BC-AP News Coverage Advisory, 10:15 Advisory

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HIGHLIGHTING

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VIRUS OUTBREAK-CONGRESS (sent, developing)

VIRUS OUTBREAK (sent, developing)

VIRUS OUTBREAK-PRINCE CHARLES (sent, developing)

FINANCIAL MARKETS (sent, developing)

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WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT

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SUSPECT FEARED CORONAVIRUS —A Georgia man who feared getting the coronavirus pointed a gun at two women wearing medical masks and gloves in a post office, authorities said. SENT: 215 words.

KANYE WEST-TAYLOR SWIFT — Taylor Swift's publicist takes aim at Kim Kardashian in feud. SENT: 310 words, photo.

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BUSINESS/ ECONOMY

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VIRUS OUTBREAK-RESTARTING THE ECONOMY — President Donald Trump’s call to restart the economy by mid-April against the objections of public health experts is pushing up against another group of skeptics: businesses. UPCOMING: 900 words, photos by 5 p.m.

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VIRUS OUTBREAK

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VIRUS OUTBREAK-CONGRESS — The White House and Senate leaders reach announced agreement on an unprecedented $2 trillion emergency bill to rush sweeping aid to businesses, workers and a health care system slammed by the coronavirus pandemic. SENT: 1160 words. UPCOMING: Developing throughout the day with details of bill, likely Senate action, timing uncertain, 1200 words by 5 p.m., photos, video. WITH: VIRUS OUTBREAK-CONGRESS-GLANCE — What’s in the bill. UPCOMING: 600 words by 5 p.m..

VIRUS OUTBREAK — The death toll in Spain from the coronavirus shot up by more than 700 on Wednesday, surpassing China and is now second only to Italy as the pandemic spread rapidly in Europe, with even Britain's Prince Charles testing positive for the virus. SENT: 1,140 words, photos.

BRITAIN-OUTBREAK-PRINCE CHARLES — Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, tests positive for the new coronavirus, his office says. The 71-year-old is showing mild symptoms of COVID-19 and is self-isolating at a royal estate in Scotland. SENT: 400 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-THE NEW SACRIFICE — For most Americans alive today, the idea of a shared national sacrifice is a collective abstraction. It's a memory passed on from a grandparent or through a book or movie. Not since World War II, when people carried ration books, has the nation been asked to truly sacrifice for a greater good. Now, with the coronavirus, it's as though a natural disaster has taken place in multiple places at once. Will America step up as it enters what one prominent historian calls “a new moment?" SENT: 1,170 words, photos.

VIRUS-OUTBREAK-MENTAL-HEALTH — The coronavirus pandemic can be a challenge for people who already have anxiety issues, especially those who aren't getting treatment. Providers are moving individual and group therapy sessions online. Research shows that can be as effective as treating people in person. SENT: 1,020 words, photos, video.

IRUS OUTBREAK-CHINA — Trains carrying factory employees back to work after two months in locked-down cities roll out of Hubei province, the center of China’s virus outbreak, as the government begins lifting the last of the controls that confined tens of millions of people to their homes. SENT: 980 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-WASHINGTON RULE BREAKERS – Senators still use the gym. Mike Pompeo is flying to Afghanistan. Officials in Washington aren’t following the same rules they’re asking the rest of the country to abide by. SENT: 990 words, photo.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-FEDERAL PRISONS — Some federal prisons have no soap or hand sanitizer. Supervisors are prohibiting guards from wearing masks. And the first inmate out of 175,000 has tested positive for COVID-19. The federal Bureau of Prisons, plagued for years by violence, misconduct and staffing shortages, is struggling to manage the growing pandemic. Congressional leaders and prison advocates are pressing the Justice Department to release at-risk inmates ahead of a potential outbreak. UPCOMING: 800 words by 3 p.m., photos.

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NATIONAL

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SEVERE-WEATHER-SOUTH — Teresa Hazelwood stopped by a Dollar General store in northern Mississippi to get some chips, and soon found herself riding out a suspected tornado in the parking lot and felt it lifting her car. She gripped the steering wheel and prayed. SENT: 325 words, photos, video.

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INTERNATIONAL

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VIRUS OUTBREAK-ISRAEL POLITICS — Israel's parliament speaker abruptly resigned, dealing a blow to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and deepening the country's political turmoil as the embattled Israeli leader tries to cling to power amid a fast-spreading outbreak of the coronavirus and a looming corruption trial. SENT: 1,020 words, photos.

RUSSIA-PUTIN — Russian President Vladimir Putin has postponed a nationwide vote on proposed constitutional amendments that include a change that would allow him to seek another term in power. SENT: 400 words, developing.

AFGHANISTAN —A lone Islamic State gunman rampaged through a Sikh house of worship in the heart of the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing 25 worshipers and wounding eight, Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said. SENT: 750 words, photos.

TURKEY-KHASHOGGI KILLING — Turkish prosecutors formally charge two former aides of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and 18 other Saudi nationals over the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, officials say. SENT: 510 words, photo.

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HOW TO REACH US

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