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WEEKEND COVERAGE

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NEW AND DEVELOPING

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Adds ELECTION 2024-HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS-OHIO; REL-VATICAN-FRANCE-ABUSE, BOAR'S HEAD-PLANT CLOSURE, FINANCIAL MARKETS, HAWAII WILDFIRE-REPORT, BRAZIL-STARLINK; ELIJAH MCCLAIN-PARAMEDIC SENTENCE; BOEING STRIKE-WHAT TO KNOW; POPE FRANCIS-NOTABLE QUOTES.

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HOSPITALS-PATIENT-DUMPING — An Associated Press analysis has found that hospitals are rarely fined for violating a federal law that is supposed to guarantee that patients with medical emergencies get the treatment they need. Only a dozen hospitals have been penalized over the last two years for violations of that law. That’s despite more than 100 hospitals turning away pregnant patients in that time, leaving some to miscarry in restrooms, deliver babies in cars or develop risky infections. By Amanda Seitz. SENT: 1,100 words, photo.

AP POLL-MEDIA FATIGUE — A new AP-NORC/USAFacts poll finds that about 6 in 10 Americans need to limit how much political news they get to avoid feeling information overload. Between political websites, social media and TV news channels dominated by political talk, it’s often hard to avoid, particularly in election season. By David Bauder and Linley Sanders. SENT: 640 words, photos.

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TOP STORIES

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VATICAN-POPE-US ELECTION — Pope Francis slammed both U.S. presidential candidates Friday for what he called anti-life policies on abortion and migration, and he advised American Catholics to choose who they think is the “lesser evil” in the upcoming U.S. elections. “Both are against life, be it the one who kicks out migrants, or be it the one who kills babies,″ Francis said, not mentioning either by name. By Nicole Winfield. SENT: 730 words, photos, audio. With REL-VATICAN-FRANCE-ABUSE — Pope says sex abuse is ‘demonic’ as he weighs in on new scandal in French church; POPE FRANCIS-NOTABLE QUOTES. (both sent).

ELECTION 2024 —Former President Donald Trump has refused to condemn recent racist and conspiratorial comments from right-wing provocateur Laura Loomer, who traveled with him earlier this week to the debate and several 9/11 memorial events. Trump acknowledged that Loomer has “strong opinions,” but said he was unaware of her recent comments, including a post on X in which she wrote that “the White House will smell like curry” if his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, wins in November. By Michelle L. Price and Colleen Long. SENT: 1,100 words, photos, video. With ELECTION 2024-HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS-OHIO — Donald Trump and JD Vance continue to make disparaging comments about Haitian migrants in Ohio, further stoking fears about false claims that they have been promoting as they argue their ticket is better suited than Democrats to reform U.S. immigration. UPCOMING: 800 words, photos by 8 p.m.

ELECTION 2024-ENERGY — Kamala Harris says the Biden-Harris administration has overseen “the largest increase in domestic oil production in history″ and warns the U.S. “cannot over rely on foreign oil.” The comments are at odds with Harris’ frequent boasts that she and President Joe Biden are champions in the fight to slow global warming. By Matthew Daly. SENT: 870 words, photos.

See more on Election 2024 here.

RUSSIA-UK — Russia accused six British diplomats of spying and said it decided to expel them. The U.K. said the “completely baseless” move came weeks ago and was linked to its action in May to revoke the credentials of an attaché at the Russian Embassy and limit Moscow’s diplomatic activities in London. By Dasha Litvinova and Jill Lawless. SENT: 770 words, photos. WITH: UNITED STATES-BRITAIN — President Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer meet. (sent)

BOEING-STRIKE — Aircraft assembly workers walked off the job at Boeing factories near Seattle and elsewhere after union members voted overwhelmingly to go on strike and reject a tentative contract that would have increased wages by 25% over four years. By David Koenig, Manuel Valdes and Lindsey Wasson. SENT: 940 words, photos, video, audio. WITH: BOEING-TURBULENT-TIMES — A strike would add to turbulent times at Boeing; BOEING STRIKE-WHAT TO KNOW (both sent).

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JUSTIN-TIMBERLAKE-ARREST — Justin Timberlake has pleaded guilty to impaired driving, resolving the criminal case stemming from his June arrest in New York’s Hamptons. SENT: 780 words, photos.

CAT-SURVIVES-SEWER — A cat named Drifter is safe after sneaking out and getting trapped in a sewer for nearly 8 weeks. SENT: 380 words, photos.

