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FINANCIAL MARKETS (sent, developing)

VIRUS OUTBREAK (sent, developing)

VIRUS OUTBREAK-US (sent, developing)

JUUL-STATE LOBBYING (sent)

ELECTION 2020-MICHIGAN (sent)

SWEDEN-OBIT-VON SYDOW (sent)

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MARIJUANA-BOSTON — Boston is bracing for large crowds as the first recreational marijuana shop in a major East Coast city opens. SENT: 440 words, photos.

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FINANCIAL MARKETS - Stocks plunged 7% on Wall Street, triggering a trading halt for 15 minutes. The steep drop followed similar falls in Europe after a fight among major crude-producing countries jolted investors already on edge about the widening fallout from the outbreak of the new coronavirus. SENT: 1,170 words, photos. UPCOMING: Developing.

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VIRUS OUTBREAK — The world’s largest economies delivered more worrisome cues Monday as anxiety over the virus outbreak sent stock and oil prices plunging and closed sites from the Sistine Chapel to Saudi Arabian schools. By Matt Sedensky. SENT: 500 words, photos. Developing. WITH: VIRUS OUTBREAK-THE LATEST (sent).

VIRUS OUTBREAK-CHINA-PROPAGANDA — As the rest of the world grapples with a burgeoning virus outbreak, China's ruling Communist Party has turned to its propaganda playbook. It portrays President Xi Jinping as firmly in charge, leading an army of health workers in a “people’s war” against the disease. SENT: 1,020 words, photos. This is the Tuesday spotlight.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-CHINA BACK TO WORK — Monday marks the return to offices for many of Beijing's white collar workers. Those allowed back were cautiously venturing into their cubicles after authorities shut down much of the country in late January to curb the virus outbreak that has infected more than 110,000 people worldwide. By Yanan Wang. SENT: 710 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-MIDEAST — Saudi Arabia closed off air and sea travel to nine countries affected by the new coronavirus as Mideast stock markets tumbled over fears about the widening outbreak's effect on the global economy. SENT: 820 words, photos.

SAUDI-RISKY MOVES — Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is behind the kingdom's boldest and riskiest moves in decades, most recently shutting down Islam's holiest sites to pilgrims to stymie the spread of a new virus and the government's decision to slash oil prices in what analysts say has sparked a price war with major producer Russia. SENT: 660 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-ITALY PRISONS — Italian penitentiary police says six inmates protesting virus containment measures at a northern Italian lock-up have died after they broke into the infirmary and overdosed on methadone. SENT: 230 words, photos.

NETHERLANDS-UKRAINE-PLANE — As the trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian charged with multiple counts of murder for their alleged involvement in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 got underway, a Dutch prosecutor solemnly read out the names of all 298 people killed in the attack. SENT: 820 words, photos.

SUDAN-ATTACK — Sudan's prime minister said he survived a “terror attack” after an explosion and gunfire targeted his motorcade in the capital Khartoum. Abdalla Hamdok tweeted he was “safe and in good shape" following the explosion. Sudanese state TV said Hamdok had been heading to his office when the attack took place. SENT: 710 words, photos.

SUDAN-YOUTH — Sudan's young protesters who led the uprising against former President Omar al-Bashir are now caught in the limbo of the country's fragile interim period. They say they've lost trust in the generals leading the country after a brutal crackdown on a protest sit-in last summer by security forces that killed dozens. Now many face the question of how to move forward. SENT: 1,240 words, photos.

AFGHANISTAN-POLITICS — Afghanistan's rival leaders were each sworn in as president in separate ceremonies, throwing plans for negotiations with the Taliban into chaos and creating a dilemma for the United States as it figures out how to move its peace deal with the Taliban forward. SENT: 1,000 words, photos.

IRAN-NUCLEAR — Iran continues to provide international inspectors access to its active nuclear facilities, even after its announcement it was no longer bound by “any restrictions” of the landmark 2015 deal with world powers designed to prevent the country from producing a nuclear weapon, the head of the U.N.'s atomic watchdog agency says. SENT: 540 words, photos.

NKOREA-LAUNCH — North Korea fired three short-range projectiles off its east coast, South Korea’s military said, two days after the North threatened to take “momentous” action to protest outside condemnation over its earlier live-fire exercises. SENT: 660 words, photos.

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ELECTION 2020-MICHIGAN — Michigan is the largest of six states with Democratic primaries on Tuesday, and it could redefine what has become a showdown between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. But many Michigan primary voters are already looking ahead to November and whether President Trump can again win in Michigan, which perhaps more than any other state catapulted him into the White House in 2016. SENT: 1,280 words. With ELECTION 2020- WATCH (sent)

VIRUS-OUTBREAK-CPAC — The Capitol's attending physician's office said that “several” members of Congress had contact with a person who attended a recent political conference and subsequently developed COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. They “remain in good health,” the physician's office said. SENT: 540 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-NATION’S CAPITAL — Several people have tested positive for the new coronavirus in the nation's capital and the surrounding area. SENT: 560 words. UPCOMING: Developing from 9 a.m. news conference.

ELECTION 2020-BIDEN-BOOKER — Former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey has endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden and will appear with him in Michigan appearances later Monday. SENT: 130 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-BIDEN-GUN CONTROL — Joe Biden has received the endorsement of one of the nation’s largest gun safety groups in the latest sign Bernie Sanders’ spotty record on guns may be weighing him down in the presidential primary. SENT: 520 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-SENATE-MONTANA — Montana Gov. Steve Bullock will try to unseat first-term Republican Sen. Steve Daines, giving Democrats a boost in their effort to take control of the Senate in November. SENT: 553 words, photo.

FACT CHECK-WEEK — President Donald Trump is suggesting the coronavirus outbreak might have brought some economic benefit to the U.S. An AP Fact Check finds that to be unlikely. SENT: 1,850 words, photos

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VIRUS OUTBREAK-US — Federal and state officials in California were preparing Monday to receive thousands of people from a cruise ship that has been idling off the cost of San Francisco with at least 21 people aboard infected with the novel coronavirus. Fences were being installed at an 11-acre site at the Port of Oakland, as authorities readied flights and buses to whisk the more than 2,000 passengers aboard the Grand Princess to military bases or their home countries for a 14-day quarantine. SENT: 750 words, photos.

JUUL-STATE LOBBYING — The nation’s largest electronic-cigarette company, Juul Labs, donated tens of thousands of dollars to the campaigns of state attorneys general to help head off legal challenges over how Juul promoted and sold its vaping products. But that approach may be backfiring. By Matthew Perrone and Richard Lardner. SENT: 2,380 words, photos. An abridged version is also available.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-FLORIDA THEME PARKS — Florida tourism officials say cases of the new coronavirus are having little visible impact on the state's biggest industry so far. George Ague leads a tourism promotion agency for Orlando and says there have only been a handful of inquiries about the virus by people planning trips to central Florida. SENT: 1,030 words, photos.

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SWEDEN-OBIT-VON SYDOW — Max von Sydow, the self-described “shy boy”-turned-actor known to art house audiences through his work with Swedish director Ingmar Bergman and later to moviegoers everywhere when he played the priest in the horror classic “The Exorcist,” has died. He was 90. SENT: 870 words, photo.

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TEN-INDIAN WELLS-POSTPONED — The BNP Paribas Open, the near-major tennis tournament set to begin this week in the California desert, won't be played as scheduled after a case of coronavirus was confirmed in the Coachella Valley. It's the largest U.S. sporting event to be called off over concerns about the spread of the disease. By AP Sports Writer Beth Harris. SENT: 960 words, photo.

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