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THE FACEBOOOK PAPERS
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THE FACEBOOK PAPERS-TRUMP VIOLENCE — Stories of hateful and violent speech on Fb flooded in after President Donald Trump hit ship on a message promising to shoot looters in Minneapolis following George Floyd’s loss of life final yr. If Fb had handled Trump like every other consumer, his threats of violence would have been routinely deleted. However politicians received a move. By Amanda Seitz. SENT: 1,100 phrases, images.
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TOP STORIES
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CONGRESS-BUDGET — Half its authentic measurement, President Joe Biden’s large home coverage plan is being pulled aside and reconfigured as Democrats edge nearer to satisfying their most reluctant colleagues and ending what’s now a couple of $1.75 trillion bundle. Find out how to pay for all of it stays deeply in flux. By Lisa Mascaro, Aamer Madhani and Alan Fram. SENT: 1,100 phrases, images. With CONGRESS-BUDGET-PROGRESSIVES — Progressives begin lining up behind rising social, environmental invoice. SENT: 950 phrases, images.
PROP FIREARM-MOVIE SET — Authorities are scheduled to debate preliminary findings a couple of deadly movie-set capturing with a prop gun discharged by actor Alec Baldwin that left a cinematographer lifeless and the movie director wounded. The information convention in New Mexico on Wednesday morning might shed new mild on a lethal sequence of occasions that has baffled film-set security consultants. By Morgan Lee, Susan Montoya Bryan and Cedar Attanasio. SENT: 410 phrases, images. UPCOMING: Growing from morning information convention.
HAITI-GANGS AND BUSINESS — Just like the poor who’re fleeing Haiti, Youri Mevs and others among the many nation’s rich elite have few illusions about life there. She continually struggles to maintain her enterprise going within the reality of threats and extortion by the gangs that rule a rustic the place authorities has ceased to operate. She might have to go away, finally, however within the meantime, she vows to assist battle the political battle to rebuild her nation. By Alberto Arce. SENT: 2,200 phrases, images. Abridged model additionally out there.
VIRUS OUTBREAK — The pandemic has made clear what many consultants have lengthy warned: The absence of dependable and reasonably priced little one care limits the roles individuals can settle for, makes it more durable to climb the company ladder and finally restricts the power of the broader economic system to develop. By Sally Ho and Josh Boak. UPCOMING: 1,100 phrases by 10:30 a.m., images.
SUDAN — Sudanese safety forces have detained three distinguished pro-democracy figures, as inside and worldwide stress mounts on the army to stroll again a coup. The detentions got here as protests denouncing Monday’s takeover continued within the capital of Khartoum and elsewhere, and lots of companies shut in response to requires strikes. By Samy Magdy. SENT: 600 phrases, images. WITH: SUDAN-NEW STRONGMAN — A profile of Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, who led this week’s coup in Sudan. SENT: 880 phrases, images.
ASEAN — President Joe Biden and China’s Premier Li Keqiang will be part of an annual summit of 18 Asia-Pacific nations by video in a area the place the world powers have dueled over commerce, Taiwan, democracy, human rights and Beijing’s more and more assertive actions in disputed territories. Russian President Vladimir Putin may also communicate on the East Asia Summit, organized by the 10-member Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations. The conferences are overshadowed by a diplomatic standoff after military-ruled Myanmar skipped the summit in protest of ASEAN’s transfer to bar its chief, whose forces seized energy in February, from attending. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen hinted he can also take into account not inviting Myanmar’s basic to a video summit of greater than 50 Asian and European international locations subsequent month. By Eileen Ng and Niniek Karmini. SENT: 880 phrases, images.
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TRENDING
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TRUMP-SOCIAL MEDIA — Former President Donald Trump might pocket billions of {dollars} in paper wealth if his social media firm performs nicely. SENT: 590 phrases, picture.
WORLD SERIES-BRAVES-MORTON — Atlanta Braves pitcher Charlie Morton throws 16 pitches on a damaged leg in Recreation 1 of the World Sequence. SENT: 300 phrases, images.
