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TOP STORIES
Youths cover their faces with plastic bags while pushing a handcart during rainfall in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, July 12, 2020. (AP PhotoMuhammad Sajjad)
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VIRUS-OUTBREAK — As the Trump administration pushes full steam ahead to force U.S. schools to resume in-person education, public health experts warn that a one-size-fits-all reopening could drive infection and death rates even higher. By AP Medical Writer Lindsay Tanner. SENT: 1400 words, photos. WITH: VIRUS 0UTBREAK-REOPENING SCHOOLS — President Donald Trump is calling for new guidance from federal health officials to reopen the nation’s schools buildings. But many school leaders say they’re sticking with their plans. By John Seewer and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher SENT: 870 words, photos. With VIRUS OUTBREAK-THE LATEST.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-GLOBAL — With the United States grappling with the worst coronavirus outbreak in the world, Florida hit a grim milestone Sunday, shattering the national record for a state’s largest single-day increase in positive cases. Deaths from the virus have also been rising in the U.S., especially in the South and West, though still well below the heights hit in April. By Tamara Lush and Pablo Gorondi. SENT: 910 words, photos.
Shkelzen Goqi dives from a 17 meter waterfall during a high diving competition from Mirusha waterfalls near the village Llapceve, Kosovo on Sunday, July 12, 2020. (AP PhotoVisar Kryeziu)
VIRUS OUTBREAK-DENGUE — While 2019 was the worst year on record for global dengue cases, experts fear an even bigger surge is possible due to the coronavirus pandemic. Because there is no cure for dengue, which causes fever and joint pain, communities rely on prevention and response efforts to decrease the number of cases. By Victoria Milko and Aniruddha Ghosal. SENT: 910 words, photos. This story has moved as the Monday Spotlight.
ELECTION 2020 — GOP CONVENTION — After months of insisting that the Republican National Convention go off as scheduled despite the pandemic, President Donald Trump is slowly coming to accept that the late August event will not be the four-night infomercial for his reelection that he had anticipated. After a venue change, spiking coronavirus cases and a sharp recession, Trump aides and allies are increasingly questioning whether it’s worth the trouble, and some are advocating that the convention be scrapped altogether. Ultimately, the decision on whether to move forward will be Trump’s alone. By Zeke Miller. SENT: 910 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-CHINA — China has fast become a top election issue as President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden engage in a verbal brawl over who’s better at playing the tough guy against Beijing. One pollster says the candidate who looks more subservient to China’s leaders is the one who’s in more jeopardy. By Deb Riechmann and Jonathan Lemire. SENT: 960 words, photos.
A Black Lives Matter protest takes place at Parliament Square, joined by a protestors demonstrating against the war in Yemen, in London, Sunday, July 12, 2020. (AP PhotoAlberto Pezzali)
BRITAIN-CHINA-FROSTY RELATIONS — Only five years ago, then-British Prime Minister David Cameron was celebrating a “golden era” in U.K.-China relations, bonding with President Xi Jinping over a pint of beer at the pub and signing off on trade deals worth billions. Those friendly scenes now seem like a distant memory. Hostile rhetoric has ratcheted up in recent days over Beijing’s new national security law for Hong Kong. Britain’s decision to offer refuge to millions in the former colony was met with a stern telling-off by China. By Sylvia Hui. SENT: 1,030 words, photos.
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MORE ON THE VIRUS OUTBREAK
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VIRUS-OUTBREAK-CHURCHES-AND-COVID — Crowded bars and house parties have been identified as culprits in spreading the coronavirus. Meat packing plants, prisons and nursing homes are known hot spots. Then there’s the complicated case of America’s churches. SENT: 1200 words, photos.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-FLORIDA — Florida reported the largest single-day increase in positive coronavirus cases in any one state since the beginning of the pandemic. According to state Department of Health statistics, 15,299 people tested positive, for a total of 269,811 cases. SENT: 600 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-AFRICA — Confronted by surging hospitalizations due to COVID-19, South Africa is considering a return to tighter restrictions to combat the disease, which officials say may soon overwhelm the country’s health system. SENT: 500 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-WARY NEW YORK — As coronavirus rages out of control in other parts of the U.S., New York is offering an example after taming the nation’s deadliest outbreak this spring — while also trying to prepare in case another surge comes. SENT: 1,100 words, photos.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-CALIFORNIA-NURSING-HOMES — For months, families have pined to see their loved ones who live in California’s skilled nursing facilities, which have been shut down to outside visitors to keep the coronavirus from spreading. California health authorities recently issued guidance for visits to resume, but few are happening as infection rates surge in many communities. Facilities are being cautious after many suffered severe outbreaks earlier in the pandemic. SENT: 1,000 words, photos.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-FOREIGN-WORKERS — Businesses in beach communities and mountain getaways up and down the East Coast are fretting about a shortage of workers as the summer season picks up steam. The concern comes after the Trump administration announced last month that it was extending a ban on green cards and adding many temporary visas to the freeze, including J-1 cultural exchange visas and H-2B visas. Workers with these visas are employed in forestry to fisheries to hospitality businesses. SENT: 1,010 words, photos.
