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09/09/2016 14:13

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LATEST AND PLANNED U.S. NEWS COVERAGE (ALL TIMES ET)

TOP STORIES

N. Korea's largest nuclear test draws condemnation, threat of more sanctions

SEOUL - North Korea conducted its fifth and biggest nuclear test on Friday and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain. (NORTHKOREA-NUCLEAR/ (UPDATE 7, PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved at 11:24 a.m., 1070 words)

U.S. says progress made in Syria talks, but unclear if final deal can be reached

GENEVA - The United States and Russia made progress on Friday toward advancing proposals for a nationwide ceasefire in Syria, but technical details still needed to be worked out and it was not clear if a final deal could be reached, a senior official of the U.S. State Department said. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-KERRY (UPDATE 2, PIX, TV), moved at 1:47 p.m., by David Brunnstrom and Tom Miles, 487 words)

CAMPAIGN

Trump criticizes U.S. policy on Russian television

WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticized U.S. policy in Iraq again, but this time he aired his grievances on an unusual platform: a Russian government-funded television network. (USA-ELECTION/ (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved at 12:51 p.m., by Doina Chiacu and Ginger Gibson, 629 words)

Clinton spokeswoman defends drug plan after Pfizer comments

NEW YORK - U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's spokeswoman said on Friday Clinton's plan to curb drug spending was not the blow to medical innovation that Pfizer Inc Chief Executive Ian Read described it as being on Thursday. (USA-ELECTION/CLINTON-PFIZER, moved at 11:28 a.m., 167 words)

WASHINGTON

U.S. House votes to allow Sept. 11 families to sue Saudi Arabia

WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation by voice vote on Friday that would allow the families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to sue Saudi Arabia's government for damages, despite the White House's threat to veto the measure. (USA-SEPT11/SAUDI (UPDATE 2, PIX), moved at 1:28 p.m., by Patricia Zengerle, 457 words)

U.S. Supreme Court rejects Michigan straight-ticket voting appeal

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a bid by Michigan to reinstate its Republican-backed ban on straight-ticket voting for the Nov. 8 general election. (USA-COURT/ELECTION (UPDATE 2, PIX), moved at 12:02 p.m., by Lawrence Hurley, 397 words)

Obama to meet with congressional leaders on Monday - White House

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama has invited congressional leaders to the White House on Monday to discuss legislative priorities for this month, a White House official said. (USA-OBAMA/CONGRESS (UPDATE 3), moving shortly, by Timothy Gardner and Richard Cowan, 343 words)

Samsung to accelerate replacements of fire-prone Note 7 in U.S.

SEOUL/NEW YORK - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Friday it will expedite new shipments of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones starting this week in response to a U.S. regulator's advisory to not charge or turn on the phone in flight due to faulty batteries. (SAMSUNG ELEC-SMARTPHONES/USA (UPDATE 1), moved at 12:36 p.m., by Se Young Lee and Jeffrey Dastin, 384 words)

SEPT 11 ANNIVERSARY

Sorrow, selfies compete at New York's 9/11 memorial 15 years on

NEW YORK - The memorial in New York City at the site where the Twin Towers fell in the Sept. 11 attacks 15 years ago straddles two worlds: one of the living and one of the dead. (USA-SEPT11/MOOD (UPDATE 1, FEATURE, PIX, TV), moved at 10:34 a.m., by Gina Cherelus, 628 words)

Sept. 11 drama on Air Force One unfolds in Bush aide's handwritten notes

WASHINGTON - The notes are handwritten on a legal pad and provide a verbatim account of the shock, pain and grim determination aboard Air Force One on Sept. 11, 2001. They were scribbled by Ari Fleischer, press secretary for President George W. Bush, six pages in all. (USA-SEPT11/BUSH (PIX, TV), moved at 5 a.m., by Steve Holland, 595 words)

Texas mattress store slammed for 'disgusting' 9/11 sale video

AUSTIN - A Texas mattress store that used bedding to stage a mock collapse of New York City's Twin Towers in an ad for a Sept. 11 sale has come under a barrage of protests that described it as a tasteless pitch and called for the business to go bankrupt. (USA-SEPT11/TEXAS, moved at 12:04 p.m., by Jon Herskovitz, 346 words)

OTHER U.S. NEWS

Wisconsin girl in stabbing attack changes plea - report

MILWAUKEE - One of the two Wisconsin girls accused of attacking a classmate to please a fictional character named Slenderman on Friday changed her plea to not guilty due to mental illness, local media reported. (WISCONSIN-CRIME/ (UPDATE 1), moved at 12:02 p.m., by Brendan O'Brien, 399 words)

N. Dakota oil pipeline ruling expected soon from U.S. judge

WASHINGTON - A U.S. federal judge is expected to rule on Friday on whether to halt construction of a crude oil pipeline in North Dakota that is opposed by Native Americans who say it would pollute nearby rivers and desecrate their sacred land. (USA-PIPELINE/NATIVEAMERICANS (PIX), moved at 1:20 p.m., by Ruthy Munoz, 363 words)

