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TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT — President Trump’s impeachment trial quickly bursts into a partisan fight as proceedings begin unfolding at the Capitol. Democrats object strongly to rules proposed by the Republican leader for compressed arguments, a deferred decision on whether to call witnesses and a speedy trial. By Lisa Mascaro and Mary Clare Jalonick. SENT: 980 words, photos, video. With TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-WHAT TO WATCH

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MED-CHINA-OUTBREAK-SCIENCE SAYS — Health officials around the world are keeping a close watch on an outbreak of a new virus in China. In response, governments are stepping up surveillance of airline passengers arriving from the affected area to try to prevent the virus from spreading. SENT: 420 words, photo. With CHINA-OUTBREAK — Face masks sell out and temperature checks at airports and train stations become the new norm as China strives to control the outbreak of a new coronavirus that has reached four other countries and territories and threatens to spread further during the Lunar New Year travel rush. SENT: 1,030 words, photos. UPCOMING: Developing.

ELECTION 2020-DEMOCRATS-UNITY — Dangerous divisions are threatening to undermine the Democratic Party's quest for unity heading into the first primary contest of the 2020 presidential season. By Steve Peoples. UPCOMING: 900 words by 5 p.m., photos. With ELECTION 2020-CLINTON-SANDERS — Hillary Clinton says “nobody likes” Bernie Sanders. By Will Weissert. SENT: 600 words, photos.

MEXICO-MIGRANT CARAVAN — Hundreds of Central American migrants who illegally waded across a river into Mexico in hopes of eventually reaching the U.S. are deported back to their homeland or retreat across the border after Mexican authorities block their way. Fewer than 100 remain in the no-man's land on the river border between Guatemala and Mexico. By Maria Verza and Sonia Perez D. UPCOMING: 650 words, photos, by 4 p.m.

ISRAEL-SCARS OF AUSCHWITZ — Seventy-five years after the Auschwitz death camp was liberated, Maurice Gluck is one of 75 Holocaust survivors featured in a commemorative photo project. The unique exhibition is just one of the various events marking the anniversary and commemorating its victims as the notorious camp’s few and aging survivors slowly disappear. By Aron Heller. SENT: 900 words, photos. With AUSCHWITZ-THE DEATH CAMP-PHOTO ESSAY; POLAND-US-AUSCHWITZ U.S. House Speaker Pelosi visits Auschwitz ahead of liberation anniversary.

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PEOPLE-OZZY OSBOURNE — Rocker Ozzy Osbourne announces Parkinson's diagnosis. SENT: 130 words, photos.

CANADA-ROYAL RIFT — Prince Harry reunites with Meghan and Archie in Canada. SENT: 420 words, photo.

SOUTH AFRICA-CIRCUS LIONS RELOCATED — Abused circus animals arrive at South African sanctuary. SENT: 290 words, photos.

COYOTE ATTACK — Police: Dad strangles coyote to defend family under attack. SENT: 160 words.

ODD-CASINO-WRONG DIRECTIONS — Police say an ad in the Waze navigation app is misdirecting motorists headed to an Atlantic City' casino into the wilderness of New Jersey's Pinelands. SENT: 150 words.

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TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT RULES — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell contends he is following the blueprint from President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, but there are key differences. UPCOMING: 700 words by 5 p.m., photos.

TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-ROBERTS — Chief Justice John Roberts is about to start juggling two jobs as the impeachment trial of President Trump gets underway. The trial isn’t expected to affect the court’s schedule -- as long as it’s over by Feb. 24. By Jessica Gresko. UPCOMING: 500 words by 4 p.m., photo.

ELECTION 2020-DEMOCRATIC SURROGATES — Democratic White House presidents stuck in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump are deploying surrogates across the early primary states as they try to make up for their limited time on the trail. SENT: 1100 words, photo.

MEDIA-OBSTRUCTED-VIEW — Americans who want to follow Trump's impeachment saga and Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's rape trial through the media will sit in obstructed seats. By Media Writer David Bauder. SENT: 930 words, photos.

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TRUMP-FACT CHECK — President Trump spreads distorted information about the U.S. economy and his administration's involvement with historically black colleges in a preening performance Tuesday at the Davos economic conference in the Swiss Alps. By Collin Binkley and Josh Boak. SENT: 660 words, photo.

