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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin walk after their meeting at Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (Alexey Maishev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
An anti-tank system known as "dragon teeth" covers a field on the Russian-Ukrainian border in the Sumy region of Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Mourners pay their last respects to Mohammad Sarsour, 18, who was killed during clashes with the Israeli army amid an overnight operation to demolish two apartments in Ramallah, during his funeral in the West Bank refugee camp of Amari in Ramallah, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden listen during a demonstration of cancer research and detection techniques at Tulane University, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
A Palestinian man mourns his 4-day-old twin relatives, killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, as he holds their birth certificates, at a hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A meteor streaks above a destroyed tank from the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, during the Perseid meteor shower on Bjelasnica mountain, Bosnia, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
A general view of Athens with the Acropolis hill is seen as fire burns the northern part of the city on Monday, Aug. 12, 2024, Hundreds of firefighters are tackling a major wildfire raging out of control on the fringes of the Greek capital. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
A three-wheeled motorized vehicle drives past people in an alley where vendors have displayed national flags and decoration material for sale ahead of country's Independence anniversary in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
Cuban wrestler Mijain Lopez Nunez, a five-time Olympic champion, waves a Cuban flag from the pilot's window of a plane as he arrives at Jose Marti airport in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Aug. 12, 2024. (Adalberto Roque/Pool Photo via AP)
Firefighters work outside a damage house in Chalandri suburb of Athens, on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024, following a major wildfire that has burned into the northern suburbs of the Greek capital, triggered multiple evacuations. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)
A Hindu woman prays at the Dhakeshwari National Temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Aug.11, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajib Dhar)
Ancient statues are seen during the Perseid meteor shower atop Mount Nemrut in southeastern Turkey, Monday, Aug.12, 2024. Perched at an altitude of 2,150 meters (over 7,000 feet), the statues are part of a temple and tomb complex that King Antiochus I, of the ancient Commagene kingdom, built as a monument to himself. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
Two men try to extinguish the flames at a burning business during a fire in northern Athens, Monday, Aug. 12, 2024, as hundreds of firefighters tackle a major wildfire raging out of control on fringes of Greek capital. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)
Relatives and friends of Yonatan Deutsch, who was killed in a drive-by shooting in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, carry his body during his funeral at a cemetery in Jerusalem, Monday, Aug. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
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OLDER ADULTS-AI — Artificial intelligence offers significant benefits, but it also has drawbacks that could be particularly dangerous for older people. To learn more about how AI works, older adults — many of whom lived through the advent of refrigeration, the transition from radio to television and the invention of the internet — are grappling with artificial intelligence: taking a class. By Dan Merica. SENT: 1,070 words, photos, video.
OSPREY-HERO — An Arlington, Virginia, family whose son made the ultimate sacrifice for his V-22 Osprey crew will be honored with the Navy and Marine Corps’ highest noncombat honors. Cpl. Spencer Collart, 21, was on a Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey during a military exercise in Australia last year when the aircraft crashed. He escaped the crash but reentered the burning cockpit in an attempt to rescue the trapped pilots, in which he perished. By Tara Copp. SENT: 1,120 words, photos, video.
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ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-DIPLOMACY-ANALYSIS — Iran’s threatened retaliatory strike on Israel over the assassination of Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh has drawn major world powers into a high-wire act of diplomacy. Halting or limiting an Iranian strike in some eyes could bolster a monthslong effort to reach a cease-fire in a war that’s devastated the Gaza Strip and killed nearly 40,000 Palestinians. It could also free the Israeli hostages who remain captive there since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack that killed 1,200 people and began the conflict. By Jon Gambrell. SENT: 960 words, photos.
MUSK-X-INFLUENCE — As X’s owner and most followed user, Elon Musk has increasingly used it as a microphone to amplify his political views and those of the often right-wing figures he’s aligned with. There are few modern parallels to his antics, but then again there are few modern parallels to Musk himself. As with his fixation on a “population collapse,” threatening to wipe out humanity and his warnings about artificial intelligence doing the same, Musk has framed the free speech argument as another existential crisis looming over the the world. And he is going to try his best to save it. By Technology Writer Barbara Ortutay. SENT: 1,070 words, photos. With TRUMP AND MUSK-LABOR COMPLAINTS — Auto workers union seeks NLRB investigation of Trump and Musk comments about firing striking workers.
