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Japan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, right, meets with South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha before a bilateral meeting during the G20 foreign ministers meeting Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019, in Nagoya, Japan. (AP PhotoEugene Hoshiko, Pool)
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PERSIAN GULF-TENSIONS — France’s armed forces minister gives a forceful speech warning of the dangers of U.S. disengagement in the Middle East. SENT: 140 words, photo.
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TOP STORIES
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TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT — They’ve heard enough. With testimony largely complete, the House, the Senate and the president are swiftly moving on to next steps in the historic impeachment inquiry of Donald J. Trump. “Frankly, I want a trial,” Trump declares, and it looks like he’s going to get it. By Lisa Mascaro and Mary Clare Jalonick. SENT: 1,000 words, photos, VIDEO. With TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-WHAT’S NEXT — Democrats could soon turn the impeachment process over to the House Judiciary Committee; TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-GIULIANI — New documents show contacts between Giuliani and Pompeo (both sent).
TRUMP — President Trump brushes off the impeachment inquiry as “total nonsense” and bad-mouths U.S. diplomats who testified to Congress about his Ukraine pressure campaign. By Deb Riechmann. SENT: 980 words, photos, video. With TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-FACT CHECK — Trump sticks with a debunked Ukraine theory after a parade of witnesses pronounced it false. SENT: 550 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-WARREN-ANALYSIS — Elizabeth Warren has a plan for winning black female voters. In a soaring speech in Atlanta, she made one of the strongest appeals to black voters of any Democratic White House hopeful during the 2020 primary. By Errin Haines. SENT: 950 words, photos.
IRAN — A Washington Post journalist held by Iran for over a year and tortured amid his conviction on internationally criticized espionage charges and his family have been awarded nearly $180 million by a U.S. federal judge. The order in the case comes nearly a week after Iranian officials shut down its internet and launched as security crackdown on protesters angered by government-set gasoline prices sharply rising. By Jon Gambrell. SENT: 740 words, photo.
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ERIC B-OLD CHARGE — Rapper and actor Eric B. gets probation on 17-year-old assault case. SENT: 480 words, photo.
BODY IN CONCRETE — 2 plead guilty to civil charges in Missouri man’s death. SENT: 580 words, photos.
US-LIBYA — US military loses drone over Libyan capital. SENT: 140 words.
JAZZ-ARENA-EVACUATED — Utah Jazz arena evacuated postgame due to suspicious package. SENT: 190 words, photos.
BRITAIN-STOLEN HOARD — Two amateur British treasure-hunters imprisoned for stealing a hoard of 1,100-year-old Anglo-Saxon coins and jewelry. SENT: 150 words.
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WASHINGTON/POLITICS
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ELECTION 2020-BIDEN-VILSACK — Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack plans to publicly endorse Joe Biden for president. SENT: 370 words, photo. WITH: ELECTION 2020-BIDEN-BUTTIGIEG — Biden send a message to Pete Buttigieg with three endorsements from black Indiana leaders. SENT: 570 words, photos.
TRUMP-VAPING — President Trump hears opposing viewpoints in the debate over youth vaping but offers no insight into where he will ultimately come down on the issue. SENT: 780 words, photos, video.
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INTERNATIONAL
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BRAZIL-WORKERS-PARTY — As Brazil’s largest leftist party gathers to plan the future, a figure that has dominated its past looms ever larger. Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is the unquestioned star of the party conference in Sao Paulo, and many still think he could be the party’s standard-bearer once again in 2022 — when he’ll be a 77-year-old cancer survivor who is currently barred from seeking office due to a corruption conviction. SENT: 880 words, photos.
AUSTRALIA-CHINA SPY — A self-confessed Chinese spy has given Australia's counterespionage agency inside intelligence on how Beijing conducts its interference operations abroad and revealed the identities of China’s senior military intelligence officers in Hong Kong, media reports. SENT: 640 words, photos.
ASIA-POPE — Pope Francis will fulfill his dream to be a missionary in Japan when he arrives for a three-day visit with two main aims: to appeal for nuclear disarmament and minister to a tiny Catholic flock with a rich but bloody history. Francis travels from Thailand to another Asian country where Catholics are a minority — less than 0.5% of Japan’s 127 million people, most of them loosely affiliated with Buddhism or Shinto, or both. SENT: 610 words, photos.
NICARAGUA — A dozen people protesting inside a church and the parish priest were evacuated from the building by the Nicaraguan Red Cross after nine days surrounded by police, relatives say. The demonstrators had been on a hunger strike to demand the release of loved ones they say are political prisoners for taking part in protests against President Daniel Ortega’s government. SENT: 370 words, photo.
MEXICO DRUGS — A Mexico judge whom the U.S. Treasury Department accuses of ties to Jalisco New Generation, one of the country’s bloodiest drug cartels, was arrested in the city of Guadalajara, judicial authorities say. SENT: 320 words.
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NATIONAL
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FOREIGN INFLUENCE-STRAW DONOR — A political fundraiser accused of funneling foreign money into U.S. elections offered six witnesses in his case more than $6 million to keep quiet, federal prosecutors say. Prosecutors also revealed new allegations that the donor, Imaad Zuberi, acted as an unregistered agent for the Turkish government and Libyan government officials, among other foreign countries. SENT: 880 words, photos.
CALIFORNIA SHERIFF’S CAPTAIN-GUN TRAFFICKING — Federal agents arrest a former San Diego County sheriff's captain accused of running a gun trafficking business, and a lieutenant with access to weapons restricted for law enforcement pleaded guilty to helping him. SENT: 600 words, photos.
ASYLUM-WAITING-IN-MEXICO — Asylum-seekers who crossed the border in Arizona were bused to Texas to be sent back to Mexico to wait for their hearings to wind through U.S. immigration courts, extending the practice across the entire border, a U.S. official says. SENT: 500 words, photo.
WHALE-CARCASS-RECOVERED — The carcass of a giant blue whale that has been submerged off the Oregon coast for more than three years was hauled to the surface so it can be reassembled, studied and put on public display, scientists with Oregon State University say. SENT: 510 words, photos.
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HEALTH & SCIENCE
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PUERTO RICO-IN VITRO TOAD — A critically endangered Puerto Rican toad was for the first time born via in vitro fertilization as U.S. scientists attempt to save it from extinction, officials announce. Olaf - named in honor of the frozen semen he came from — is the first of more than 300 Puerto Rican crested toads that hatched after the first attempt failed, Diane Barber, ectotherms curator at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas, tells The Associated Press. SENT: 630 words, photo.
ROMAINE-OUTBREAK — U.S. health officials tell people to avoid romaine lettuce grown in Salinas, California, because of another food poisoning outbreak.The notice comes almost exactly one year after a similar outbreak led to a blanket warning about romaine. By Food & Health Writer Candice Choi. SENT: 440 words.
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BUSINESS/TECH
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TESLA-PICKUP — The much-hyped unveil of Tesla’s electric pickup truck went off script when supposedly unbreakable window glass shattered twice when hit with a large metal ball. The failed stunt, which ranks high on the list of embarrassing auto industry rollouts, came just after CEO Elon Musk bragged about the strength of “Tesla Armor Glass” on the wedge-shaped “Cybertruck.” SENT: 1,040 words, photos.
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