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Supporters of President Donald Trump listen as he speaks during a campaign rally at the Monroe Civic Center, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019, in Monroe, La. (AP Photo Evan Vucci)
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IMMIGRATION-FOOD PLANT RAIDS _ U.S. House to hold hearing on Mississippi chicken plant raids. SENT: 130 words, photo. UPCOMING: Hearing at 11 a.m.
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TOP STORIES
Candidate Regina Romero hugs U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva at an election night party at Hotel Congress shortly before she was announced the winner and the city's next mayor, in Tucson, Ariz., Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. (Kelly PresnellArizona Daily Star via AP)
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TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-OVAL OFFICE _ Through weeks of impeachment hearings and investigation, the Oval Office has emerged as such a sought-after destination that Ukraine’s new president was hell-bent on getting there and the White House unafraid to dangle it as leverage. By Aamer Madhani and Alan Fram. SENT: 1,060 words, photos. With TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT _ William Taylor expected to be first to testify in public hearings; TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-TAKEAWAYS _ “I would quit”: Takeaways from diplomat Taylor's testimony. Also see TRUMP-POLITICS below. For full coverage: https://apnews.com/Trumpimpeachmentinquiry
MEXICO-DETERIORATING DRUG WAR _ There was a time when the violence of Mexico's 2006-2012 drug war shocked Americans, but barely touched them. This time around _ like everything else about the country's renewed cartel conflict _ it's worse. The slaughter of three U.S. women and six of their children, some infants, in the northern state of Sonora punctures the old belief that the drug cartels would avoid killing foreigners, women or children. But it wasn't the first, or the only, such case. By Mark Stevenson. SENT: 850 words, photos. With MEXICO-BORDER KILLINGS _ Mexico farm town prepares funerals after nine Americans slain.
Democrat Andy Beshear speaks to supporters after a daylong tour of Kentucky on the last night of the campaign for governor, in Louisville, Ky., Monday, Nov. 4, 2019. Beshear traveled the state as his opponent, Republican Gov. Matt Bevin, welcomed President Donald Trump for a rally Monday night in Lexington. Voters go to the polls Tuesday. (AP PhotoDylan Lovan)
CHINA-US DRUG TRIAL _ A Chinese court sentences nine fentanyl traffickers in a case that was a culmination of a rare collaboration between Chinese and U.S. law enforcement to crack down on global networks that manufacture and distribute lethal synthetic opioids. By Erika Kinetz. SENT: 660 words, photos.
BERLIN WALL FALL-30 YEARS-HISTORY DIDN’T END _ With Soviet power, and its stranglehold over the eastern European bloc crumbling in 1989, some months before the fall of the Berlin Wall political scientist Francis Fukuyama declared “The End of History.” But the defeat of Communism didn’t necessarily usher in a triumph for western capitalist-driven liberalism. By Tamer Fakahany. SENT: 1,520 words, photos.
CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES-PARADISE-NEW HOMETOWN _ A Northern California city has been struggling with unprecedented growth a year after a wildfire nearly wiped out the neighboring town of Paradise. State officials say about 20,000 people moved to Chico, the closest big city. People are struggling to find a place to live there. The city manager also says Chico needs nearly half a billion dollars to improve infrastructure and hire enough police officers and firefighters to cover the surge in people. By Adam Beam. SENT: 1,010 words, photos.
SEABIRD-SANCTUARY-PLASTIC-DEATH _ Flying into the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Midway Atoll appears out of the vast blue Pacific as a tiny oasis of coral-fringed land with pristine white sand beaches that are teeming with life. But on the ground, there's a different scene: plastic, pollution and death. By Caleb Jones. SENT: 620 words, photos, video.
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RESTAURANT-SHOOTING _ One killed, two wounded in shooting at San Diego restaurant. SENT: 140 words, photos.
BUFFALO WILD WINGS-RACISM _ Buffalo Wild Wings CEO meets to discuss racial incident in Illinois. SENT: 140 words, photos.
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ELECTION 2020-JEFF SESSIONS _ Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions will announce that he is entering the race for his old U.S. Senate seat in Alabama, two Republicans with direct knowledge of his plans say. By Brian Slodysko and Kim Chandler. SENT: 730 words, photos. Find more coverage on the 2020 U.S. Elections featured topic page on APNewsroom.
ELECTION 2019-WOMEN _ Female candidates again made gains across the country, a troubling signal for President Donald Trump ahead of his reelection bid. SENT: 1,200 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-GABBARD _ No matter how many times Tulsi Gabbard says she’s staying a Democrat, she keeps making her party nervous. SENT: 900 words, photo.
TRUMP-POLITICS _ Trump and his supporters insist that no course correction is needed despite stinging Republican defeats in battleground suburbs and a Democrat on the verge of victory in the governor's race in deep-red Kentucky. SENT: 1,270 words, photo. With TRUMP _ Trump works up a sweat at Louisiana campaign rally.
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INTERNATIONAL
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ITALY-ANTI-SEMITISM _ An 89-year-old Auschwitz survivor who is a senator-for-life in Italy unwittingly provoked one of the country’s most intense confrontations with anti-Semitism since the end of its Fascist dictatorship during World War II. SENT: 780 words, photos.
KOREAS-FISHERMEN KILLINGS _ South Korea deports two North Koreans after finding they had killed 16 fellow fishermen onboard and fled to South Korea. SENT: 240 words, photos. With KOREAS-US-NUCLEAR-DIPLOMACY _ North says U.S.-South Korea drills “throw wet blanket” on talks.
BRAZIL-PANTANAL-FIRES _ Fires in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands have ripped through the biodiverse region, consuming an area the size of London in just the past 10 days, burning some animals alive and sending others fleeing. SENT: 690 words, photo.
PERSIAN GULF-TENSIONS _ Iran injects uranium gas into centrifuges at its underground Fordo nuclear complex, taking its most-significant step away from its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. SENT: 500 words, photos.
YEMEN _ An international medical relief agency says that a hospital it runs in western Yemen was damaged by a recent deadly attack. SENT: 500 words.
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NATIONAL
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JAIL ESCAPE-MURDER SUSPECTS _ Authorities are trying to determine if anyone helped two inmates who escaped from a California jail, traveled hundreds of miles and crossed into Mexico before being captured trying to walk back into the United States. SENT: 700 words, photos, video.
GINSBURG-#METOO-CONFIDENTIAL AGREEMENTS _ A new book on Ruth Bader Ginsburg explores the Supreme Court justice's thoughts on the #MeToo movement and her hope that non-disclosure agreements, which have come under fire in sexual misconduct cases, "will not be enforced by the courts." SENT: 820 words, photo.
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AIR FORCE-BOND BEYOND BARS _ The father of Air Force senior fullback Taven Birdow is getting to watch him play in person for the first time this season. Jermaine Birdow was released last November from prison after serving a long sentence stemming from a 2001 home invasion. By Sports Writer Pat Graham. SENT: 1,040 words, photos.
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