CLIMATE TRAIN VS PLANE — A research commissioned by the environmental group Greenpeace exhibits that over one-third of the busiest short-haul flights in Europe have viable prepare options that are far much less polluting. SENT: 220 phrases, images.
PAKISTAN POLICE ATTACKED — Unidentified gunmen attacked a police patrol in a single day in northwest Pakistan, killing 4 earlier than fleeing the scene, a police official mentioned. SENT: 150 phrases.
JAPAN OBIT-SUNAO TSUBOI — Sunao Tsuboi, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing who made opposing nuclear weapons the message of his life, together with in a gathering with President Barack Obama in 2016, has died. SENT: 500 phrases, images.
SOUTH KOREA-US — The U.S. ladies’s soccer group sends Carli Lloyd into retirement with a 6-0 rout of South Korea. SENT: 450 phrases, images.
PAKISTAN-SAUDI ARABIA — Pakistan says that Saudi Arabia will deposit $3 billion into its central financial institution to assist bolster the cash-strapped fellow Islamic nation’s shrinking overseas reserves. SENT: 120 phrases.
OBIT-MORT SAHL — Mort Sahl, a comic who satirized politics, dies at 94. SENT: 1,100 phrases, images.
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MORE ON THE VIRUS OUTBREAK
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VIRUS OUTBREAK-GERMANY — The German parliament is not going to lengthen the “epidemic state of affairs of nationwide scope” when it expires subsequent month, however will hold in place sure measures to verify the unfold of the coronavirus. SENT: 430 phrases, images.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-BRAZIL-BOLSONARO INVESTIGATION-EXPLAINER — A Brazilian Senate committee is recommending that President Jair Bolsonaro be indicted for allegedly mishandling the nation’s response the pandemic. What lies forward for Bolsonaro. SENT: 820 phrases, images.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-UGANDA SCHOOL OUTCASTS — One border city in Uganda Busia exhibits a disturbing image of how the pandemic is reworking the lives of schoolchildren in an African nation that left issues within the arms of helpless and, typically, careless dad and mom. Faculties in Uganda have been shut down for greater than 77 weeks, the longest wherever on the planet, and the East African nation now’s the one one in Africa the place colleges stay closed. UPCOMING.
AUSTRALIA OPEN-VACCINATIONS — The back-and-forth debate over unvaccinated tennis gamers being allowed to contest the Australian Open in January has heightened with the prime minister and a state political chief buying and selling pictures on factors of distinction. SENT:750 phrases, images.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-CAMBODIA — Cambodia plans to reopen in phases to totally vaccinated overseas vacationers ranging from the top of November. SENT: 200 phrases, images.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-VIETNAM — Vietnam has began to vaccinate kids as a part of an effort to reopen colleges after greater than half a yr of closures as a consequence of COVID-19. About 1,500 youngsters between 16 and 17 years previous in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis in southern Vietnam are among the many first to obtain jabs earlier than the inoculation program is rolled out nationwide in November.
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WASHINGTON/POLITICS
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VIRGINIA ELECTIONS-HOUSE OF DELEGATES — Democratic management of Virginia state authorities over the previous two years has allowed lawmakers to dramatically reshape public coverage with laws reforming the prison justice system, loosening abortion restrictions and increasing voting entry. Now voters are weighing in on the poll field on whether or not that flip for the commonwealth is what they wished. SENT: 880 phrases, picture.
VIRGINIA GOVERNOR — President Joe Biden frames the Virginia governor’s race as a repudiation of his predecessor, tying the Republican candidate to former President Donald Trump as he campaigns for Democrat Terry McAuliffe. SENT: 1,070 phrases, images.
ELECTION 2021-NYC MAYOR — The candidates operating to turn out to be New York Metropolis’s mayor lob accusations at one another, then finish their second debate on a surprisingly tender notice. SENT: 540 phrases, images.
