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VIRUS OUTBREAK-TRUMP — In the week since he emerged from coronavirus isolation, President Donald Trump has demonstrated new determination to minimize the threat of the virus that has killed more than 215,000 Americans and complicated his chances of winning another four years in the White House. By Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller. SENT: 1,270 words, photos, video.
ELECTION 2020-SENATE-MICHIGAN — First-term Democratic Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan is trying to hang onto his seat. The low-key, understated, maybe even “boring” senator is betting voters care more about his effectiveness as he desperately fights to keep a seat his party is counting on to take the Senate majority. By David Eggert. SENT: 1,000 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020 — President Trump goes after his opponent’s family and defends his own struggle to contain the pandemic as he fights to energize his sagging reelection bid. Democrat Joe Biden pushes to keep voters focused on health care. By Steve Peoples, Darlene Superville and Bill Barrow. SENT: 990 words, photos, video.
MISINFORMATION-ELECTION-SCAMS — Scam artists are taking notice as American voters face an especially polarized November election. The FBI and the Better Business Bureau and cybersecurity experts have warned of new and increasingly sophisticated online fraud schemes tied to the U.S. presidential election and pivotal Senate races. By David Klepper. SENT: 820 words, photo.
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LEBANON-PROTEST ANNIVERSARY — A year ago, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese took to the streets protesting taxes and a rapidly deteriorating economic crisis. A spontaneous and hopeful nationwide movement was born, denouncing an entire political establishment that had for decades pushed Lebanon toward collapse. By Dalal Mawad. SENT: 1,000 words, photos.
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VIRUS OUTBREAK-EUROPE — Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to come together like they did in the spring to slow the spread of the coronavirus as the country posted another daily record of new cases. SENT: 760 words.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-MIDEAST — Iran announces its death toll from the coronavirus has passed the milestone of 30,000 killed, in what has been the Mideast region’s worst outbreak. SENT: 740 words, photos.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-TENNESSEE-MASKS — The White House quietly told Tennessee early this week that “a statewide mask mandate must be implemented” to curb its growing spread of COVID-19, strong instructions that the White House and governor did not discuss publicly before the report emerged in a records request. SENT: 670 words, photos.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-ASIA — Australia’s Victoria state has reported just one new case of COVID-19 and no deaths as the city of Melbourne moves closer towards the easing of some lifestyle restrictions. The state’s coronavirus death toll remains at 816 and the Australian total is 904. SENT: 640 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-NEW YORK — A federal judge has refused to block Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s order limiting worship to as few as 10 congregants in communities seeing spikes in coronavirus infections. SENT: 570 words, photo.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-NETHERLANDS-ROYALS — The Dutch royal couple were back in the Netherlands Saturday after their vacation trip to Greece had to be abandoned because of an uproar back home, where people are urged to stay at home as much as possible. SENT: 240 words, photo.
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FEDERAL-EXECUTION — Feds to execute woman who killed victim, cut baby from womb. SENT: 470 words, photo.
INDIA-DIGITAL-FASHION-PHOTO-GALLERY — AP PHOTOS: India holds digital fashion week amid pandemic. SENT: 450 words, photos.
ABBOTT DISCRIMINATION-CODE — Texas allows social workers to deny LGBTQ, disabled clients. SENT: 340 words.
STOLEN-LEMUR — SF Zoo cites child for finding lemur, police arrest suspect. SENT: 400 words, photos.
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ELECTION 2020-GIULIANI — A New York tabloid’s puzzling account about how it acquired emails purportedly from Joe Biden’s son raises some red flags. One of the biggest involves the source of the emails: Rudy Giuliani. By Eric Tucker. SENT: 1,000 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-BEING COUNTED — Americans are used to standing in line. They queue up for airport security, the latest iPhone, cornonavirus tests or food. But the people lining up to vote early say they feel a certain urgency about being counted in the 2020 presidential election. By Laurie Kellman. SENT: 1,190 words, photos.
ELECTION-2020-PHILIDELPHIA — When President Donald Trump told the world that “bad things happen in Philadelphia,” it was, in part, a blunt assessment of his party’s struggles in a city that routinely anchors Democratic victories in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. SENT; 1,130 words.
ELECTION-2020-CALIFORNIA-BALLOT-HARVESTING — The state Republican Party has removed their unstaffed, unofficial ballot drop boxes that state officials deemed illegal, California’s secretary of state says, and subpoenas are being issued to get more information about them as the state attorney general looks into possible election law violations. SENT: 650 words, photos.
ELECTION-2020-HARRIS-PURDUE — Republican Sen. David Perdue mocked Kamala Harris, his Senate colleague and the Democratic vice presidential nominee by repeatedly mispronouncing her name at a Georgia rally for President Donald Trump. SENT: 350 words, photos.
