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TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT — Democratic prosecutors close out their case in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial by warning that he will persist in abusing his power unless Congress intervenes to remove him from office. Rep. Adam Schiff wraps up the presentation by urging Republican senators to “Give America a fair trial” by ensuring witnesses are called to testify. By Lisa Mascaro, Eric Tucker and Zeke Miller. SENT: 1,040 words, photos, video. With TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-LONG SPEECHES — Democrats speak to history with exhaustive impeachment case; TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-HIGHLIGHTS — rial highlights: Democrats cry cover-up, Trump hails activists (both sent).
TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-ABSOLUTE RIGHT — Donald Trump's guiding principle is the idea that he's the president — and that means he can do what he wants. His legal team in the impeachment trial is signaling that will be a strategy. By Colleen Long and Michael Warren. SENT: 1,230 words, photo. With TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-DEFENSE — Senate floor belongs to Trump team as defense case opens (sent).
See full coverage of the impeachment inquiry in AP Newsroom.
CHINA OUTBREAK —The virus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan, already on lockdown, bans most vehicle use downtown and Hong Kong said it would close schools for two weeks as authorities scramble to stop the spread of an illness that has infected more than 1,200 people and killed 41. By Ken Moritsugu. SENT: 1,080 words, photos. With CHINA-OUTBREAK-IMPACT ON BUSINESS — For businesses, virus in China fans fear and uncertainty; CHINA-OUTBREAK-THINGS TO KNOW — What's new in the China virus outbreak (sent).
AFRICA-LOCUST OUTBREAK — The hum of millions of locusts on the move is broken by the screams of farmers and the clanging of pots and pans. But their noise-making does little to stop the voracious insects from feasting on their crops in this rural community. The worst outbreak of desert locusts in Kenya in 70 years has seen hundreds of millions of the bugs swarm into the East African nation from Somalia and Ethiopia. By Ben Curtis, Josphat Kasire and Cara Anna. SENT: 770 words, photos. This is the Sunday Spotlight.
BRAZIL-DAM-COLLAPSE-HAUNTED CITY — The rupture of mining company Vale’s dam remains raw in a town of 40,000 people that’s trying to lift itself up after the blow. The wave of mud and debris that buried the equivalent of 300 soccer pitches and killed 270 people appears static, dry. By Marcelo Silva De Sousa. SENT: 1,080 words, photos.
MUSIC-GRAMMYWATCH-NOMINATIONS-PROCESS — Questions have loomed for years around the nominations process for the Grammy Awards. But the doubts reached a new level this week after the Recording Academy's just-ousted CEO claimed the show is rigged and full of conflicts of interest. By Music Writer Mesfin Fekadu. SENT: 1,040 words, photo. With MUSIC-GRAMMYWATCH-MARLEY FAMILY — Bob Marley's kids celebrate late reggae icon's 75th birthday (sent).
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MORE ON IMPEACHMENT
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TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-SCHIFF — For a few gripping minutes, Rep. Adam Schiff, the lead impeachment prosecutor against President Donald Trump, had made the restless Senate snap to attention. Voice cracking as he spoke, Schiff made an impassioned plea late Thursday for removing Trump from office, framing the choice in moral terms. "If right doesn’t matter, we’re lost,” he said. SENT: 1,180 words, photos.
TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-UKRAINE RECORDING — President Trump can be heard in a 2018 recorded conversation saying he wants to get rid of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. SENT: 660 words, photos.
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MORE ON CORONAVIRUS
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CHINA-OUTBREAK-WILDLIFE TRADE — The outbreak of a new virus linked to a wildlife market in central China is prompting renewed calls for enforcement of laws against the trade in and consumption of exotic species. SENT: 990 words, photos.
SCIENCE SAYS-CHINA OUTBREAK-VIRUS — The new virus from China has the world on edge because it’s a close cousin to viruses that killed hundreds in separate outbreaks. While it’s too early to tell if this latest threat will prove as deadly, health authorities are drawing on lessons from that grim past. SENT: 850 words, photo.
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OFFICERS SHOT-HAWAII — Officials identify remains found in burnt-out Hawaii home. SENT: 200 words, photos.
RAP VIDEOS-CONVICTION — Michigan court reverses murder conviction, cites rap videos. SENT: 240 words, photo.
INFANT BODY-TRASH BIN — Parents held in death of baby that was found in a Las Vegas trash bin. SENT: 190 words.
ASIA-LUNAR NEW YEAR — New virus mutes Lunar New Year mood in Asia. SENT: 490 words, photos.
CHINATOWN-FIRE — 85,000 museum artifacts feared lost in NYC Chinatown fire. SENT: 420 words, photos.
GYMNASTICS-COACH-SENTENCED — Ex-gymnastics coach gets 50 years in prison for sex assaults. SENT: 190 words.
SCIENTIST CHARGED-NUCLEAR LAB — A scientist who once worked at a U.S. laboratory in New Mexico pleads guilty to lying about his involvement with a Chinese government technology program. SENT: 260 words.
BALL STATE-PROFESSOR OVERREACTS — A black student in Indiana is disappointed Ball State University is not acknowledging that a marketing professor discriminated against him when he called the police on him for refusing to change seats in class. SENT: 410 words.
FAKE SKELETON-CITATION — Man cited for using fake skeleton to drive in HOV lane. SENT: 100 words, photo.
