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AP POLL-VIRUS OUTBREAK-RACE — Black and Hispanic Americans remain far more cautious in their approach to the COVID-19 pandemic than white Americans. That’s according to recent polls that reflect diverging preferences on how to deal with the pandemic as federal, state and local restrictions decline. By Annie Ma and Hannah Fingerhut. SENT: 1,070 words, photo, graphic.
INVESTIGATION-TRACKED-CHILD-WELFARE — Child welfare officials in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, the cradle of Mister Rogers’ TV neighborhood and the icon’s child-centric innovations, are using an algorithm to support agency workers as they make split-second decisions meant to protect children from neglect. The Associated Press identified several concerns about the technology, including questions about its reliability and its potential to exacerbate racial disparities in the child welfare system. By Sally Ho and Garance Burke. SENT: 1,080 words, photos. An Abridged version is also available.
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RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR — The United Nations is working doggedly to broker an evacuation of civilians suffering in the ruins of Mariupol. The negotiations continued on Friday, as Ukraine accused Russia of showing its contempt for the world organization by bombing Kyiv while the U.N. leader was visiting the capital. By David Keyton and Inna Varenytsia. SENT: 1,105 words, photos, videos. WITH: RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR-THE-LATEST.
RUSSIA-UKRAINE-COLLABORATION-ARRESTS — Ukrainian authorities are cracking down on anyone suspected of aiding Russian troops under laws enacted by Ukraine’s parliament and signed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the Feb. 24 invasion. Offenders face up to 15 years in prison for acts of collaborating with the invaders or showing public support for them. Not all Ukrainians oppose the invasion, and pro-Moscow sentiment is more common among Russian-speaking residents of the Donbas, an industrial region in the east. By Mstyslav Chernov and Yuras Karmanau. SENT: 1,230 words, photos.
US-RUSSIA-PRISONER EXCHANGE — A series of factors helped pave the way for Trevor Reed’s release from a Russian prison this week as part of a prisoner exchange. They include a private Oval Office meeting between his parents and President Joe Biden and a secretive Moscow trip by a former diplomat on the cusp of Russia’s war with Ukraine. By Eric Tucker. SENT: 990 words, photos.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-CHINA-BEIJING-ON-THE-EDGE — Beijing is starting to resemble other Chinese cities grappling with the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus. Officials have repeatedly asserted China’s adherence to a “zero-COVID” approach, requiring mass testing, lockdowns and the quarantining of anyone who tests positive. While many countries are dropping restrictions and trying to live with the virus, China is keeping its international borders largely shut and closing off entire cities to all but essential travel. By Ken Moritsugu. SENT: 980 words, photos.
FINANCIAL MARKETS — The Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped more than 900 points Friday as another sharp sell-off led by technology stocks added to Wall Street’s losses in April, leaving the S&P 500 with its biggest monthly skid since the start of the pandemic. SENT: 810 words, photos.
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UKRAINE-AMERICAN-KILLED -- Relatives say a 22-year-old former U.S. Marine has been killed alongside Ukrainian forces in the war with Russia in what’s the first known death of an American citizen fighting in Ukraine. SENT: 640 words, photo.
ENERGY-EUROPE-PIPELINES — European countries that are dependent on Russian imports are looking to get greater access to the global natural gas market through a new pipeline that crosses a remote border area of Greece and Bulgaria. The pipeline is nearing completion, and it would ensure that large volumes of gas flows between the two countries in both directions. SENT: 815 words, photos.
POLAND-UKRAINE-WAR-FIRST LADY — Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, says the war with Russia has not changed her husband, but only revealed to the world his determination to prevail. Zelenska also says she has not seen her husband, 44-year-old President Volodymr Zelenskyy, since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. SENT: 445 words, photos.
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MED-VIRUS-OUTBREAK-VACCINE-KIDS — The Food and Drug Administration set tentative dates in June to publicly review COVID-19 vaccines for the youngest American children, typically the final step before authorizing the shots. SENT: 400 words, photo.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-SOUTH-AFRICA — South Africa’s health minister says it is likely the country has entered a new wave of COVID-19 earlier than expected as new infections and hospitalizations have risen rapidly over the past two weeks. SENT: 375 words, photos.
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TEN-BECKER-SENTENCED — Tennis great Boris Becker has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for illicitly transferring large amounts of money and hiding assets after he was declared bankrupt. SENT: 395 words, photos.
TREE KANGAROO-BRONX ZOO — Bronx Zoo officials have announced the birth of a baby tree kangaroo that’s the first of its species born at the zoo since 2008. SENT: 220 words, photos., video.
