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ONLY ON AP

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AP-POLL-BIDEN — A new poll shows President Joe Biden’s approval rating dipped to the lowest point of his presidency in May, with deepening pessimism emerging among members of his own Democratic Party. Only 39% of U.S. adults approve of Biden’s performance as president, according to the poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Research. By Nicholas Riccardi. SENT: 960 words, photos.

THE-AP-INTERVIEW-TAI — The top U.S. trade negotiator says that with world economies all suffering from more than two years of the coronavirus pandemic and global supply problems exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States has an “incredible opportunity” to engage with other nations and forge new partnerships and agreements. By David Rising. SENT: 885 words, photos.

THE AP INTERVIEW-BHUTTO ZARDARI — Pakistan’s new foreign minister says his country has resumed engagement with the United States after years of strained relations under former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari spoke in an interview with The Associated Press in New York, where he was attending meetings this week on the global food crisis at U.N. headquarters. By Edith M. Lederer. SENT: 1,080 words, photos, video.

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TOP STORIES

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FINANCIAL MARKETS — Wall Street rumbled to the edge of a bear market Friday after another drop for stocks briefly sent the S&P 500 more than 20% below its peak set early this year. The S&P 500 index, which sits at the heart of most workers’ 401(k) accounts, was down as much as 2.3% for the day before a furious comeback in the final hour of trading sent it to a tiny gain of less than 0.1%. It finished 18.7% below its record, set on Jan. 3. The tumultuous trading capped a seventh straight losing week, its longest such streak since 2001. By Damian J. Troise and Stan Choe. SENT: 920 words, photos, developing. With BEAR MARKET EXPLAINER — The bear came close to Wall Street but then backed off. Here’s what that means. SENT: 1,150 words, photos. See full coverage in AP Newsroom.

RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR — Russia claimed to have captured Mariupol on Friday in what would be its biggest victory yet in its war with Ukraine, after a nearly three-month siege that reduced much of the strategic port city to a smoking ruin, with over 20,000 civilians feared dead. There was no immediate confirmation from Ukraine. Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti quoted the ministry as saying a total of 2,439 Ukrainian fighters who had been holed up at the steelworks had surrendered since Monday, including over 500 on Friday. By Elena Becatoros, Oleksandr Stashevskyi and Ciaran McQuillan. SENT: 1,290 words, photos, video. With RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR-THE-LATEST.

BIDEN-ASIA — President Joe Biden opens his trip to Asia by touring a South Korean computer chip factory that will be the model for a plant in Texas, holding it out as an illustration of how deeper ties with the Indo-Pacific can fuel technological innovation and foster vibrant democracies. By Aamer Madhani and Josh Boak. SENT: 1,020 words, photos, video. With BIDEN-ASIA-THEMES — Among the issues for Biden: rethinking national security aims, launching a new trade framework and improving the availability of computer chips. SENT: 1,350 words, photos; BIDEN-ASIA-SECRET SERVICE — Two U.S. Secret Service employees in South Korea are sent home after being involved in a confrontation with locals. SENT: 220 words, photo.

BORDER ASYLUM-LIMITS — A federal judge in Louisiana is refusing to end pandemic-related restrictions on migrants seeking asylum on the southern border. The judge blocked a plan by President Joe Biden’s administration to lift the restrictions next Monday. Migrants have been expelled more than 1.9 million times since March 2020 under federal Title 42 authority. The provision denies migrants a chance to request asylum under U.S. law and international treaty on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19. By Elliot Spagat. SENT: 780 words, photos.

ABORTION-RELIGIOUS-DIVIDE — The loudest voices in the abortion debate are often characterized along a starkly religious divide, the faithful versus not. But the reality is much more nuanced, both at an Alabama abortion clinic and in the nation that surrounds it. The clinic’s staff of 11 — most of them Black, deeply faithful Christian women — have no trouble at all reconciling their work with their religion. By Claire Galofaro. SENT: 1,660 words, photos. An abridged version is also available.

YELLEN-TAX PLAN — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen celebrated last summer when more than 100 nations agreed to a global minimum tax deal meant to reform and equalize the world’s economy. This week, as she met with Group of Seven finance ministers in Germany, Yellen found herself insisting that prospects for moving ahead with the idea are “not hopeless.” By Fatima Hussein. SENT: 900 words, photos.

MED—EUROPE MONKEYPOX — As more cases of monkeypox are detected in Europe and North America, scientists who have monitored numerous outbreaks in Africa say they are baffled by the unusual disease’s spread in the West. Cases of the smallpox-related disease haven’t previously been seen among people with no links to central and West Africa. By Maria Cheng. SENT: 855 words, photos.

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GREECE-SWEDEN-ANCIENT-RING — A more than 3,000-year-old gold signet ring is back in Greece after a string of adventures. The ring was stolen from an Aegean Sea island in World War II, crossed the Atlantic, was bought by a Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian scientist and ended up in a Swedish museum. SENT: 420 words, photos.