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ELECTION 2020-PRIVATE PLANE TRAVEL — Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders decry President Trump as a climate change denier, yet they may be forced to increase their carbon footprint exponentially. Trump's impeachment trial could force the presidential contenders to rely more heavily on private jet travel between Washington and Iowa. By Will Weissert and Ellen Knickmeyer. SENT: 1,140 words, photos.
Find more coverage on the 2020 U.S. Elections featured topic page on AP Newsroom.
JEFFREY EPSTEIN-WARDEN — The warden in charge when Jeffrey Epstein ended his life in his jail cell is being moved to a leadership position at another federal correctional facility, putting him back in the field with inmates despite an ongoing investigation into the financier’s death, two people familiar with the matter tells The Associated Press. SENT: 510 words, photo.
TRUMP-SPACE FORCE — The Pentagon's new U.S. Space Force is not Star Trek's Starfleet Command, but their logos bear a striking similarity. President Donald Trump unveiled the Space Force logo, writing on Twitter that he had consulted with military leaders and designers before presenting the blue-and-white symbol. SENT: 310 words, graphic.
NOT-REAL-NEWS — A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. SENT: 1,530 words, photos.
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MYANMAR-SUU KYI — When Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi walked into the International Court of Justice last month, she gambled the remaining shreds of her hard-won international reputation on a rebuttal of accusations that her country's military committed genocide against minority Rohingya Muslims. The court was not persuaded. This past week, it ordered Myanmar to take all possible measures to prevent genocide against the Rohingya. SENT: 950 words, photos.
IRAQ-PROTESTS — Security forces set fire to anti-government protest tents in the country's south and re-opened key public squares in Baghdad that had been occupied by demonstrators for months. SENT: 550 words, photos.
TURKEY-EARTHQUAKE — The death toll from a strong earthquake that rocked eastern Turkey climbed to 21, with more than 1,000 people injured, emergency officials say. SENT: 460 words, photos.
MEXICO-MIGRANTS-RESCUED — Mexico says it “rescued” 800 Central American migrants walking up a highway. The images of scuffles and pepper spray brought other words to mind. Mexico isn't the only country using terms that soften or disguise the realities of immigration enforcement. SENT: 480 words, photos.
BRITAIN'S-EU-JOURNEY-6 — Britain officially leaves the European Union on Jan. 31 after a debilitating political period that has bitterly divided the nation since the 2016 Brexit referendum. SENT: 400 words, photos.
AUSCHWITZ-BISHOPS — Europe's Catholic bishops are marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz with a statement denouncing anti-Semitism and the “manipulation" of the truth for political aims. SENT: 320 words, photos.
AUSTRALIA WILDFIRES — The bodies of three U.S. flying firefighters and the cockpit voice recorder from the water bomber in which they died battling Australia’s unprecedented wildfire crisis were retrieved as their grieving families arrived in Sydney, officials says. SENT: 250 words, photos.
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ALASKA-MARIJUANA — The first marijuana shops in Alaska where customers can partake on-site have gotten approval, putting them on the leading edge nationally. Visions for the spaces range from a living room feel to a brewery-style tasting room with a TV to watch football games. SENT: 670 words, photos.
CHILD-DEATHS-PHOENIX — A woman charged with murder in the deaths of her three young kids in Phoenix was the subject of several home visits by police and child-welfare authorities when she previously lived in Oklahoma, according to police reports. SENT: 590 words, photos.
PRISON UNREST-MISSISSIPPI — Protesters outside the Mississippi Capitol condemned conditions in state prisons where inmates have died violently in the past month. SENT: 580 words, photos.
OREGON-GAS-PIPELINE — A Canadian energy company has withdrawn its application for a state permit for a controversial natural gas pipeline and export terminal in Oregon, and a project spokesman says it is instead awaiting possible federal approval. SENT: 570 words, photos.
HOTEL COLLAPSE — Dozens of protesters marched from the site of the partially collapsed Hard Rock Hotel on the edge of the French Quarter to City Hall on Friday, demanding that something be done about the hotel and that the two bodies still inside be recovered. SENT: 450 words, photos.
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BUSINESS
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SAUDI-HACK-BEZOS-VULNERABILITIES — You may not think you're in the same league as Jeff Bezos when it comes to being a hacking target. Probably not, but you — and just about anyone else, potentially including senior U.S. government figures — could still be vulnerable to an attack similar to one the Amazon founder and Washington Post owner apparently experienced. By Technology Reporter Matt O'Brien. SENT: 780 words, photos.
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ENTERTAINMENT
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FILM-SUNDANCE-DISABILITY RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY — A documentary about the disability-rights movement is a hit at the Sundance Film Festival. “Crip Camp” is about a summer camp for teens with disabilities that helped spark a movement culminating in the 1990 passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. By Film Writer Jake Coyle. SENT: 800 words, photos. With FILM-SUNDANCE-RON HOWARD — Sundance: Ron Howard documents aftermath of the Camp Fire (sent).
RAPPER YG ARRESTED — Rapper YG is arrested at his Los Angeles home on suspicion of robbery just two days before he is scheduled to perform at the Grammy Awards, officials say. SENT: 230 words, photo.
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FBN--JIM LITKE-UNDER 30 AND GONE — Life in the NFL is short enough. The average age is 26, the average career three seasons. But stars take time to emerge. The recent retirements of three of the game's best 30-and-under stars -- Luke Kuechly, Andrew Luck, Rob Gronkowski -- could be coincidence or the start of a worrisome trend. By Sports Columnist Jim Litke. SENT: 750 words, photos.
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