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INTERNATIONAL
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ITALY-G20-DIPLOMACY — This weekend’s Group of 20 summit in Rome is the primary in-person gathering of leaders of the world’s largest economies since COVID-19 struck. However it’s something however enterprise as typical. The leaders of Russia and China aren’t attending in individual. There might be tensions because the U.S., Australia and France will probably be on the similar desk for the primary time since Washington pulled the rug out from beneath Paris’ $60 billion submarine deal to Australia. And an excellent greater summit begins as quickly as this one ends, in Glasgow, Scotland, to deal with the local weather disaster. UPCOMING by 8 a.m., textual content and images.
UNITED STATES-CHINA-TAIWAN — America and China step up their confrontation over Taiwan in a long-simmering dispute that has important implications for the ability dynamic within the Indo-Pacific and past. Whereas the disagreement over Taiwan has lengthy vexed U.S-China relations, latest developments counsel the 2 are coming nearer to confrontation. By Diplomatic Author Matthew Lee. SENT: 900 phrases, images.
IRAN — Iran’s president is saying {that a} cyberattack that shut down fuel stations throughout the nation aimed to get “individuals indignant by creating dysfunction and disruption.” Ebrahim Raisi’s feedback, the primary since Tuesday’s assault, didn’t blame anybody particularly for the incident. SENT: 760 phrases, images.
BIDEN-CHINA — No assembly between President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jingping is on deck, however the guarantees and challenges of the dual upcoming G20 and international local weather summits mirror the administration’s nine-month effort to reorient the nation’s focus towards addressing the strategic challenges posed by the rising international energy. On safety, commerce, local weather and COVID-19, the White Home method may be characterised as “about China, with out China.” UPCOMING by 11 a.m., textual content and images.
CLIMATE-GULF OIL OBSESSION — The worldwide power transition is probably nowhere extra perplexing than within the Arabian Peninsula. Saudi Arabia and different Gulf monarchies are caught between two daunting local weather change situations that every threaten their livelihood. In a single, the world stops burning oil and fuel to chop down on heat-trapping emissions, shaking the very basis of their economies. Within the different, international temperatures hold rising, on the danger of rendering unlivable a lot of the Gulf’s already extraordinarily sizzling terrain. The political stability of the Gulf states is rooted in earnings from fossil fuels, regardless of critical efforts to diversify their economies and appeal to new types of investments. SENT: 1100 phrases, images.
MYANMAR-SUU KYI — Ousted Myanmar chief Aung San Suu Kyi has testified in court docket for the primary time in one in every of a number of instances in opposition to her, however particulars of what she mentioned aren’t out there due to a gag order on her attorneys. The entire protection attorneys in Suu Kyi’s instances have been barred since final week from revealing particulars of the court docket proceedings. SENT: 600 phrases, images.
CLIMATE-AUSTRALIA — Australia’s opposition Labor Get together says a looming election will probably be fought on greenhouse fuel discount targets as Prime Minister Scott Morrison comes beneath criticism over the modest objectives he’ll take to a U.N. local weather summit. SENT: 720 phrases, images.
MIGRATION-LIBYA SANCTIONS — The United Nations Safety Council and the USA have imposed sanctions on a Libyan official over the alleged abuse and torture of migrants in a detention heart. SENT: 380 phrases.
PORTUGAL POLITICS — Portugal’s parliament is poised to reject the minority Socialist authorities’s proposed state funds for 2022. That can possible set off a snap election and put a brake on the nation’s post-pandemic restoration plans. SENT: 490 phrases.
CLIMATE-EXTINCTION WARNING — The United Nations is summoning an uncommon “witness” to testify to the hazards of burning fossil fuels that stoke international warming. In a video launched on social media forward of this yr’s U.N. local weather change summit, a computer-generated dinosaur bursts into the U.N.’s well-known Common Meeting corridor in New York to inform world diplomats that “going extinct is a foul factor.” SENT: 300 phrases.
BRITAIN-ASSANGE — The U.S. authorities is scheduled to ask Britain’s Excessive Courtroom to overturn a choose’s determination that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange shouldn’t be despatched to the USA to face espionage expenses. A decrease court docket choose who refused extradition in January dominated Assange was prone to kill himself if held beneath harsh U.S. jail situations. SENT: 690 phrases, images.
