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NEW & DEVELOPING

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Adds: OIL GAS COAL-RESERVES, BRITAIN-ROYALS-BIDEN, CONFEDERATE MEMORIALS-SOUTH CAROLINA, MURDER CONVICTION OVERTURNED, COSTA RICA-BUS CRASH.

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TOP STORIES

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BRITAIN-ROYALS — U.S. President Joe Biden paid his respects at Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin as thousands of police, hundreds of British troops and an army of officials made final preparations for the queen’s state funeral — a spectacular display of national mourning that will also be the biggest gathering of world leaders for years. People across Britain paused for a minute of silence at 8 p.m. in memory of the only monarch most have ever known. The funeral on Monday will be a spectacular display of national mourning. By Mike Corder, Jill Lawless and Danica Kirka. SENT: 1,030 words, photos. WITH: BRITAIN-ROYALS-THE LATEST.

BRITAIN-ROYALS-TYING LOOSE ENDS — In retrospect, it seems Queen Elizabeth II was preparing us all along for her death. Whether it was due to age, ill health or a sense that the end was near, she spent much of the last two years tying up loose ends, making sure the family firm would keep ticking along. By Danica Kirka. SENT: 990 words, photos.

RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR-BORDER-VILLAGE — In a dank basement behind the local supermarket, metal bars cordon off a corner of the room to form a large cell. Ukrainian authorities say this was a makeshift prison where Russian forces abused detainees before Ukrainian troops swept through Kozacha Lopan in a major counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region this month. AP reporters viewed the cell but could not immediately verify the torture claims independently. By Elena Becatoros and Leo Correa. SENT: 920 words, photos.

BIDEN-DEFENDING DEMOCRACY — President Joe Biden is finding it’s easier to call out attacks on democracy than it is to stop them. His fundamental rationale for running for president was that America’s democratic traditions were in jeopardy. Now, 20 months into his presidency, the dangers are worse, Biden’s warnings are more dire -- and the limits of his own ability to fix the problem are clearer. By Colleen Long and Zeke Miller. SENT: 1,310 words, photos.

TROPICAL-WEATHER — Hurricane Fiona has struck Puerto Rico’s southwest coast as it unleashed landslides, knocked the power grid out and ripped up asphalt from roads and flung the pieces around. Forecasters said the storm would cause catastrophic flooding and threatened to dump “historic” levels of rain. SENT: 960 words, photos. By Danica Coto. WITH: PUERTO RICO-HURRICANE MARIA-AFTERMATH — Nearly five years have passed since Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory of 3.2 million people. But thousands of homes and roads have yet to be fixed or rebuilt. SENT: 1,080 words, photos.

IMPRISONED PASTOR-LOYAL FOLLOWERS — The leader of a multinational, Mexico-based Christian church is imprisoned in California after pleading guilty to sexually abusing minors. Yet legions of followers in his home city of Guadalajara remain fervently loyal to him. They view his imprisonment as a challenge that will strengthen their church, La Luz del Mundo — Spanish for The Light of the World. By María Teresa Hernández. SENT: 1,380 words, photos.

REDESIGNING REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT — With refugee resettlement agencies overwhelmed after being gutted by the Trump administration, thousands of Americans heeded the call to help Afghans restart their lives in far-flung towns across the United States with little to no immigrant populations. Now the Biden administration is expected to turn the experiment into a permanent program that will allow everyday Americans to resettle people displaced from a slew of countries. By Julie Watson and Amy Taxin. SENT: 1,230 words, photos. This is the Monday Spotlight.

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MORE ON RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR

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RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR — The Vatican news service says a top envoy and his entourage who were distributing humanitarian supplies in Ukraine came under fire, but there were no injuries. SENT: 530 words, photos.

RUSSIA-SINGER — Iconic Russian singer Alla Pugacheva, hugely popular since Soviet times, says she wants to be placed on Russia’s foreign agents list in solidarity with her husband who has been designated as one. SENT: 180 words, photo.

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TRENDING

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TAIWAN-EARTHQUAKE — A strong earthquake has shaken much of Taiwan, killing one person and injuring nine. A three-story building was toppled but all four people trapped inside were rescued. SENT: 470 words, photos.