INTERNATIONAL-RESCUE-WHICH-DOVER? — Police dispatchers in Delaware’s capital city are being lauded for helping direct rescuers to a boat foundering in the English Channel thousands of miles away. SENT: 320 words.

BRITAIN-BANKSY-THEFT — Two men have been charged with burglary over the theft of an artwork by street artist Banksy from a London gallery. SENT: 400 words, photo.

BOAR'S HEAD-PLANT CLOSURE — Boar’s Head closing Virginia plant linked to deadly listeria outbreak. SENT: 360 words.

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RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR-MISSILES-EXPLAINER — Ukraine is pushing for permission from its Western partners to use the long-range missiles they have provided to strike targets deep inside Russia, as Ukrainian forces struggle to hold back Russian advances in eastern Ukraine. SENT: 570 words, photos.

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GEORGIA ELECTION INDICTMENT-LAWMAKERS — A Georgia state Senate committee that had subpoenaed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis with plans to question her about “alleged misconduct” related to her election case against Donald Trump was unable to do so because she didn’t show up. SENT: 870 words, photos. With GEORGIA ELECTION INDICTMENT-LT GOV — A special prosecutor decides not to pursue charges against Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones over efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 presidential election loss (sent).

ELECTION-2024-RUSSIAN-INFLUENCE-SANCTIONS — The U.S. State Department has announced new sanctions on Russian state media, accusing a Kremlin news outlet of working hand-in-hand with the Russian military and running fundraising campaigns to pay for sniper rifles, body armor and other equipment for soldiers fighting in Ukraine. SENT: 130 words, developing.

BIDEN-TARIFFS — The Biden administration is cracking down on cheap products sold out of China, expanding a push to reduce U.S. dependence on Beijing and bolster homegrown industry, but that could trigger higher prices for U.S. consumers who flock to popular shopping sites like Temu and Shein. SENT: 820 words, photo.

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ELIJAH MCCLAIN-PARAMEDIC SENTENCE — A judge is freeing from prison a Colorado paramedic convicted in the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the U.S. in 2020. SENT; developing. With photos.

NYC-MAYOR-INVESTIGATIONS — A consulting firm run by the brother of two top New York City officials is facing federal scrutiny over his work on behalf of companies that were seeking city contracts. Terence Banks is the brother of the city’s schools chancellor and deputy mayor for public safety. He started the firm in 2022 while working as a transit system supervisor. SENT: 1,120 words, photos.

REL-US-RECKONING-FERGUSON-PROTESTER — When the Black religious establishment arrived on the scene in Ferguson, Missouri, after the 2014 killing of Michael Brown Jr., protest organizer Brittany Packnett quickly realized something. The ideas they were proposing to cope with the tragedy were antithetical to the organic manner in which the protest movement arose. The clergy felt religiosity was the answer: hymns, prayer and the like. SENT: 1,490 words, photos. WITH: REL-US-RECKONING-FERGUSON-PROTESTER-TAKEAWAYS and RECKONING-CULTURAL RIPPLES (both sent).

HAWAII WILDFIRE-REPORT — Investigators reviewing the emergency response to last year’s devastating wildfire on Maui say in a new report they found no evidence Hawaii officials made preparations for it, despite days of warnings that “critical fire weather” was about to arrive. SENT: 1,200 words, photos. With WILDFIRES — Firefighters battling three major wildfires in the mountains east of Los Angeles are taking advantage of cooler weather. SENT: 1,000 words, photos, video, audio.

TROPICAL-WEATHER — Shortly after Hurricane Francine’s storm surge flooded a cemetery in the Louisiana bayou town of Dulac, Lori-Ann Bergeron arrived to check on three generations of family graves. Their tombstones were fine, but neighboring caskets had emerged beside broken crosses and soggy flower bouquets. SENT: 930 words, photos, video, audio. WITH: TROPICAL-WEATHER-CARIBBEAN — Tropical Storm Gordon forms in the Atlantic Ocean. It’s forecast to stay away from land. (sent).

MEXICO-SINALOA-CARTEL — Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the powerful longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, pleaded not guilty in New York on a 17-count indictment accusing him of narcotics trafficking and murder. SENT: 620 words, photos.

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BRAZIL-STARLINK — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice seized about $3 million in frozen funds of social media platform X and satellite-based internet service provider Starlink, both companies controlled by billionaire Elon Musk. SENT: 480 words, photo.

VIETNAM FLOODS — The death toll in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi in Vietnam climbed to 233 as rescue workers recovered more bodies from areas hit by landslides and flash floods, state media reported. SENT: 770 words, photos, video, audio.

