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TOP STORIES

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ELECTION 2024 — Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both see economic policy as their best chance to win Latino voters. But Tuesday will underscore the differences in their approaches. In an interview with Telemundo, Vice President Harris plans to highlight how her agenda would create more opportunities for Latino men. Trump is holding a roundtable with Latinos where he will make the case that employment, wages and home ownership increased for Latinos during his time in office. By Josh Boak. SENT: 800 words, photos. Will be updated from these events and later appearances. With ELECTION 2024-LATINO VOTE — In hard-fought Pennsylvania, fast-growing Hispanic communities present a test for Harris and Trump. (Sent.)

ELECTION 2024-GEORGIA-POVERTY — There are more than 47,000 people in Bibb County, Georgia, about 80 miles south of Atlanta, who are eligible to vote but don’t. That’s four times the number of votes that President Joe Biden carried the state by in 2020. But most of those voters are Black and poor, and not even the prospect of Vice President Kamala Harris’ historic candidacy is likely to get them to the polls. Nonvoters are the most complicated piece of the electoral puzzle in a state that could decide the presidency. By Gary Fields. SENT: 2,000 words, photos, audio. With ELECTION 2024-GEORGIA-POVERTY-TAKEAWAYS.

ELECTION 2024-MIDEAST-POLITICS — Two weeks out from Election Day, the crisis in the Middle East is looming over the race for the White House, with one candidate struggling to find just the right words to navigate its difficult cross-currents and the other making bold pronouncements that the age-old conflict can quickly be set right. By Zeke Miller and Joey Cappelletti. SENT: 1,000 words, photos.

MIDEAST WARS — Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on Tuesday on his 11th visit to the region since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. The U.S. hopes to revive cease-fire efforts after the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, but so far all the warring parties appear to be digging in. By Farnoush Amiri, Tia Goldenberg and Kareem Chehayeb. SENT: Video, photos, 850 words. With MIDEAST WARS-THE LATEST.

RUSSIA-BRICS — China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other global leaders have arrived in the Russian city of Kazan for a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies. The Kremlin hopes to turn into it a rallying point for defying what some see as the Western liberal order. SENT: Photos, 450 words.

CUBA-POWER OUTAGE — Cuba’s capital remained largely paralyzed on Monday and the rest of the island braced for the fourth night of a massive blackout that has generated a handful of small protests and a stern government warning that any unrest will be punished. By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and MILEXSY DURAN. SENT: Video, photos, audio, 750 words.

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BRITAIN-KING-SAMOA — King Charles III should be prepared to dance when he visits Samoa this week. Tuilagi, the Pacific Island nation’s honorary consul, made sure of that when he visited St. James’ Palace recently wearing nothing but a bark cloth wrap and a necklace historically worn by orator chiefs. Charles grinned while gamely trying to follow along as Tuilagi moved through the steps of a traditional dance. The 75-year-old king can expect more of the same when he arrives in the South Pacific island nation, where villagers have been decorating to show how much they appreciate Charles’ visit, Tuilagi said. By Danica Kirka. SENT: 360 words, photos, video. With SAMOA-NEW ZEALAND-NAVY SHIP — Residents along the Samoan coast where King Charles will visit worry about the future after ship damaged reef. SENT: Photo package, 850 words.

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MORE NEWS

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AUSTRALIA-BRITAIN-ROYALS — King Charles III ends first Australian visit by a reigning British monarch in 13 years. SENT: Video, photos, audio, 900 words.

NEW ZEALAND-AIRPORT-HUGS — A New Zealand airport wants you to hug goodbye faster. SENT: Photos, 300 words.

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ELECTION 2024-PROJECT 2025 — For a year, Project 2025 has endured as a persistent force in the presidential election. It’s rare for a complex 900-page policy book to figure so dominantly in a political campaign. But the far-right proposals are being deployed by Democrats as a warning for Donald Trump’s potential second-term agenda. Trump says he knows “nothing” about the Heritage Foundation project, which was organized by his former administration officials. The rise and fall and potential rise again of Project 2025 shows the unexpected ability of policy to light up the election and threaten not only Trump atop the ticket but down-ballot Republicans in races for Congress. SENT: 1,500 words, photos. An abridged version has also moved.

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NATIONAL

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CAMPUS PROTESTS-FACULTY — Dissent is thriving this fall at American colleges, and not just among student activists. With student protests limited by new restrictions, faculty have taken up the cause over fears about freedom of speech. SENT: Photos, 1,100 words.

BOBA BACKLASH — The Asian American owners of boba milk tea brand Twrl have a chance to pitch a pretty well-known investor, actor Simu Liu. It came after they posted a video in support of Liu calling out the white owners of a boba drink brand for cultural appropriation on “Dragons’ Den,” the Canadian version of “Shark Tank.” SENT: Photos, 1,000 words.

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INTERNATIONAL

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CHINA-TAIWAN — China is holding live-fire drills off the coast of its southern Fujian province facing Taiwan, just a week after a massive air-and-sea drill it described as punishment for Taiwan's president rejecting Beijing’s claims of sovereignty. SENT: Photos, 400 words.