ELECTION-2024-TRUMP-IRAN-HACKING-WHAT WE KNOW — The FBI is investigating a suspected Iranian cyber intrusion of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign materials. It’s also investigating attempts to infiltrate the Democratic presidential campaign. By Ali Swenson. SENT: 990 words, photo.
TROPICAL WEATHER — Tropical Storm Ernesto battered the northeast Caribbean as it took aim at Puerto Rico, where officials closed schools, opened shelters and moved dozens of the U.S. territory’s endangered parrots into hurricane-proof rooms. By Dánica Coto. SENT: 780 words, photo, audio.
ELECTION 2024-HARRIS-POLICY — Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to outmaneuver former President Donald Trump and address old vulnerabilities on her policy positions as she starts to fill in how she would govern if elected in November. By White House Correspondent Zeke Miller. SENT: 900 words, photo. WITH: TRUMP-HARRIS-TAX-ON-TIPS — Why Trump’s and Harris’ proposals to end federal taxes on tips would be difficult to enact.
ELECTION 2024-SWIFT BOAT-WALZ — In some corners of the Democratic Party, last week felt like déjà vu. The party’s vice presidential nominee’s military record was under assault from Republicans — attacks reminiscent of those leveled two decades earlier on Sen. John Kerry during his run for the White House. Democratic strategists who lived through the Kerry onslaught, however, say the political landscape has changed so much since 2004 that they do not believe the attacks will land with the same resonance. By Dan Merica. SENT: 1,200 words photos. Also see ELECTION 2024-WALZ below.
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RUSSIA-FREED-DISSIDENTS-LGBTQ COUPLE — Sasha Skochilenko and Sofya Subbotina are planning to get married. That wasn’t an option in their home country of Russia but is possible now that they live in Germany, where same-sex marriage is permitted. Skochilenko was jailed in Russia for speaking out against the war in Ukraine and was part of a historic East-West prison swap this month. She also protested laws restricting LGBTQ+ rights that have been on the books for over a decade and intensified since the war began. By Dasha Litvinova. SENT: 1,180 words, photos.
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ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-SOLE-SURVIVORS — More than 10 months into its war with Hamas, Israel’s relentless bombardment of the isolated territory has wiped out extended Palestinian families. It has left parents without children and children without parents, brothers or sisters. And some of the sole survivors are so young they will have no memory of those they lost. SENT: 710 words, photos.
UNITED STATES-ISRAEL-MILITARY AID — The U.S. approves $20 billion in arms sales to Israel, including scores of fighter jets and advanced air-to-air missiles. SENT: 280 words, photo.
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RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR — Russia said that its forces checked an effort by Ukrainian troops to expand a stunning weeklong incursion into the Kursk region, as a Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Kyiv has no intention of occupying Russian territory. SENT: 920 words, photos, videos, audio.
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STARBUCKS-CEO — Starbucks CEO replaced by Brian Niccol, a fixer who revived Chipotle when the chain was in distress. SENT: 990 words, photos, audio.
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ELECTION-2024-MINNESOTA — Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar is trying to avoid the fate of two of her closest allies when Minnesota holds its primary elections. SENT: 800 words, photos, audio. UPCOMING: Developing, polls close at 9 p.m. With ELECTION-2024-THE-LATEST.
ELECTION 2024-HARRIS-GRAMMAR — Whatever possessed Vice President Kamala Harris to pick Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, it probably wasn’t a desire to inflame arguments about apostrophes. SENT: 720 words, photos, audio.
BIDEN — President Joe Biden is zeroing in on the policy goals closest to his heart now that he’s no longer seeking a second term, visiting New Orleans to promote his administration’s “moonshot” initiative aiming to dramatically reduce cancer deaths. SENT: 960 words, photos.
ELECTION-2024-TRUMP-CONSERVATIVES — A recent conservative conference in Georgia hosted by influential syndicated radio host Erick Erickson featured few, if any, red hats and no rousing promises to “Make America Great Again.” Instead, the group spent two days critiquing the GOP’s path in the era of Donald Trump and hand-wringing over the possibility of a President Kamala Harris. SENT: 1,100 words, photos.
