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ONLY ON AP

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AP POLL-MISINFORMATION — Republicans are more likely to trust Donald Trump and his campaign over government certified election results, according to a new survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and USAFacts. And while most Americans trust government-certified election results, they are heading into the November election with concerns about misinformation. By Christine Fernando and Linley Sanders. SENT: 1,280 words, photo.

ETHEL-ROSENBERG — A top U.S. government codebreaker who decrypted secret Soviet communications during the Cold War concluded that Ethel Rosenberg knew about her husband’s activities but “did not engage in the work herself,” according to a recently declassified memo that her sons say proves their mother was not a spy and should lead to her exoneration in the sensational 1950s atomic espionage case. By Eric Tucker. SENT: 1,200 words, photo.

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TOP STORIES

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ELECTION 2024-DEBATE — Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will meet for the first time face-to-face Tuesday night for perhaps their only debate, a high-pressure opportunity to showcase their starkly different visions for the country after a tumultuous campaign summer. The event, at 9 p.m. Eastern in Philadelphia, will offer Americans their most detailed look at a campaign that’s dramatically changed since the last debate in June. In rapid fashion, President Biden bowed out of the race after his disastrous performance, Trump survived an assassination attempt and bothsides chose their running mates. By Michelle L. Price and Zeke Miller. SENT: 1,010 words, photos, videos. WITH: ELECTION 2024-DEBATE-FACT FOCUS — A look at false claims and misinformation by Trump and Harris before their first debate.

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ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS — Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike hit a crowded tent camp in Gaza, killing at least 19 people and wounding 60. Israel says it targeted senior Hamas militants with precise munitions. The strike occurred in Muwasi, a sprawl of crowded tent camps along the Gaza coast that Israel designated as a humanitarian zone for hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians to seek shelter from the nearly year-old Israel-Hamas war. Associated Press video showed three large craters at the scene. First responders dug through the sand and rubble with garden tools and their bare hands, using mobile phone flashlights until the sun came up. By Wafaa Shurafa, Mohammad Jahjouh and Samy Madgy. SENT: 1,060 words, photos, video, audio. WITH: ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-HOSTAGE-TUNNEL — The Israeli military has released video footage of a Gaza tunnel where it says six hostages were recently killed by Hamas. (sent).

ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-AMERICAN-KILLED - The Israeli military said that an American activist who was killed in the West Bank last week was likely shot “indirectly and unintentionally” by Israeli forces who were aiming at someone else. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old activist from Seattle who also held Turkish citizenship, was killed Friday following a demonstration against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to Jonathan Pollak, an Israeli protester who witnessed the shooting. By Jack Jeffrey. SENT: 730 words, photos. WITH: MIDEAST-TENSIONS-THE-LATEST. (sent).

CONGRESS-BUDGET — House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed to press ahead with requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration as part of a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown when the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1, though the measure appeared likely to be voted down. By Kevin Freking. SENT: 590 words, photos.

DOLPHINS-TYREEK-HILL-THE-TALK — After his traffic stop in Miami, Tyreek Hill said he has received “the talk” about what to do when pulled over by police. He knows to heed the instructions passed down in Black families for generations. His interaction with police captured in now-viral cellphone video appeared to escalate to the type of incident that often prompts protests and claims of discriminatory policing. By Aaron Morrison, Alanis Thames and Terry Tang. SENT: 1,110 words, photos.

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ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

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ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-CEASE-FIRE — Israel’s defense minister says the window is closing on an opportunity to reach a temporary cease-fire deal with the Hamas militant group that he believes could also bring calm to the country’s volatile northern border with Lebanon. SENT: 970 words, photo.

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RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR

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RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR — Over 140 Ukrainian drones targeted multiple Russian regions overnight, including Moscow and surrounding areas, killing at least one person and injuring eight, officials said Tuesday, in one of the biggest drone attacks on Russian soil in the 2 1/2-year war. SENT: 550 words, photos.

UNITED STATES-UK-UKRAINE — The United States and Britain formally accused Iran of supplying short-range ballistic missiles to Russia to use in the war in Ukraine and will take measures to punish those involved. SENT: 950 words, photos.

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MORE NEWS

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KENTUCKY-BOURBON-BARON — Kentucky bourbon icon Jimmy Russell celebrates his 70th anniversary at Wild Turkey. SENT: 1,250 words, photos.

SOUTHWEST-ELLIOTT-MANAGEMENT — Southwest Airlines will revamp its board and the chairman will retire next year, but it intends to keep CEO Robert Jordan. SENT: 520 words, photo.

BRITAIN-ROYALS-KATE’S-VIDEO — When the Princess of Wales announced she had completed chemotherapy treatment in a soft-focus, Insta-ready video, it featured openness not usually associated with Britain’s royal family. SENT: 980 words, photos.

