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BREAKING
Trump's wife files suit against blogger, Daily Mail over 'escort' reports
WASHINGTON - Melania Trump, wife of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, on Thursday filed a lawsuit against two media entities for libel over reports that she was an "escort" in the 1990s. (USA-ELECTION/TRUMP-MELANIA (URGENT), moved, 111 words)
TOP STORIES
Rocket explodes on launch pad in blow to Elon Musk's SpaceX
CAPE CANAVERAL - An explosion destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket belonging to Elon Musk's SpaceX and its cargo during preparations for a routine test firing at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday, two days before it had been due to blast off and place a satellite in orbit. (SPACE X-BLAST/ (UPDATE 6, PIX, TV, GRAPHICS), moved at 4:16 p.m., by Irene Klotz, 1000 words)
Hispanic backers move away from Trump after immigration speech
WILMINGTON - Some of Donald Trump's Hispanic backers are distancing themselves from the Republican nominee after he stood by a hardline approach to illegal immigration in a key speech and ignored intra-party calls to soften his tone. (USA-ELECTION/ (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved at 2:39 p.m., by Emily Stephenson and Amanda Becker, 634 words) See also: Mexico calls Trump wall plan "outrageous" after visit (USA-ELECTION/MEXICO (UPDATE 1), moved at 3:31 p.m., by Emily Stephenson, 388 words)
Florida braces for first hurricane in more than a decade
TAMPA - Hermine gathered strength to reach hurricane status on Thursday as residents of Florida's northern Gulf Coast scrambled for sandbags, stocked up on food and evacuated low-lying areas ahead of what their governor called "a life-threatening storm." (STORM-ATLANTIC/ (UPDATE 5, PIX, TV, GRAPHICS), moved at 3:37 p.m., by Letitia Stein, 543 words)
CAMPAIGN
Trump's immigration pitch falls flat with Republicans near the border
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's effort to clarify his position on illegal immigration during visits to both sides of the U.S.-Mexico frontier on Wednesday did little to sway moderate Republicans near the border, a dozen voters in Arizona told Reuters on Thursday. (USA-ELECTION/REPUBLICANS (PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved at 4:37 p.m., by Ginger Gibson and Michelle Conlin, 659 words)
Democrat Clinton raised more than $140 million in August- campaign
WASHINGTON - U.S. Democrat Hillary Clinton raised about $143 million in August for her presidential bid and the Democratic Party, the her campaign announced on Thursday. (USA-ELECTION/CLINTON-FUNDRAISING (UPDATE 2), moved, 400 words)
Who is hacking U.S. election databases and why are they so difficult to identify?
This summer has been rife with news of election-related hacking. Last month it was the Democratic National Committee; this week, voter election databases in Illinois and Arizona. (BEYER-CYBER/ (COLUMN), by Jessica L. Beyer, 861 words)
WASHINGTON
U.S. imposes sanctions on 'Putin's bridge' to Crimea
MOSCOW/WASHINGTON - Companies building a multi-billion dollar bridge to link the Russian mainland with annexed Crimea, a project close to the heart President Vladimir Putin, were targeted by the United States in an updated sanctions blacklist on Thursday. (UKRAINE-CRISIS/RUSSIA-USA-SANCTIONS (UPDATE 2), moved at 2:40 p.m., by Jack Stubbs and Yeganeh Torbati, 481 words)
U.S. Senate's Reid warns against postponing spending decisions
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Democrats would not agree to postponing completion of this year's spending legislation until 2017, the chamber's top Democrat said on Thursday, warning the majority Republicans against considering such an approach when Congress returns next week. (USA-CONGRESS/SPENDING, moved at 3:06 p.m., by Susan Cornwell, 389 words)
Obama visits Midway Atoll, a symbol of his climate, Asia legacy
HONOLULU - President Barack Obama on Thursday was set to visit Midway Atoll, the remote coral reef that serves as a reminder of both modern global climate challenges and the dominance the United States has held in the Pacific since its World War Two victory there. (USA-OBAMA/MIDWAY (UPDATE 1, PIX, GRAPHIC), moved at 1:27 p.m., by Roberta Rampton, 678 words)
OTHER U.S. NEWS
Florida finds first local mosquitoes with Zika virus
Florida officials on Thursday said they have trapped the first mosquitoes that tested positive for the Zika virus in the Miami area, further confirming reports of local U.S. transmission of the illness that can cause severe birth defects. (HEALTH-ZIKA/FLORIDA (UPDATE 1), moved at 2:46 p.m., 411 words)
Georgetown University to apologize for slavery past
