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ADDS: TEXAS-EXECUTION; TRUMP-BOLTON BOOK; CONGRESS-BARR; JUNETEENTH HOLIDAY-VIRGINIA; CONGRESS-DC STATEHOOD; VIRUS OUTBBREAK-CONGRESS-OVERSIGHT; SUPREME COURT-PROLIFIC GORSUCH; VIRUS OUTBEAK-TRUMP-FACT CHECK; COLOMBIA-NARCO FREED; LEBANON-US SANCTIONS; SWITZERLAND-LOST GOLD BARS; FEDERAL OFFICER KILLED; AMERICA PROTESTS-CONGRESS-CONFEDERATE SYMBOLS; FILM-DELROY LINDO
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VIRUS OUTBREAK-HAPPINESS POLL — The year has been rough on the American psyche. People are more unhappy today than they’ve been in nearly 50 years. This bold — yet unsurprising — conclusion comes from the COVID Response Tracking Study, conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago. It finds that just 14% of American adults say they’re very happy, down from 31% who said the same in 2018. That year, 23% said they’d often or sometimes felt isolated. Now, 50% say that. By Tamara Lush. SENT: 990 words, photos, graphic.
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AMERICA PROTESTS-TRUMP — President Donald Trump signs an executive order that he says will encourage better police practices, but makes no mention of the roiling national debate over racism spawned by the police killings of black men and women. By Jill Colvin. SENT: 1,030 words, photos, video. With AMERICA PROTESTS-TRUMP-Q&A — What will Trump’s order do? SENT: 730 words, photos.
AMERICA PROTESTS — The killing of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta has led to a push in the U.S. for more training of police officers in how to “deescalate” tense situations before they explode in violence. Officers undergoing deescalation training are taught how to keep their cool, calm people down and use the least amount of force required. By Kate Brumback and R.J. RICO. SENT: 770 words, photos, videos. UPCOMING: New approach With AMERICA PROTESTS-THE LATEST.
TRUMP-LEGACY OF A MASSACRE — President Trump’s site for a rally Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, stands in what’s historically the white downtown, a few hundred feet from a once-thriving black community wiped out by a white massacre in 1921. Controversy over the rally is drawing bigger crowds to the massacre memorials. By Ellen Knickmeyer. SENT: 1,090 words, photos.
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MED--VIRUS OUTBREAK-TREATMENT — Researchers in England say they have the first evidence that a drug can improve COVID-19 survival: A cheap, widely available steroid reduced deaths by up to one third in severely ill hospitalized patients. By Marilynn Marchione. SENT: 910 words, photos. WITH: VIRUS OUTBREAK — As the first drug shows it can save lives among severely ill COVID-19 patients, there are worrisome upticks of contagion in countries that had largely contained the virus. SENT: 990 words, photos. AND: VIRUS OUTBREAK-THE LATEST
VIRUS OUTBREAK-HEALING HEALTH WORKERS — At hospitals around the country, health care workers are reckoning with the psychological toll of the fight against the coronavirus, and fears that the disease could flare anew later this year. At New York City’s Elmhurst Hospital, workers have been cheered as heroes in the virus crisis. But the work also has been exhausting and traumatic. By Jennifer Peltz. SENT: 1,010 words, photos, videos.
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SUPREME COURT-PROLIFIC GORSUCH — Supreme Court watchers were left scratching their heads when they learned Justice Neil Gorsuch was the author of Monday’s landmark LGBT rights ruling — but not because the Trump appointee might have been expected to side with his conservative colleagues. By Mark Sherman. SENT: 740 words, photo.
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AMERICA PROTESTS-BODY CAMERAS — Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent to outfit police officers with cameras. Activists and officers alike say the technology’s broad adoption has been helpful, but they also agree the devices were never meant to solve all problems. By Jake Bleiberg. SENT: 990 words, photos, video.
AMERICA PROTESTS-CONGRESS-CONFEDERATE SYMBOLS — Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell says he’s “OK” with renaming military bases such as Ft. Bragg that are named after Confederate figures. SENT: 350 words, photos.
AMERICA PROTESTS-CONQUISTADOR — A man has been arrested in a shooting that happened as protesters in New Mexico’s largest city tried to tear down a bronze statue of a Spanish conquistador outside the Albuquerque Museum, police say. SENT: 770 words, photos.