UNITED STATES-AFGHANISTAN — President Trump’s national security adviser doubles down on his assertion that the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan will shrink to 2,500 early next year. By Deb Riechmann and Lolita C. Baldor. SENT: 810 words, photo.
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AZERBAIJAN- ARMENIA — Azerbaijan on accuse Armenia of striking its second-largest city with a ballistic missile that killed at least 13 civilians and wounded 50 others in a new escalation of their conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. SENT: 510 words, photos.
NEW ZEALAND-ELECTION — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won a second term in office in an election landslide of historic proportions. With most votes counted, Ardern’s liberal Labour Party was winning 49% of the vote compared to 27% for its main challenger, the conservative National Party. SENT: 740 words, photos.
JAPAN-SUGA — Japan’s new prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, leaves Sunday on his first overseas foray since taking over from his former boss Shinzo Abe last month, heading to Vietnam and Indonesia. SENT: 990 words, photos.
FRANCE-TEACHER DECAPITATED — A suspect shot dead by police after the gruesome beheading of a history teacher in an attack near Paris Friday was an 18-year-old Chechen, police say. SENT: 420 words, photos.
CYPRUS-TURKISH-CYPRIOTS-ELECTION — Turkish Cypriots vote on Sunday in a leadership runoff that could decide whether they retain more control over their own affairs or steer even closer to an increasingly domineering Turkey. SENT: 680 words, photos.
THAILAND-PROTEST — The authorities in Bangkok shut down mass transit systems and set up roadblocks as Thailand’s capital faced a fourth straight day of determined anti-government protests. SENT: 600 words, photos.
VENEZUELA-DEPORTATION — The Trump administration stealthily deported an unknown number of Venezuelans through a third country, possibly violating U.S. laws and undermining U.S. warnings about the socialist government’s human rights record, according to the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. SENT: 570 words, photos.
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CALIFORNIA-WILDFIRES — President Donald Trump’s administration has reversed course and approved a previously rejected California application for disaster relief funds to clean up damage from six recent wildfires. SENT: 920 words, photos
OBIT-ALS-ADVOCATE — Christopher Pendergast, a suburban New York teacher who turned a dreaded Lou Gehrig’s disease diagnosis into a decadeslong campaign to raise awareness and fund research, died from the illness on Wednesday. He was 71. SENT: 780 words, photos.
PAINTER'S-HIKING-JOURNEY — One hiker set off to hike country’s oldest long-distance trail this fall not only to immerse himself in the wilderness but to create art along the way. SENT: 610 words, photos.
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EUROPE-ECONOMIC RELAPSE — Europe’s economy was just catching its breath from what had been the sharpest recession in modern history. A resurgence in coronavirus cases this month is a bitter blow that will likely turn what was meant to be a period of healing for the economy into a lean winter of job losses and bankruptcies. SENT: 990 words, photos.
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OBIT-RHONDA-FLEMING —Actress Rhonda Fleming, the fiery redhead who appeared with Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan and other film stars of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 97. SENT: 930 words, photos.
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BBA--ALCS — The blowback from a sign-stealing scandal three years ago and a losing record during the pandemic-shortened regular season don’t mean a thing to Dusty Baker and the Houston Astros. Like them or loathe them, the Astros are on the cusp of a third World Series in four seasons and joining the 2004 Boston Red Sox as the only teams to rally from a 3-0 deficit to win a seven-game series. George Springer and José Altuve delivered big hits, Framber Valdéz pitched six brilliant innings and the Astros beat the Tampa Bay Rays for the third straight time, 7-4 to force a deciding Game 7 of the AL Championship Series. By Bernie Wilson. SENT: 800 words, photos.
BBN--NLCS — One Will Smith outdid another Will Smith to keep the season alive for the Los Angeles Dodgers. A common name, a special result for the Dodgers catcher. Smith hit a go-ahead, three-run homer off the Atlanta Braves reliever with the same name, Corey Seager homered twice and the Dodgers avoided elimination with a 7-3 win in Game 5 of the NL Championship Series. By Baseball Writer Stephen Hawkins. SENT: 800 words, photos.
FBN--VIRUS OUTBREAK-NFL — From New England to Atlanta to Indianapolis, the focus was not on football on Friday. It was on, not surprisingly, coronavirus tests. The Patriots canceled practice and later placed center James Ferentz on the reserve/COVID-19 list. He became the fifth player on the team to test positive for the virus. With the Colts, there were four positive tests that, when retested, came up negative. The Falcons returned to their facility one day after abandoning it when they had a second positive. By Pro Football Writer Barry Wilner. SENT: 800 words, photos.
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