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VIRUS OUTBREAK — Crossing more borders, the new coronavirus hit a milestone, infecting more than 100,000 people worldwide as it wove itself deeper into the daily lives of millions, infecting the powerful, the unprotected poor and the vast masses in between. By Matt Sedensky and Angela Charlton. SENT: 950 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-STOCKPILING - Fears surrounding the new virus have created legions of hoarders, who are stocking up on canned goods, frozen dinners, toilet paper and cleaning products. Many want to be prepared as they watch a growing number of companies like Twitter, Microsoft and Amazon ask their employees to work from home. By Anne D'Innocenzio. SENT: 1,060 words, photos. WITH: VIRUS OUTBREAK-HOME PREPARATION — How to prepare your home and family, if new virus spreads. SENT: 690 words, photo.
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ELECTION 2020-BIDEN’S COMEBACK — ELECTION 2020-BIDEN’S COMEBACK — The three days between South Carolina and Super Tuesday reshaped the Democratic primary, reviving Joe Biden’s campaign and setting up a head-to-head matchup with Bernie Sanders. Campaign advisers and other Democrats detail how Biden pulled his campaign back from the brinks. By Julie Pace, Thomas Beaumont and Sara Burnett. SENT: 1,740 words, photos, video. WITH: ELECTION 2020-DEMOCRATIC DEBATES — The Democratic National Committee ratchets up the threshold to qualify for its next presidential debate, probably excluding Tulsi Gabbard. SENT: 230 words, photo; ELECTION 2020-BIDEN-PATRICK — Biden secures the endorsement of another former presidential rival, former Massachusetts Deval Patrick. SENT: 690 words, photo.
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FINANCIAL MARKETS — Bond yields fall to more record lows as investors worry that economic damage from the spreading virus outbreak will be worse than previously thought. Major indexes end down 1%, and oil prices drop 10 percent. WITH: ECONOMY-JOBS REPORT — Hiring in the United States jumped in February as employers added 273,000 positions. SENT: 930 words, photos.
SYRIA — A truce brokered by Turkey and Russia has halted a terrifying three-month air and ground campaign that killed hundreds and sent 1 million people fleeing toward the Turkish border. But there is no joy among residents of Idlib province or for the hundreds of thousands of displaced people who say they won't be returning to their homes anytime soon. SENT: 1,040 words, photos. WITH: TURKEY-GREECE — Clashes between Greek riot police and migrants attempting to cross the border from Turkey erupted anew Friday as European Union foreign ministers took aim at what they called “Turkey's use of migratory pressure for political purposes.” SENT: 1,200 words, photos; SYRIA-AL-QAIDA'S FIGHTERS — AP Explains: Tens of thousands of militants are intermingled among the 3 million civilians under siege in the Syrian government's assault on the last opposition stronghold in Idlib province. SENT: 930 words, photos.
AFGHANISTAN — Gunmen opened fire at a ceremony in Afghanistan's capital attended by prominent political leaders, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens more before the two attackers were slain by police, officials said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on its website. By Tameem Akhgar. SENT: 620 words, photos.
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VIRUS-OUTBREAK-US — Twenty-one people aboard a mammoth cruise ship off the California coast have tested positive for the new coronavirus, Vice President Mike Pence announces, including 19 crew members. SENT: 1,250 words, photos. UPCOMING: Developing.
Pence said the federal government is working with California officials on a plan to bring the ship to a non-commercial port this weekend and the 3,500 passengers and crew members will be tested for the virus.. SENT: 810 words, photos, videos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-SXSW — Austin city officials cancel the South by Southwest arts and technology festival due to virus concerns. SENT: 270 words, photos.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-PRISONS — U.S. jails and prisons are on high alert, stepping up inmate screenings, sanitizing jail cells and urging lawyers to scale back in-person visits to prevent the new coronavirus from spreading through their vast inmate populations. SENT: 1,035 words, photo.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-NURSING HOME — In the weeks before Life Care Center nursing home became ground zero for coronavirus deaths in the U.S., there were few signs the facility was girding against an illness spreading around the world. Visitors came in as they always did, sometimes without signing in. Staffers only recently began wearing face masks but the frail residents and those who came to see them were not asked to do so. SENT: 1,460 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-CONGRESS — President Trump signs an $8.3 billion measure to help tackle the coronavirus outbreak that has killed 12 people in the U.S. and infected more than 200. SENT: 880 words, photos, video. WITH: VIRUS OUTBREAK-TELEMEDICINE — The coronavirus legislation Congress sent President Donald Trump would allow Medicare to broadly expand its use of telemedicine in outbreak areas, helping to reduce infection risks for seniors. SENT: 740 words, photos, video.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-TRUMP — President Trump visits the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after signing a $8.3 billion coronavirus response funding bill. “Be calm. It will go away," Trump advises Americans. SENT: 600 words, photos, video.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-PENCE — Vice President Mike Pence takes pains to avoid contradicting President Trump's questionable public health pronouncements and tries to foster bipartisan cooperation for a “whole of America” approach to the coronavirus outbreak. By Aamer Madhani. SENT: 1,080 words, photos, video.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-MIDEAST — Iranian authorities warn they may use “force” to limit travel between cities and announce the new coronavirus has killed 124 people amid 4,747 confirmed cases in the Islamic Republic. SENT: 440 words, photos.
SPORTS-VIRUS OUTBREAK — This month’s World Cup skiing finals in Italy are called off because of the deadly virus. Also scrapped are important cycling races and rugby matches in the country while more key soccer games are set for empty stadiums. SENT: 700 words, photos.