North Carolina man arrested for bogus clown sighting - police

WINSTON-SALEM - A North Carolina man who told police someone dressed as a clown had knocked on his window at night landed in jail on Friday after admitting he fabricated the story, the latest twist in string of such reported sightings in recent weeks. (USA-CLOWNS/ (PIX), moved at 12:31 p.m., by Colleen Jenkins, 341 words) See also: Carolina clown sightings scare me, says horror master Stephen King (USA-CLOWNS/KING, moved at 9:35 a.m., 334 words)

Volkswagen engineer pleads guilty in U.S. diesel emissions probe

DETROIT/WASHINGTON - A Volkswagen AG engineer pleaded guilty on Friday to helping the German automaker evade U.S. emission standards, becoming the first person U.S. authorities have charged in their probe. (VOLKSWAGEN-EMISSIONS/ (UPDATE 3, PIX), moving shortly, by Joseph White and David Shepardson, 258 words)

NBA star Tim Duncan's former financial adviser charged with fraud

SAN ANTONIO - A former financial adviser for ex-NBA star Tim Duncan, whom the San Antonio Spurs legend has accused of bilking him out of millions of dollars, has been indicted on federal fraud charges, court papers unsealed on Friday showed. (NBA-DUNCAN/ADVISER (PIX), moved at 1:35 p.m., by Jim Forsyth, 398 words)

U.S. hospital palliative-care teams suffer staffing gaps

Only a quarter of U.S. hospitals had complete, paid palliative-care teams to help seriously ill patients manage pain, address emotional and spiritual needs and discuss end-of-life wishes, a new study shows. (HEALTH-PALLIATIVECARE/ACCESS, moved at 10:57 a.m., by Ronnie Cohen, 612 words)

MIDDLE EAST

Living like ghosts in the ruins of Syria's besieged Aleppo

BEIRUT/AMMAN - Even if it were somehow possible to escape eastern Aleppo, Abdullah Shiyani, a 10-year-old boy who dreams of being a doctor, says he wouldn't leave. It would mean leaving behind too many people who need help. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-ALEPPO (PIX), moved at 11:42 a.m., by John Davison and Suleiman Al-Khalidi, 1075 words) See also: Iraq expels Islamic State families from local communities (MIDEAST-CRISIS/IRAQ-DISPLACEMENT (PIX), moved at 8:46 a.m., 567 words)

NATO says welcomes Turkey's increased fight against Islamic State

ANKARA - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday welcomed Turkey's increased efforts to fight Islamic State militants in Syria and said training local forces was the key to battling the hardline Sunni Muslim group.(MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-TURKEY-NATO (UPDATE 1), moved at 10:52 a.m., 348 words)

WORLD

Canada to press U.S. on 'ludicrous' marijuana border policy

OTTAWA - Canada will push the United States to change a border policy that has banned Canadians who admit to having used marijuana from travel to the United States, given Canada's plans to legalize pot, a government spokesman said on Friday. (CANADA-USA/MARIJUANA, moved at 1:27 p.m., by Andrea Hopkins, 396 words)

Arrested women planned attack on Paris railroad station

PARIS - Three women arrested after a car loaded with gas cylinders was found near Notre Dame cathedral had been planning to attack a Paris railway station, the French interior ministry said. The Peugeot 607 was found early on Sunday laden with seven gas cylinders and three jerry cans of diesel, said police, although no detonators were discovered. (EUROPE-ATTACKS/FRANCE (UPDATE 1, PIX), moved at 8:38 a.m., 436 words)

Gabon faces "sustained instability" if no presidential vote recount - losing candidate

LIBREVILLE - If there is no recount of votes in Gabon's presidential election, the country will face "profound and sustained instability," the man who lost by less than 6,000 votes said on Friday. (GABON-ELECTION/ (UPDATE 2), moved at 12:46 p.m., by Gerauds Wilfied Obangome, 402 words)

Venezuelans revel in pots-and-pans protests after Maduro humiliation

MARACAIBO - For over a decade, Venezuelan opposition supporters would clang pots and pans on balconies of middle-class apartments to protest late leader Hugo Chavez's self-styled "21st century socialism." While sometimes deafening, the protests never seemed to get under the skin of the charismatic leftist, whose supporters often countered with fireworks from shanty towns, and many in the opposition ended up deeming them futile. But the 'cacerolazo', as such protests are known round South America, returned with a bang a few days ago when a pot-wielding crowd ran after Chavez's unpopular successor Nicolas Maduro in a previously pro-government working class neighborhood of Margarita island.(VENEZUELA-POLITICS/POTS (PIX), moved at 10:50 a.m., by Alexandra Ulmer, 736 words)

Iranian court jails British-Iranian aid worker for five years - family

An Iranian Revolutionary court has sentenced Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to five years in prison on charges that remain secret, her family said on Friday. (BRITAIN-IRAN/NAZANIN (UPDATE 1), moved at 1:10 p.m., 420 words)

