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FRANCE-HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR — A Holocaust survivor joins teenagers visiting the camp where French collaborators held nearly 70,000 Jews before deporting them to death camps, among efforts to make sure young people know firsthand about Nazi horrors that happened on their soil. By Lori Hinnant. UPCOMING: 1,000 words by 6 a.m., photos.
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CHINA-OUTBREAK — Hong Kong hospitals cut services as medical workers are striking for a second day to demand the border with mainland China be shut completely to ward off a virus that caused its first death in the semi-autonomous territory. By Ken Moritsugu. SENT: 940 words, photos. With CHINA-OUTBREAK-AT A GLANCE; CHINA-OUTBREAK-THE LATEST; NORTH KOREA-CHINA-OUTBREAK North Korea making “all-out efforts” to guard against virus. Also see MORE ON CHINA-OUTBREAK below.
MIAMI-CUBAN-ARTISTS — As Trump tightens the trade embargo on Cuba, some members of the United States’ largest Cuban-American community are again taking a hard line on performers from the island who support its communist government or don’t speak out against it. By Gisela Salomon. SENT: 760 words, photos.
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., stands on stage with her grandchildren, Atticus Mann Tyagi, center, and Lavinia Tyagi, as she arrives to speak at a caucus night rally the Forte Banquet and Conference Center, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP PhotoAndrew Harnik)
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UNITED STATES-NEW NUKE — The Pentagon's top policy official tells The Associated Press that the United States for the first time has deployed the newest addition to its nuclear arsenal — a submarine-launched weapon that the Trump administration says will make nuclear war less likely. Congressional critics call the weapon a dangerous and unnecessary addition. By National Security Writer Robert Burns. SENT: 1,070 words, photo.
ELECTION 2020-VOTECAST — Iowa Democrats are fiercely united by the goal of unseating President Donald Trump, but they were sharply divided over which candidate was best equipped to do so. By Josh Boak and Hannah Fingerhut. SENT: 1,170 words, photos, video. With ELECTION 2020-VOTECAST-GLANCE.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., speaks to supporters at her caucus night campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. (AP PhotoNati Harnik)
FRANCE-HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR — A Holocaust survivor joins teenagers visiting the camp where French collaborators held nearly 70,000 Jews before deporting them to death camps, among efforts to make sure young people know firsthand about Nazi horrors that happened on their soil. By Lori Hinnant. UPCOMING: 1,000 words by 6 a.m., photos.
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., with his wife Jane O'Meara Sanders, speaks to supporters at a caucus night campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. (AP PhotoPablo Martinez Monsivais)
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ELECTION 2020 — The Iowa Democratic Party says that results from the state’s first-in-the-nation caucus are delayed due to “quality checks” and “inconsistencies” in some reporting, an embarrassing complication that added a new layer of doubt to an already uncertain presidential primary season. By Steve Peoples, Thomas Beaumont and Alexandra Jaffe. SENT: 1,250 words, photos, video. With ELECTION 2020-TURNOUT — Official: Iowa caucus turnout on pace to match 2016 levels; ELECTION-2020-THE-LATEST. Also SEE MORE ON 2020 ELECTIONS below.
ELECTION 2020-DELAY — Problems with a mobile app appears to force a delay in reporting the results of the Iowa caucuses, leaving the campaigns, voters and the media in election limbo and pressing for an explanation. By Alexandra Jaffe and Christina A. Cassidy. SENT: 1,030 words, photos. With ELECTION 2020-MEDIA — Iowa a carnival of democracy for media — until it went sour; ELECTION 2020-TAKEAWAYS — Voters send message but count a mess.
Caucus goers seated in the section for Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden hold up their first votes as they are counted at the Knapp Center on the Drake University campus in Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. (AP PhotoGene J. Puskar)
CHINA-OUTBREAK — Hong Kong hospitals cut services as medical workers are striking for a second day to demand the border with mainland China be shut completely to ward off a virus that caused its first death in the semi-autonomous territory. By Ken Moritsugu. SENT: 940 words, photos. With CHINA-OUTBREAK-AT A GLANCE; CHINA-OUTBREAK-THE LATEST; NORTH KOREA-CHINA-OUTBREAK North Korea making “all-out efforts” to guard against virus. Also see MORE ON CHINA-OUTBREAK below.
