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BC-AP News Coverage Advisory, 10:15 Advisory

| February 20, 2020 7:30 AM

Here are the AP's latest coverage plans, top stories and promotable content. All times EST. For up-to-the minute information on AP's coverage, visit Coverage Plan at https://newsroom.ap.org

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HIGHLIGHTING

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ROGER STONE (sent, developing)

ELECTION 2020-DEBATE (sent)

GERMANY-SHOOTING (sent)

TRUMP-ECONOMIC REPORT (sent)

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WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT

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ETHIOPIA-LOOTED CROWN — A rare and looted crown from the 18th century has been returned to Ethiopia after it was discovered in the Netherlands two decades ago. SENT: 360 words, photos.

MARDI GRAS FLOAT-WOMAN KILLED — Police in New Orleans say a woman was struck and killed by a parade float as the city celebrated Mardi Gras. SENT: 271 words, photo.

MORGAN STANLEY-E(asterisk)TRADE — Morgan Stanley is buying online brokerage E(asterisk)Trade for about $13 billion. SENT: 100 words, developing.

VICTORIA'S SECRET SOLD — Victoria's Secret, beset by falling sales and uncomfortable questions about its billionaire founder who has run the company for five decades, is being sold. SENT: 400 words, photo.

ODD-GOAT HEIST — A sheriff's office in Virginia says a property owner held a suspect accused of stealing goats from his farm at gunpoint until authorities arrived. SENT: 210 words.

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WASHINGTON/POLITICS

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ROGER STONE — Roger Stone, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, faces sentencing Thursday on his convictions for witness tampering and lying to Congress. The action in federal court comes amid Trump's unrelenting defense of his longtime confidant that has led to a mini-revolt inside the Justice Department and allegations the president has interfered in the case. SENT: 850 words. UPCOMING: Developing from 10 a.m. court session, 890 words by 4 p.m., photos, video.

ELECTION 2020-DEBATE — From the opening bell, Democrats savaged New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg and raised pointed questions about Bernie Sanders' take-no-prisoners politics during a contentious debate Wednesday night that threatened to further muddy the party's urgent quest to defeat President Donald Trump. SENT: 1,070 words, photos, video. WITH: ELECTION 2020-DEBATE TAKEAWAYS, highlights of the debate. SENT: 1080 words, photos. WITH: ELECTION 2020-DEBATE-FACT CHECK — The latest Democratic presidential debate was a raucous one, ripe for exaggerations and distortions as Mike Bloomberg made his debut on the debate stage and rivals went after him and each other. President Trump weighed in on the feisty performance at a rally where he mischaracterized what some Democrats want to do with health care. SENT: 720 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-BLOOMBERG ENDORSEMENTS — Mike Bloomberg picked up three new congressional endorsements on the heels of his rocky debate performance, underscoring his staying power in the Democratic primary race despite an onslaught of attacks from opponents. SENT: 280 words, photo.

TRUMP-ECONOMIC REPORT — A new White House report says the U.S. economy is growing faster than expected, even though the annual gains of 3% that President Donald Trump promised to voters have yet to be achieved. SENT: 480 words, photo.

ELECTION 2020-DEBATE ANALYSIS — Through a year of campaigning, the Democratic presidential candidates played nice, talking up party unity, disagreeing mostly politely on policy. No more. Wednesday’s debate signaled a sharp turn in the Democratic contest, with civility giving way to a combustible conflict that laid bare both the ideological divisions roiling the party and the personal animosities that have simmered for months. SENT: 890 words, photos, video.

UNITED STATES-NUCLEAR WEAPONS — Defense Secretary Mark Esper used his first-ever visit to a nuclear missile field in frigid North Dakota to tout the Trump administration's multibillion-dollar plan for a top-to-bottom modernization of the nuclear arsenal. The costly project is necessary, he said, to keep up with Russia and outpace China. SENT: 890 words, photo.

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NATIONAL

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CLERGY-ABUSE-NEW-ORLEANS-SAINTS — The New Orleans Saints head to court in a bid to block the release of hundreds of confidential emails detailing the behind-the-scenes public relations work the team did for the area's Roman Catholic archdiocese amid its sexual abuse crisis. SENT: 500 words, photo.

SEXUAL MISCONDUCT-WEINSTEIN — Jurors in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial have been focusing a lot of attention on actress Annabella Sciorra’s allegation that the once-heralded Hollywood mogul raped her in the mid-1990s. SENT: 450 words, photos.

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INTERNATIONAL

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GERMANY-SHOOTING — A 43-year-old German man shoots and kills nine people at several locations in a Frankfurt suburb in attacks that appear to have been motivated by far-right beliefs, officials say. By David McHugh and Frank Jordans. SENT: 1,130 words, photos.

SKOREA-VIRUS-OUTBREAK — South Korea reports its first death from a new virus while the mayor of a southeastern city urges his 2.5 million people to refrain from going outside as viral infections, linked to a church congregation, spike. By Kim Tong-Hyung and Hyung-Jin Kim. SENT: 710 words, photos.

SYRIA — Turkey's Defense Ministry says two Turkish soldiers have been killed in an airstrike in Syria's Idlib province. Five other soldiers were wounded in the attack. The deaths bring to 15 the number of Turkish soldiers killed in Idlib. SENT: 835 words, photos.

ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he was pushing ahead with the construction of 5,000 new Jewish homes in key areas of east Jerusalem, where critics say additional building could cut Palestinian residents off from the rest of the West Bank. SENT: 710 words, photos.

SOUTH SUDAN-ALLEGED ABUSES — South Sudanese officials have diverted millions of dollars of state funds that are badly needed by civilians as the country staggers away from civil war, a U.N. commission says, and it accused rival fighters of deliberately starving people for strategic gain. SENT: 730 words, photos.

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HEALTH & SCIENCE

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CHINA-OUTBREAK-ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE — Did an artificial-intelligence program alert the world to the coronavirus outbreak before medical experts could? Kind of, sort of, maybe not really -- and even at best it was a narrow technical win. Still, it's a indication of the growing usefulness of AI tools that can supplement the work of global health authorities in tracking emerging epidemics. By Matt O’Brien and Christina Larson. SENT: 1,070 words, photos.

CHINA-OUTBREAK — Chinese health officials expressed new optimism over a deadly virus outbreak while authorities in South Korea’s fourth-largest city urged residents to hunker down as vacillating fears nagged communities far from the illness’ epicenter. SENT: 690 words, photos.

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BUSINESS/ECONOMY

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FINANCIAL MARKETS — Stocks open lower on Wall Street, a day after indexes set their latest record highs. SENT: 390 words, photos. UPCOMING: Will be update through 5 p.m.

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ENTERTAINMENT

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MEDIA-BLOOMBERG NEWS - Three months after Bloomberg News tried to thread the needle with a plan for covering a presidential campaign where company founder Mike Bloomberg is a candidate, its journalists are learning how hard that can be. By AP Media Writer David Bauder. UPCOMING: 1,200 words by 1 p.m.

TV-BLACK IN SPACE — A new documentary looks at the final frontier of civil rights: getting black astronauts into space amid segregation, discrimination and the Cold War. SENT: 690 words, photos.

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SPORTS

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BKC—T25-DUKE-NC STATE — North Carolina State overwhelmed sixth-ranked Duke so thoroughly that the Blue Devils' Hall of Fame coach could only describe his team as “never there" after a historically lopsided loss. By Basketball Writer Aaron Beard. Sent: 810 words, photos.

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HOW TO REACH US

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