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TROPICAL WEATHER — Laura rapidly gained strength, growing into a menacing Category 4 hurricane with the potential for a 20-foot storm surge that forecasters said would be “unsurvivable” and capable of sinking entire communities. Authorities implored coastal residents of Texas and Louisiana to flee. By Jeff Martin, John Mone and Stacey Plaisance. SENT: 1,010 words, photos, videos. WITH: TROPICAL WEATHER-THE LATEST (upcoming); TROPICAL WEATHER-EVACUEES — Heeding warnings, Gulf Coast residents flee coming hurricane. SENT: 820 words, photos.
Find more coverage of Hurricane Laura on the Tropical Weather featured topic page in AP Newsroom.
POLICE-SHOOTING-WISCONSIN — Illinois police have arrested a 17-year-old after two people were shot to death in a possible vigilante attack following a protest in Kenosha over the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake. Two people were killed Tuesday night in an attack carried out by a young white man who was caught on cellphone video opening fire in the middle of the street with a semi-automatic rifle. By Mike Householder and Scott Bauer. SENT: 1,330 words, photos, video. UPCOMING: Developing. WITH: RACIAL INJUSTICE-NBA — All three NBA playoff games scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed, with players around the league choosing to boycott in their strongest statement yet against racial injustice. By Brian Mahoney. SENT: 560 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-RNC — As Republicans make the case for a second term for President Donald Trump, trouble is mounting outside their convention: a hurricane, wildfires, violent protests and a raging pandemic. The approaches to the turmoil taken by Trump and his allies have been striking. By Steve Peoples and Darlene Superville. SENT: 870 words, photos, video. UPCOMING: Developing from events starting at 8:30 p.m., 1,100 words by 11 p.m. WITH: ELECTION 2020-RNC-TAKEAWAYS — Highlights of night three. UPCOMING: 900 words, photos by 10:30 p.m.; ELECTION 2020-RNC-FACT CHECK — Monitoring the Republicans. UPCOMING: 500 words, photos by 11 p.m.
ELECTION SECURITY — U.S. officials say they have no intelligence to suggest that foreign countries are working to undermine mail-in voting. The remarks from officials at multiple federal agencies amount to a repudiation of claims by President Trump. By Eric Tucker and Christina A. Cassidy. SENT: 780 words, photos.
Find more coverage of the conventions and Election 2020 on the 2020 U.S. Elections featured topic page in AP Newsroom.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-TROUBLED AID-FRONTLINE WORKERS — The coronavirus is exposing an inequality in the billion-dollar system that delivers life-saving aid for countries in crisis: Most donor money goes to international aid groups instead of local ones. Now local aid workers are exposed on the pandemic’s front lines with painfully few means to help the vulnerable communities they know so well. By Cara Anna. SENT: 1,000 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK — Winter is ending in the Southern Hemisphere and country after country — South Africa, Australia, Argentina — had a surprise: Their steps against COVID-19 also apparently blocked the flu. But there’s no guarantee the Northern Hemisphere will avoid twin epidemics as its own flu season looms while the coronavirus still rages. By Andrew Meldrum, Mogomotsi Magome and Lauran Neergaard. SENT: 970 words, photos. WITH: VIRUS-OUTBREAK-THE-LATEST.
FEDERAL EXECUTIONS — The only Native American on federal death row is set to die for the slayings of a 9-year-old and her grandmother nearly two decades ago, though many Navajos are hoping for last-minute intervention by President Donald Trump to halt the execution. By Michael Tarm and Felicia Fonseca. SENT: 670 words, photos. UPCOMING: Execution scheduled for 6 p.m.
