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AP News Digest 6 p.m.

| October 26, 2020 3:30 PM

Here are the AP’s latest coverage plans, top stories and promotable content. All times EDT. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s coverage, visit Coverage Plan at https://newsroom.ap.org.

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Adds TRUMP-IMMIGRATION-IMPACT ON REFUGEES, VIRUS OUTBREAK-ITALY PROTESTS, EXPLAINING ELECTION 2020-THE COUNTING, ELECTION 2020-TRUMP-ELECTION NIGHT, ELECTION 2020-KUSHNER-BLACK AMERICANS, DETROIT SCHOOLS-FINANCES.

SUPREME COURT-BARRETT — Confirmation vote expected around 7:30 p.m.

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TOP STORIES

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ELECTION 2020 — President Donald Trump and Joe Biden campaign in Pennsylvania as a surge of coronavirus cases crystalizes the candidates’ starkly different strategies to rallying voters — and addressing the worst public health crisis in a century — just eight days before polls close. By Zeke Miller, Alexandra Jaffe and Kevin Freking. SENT: 1,170 words, photos, video.

A separate wire advisory has moved outlining our complete Election 2020 coverage.

Find more coverage on the 2020 U.S. Elections featured topic page on APNewsroom.

SUPREME COURT-BARRETT — Overpowering Democratic opposition, Senate Republicans are set to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, approving President Trump’s nominee a week before Election Day and securing likely conservative court dominance for years to come. By Congressional Correspondent Lisa Mascaro. SENT: 910 words. UPCOMING: Developing through the evening, confirmation vote expected around 7:30 p.m., 990 words by 8 p.m., photos.

SUPREME COURT-BARRETT-SPENDING — The expected confirmation of judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court is the culmination of a decades-long coordinated effort by a constellation of conservative groups fueled by tens of millions of dollars from wealthy, anonymous donors to tilt the high court farther to the right. By Michael Biesecker and Brian Slodysko. SENT: 1,260 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-US-SURGE — Deaths per day from the coronavirus in the U.S. are on the rise again, just as health experts had feared, and cases are climbing in nearly every state, despite assurances from President Trump over the weekend that “we’re rounding the turn, we’re doing great.” By Lisa Marie Pane and Mike Stobbe. SENT: 840 words, photos.

CALIFORNIA-WILDFIRES — A fast-moving wildfire forces evacuation orders for 70,000 people and seriously injures two firefighters in Southern California as powerful winds across the state prompt power to be cut to hundreds of thousands to prevent utility equipment from sparking new blazes. The fire explodes in size to over 6 square miles (16 square kilometers) within hours. By Christopher Weber and Olga R. Rodriguez. SENT: 930 words, photos.

TRUMP-IMMIGRATION-IMPACT ON REFUGEES — For decades, America led the world by creating a sanctuary for the oppressed, admitting more refugees annually than all other countries combined. That leadership has eroded during Donald Trump’s presidency, with Canada replacing the U.S. as No. 1 for resettling people fleeing war and persecution. By Anita Snow and Julie Watson. SENT: 1,100 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-ECONOMY-NO MORE STIMULUS — Prospects for more federal economic stimulus this year appear all but dead, clouding the future for the unemployed, for small businesses and for the U.S. economy as a whole. By Economics Writer Christopher Rugaber. SENT: 1,000 words, photos.

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WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT

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BIDEN EVENT-MISFORMATION — By George! Joe Biden was speaking to George Lopez in a widely shared video in which he appears to stumble on President Trump's first name. SENT: 500 words, photo.

MURDER-HORNETS — Scientists remove “murder hornets" in Washington state. SENT: 640 words, photos.

BROWNS-BECKHAM-INJURY — Odell Beckham Jr.’s second season with the Browns is over. The star receiver tore a knee ligament Sunday. SENT: 700 words, photos.

DUNKIN-ACQUISITION — The Dunkin’ doughnuts and coffee chain confirms it’s held talks to be taken private by a private equity firm, sending shares rocketing to an all-time high. SENT: 270 words, photo.

AMERICAN MUSIC AWARD NOMINATIONS — The Weeknd and Roddy Ricch are the leading nominees for this year’s American Music Awards with eight apiece. SENT: 290 words, photos.