ELECTION 2020-MAINE-SENATE — Planned Parenthood endorses a Democratic challenger to Republican Sen. Susan Collins in Maine, saying Collins “turned her back” on women and citing her vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court as well as other judicial nominees who oppose abortion. SENT: 720 words, photos.

SUPREME COURT-HEALTH OVERHAUL-LAWSUIT — The Supreme Court refused to consider a fast-track review of a lawsuit that threatens the Obama-era health care law, making it highly unlikely that the justices would decide the case before the 2020 election. SENT: 160 words.

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TRUMP — President Trump says that he's led a “spectacular” turnaround of the U.S. economy and urges the world to invest in America, but has less to say about climate change issues that are a focus of this year's gathering of top business and political leaders in the Swiss Alps. By Darlene Superville. SENT: 850 words, photos, video. With DAVOS-FORUM — Greta Thunberg has wasted little time in pushing back against President Trump's description of climate campaigners as “the perennial prophets of doom." SENT: 700 words, photos.

RUSSIA-PUTIN — Russian President Vladimir Putin has formed his new Cabinet, replacing many of its members but keeping his foreign, defense and finance ministers in place. SENT: 640 words, photos.

FRANCE-STRIKES — Opening another front in their battle against the French government, protesting workers cut power to thousands of Parisians on Tuesday, plunging homes into darkness and shutting down trains to one of the capital's main airports. SENT: 500 words, photos.

ITALY-VANISHING VENETIANS — A trio of islands in Venice's northern lagoon are revamping traditions to counter depopulation. SENT: 880 words, photos.

BRITAIN'S-EU-JOURNEY-2 — Britain officially leaves the European Union on Jan. 31 after a debilitating political period that has bitterly divided the nation since the 2016 Brexit referendum. SENT: 460 words, photos.

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ABORTION BATTLEGROUNDS — Anti-abortion activists gather this week in Washington for their annual March for Life. But many of them -- and their abortion-rights rivals -- already are looking ahead to March 4, when the Supreme Court hears its first major abortion case since the addition of two justices appointed by President Trump. UPCOMING: 900 words, photo, by 3 p.m.

DRUG CRISIS-METH AND COCAINE — Alarmed by a deadly new twist in the nation's drug addiction crisis, the government will allow states to use federal money earmarked for the opioid epidemic to help growing numbers of people struggling with meth and cocaine. By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar. SENT: 790 words, photos.

GUANTANAMO-SEPT. 11 TRIAL — An architect of the harsh CIA interrogation program created after the Sept. 11 attacks faces men who were subjected that treatment, appearing as a defense witness in a court hearing that could decide whether key evidence against them can be used in their war crimes trial. By Ben Fox. SENT: 760 words, photo.

SEXUAL MISCONDUCT-WEINSTEIN — Defense lawyers want to use a trove of intimate email correspondence between Harvey Weinstein and his accusers to try to convince a jury that any contact was consensual, one of the attorneys said on the eve of opening statements in Weinstein’s rape trial in New York City. SENT: 320 words, photos.

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BBO-HALL OF FAME — Derek Jeter is expected to be elected to baseball's Hall of Fame, and Larry Walker and Curt Schilling also have a chance to join him in Cooperstown. By Baseball Writer Ronald Blum. UPCOMING: 800 words, photos. Announcement scheduled for 6:15 p.m.

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MUSIC-GRAMMYWATCH-NIPSEY HUSSLE — At last year’s Grammys, Nipsey Hussle earned his first-ever nomination for his major-label debut. A month after the show he died, but his legacy lives on at the 2020 Grammys, where he’s posthumously nominated for three prizes and will be honored with an all-star tribute. By Music Writer Mesfin Fekadu. SENT: 830 words, photos.

BOOKS-WINFREY-AMERICAN DIRT — Jeanine Cummins' “American Dirt,” one of the year's most anticipated and debated novels, is Oprah Winfrey's new pick for her book club. By AP National Writer Hillel Italie. SENT: 1,080 words, photo.

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL-PREVIEW — The Sundance Film Festival is an annual rite of renewal. New films, new filmmakers and new voices for a fresh calendar year. And this year, amid an awards season that has disappointed many for its homogeneity, the rebirth of Sundance feels especially vital. By Film Writer Jake Coyle. UPCOMING: 900 words, photos by 5 p.m.

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