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WASHINGTON/POLITICS

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ELECTION 2022-ARIZONA-REPUBLICANS — The far-right forces that former Sen. John McCain successfully marginalized within the Arizona Republican Party are back and in full control, with profound implications for one of the nation’s most closely matched battlegrounds. SENT: 1,220 words, photos.

ELECTION 2022-MAINE-HOUSE — A midterm rematch in Maine — Democratic Rep. Jared Golden versus Republican former Rep. Bruce Poliquin — could help decide which party will control Congress. SENT: 930 words, photos.

ARMENIA-US-PELOSI — Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi says the United States deplores recent attacks by Azerbaijan on Armenia, and has called for a negotiated solution to the countries’ conflict. SENT: 340 words, photos.

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NATIONAL

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ABORTION-MEDICAL TERMINATIONS — Pregnancies ended because of grave fetal medical problems are seldom discussed, and different from the most common type performed early in an unwanted pregnancy. For many who have endured them, the abortion debate since Roe’s reversal has unleashed a torrent of pain — and also brought them together to support each other, speak out and share their stories. SENT: 2,200 words, photos.

2020 CENSUS — A watchdog group has determined that some census takers who falsified information during the 2020 census didn’t have their work redone fully, weren’t fired in a timely manner and in some cases even received bonuses. SENT: 550 words, photo.

COLORADO RIVER COMPACT-NEW MEXICO-AGRICULTURE — Dwindling Colorado River Basin key to New Mexico agriculture. SENT: 990 words, photos.

PEARL HARBOR BURIAL — The remains of a sailor from Massachusetts who died when the USS Oklahoma was struck by multiple torpedoes during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 are being buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday. SENT: 450 words, photo.

ALASKA-COASTAL-STORM — Flood waters have started to recede in some parts of Alaska after the worst storm in a half century battered the western coast, revealing debris that towering Bering Sea waves flung onto beaches and seaside communities. SENT: 920 words, photos.

PROSECUTOR-MISCONDUCT — The Kentucky Supreme Court has suspended an eastern Kentucky prosecutor who promised to help a defendant in exchange for nude photos. SENT: 140 words.

CONFEDERATE MEMORIALS-SOUTH CAROLINA — Lawsuits filed to stop the removal of memorials to Confederate leaders and a pro-slavery congressman in a South Carolina city have been dropped. SENT: 330 words, photos.

MURDER CONVICTION OVERTURNED — A Michigan man’s 2019 second-degree murder conviction has been overturned by an appeals court that determined the man’s attorney ignored his wishes to admit that he pulled the trigger. SENT: 300 words.

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INTERNATIONAL

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UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY-TURBULENT WORLD — It’s the story of recent world history: The high-level leaders’ meeting of the UN General Assembly begins with a world in convulsions of its own making: war in Ukraine, climate change and deep-rooted inequity, all against the backdrop of a planet still emerging from a devastating pandemic that is heading toward its fourth year. By Edith M. Lederer. SENT: 1,300 words, photos.

EUROPE-HUNGARY — The European Union’s executive branch recommended Sunday that the bloc suspend around 7.5 billion euros ($7.5 billion) in funding to Hungary over concerns about democratic backsliding and the possible mismanagement of EU money. SENT: 390 words, photo.

UN-GENERAL-ASSEMBLY-CHINA’S-CLOUT — As world leaders gather in New York at the annual U.N. General Assembly, rising superpower China is also focusing on another United Nations body that is meeting across the Atlantic Ocean in Geneva. SENT: 1,090 words, photos.

ITALY-POLITICS-WOMEN — If Italy elects the nation’s first female premier, will its women be delighted or dismayed? Should opinion polls prove on the mark, Giorgia Meloni and the far-right Brothers of Italy party she co-founded less than a decade ago will triumph in the Sept. 25 election. Meloni might then be asked by Italy’s president to try to form a viable coalition government with right-wing allies. For many female voters, it’s a question of gender versus agenda. SENT: 960 words, photos.

UGANDA-UKRAINE WAR-ORGANIC FERTILIZER — Moses Wamugango peered into the plastic vats where maggots wriggled in decomposing filth, the enviable project of a neighbor who spoke of the fertilizer problem he had been able to solve. The maggots are the larvae of the black soldier fly, an insect whose digestive system effectively turns food waste into organic fertilizer. Farmers normally would despise them if they weren’t so valuable. Fertilizer prices have doubled or tripled. SENT: 830 words, photos.

