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UNITED STATES-SYRIA _ In a span of 24 hours, President Donald Trump moves from threatening to obliterate Turkey’s economy if it invades Syria to inviting its president to the White House. Trump isn’t backing away from his plan to withdraw troops from Syria, but his needle-threading strategy has angered key Republican lawmakers and confused U.S. allies in the Mideast and across the globe. By Robert Burns. SENT: 740 words. UPCOMING: 800 words by 5 p.m., photos, video. WITH: UNITED STATES-SYRIA-KURDS _ Why did President Trump’s decision to step aside as Turkey attacks U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in Syria provoke such a backlash in Congress, including from some of his closest Republican allies? An explainer. UPCOMING: 500 words by 5 p.m., photos. WITH: SYRIA _ Turkey says it won't bow to US threat over its Syria plans. SENT: 885 words, photos.
US SERIAL KILLER _ Samuel Little's depravity is matched only by his prodigious memory. Little, pronounced the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, has confessed to 93 slayings across the country over a span of nearly four decades, recounting the crimes with near-photographic detail and even drawing color portraits of dozens of his victims. By Tamara Lush. UPCOMING: 750 words, photos by 4 p.m.
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A member of the honor guard holds a flag before a welcome ceremony for Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan, unseen, outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. (AP PhotoNg Han Guan)
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WHAT CAN BE SAVED-LIONS _ A grand experiment is underway in northern Tanzania, where people are trying to find a way to coexist with lions. As long as people can remember, they have taken revenge when lions killed their livestock by killing the cats. But lions are endangered, and monitors are trying to head off the retaliatory killings by helping to safeguard the domesticated animals on which they prey. By Christina Larson. SENT: 1,870 words, photos, video. With abridged. Series story hub: https://apnews.com/WhatCanBeSaved
US CUSTOMS-FORCED LABOR _ U.S. Customs bans imports from five countries for ties to forced labor, with ripple effects for U.S. companies buying from foreign factories. These include a Chinese company making Costco baby blanket sleepers, a Malaysian company that sells rubber gloves around the U.S. for medical exams and surgeries, and a Brazilian charcoal maker selling to leading water filter firms. Customs officials say they're blocking goods from these foreign factories pending further investigation. By Martha Mendoza. SENT: 1,900 words, photos.
An Extinction Rebellion climate change protester hugs an inflatable planet Earth near Downing Street in London, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. Hundreds of climate change activists camped out in central London on Tuesday during a second day of world protests by the Extinction Rebellion movement to demand more urgent actions to counter global warming. (AP PhotoMatt Dunham)
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TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-AMBASSADOR _ President Donald Trump and his administration escalate a standoff with Congress over House Democrats’ impeachment investigation, barring a diplomat from appearing behind closed doors to discuss the president’s dealings with Ukraine. By Mary Clare Jalonick and Eric Tucker. SENT: 1090 words, photos, video. WITH: TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-WHAT’S NEXT _ Summary of the latest news in the Donald Trump impeachment inquiry. UPCOMING: 400 words by 6:30 p.m., photo.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, pauses while giving a statement to members of the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. The Trump administration barred Gordon Sondland, the U.S. European Union ambassador, from appearing Tuesday before a House panel conducting the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. (AP PhotoAndrew Harnik)
UNITED STATES-SYRIA _ In a span of 24 hours, President Donald Trump moves from threatening to obliterate Turkey’s economy if it invades Syria to inviting its president to the White House. Trump isn’t backing away from his plan to withdraw troops from Syria, but his needle-threading strategy has angered key Republican lawmakers and confused U.S. allies in the Mideast and across the globe. By Robert Burns. SENT: 740 words. UPCOMING: 800 words by 5 p.m., photos, video. WITH: UNITED STATES-SYRIA-KURDS _ Why did President Trump’s decision to step aside as Turkey attacks U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in Syria provoke such a backlash in Congress, including from some of his closest Republican allies? An explainer. UPCOMING: 500 words by 5 p.m., photos. WITH: SYRIA _ Turkey says it won't bow to US threat over its Syria plans. SENT: 885 words, photos.