MEXICO MIGRANT MARCH — After three days of strolling alongside a scorching freeway in southern Mexico, a pair thousand migrants determined to relaxation, obtain medical consideration for badly blistered toes, wash clothes within the river and doze in any shade they may discover. SENT: 560 phrases, images.
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NATIONAL
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FAIR FIGHT-MEDICAL DEBT — The political group led by Democratic titan Stacey Abrams is branching out into paying off medical money owed. Honest Struggle Motion on Wednesday instructed The Related Press that it’s donating $1.34 million from its political motion committee to wipe out debt owed by 108,000 individuals in Georgia, Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. SENT: 620 phrases, images.
CIVICS EDUCATION LAWSUIT — College students in Rhode Island are asking a federal appeals court docket to affirm that public college college students have a constitutional proper to a civics training. They’re asking the first U.S. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals in Boston to reverse a decrease court docket’s dismissal and declare there’s such a proper. SENT: 930 phrases, picture.
CHILD-SKELETAL REMAINS FOUND — A girl and her boyfriend are arrested within the loss of life of the lady’s 8-year-old son, whose skeletal stays had been discovered inside a Houston-area condominium with three surviving however apparently deserted siblings. SENT: 450 phrases, images.
US-CALIFORNIA-POLICE SHOOTING TRIAL: A California police officer has been convicted of assault with a firearm within the 2018 deadly capturing of an unarmed mentally unwell man in a rich San Francisco suburb. A jury in Contra Costa County agreed Tuesday that Officer Andrew Corridor was responsible of the cost within the loss of life of Laudemer Arboleda. SENT: 880 phrases, images.
FLORIA-SURGEON GENERAL-NO MASK — Florida’s surgeon basic has mentioned that conversations whereas sporting masks aren’t productive after a state senator didn’t let him in her workplace with out a masks, citing a critical well being situation. SENT: 450 phrases, images.
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BUSINESS/ECONOMY
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BRITAIN-ECONOMY — Britain’s Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is ready to color a comparatively rosy image of the state of the nation’s economic system regardless of the devastating shock by the coronavirus pandemic when he presents his annual funds to Parliament. With authorities borrowing lower than anticipated just a few months in the past, following a reasonably strong restoration from Britain’s deepest recession in round 300 years, Sunak has a little bit of wiggle room on the taxes and spending entrance. SENT: 450 phrases, images.
US CHINA TELECOM — U.S. regulators are expelling a unit of China Telecom Ltd., one of many nation’s three main state-owned carriers, from the American market as a nationwide safety menace amid rising stress with Beijing. SENT: 300 phrases.
JAPAN-NISSAN-GREG KELLY — The protection for former Nissan government Greg Kelly has argued there is no such thing as a proof or motives linking him to alleged under-reporting of his ex-boss Carlos Ghosn’s compensation. SENT: 810 phrases, images.
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SPORTS
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WORLD SERIES-BRAVES-ASTROS — Making his first begin since testing constructive for COVID-19, Jorge Soler turns into the primary participant to start a World Sequence with a house run and the Atlanta Braves hushed the Houston Astros 6-2 in Recreation 1. By Baseball Author Ben Walker. SENT: 850 phrases, images.
WORLD SERIES-AFTER THE SCANDALS — Atlanta basic supervisor Alex Anthopoulos and Houston GM James Click on each took over groups in turmoil and led them to the World Sequence. By Baseball Author Ronald Blum. UPCOMING: 900 phrases by 3:30 a.m., images.
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ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT
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CHRISTIAN AUTHOR-POSTHUMOUS BOOK — Christian creator Rachel Held Evans left behind a legion of loyal readers when she died in Might 2019, at age 37. Subsequent week, her final e-book for adults is being printed, titled “Wholehearted Religion.” Nationwide Author David Crary. UPCOMING: 1,000 phrases by 11 a.m., images.
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