TROPICAL WEATHER — Tropical Storm Oscar chugged toward the Bahamas on Tuesday after making landfall in Cuba as a Category 1 hurricane, killing at least six people as it unleashed heavy rains on an island also hit by an unrelated. SENT: Satellite photo, 400 words.

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BUSINESS

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AFFORDABLE CARS — A trend toward less expensive cars in the U.S. auto industry is being led by people who feel they can no longer afford a new vehicle that would cost them roughly today’s average selling price of more than $47,000. Others could manage the financial burden but have decided it just isn’t worth the cost. It's forcing automakers to reassess their sales and production strategies. SENT: Photos, 1,100 words.

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SPORTS

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RAVENS-BUCCANEERS — Lamar Jackson, who may be playing the best football of his career, made it look easy. The two-time MVP threw for 281 yards and five touchdowns Monday night as the Baltimore Ravens extended their streak to five wins with a 41-31 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. SENT: Photos, 900 words.

CHARGERS-CARDINALS — Kyler Murray ran for a 44-yard touchdown and led the Cardinals on a drive that set up Chad Ryland’s 32-yard field goal as time expired, and Arizona rallied for a 17-15 win over the Los Angeles Chargers. SENT: Photos, 750 words.

BKW-PRESEASON ALL-AMERICA — The preseason AP All-America women’s college basketball team is revealed. UPCOMING: 800 words, photos at 12 p.m.

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Reinaldo Almanza holds his son Reinier with a candle at San Felipe Church in honor of the Black Christ in Portobelo, Panama, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, during a festival celebrating the iconic statue that was found on the shore in 1658. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Britain's King Charles III, right, waves to the crowd beside Queen Camilla during their visit to the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, Pool)

Lakshmi, is carried by rescue workers on her 86th birthday, after she was rescued from a flooded residential apartment due to heavy rains in Bengaluru, India, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

A man waves from his shattered house at the site of Israeli airstrikes that destroyed buildings facing the city's main government hospital in a densely-populated neighborhood, in southern Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

An aerial shot with a drone shows trees with autumn coloured leaves in a mixed forest near Brüsewitz, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. (Jens Büttner/dpa via AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is telling world financial leaders that the U.S. economy has grown stronger because the Biden administration rejected isolationism, offering a barely veiled criticism of former President Donald Trump’s policies two weeks before the U.S. election.

Yellen was opening the IMF and World Bank annual meetings Tuesday by highlighting U.S. economic growth since the nation was in the grips of the COVID-19 pandemic. Without mentioning Trump by name, she said in an advance draft of her remarks that the Biden administration had ended a period of international isolationism that “made America and the world worse off.”

”We went from millions having lost their jobs to a historic labor market recovery,” Yellen says. She said U.S. economic growth has been “almost twice as fast as most other advanced economies this year and last, even as inflation came down sooner.”

The meetings mark the last major international finance gathering held during the Biden administration and come as economic issues are a top concern for American voters. Republicans have blamed the Biden-Harris administration for inflation that reached a 40-year high before dropping. Trump said at a September debate that the administration “destroyed the economy."

Voters remain largely divided over whether they prefer the Republican nominee, Trump, or Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris to handle key economic issues, according to an October survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Who wins the U.S. election will also have enormous impacts on global finance and the world’s economy.

Trump and Harris have spoken little about their plans for the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. But they have differing views on trade, tariffs and other economic issues. Trump has been skeptical of world financial bodies and is promising heavy tariffs if elected. Harris is more likely to continue the Biden administration approach favoring international cooperation over threats, though she has supported some tariffs.

Yellen, like other federal officials, is barred from partisan political activity by the Hatch Act. But in her speech, she effectively promotes a potential Harris administration by praising Biden-Harris initiatives on climate, health care, infrastructure spending and other areas.

She alluded to Trump's international leadership saying: “From day one, we rejected isolationism that made America and the world worse off and pursued global economic leadership that supports economies around the world and brings significant benefits to the American people and the U.S. economy.”

Trump, who has embraced isolationism and criticized multilateral institutions, promises as president to impose a 60% tariff on all Chinese goods and a “universal’’ tariff of 10% or 20% on everything else that enters the United States, insisting that the cost of taxing imported goods is absorbed by the foreign countries that produce those goods.

Mainstream economists say that would amount to a tax on American consumers that would make the economy less efficient and send inflation surging in the United States.

The Biden-Harris administration has not eliminated tariffs imposed on China during the Trump administration and in May also slapped major tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, advanced batteries, solar cells, steel, aluminum and medical equipment.

The IMF will release its international outlook on the global economy, which includes updated statistics on U.S. economic growth, on Tuesday morning.

FILE - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a news conference in Philadelphia, July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

FILE - The World Bank building is pictured in Washington, April 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

An attendee poses for a photograph in front of a sign advertising the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG), which started in Washington on Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)