BLAC CHYNA-KARDASHIANS-TRIAL —- A judge has thrown out part of the case against Kim Kardashian in former reality TV star Blac Chyna’s lawsuit. SENT: 480 words, photos.
FERTILITY DOCTOR-LAWSUIT — A jury has awarded nearly $9 million to three families who accused a Colorado fertility doctor of using his own sperm to inseminate three mothers who requested anonymous donors. SENT: 280 words.
ISRAEL-AIRPORT SCARE — A bomb scare set off scenes of panic at Israel’s airport after an American family showed up with an unexploded artillery shell they had found in the Golan Heights. SENT: 240 words.
LAINE HARDY-ARREST -- “American Idol” winner Laine Hardy has been arrested after being accused of putting a listening device in his ex-girlfriend’s college dorm room. SENT: 370 words, photos.
ODD-BOARD-GAME-MARATHON — Hundreds of smarties gather for round-the-clock board games in Maine. SENT: 265 words, photos.
NOT-REAL-NEWS — A look at what didn’t happen this week. SENT: 2,220 words, photos.
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CAPITOL RIOT-OATH KEEPER PLEA — A Georgia man affiliated with the far-right Oath Keepers militia group became the second Capitol rioter to plead guilty to seditious conspiracy for his actions leading up and through the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection. SENT: 460 words, photos
CAPITOL RIOT-TRIAL — Federal prosecutors urge a jury to reject a retired New York City police officer’s argument that he was acting in self-defense when he swung a flagpole at police officers and tackled one of them during the U.S. Capitol riot. Jurors got the case Friday and are due back Monday for deliberations. SENT: 800 words, photo.
TRUMP LEGAL TROUBLES — Donald Trump’s lawyers have provided a New York judge with an affidavit in which the former president claims he didn’t turn over subpoenaed documents to the state attorney general’s office because he doesn’t have them. SENT: 670 words, photos.
ELECTION 2022-NEBRASKA-GOVERNOR — In Nebraska’s crowded Republican primary race for governor, nearly all the state’s GOP leaders have lined up behind businessman Jim Pillen. But Donald Trump is backing his longtime friend Charles Herbster and will hold a rally for him Friday night. SENT: 890 words, photos.
BIDEN-MEXICO — President Joe Biden discussed efforts to address the unprecedented flow of migration along the U.S. southern border in a Friday afternoon call with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. SENT: 570 words, photo.
GEORGIA ELECTION INVESTIGATION — All eyes will be on Fulton County as a special grand jury is impaneled for an investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to pressure Georgia officials to overturn Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. SENT: 780 words, photo.
ELECTION 2022-SENATE-UTAH — Republican Sen. Mike Lee has avoided serious challenge in deeply conservative Utah in the dozen years since he came to power in a tea party wave, but that’s changing this year as he faces two GOP challengers and a newly empowered independent. SENT: 980 words, photos.
ELECTION-2022-INDIANA-GOP — Conservatives in GOP-dominated Indiana are trying to push the Republican-controlled Legislature further to the right on issues like abortion and guns. Roughly two dozen so-called “liberty candidates” are running in Tuesday’s primary, and the targets include several top-ranking GOP House members. SENT: 1,110 words, photos.
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SPRING WILDFIRES — Firefighters responded to dangerously dry and windy conditions Friday as they labored to stem the spread wildfires in the Southwestern U.S. SENT: 675 words, photos.
IDAHO-LAWMAKER-RAPE-TRIAL — A former Idaho lawmaker has been convicted of raping a 19-year-old legislative intern after a dramatic trial in which the young woman fled the witness stand during testimony, saying “I can’t do this.” SENT: 720 words, photos.
POLICE SHOOTING-MICHIGAN — A Michigan police officer who shot Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head had no complaints of excessive force against him but much praise for traffic stops that turned up drugs, guns and people wanted for crimes, according to his personnel file. By Ed White and Bernard Condon. UPCOMING: 500 words, photos by 7 p.m.
HOSTAGES-BEHEADINGS-SENTENCING — A British national who played a key hole in a scheme by the Islamic State to kidnap and kill Western hostages a decade ago has been sentenced to life in prison. SENT: 800 words.
DISUNITED METHODISTS — The United Methodist Church’s Council of Bishops had ended a five-day meeting acknowledging the inevitable breakup of their denomination. SENT: 830 words, photos.
MISSING INDIGENOUS WOMAN-SEARCH — Tribal and local authorities and volunteers from a Minnesota-based missing persons foundation will search the Yurok Reservation in Northern California over three days for Emmilee Risling, a 33-year-old Native woman who went missing last October. SENT: 670 words, photos.
