BC-AP News Digest 3 am

Here are the AP’s latest coverage plans, top stories and promotable content. All times EDT.

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NEW & DEVELOPING

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BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING — Penalty phase to continue at 9 a.m.

SENATE-ATTORNEY GENERAL — Senate confirmation vote on attorney general set to begin at 9:30 a.m.

EUROPE-MIGRANTS — The EU summit on the migrant crisis to start in Brussels at 10 a.m.

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TOP STORIES

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EUROPE-MIGRANTS SUMMIT — European Union leaders gathering for an extraordinary summit are facing calls from all sides to take emergency action to save lives in the Mediterranean, where hundreds of migrants are missing and feared drowned in recent days. By Lorne Cook and Raf Casert. SENT: 500 words, photos. UPCOMING: Updates from 9 a.m.

SUSPECT DIES-BALTIMORE — The death of Freddie Gray, a Baltimore man critically injured while in police custody, sparks demonstrations across the city that touch on the fears many from his neighborhood say they feel about their everyday interactions with police. By Juliet Linderman. UPCOMING: 400 words by 4 a.m., photos.

OFFICER DIDN’T SHOOT-CAMERAS — A police officer’s personal body camera captures his decision against using deadly force in a pressure-packed situation, demonstrating a value of the cameras to police — and how some are using them on their own. The village police chief says the case highlights why he’d like to have the wearable video cameras for all his officers, but he needs to figure out to pay for them, an issue for many departments big and small. SENT: 870 words, photos, video.

BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING — The brutality and impact of the Boston Marathon bombing is brought home to jurors as survivors describe their injuries and loved ones of those who died describe their loss. By Denise Lavoie. SENT: 500 words, photos. UPCOMING: Updates from penalty phase continuing at 9 a.m.

2016-GILT BY ASSOCIATION — The 2016 presidential hopefuls are name-dropping everyone from Galileo to Nicki Minaj. By Nancy Benac. SENT: 990 words, photos.

AFGHANISTAN-JIHAD MUSEUM — At the center of Herat’s Jihad Museum is a diorama showing “mujahideen” warriors manning anti-aircraft guns, capturing Soviet tanks and dragging their wounded off the battlefield. The museum’s creators say they did not seek to glorify war, but rather to preserve the memories of sacrifice and cruelty from the bloody jihad. By Lynne O’Donnell. SENT: 920 words, photos.

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WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT

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CHILE-VOLCANO ERUPTS — Calbuco volcano erupts in southern Chile for first time since 1972; nearby town evacuated. SENT: 330 words, photos. With video CHILE_VOLCANO.

PEOPLE-COLBERT READS — Stephen Colbert reads Flannery O’Connor story for ‘Selected Shorts’ program. SENT: 110 words.

FILM-CINEMACON-SONY — Sony announces animated Spider-Man from ‘Lego Movie’ team, does not address ‘The Interview.’ SENT: 490 words.

OBIT-MH ABRAMS — M.H. Abrams, an esteemed critic, teacher and tastemaker who helped shape the modern literary canon as founding editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature, dies at the age of 102. SENT: 810 words, photos.

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INTERNATIONAL

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MEXICO-US-GIRL SEIZED — Hauled out of school, a 14-year-old is ordered by a Mexican judge to go to Texas with a woman claiming the girl as her long-lost daughter. Only after reaching Houston are DNA tests done — and Alondra Luna Nunez isn’t the missing daughter. By Peter Orsi. SENT: 700 words, photos.

CAMBODIA-UNLIKELY ASYLUM — Australia has long warned the more than 700 asylum seekers it has detained on the remote Pacific Island nation of Nauru they will never be welcome on its shores. But it is now hard-selling another unlikely destination it claims offers “a wealth of opportunity” to start a new life: Cambodia. By Todd Pitman. UPCOMING: 950 words by 9 a.m., photos.

BRITAIN-NICOLA STURGEON’S MOMENT — Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon is the biggest thing in U.K. politics right now. By Danica Kirka. UPCOMING: 1,000 words by 5 a.m., photos.