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MED-VIRUS-OUTBREAK-TESTING-GUIDELINES — U.S. health officials have sparked a wave of confusion after posting guidelines that coronavirus testing is not necessary for people who have been in close contact with infected people. SENT: 660 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-LATIN AMERICA-EVANGELICALS — Throughout Latin America, a traditionally Catholic region with a surging evangelical presence in nearly every country, evangelical churches have kept spreading the Gospel despite government measures meant to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. In many countries, evangelical churches have flouted public health guidelines and held services or ministered to their congregations in other settings. SENT: 940 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-RUSSIA-VACCINE — The mayor of Moscow invited residents to join trials of a coronavirus vaccine that Russia approved for use earlier this month. The world’s first vaccine against the coronavirus to receive a government go-ahead has caused unease among international medical experts, who called Russia’s fast-tracked approval and failure to share any data supporting claims of the vaccine’s efficacy a major breach of scientific protocol.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-GREECE-RESURGENCE — Authorities in Greece are using free on-the-spot tests for ferry passengers and nightlife curfews on popular islands to stem a resurgence of the coronavirus after the country managed to dodge the worst of the pandemic. SENT: 960 words, photos.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-NURSING-HOMES — The Justice Department has sent letters to the governors of New York and three other Democratic-led states, seeking data on whether they violated federal law by ordering public nursing homes to accept recovering COVID-19 patients from hospitals — actions that have been criticized for potentially fueling the spread of the virus. SENT: 710 words, photos.
GAZA-OUTBREAK-GAZA — Gaza’s Hamas rulers have extended a full lockdown in the Palestinian enclave for three more days as coronavirus cases climbed following the detection this week of the first community transmissions of the virus in the densely populated, blockaded territory. SENT: 590 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-NEW YORK CULTURE REOPENS — Many cultural institutions in New York City are gingerly reopening their doors. They’re weighing the safety of visitors and staff with the need to educate, inspire and support the city’s recovery. SENT: 1,090 words, photos.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-PANDEMIC-DATING — If there’s one thing the pandemic hasn’t canceled, it’s the search for love. Throughout the health emergency, daters have taken to apps, websites and matchmaking services in search of connection, with more meeting in person as the crisis drags on at a time when every touch is calculated and fraught. SENT: 1,000 words, photos.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-DIARY-INSPIRED-BY-BUFFETT — For this writer, the coronavirus pandemic is a time to dream of distant shores — Jimmy Buffett-style. Since he can’t do any traveling, or visit any tropical islands, he is leaning into Buffett songs to get through the quarantine and lack of travel that the COVID era has served up. And though he can’t change his latitude right now, he’s well past ready to change his attitude. SENT: 650 words, photos.
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JOHN-LENNON’S-KILLER-PAROLE-HEARING — John Lennon’s killer denied parole for an 11th time. SENT: 150 words, photo.
FUNERAL HOME-WOMAN ALIVE — A suburban Detroit fire chief said he still can’t explain why a 20-year-old woman declared dead at her home was discovered alive hours later at a funeral home. SENT: 300 words, photos.
JAPAN-MASS GRAVE — Remains dug from Japan mass grave suggest epidemic in 1800s. SENT: 430 words, photos.
ELECTION-2020-VERMIN-SUPREME — Vermin Supreme, the perennial presidential candidate who wears a boot on his head and promises every American a free pony, is mounting a write-in campaign for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. SENT: 250 words, photos.
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ELECTION 2020-RNC-MIKE PENCE —Vice President Mike Pence has shown fleeting moments of independence from his boss. But he’s never flat-out crossed President Trump, a calculation that could help preserve his own options in 2024. By Laurie Kellman and Zeke Miller. SENT: 1,240 words, photos. UPCOMING: Developing from evening remarks, 1,200 words by midnight.
ELECTION 2020-RNC-IVANKA TRUMP — When Donald Trump accepts the Republican Party’s presidential nomination Thursday night, his daughter Ivanka Trump will introduce him and focus on what he’s done to help working families. SENT: 290 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-RNC-NOEM — Since the beginning of the pandemic, President Trump has called on the nation’s governors to “liberate” residents, reopen schools and get back the economy back to normal. No governor has followed that advice more closely — and with more attention-seeking dazzle — than South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem. By Stephen Groves. SENT: 1,090 words, photos. UPCOMING: Developing from evening remarks, 990 words by 11:30 p.m.