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SPRING FORWARD — Like clockwork, daylight saving time strikes again this weekend. Don't forget to set your clocks an hour ahead to avoid being late for Sunday morning activities. SENT: 170 words, graphic.
BOOKS-WOODY ALLEN — Woody Allen’s publisher cancels the release of the director's memoir “Apropos of Nothing." SENT: 280 words, photo.
WORLD CHEESE CONTEST — A gruyere from Switzerland has been named the world's best cheese, chosen from a record number of entrants from 26 nations in the World Championship Cheese Contest in Wisconsin. SENT: 240 words, photos, video.
FBN--JETS-WILLIAMS ARRESTED — New York Jets defensive lineman Quinnen Williams was ticketed and given a court date after trying to board a plane at New York's LaGuardia Airport while carrying a gun, authorities said. SENT: 275 words, photos.
ANIMAL LAB-TB — Officials say five people who worked in a Michigan wildlife disease lab were diagnosed last year with a latent form of tuberculosis. SENT: 360 words.
WATER ON CONGRESSMAN — A Colorado man who threw a cup of water on Iowa Congressman Steve King has been sentenced to two years of probation. SENT: 200 words.
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CONGRESS-BURISMA — Utah Sen. Mitt Romney will support moving ahead with an investigation tied to Joe Biden’s son. A spokeswoman says Romney will back a subpoena related to Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian gas company Burisma. SENT: 540 words, photo.
TRUMP — President Trump tours a neighborhood in Tennessee reduced to rubble by a tornado earlier this week and marvels at the community’s “tremendous heart." By Darlene Superville. SENT: 380 words, photos, video. WITH: ELECTION 2020-TRUMP-WARREN — President Trump laces into former Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren, insisting that sexism wasn't to blame for the end of the Massachusetts senator's presidential campaign. SENT: 320 words, photos.
NOT-REAL-NEWS — It's been another week of false information spreading online. One post falsely claimed that Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg, who dropped out of the race after Super Tuesday, could have made us all millionaires if he'd divvied up his advertising money. SENT: 1,430 words, photos.
RELIGION-SANDERS-SWASTIKA — The display of a Nazi flag by a man at a Bernie Sanders campaign rally in Arizona drew condemnation from Jewish American groups amid ongoing worries about Democratic candidates' security at public events. SENT: 360 words, photos.
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CARMAGEDDON II -- It could be “Carmageddon II,” and it's coming to a major freeway near Los Angeles on the last weekend of April. The question, as Southern Californians fire up their traffic apps, is whether this latest freeway shutdown — of a section of busy Interstate 5 through Burbank — might be subtitled “The Traffic Strikes Back.” Or, as transportation officials hope, “The Motorist Awakens (And Takes an Alternate Route.)” SENT: 565 words, photos.
OHIO-STATE-TEAM-DOCTOR — Ohio State reaches an unspecified settlement with nearly half of the roughly 350 men who say they were sexually abused decades ago by a team doctor who was jokingly known among some athletes by nicknames like “Dr. Jelly Paws.” SENT: 870 words, photo.
DISABLED DAUGHTER-NEGLECT DEATH — A Wisconsin mother convicted of neglecting her 13-year-old disabled daughter and causing her death has been sentenced to 17 years in prison. SENT: 340 words, photos.
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INDIA-SEDITION LAW — Critics, intellectuals, human rights activists, filmmakers, students and journalists in seen as opposed to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government are being increasingly silenced under a colonial-era sedition law. SENT: 960 words, photos.
SALVADOR-THE DEPORTED — Salvadorans who fled their home country to escape gang-fueled violence are in many cases being deported back to face the very same violence they fled. SENT: 1,050 words, photos.
TUNISIA-EXPLOSION — Tunisia's interior ministry says two suicide bombers blew themselves up near the U.S. Embassy in the Tunisian capital and a police officer was killed. SENT: 510 words, photos, video.
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OPEC MEETING — OPEC and key ally Russia fail to agree on a cut to oil production that would have contained the plunge in the price of crude caused by the new coronavirus outbreak's massive disruption to world business. SENT: 720 words, photos.
BOEING-PLANE-CONGRESS — A congressional committee says a “culture of concealment” at Boeing and poor oversight by federal regulators contributed to two deadly crashes involving the 737 Max jetliner. SENT: 460 words, photo.
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NRA-COUNTRY MUSIC MUSEUM - For weeks the NRA has been publicizing plans to auction off firearms at a fundraising dinner at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. But a spokesperson for the museum told The Associated Press that the April event was canceled after The AP asked questions about the museum's no firearms policy. SENT: 730 words, photos.
BRITAIN-PLACIDO DOMINGO — Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo, who is ensnared in allegations of sexual misconduct, has withdrawn from this summer's production of Don Carlo at London's Royal Opera House. SENT: 260 words, photo.
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BKN--BUCKS-LAKERS — In a clash of powerhouse teams, Giannis Antetokounmpo and the NBA-best Bucks play the West-leading Lakers. Antetokounmpo scored 34 points when Milwaukee beat Los Angeles three months ago despite LeBron James’ triple-double. UPCOMING: 750 words, photos. Game starts 10:30 p.m.
HKN--OBIT-HENRI RICHARD — Henri Richard, the speedy and durable center who won a record 11 Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens, dies at 84. The team says the Hall of Famer was “one of the organization's greatest legends and ambassadors.” SENT: 600 words, photos.
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