WASHINGTON - Georgetown University will apologize on Thursday for its historical links to slavery, saying it would give an admissions edge to descendants of slaves whose sale in the 19th century helped pay off the U.S. school's debts. (DISTRICTOFCOLUMBIA-GEORGETOWN/SLAVES (UPDATE 2, PIX, TV), moved at 2:25 p.m., by Ian Simpson, 426 words)
Hurricane Hermine will complicate Florida's Zika fight -experts
CHICAGO - Hurricane Hermine, set to cause flooding and damage when it hits Florida overnight, will make it harder for the state to fight Zika, a mosquito-borne virus shown to cause birth defects, experts in infectious diseases and mosquitoes said on Thursday. (STORM-ATLANTIC/ZIKA (PIX), moved, 572 words)
Hurricane Hermine dampens Florida tourism on U.S. holiday weekend
Before it even made landfall on Thursday, Hurricane Hermine had battered Florida's $89-billion tourism industry, snarling travel, canceling a country music festival and scaring visitors away at the start of the U.S. Labor Day holiday weekend. (STORM-ATLANTIC/TRAVEL (PIX), moved, 471 words)
White nationalists use Twitter with 'relative impunity' - report
WASHINGTON - White nationalists and self-identified Nazi sympathizers located mostly in the United States use Twitter with "relative impunity" and often have far more followers than militant Islamists, a study being released on Thursday found. (CYBER-WHITENATIONALISTS/TWITTER (UPDATE 1), moved at 12:47 p.m., by Dustin Volz, 498 words)
Eyes on NFL's Kaepernick in San Diego amid anthem protest
SAN DIEGO - All eyes will be on San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick at a Thursday night football game to see if he will sit again during the U.S. national anthem to protest racial injustice in the United States. (NFL-KAEPERNICK/ (UPDATE 2, PIX, TV), moved at 3:52 p.m., will be led, 516 words)
N.Y. man pleads not guilty to killings of imam, associate
NEW YORK - A New York man pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges he shot dead a Muslim cleric and his associate last month on the street after they left a mosque in Queens, prosecutors said. (NEW YORK-SHOOTING/ (PIX), moved at 1:31 p.m., 141 words)
U.S. astronauts perform seven-hour spacewalk outside station
CAPE CANAVERAL - Two U.S. astronauts sailed through a seven-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Thursday to pack up a spare cooling radiator and tackle other maintenance, a NASA TV broadcast showed. (SPACE-SPACEWALK/ (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV), moved at 4:49 p.m., by Irene Klotz, 369 words)
Romanian hacker 'Guccifer' sentenced to 52 months in U.S. prison
WASHINGTON - A Romanian hacker nicknamed "Guccifer" who helped expose the existence of a private email domain Hillary Clinton used when she was U.S. secretary of state was sentenced on Thursday to 52 months in prison by a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. (USA-CYBER/GUCCIFER (UPDATE 2, TV), moved at 12:38 p.m., by Dustin Volz, 303 words)
Muslim holiday to fall day after Sept. 11, easing concern
NEW YORK - For weeks, Muslim leaders in the United States were concerned that the holiday Eid al-Adha would fall on Sept. 11, causing some people to misintepret celebrations taking place on the 15th anniversary of the al Qaeda attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. (USA-SEPT11/EID, moving shortly, 250 words)
More reforms, including Tasers, slated for N.Y.'s Rikers jail
NEW YORK - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday announced a new raft of reforms aimed at improving safety at the city's notorious Rikers Island jail complex, including equipping some senior officers with Tasers and installing full body scanners for visitors. (NEW YORK-PRISON/ (PIX, TV), moving shortly, 340 words)
WORLD
Offshore quake prompts temporary evacuation of New Zealand coastal area
WELLINGTON - People living in coastal areas of New Zealand closest to a huge earthquake that struck offshore early on Friday were temporarily ordered to evacuate due to fears of a tsunami. (QUAKE-NEWZEALAND/ (UPDATE 4), moved, 323 words)
Over 1,000 arrested as post-election riots rage in Gabon
LIBREVILLE - Three people were killed and up to 1,100 were arrested in Gabon on Thursday, the government said, in a second day of rioting over the announcement of President Ali Bongo's re-election and his main rival's accusation that the vote was rigged. (GABON-ELECTION/ (UPDATE 4, PIX), moved at 1:59 p.m., by Gerauds Wilfried Obangome, 818 words)
Venezuelan opposition floods Caracas in vast anti-Maduro protest
CARACAS - Opponents of President Nicolas Maduro flooded Venezuela's capital on Thursday in one of the biggest mass protests against socialist rule for more than a decade. (VENEZUELA-POLITICS/ (UPDATE 5, PIX, TV), moved at 3:52 p.m., by Diego Oré and Brian Ellsworth, 710 words)
First known TV interview with Nelson Mandela comes to light
JOHANNESBURG - The first known television interview with South Africa's late anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela has emerged, featuring a bearded activist defiantly vowing to fight racism in footage believed to have dated from 1956. (SAFRICA-MANDELA/ (TV), moved, 310 words)
