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VIRUS OUTBREAK — Infected and contagious, President Donald Trump briefly ventured out in a motorcade to salute cheering supporters, a move that disregarded precautions meant to contain the deadly virus that has forced his hospitalization and killed more than 209,000 Americans. By Jill Colvin, Steve Peoples and Zeke Miller. SENT: 1,350 words, photos. With ELECTION 2020-WATCH — How long will Trump be quarantined? VIRUS OUTBREAK-TRUMP-WHAT WE KNOW.
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TRUMP-BARR-VOTER FRAUD — In the run up to Election Day, Trump is seizing on small, potentially routine voting issues to suggest the election is rigged. But there is no evidence there is any widespread voter fraud as the president has suggested. By Michael Balsamo. SENT: 650 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-PENCE — Vice President Mike Pence is in a familiar spot: standing Trump. With Trump hospitalized with a virus that he spent months downplaying, his ever-loyal No. 2 will play an increasingly prominent role in the weeks ahead. By Brian Slodysko. SENT: 1,000 words, photos. With ELECTION 2020-TRUMP — Battered Trump campaign faces big challenges.
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SUPREME COURT-NEW TERM — The Supreme Court opens a new term with Republicans on the cusp of realizing a dream 50 years in the making, a solid conservative majority that might roll back abortion rights, expand gun rights and shrink the power of government. By Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko. SENT: 830 words, photos. UPCOMING: Oral arguments begin at 10 a.m. With SUPREME COURT-NEW TERM-GLANCE.
NOBEL-MEDICINE — Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice, and British-born scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, a major source of liver disease that affects millions worldwide. The trio’s work helped explain a major source of blood-borne hepatitis that couldn’t be explained by the previously discovered hepatitis A and B viruses. Their work, dating to the 1970s and 1980s, has helped saved millions of lives, the Nobel Committee says. By David Keyton and Frank Jordans. SENT: 540 words, photos.
TOO-MANY-SEALS? — Nick Muto has fished up and down the New England coast and there is nothing that gets his blood boiling more than the sight of a seal. Muto, whose two boats fish for groundfish such as skate and monkfish as well as lobster, is among a growing group of anglers, beach goers and local officials who are quick to blame everything from disease to depleted fisheries to increased shark sightings on the exploding seal population. By Patrick Whittle and Michael Casey. SENT: 1,000 words, photos.
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VIRUS OUTBREAK-UGANDA-BLOOD SHORTAGE — Health authorities in Uganda say the supply of blood has sharply declined since the start of the coronavirus pandemic as fewer people donate and schools remain closed. SENT: 510 words, photos.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-ASIA — Students in the Philippines begin classes at home after the coronavirus pandemic forced remote-learning onto an educational system already struggling to fund schools. SENT: 700 words, photos. With VIRUS-OUTBREAK-THE-LATEST.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-SPAIN — Scientific groups representing over 170,000 health workers are urging Spanish politicians to base their response to the coronavirus pandemic on science rather than politics. SENT: 200 words, photos.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-EUROPE — European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen says she has placed herself in isolation after being in contact with a person infected with the coronavirus. SENT: 290 words, photos.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-IMMIGRATION-HOTELS — An appeals court refuses to allow the Trump administration to resume detaining immigrant children in hotel rooms before expelling them under rules adopted during the coronavirus pandemic. SENT: 580 words.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-POLAND — Poland’s prime minister requests that the official swearing-in of his reshuffled Cabinet be postponed after one of the ministers tested positive for COVID-19. SENT: 100 words.
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CINEWORLD-CLOSURES — Hundreds of Regal, Cineworld movie theaters to close. SENT: 130 words, photo.
EUROPE-STORMS — Floods that hit Italy, France leave nine dead, several missing. SENT: 350 words, photos.
GERMANY-SYNAGOGUE ASSAULT — German Jewish group calls attack on student anti-Semitic. SENT: 570 words, photos.
GREECE-MICROSOFT — Microsoft plans $1 billion data center venture in Greece. SENT: 350 words.
TROPICAL-WEATHER — Tropical Storm Gamma leaves six dead in southern Mexico. SENT: 220 words.
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ELECTION-2020-SENATE-NEW-MEXICO — Candidates for an open U.S. Senate seat in New Mexico are parrying a barrage of political attack ads with the first televised debate of the campaign. SENT: 300 words, photos.
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ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN — The fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh resumes, with both sides accusing each other of launching attacks. SENT: 410 words, photos.
POLAND-LGBT-CULTURE-WAR — LGBT rights are the focus of a growing culture clash in Poland. SENT: 1,040 words, photos.
BREXIT — Germany is calling on the United Kingdom to make a big final push to agree on a trade deal with the European Union in the wake of Brexit especially since fallout from the coronavirus pandemic is already hitting the economies on both sides of the English Channel very hard. SENT: 370 words, photos.
PAKISTAN-POLITICS — A Pakistani court officially charges the country’s former President Asif Ali Zardari in two corruption cases, escalating the legal challenges facing the now leading opposition lawmaker and widower of assassinated former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. SENT: 380 words, photo.
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MONUMENTS-PROJECT — At a time of intense scrutiny in America over who is commemorated in public parks or in front of courthouses, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced it is spending $250 million over five years to build new monuments or memorials, add context to already existing ones and relocate others. SENT: 720 words, photos.
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FINANCIAL-MARKETS — Global shares rose as investors were encouraged by positive reports about Trump’s health after he was hospitalized with the coronavirus. By Business Writer Yuri Kageyama. SENT: 530 words, photos.
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NBA FINALS — Jimmy Butler's triple-double propels short-handed Miami to a 115-104 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers, pulling the Heat to within 2-1 in the NBA Finals. By Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds. SENT: 900 words, photos.
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