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VIRUS OUTBREAK-TRUMP — President Trump’s suggestion that “if we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases” reflects a broader administration effort to play down the ongoing threat of the coronavirus. By Aamer Madhani. UPCOMING: 800 words by 7 p.m., photos, video. With VIRUS OUTBREAK-TRUMP-FACT CHECK — In predicting a coronavirus vaccine by the end of 2020, Trump states inaccurately that an AIDS vaccine exists. SENT: 820 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-CONGRESS-OVERSIGHT — Government watchdogs warn a legal determination by the Trump administration could severely limit their ability to oversee more than $1 trillion in spending related to the coronavirus pandemic. SENT: 820 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-INTERNSHIPS — Even as economies slowly reopen, the global coronavirus crisis is disrupting summer internships, an important stepping stone to working life for many university students and recent graduates. By Business Writer Kelvin Chan. SENT: 1,030 words, photos.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-GERMANY-TRACING-APP — Germany launches a coronavirus tracing app that officials say is so secure even government ministers can use it. SENT: 1,070 words, photos.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-VIRAL-QUESTIONS-LONG-TERM EFFECTS — What are the potential long-term effects of having COVID-19? It’s hard to say exactly. SENT: 330 words, graphic.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-EUROPE-REOPENS-PHOTO-GALLERY — Sunshine, espressos, shopping as Europe opens up. SENT: 340 words, photos.
TRIBES-CORONAVIRUS-RELIEF-FUNDING — The U.S. Treasury Department must release $679 million in coronavirus relief funding for tribes that it intended to withhold while a court challenge over the agency’s initial round of payments to tribal governments played out in court, a federal judge rules. SENT: 530 words.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-DIARY-LOVE AND PANDEMIC — The specters of loss have been constants during the pandemic. For one writer, COVID-19 has made it difficult to mourn his wife’s death in April after a prolonged struggle with cancer. Stay-at-home orders and worries about contracting the disease have interrupted all the norms meant to provide comfort after the death of a loved one. SENT: 640 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-ONE GOOD THING-ICELAND HOOPS — The Golden State Warriors had to adapt their popular youth basketball camps and make them virtual given the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of that, an 11-year-old boy in Iceland and Stephen Curry superfan gets to participate virtually from a world away. SENT: 590 words, photos.
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JUNETEENTH HOLIDAY-VIRGINIA — -Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced he will propose making Juneteenth — a day that commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. — an official holiday in a state that was once home to the capital of the Confederacy. SENT. 300 words.
FILM-DELROY LINDO — Delroy Lindo on his titanic performance in ‘Da 5 Bloods.'SENT: 880 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-US OPEN — ‘Watch it on TV’: Gov. Cuomo OKs no-fan US Open tennis in NY. SENT: 700 words, photos.
SWITZERLAND-LOST GOLD BARS — Fools gold? $190K in gold bars unclaimed from Swiss train. SENT: 160 words.
NICARAGUA-OBIT-EDEN PASTORA — Edén Pastora, Nicarguan revolutionary, dead at 83. SENT: 870 words, photos.
TV-EMMYS-HOST — Jimmy Kimmel to host Emmys, first major awards show of pandemic. SENT: 240 words, photo.
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TRUMP-BOLTON BOOK — The Trump administration sues former national security adviser John Bolton to block the publication of a book that the White House says contains classified information. By Eric Tucker. SENT: 110 words, photo. UPCOMING: 700 words by 7 p.m.
CONGRESS-BARR — House Democrats subpoena two Justice Department lawyers to testify before the Judiciary Committee about the politicization of the agency in the Trump administration. SENT: 540 words, photo.
CONGRESS-DC STATEHOOD — Democrats controlling the House schedule a vote next week to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, but the legislation faces insurmountable opposition in the GOP-controlled Senate. By Andrew Taylor and Ashraf Khalil. SENT: 670 words, photos, video.
RUSSIA DISINFORMATION-REPORT — A Kremlin-linked social media disinformation operation that sought to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election has continued its work to divide and discredit Western democracies, a new report finds — but its effectiveness has been limited by its own cautious tactics. By David Klepper. SENT: 470 words, photo.