SUPREME COURT-LGBT _ The Supreme Court appears divided over whether a landmark federal civil rights law protects LGBT people from workplace discrimination, with Justice Neil Gorsuch wondering during oral arguments whether the justices should take into account “the massive social upheaval” that might follow a ruling in favor of LGBT employees. By Mark Sherman. SENT: 666 words. UPCOMING: 800 words by 5 p.m., photos, video.
HONG KONG PROTESTS-HIDDEN HEALERS _ As riot police fought anti-government demonstrators on the streets of Hong Kong over the weekend, two photos popped into the encrypted inbox of a group of volunteer medics who call themselves the “Hidden Clinic.” SENT: 1,250 words, photos. WITH: HONG KONG PROTESTS _ Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam warned that the Chinese military could step in if an uprising for democratic reforms that has rocked the city for months "becomes so bad" but said the government still hopes to resolve the crisis itself. SENT: 750 words, photos.
In this Monday, Oct. 7, 2019 photo, Turkish-backed forces from the Free Syrian Army exercise during military training in preparation for an anticipated Turkish incursion targeting Syrian Kurdish fighters, near Azaz, in north Syria. Turkey's vice president said Tuesday his country won't bow to threats in an apparent response to U.S. President Donald Trump who warned Ankara about the scope of its planned military incursion into northeast Syria. (AP Photo)
US SERIAL KILLER _ Samuel Little's depravity is matched only by his prodigious memory. Little, pronounced the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, has confessed to 93 slayings across the country over a span of nearly four decades, recounting the crimes with near-photographic detail and even drawing color portraits of dozens of his victims. By Tamara Lush. UPCOMING: 750 words, photos by 4 p.m.
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WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT
Swiss scientist Michel Mayor smiles after landing at the Barajas airport in Madrid, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. Mayor has been jointly awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Professor Didier Queloz and Professor James Peebles for their pioneering advances in physical cosmology, and the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star. (AP PhotoManu Fernandez)
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MED--SEX INFECTIONS INCREASING _ U.S. infections from three sexually transmitted diseases have risen for the fifth consecutive year. SENT: 140 words.
SNAKES SNATCHED _ California crooks steal duffel bag full of snakes. SENT: 140 words.
SQUIRRELS-SUV WALNUTS _ A Pittsburgh area couple found out where all their walnuts have gone. It turns out squirrels stored more than 200 of them under the hood of their SUV. SENT: 130 words.
REALITY STAR-JEWELRY THEFT _ The reality television star and wife of rapper T.I. says $750,000 dollars' worth of jewelry, including wedding rings, was stolen from her Lamborghini outside an Atlanta bar. SENT: 125 words, photos.
ALEC BALDWIN-STATUE OF LIBERTY SCAM _ NYC announces a crackdown after Alec Baldwin falls for Statue of Liberty tour 'scam'. SENT: 450 words, photos.
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ELECTION 2020-WARREN _ Sen. Elizabeth Warren, addressing discrepancies in her story of losing a teaching job because she was pregnant, stands by her account that after she was “visibly pregnant” at age 22 a school principal gave the job she’d been promised to someone else. Warren says her telling of the episode after she became a politician is more expansive than her 2007 interview. UPCOMING: 600 words by 4 p.m., photos.
ELECTION 2020-BIDEN _ Joe Biden is proposing to make community and technical college free and federal college loan programs more generous in an expansion of the government’s role in education. But he stops short of more sweeping education proposals offered by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. SENT: 640 words, photos.
ELECTION 2019-LOUISIANA GOVERNOR _ Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is out to prove he's no fluke. The straight-laced West Point graduate, who shocked the ruby red state four years ago with his longshot election win, is battling to hold onto the Democrats' only governorship in the Deep South, with an onslaught of national GOP firepower, including President Trump, aimed at ousting him. SENT: 1,100 words, photos.
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BREXIT _ Britain and the European Union traded ill-tempered barbs Tuesday as the U.K. said a Brexit deal might be impossible, with just over three weeks until its scheduled departure from the bloc. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's office said EU intransigence had led to a breakdown in negotiations, prompting a top European leader to warn against playing a "stupid blame game" — and chide Johnson in Latin. SENT: 900 words, photos. WITH: BREXIT-INVECTIVE _ EU-UK invective worsens as Brexit deadline looms ever closer. SENT: 695 words, photos.