TEEN-DEATH-SENTENCE — A man who pleaded guilty this month to killing a pregnant Florida teenager a decade ago has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after sending authorities to dig up a field in rural Alabama in a fruitless search for her body. SENT: 585 words.
ACID ATTACK — A jury has convicted a white Milwaukee man who was accused of throwing acid on a Latino man’s face during a racist attack in 2019. SENT: 290 words, photo.
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AFGHANISTAN-EXPLOSION — A Taliban spokesman says a powerful explosion at a Sunni mosque in Kabul has killed at least 10 worshippers and wounded 20. The blast struck as hundreds had gathered at the mosque on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. SENT: 715 words, photos.
REL-VATICAN-SEX-ABUSE — Pope Francis has given a new mandate to his sex abuse advisory commission. He told its members they must work with bishops conferences around the world to establish special welcome centers for victims and must audit the church’s progress on fighting abuse from its new perch within the Vatican. SENT: 725 words, photos.
TURKEY-SAUDI-ARABIA-EXPLAINER — The killing by Saudi agents of columnist Jamal Khashoggi inside the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul turned an already tense and shaky relationship between Turkey and Saudi Arabia into complete free-fall. Fast-forward 3 1/2 years later and it appears Turkey and Saudi Arabia are attempting to build a bridge and move on. SENT: 980 words, photos.
ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS — Palestinians hurled stones and Israeli police fired rubber-coated bullets at a major Jerusalem holy site that has seen waves of unrest in recent weeks. SENT: 340 words, photos.
INDIA-HEAT WHEAT — An unusually early, record-shattering heat wave in India has reduced wheat yields, raising questions about how the country will balance its domestic needs with ambitions to increase exports and make up for shortfalls due to Russia’s war in Ukraine. SENT: 740 words, photos, video.
EUROPE-MIGRANTS — The head of the European Union’s border agency has resigned immediately following allegations that the agency named Frontex was involved in illegal pushbacks of migrants. SENT: 530 words, photo.
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BIRD FLU-HUMAN INFECTION — The federal government says a Colorado state prison inmate is the first person to have tested positive for bird flu in the latest outbreak in the United States. SENT: 600 words.
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MUSK-TWITTER-STOCK-SALE — In the three days after he announced he had a deal to buy Twitter, Elon Musk has sold $8.5 billion worth of Tesla to help fund the purchase. Musk reported the sales in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday and Friday. Analysts said the deal could make Tesla investors nervous that Musk, who is Tesla’s CEO, will be distracted by Twitter and less engaged in running the electric car company. SENT: 350 words, photo. With CHINA-TESLA-RECALL.
CONSUMER-SPENDING --- An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve surged 6.6% in March compared with a year ago, the highest 12-month jump in four decades and further evidence that spiking prices are pressuring household budgets and the health of the economy. By Christopher Rugaber. SENT: 865 words, photo.
GOOGLE PRIVACY — Google has expanded options for keeping personal information private from online searches. The company said it will let people request that more types of information be removed from search results. SENT: 300 words, photos.
REDFIN-LAWSUIT — Fair housing advocates have announced a settlement to resolve a lawsuit against real estate brokerage Redfin that will expand housing opportunities for consumers in communities of color. SENT: 750 words, photo.
OPIOID CRISIS-PURDUE-BANKRUPTCY — Lawyers for Purdue Pharma, victims of the opioid crisis and governments have asked a federal appeals panel to pave the way for a settlement of claims against the OxyContin maker. SENT: 840 words, photos.
MEDIA-TIMES-KAHN — The New York Times has usually been content to let its journalism speak for itself. New executive editor Joe Kahn is about to find out if that will be enough in an era of polarization and disinformation. SENT: 950 words, photos.
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JAZZ FEST-NEW ORLEANS — After being silenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is back for the first time in three years. SENT: 900 words, photos.
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DODGERS-BAUER SUSPENDED — Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer has been suspended for two full seasons without pay by Major League Baseball for violating the league’s domestic violence and sexual assault policy, which he denies. SENT: 530 words, photos.
FBN—NFL DRAFT -- The second and third rounds of the NFL draft can’t possibly be as dizzying as the opener. Can they? There were nine draft-day deals to go with those made before proceedings began. It’s difficult to figure who is on the clock to begin the second round (it’s Tampa Bay, as of now). UPCOMING: 900 words, photos by 9 p.m.
BKN-GRIZZLIES-TIMBERWOLVES — A resurgent Ja Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies aim to close out the first-round series as they play the Timberwolves in Game 6 on Minnesota’s home floor. UPCOMING: 750 words, photos. Game starts at 9 p.m.
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