AFGHANISTAN — The United Nations has called for Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reopen schools to girls in grades 7-12, calling the anniversary of their exclusion from high school “shameful.” SENT: 460 words, photo.

ASIA-STORM — A powerful typhoon approaching southern Japan pounded the region with strong winds and heavy rain, causing blackouts, paralyzed ground and air transportation and the evacuation of thousands of people. SENT: 380 words, photos.

ETHIOPIA-ERITREA-TIGRAY CRISIS — Activists and international authorities say Eritrea is mobilizing its armed forces and appears to be sending them to Ethiopia to aid its neighbor’s war in the Tigray region. SENT: 300 words.

MIGRATION-EUROPE — The Spanish charity Open Arms has rescued 372 people seeking to cross the central Mediterranean Sea to Europe in unseaworthy boats in three operations. It has also recovered the corpse of a migrant who had been shot by smugglers. SENT: 310 words, photos.

TAIWAN-FLYING COMPETITION — Pilots with homemade gliders in Taiwan launched themselves into a harbor from a 20-foot-high ramp to see who could go the farthest before falling into the waters. SENT: 210 words, photos.

CHINA-MINE-ACCIDENT — Chinese authorities say that 14 people had died and one remained missing after a flood at an iron mine earlier this month. SENT: 70 words.

CHINA-BUS-CRASH — A bus overturned on an expressway in southwestern China, leaving 27 people dead and injuring 20 others, police say. SENT: 60 words.

TURKEY-ANTI-LGBTQ PROTEST — A conservative anti-LGBTQ group has marched in Istanbul to demand that LGBTQ associations be shuttered and their activities banned. SENT: 280 words, photos.

COSTA RICA-BUS CRASH — At least nine people have been killed and 34 injured when a passenger bus fell off a 250-foot cliff on the Inter-American Highway in Costa Rica. SENT: 160 words.

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BUSINESS

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STRONG DOLLAR-EXPLAINER — The value of the U.S. dollar has been on a tear for more than a year against everything from the British pound across the Atlantic to the South Korean won across the Pacific. The dollar is hovering close to its highest level in more than two decades against a key index measuring six major currencies. By Stan Choe. SENT: 1,100 words, photos.

OIL GAS COAL-RESERVES — On Monday, the world’s first public database of fossil fuel production, reserves and emissions launches. Called The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels, it was developed by the groups Carbon Tracker and the Global Energy Monitor, and contains data on over 50,000 oil, gas and coal fields in 89 countries, covering 75% of global production. UPCOMING: 690 words, photos by 7 p.m.

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ENTERTAINMENT

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FILM-BOX OFFICE — The Viola Davis-led action epic “The Woman King” easily conquered the North American box office in its first weekend in theaters, against a crowded market of new releases. SENT: 530 words, photos.

FILM-TORONTO AWARDS — Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical coming-of-age drama “The Fabelmans” won the Toronto International Film Festival’s top prize, the People’s Choice Award, solidifying its early status as Academy Awards frontrunner. SENT: 400 words, photos.

LUDACRIS-MANAGER-SHOOTING — The manager for the rapper Ludacris faces a murder charge in Atlanta in connection with a June shooting. SENT: 230 words, photo.

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SPORTS

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FBC--T25-COLLEGE FOOTBALL POLL — Washington made its season debut in The Associated Press college football at No. 18 and Penn State and Oregon moved into the top 15 after all three had decisive nonconference victories. A weekend filled with blowouts by highly ranked teams kept the top 10 almost unchanged. SENT: 570 words, photos.

FBN--BUCCANEERS-SAINTS — Tom Brady threw a go-ahead touchdown pass to Breshad Perriman and Tampa Bay intercepted Jameis Winston three times in the last 12 minutes to beat the Saints 20-10. SENT: 520 words, photos.

FBN--BEARS-PACKERS — The three-time defending NFC North champion Green Bay Packers attempt to bounce back from a season-opening loss at Minnesota when they host the Chicago Bears. Chicago leads Green Bay in the division standings for the first time since 2018. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos. Game starts at 8:20 p.m.

BKL--WNBA FINALS — The Las Vegas Aces try again to win their first WNBA championship when they face the Connecticut Sun in Game 4 of the Finals. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos. Game underway.

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