WEDDING-GRANDSON-SHOT — A Texas county commissioner will spend one year on probation for accidentally shooting his grandson during a Nebraska wedding he was officiating. SENT: 260 words.

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WASHINGTON/POLITICS

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CONGRESS-AFGHANISTAN — House Speaker Mike Johnson posthumously presented Congress’ highest honor — the Congressional Gold Medal — to 13 U.S. service members who were killed during the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, even as the politics of a presidential election swirled around the event. SENT: 1,100 words, photos.

VIRUS-OUTBREAK-CUOMO — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to testify publicly before a congressional subcommittee critical of his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic as it began to spread through the state’s nursing homes in 2020. SENT: 490 words, photo.

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NATIONAL

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GEORGIA-HIGH-SCHOOL-SHOOTING — Many students in Georgia’s Barrow County are headed back to class, six days after a shooting killed two teachers and two students at the school district’s Apalachee High School northeast of Atlanta. While no return date has been set for the 1,900 students at that high school, the 13,000 students in Barrow County’s other schools will return. SENT: 600 words, photos.

TROPICAL-WEATHER — Tropical Storm Francine churned in the Gulf of Mexico with increasing strength and was expected to reach hurricane status before reaching landfall in Louisiana. A storm surge warning was in effect for an area stretching from just east of Houston to the mouth of the Mississippi River south of New Orleans, according to the National Hurricane Center. SENT: 870 words, photo, audio.

WILDFIRES — Several days of triple-digit temperatures have stoked a wildfire in Southern California that burned so hot it created its own thunderstorm-like weather systems, but firefighters are hoping to gain the upper hand as cooler weather is expected to move into the area. SENT: 910 words, photos, videos, audio.

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REL-ASIA-POPE-CROWDS — An estimated 600,000 people packed a seaside park in East Timor for Pope Francis’ Mass — a figure nearing half of the small Southeast Asian country’s population. It took place on the same field where St. John Paul II prayed during the nation’s fight for independence from Indonesia. While other papal Masses have drawn millions of people in more populous countries, the crowd in small East Timor is believed to represent the biggest turnout for a papal event ever in terms of the proportion of the population. Other massive crowds to see popes have occurred in the Philippines, Brazil, Congo and Poland. SENT: 740 words, photos, video, audio.

ASIA-STORM — The death toll from Typhoon Yagi and its subsequent rain that triggered floods and landslides has climbed to 87 as 70 others remain missing and hundreds were injured, state media said. Yagi was the strongest typhoon to hit the Southeast Asian country in decades. SENT: 360 words, photos.

BELARUS-CRACKDOWN-ABROAD — More than a half-million Belarusians have fled their country since 2020 as the authoritarian government cracked down its critics. Some of them, however, are discovering they can’t escape intimidation and threats in their new lives abroad. SENT: 1,200 words, photos.

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HEALTH & SCIENCE

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MED-WEIGHT-LOSS-DRUGS-KIDS, HFR — A drug used to treat obesity in adults and teens lowered body mass, slowed weight gain and improved health markers in kids as young as 6 when combined with diet and exercise, a small new study shows. UPCOMING: 770 words. Eds: This story may not be used or published online until after 6 p.m.

MED-LIMITING-ANTI-NAUSEA-DRUGS — Cancer patients can ward off waves of vomiting after treatment with a relatively cheap anti-nausea pill, but some are running into coverage limits. Doctors say restrictions on the number of tablets patients receive can hurt care. Pharmacy benefit managers say their limits guard against overuse, and they offer workarounds to get more tablets. SENT: 870 words, photos.

SCI-PRIVATE-SPACEFLIGHT — A billionaire has rocketed back into orbit, aiming to perform the first private spacewalk. Unlike his previous chartered flight, tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman shared the cost with SpaceX this time around. Isaacman, along with a pair of SpaceX engineers and a former Air Force Thunderbirds pilot, launched before dawn Tuesday aboard a SpaceX rocket from Florida. SENT: 720 words, photos, video.

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BUSINESS/ TECH

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CENSUS-INCOME-AND-POVERTY — The inflation-adjusted median income of U.S. households rebounded last year to roughly its 2019 level, overcoming the biggest price spike in four decades to restore most Americans’ purchasing power. The proportion of Americans living in poverty also fell slightly last year, to 11.1%, from 11.5% in 2022. And the ratio of women’s median earnings to men’s widened for the first time in more than two decades as men’s income rose more than women’s in 2023. SENT: 590 words, photo.

EUROPE-APPLE — Apple lost its last bid to avoid paying 13 billion euros ($14.34 billion) in back taxes to Ireland, in a finale to a dispute with the European Union that centered on sweetheart deals that Dublin was offering to attract multinational businesses with minimal taxes across the 27-nation bloc. The final decision by the EU’s top court was quickly hailed as a landmark victory over corporate greed. SENT: 790 words, photo.

