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TOP STORIES

ELECTION 2020 — President Donald Trump pushes to undermine confidence in this week’s election against Democrat Joe Biden as officials in several key battlegrounds continue to count the vote. Biden tries to soothe tensions and project a more traditional image of presidential leadership. By Jonathan Lemire, Zeke Miller and Will Weissert. SENT: 970 words, photos videos. With ELECTION 2020-THE LATEST; ELECTION 2020-TRUMP-FACT CHECK; EXPLAINING ELECTION 2020-STATES OF PLAY — A handful of states remain in play.

ELECTION 2020-TRUMP-ANALYSIS — When Trump stepped to the podium in the White House and made a frontal attempt to undermine the vote, it was at the same time both shocking and utterly to be expected. The president had spent months laying the groundwork for such a moment. By Nancy Benac. SENT: 750 words, photos, video.

ELECTION 2020-LEGAL CHALLENGES — Trump is looking at a political map in which he might have to persuade the Supreme Court to set aside votes in two or more states to prevent Biden from becoming president. By Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko. SENT: 720 words, photos. With ELECTION 2020-LEGAL CHALLENGES-POLL WATCHERS — Poll watchers emerge as a flashpoint in battle over ballots.

For more on legal challenges, click here.

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

VIRUS-OUTBREAK — U.S. employers may have slowed their hiring in October for a fourth straight month with confirmed viral cases reaching record levels and the loss of government aid deepening the hardships for many. If estimates prove accurate, last month’s gain will have been the weakest since employers began calling some employees back to work in May. And it would mean that the economy has regained only about 12 million of the 22 million jobs that vanished when the pandemic paralyzed the economy in early spring. By Economics Writer Christopher Rugaber. SENT: 960 words, photos, video. UPCOMING: Report at 8:30 a.m.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-BOSNIA-WAR LEGACY — Memories of the Bosnian War are shaping Zdenka Sutalo’s perception of the coronavirus. The 58-year-old unemployed woman attends group therapy sessions to work through the trauma of the 1992-95 conflict. As a young woman in Sarajevo, she endured bombardment, hunger, electricity shortages and was forced to break off her university studies for good. Today she sometimes has to be reminded to see the novel virus as a serious risk. By Sabina Niksic. SENT: 680 words, photos.

TROPICAL-WEATHER — As the remnants of Hurricane Eta moved back over Caribbean waters, governments in Central America worked to tally the displaced and dead, and recover bodies from landslides and flooding that claimed dozens of lives from Guatemala to Panama. By Claudio Escalón and Sonia Pérez D. SENT: 680 words, photos.

WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT

PEOPLE-CARL-LENTZ — Megachurch Pastor Carl Lentz fired, admits cheating on wife. SENT: 330 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-TRUMP-REPUBLICANS — Some in GOP break with Trump over baseless vote-fraud claims. SENT: 1,050 words, photos.

BOOKS-KIRKUS PRIZE — Debut novel “Luster” wins $50,000 Kirkus prize. SENT: 130 words

RAIDERS-VIRUS — AP source: Raiders fined, docked pick for COVID violations. SENT: 430 words, photo.

INDONESIA-VOLCANO — Evacuation begins as Indonesia’s most active volcano rumbles. SENT: 240 words, photo.

MORE ON ELECTION 2020

ELECTION 2020-LATINOS — Trump and his Republican allies made significant inroads with Latino voters in Tuesday’s election, alarming some Democrats who warned that immigration politics alone was not enough to hold their edge with the nation’s largest minority group. SENT: 1,170 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-SENATE-GEORGIA — Georgia, long a Republican stronghold — but one with rapidly changing demographics — could be the site of two runoffs on Jan. 5 to settle which party will control the U.S. Senate. SENT: 980 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-DIVIDED AMERICA — The only thing the 2020 presidential contest seems to have clarified is the extent of the cavernous divisions that define the nation. By National Political Writer Steve Peoples. SENT: 910 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-HOUSE DEMOCRATS — Their majority shrunk, House Democrats are casting blame on their election message, ground game and leadership under Speaker Nancy Pelosi after expectations for big wins came crashing down with a stark reversal of gains in Trump country. By Congressional Correspondent Lisa Mascaro. SENT: 890 words, photo.

A separate wire advisory has moved outlining our complete Election 2020 coverage.

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MORE ON THE VIRUS OUTBREAK

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FRANCE-VIRUS-OUTBREAK-STRUGGLING-BOOKSHOP — Shakespeare and Company, the iconic Paris bookstore that published James Joyce’s “Ulysses” in 1922, is appealing to readers for support after pandemic-linked losses and France’s spring lockdown have put the future of the iconic Left Bank institution in doubt. SENT: 710 words, photos.

