS OUTBREAK-TRUMP-WHAT WE KNOW - Still lots of unanswered questions; PRESIDENTIAL POWER-AP EXPLAINS - How presidential power could be transferred (both sent).
VIRUS OUTBREAK-HOW IT HAPPENED - No one knows exactly how, when or from whom President Trump became infected with the coronavirus. But to retrace some of his steps over the last week is to see an abundance of opportunity for infection, not that cliched “abundance of caution.” By Jill Colvin. SENT: 1,310 words, photos.
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VIRUS OUTBREAK-WHITE HOUSE - With ready access to testing and the best public health minds, President Trump should have been the American safest from the COVID-19 virus. Instead, he ignored his own government’s guidelines and through his behavior - eschewing masks, relentlessly traveling, gathering big crowds - the president failed to protect himself. By Jonathan Lemire. SENT: 1,040 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-VIRUS-BIDEN - Democrat Joe Biden offers sympathy to President Trump over his coronavirus diagnosis while casting the moment as a reminder of the health crisis facing the United States. By Alexandra Jaffe, Laurie Kellman and Will Weissert. SENT: 900 words, photos, video. With ELECTION 2020-VIRUS - An election year already defined by a cascade of national crises descends further into uncharted territory. SENT: 1,050 words, photos, video.
RACIAL INJUSTICE-BREONNA TAYLOR - The police officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor described seeing only “shadowy mass” and said he didn’t recall firing the 16 bullets later matched to his gun. As she lay bleeding, Taylor’s boyfriend called his mother before dialing 911. And neighbors roused by the gunfire at Taylor’s apartment after midnight on March 13 only added to conflicting testimony about whether police serving a narcotics warrant announced themselves before using a battering ram to break down her door. By Dylan Lovan. SENT: 950 words, photos.
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VIRUS OUTBREAK-INDIA — India passed a grim milestone in its fight against the coronavirus Saturday, with health authorities saying the country has recorded more than 100,000 virus-related deaths since the pandemic began. The announcement from the Health Ministry means that nearly 10% of the more than 1 million people to die globally in the pandemic have done so in India, behind only the United States and Brazil. SENT: 840 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-ASIA - The COVID-19 figures in Australia’s Victoria state continued to show improvement on Saturday but officials are concerned about an outbreak at the country’s largest shopping center. Victoria reported three more COVID-19 deaths and eight more cases. The figures take the state toll to 805 and the national death count to 893. SENT: 430 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-BOSNIA-SKEPTICS - Bosnia’s coronavirus rebels have grown increasingly aggressive in recent months as the number of confirmed virus cases rise in the small Balkan nation. The vicious arguments in the comment sections of news websites occasionally spill over into invasive confrontations. SENT: 970 words, photos.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-INTELLUCTUAL-PROPERTY — South Africa and India have asked the World Trade Organization to waive some provisions in the international agreements that regulate intellectual property rights, to speed up efforts to prevent, treat and contain the COVID-19 pandemic and make sure developing countries are not left behind. SENT: 660 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-INDIA-SELFLESS SOUL - In India’s northeastern Assam state, one man has been braving the risk of contamination and social stigma to conduct the funeral rites of COVID-19 victims. Ramananda Sarkar volunteered for this perilous work when no one was willing to risk cremating the dead. Out of the 711 confirmed coronavirus deaths in his state, Sarkar says he has cremated more than 450. SENT: 590 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-PRIVATE SCHOOLS - A federal judge has turned down an initial request to ease pandemic-related occupancy limits for in-person instruction at private schools in New Mexico, in a setback for a lawsuit supported by the U.S. Justice Department. SENT: 420 words, photo.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-ARGENTINA-ANTARCTICA — As COVID-19 cases surge in their homeland, there are at least some Argentines who feel secure: the scientists and military personnel at South American country’s bases in Antarctica, the only continent without reported cases. SENT: 420 words, photo.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-VIRAL-QUESTIONS-CONTACT-TRACING - What is contact tracing, and how does it work with COVID-19? The goal of contact tracing is to alert people who may have been exposed to someone with the coronavirus, so they won’t spread it to others. SENT: 300 words, photo.
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NKOREA-KIM-TRUMP — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sends a message of sympathy to President Donald Trump and his wife Melania, wishing they would recover from the COVID-19 illness, state media reports. SENT: 410 words, photos.
GERMANY-REUNIFICATION — Germany is marking the 30th anniversary of its reunification, drawing a generally positive picture of the progress made in knitting together east and west amid celebrations that are low-key because of the coronavirus pandemic. SENT: 210 words, photo.
ITALY-SALVINI — Italy’s right-wing former interior minister, Matteo Salvini, appears before a court in Sicily that will decide whether he will face trial for blocking 131 migrants for several days on a coast guard ship in 2019. SENT: 310 words, photos.
SHOOTING-TEENAGERS-ATV - A white father and son in rural Mississippi have been arrested after they allegedly chased two Black teenagers on ATVs off the road and repeatedly shot at them from a pickup truck, a sheriff’s deputy say. SENT: 490 words, photo.
TRUMP-FRAUD PROBE - President Donald Trump’s son Eric is scheduled to speak via video on Monday with New York state investigators probing his family’s business practices, according to court papers. SENT: 270 words, photos.
SCHOOL-SHOOTING-FLORIDA-VOTER-VIDEO - A teenager killed in the Parkland school massacre is urging his peers to vote in a newly released computer-generated video. SENT: 450 words, photos.
