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VIRUS OUTBREAK-GLOBAL — Spain opened its borders to British tourists on Sunday in a bid to kickstart its vital tourism economy, but Brazil and South Africa reported record new levels of coronavirus infections. At a campaign rally, President Donald Trump questioned the value of testing for the virus, telling his government to reduce U.S. testing to avoid unflattering statistics. The head of the World Health Organization has warned the virus’s global spread is accelerating after a daily high of 150,000 new cases was reported last week. At a campaign rally in Tulsa, Trump said Saturday he has told his administration to slow down virus testing. He said the United States has tested 25 million people, but the “bad part” is that found more cases. By Joe McDonald, Joseph Wilson and Kim Tong-Hyung SENT: 880 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-TRUMP - President Donald Trump has used his comeback rally to define the upcoming election as a stark choice between national heritage and left-wing radicalism. But his intended show of political force amid a pandemic featured thousands of empty seats and new coronavirus cases on his own campaign staff. Trump ignored health warnings to go through with his first rally in 110 days in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Trump told his supporters the choice in 2020 “is very simple: Do you want to bow before the left-wing mob, or do you want to stand up tall and proud as Americans?” By Kevin Freking and Jonathan Lemure. SENT: 1,075 words, photos. WITH: ELECTION 2020-TRUMP TESTING — President Donald Trump is suggesting the U.S. should slow down its coronavirus testing effort because robust testing turns up more cases of infection. SENT: 400 words, photos.
MANHATTAN FEDERAL PROSECUTORS-DEJA VU — Two defiant Manhattan federal prosecutors, one Democrat and one Republican, have met the same fate under President Donald Trump. Both were fired on a Saturday after refusing to go quietly on a Friday night. By Larry Neumeister and Eric Tucker. With AP Photos. SENT: 950 words.
VIRUS OUTBREAK - Thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump showed up in an indoor arena for a rally that some fear could help fuel nascent spikes of coronavirus cases in some places. Officials said around 100,000 people in total from multiple states were expected to converge on Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday, but there were thousands of empty seats inside the venue. Those concerns that were amplified after six staffers helping to set up the event tested positive for the virus. By Sean Murphy and Claudia Lauer. SENT: 1,110 words, photos. With VIRUS OUTBREAK-THE LATEST.
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AMERICA PROTESTS-SOROS MISINFORMATION -- Despite a lack of evidence, a growing number of people on the right are spreading conspiracy theories that Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros is orchestrating protests that have roiled the country. Researchers who study conspiracy theories say it’s a way to delegitimize the protests and the thousands of Americans who have gathered to protest police killings of black people. By David Klepper. UPCOMING: 800 words, photos by noon.
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VIRUS OUTBREAK-ASIA — South Korea has reported 48 new cases of COVID-19 as health authorities struggle to contain a resurgence that’s erasing some of the country’s hard-won gains against the virus. Figures released by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bring the national caseload to 12,421 confirmed infections including 280 deaths. It says 24 of the new cases came from the densely populated Seoul area, which have been the center of the country’s outbreak since late May. SENT: 330 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-CANNERY WORKERS — A lawsuit says about 150 seasonal workers hired by a salmon cannery in Alaska are being forced to quarantine without pay at a hotel in Los Angeles after three of them tested positive for the coronavirus. According to the lawsuit filed Friday in San Francisco Superior Court, the workers, most of them from Mexico and Southern California, were hired by North Pacific Seafoods to work at its Red Salmon Cannery in Naknek, Alaska. SENT: 480 words.
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INDONESIA-VOLCANO — Indonesia’s most volatile volcano has spewed ash and hot gas in a massive column as high as 3.7 miles into the sky. SENT: 160 words, photo.
OKLAHOMA EARTHQUAKE — A magnitude 4.2 earthquake shook northern Oklahoma on Saturday and was felt in parts of Tulsa as protesters filled the city’s downtown streets after President Donald Trump’s campaign rally. SENT: 120 words.
SYRACUSE SHOOTING — Authorities in central New York say nine people were shot at a nighttime celebration. Syracuse’s police chief says one victim in Saturday night’s shooting was in critical condition and eight people were stable with non-life-threatening injuries. SENT: 350 words.
PAKISTAN-KASHMIR — Pakistan’s military says Indian troops backed by artillery and long-range guns have opened fire on villages along the border on the Pakistani-administered side of the Kashmir region, killing a 13-year-old-girl. SENT: 220 words, photos.
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TRUMP RALLY-TULSA — President Donald Trump’s supporters faced off with protesters shouting “Black Lives Matter” in Tulsa as the president held his first campaign rally in months amid public health concerns about the coronavirus and fears that the event could lead to violence in the wake of killings of Black people by police. By Ellen Knickmeyer. SENT: 1,130 words, photos, video.
