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VIRUS OUTBREAK -- Thousands of oil and gas operations, government facilities and other sites won permission to stop monitoring for hazardous emissions or otherwise bypass rules intended to protect health and the environment because of the coronavirus outbreak, The Associated Press has found. By Ellen Knickmeyer, Cathy Bussewitz, John Flesher, Matthew Brown and Michael Casey. SENT: 1,530 words with photos. An abridged version is also available.

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VIRUS-TRUMP -- President Donald Trump announced emergency authorization to treat COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma — a move he called “a breakthrough,” one of his top health officials called “promising” and other health experts said needs more study before it’s celebrated. By Jonathan Lemire and Mike Stobbe. SENT: 1,290 words, photos.

2020 ELECTION-RNC-REPUBLICANS -- President Donald Trump will try to reintroduce himself — and his party — to voters this week at the Republican National Convention. For the most divisive president in the modern era, it will be no easy task. By National Political Writer Steve Peoples. SENT: 1,120 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-RNC -- Republicans will formally nominate President Donald Trump as their party’s 2020 presidential nominee at a scaled-down convention kickoff in Charlotte that begins a weeklong effort to convince the American people that he deserves a second term. By Jill Colvin. SENT: 900 words, photos. WITH: ELECTION 2020-RNC-WHAT TO WATCH -- Republicans will highlight four years of the Trump administration and the promises he delivered on. SENT: 800 words, photos.

Find more coverage of the conventions and Election 2020 on the 2020 U.S. Elections featured topic page in AP Newsroom.

TROPICAL WEATHER - Newly downgraded Tropical Storm Marco is approaching Louisiana for an expected landfall around midday Monday. Tropical Storm Laura, meanwhile, is forecast to move along Cuba’s southern coast during the day before entering the Gulf of Mexico and heading toward the same stretch of U.S. coast later in the week, most likely a hurricane. SENT: 420 words, photos. WITH: TROPICAL WEATHER-UNITED STATES - Residents are fleeing coastal areas in Louisiana as the state braces for a possible hit from consecutive hurricanes. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says the fear is the state could see a heavy storm surge from Marco, now in the Gulf of Mexico, and a second strike from Tropical Storm Laura before water from the first storm recedes. SENT: 1,487 words, photos. Developing.

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KENTUCKY MALL SHOOTING - Police in Kentucky say one of three people who were shot inside a mall has died. The Lexington Police Department says the shooting occurred Sunday outside of a store at the Fayette Mall. SENT: 210 words.

OFFICERS SHOT - Authorities say three police officers who were shot while responding to a call Sunday evening in Maryland were ambushed. SENT: 160 words.

STELLAR AWARDS - Kirk Franklin made a splash at the Stellar Gospel Music Awards. The singer took home six trophies during the 35th annual awards on Sunday night. SENT: 240 words, photo.

THAILAND PROTESTS - Thai police have issued summonses to five activists who spoke at an anti-government rally in front of army headquarters last month, accusing them of violating a coronavirus emergency decree that prohibits public gatherings. SENT: 270 words, photos.

ISRAEL-US - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has landed in Israel on the first leg of his Mideast tour to press the momentum of the Trump administration’s Arab-Israeli peace push. SENT: 230 words.

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ELECTION 2020-POSTAL SERVICE -- Facing a backlash over operational changes that have resulted in mail delays, the nation’s new postmaster general is returning to Congress to testify before a House panel that has sharply criticized him. By Matthew Daly, Lisa Mascaro and Hope Yen. SENT: 930 words, photos. Hearing to begin at 10 a.m. EDT.

OPERATION LEGEND -- While President Donald Trump says Operation Legend is countering rising crime in cities run by Democrats, the 300 federal investigators deployed to nine cities, and the local law enforcement getting help, see the effort not as political but as reducing crime, working to solve outstanding cases and prioritizing the arrest of violent criminals. By Michael Balsamo. SENT: 1,140 words, photos.

FACT CHECK-WEEK -- President Donald Trump is leveling unfounded attacks on his Food and Drug Administration and distorting the science on effective treatments for COVID-19. His weekend torrent of false and misleading claims follows a Democratic National Convention in which Joe Biden and his allies spun an assortment of facts to their benefit, omitting inconvenient truths. By Hope Yen and Calvin Woodward. SENT: 3,150 words, photos.

TRUMP AIDE-KELLYANNE CONWAY -- Kellyanne Conway, one of President Donald Trump’s most influential and longest serving advisers, announced Sunday that she would be leaving the White House at the end of the month. By Jonathan Lemire. SENT: 540 words, photos.

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VIRUS OUTBREAK-ASIA - South Korea counted its 11th straight day of triple-digit daily jumps in coronavirus cases after social distancing restrictions were tightened nationwide. Most of the 266 new cases were in the Seoul metropolitan area, home to half of the country’s 51 million people, but new infections were also reported in other major cities. A top health official said huge infection numbers are likely to be reported in coming days as health workers scramble to trace and test contacts of virus carriers. SENT: 610 words, photos.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-BRITAIN - Britain’s prime minister is asking parents to set aside their fears and send their children back to school next month when the nation’s schools fully reopen for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic shut then down more than five months ago. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was the government’s “moral duty’’ to reopen the schools as he stressed that authorities now know more about COVID-19 than they did when the country went into lockdown on March 23. SENT: 470 words, photos.

Find more all-format coverage on the Virus Outbreak featured topic page in AP Newsroom.