Brazil's ousted President Rousseff appeals to Supreme Court
BRASILIA - Brazil's ousted President Dilma Rousseff appealed to the Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn the Senate's decision to remove her from office for breaking budgetary rules. (BRAZIL-POLITICS/ (PIX), moved, 325 words)
HEALTH AND SCIENCE
Expectations may influence side effects of breast cancer hormone therapy
Side effects from taking tamoxifen for breast cancer may be worse if a patient expects they will be bad before therapy even begins, according to a recent study from Germany. (HEALTH-BREASTCANCER/SIDEFFECTS-EXPECTATIONS, moved at 4:19 p.m., by Kathryn Doyle, 531 words)
ENTERTAINMENT AND LIFESTYLE
Jackie Chan to get lifetime achievement Oscar
LOS ANGELES - Martial arts expert and actor Jackie Chan will receive a lifetime achievement Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Thursday. (AWARDS-OSCARS/LIFETIME (TV, PIX), moved at 12:59 p.m., 171 words)
Wenders chooses 3D to bring intimacy to talk of women and men
VENICE - Wim Wenders shot "Les Beaux Jours d'Aranjuez," an adaptation of a play by Austrian writer Peter Handke, in 3D to draw viewers more intimately into a dialog about how men see women and how women see men, the veteran German director said on Thursday. (FILMFESTIVAL-VENICE/LESBEAUXJOURSDARANJUEZ (TV, PIX), moved at 2:50 p.m., 276 words)
Amy Adams leads in sci-fi thriller as Oscar buzz builds in Venice
VENICE - Five-time Academy Award nominee Amy Adams may get closer to finally landing an Oscar as two of her movies are competing at the Venice film festival this year, including Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi thriller "Arrival." (FILMFESTIVAL-VENICE/ARRIVAL (TV, PIX), moved at 11:42 a.m., by Agnieszka Flak and Sarah Mills, 395 words)
Portraying motherhood biggest challenge in new release for Oscar winner Vikander
VENICE - Portraying the joys and pains of motherhood in Derek Cianfrance's "The Light Between Oceans" that premieres at the Venice film festival on Thursday was one of the biggest challenges for 27-year-old Swedish Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander. (FILMFESTIVAL-VENICE/THELIGHTBETWEENOCEANS (PIX, TV), moved at 12:41 p.m., 329 words)
Hollywood studios, football leagues urge EU rethink on copyright
BRUSSELS - The heads of some of the biggest Hollywood studios, commercial broadcasters and European football leagues have urged the European Union to reconsider a planned copyright overhaul they fear will lead to lower investment in films and TV shows. (EU-COPYRIGHT/, moved at 3:43 p.m., by Julia Fioretti, 452 words)
BUSINESS AND MARKETS
Wall Street flat as tech offsets manufacturing data
NEW YORK - U.S. stocks were flat on Thursday, with gains in the tech sector offseting sluggish factory activity data and lower oil prices, as investors exercised caution ahead of a key payrolls report on Friday. (USA-STOCKS/ (UPDATE 6), by Chuck Mikolajczak, 458 words) See also: GLOBAL-MARKETS/ (WRAPUP 7), moved at 4:29 p.m., 487 words
HP Enterprise in talks to sell software unit to Thoma Bravo -sources
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co is in talks with buyout firm Thoma Bravo LLC to sell its software division, hoping it can fetch between $8 billion and $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. (HPE-SOFTWARE/THOMABRAVO (EXCLUSIVE, UPDATE 1, PIX), moved at 4:46 p.m., by Greg Roumeliotis and Liana B. Baker, 494 words)
Fed may stay cool on September hike even if job market glows hot
SAN FRANCISCO - Even if a report due Friday shows U.S. companies kept up their rapid pace of hiring in August, there is still enough resistance among policymakers at the Federal Reserve to delay an interest-rate hike at the bank's September meeting. (USA-ECONOMY/FED (ANALYSIS), moved at 3:40 p.m., by Ann Saphir, 650 words)
U.S. factory activity contracts in August; layoffs remain low
WASHINGTON - U.S. factory activity contracted in August for the first time in six months as new orders and production tumbled, but a low level of layoffs continued to point to a pickup in economic growth in the third quarter. (USA-ECONOMY/ (WRAPUP 3), moved at 12:42 p.m., by Lucia Mutikani, 734 words) See also: August U.S. auto sales down; carmakers say industry has peaked (USA-AUTOS/ (UPDATE 4), moved at 4:38 p.m., by Bernie Woodall, 671 words)
Wal-Mart to cut 7,000 U.S. store back-office jobs
Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Thursday it will cut about 7,000 back-office jobs, mostly in accounting and invoicing positions at its U.S. stores, continuing a program it announced in June of cutting such jobs on the West Coast. (WALMART-LAYOFFS/ (UPDATE 2), moved at 1:17 p.m., 261 words)
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