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SUPREME COURT-VACANCY - Two Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have tested positive for the coronavirus, raising questions about upcoming Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett and whether additional senators may have been exposed. By Mary Clare Jalonick. SENT: 670 words, photos.
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CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES - Firefighters may get a reprieve from the weather as red flag warnings of extreme fire danger expire. But the state is still poised to reach a grim milestone: 4 million acres burned this year by wildfires. The state is only about 20,000 acres from reaching the unprecedented figure, fire officials said. Meanwhile, two major fires that have killed four people and incinerated hundreds of homes in the wine country and the far north continued to burn. SENT: 540 words, photos.
POLICE CUSTODY DEATH-VEGAS - A family member says she wasn’t satisfied with findings that led prosecutors not to charge Las Vegas police with a crime in the death of a 50-year-old Black man after he was stopped by patrol officers for riding a bicycle in the dark without a light. After abandoning his bicycle and leading two officers on a foot chase, Byron Williams is seen on police body-camera saying he can’t breathe while the officers pin him face-first to the ground to handcuff him. One has his knee on Williams’ back in video made public during an airing of elements of the investigation. SENT: 790 words, photos.
PREGNANT-WOMAN-ARRESTED - Videos of a Kansas City police officer kneeling on a pregnant Black woman while arresting her have led to calls for the officer involved to be fired and reignited demands that the police chief resign. The videos show the woman on the ground with the officer’s knee on her back while people in the crowd yell to stop because she is pregnant. Some officers can be heard telling the crowd they will be arrested if they don’t move back. SENT: 770 words.
CALIFORNIA-DEPUTIES-FATAL-SHOOTING — A Black man shot and killed by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies was wounded 16 times in the front and back, according to an autopsy that doesn’t shed any light on whether he was on the ground when he was shot. Dijon Kizzee, 29, had four “rapidly life-threatening wounds” to the heart, lungs, liver and left kidney, according to the autopsy report that was supplied to The Associated Press. The autopsy was conducted on Sept. 2. SENT: 510 words, photos.
IMMIGRATION-MARYLAND-SANCTUARY — A federal judge blocks the deportation of an Indonesian immigrant who was detained last month on the grounds of a Maryland church, a space considered a “sensitive location” in which immigration authorities generally avoid enforcement actions. SENT: 390 words.
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CENTRAL AMERICA-MIGRANTS — About 1,000 Honduran migrants headed for the United States became increasingly desperate in the face of a police and army roadblock in northern Guatemala that was preventing them from continuing toward the United States. SENT: 922 words, photos.
VATICAN-CHINA — The Vatican doubles down on its intent to pursue continued dialogue with China over bishop nominations, defending a deal it did with the Chinese government in 2018 as necessary to the life of the Catholic Church there, over strong U.S. objections. SENT: 660 words, photos.
KASHMIR-EXHUMATIONS — Government investigators on Saturday exhumed the bodies of three young men in disputed Kashmir, two weeks after the Indian military in a rare admission said its soldiers exceeded their legal powers in killing the men they described as Pakistani terrorists. SENT: 490 words, photo.
UNITED-NATIONS-LIBYA-MEETING — The United Nations and Germany are co-chairing a ministerial meeting on Monday of world powers and other countries with interests in Libya’s long-running civil war in hopes of promoting a cease-fire between its rival governments. SENT: 470 words
ETHIOPIA-IRREECHA FESTIVAL — Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo, celebrates the annual Thanksgiving festival of Irreecha amid tight security and a significantly smaller crowd due to political tensions and the COVID-19 pandemic. Hundreds of people were arrested ahead of the festival, some accused by authorities of plotting terror attacks and a new wave of unrest. SENT: 480 words.
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NOBEL-BASIC-SCIENCE - The Nobel Prizes show how slow basic science pays off, even though everyone wants quick fixes to global problems. The Nobels, with new winners announced next week, often concentrate on unheralded, methodical, basic science. Scientists say this plodding process has over the past couple decades greatly improved our understanding of biology and other disciplines. And that, they say, makes it easier and faster for doctors to develop treatments and potential vaccines for the coronavirus. SENT: 930 words, photos.
SPACE STATION — A space station cargo ship rocketed into orbit Friday carrying a 360-degree camera for spacewalking, radish seeds for growing and a smorgasbord of fancy meats and cheeses for feasting. SENT: 460 words, photos.
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GERMANY-REUNIFICATION-EAST GERMANY ON FILM - A new project is underway to digitize thousands of East German newsreels, documentaries and feature films, 30 years after Germany’s reunification. The movies that are being scanned, transcribed and posted online provide a look inside a country that no longer exists but was a critical part of the Cold War. Last year, a film producer who was born in East Germany 20 years before the Berlin Wall fell bought the company holding the license rights to East Germany’s film collection. SENT: 1,080 words, photos.
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BKN-NBA FINALS - The NBA Finals are halfway to a coronation. LeBron James finished with 33 points, nine rebounds and nine assists, Anthony Davis made 14 of his first 15 shots on the way to 32 points, and the Lakers took a 2-0 lead in the title series by beating the short-handed Miami Heat 124-114 on Friday night. By Tim Reynolds. SENT: 900 words, photos.
BBO-OBIT-BOB GIBSON - Hall of Famer Bob Gibson, the dominating St. Louis Cardinals pitcher who won a record seven consecutive World Series starts and set a modern standard for excellence when he finished the 1968 season with a 1.12 ERA, died Friday. He was 84. The Cardinals confirmed Gibson’s death shortly after a 4-0 playoff loss to San Diego ended their season. He had long been ill with pancreatic cancer in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. By Hillel Italie. SENT: 2,300 words, photos.
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