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Adds CHINA-OUTBREAK-US, AMERICA-CENSUS BEGINS, TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-MEDIA, LEBANON, BURKINA FASO-ATTACKS, WHITE SUPREMACISTS ARRESTED, IMMIGRATION-STUDENT DETAINED, PRISON UNREST-MISSISSIPPI, OBIT-POLAND-NAZI COMMANDER, NETFLIX-RESULTS, STERN MEMORIAL.

HALL OF FAME — Announcement scheduled for 6:15 p.m.

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TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell abruptly changes his proposed rules for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial after some of his fellow Republican senators object. As the proceedings open, he offers three days, rather than two, for opening arguments from each side. By Lisa Mascaro and Mary Clare Jalonick. SENT: 1,220 words, photos, video. With TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-RULES — After some last-minute changes, the rules for Trump’s impeachment trial largely follow the ones used during the trial of former President Bill Clinton. SENT: 870 words, photos.

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TRUMP — President Trump tries to look past the impeachment drama during his two-day visit to an economic forum in the Swiss Alps, delivering an unabashed sales pitch for what he calls a “blue-collar boom” in the U.S. economy. By Darlene Superville. SENT: 1,160 words, photos, video. With TRUMP-FACT CHECK — Trump cites accomplishments on clean air that aren't real, a level of economic progress he hasn't achieved and a blue-collar boom yet to be seen. SENT: 1,500 words, photos; DAVOS-FORUM — Greta Thunberg wastes little time in pushing back against Trump's description of climate campaigners as “perennial prophets of doom." SENT: 700 words, photos.

AMERICA-CENSUS BEGINS — A Yup'ik elder born to nomadic parents in western Alaska just after the start of the Great Depression is scheduled to be the first person counted in the 2020 Census. Lizzie Chimiugak will be honored during a ceremony Tuesday at the school in Toksook Bay, just off Alaska's western coast in the Bering Sea. By Mark Thiessen. SENT: 680 words, photos. UPCOMING: Developing. With CENSUS BEGINS-Q&A (sent); CENSUS BEGINS-AP-WAS THERE — AP Was There: Census 2000 got warm welcome in snowy Alaska. SENT: 610 words, photos.

CHINA-OUTBREAK-US — The U.S. reports its first case of a new and potentially deadly virus circulating in China, saying a Washington state resident who returned last week from the outbreak's epicenter was hospitalized in good condition near Seattle. The man, identified only as a Snohomish County resident in his 30s, is not considered a threat to medical staff or the public, health officials say. By Carla K. Johnson and Mike Stobbe. SENT: 590 words, photos. With CHINA-OUTBREAK — As virus spreads, anxiety rises in China and overseas. SENT: 1,100 words, photos.; CHINA-OUTBREAK-SCIENCE SAYS — What to know about the viral outbreak in China. SENT: 460 words, photo; CHINA OUTBREAK-THINGS TO KNOW — What's new in the China virus outbreak. SENT: 220 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-DEMOCRATS-UNITY — Virtually every Democratic presidential contender is trying to rally supporters behind a decidedly optimistic theme: unity. Despite their consistent efforts, however, unity has proven to be a fleeting concept, even for a party whose success in the next presidential race depends upon it. By Steve Peoples and Will Weissert. SENT: 1,060 words, photos. With ELECTION 2020-CLINTON-SANDERS — Hillary Clinton says “nobody likes” Bernie Sanders. SENT: 720 words, photos.

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 POLAND-US-AUSCHWITZ — U.S. House Speaker Pelosi visits Auschwitz ahead of liberation anniversary. SENT: 250 words, photos; AUSCHWITZ-THE DEATH CAMP-PHOTO ESSAY (sent).

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CANADA-ROYAL RIFT — Prince Harry reunites with Meghan and Archie in Canada. SENT: 420 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. SENT: 930 words, photos.

PEOPLE-PAMELA ANDERSON — Pamela Anderson marries film producer Jon Peters. It's the fifth marriage for each. SENT: 120 words, photo.