HEALTH AND SCIENCE

Childhood cancer survivors living longer, cancer free

Due to better treatments and better monitoring, childhood cancer survivors are living longer, healthier lives, according to a study in the U.K. (HEALTH-CHILDCANCER/SURVIVAL, moved at 12:52 p.m., by Madeline Kennedy, 580 words)

BUSINESS TRENDS

Slumping U.S. meat prices help feed appetite for jerky

CHICAGO - With prices for U.S. livestock on the decline due to larger cattle and hog herds, meat processors are jumping on the jerky bandwagon. (USA-MEAT/JERKY (PIX), moved at 1:40 p.m., by Theopolis Waters, 602 words)

Many lenders pressing for change in notarizing of mortgage papers

NEW YORK - Every day, millions of homebuyers shuffle and sign piles of papers to finalize their mortgages. But it's all meaningless without a critical step: a face-to-face meeting with a notary, who verifies borrowers' identities and then adorns their documents with a special stamp. As financial institutions roll out a growing number of technology tools to boost customer convenience, the clunky, centuries-old step of notarization remains stuck in a time warp. Now, some financial institutions are trying to propel notarization into the modern age. So-called "remote notarization" apps link borrowers to notaries through a secure webcam. (USA-MORTGAGES/NOTARIES, moved at 7 a.m., by Suzanne Barlyn, 1,036 words)

Global airport traffic up 6.4 pct in 2015, fastest rate since 2010

MONTREAL - Global airport traffic grew at its fastest rate last year since 2010, rising 6.4 percent to 7.2 billion passengers, according to data published on Friday by an international trade association representing airports. (AIRPORTS-TRAFFIC/ (PIX), moved at 9 a.m., 340 words)

CONSUMER TECH

Norway's PM attacks Facebook "censorship" over Vietnam photo

OSLO - Norway's prime minister accused Facebook Inc on Friday of censorship after it deleted an iconic Vietnam War era news photograph of a naked girl fleeing a napalm attack from pages, including her own. (NORWAY-FACEBOOK/ (UPDATE 1, PIX), moved at 10:41 a.m., by Terje Solsvik, 483 words)

BUSINESS AND MARKETS

Wall St falls on N.Korea nuclear test, U.S. rate hike worry

NEW YORK - U.S. stocks dropped on Friday as investors were rattled by a nuclear test by North Korea and comments by Federal Reserve officials that hinted at a U.S. interest rate hike, putting the S&P 500 on pace for its worst day in over two months. (USA-STOCKS/ (UPDATE 4), will update throughout the day, 472 words)

Fed officials divided as September policy meeting nears

WASHINGTON/QUINCY - U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers on Friday headed toward their policy meeting later this month divided on whether a rate rise is in the offing, with some of the permanent voting members appearing wary of supporting an immediate hike. (USA-FED/ (WRAPUP 1), moved at 12:41 p.m., by Lindsay Dunsmuir and Svea Herbst-Bayliss, 489 words)

Goya must face lawsuit claiming it substituted squid for octopus

A federal judge rejected Goya Foods Inc's bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it sold canned octopus products that actually contained cheaper jumbo squid, hoping to save money because consumers would have trouble telling the difference. (GOYA-LAWSUIT/, moved at 10:31 a.m., by Jonathan Stempel, 241 words)

Teva says hoping to launch EpiPen-like device by 2018 in U.S.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd said on Friday it hoped to win U.S. approval by late 2017 or early 2018 for its version of Mylan NV's EpiPen device for treating severe allergic reactions, a move that would challenge the branded product's overwhelming market dominance. (TEVA PHARM IND-EPIPEN/ (UPDATE 1), moved at 12:09 p.m., 278 words)

GM recalls 4.3 million vehicles over air bag-related defect

WASHINGTON - General Motors Co said on Friday it will recall nearly 4.3 million vehicles worldwide due to a software defect that can prevent air bags from deploying during a crash, a flaw already linked to one death and three injuries. (GM-RECALL/ (UPDATE 1), moved at 1:17 p.m., by David Shepardson, 426 words)

Low food prices force Kroger to cut profit forecast

Kroger Co slashed its full-year profit forecast as the supermarket chain struggles with an intensifying price war with rival U.S. grocers and low prices for staple items such as milk, cheese and eggs. (KROGER-RESULTS/ (UPDATE 2), moved at 1:09 p.m., by Jessica Kuruthukulangara and Arunima Banerjee, 320 words)

Ford to buy San Francisco shuttle service in mobility push

SAN FRANCISCO - Ford Motor Co said on Friday it would acquire San Francisco-based shuttle service Chariot with plans to expand the service globally, another step in the carmaker's efforts to expands beyond auto manufacturing to become a mobility company. (FORD-SHUTTLE/ (EMBARGOED, PIX), moved at 1 p.m., 281 words)

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