LGBT RIGHTS-WHAT’S NEXT — LGBT-rights activists are elated by a major Supreme Court victory on job discrimination, and hope the decision will spur action against other biases faced by their community despite Trump administration efforts to slow or reverse advances. By David Crary. SENT: 860 words, photos
CIA HACKING TOOLS — A specialized CIA unit that developed hacking tools and cyber weapons didn’t do enough to protect its own operations and wasn’t prepared to respond when its secrets were exposed, according to an internal report prepared after the worst data loss in the intelligence agency’s history. By Deb Riechmann and Eric Tucker. SENT: 810 words, photo.
ELECTION 2020-WARREN-VP — Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s overtures with the African American community could help her standing as one of the women Joe Biden is reportedly considering as his running mate. Biden has pledged to pick a woman, and pressure is increasing on him to pick a black woman. By Will Weissert. SENT: 990 words, photo. With ELECTION 2020-BIDEN-OBAMA — Obama to hold joint fundraiser for Biden next week.
ELECTION 2020-BIDEN PROGRESSIVES — More than four dozen progressive groups have signed a letter to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign criticizing his police reform proposals and warning that if he doesn’t adopt more progressive policies he risks losing black voters — and the election — this fall. By Alexandra Jaffe. SENT: 480 words, photo.
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LEBANON-US SANCTIONS — The head of Hezbollah group said Lebanon should not observe new U.S. sanctions against Syria which he described as more hurtful of his country’s economy if implemented. SENT: 500 words, photos.
COLOMBIA-NARCO FREED — Pablo Escobar’s crime partner and one of Colombia’s pioneering “cocaine cowboys” has been released after a long prison sentence in the U.S. and been deported to Germany. SENT: 390 words, photo.
KOREAS-TENSIONS — North Korea says it will redeploy troops to now-shuttered inter-Korean tourism and economic sites near the border with South Korea.. SENT, developing: 130 words, photos, video.
INDIA-CHINA-HIMALAYAN STANDOFF — The Indian Army has raised the death toll in a clash with Chinese troops on a disputed Himalayan border from three to 20 Indian soldiers. The army said in a statement that the two sides “have disengaged” from the disputed Galwan area where they clashed overnight on Monday. SENT: 930 words, photos.
GERMANY-US-TROOPS — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg played down concern that the United States will rush to pull thousands of its troops out of Germany, as doubts swirled in Europe about when such a withdrawal might take place. President Donald Trump has said that he is ordering a major reduction in U.S. troop strength in Germany, from around 34,500 personnel down to 25,000. Members of his own party have criticized the move as a gift to Russia and a threat to U.S. national security. SENT: 720 words, photos.
HUMAN-RIGHTS-RACISM — African nations have prepared a draft resolution at the U.N.’s top human rights body that singles out the United States and would launch intense international scrutiny of systemic racism against people of African descent in the wake of recent high-profile killings of blacks by American police. SENT: 330 words, photo.
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TEXAS-EXECUTION — The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a reprieve to a Texas inmate scheduled to die for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman more than two decades ago, continuing a more than four-month delay of executions in the nation’s busiest death penalty state during the coronavirus pandemic. SENT: 580 words, photos.
IMMIGRATION-VISA-RESTRICTIONS — President Donald Trump is expected to announce new restrictions on work visas, and businesses and universities are pleading for restraint. They say cutting off access to talented foreign workers will further disrupt the economy and stifle innovation.. SENT: 1,070 words, photos.
CALIFORNIA-WILDFIRES-UTILITY — Pacific Gas & Electric pleaded guilty to 84 felony counts of involuntary manslaughter for a wildfire that wiped out most of a Northern California town called Paradise. The nation’s largest utility took responsibility for the death and destruction caused by its history of neglect and greed. SENT: 770 words, photos.
FEDERAL OFFICER KILLED— Federal authorities say a U.S. airman with ties to the “boogaloo” right-wing extremist movement killed a federal security officer outside a federal courthouse near San Francisco. SENT: 460 words, photos.
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FINANCIAL MARKETS — Stocks rose on Wall Street, notching their third gain in a row, after U.S. retail sales rebounded last month by much more than economists were expecting. SENT: 730 words, photos.
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COMMISSIONERS-ESPN — Roger Goodell would like to see Colin Kaepernick back in the NFL this season. The NFL commissioner said during ESPN’s “The Return of Sports” special that he is encouraging teams to sign the 32-year old quarterback, who hasn’t played the past three seasons. Kaepernick was with the San Francisco 49ers in 2016 when he kneeled during the national anthem to protest racial injustice. SENT: 920 words, photos.
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