STATE OF UNION-WHAT TO WATCH — Trump will be facing his accusers during his State of the Union speech. The impeached president is speaking on the eve of what's anticipated to be his Senate acquittal. By Laurie Kellman. SENT: 1,070 words, photos. With STATE OF UNION-FACT AND FICTION — : Bracing for Trump's “relentless optimism"; STATE OF UNION-ECONOMY — Trump's economy: Solid and steady but vulnerable to threats.
LEBANON-THE INJURED — At a Beirut hospital ward, five Lebanese protesters with bandaged eyes and faces huddled in a circle, their arms wrapped around each other, and they vowed to be back on the streets soon, despite their wounds from recent clashes with police. “We are coming back,” says one of them, 20-year-old Charbel Francis. By A.J. Naddaf. SENT: 1,160 words, photos.
Paramilitary policemen wear face masks as they march in formation into a pedestrian underpass next to Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. China said Tuesday the number of infections from a new virus surpassed 20,000 as medical workers and patients arrived at a new hospital and President Xi Jinping said "we have launched a people's war of prevention of the epidemic." (AP PhotoMark Schiefelbein)
MIAMI-CUBAN-ARTISTS — As Trump tightens the trade embargo on Cuba, some members of the United States’ largest Cuban-American community are again taking a hard line on performers from the island who support its communist government or don’t speak out against it. By Gisela Salomon. SENT: 760 words, photos.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., arrives on Capitol Hill, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020 in Washington.(AP PhotoJose Luis Magana)
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CHINA OUTBREAK-IMPACT ON BUSINESSES — For companies bracing for losses from China’s viral outbreak, the damage has so far been delayed, thanks to a stroke of timing: The outbreak hit just when Chinese factories and many businesses were closed anyway to let workers travel home for the week-long Lunar New Year holiday. By Business Writers Paul Wiseman and Anne D'Innocenzio. SENT: 1,120 words, photos.
CHINA-OUTBREAK-CANCELED SHOWS — Concerts and shows are being canceled, not just in China but across much of Asia, as a virus outbreak that has killed more than 300 people and reached more than 20 countries spooks the entertainment industry. SENT: 370 words, photos.
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MORE ON 2020 ELECTIONS
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SPECIAL ELECTION-MARYLAND PRIMARY — Maryland voters in the Baltimore area are deciding who the nominees will be to serve the rest of the late Elijah Cummings' term in Congress in a crowded special primary. SENT: 470 words, photos.
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STUDENTS HIT — One killed, five injured when a vehicle hits Oklahoma high school students. SENT: 210 words, photos.
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UNITED STATES-CHINA — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited on a wide variety of nations in his recent tour of Europe and Central Asia, but his message stayed the same: Beware of China. By Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee. SENT: 760 words, photos.
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BUS SHOOTING-CALIFORNIA — A gunman who killed a woman and wounded five others on a Greyhound bus in Southern California was cursing and muttering incoherently before the attack, passengers and authorities say. SENT: 760 words, photos, video.
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KENYA-OBIT-MOI — Daniel arap Moi, a former schoolteacher who became Kenya’s longest-serving president and presided over years of repression and economic turmoil fueled by runaway corruption, has died. He was 95. SENT: 630 words, photos.
AUSTRALIA-WILDFIRES — Lawmakers commemorate wildfire victims and praise the heroism of firefighters when Australia's Parliament sat as hundreds of protesters rallied outside demanding more policy action on climate change. SENT: 380 words, photos.
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ON FOOTBALL-NFL 101 — Now that the Kansas City Chiefs have ended their 50-year drought and own their second NFL championship, the focus will turn mostly elsewhere in what could be a very busy offseason. By Pro Football Writer Barry Wilner. SENT: 760 words, photos.
RUSSIAN DOPING-CAS — The World Anti-Doping Agency says it wants a rare public hearing for sport’s highest court to judge a four-year slate of punishments faced by Russia for persistent cheating. By Sports Writer Graham Dunbar. SENT: 500 words, photos.
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