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FINANCIAL MARKETS — U.S. stocks rose closer to their records and closed out their best week of the year as hopes built for a big rate cut next week. SENT: 800 words, photo, audio.

CONGRESS-CHINA-BIOTECH — A San Jose-based biotechnology company that helps doctors detect genetic causes for cancer is among those that could be cut out of the U.S. market over ties to China. It underscores the possible tradeoffs between health innovation and a bipartisan push in Congress to counter Beijing’s clout. SENT: 840 words, photos.

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TV-EMMYS-SLOW HORSES — The TV series “Slow Horses” is a critical darling that only seems to have had traction in the U.S. of late, now in its fourth season. Ignored at the Emmys for two seasons, it goes into Sunday’s telecast with nine nominations, including for best drama series. It’s star, Gary Oldman, calls it “a slow burn.” By Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy: SENT: 800 words, photos and video.

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FBN-DOLPHINS-TAGOVAILOA-EXPLAINER — Tua Tagovailoa is now dealing with the third diagnosed concussion of his NFL career, all of them coming in the last two seasons. And there are now questions about his future — both short-term and long-term. SENT: 900 words, photos. WITH: FBN-DOLPHINS-TAGOVAILOA — The Miami Dolphins will bring in another quarterback while Tagovailoa deals with his latest concussion. (sent).

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President Joe Biden speaks during the Violence Against Women Act 30th anniversary celebration on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Flares of northern lights color the sky over the White Mountains just after midnight, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, as viewed from a mountaintop in Chatham, N.H. Lights on the summit of Mount Washington can be seen on the ridgeline at left. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Visitors watch an immersive video during a press preview of the Edvard Munch exhibition at Palazzo Reale in Milan, Italy, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. The exhibition will run from Sept. 14, 2024 to Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

A holy man dressed as a Hanuman, Hindu god, participates in a protest against secularism, demanding the reinstatement of Nepal as a Hindu state and the restoration of the monarchy near parliament building in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

United States' Nelly Korda watches her shot on the first hole during a Solheim Cup golf tournament fourball match at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, in Gainesville, Va. (AP Photo/Matt York)

David Beckham arrives to attend the funeral service of Swedish soccer manager Sven-Goran Eriksson at Fryksände church in Torsby, Sweden, Friday Sept. 13, 2024. (Adam Ihse/TT News Agency via AP)

Miami Dolphins quarterback Skylar Thompson (19) runs with the football during the second half of an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

FILE - Justin Timberlake appears at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif., on March 10, 2024. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - Presidential candidate Namal Rajapaksa arrives for a meeting along with his supporters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, second left, a candidate of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presidential election, speaks during a joint news conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. (Franck Robichon/Pool Photo via AP)

FILE - In this file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, staff members work in an inflatable COVID-19 testing lab provided by Chinese biotech company BGI Genomics, a subsidiary of BGI Group, in Beijing, June 23, 2020. (Chen Zhonghao/Xinhua via AP, File)

Professor Sander Woutersen, right, displays an oversized stuffed worm while accepting a shared Ig Nobel Prize in chemistry for working with a team of researchers using chromatography to separate drunk and sober worms, during a performance, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024, at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

FILE - Soldiers attend the Colonel's Review, the final rehearsal of the Trooping the Colour, the King's annual birthday parade, at Horse Guards Parade in London, Saturday, June 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)

FILE - The Line Fire jumps Highway 330 as an emergency vehicle is driven past Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, near Running Springs, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer, File)

Flares of northern lights color the sky over the White Mountains just after midnight, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, as viewed from a mountaintop in Chatham, N.H. Lights on the summit of Mount Washington can be seen on the ridgeline at left. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

FILE - South Africa's Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan appears at the judicial commission of inquiry into state capture in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nov. 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

Tombs are seen after being disturbed by flooding, in the aftermath of Hurricane Francine, in Dulac, La., Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer works on the plane as he flies to Washington DC, for talks with President Joe Biden on resolving the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool Photo via AP)

An Indigenous person attends a ceremony celebrating the return of the Tupinamba Indigenous people's sacred cloak to Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. The garment, made from bird feathers and plant fibers, was repatriated to Brazil after having spent more than 300 years in the National Museum of Denmark. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Pope Francis, left, attends a traditional dance performed by the Caritas Technical Secondary School pupils in Port Moresby, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

In this undated photo provided on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un, center right, inspects what they say is test-firing from their new launch vehicle of 600mm multiple rockets at an undisclosed location in North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

People wade in a flooded street in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi, in Hanoi, Vietnam on Thursday, Sep. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris during a campaign rally at Bojangles Coliseum, in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump motions while attending the 9/11 Memorial ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

International Aerospace Machinists member Clint Moore, center, builds burn barrels with fellow union members in preparation for strike if members recject a contract offer by airplane maker Boeing, on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear)

WASHINGTON (AP) —

Vice President Kamala Harris struck a measured tone, even steering clear of mentioning Donald Trump by name Tuesday in an interview with Black journalists that starkly contrasted with the former president's own, highly contentious, recent appearance before the same group.

