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TOP STORIES

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ELECTION 2020 — A week until Election Day, Joe Biden goes on offense in Georgia — which hasn’t backed a Democrat for president since 1992 — and pushes into other territory where President Donald Trump was once expected to easily repeat his wins from four years ago. By Will Weissert, Aamer Madhani and Alexandra Jaffe. SENT: 920 words. UPCOMING: 990 words by 5 p.m., with updates from afternoon Trump rallies in Michigan and Wisconsin, evening appearance in Nebraska, Biden afternoon Georgia appearances, photos, video.

ELECTION 2020-BIDEN CORONAVIRUS — If Joe Biden wins the election, he’s vowing to combat the coronavirus from the earliest moments of his presidential transition. He’d seek advice from Dr. Anthony Fauci, work with governors and local officials to institute a nationwide mask-wearing mandate, and push for a sweeping spending bill to address the crisis. Yet those measures may fall short of the type of national pandemic response some scientists and political observers say may be the only way to contain the virus. By Will Weissert and Alexandra Jaffe. UPCOMING: 990 words by 5 p.m., photos.

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SUPREME COURT-BARRETT — Amy Coney Barrett is formally sworn as the Supreme Court’s ninth justice, her oath administered in private by Chief Justice John Roberts. Barrett’s first votes on the court could include two big topics affecting the man who appointed her. By Mark Sherman. SENT: 610 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-SENATE-MAINE — In 2018, Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ vote in favor of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee rallied Democrats against her and angered some moderate supporters. Her vote against Amy Coney Barrett may be too late to win them back. By David Sharp. UPCOMING: 990 words by 4 p.m., photo.

VIRUS-OUTBREAK-VENEZUELA-BROKEN-HOSPITALS -- Family members of patients sick with the novel coronavirus risk their lives stepping inside a Venezuelan hospital to feed and bathe their loved ones. Venezuela endures a shortage of nurses and doctors after year of collapse that’s now laid bare in pandemic. Elena Sauzo normally works in a school cafeteria. Now, she suits up at the emergency entrance of a Caracas hospital with a medical gown, white rubber gloves and two facemasks. She goes inside each day to feed and bathe her father. Like others, she ignores the risk, saying its the only way her father will get the personal care he needs. By Scott Smith. SENT: 2,050 words, photos.

BBO-WORLD SERIES — Cody Bellinger, Corey Seager and the Los Angeles Dodgers can clinch the franchise’s first World Series title since 1988. They go into Game 6 against Tampa Bay and 2018 AL Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell. By Baseball Writer Stephen Hawkins. 800 words, photos. Game starts 8:08 p.m.

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EGYPT-SHARK ATTACK — A young Ukrainian tourist lost an arm and an Egyptian tour guide a leg in a rare shark attack over the weekend off Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, officials said. SENT: 280 words, photos.

THEFT FROM DYING WOMAN — A man is facing charges for allegedly stealing a cellphone from a collapsed jogger who was dying on a St. Louis sidewalk. SENT: 95 words, photo.

RIGHT WHALE-DEATHS — The population of North Atlantic right whales, an endangered species that has been the focus of conservation efforts for decades, has dipped to less than 370, officials said. SENT: 170 words, photos.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL-GAME THREAT — A judge has sentenced a California man to a year and a day in prison for threatening a shooting at Ohio State University in 2018. SENT: 660 words, photo.

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ELECTION 2020-MIDWEST-VIRUS — The coronavirus is getting worse in states that Trump needs the most. That includes Wisconsin, where Trump is fighting to catch Biden in a state Trump narrowly won in 2016, Iowa, where the two are now in a toss-up race. SENT: 880 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK — The record surge in coronavirus cases has pushed hospitals to the brink in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, confronting health officials in Mexico and Texas with twin disasters in the metropolitan area of 3 million people. UPCOMING: 900 words by 5 p.m.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-CASINOS — The U.S. casino industry is seeking tax and regulatory relief from the government as it tries to recover from the coronavirus outbreak, which cost states more than $2 billion in lost tax revenue while casinos were shut down for four months this year. SENT: 540 words, photos.

VATICAN OUTBREAK-EUROPE — Italy is bracing for another day of protests in cities nationwide against virus-fighting measures that have closed restaurants and bars early and shut down gyms and swimming pools. Yet Italy is not alone. Discontent with renewed restrictions aimed at stopping the surge of coronavirus is growing all over Europe as the continent grapples is with how to act before its hospitals become overwhelmed again. SENT: 915 words, photos.

VIRUS-OUTBREAK-DUBAI-AIRPORT — Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, is a long way from what it once was amid the coronavirus pandemic as it prepares for a possible ”extended, slow recovery,” its CEO tells The Associated Press. SENT: 800 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-VATICAN — Pope Francis’ decision to forgo wearing a mask has been noticed, with some concern, by the commission of Vatican experts he appointed to help chart the Catholic Church’s path through the coronavirus pandemic and the aftermath. One of the key members of the pope’s COVID-19 commission acknowledged that at age 83 and with part of his lung removed after an illness in his youth, Francis would be at high risk for complications if he were to become infected with COVID-19. SENT: 495 words, photos.