ALABAMA-ESCAPE-JAIL-OFFICIAL — A capital murder suspect who authorities say went on the lam for 10 days with the help of an Alabama jail official has been ordered to provide a DNA sample to prosecutors. SENT: 240 words.

AMERICAN IDOL-CONTESTANT CRASH — A South Carolina judge granted bond to former “American Idol” contestant Caleb Kennedy who is accused of barreling into a man with his pickup truck and killing him. SENT: 270 words.

MICHAEL AVENATTI-STORMY DANIELS — Convicted California lawyer Michael Avenatti wants leniency at sentencing for defrauding former client Stormy Daniels. His lawyers cite a letter he sent to the porn actor saying he is truly sorry. SENT: 500 words, photos.

OBIT-ANGELL — Longtime New Yorker writer and editor Roger Angell has died. He was 101. Angell, the son of founding New Yorker editor Katharine White and stepson of E.B. White, contributed hundreds of essays and stories to the magazine over a 70-year career. SENT: 450 words, photos.

AIMEE OSBOURNE-STUDIO FIRE — Ozzy Osbourne’s daughter Aimee and her producer escaped a Hollywood recording studio fire that killed another person. SENT: 220 words, photo.

NOT-REAL-NEWS — A look at what didn’t happen this week. SENT: 2,010 words, photos.

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WASHINGTON/POLITICS

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VIRGINIA THOMAS-ELECTION — Newly discovered emails show that Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was more deeply involved in baseless efforts to overturn the 2020 election than previously known. SENT: 770 words, photo.

FEDERAL PRISONS — New legislation in the Senate would requires the Justice Department to establish guidelines for the federal Bureau of Prisons and state correctional systems to notify the families of inmates if their loved one has a serious illness or a life-threatening injury or if they die behind bars. SENT: 660 words, photos.

BIDEN-AMERICAS SUMMIT — The United States might invite a Cuban representative to the Summit of the Americas next month. SENT: 270 words, photos.

ELECTION 2022-PENNSYLVANIA-SENATE — Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for an open Senate seat is too close to call and is likely headed for a statewide recount to decide the winner of the contest between heart surgeon-turned-TV celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick. SENT: 790 words, photos.

ELECTION 2022-GEORGIA BISHOP — After years of coasting to reelection, Georgia’s senior congressman is gearing up for his toughest campaign in more than a decade as hopeful Republican challengers crowd the May 24 primary ballot and raise impressive sums of cash to target the Democrat who’s held the seat for 30 years. Rep. Sanford Bishop, a Black Democrat first elected in 1992, has been rated among the most vulnerable House Democrats in the fall midterms by his own party. SENT: 1,045 words, photos.

CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING-FLORIDA — A state appeals court has reinstated a new congressional map drawn by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ staff that could diminish Florida’s Black representation in Washington, a week after a lower court judge said the map was unconstitutional. SENT: 555 words.

DISINFORMATION BOARD-ONLINE ABUSE — The former head of a widely criticized disinformation board faced a torrent of sexist profanities on social media and menacing emails filled with rape or death threats. Nina Jankowicz is not alone. Women around the globe who have risen to powerful government positions have faced an overwhelming crush of online harassment, stalking and abuse. SENT: 650 words, photo.

UNITED STATES-TERRORISM BLACKLIST — The United States removes five extremist groups, all believed defunct, from its list of foreign terrorist organizations. SENT: 670 words, photos.

ELECTION 2022-OREGON BALLOTS — A Democratic state lawmaker in Oregon is calling for a formal investigation into a ballot-printing fiasco that will delay results from Tuesday’s primary by weeks in the state’s third-largest county, with a key U.S. House race hanging in the balance. SENT: 1,010 words, photos.

ELECTION 2022-NEW YORK-CONGRESS — Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he will run for Congress in a redrawn district that includes his Brooklyn home. De Blasio announced that he will seek the Democratic nomination for the 10th Congressional District. SENT: 170 words, photos.

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NATIONAL

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BUFFALO-SUPERMARKET-FUNERALS-BEGIN — The first of several funerals for 10 Black people massacred at a Buffalo supermarket was planned, one day after victims’ families called on the nation to confront the threat of white supremacist violence. SENT: 330 words, photo. WITH: BUFFALO SUPERMARKET SHOOTING-POLICE RESTRAINT — When police confronted the white man suspected of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, he was the very poster boy for armed and dangerous. Yet officers talked to Payton Gendron and arrested him without firing a single shot. SENT: 920 words, photos.

ABORTION-OKLAHOMA-EXCEPTIONS — Oklahoma is only days away from enacting the toughest U.S. state ban on abortion and providers are preparing to stop terminating pregnancies. Meanwhile, questions swirled Friday about how the law’s limited exceptions would be enforced. SENT: 980 words, photos, video.

TORNADO-MICHIGAN — A tornado has struck Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula, flipping recreational vehicles in a small community, partially tearing the roof off at least one building and causing other damage. There were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths. SENT: 350 words.