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NATIONAL

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POLICE SHOOTING-WISCONSIN — Neighbors confronted law enforcement at the scene of a police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sunday and crowds marched in the streets after a video posted on social media appeared to show officers shoot at a man’s back seven times as he leaned into a vehicle. The Kenosha Police Department said in a news release Sunday that a person was hospitalized in serious condition after the shooting around 5 p.m. as officers were responding to a “domestic incident.” SENT: 680

HARVEY-TROUBLED REPAIR PROGRAM — In the three years since Hurricane Harvey flooded large swaths of Houston, some residents say they feel angry and abandoned as their efforts to repair damaged homes were bogged down by a city program they described as slow and bureaucratic. The program has finished rebuilding less than 70 homes since beginning in January 2019. SENT: 920 words, photos.

CALIFORNIA-WILDFIRES - Authorities in Northern California say a 70-year-old man has died in one of the three giant wildfires burning around the San Francisco Bay Area. The man had been reported missing and authorities used a helicopter to reach the location where they found him in the rural community of Last Chance in Santa Cruz County. SENT: 890 words, photos, video. Developing.

RACIAL INJUSTICE-POLICE SHOOTING-LOUISIANA - An aunt and grandmother of a Black man who was shot by police in Louisiana arrived on the scene by chance as they drove home together. Trayford Pellerin’s aunt Choicey Pellerin says that she and her mother saw lots of blue lights and police and thought there must have been a wreck. Just then, her mother’s brother called, saying Pellerin had been shot. SENT: 930 words, photos.

RACIAL-INJUSTICE-ELIJAH-MCCLAIN - A year after Elijah McClain was stopped by police in suburban Denver on his way home from the store, people are celebrating his life as well as calling for justice. People gathered on a football field on Sunday night in Denver to dance and sing and to call for the officers who confronted him to be charged. SENT: 1,010 words. WITH: RACIAL-INJUSTICE-ELIJAH-MCCLAIN-TIMELINE.

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JAPAN-ABE - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has become Japan’s longest-serving leader in terms of consecutive days in office, but there was little fanfare, as he visited a hospital for another checkup amid concerns about his health. Abe marked his 2,799th consecutive day in office since bouncing back to leadership in late 2012 for a second term, surpassing the previous record set by Eisaku Sato, his great-uncle, who served 2,798 straight days from 1964 to 1972. SENT: 360 words, photos.

IRAN-NUCLEAR - Iran says an upcoming visit this week by the head of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog agency to Tehran has nothing to do with a U.S. push to impose so-called “snapback” sanctions on Iran. SENT: 400 words, photos.

AUSTRALIA-RIO-TINTO - Rio Tinto says its chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques will lose around $3.5 million in bonuses due to the destruction in May of Australian indigenous sacred sites. The Anglo-Australia mining giant announced on Monday that three executives will lose bonuses following the destruction in May of two 46,000-year-old rock shelters in Juukan George in Western Australia state to access iron ore. SENT: 460 words, photos.

NEW ZEALAND-MOSQUE SHOOTING-SENTENCING - The white supremacist who slaughtered 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques had intended to burn down the buildings afterward. A prosecutor also told a Christchurch judge that two worshippers heroically tried to stop the mass shooting. SENT: 790 words, photos.

PHILIPPINES BOMBINGS - Bombs have exploded in a southern Philippine town, killing at least five soldiers and wounding 17 other military personnel and civilians despite extra security because of threats from Abu Sayyaf militants. Regional military and police said the blast damaged a food store, a computer shop and two army trucks in Jolo town in Sulu province. SENT: 320 words, photos.

SYRIA - Syria’s state media are quoting the country’s electricity and oil ministers as saying that an explosion has hit a gas pipeline in a Damascus suburb, cutting electricity throughout the country. The oil minister says the explosion occurred early on Monday and that it could be the result of a “terrorist act.” SENT: 280 words.

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BUSINESS

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TROPICAL WEATHER-OIL PLATFORMS — Energy companies are removing workers from more than 100 oil and gas production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico as Hurricane Marco and Tropical Storm Laura churn toward the Louisiana coast. The Interior Department said Sunday that the evacuations have caused 58% of Gulf oil production and 45% of natural gas output in the Gulf to be shut down. SENT: 407 words, photos.

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MUSIC-Q&A-KATY PERRY — A decade ago, Katy Perry could sing the alphabet and top the music charts. Her name was synonymous with being No. 1 on the Billboard chart, as the pop star logged hit after hit after hit with anthems like “Teenage Dream,” “Firework,” “Roar” and more. But as the saying goes when you’re on top, the only way to go is down. That was part of Perry’s experience roughly three years ago when she released “Witness,” which had some success but didn’t dominate the charts like she’s used to doing. By AP Music Writer Mesfin Fekadu SENT: 1,310 words, photos.

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CAR--INDYCAR-INDY 500 - Takuma Sato has won his second Indianapolis 500 after Spencer Pigot crashed heavily exiting Turn 4, bringing out the caution with five laps remaining and forcing what had been a thrilling race to end under caution. The race ended when Pigot spun into the outside wall, then crossed back across the track and slammed into the safety tires that guard the entrance to pit lane. SENT: 1,170 words, photos.

SOC—JIM LITKE-CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - The pandemic threw a daunting pop quiz at organizations inside the pro sports world and out. So maybe we shouldn’t been surprised that Bundesliga club Bayern Munich, one the first teams to get back on the field, was also the last one standing after Sunday’s Champions League win over PSG. By Sports Columnist Jim Litke. UPCOMING: 860 words, photos by 4 a.m.

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