VIRUS-OUTBREAK-ONE-GOOD-THING-TRICKS-FOR-TREATS -- The favorite American festivity of Halloween trick-or-treating is being tested by the pandemic, and people are rising to the challenge in creative ways that are both safe and fun. Dropping candy down a 7-foot chute. Flinging family-size candy bars to them via mini-catapults, “Game of Thrones” style. Or scattering candy at social distances across the front yard, or putting it in Easter egg containers. The National Retail Federation’s surveys indicate Halloween spending and participation will be down a little this year. But it reports that many of those who are participating plan to spend more. SENT: 690 words, photos.

VIRUS-OUTBREAK-AN-UNUSUAL-HALLOWEEN — For Americans, 2020 was a year when fear and death commandeered front-row seats in life. There is a pandemic, a fundamental reckoning about race and political divisions like perhaps never before. With that as a backdrop, how do we encounter the holiday whose existence hinges on turning fear and death into something fun? By National Writer Ted Anthony. SENT: 1,510 words, photos. An abridged version of 1,000 words is available.

VIRUS-OUTBREAK-VIRAL-QUESTIONS-HALLOWEEN -- Health officials say Halloween traditions should look a little different this year to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Instead of big parties and haunted houses, they suggest activities like outdoor pumpkin carving, neighborhood costume parades or scary movie marathons that minimize close contact with strangers. SENT: 315 words, photos.

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ELECTION 2020-POLITICS IN THE PULPIT — Both President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden have been endorsed by faith leaders. But for clergy members who try to tackle thorny moral matters without overtly backing a candidate, the campaign has tested their ability to reconcile religious values and politics. That challenge comes in part from a year when almost every issue on religious Americans’ minds can spark a partisan debate. SENT: 935 words, photos.

CONGRESS-SOCIAL MEDIA CEOS — The CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google are set to face a grilling by Republican senators lobbing accusations of anti-conservative bias on their platforms less than a week before Election Day. Democrats are trying to bend Wednesday’s discussion beyond alleged censorship of conservative viewpoints to issues such as giant tech companies’ heavy impact on local news. By Marcy Gordon. UPCOMING: 900 words by 3 p.m., photos.

ELECTION 2020-EARLY VOTING — More than 20 million voters across the U.S. have already taken advantage of in-person voting amid record-breaking early turnout. That option isn’t available to everyone. Connecticut, Mississippi, Missouri and New Hampshire are the only states that do not allow voters to cast their ballot in person before Election Day. That is raising concerns about heavy crowds on Nov. 3 amid a renewed spread of the coronavirus. SENT: 900 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-NATIVE AMERICAN VOTING — Native American voting advocates say the slow-moving nature of mail on large reservations puts the people who live there at a disadvantage to getting their votes counted. They have launched a series of legal challenges in several states to gain accommodations for reservation voters, but with the election only days away, they are pressing people to figure out how to get their ballot counted as the coronavirus upends life in Native American communities. SENT: 1,050 words, photos.

TRUMP-TRADE POLICY — President Trump spent four years upending seven decades of American trade policy. In what became his defining economic act, Trump launched a trade war with China. On another front, he taxed the steel and aluminum of U.S. allies. And he terrified America’s own corporations by threatening to wreck $1.4 trillion in annual trade with Mexico and Canada. He did it in typically combative, mercurial style — raising tariffs, hurling threats, walking them back, sometimes reopening conflicts that had seemed resolved. Yet for all the drama that drove his confrontational policies for four years, it comes down to this: Not very much really changed. By Paul Wiseman. SENT: 1,045 words, photos. WITH: TRUMP-TRADE POLICE-GLANCE — SENT: 875 words.

MUSICIANS VS TRUMP — The presidential campaign season has brought an unprecedented onslaught of angry musicians who say President Trump can’t always get what he wants. Dozens of artists who object to Trump and his message have demanded that he stop playing their songs at his rallies. The Rolling Stones issued legal threats over his use of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” Neil Young sued over Trump’s use of “Rockin’ In The Free World.” SENT: 965 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-FLORIDA VOTING — Florida Democrats have cast 300,000 more ballots than their Republican counterparts one week before Election Day, but that advantage, built through mail-in balloting, is narrowing as more Republicans are voting in person. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos by 4 p.m.

TRUMP-COLUMNIST LAWSUIT — A judge has denied President Trump’s request that the United States replace him as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit alleging he raped a woman in a Manhattan luxury department store in the 1990s. The decision by U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan came after the Justice Department argued that the United States and by extension U.S. taxpayers should replace Trump as the defendant in the defamation lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll. The judge ruled that Trump’s public denials of the rape allegation came outside the scope of his employment as president. SENT: 525 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-VACCINE COVERAGE — Medicare will cover the yet-to-be approved coronavirus vaccine free for older people under a policy change expected to be announced shortly, a senior administration official says. SENT: 455 words, photo.