ELECTION 2024-WALZ — In his first solo appearance as the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz warned cheering union members that Donald Trump would wage war on working people and threaten Medicare and Social Security as he kicked off a five-state fundraising swing. SENT: 640 words, photos.
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ABORTION-BALLOT MEASURES — Missouri voters will decide in November whether to guarantee a right to abortion with a constitutional amendment that would reverse the state’s near-total ban. SENT: 880 words, photos, audio.
TA’KIYA YOUNG — An Ohio police officer was indicted on murder and other charges in the shooting of Ta’Kiya Young, a 21-year-old pregnant Black mother who was killed after being accused of shoplifting last August. SENT: 760 words, photos, audio.
KANSAS NEWSPAPER RAID-CRIMINAL CHARGE — A former Kansas police chief who led a raid last year on a weekly newspaper has been charged with felony obstruction of justice and is accused of persuading a potential witness to withhold information from authorities when they later investigated his conduct. SENT: 790 words, photos, audio.
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UNITED NATIONS-VENEZUELA CRACKDOWN — The United Nations’ top human rights official expressed concern over arbitrary detentions and “disproportionate use of force” in Venezuela as security forces crack down after the country’s disputed presidential election. SENT: 400 words, photos.
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GOOGLE-SHOWCASE — Google unveiled its next generation of Pixel phones, providing the maker of Android software a head start on the next iPhone in the race to bring more artificial-intelligence services to devices that have become people’s constant companions. By Technology Writer Michael Liedtke. SENT: 840 words, photos.
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MOBILE-TENSAW DELTA — Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw Delta is a lush, vibrant and surprisingly intact more than 400-square-mile expanse of cypress swamps, oxbow lakes, marshland, hardwood stands and rivers. SENT: 1,840 words, photos, video. WITH: MOBILE-TENSAW-TAKEAWAYS.
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New Google Pixel phones on display at Made By Google at Google on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024, in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Juliana Yamada)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin walk after their meeting at Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (Alexey Maishev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
An anti-tank system known as "dragon teeth" covers a field on the Russian-Ukrainian border in the Sumy region of Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Mourners pay their last respects to Mohammad Sarsour, 18, who was killed during clashes with the Israeli army amid an overnight operation to demolish two apartments in Ramallah, during his funeral in the West Bank refugee camp of Amari in Ramallah, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden listen during a demonstration of cancer research and detection techniques at Tulane University, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
A Palestinian man mourns his 4-day-old twin relatives, killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, as he holds their birth certificates, at a hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A meteor streaks above a destroyed tank from the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, during the Perseid meteor shower on Bjelasnica mountain, Bosnia, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
A general view of Athens with the Acropolis hill is seen as fire burns the northern part of the city on Monday, Aug. 12, 2024, Hundreds of firefighters are tackling a major wildfire raging out of control on the fringes of the Greek capital. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
A three-wheeled motorized vehicle drives past people in an alley where vendors have displayed national flags and decoration material for sale ahead of country's Independence anniversary in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
Cuban wrestler Mijain Lopez Nunez, a five-time Olympic champion, waves a Cuban flag from the pilot's window of a plane as he arrives at Jose Marti airport in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Aug. 12, 2024. (Adalberto Roque/Pool Photo via AP)
Firefighters work outside a damage house in Chalandri suburb of Athens, on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024, following a major wildfire that has burned into the northern suburbs of the Greek capital, triggered multiple evacuations. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)
A Hindu woman prays at the Dhakeshwari National Temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Aug.11, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajib Dhar)
Ancient statues are seen during the Perseid meteor shower atop Mount Nemrut in southeastern Turkey, Monday, Aug.12, 2024. Perched at an altitude of 2,150 meters (over 7,000 feet), the statues are part of a temple and tomb complex that King Antiochus I, of the ancient Commagene kingdom, built as a monument to himself. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
Two men try to extinguish the flames at a burning business during a fire in northern Athens, Monday, Aug. 12, 2024, as hundreds of firefighters tackle a major wildfire raging out of control on fringes of Greek capital. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)
Relatives and friends of Yonatan Deutsch, who was killed in a drive-by shooting in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, carry his body during his funeral at a cemetery in Jerusalem, Monday, Aug. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