FACT CHECK WEEK - As President Donald Trump takes credit for various accomplishments and assails the Obama administration on multiple fronts, an AP Fact Check finds some striking errors in his remarks. He says the veterans’ suicide rate has come down on his watch, and that he’s ensured veterans can get same-day mental health counseling when essential. Both achievements were secured by the Obama administration. Trump also says “nobody” had heard of Juneteenth until he made it famous. The day symbolizing the end of slavery is commemorated by almost all states and the White House itself. By Calvin Woodward and Hope Yen. SENT: 2,000 words, photos. Find AP Fact Checks at https://apnews.com/APFactCheck
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BRITAIN STABBINGS — British police are seeking the motive of a 25-year-old man suspected of stabbing three people to death in a daylight attack in a park. Detectives say they are not currently treating Saturday’s attack in the town of Reading as terrorism, though the counterterrorism unit is supporting the investigation. Several other people were injured, three of them seriously, in an attack that came out of the blue on a sunny summer evening. SENT: 310 words, photos.
SERBIA-ELECTION — Serbia’s ruling populists are set to tighten their hold on power in a Sunday parliamentary vote held amid concerns over the spread of the coronavirus and a partial boycott by the opposition. Nearly 6.6 million voters are eligible to cast ballots for the 250-member parliament and local authorities. The election was initially planned in April but postponed because of the pandemic. SENT: 320 words, photos. DEVELOPING.
FRANCE PROTESTS — Protesters marched through Paris against racism and police violence and in memory of Lamine Dieng, a 25-year-old Franco-Senegalese man who died in a police van in 2007. The French government agreed this month to pay 145,000 euros ($162,000) to Dieng’s relatives after 13 years of legal wrangling. His sister expressed hope that the global awareness stoked by George Floyd’s death would help bring about legislative change in France. SENT: 460 words, photos.
CHINA-HONG KONG — China’s top lawmaking body has announced a three-day session for the end of this month, a move that raises the possibility of the enactment of a national security law for Hong Kong that has stirred debate and fears in the semi-autonomous territory. The official Xinhua News Agency said Sunday that the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress would meet from June 28-30 in Beijing. SENT: 320 words, photos.
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MINNEAPOLIS SHOOTING — Police say one man is dead and 11 people are wounded following a shooting in Minneapolis. Minneapolis police initially said 10 people had been shot with “various severity levels of injuries,” but revised their total just after 3 a.m. Sunday. An initial tweet from Minneapolis police advised the public to avoid the area in Uptown Minneapolis, a commercial district that includes several bars and restaurants. SENT: 300 words, photos.
DEPUTY FATAL SHOOTING — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says it is examining footage from security cameras that might have recorded the fatal shooting of a young man after deputies spotted him with a gun and he ran. Capt. Kent Wegener, the head of the department’s Homicide Bureau, says investigators have taken six or seven exterior cameras from the scene of Thursday’s shooting in which 18-year-old Andres Guardado was killed by a deputy. SENT: 630 words, photos.
IDAHO MISSING CHILDREN — Court documents say authorities used cellphone information from the now-deceased uncle of two missing Idaho children to find the youths’ bodies on a rural property this month. Police found the remains of 17-year-old Tylee Ryan and her brother, 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow, on June 9 after months of searching. They hadn’t been seen since September, and investigators said the children’s mother Lori Vallow Daybell and her husband Chad Daybell lied to police about their whereabouts. SENT: 400 words, photos.
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MUSIC AUCTION-PRINCE — Grunge became gold as the guitar Kurt Cobain played on Nirvana’s 1993 “MTV Unplugged” performance months before his death sold for an eye-popping $6 million at auction. The 1959 Martin D-18E that Cobain played in the band’s rare acoustic performance and subsequent live album was sold to Australian Peter Freedman, owner of Røde Microphones, at the Music Icons event run by Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills, California. A day earlier at the same auction, a the Blue Angel Cloud 2 electric guitar that Prince played at the height of his 1980s stardom sold for well over $500,000. SENT: 290 words, photos.
PEOPLE—DL HUGHLEY — Comedian D.L. Hughley has announced he’s tested positive for COVID-19, following his collapse onstage during a performance in Nashville, Tennessee. In a video posted to Twitter on Saturday, Hughley says he was tested while being treated for exhaustion and dehydration after passing out at Zanies on Friday. He says the COVID-19 diagnosis was surprising because he was otherwise asymptomatic. SENT: 320 words, photo.
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BELMONT — Tiz the Law has won an unprecedented Belmont Stakes, claiming victory at the first race of a rejiggered Triple Crown schedule in front of eerily empty grandstands. The 3-year-old colt from upstate New York charged to the lead turning for home Saturday and now can set his sights on the Sept. 5 Kentucky Derby and Oct. 3 Preakness. All three legs of this year’s Triple Crown schedule were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. SENT: 990 words, photos.
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