VIRUS-OUTBREAK-ASIA — Australia’s highest court upholds a state’s border closure and dismissed billionaire businessman Clive Palmer’s argument that the pandemic measure was unconstitutional. SENT: 710 words, photo. With VIRUS-OUTBREAK-THE-LATEST.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-ONE GOOD THING-INDONESIA — When a garbage collector came to Ghina Ghaliya’s house in the Indonesian capital and asked if she had an old mobile phone his children could use to access the internet, it sparked an idea for a broader campaign to help students stuck at home by the coronavirus. SENT: 570 words, photos.

VIRUS-OUTBREAK-AUSTRALIA — Overseas travelers should be quarantined in hotels guarded by police, an inquiry into an Australian city’s bungled quarantine program reports. SENT: 310 words, photos.

VIRUS-OUTBREAK-DENMARK-MINKS — More than a quarter million Danes went into lockdown in a northern region of the country where a mutated variation of the coronavirus has infected minks being farmed for their fur, leading to an order to kill millions of the animals. SENT: 330 words, photos.

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

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INTERNATIONAL

AP EXPLAINS-ETHIOPIA-MILITARY CONFRONTATION — Suddenly Ethiopia appears on the brink of civil war, threatening the stability of one of the world’s most strategic regions, the Horn of Africa, and the fracturing of one of Africa’s most powerful and populous countries. SENT: 880 words, photos. With ETHIOPIA-MILITARY CONFRONTATION — Ethiopian PM defends military operations in Tigray region.

FRANCE-MUSLIM CHURCH GUARDS — A group of French Muslims decided to stand guard outside their town’s cathedral to protect it and show solidarity with Catholic churchgoers. SENT: 490 words, photo.

MYANMAR-ELECTION — Myanmar’s citizens go to the polls Sunday in an effort to sustain the fledgling democracy they helped install just five years ago. SENT: 720 words, photos.

AUSTRIA-VIENNA-ATTACK — German police raid the homes and businesses of four men linked to the Islamic State sympathizer who carried out a deadly attack in Vienna this week. SENT: 250 words, photos.

NEW ZEALAND-ELECTION RESULTS — New Zealand won’t be legalizing marijuana after the final votes counted in a referendum failed to overturn the result from election night — although it got close. SENT: 400 words, photos.

NATIONAL

ELECTION 2020-PROTESTS — Election officials in several states say they are worried about the safety of their staffs amid a stream of threats and gatherings of angry protesters outside their doors, drawn by Trump’s baseless claims of widespread fraud in the race for the White House. SENT: 600 words, photos.

HEALTH/SCIENCE

ALZHEIMER DRUG — One of the biggest drug decisions in decades is looming as U.S. regulators consider whether to approve the first medicine that’s claimed to slow mental decline from Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. By Marilynn Marchione and Matthew Perrone. SENT: 950 words, photo.

GM-SALMON-RULING — A federal court judge orders the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to conduct an environmental assessment of genetically modified salmon that he says was required for the agency’s approval of the fish. By Food & Health Writer Candice Choi. SENT: 450 words, photo.

BUSINESS/TECH

FINANCIAL-MARKETS — Global stock markets followed Wall Street higher amid protracted vote-counting following this week’s U.S. elections. By Business Writer Joe McDonald. SENT: 500 words, photos.

JAPAN-EARNS-TOYOTA — Toyota’s July-September profit fell 11% from a year earlier as the coronavirus pandemic slammed global demand, but Japan’s top automaker appeared to be holding up better than weaker rivals that have sunk into the red. By Business Writer Yuri Kageyama. SENT: 440 words, photos. With JAPAN-EARNS-HONDA Honda reports profit rise despite pandemic.

ELECTION-2020-FACEBOOK-GROUP-BAN — Facebook bans a large group called “Stop the Steal” that supporters of Trump were using to organize protests against the presidential vote count. SENT: 580 words, photo.

SPORTS

NBA-UPCOMING SEASON — The NBA’s player representatives have voted to support the notion of starting this coming season on Dec. 22, the date the league has been targeting in talks about how and when to get teams back on the floor for a planned 72-game season. By Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds. SENT: 380 words, photos.

TV/MEDIA

ELECTION 2020-MEDIA — ABC, CBS and NBC all cut away from Trump as he spoke from the White House to make an unfounded accusation that the presidential election was being stolen from him. By Media Writer David Bauder. SENT: 670 words, photos.

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