The session with the National Association of Black Journalists was one of the few extensive sit-down interviews Harris has done since replacing President Joe Biden atop the Democratic ticket in July. She repeatedly criticized Trump on issues including his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and opposition to abortion access, but was careful to refer to him as the former president and in other ways that avoided naming him directly.

Trump was ramping up his campaigning, too, after the presidential race was roiled by Sunday’s second apparent assassination attempt against him.

The former president was holding an evening town hall in Flint, Michigan, and has appearances later in the week in New York, Washington and North Carolina. Trump re-upped his past retaliation threats against election workers, donors and others as he tries to stoke fears about the integrity of the upcoming 2024 election.

He posted Tuesday on his social media site, “Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before.”

Harris has her own stops in Washington, as well as Michigan and Wisconsin in coming days, with the two candidates overlapping in concentrating on the industrial Midwest and Pennsylvania and North Carolina — all swing areas that could decide an election expected to be exceedingly close.

Harris answered questions from three association journalists at a small, relatively quiet venue at the Philadelphia studios of public radio station WHYY. That was very different from Trump's addressing the NABJ conference in Chicago in July, when he was antagonistic to the moderators and sparked an uproar by questioning the vice president’s racial identity.

Her manner was a departure from her campaign rallies, where Harris often receives some of her loudest applause by declaring that her professional background as a prosecutor means, “I know Donald Trump's type.”

Pressed about reports of eroding support among Black male voters, Harris said she wasn't “assuming I’m gonna have it because I’m Black.” She ducked a question about whether she'd support efforts by some congressional Democrats for reparations from the government to compensate descendants of slaves for years of unpaid labor by their ancestors.

Biden has backed the idea of at least studying reparations.

As for Sunday's arrest at Trump's Florida golf course, she said she reached him by phone, checking in "to see if he’s OK.”

“I told him what I have said publicly, there’s no place for political violence in our country,” the vice president said. The White House described the conversation as cordial and brief.

In an earlier interview released Tuesday, the vice president told Spanish-language radio host Chiquibaby, “Like all Americans, I’m grateful" Trump was unharmed.

The former president has claimed, without evidence, that months of criticism against him by Harris and Biden inspired the latest attack. That's despite Trump's own long history of inflammatory campaign rhetoric and advocacy for jailing or prosecuting his political enemies.

So far, Biden and Harris have tried to avoid politics in their responses to Sunday's incident, instead condemning political violence of all kinds. The president also urged Congress to increase funding to the Secret Service.

Authorities say Ryan Wesley Routh camped outside the golf course in West Palm Beach, where Trump was playing on Sunday, for nearly 12 hours with food and a rifle but fled without firing shots when a Secret Service agent spotted and shot at him.

Subsequently arrested, Routh’s past online posts suggest he has not been consistent about his politics in terms of supporting Democrats or Republicans. The attack came barely two months after Trump was wounded during a rally in Pennsylvania.

Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, said at a Georgia Faith & Freedom Coalition event that “it’s popular on a lot of corners of the left to say that we have a both sides problem.” But “no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months, and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump."

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during her briefing with reporters Tuesday that there should be zero tolerance for violence-inciting rhetoric. She bristled at the suggestion that Biden and Harris have stoked division by calling Trump a threat to democracy, saying that there were concrete examples of the former president being that — such as when he helped incite an attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

In response to Vance's comments, Jean-Pierre said, “When you have that type of language out there it’s dangerous. It’s dangerous because people look up to that particular national leader, and they listen to you." She said such comments open the door for "people to take you very seriously.”

Associated Press writers Darlene Superville and Matt Brown in Philadelphia and Jill Colvin in New York contributed to this report.

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaking at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Phoenix Awards Dinner in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaking at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Phoenix Awards Dinner in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives at Harry Reid International Airport to board a plane after a campaign trip, Saturday, Sept.14, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)