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TOP STORIES
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ELECTION 2020 — Bernie Sanders has scored a resounding victory in Nevada’s presidential caucuses. His win on Saturday cements his status as the Democrats' national front-runner, though it's also escalating tensions over whether he’s too liberal to defeat President Donald Trump. . By Steve Peoples and Alexandra Jaffe. SENT: 950 words, photos, video, audio. WITH: ELECTION 2020-TAKEAWAYS — Key takeaways from the caucuses. SENT: 1,080 words, photos. WITH: ELECTION 2020-ANALYSIS — AP News Analysis of the caucuses. SENT: 1,000 words, photos.
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VIRUS-OUTBREAK — South Korea’s president has put the country on its highest alert for infectious diseases and says officials should take “unprecedented, powerful” steps to fight a viral outbreak. President Moon Jae-in says the outbreak has reached “a crucial watershed” and that “the next few days will be a very important critical moment.” By Kim Tong-Hyung. SENT: 1,310 words, photos.
CENSUS-PERSON 1 — It's a question spouses, domestic partners and roommates are going to be forced to confront in the next few weeks as they fill out their 2020 Census forms: Who gets to be “Person 1?” At stake is primacy in the household: everyone else who lives in the home has to be identified on the form by how they are related to Person 1. It's a question that even the most egalitarian homes are going to have to figure out — though it's sure to spark some intriguing conversations. By Mike Schneider. UPCOMING: 780 words, photos, by 10 a.m. Sunday. The following story will move as this week's Monday Spotlight.
BRAZIL-TRANSGENDER CARNIVAL GODMOTHER —Not many things happen for the first time in Brazil's Carnival. But in the final minutes of Saturday, dancer Camila Prins entered Sao Paulo's parade grounds as the first transgender woman to lead the drum section of a top samba school. Prins was hand-picked to be “godmother” of the Colorado do Brás samba school's drum section, an iconic role fought over by dozens of models and TV celebrities. By Mauricio Savarese. SENT: 980 words, photos.
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GERMANY-HAMBURG-ELECTION — Voters in Hamburg, Germany's second-biggest city, go to the polls Sunday to pick a new regional assembly in an election that's been dominated by the issue of climate change. SENT: 260 words, photos.
IRAN-EARTHQUAKE — Turkey's interior minister says seven people have been killed in Turkey in a magnitude 5.7 earthquake that struck western Iran. SENT: 170 words.
CALIFORNIA ROCKET DEATH — A colleague and a witness say a self-styled daredevil died Saturday after a rocket in which he launched himself crashed into the ground. SENT: 270 words, photos.
VAN ROLLOVER-STUDENTS KILLED — Authorities say three Arizona high school students enrolled in an automotive technology program have been killed in a crash while returning from a professional drag racing event near Phoenix. SENT: 330 words.
MISSING COUPLE FOUND — An academic couple who vanished during a getaway in the woods of Northern California coastline has been found by search-and-rescue workers who spent almost a week looking for them and gave up hopes of finding them alive. SENT: 420 words, photo.
GOVERNOR-NEW JERSEY-TUMOR — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says he has what is probably a cancerous tumor on his kidney and will undergo surgery next month to remove it. SENT: 225 words, photo.
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CHINA-OUTBREAK
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RUSSIA CHINA OUTBREAK — Russian authorities are going to significant lengths to keep the virus in China from surfacing in Moscow. Local officials ordered police raids of hotels, dormitories, apartment buildings and businesses to track down the shrinking number of Chinese nationals left in the capital. SENT: 1,210 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-CALIFORNIA CITY — A judge has put on hold a U.S. plan to quarantine up to 50 people infected with a new virus from China in a Southern California city. SENT: 500 words, photo.
CHINA OUTBREAK EUROPE — A dozen Italian towns saw daily life disrupted after the deaths of two people infected with the virus from China and a pair of case clusters without direct links to the outbreak abroad. A rapid spike in infections prompted authorities in the northern Lombardy and Veneto regions to close schools, businesses and restaurants and to cancel sporting events and Masses. SENT: 1.160 words, photos.
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WASHINGTON/ POLITICS
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FACT CHECK-WEEK —In their boisterous presidential debate, several Democrats sold short the health care plans of rivals or glossed over aspects of their own record. In an audacious league of his own, President Donald Trump celebrated the elimination of a tax that still exists and went deep and wide in distorting what he's done in office. A sampling from the past week. By Calvin Woodward, Hope Yen and Josh Boak. SENT: 2,110 words, photos. Find AP Fact Checks at http://apne.ws/2kbx8bd
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INTERNATIONAL
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ISRAEL-POLITICS-WILDCARD — Israel finds itself in a familiar place after a tumultuous election campaign — with maverick politician Avigdor Lieberman still seemingly in control of the country’s fate. The run-up to Israel's third election in less than a year saw criminal charges filed against the prime minister, an American Mideast plan unveiled and various party mergers and machinations. Yet once again, opinion polls suggest that neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his chief challenger Benny Gantz will be able to form a coalition government without Lieberman. SENT: 1,021 words, photos.