EUROPE-GOOGLE — Google lost its final legal challenge against a European Union penalty for giving its own shopping recommendations an illegal advantage over rivals in search results, ending a long-running antitrust case that came with a whopping fine. SENT: 500 words, photo.

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ENTERTAINMENT

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OBIT-JAMES EARL JONES VOICE ACTORS — James Earl Jones was a star of stage and screen, but he was equally known for being THE iconic voice actor. His death comes as video game performers remain on strike and as voice acting faces singular threats from artificial intelligence. UPCOMING: 900 words, photos by 4 p.m.

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Pope Francis gestures as he leaves after leading a holy mass at Tasitolu park in Dili, East Timor, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, Pool)

Indonesia's Ragnar Oratmangoen, left, battles for the ball against Australia's Craig Goodwin during the FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifier third round Group C Asia soccer match between Indonesia and Australia at Gelora Bung Karno stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Sept 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

A family stands near the Hudson Bay, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

A catholic faithful holds a cross during the holy mass lead by Pope Francis at Tasitolu park in Dili, East Timor, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, Pool)

Pope Francis gestures as he leaves after leading a holy mass at Tasitolu park in Dili, East Timor, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, Pool)

East Timorese crowd Tacitolu park for Pope Francis' Mass in Dili, East Timor, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli airstrike on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Muwasi, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. An Israeli strike killed at least 40 people and wounded 60 others early Tuesday, Palestinian officials said. Israel said it targeted "significant" Hamas militants, allegations denied by the militant group. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli airstrike on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Muwasi, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. An Israeli strike killed at least 40 people and wounded 60 others early Tuesday, Palestinian officials said. Israel said it targeted "significant" Hamas militants, allegations denied by the militant group. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

New York Jets running back Breece Hall (20) runs against San Francisco 49ers linebacker Fred Warner (54) during the first half of an NFL football game in Santa Clara, Calif., Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

CORRECTS THE CITY - Fires spread through the environmental protection area of Pouso Alto, in Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, during dry season, in Colinas do Sul, Goias state, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

People greet Pope Francis as he travels in a car on way to another venue in Dili, East Timor, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

East Timorese crowd Tacitolu park for Pope Francis' Mass in Dili, East Timor, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Egyptian tanks stand alert near the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

AVIGNON, France (AP) — A man accused of drugging his then-wife and inviting dozens of men to rape her over nearly a decade is testifying in court on Tuesday in southern France, in a case that has shocked the country.

Dominique Pélicot, now 71, faces 20 years in prison if convicted. While he previously confessed to investigators, the court testimony will be crucial for the panel of judges to decide on the fate of some 50 other men standing trial next to him, all accused of raping Gisèle Pélicot.

Many also hope his testimony will shed some light — to try to understand the unthinkable.

Gisèle Pélicot, who has become a symbol of the fight against sexual violence in France for agreeing to waive her anonymity in the case and let the trial be public, is expected to speak in court after her ex-husband's testimony on Tuesday.

Bernadette Tessonière, a 69-year-old retiree who lives a half-hour drive from Avignon, where the trial is taking place, arrived outside the courthouse at 7:15 a.m. to make sure she would secure a seat in the closely watched case.

“How is it possible that in 50 years of communal life, one can live next to someone who hides his life so well? This is scary,” she said, while standing in a line outside the courthouse. “I don’t have much hope that what he did can be explained, but he is at least going to give some elements.”

Pélicot’s much-awaited testimony was delayed by days after he fell ill, suffering from a kidney stone and urinary infection, his lawyers said.

A security agent caught Pélicot in 2020 taking videos under women’s skirts in a supermarket, according to court documents. Police searched Pélicot's house and electronic devices, and found thousands of photos and videos of men engaging in sexual acts with Gisèle Pélicot while she appears to lie unconscious on their bed.

With the recordings, police were able to track down a majority of the 72 suspects they were seeking.

She and her husband of 50 years had three children. When they retired, the couple left the Paris region to move into a house in Mazan, a small town in Provence.

When police officers called her in for questioning in late 2020, she initially told them her husband was “a great guy,'' according to legal documents. They then showed her some photos. She left her husband and they are now divorced.

Besides Pélicot, 50 other men, aged 26 to 74, are standing trial. Many deny having raped Pélicot, saying they were manipulated by her ex-husband or claiming they believed she was consenting.

FILE - Gisele Pelicot speaks to media as she leaves the Avignon court house, southern France, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, File)

FILE - Gisele Pelicot, left, arrives in the Avignon court house, in Avignon, southern France, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, File)

FILE - Gisele Pelicot, left, arrives in the Avignon court house, in Avignon, southern France, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, File)