UNITED STATES-ASIA — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense chief Mark Esper stepped up the Trump administration’s anti-China message in India, exactly a week ahead of America’s presidential election. SENT: 927 words, photos.

SUPREME COURT-THOMAS’ WIFE — The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is using her Facebook page to amplify unsubstantiated claims of corruption by Joe Biden. UPCOMING: 750 words by 4 p.m., photos.

2020-CENSUS — Now that the Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to end the 2020 census count, Department of Justice attorneys say the courts shouldn’t interfere with efforts to meet a year-end deadline for turning in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats by state. SENT: 415 words, photo.

A separate wire advisory has moved outlining our complete Election 2020 coverage.

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INTERNATIONAL

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THAILAND PROTESTS-NEW GENERATION — A student-led campaign has shaken Thailand’s ruling establishment with the most significant push for political change in years. The activists are fed up with an archaic educational system and enraged by the maneuvers of the military to control the nation’s destiny. The protesters demand the resignation of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, they want changes to a constitution that was drafted under military rule and, most controversially, they want reforms to the constitutional monarchy. SENT: 1,200 words, photos.

PAKISTAN-SEMINARY-BOMBING — A powerful bomb blast rips through an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least eight students and wounding 136 others, police and a hospital spokesman say. SENT: 700 words, photos.

SYRIA — Syrian opposition groups lobbed hundreds of missiles and artillery rockets at government posts in northwestern Syria on Tuesday, in retaliation for a deadly attack that killed dozens of their fighters a day earlier. SENT: 575 words, photos.

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PHILADELPHIA-POLICE-SHOOTING — More than a dozen people were arrested and more than 30 officers injured in protests stemming from the police shooting death of a Black man they say refused their orders to drop a knife in a confrontation captured on video, Philadelphia police said. SENT: 625 words, photos, video.

POLICE SHOOTING-ILLINOIS — A Black woman who was shot by police last week in suburban Chicago said that officers did nothing more than cover her boyfriend with a blanket after he was shot and left him on the ground to die. SENT: 725 words.

CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES — Crews tried to beat back two out-of-control wildfires in Southern California on Tuesday that have kept tens of thousands of people out of their homes even as another round of dangerous fire weather raises the risk for flames erupting across the state. SENT: 725 words, photos. WITH: CALIFORNIA-WILDFIRES-PHOTO GALLERY — SENT: 135 words.

TROPICAL WEATHER — Storm-weary Louisiana is once again under a hurricane warning, with Zeta leaving Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on a path that could hit New Orleans Wednesday night. SENT: 725 words, photos.

BRANDED WOMEN — Keith Raniere, a self-improvement guru whose organization NXIVM attracted millionaires and actresses among its adherents, faces sentencing on convictions that he turned some female followers into sex slaves branded with his initials. SENT: 550 words, photo, developing.

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MED-COLON CANCER SCREENING — A panel of health experts wants U.S. adults to start getting colon cancer screenings at age 45, five years younger than it previously recommended. While overall, colon cancer rates have been declining, the draft guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force reflect a growing concern about rising rates in people under the age of 50. SENT: 500 words, photos.

SCI-ASTEROID GRAB — A NASA spacecraft begins the days-long process of stowing away the asteroid rubble it grabbed for the trip back to Earth. UPCOMING: 600 words, photos by 5 p.m.

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FINANCIAL-MARKETS — Stocks were mixed on Tuesday, as momentum slows following Wall Street’s worst day in a month on worries about rising virus counts and Washington’s inability to deliver more aid to the economy. SENT: 750 words, photos, developing. WITH: CONSUMER-CONFIDENCE — U.S. consumer confidence dipped slightly in October as coronavirus cases continue to rise across the country. The Conference Board reported that its consumer confidence index fell to a reading of 100.9, from 101.8 in September. SENT: 300 words, photos.

AMD-XILINX — Advanced Micro Devices is buying Xilinx for $35 billion in an all-stock deal that will combine the two Silicon Valley chip makers and accelerate an already rapid-fire pace of mergers and buyouts in the industry. SENT: 275 words, photos.

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MUSIC-DYLAN-LOST INTERVIEWS — Long-lost interviews with Bob Dylan have surfaced at a Boston auction house, and they contain some surprising new insights about the celebrated singer-songwriter. Transcripts of the 1971 interviews with the late American blues artist Tony Glover reveal that Dylan changed his name because he worried about anti-Semitism. SENT: 545 words, photos.

TV-Q&A-HUGH LAURIE— Hugh Laurie finds liberation in playing a heedless British politician beset by scandal in PBS’ limited series “Roadkill,” debuting Nov. 1. By TV Writer Lynn Elber. SENT: 700 words, photos.

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BBO--WORLD SERIES-NEUTRAL-SITE SCENE — World Series games are being limited to about 11,000 mask-wearing fans each night at a neutral site in Texas because of the pandemic. They are the smallest crowds for the Fall Classic in more than 100 years. Players for Los Angeles and Tampa Bay are just happy to have fans at the home of the Texas Rangers. SENT: 850 words, photos.

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