INDIA-NAMASTE-TRUMP — The city of Ahmedabad is jostling with activity as an army of workers is cleaning roads, planting flowers and hoisting hundreds of billboards featuring President Donald Trump, a day ahead of his maiden two-day visit to India after Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised him a boisterous public reception. SENT: 670 words, photos.
IRAN-ELECTION — Iranian officials still haven't announced the full results of last Friday's parliamentary elections, but Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is accusing enemy propaganda of trying to discourage people from voting by amplifying the threat of the coronavirus in the country. SENT: 580 words, photos.
MILAN FASHION WEEK-WATCH — In a last-minute change, Giorgio Armani is holding his Milan Fashion Week runway show behind closed doors Sunday due to concerns raised by the coronavirus. Instead, he will stream the event from inside the empty showroom. The fashion house said in a statement that ‘’the decision was taken to safeguard the well-being of all his invited guests by not having them attend crowded spaces.'' SENT: 1,410 words, photos.
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NATIONAL
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MARDI GRAS PARADE-FATALITY —Authorities say a man has been struck by a float and killed by a Mardi Gras float during a parade in New Orleans. It was the second death in days involving a parade float and cast a pall over the Carnival festivities. Police said in a statement that the death occurred Saturday night on a downtown parade route of the Krewe of Endymion. SENT: 660 words, photos.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-DOCTOR INVESTIGATION — The first woman who publicly accused convicted sports doctor Larry Nassar of sexual abuse says she is horrified and deeply disappointed with the University of Michigan for how it has handled allegations of abuse by a late doctor at the school. By AP Sports Writer Larry Lage. SENT: 700 words, photos.
FATAL CRASH-DILLINGHAM AIRPORT — Authorities say a single-engine plane has crashed at an airport northwest of Honolulu, killing two people. The Star-Advertiser reported that paramedics declared one man in his 60s dead at Dillingham Airfield and treated another man in his 60s before he was sent to a hospital where he later died from his injuries. SENT: 440 words.
CHARTER BUS CRASH — A charter bus swerved on a rain-slicked Southern California highway and rolled down an embankment, killing three people and injuring 18 others. SENT: 300 words, photos.
SCHUMER-TSA-TIK TOK — The Senate’s top Democrat is raising questions about the Transportation Security Administration’s use of the China-owned video app TikTok, citing potential national security concerns and a ban by the Department of Homeland Security. Sen. Chuck Schumer raised the concerns in a letter Saturday to TSA Administrator David Pekoske. SENT: 310 words, photo.
HANUKKAH STABBINGS-REWARD— An Orthodox Jewish man credited as a hero for attacking a knife-wielding man who stabbed five during a Dec. 28 Hanukkah celebration in New York is refusing to take a $20,000 reward from established Jewish groups because he considers them Zionists and his particular sect is anti-Zionist. SENT: 500 words.
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ENTERTAINMENT
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NAACP IMAGE AWARDS — Lizzo was named entertainer of the year and “Just Mercy” took home top film honors at the NAACP Image Awards. Lizzo said, "We are such a beautiful people, this is just a reminder of all the beautiful things that we can do," as she accepted the last and biggest award at the show that recognizes entertainers of color. “Just Mercy,” snubbed by Hollywood's bigger awards shows, won best motion picture, best actor for Michael B. Jordan and best supporting actor for Jamie Foxx. By AP Entertainment Writer Andrew Dalton. SENT: 670 words, photos.
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SPORTS
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BOX--WILDER-FURY — Tyson Fury is a heavyweight champion once again, dominating Deontay Wilder in their title rematch before Wilder’s corner threw in the towel in the seventh round. A boxer in their first fight, Fury went on the attack in the rematch and knocked Wilder down twice before a flurry of punches prompted his corner to call an end to the highly anticipated rematch. SENT: 790 words, photos.
BBO--NATIONALS-ASTROS — Fans hoping to heckle the sign-stealing Houston Astros at their spring opener were met with quite the coincidence: They got their signs stolen. In the Astros’ first spring training game since their sign-stealing scandal rocked baseball, some fans brought signs jeering Houston, and ballpark personnel confiscated them before the exhibition opener against the World Series champion Washington Nationals. SENT: 730 words, photos.
BKC--T25-KANSAS-BAYLOR — Udoka Azubuike had 23 points and a career-high 19 rebounds and No. 3 Kansas held on to beat No. 1 Baylor 64-61. That ended the Bears' 23-game winning streak, and come Monday, likely their five-week hold on the No. 1 spot in the AP poll. By Stephen Hawkins. SENT: 960 words, photos.
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