ELECTION 2020-RNC-HARRIS — Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris plans a speech condemning President Trump, hours before he is set to accept his party’s nomination for a second term, for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. By Bill Barrow. SENT: 530 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-RNC-HATCH ACT-Q&A — The Hatch Act, the law that restricts partisan political activity by federal employees, is getting a lot of attention as lawmakers and legal experts voice concern over President Trump’s decision to use the White House as the backdrop for his acceptance speech and other events during the Republican National Convention. By Deb Riechmann. UPCOMING: 750 words by 7 p.m., photo.
TRUMP-RUSSIA-VINDMAN — House Democrats have asked a Pentagon watchdog for an investigation into what they say was a “concerted effort” by the Trump administration to retaliate against a key impeachment witness, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, and his twin brother. By Mary Clare Jalonick. SENT: 1,090 words, photos.
UNITED STATES-CHINA — The State Department hits an unspecified number Chinese officials and business executives responsible for the militarization of disputed South China Sea areas with travel bans. Immediate family members of those targeted may also be barred from travel to the United States, the department said. By Matthew Lee. SENT: 300 words, photo.
GHOST GUNS LAWSUIT — Chicago and three other cities are suing the federal government to stop the proliferation of what are advertised as easy-to-assemble guns that require no serial numbers or background checks. SENT: 260 words, photos.
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RACIAL-INJUSTICE-AL-SHARPTON — This week’s commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom will focus on police violence, and its ever-expanding roll call of victims. But at the center will be the Rev. Al Sharpton, the protest’s organizer. While so many other lions of the civil rights movement are gone, Sharpton is still standing. He reaches multitudes on television and on radio. The man who helped popularize the 1980s cry, “No justice, no peace,” is putting himself at the center of a new wave of activism, in a new millennium. SENT: 2,190 words, photos. An abridged version of 990 words is available.
CALIFORNIA-WILDFIRES — Firefighters hard-pressed by some of the largest wildfires in California history scrambled Wednesday to take advantage of cooler weather and an influx of aid as they carved and burned containment lines around the flames to prevent more land from burning. SENT: 890 words, photos.
EX-ASSEMBLY SPEAKER — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, once one of the most powerful politicians in the state, started his prison sentence after years of fending off going behind bars. SENT: 380 words, photos.
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IRAN-NUCLEAR — Iran has agreed to allow inspectors in to two sites where the country is suspected of having stored or used undeclared nuclear material, the U.N. atomic watchdog agency says. SENT: 590 words, photos.
UNITED STATES-RUSSIA-SYRIA — In the most violent skirmish in months between U.S. and Russian forces in Syria, a vehicle collision in the eastern part of the war-torn country leaves American troops with concussions. SENT: 350 words.
ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-STAYING-THE-COURSE — In three decades of failed peace efforts, the Palestinians have never faced a more hostile U.S. administration, a more self-assured Israel or a more ambivalent international community. But even as their hopes for statehood have never seemed so dim, there’s no indication their aging leadership will change course. By Joseph Krauss. SENT: 1,060 words, photos.
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FACEBOOK-APPLE-REVENUE — Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new privacy rules for iOS users — and putting developers in the middle. The social network says new policy by Apple that requires apps to ask users for permission to collect data on what devices they are using — and let ads follow them around on the internet — could lower the amount of money apps will make advertising through Facebook. SENT: 310 words, photo.
MCDONALD’S-CEO-INVESTIGATION — An internal investigation by McDonald’s of potential misconduct has extended beyond its former CEO who was forced out late last year. SENT: 320 words, photo.
FINANCIAL-MARKETS — More blowout profit reports from big tech companies are pushing the S&P 500 toward another record. SENT: 650 words, photos.
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INCREASING HURRICANE DEVASTATION — Nasty hurricanes that cause billions of dollars in damage are hitting more often. Laura, which is threatening the U.S. Gulf Coast, is only the latest. Major hurricanes are brewing in the Atlantic at a higher rate than they used to. By AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein. SENT: 950 words, photos.
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RACIAL INJUSTICE-NFL — Players throughout the NFL speak out about racial injustice and the shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin. Jets defensive back Bradly McDougald says: This is something real in our community that we’re dealing with. And I’m going to deal with it for the rest of my life, and my kids are going to deal with it. ” By Pro Football Writer Dennis Waszak Jr. UPCOMING: 800 words, photos by 6:30 p.m.
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