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WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT
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VIRUS OUTBREAK-FANS RETURN — For the first time since the coronavirus shut down sports and chased away spectators, Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and other soccer stars are going to play again in front of fans. SENT: 370 words.
TRUMP-PRIVATE-BORDER-WALL — President Donald Trump has criticized a privately built border wall in South Texas that’s showing signs of erosion months after going up, saying in a tweet that he thinks it was “only done to make me look bad,” even though it was built after a months-long campaign by his supporters. SENT: 600 words.
BLACK SUBDIVISION-HISTORIC REGISTER — The first subdivision built for middle- and upper-class Black residents of New Orleans — and one of the first in the nation — is now on the National Register of Historic Places. SENT: 500 words, photos.
FRANCE-UBISOFT — Games maker Ubisoft shakes up staff amid misconduct probe. SENT: 280 words, photos.
MISSING TV STAR — Search of California lake resumes for missing “Glee” star. SENT: 130 words, photo.
F1-HAMILTON-RACISM — F1 star Hamilton raises right fist in fight against racism. SENT: 600 words, photos.
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WASHINGTON
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ELECTION 2020-HOGAN — A Republican governor who’s rumored to be eyeing a run for the White House in 2024 says the GOP needs to be a “bigger tent party” after President Donald Trump leaves office. Maryland’s Larry Hogan has been known to break with Trump, and Hogan is also raising questions now about Trump’s commutation of political ally Roger Stone’s prison sentence. SENT: 300 words, photos.
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INTERNATIONAL
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IRAN-PLANE CRASH — Iranian investigators are blaming a misaligned missile battery and miscommunication between soldiers and their commanders for the Revolutionary Guard shooting down a Ukrainian jetliner in January, killing 176 people. SENT: 780 words, photo.
POLAND-PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION — Voting is taking place in Poland’s razor-blade-close presidential election runoff between the conservative incumbent, President Andrzej Duda, and liberal, pro-European Union Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski. SENT: 480 words, photos. UPCOMING: Will be updated. Polls close 3 p.m. First exit polls expected shortly after. Full official results not expected until early in the week.
LIBYA-MIGRANTS — The U.N. migration agency says Libya’s coast guard has intercepted a boat with 83 Europe-bound migrants overnight. The International Organization for Migration said the migrants were mostly from Sudan and Eritrea, and included one woman. . SENT: 420 words.
SKOREA-SEOUL MAYOR — The official funeral for Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon will be held online this week over coronavirus concerns, his funeral committee says. 380 words, photos.
EUROPE-SERBIA-KOSOVO — The European Union praised the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo for getting long-stalled talks on normalizing their tense relations back on track and for setting up a face-to-face meeting in Brussels later this week. SENT: 400 words.
HONG KONG-PRIMARIES — Hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers have voted in an unofficial two-day primary election held by the city’s pro-democracy camp as it gears up to field candidates for an upcoming legislative poll. SENT: 415 words, photos.
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NATIONAL
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ALASKA-STATE FLAG BIRTHPLACE — The fate of one of Alaska’s most historic yet neglected structures could be decided Monday. City officials in Seward will decide whether to demolish the Jesse Lee Home, a former Methodist boarding school where the Alaska territorial flag was first flown almost a century ago and where its Alaska Native designer, Benny Benson, lived. SENT: 780 words, photos.
MISSING TV STAR — The search to find “Glee” TV show star Naya Rivera in a Southern California lake resumed on Sunday. SENT: 130 words, photos.
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HKN—TRAINING CAMP PREVIEW — NHL teams return to the ice Monday for the first time since March, as the 24 that qualified for the expanded playoffs open two-week training camps. Mixed with the excitement is the uncertainty of which and how many players might opt out and how the long layoff could contribute to injuries. UPCOMING: 700 words, file photos by 6 p.m.
CAR—NASCAR-KENTUCKY — Kyle Busch and Joey Logano lead a 38-car field in the 400-mile NASCAR Cup Series race at Kentucky Speedway. The grid includes seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson, who returns after missing his first race because of a positive coronavirus test. UPCOMING. 600 words, photos. Race starts at 2:30 p.m.
SOC-ENGLAND-RACISM — A 12-year-old boy was arrested by police after Crystal Palace player Wilfried Zaha highlighted racist abuse he received ahead of Sunday’s Premier League match at Aston Villa. SENT: 150 words, photos.
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