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MORE ON THE VIRUS OUTBREAK

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VIRUS OUTBREAK-EUROPE — A French doctor warns that his country has “lost control of the epidemic,” a day after health authorities reported more than 52,000 new coronavirus cases as nations across Europe enact more sweeping restrictions to try to slow surging infection rates. SENT: 850 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-ITALY PROTESTS — Protesters turn out by the hundreds in Turin, Milan and other Italian cities and towns to vent their anger, sometimes violently, at new pandemic restrictions. SENT: 450 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-CONTROLLING PANDEMIC – A day after White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said “we’re not going to control the pandemic,” a Trump administration health official says Americans have already proven they can do that through measures like social distancing and wearing masks. SENT: 490 words, photos, video.

AP-POLL-VIRUS OUTBREAK — A majority of Virginia voters responding to a recent poll think enacting restrictions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus is more important than removing restrictions to get the economy going. SENT: 740 words, photos.

Find more coverage on the Virus Outbreak on the featured topic page in AP Newsroom.

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WASHINGTON/POLITICS

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EXPLAINING ELECTION 2020-THE COUNTING — Counting the vote: Will we know who won on election night? SENT: 400 words, photo.

ELECTION 2020-TRUMP-ELECTION NIGHT — President Trump has his eye on hosting his Election Night party at his own hotel in the nation’s capital, a gathering of supporters that — depending on outcome of the Nov. 3 Election — could be a final opportunity to mix his political and business interests. SENT: 730 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-KUSHNER-BLACK AMERICANS — Adviser Jared Kushner says President Trump wants to help Black people in America, but they have to “want to be successful” for his policies to work. SENT: 270 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-HOUSE-PELOSI — Speaker Nancy Pelosi once predicted she’d have the 2020 House Democratic majority secured by November — of 2019. Now, days before the Nov. 3 election, she seems to have done it, and she’s expanding her reach. By Congressional Correspondent Lisa Mascaro. SENT: 1,070 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-MEXICO — A week before the United States elections, Mexicans aren’t paying especially close attention to the race. SENT: 1,100 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-SENATE-MINNESOTA — The campaign of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jason Lewis of Minnesota says his emergency surgery for a severe internal hernia was a success. SENT: 420 words, photo.

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INTERNATIONAL

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MUSLIMS-BOYCOTTING FRANCE — Muslims in the Middle East and beyond call for boycotts of French products as a clash over depictions of the Prophet Muhammad intensify. SENT: 1,000 words, photos.

TROPICAL WEATHER — Zeta strengthens to a hurricane as it heads toward Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula resorts and then likely for a landfall on the central U.S. Gulf Coast at midweek. SENT: 550 words, photos. With ASIA-TYPHOON — Typhoon in Philippines displaces 120,000 people, 8 missing. SENT: 400 words, photos.

SYRIA — An airstrike on a rebel training camp in northwestern Syria kills more than 50 Turkish-backed fighters and wounds nearly as many, a spokesman and a war monitor say. SENT: 550 words.

BRITAIN-SHIP — Police say seven stowaways seized when British naval special forces stormed an oil tanker in the English Channel have been arrested on suspicion of hijacking. SENT: 390 words, photos.

ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN — Armenia and Azerbaijan accuse each other of violating the new cease-fire announced the day before in a bid to halt fighting over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh. SENT: 430 words, photo.

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NATIONAL

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POLICE SHOOTING-ILLINOIS — Police videos showing a suburban Chicago police officer fatally shooting a Black man and wounding a Black woman are expected to be released once relatives have seen the footage, the city’s mayor says. SENT: 530 words, photos.

DETROIT SCHOOLS-FINANCES — A commission releases the 47,000-student Detroit Public Schools from more than a decade of state financial oversight, restoring full control of the district’s finances to the city’s elected school board. SENT: 350 words.

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BUSINESS/ECONOMY

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FINANCIAL MARKETS — The stock market suffers its worst day in a month as virus cases surge and help for the economy from Washington remains nowhere in sight. SENT: 940 words, photos.

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HEALTH/SCIENCE

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WATER ON MOON — The moon’s shadowed, frigid nooks and crannies may hold frozen water in more places and in larger quantities than previously suspected, good news for astronauts at future lunar bases. By Aerospace Writer Marcia Dunn. SENT: 500 words.

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SPORTS

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WORLD SERIES — The Dodgers and Rays prepare for Tuesday’s Game 6. Tony Gonsolin will start for Los Angeles, which has a 3-2 Series lead, while Game 2 starter Blake Snell pitches for Tampa Bay. UPCOMING: 800 words by 8 p.m., photos.

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ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT

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MUSIC-BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN — In an AP interview, Bruce Springsteen opens up about losing bandmates and how their lives inspired his new album “Letter to You.” By Music Writer Mesfin Fekadu. SENT: 930 words, photos. With MUSIC-BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-OUTTAKES (sent).

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