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NATIONAL
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COLLEGE ADMISSIONS-BRIBERY _ The founder of a food and beverage packaging company and his wife, a former journalist, are returning to court to be sentenced in a scandal involving dozens of wealthy and sometimes famous parents paying bribes to get their children into top colleges. Gregory and Marcia Abbott, of New York and Colorado, are scheduled to appear in Boston's federal court Tuesday. They pleaded guilty in May to a single count of fraud and conspiracy. SENT: 450 words, photos, developing.
CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES-POWER SHUTOFF _ Two years to the day after some of the deadliest wildfires tore through Northern California wine country, two of the state’s largest utilities are proposing to shut off power to more than 700,000 customers in what would be the largest preventive shut-off to date as utilities try to head off wildfires caused by faulty power lines. UPCOMING: 700 words by 5 p.m.
US-IMMIGRATION-MARRIAGE INTERVIEWS _ Six couples say federal immigration authorities have “cruelly twisted” regulations by detaining immigrants seeking legal status based on their marriages. The couples in a federal lawsuit filed in Maryland say authorities are luring families to an office for required marriage interviews only to detain the immigrant spouses who are living in the U.S. illegally. SENT: 1,100 words, photos.
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NOBEL-PHYSICS _ They are two of the most fundamental questions not just of science, but humanity: How did we get here? And are we alone? A Canadian American scientist and two Swiss astronomers split this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for getting closer to the cosmic truths behind those universal questions. And a day of deep astrophysics even included some pop humor, with the Nobel committee quoting directly from "The Big Bang Theory" _ the popular U.S. television show, not the scientific explanation for how the universe began. By Seth Borenstein and David Keyton. SENT: 900 words. UPCOMING: 1,000 words, photos by 4:30 p.m.
HEALTH CARE-CHAT DIAGNOSIS _ Dr. Anna Nguyen spoke with none of the five patients she treated on a recent weekday morning. She didn't even leave her dining room. The emergency physician nevertheless helped a pregnant Ohio woman handle hip pain, examined a Michigan man's sore throat and texted a mom whose son became sick during a family trip to Mexico. Welcome to the latest wrinkle in health care convenience: the chat diagnosis. By Tom Murphy. SENT: 1,250 words, photos.
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OFFENDING CHINA-BUSINESS _ Companies that do business with China walk a fine line to stay aligned with U.S. values such as freedom of speech and democracy while avoiding offending China, where they stand to make billions of dollars. Experts say companies need to tread carefully, particularly on social media, and come up with a comprehensive PR strategy to avoid missteps. By Mae Anderson. Upcoming: 900 words, photos by 4 p.m.
FEDERAL RESERVE-UNUSUAL DILEMMA _ With the nation’s unemployment rate at its lowest point since human beings first walked on the moon, you might expect the Federal Reserve to be raising interest rates to keep the economy from overheating and igniting inflation. Yet the Fed is moving in precisely the opposite direction: It is widely expected late this month to cut rates for the third time this year. Welcome to the strange world that Jerome Powell inhabits as chairman of the world’s most influential central bank. By Economics Writer Christopher Rugaber. SENT: 1,010 words, photos.
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THEATER-JOSH GROBAN _ Josh Groban has a date for Valentine’s Day _ with 6,000 or so of his fans. The singer-songwriter has booked New York City’s massive Radio City Music Hall for a Feb. 14 show that he promises will be a night of music with special guests and plenty of spontaneous, off-the-cuff segments. By Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy. SENT: 350 words, photos.
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BBA-ALDS-ASTROS- RAYS _ Needing one more victory to move on to the AL Championship Series for the third straight year, the Houston Astros send ace Justin Verlander to the mound on short rest to try to close out the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 4 of the ALDS. By Fred Goodall. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos. Game starts at 7:07 p.m.
NBA-CHINA RELATIONSHIP _ NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the league is not apologizing for Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey's since-deleted tweet showing support for anti-government protesters in Hong Kong, even after China's state broadcaster canceled plans to show a pair of preseason games in that country later this week. Silver went as far as to say that he and the league are "apologetic" that so many Chinese officials and fans were upset by Morey's tweet and comments that followed _ but insisted that Morey has the right to freedom of expression. By Stephen Wade and Tim Reynolds. SENT: 1,000 words, photos.
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