TIMES-SQUARE-CRASH-TRIAL — The screaming people, car tires screeching and an engine revving are sounds that still haunt them. Those recollections are central to victims’ testimony at the ongoing trial of Richard Rojas, the man behind the wheel of a car that killed one and injured more than 20 others in Times Square in 2017. SENT: 680 words, photos.

TRUMP-LEGAL TROUBLES — Former President Donald Trump has paid the $110,000 in fines he racked up after being held in contempt of court for being slow to respond to a civil subpoena issued by New York’s attorney general. SENT: 405 words, photos.

HYUNDAI-GEORGIA — Hyundai Motor Group confirmed the company will spend $5.5 billion on a huge electric vehicle plant near Savannah that will employ thousands — a deal Georgia’s governor called the largest economic development project in the state’s history. SENT: 770 words.

JOHN-HINCKLEY — Attorneys for the U.S. government have indicated that they will not oppose a plan to lift all remaining restrictions next month on John Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981. SENT: 675 words, photo.

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INTERNATIONAL

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AUSTRALIA-POLITICS — Australians will go to the polls on Saturday following a six-week campaign that has focused on pandemic-fueled inflation, climate change and fears of a Chinese military outpost being established less than 1,200 miles off Australia’s shore. SENT: 920 words, photos. WITH: AUSTRALIA-POLITICS-INCUMBENT — Scott Morrison is the first recent Australian leader to survive 3 years. SENT: 895 words, photos. WITH: AUSTRALIA-POLITICS-CHALLENGER — Australia’s would-be PM Albanese shaped by humble start. SENT: 880 words, photos. WITH: AUSTRALIA-VOTING-EXPLAINER —How does Australia’s election process work? SENT: 460 words, photos; AUSTRALIA-ELECTION-ISSUES-EXPLAINER — How do Australian parties differ on key issues? SENT: 695 words, photos.

SRI-LANKA-DEBT-CRISIS — China says its initiative to build ports and other infrastructure across Asia and Africa, paid for with Chinese loans, will boost trade. But in a cautionary tale for borrowers, Sri Lanka’s multibillion-dollar debt to Beijing threatens to hinder efforts to resolve a financial crisis so severe that the Indian Ocean nation cannot import food or gasoline. SENT: 1,110 words, photos. WITH: SRI-LANKA — Sri Lanka closes schools, limits work amid fuel shortage. SENT: 500 words, photos.

NETHERLANDS-CELL-PHONE-SCANDAL — The long-serving Dutch prime minister is in hot water over his low-tech cell phone. Mark Rutte is facing unusual political and public pressure after revelations that he has been deleting text messages about official matters for years. Critics accuse him of concealing state activity – but he says the messages just took up too much space in his years-old Nokia phone. SENT: 620 words, photos.

SPAIN-HEAT — Large parts of Spain were under alert as a wave of intense heat began sweeping across the country, leaving residents sweltering through May temperatures that rank among the hottest in two decades. SENT: 365 words, photo.

BRAZIL-COLD-WAVE — In Rio de Janeiro, bold swimmers have been discouraged from diving into the cold ocean, while Sao Paulo authorities had to open up subway stations to accommodate homeless people as Brazil’s south experienced unusually low temperatures. SENT: 250 words, photos.

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BUSINESS/ECONOMY

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BRAZIL-BOLSONARO-MUSK — Tesla and SpaceX chief executive officer Elon Musk has met with Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro to discuss connectivity and other projects in the Amazon rainforest. SENT: 400 words, photos.

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ENTERTAINMENT

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FRANCE-CANNES-SQUID GAME STAR — Few actors know more about capturing the attention of the global audience than Korean star Lee Jung-jae of Netflix’s “Squid Game.” Lee is now at the Cannes Film Festival to further extend his worldwide renown. Lee is in Cannes to premiere his directorial debut, “Hunt,” a spy thriller set in 1980s Korea. SENT: 770 words, photos.

TV-NEW SEASON — Broadcast networks that once held sway during the annual presentation of fall shows to advertisers were overshadowed by the rise of streaming services. SENT: 910 words, photos.

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SPORTS

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HKN-RANGERS-HURRICANES — The Carolina Hurricanes look for a 2-0 lead on Friday night in their second-round playoff series against the New York Rangers. The Hurricanes rallied to win Game 1 in overtime. UPCOMING: 700 words and photos. Game starts at 8 p.m.

BKN-MAVERICKS-WARRIORS — Stephen Curry and the Warriors try to take a 2-0 lead on Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference Finals. UPCOMING: 800 words, photos. Starts 9 p.m.

GLF--PGA CHAMPIONSHIP — Justin Thomas is playing his best golf in the strongest wind. Thomas has set a daunting target in the PGA Championship. He shot another 67 at Southern Hills. That put him one shot ahead of Rory McIlroy, who plays in the afternoon. SENT: 700 words, photos. Developing.

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