COLOMBIA-PROFESSIONAL LIARS — Trust in Colombia’s justice system is undermined by corrupt lawyers paying professional liars to testify in court, and a special task force investigating some 3,000 suspected cases leads to 100 convictions being overturned. By Jacobo G. Garcia. SENT: 970 words, photos.

SUDAN NILE FISHERMEN PHOTO ESSAY — At the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile near Sudan’s capital Khartoum, 35-year-old Younis Hamad al-Nil sails his boat from sunrise to sunset, searching the wide waters for today’s catch. By Maggie Michael and Mosa’ab Elshami. SENT: 340 words.

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WASHINGTON & POLITICS

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SENATE-ATTORNEY GENERAL — Five months after she was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as attorney general, Loretta Lynch will finally get her confirmation vote in the Senate. By Erica Werner. SENT: 400 words, photo. UPCOMING: 700 words after Senate convenes at 9:30 a.m.

PETRAEUS SENTENCING — Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an affair with his biographer, is being sentenced for giving the woman classified information on war strategy while she worked on the book. By Mitch Weiss. SENT: 500 words, photos. UPCOMING: Updates after 2:30 p.m. sentencing.

CAPITOL AIRCRAFT — Congressional lawmakers want law enforcement agencies to explain how they determined that a small gyrocopter didn’t pose a threat to the Capitol. By Matthew Daly. SENT: 590 words, photos.

TRADE — Backers of President Barack Obama’s trade agenda hope a Senate committee’s endorsement will help overcome partisan divides in the House. By Charles Babington. SENT: 620 words, photo. UPCOMING: 700 words after House committee meeting at 9 a.m.

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NATIONAL

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FERGUSON-CIVIL LAWSUIT — Lawyers for the parents of Michael Brown, the unarmed, black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a white police officer in a St. Louis suburb, announce that they plan to file a civil lawsuit Thursday against the city of Ferguson. SENT: 240 words, photo. UPCOMING: Updates from 11:30 a.m. news conference.

ISLAMIC STATE-AMERICANS-MINNESOTA — A detention hearing is set for Thursday in federal court in St. Paul for four of the six Minnesotans who are accused of plotting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group. By Amy Forliti. SENT: 130 words, photos. UPCOMING: Updates from 9 a.m. hearing.

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BUSINESS

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GREECE-SHIFTING DEADLINES — Eurozone talks this week were meant to be the date when Greece solves its latest financial emergency. But there is little progress, darkening the clouds of uncertainty over the country. By Pan Pylas. UPCOMING: 800 words by 4 a.m., photos.

CHINA-US-VOLVO — The all-new Volvo XC90 and the premium plug-in hybrid S60L rolling off the assembly lines in Volvo’s main Chinese factory in Chengdu are the first made-in-China cars to be exported to the United States. By Joe McDonald. UPCOMING: 800 words by 4 a.m., photos.

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HEALTH/SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

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TRACKING LISTERIA-Q&A — The government is using new technology to track a life-threatening outbreak of listeria linked to Blue Bell ice cream products. By Mary Calre Jalonick. SENT: 730 words, photo.

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ENTERTAINMENT

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NOT YOUR FATHER’S SYMPHONY — The San Francisco Symphony comes up with a Vegas-like way to attract a younger audience: a nightclub built behind the symphony’s main concert hall with a state-of-the-art sound system, high-tech lighting and artistic video images. By Olga R. Rodriguez. SENT: 530 words, photos, video.

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SPORTS

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NFL CONCUSSION LAWSUIT — A federal judge approves a settlement that is expected to cost the NFL $1 billion to resolve thousands of concussion lawsuits. By Maryclaire Dale. SENT: 900 words, photos.

BONDS-LEGACY — For the first time in more than a decade, Barry Bonds is in the clear. His conviction overturned on appeal, baseball’s home run king is no longer a felon. Yet his reputation might have been forever tarnished and the Hall of Fame’s doors could remain shut. By Janie McCauley. SENT: 580 words, photos.

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