PRO-TRUMP BOSS KILLED — A worker with anti-government views fatally stabbed his Trump-supporting boss at a highway construction site and placed an American flag next to the body after they got into a political argument, deputies in Florida say. SENT: 270 words, photos.

BRAZIL-HACKING-GREENWALD — Brazilian prosecutors accuse U.S. journalist Glenn Greenwald of involvement in hacking the phones of officials involved in a corruption investigation. SENT: 340 words.

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

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TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-ROBERTS — Chief Justice John Roberts is 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. SENT: 620 words, photos.

TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-MEDIA — CBS has a distinction in its impeachment coverage: first major network to break away. The network cut off coverage of opening day to allow affiliates to show their regular afternoon fare during a debate on whether to subpoena White House documents. By Media Writer David Bauder. SENT: 540 words, photo.

ELECTION 2020-DEMOCRATIC SURROGATES — Democratic White House candidates stuck in the Senate impeachment trial are deploying surrogates across the early primary states as they try to make up for their limited time on the trail. SENT: 1,100 words, photos. With ELECTION 2020-BIDEN — Joe Biden mostly sidesteps Trump's impeachment trial as he campaigns in Iowa. SENT: 820 words, photos.

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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. SENT: 760 words, photos.

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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: 200 words.

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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. SENT: 700 words, video, photos.

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

LEBANON — A new Cabinet is announced in crisis-hit Lebanon, breaking a months-long impasse amid ongoing mass protests against the country's ruling elite. SENT: 400 words, photos.

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

BURKINA FASO-ATTACKS — Militants attack a market in Burkina Faso’s Sanmatenga province, killing at least 36 people and wounding several others, the government says. SENT: 170 words. UPCOMING: Developing.

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GUANTANAMO-SEPT. 11 TRIAL — An architect of the brutal CIA interrogation program developed after the Sept. 11 attacks defends the agency and its practices as those techniques become the focus of an effort to dismiss evidence against five men charged in the terrorist plot. SENT: 960 words, photo.

WHITE SUPREMACISTS ARRESTED — A hidden camera captured members of a white supremacist group expressing hope that violence at a gun rights rally in Virginia this week could start a civil war, federal prosecutors say. SENT: 980 words, photos.

SEXUAL MISCONDUCT-WEINSTEIN — Defense lawyers want to use a trove of intimate email correspondence between the once-powerful movie producer Harvey Weinstein and his accusers to try to convince a jury that any contact was consensual. SENT: 320 words, photos.

ABORTION BATTLEGROUNDS — Anti-abortion activists gather this week in Washington for their annual March for Life, eager to cheer on a continuing wave of federal and state abortion restrictions. By National Writer David Crary. SENT: 900 words, photos.

IMMIGRATION-STUDENT DETAINED — An Iranian student attending college in Boston is denied entry to the U.S. and ordered to immediately fly back to his native country, despite a court order temporarily staying his removal. SENT: 540 words, photos.

PRISON UNREST-MISSISSIPPI — Two inmates were beaten to death in a fight with other inmates in an understaffed Mississippi prison that has been shaken by other deadly violence in recent weeks, a coroner said. SENT: 660 words, photo.

OBIT-POLAND-NAZI COMMANDER — A Minnesota man exposed as a former commander of a Nazi-led unit during World War II has died at age 100. SENT: 950 words.

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NETFLIX-RESULTS — Netflix adds 8.8 million worldwide subscribers during its fourth quarter, surpassing expectations at a time when it faces heated competition from new streaming challengers such as Disney. By Technology Writer Rachel Lerman. SENT: 300 words, photo.

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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.

STERN MEMORIAL — David Stern's life and career are celebrated at a memorial service, three weeks after the former NBA commissioner's death. By Basketball Writer Brian Mahoney. UPCOMING: 600 words by 6:30 p.m., photos.

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SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL-PREVIEW — The Sundance Film Festival is an annual rite of renewal — new films, new filmmakers, new voices. By Film Writer Jake Coyle. UPCOMING: 900 words by 7 p.m., photos.

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