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Tuesday 14 September 2021 08:35 BST

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TOP STORIES

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TROPICAL WEATHER — Hurricane Nicholas makes landfall along the Texas coast, bringing the threat of up to 20 inches of rainfall to parts of the Gulf Coast including the same area hit by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and storm-battered Louisiana. By Juan A. Lozano. SENT: 860 words, photos, video.

CALIFORNIA RECALL — California s recall campaign is coming to a conclusion, the final day for people in the nation's most populous to vote on whether to remove Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom a year before his first term ends. California has twice as many registered Democrats as Republicans so if the recall is successful it would be a monumental upset. By Michael R. Blood and Kathleen Ronayne. SENT: 870 words, photos, video. UPCOMING: Polls close at 11 p.m. With CALIFORNIA RECALL-5 QUESTIONS; CALIFORNIA RECALL-EXPLAINER; CALIFORNIA RECALL-GOP FRAUD CLAIMS — GOP pushes unfounded fraud claims before California recall.

BIDEN — While legislators craft the details back in Washington, President Joe Biden pitches his massive domestic spending proposal by visiting a renewable energy lab in Colorado to highlight how his investments in clean energy would help combat climate change. By Alexandra Jaffe and Darlene Superville. SENT: 700 words, photos, video. UPCOMING: 900 words after 5:30 p.m. speech.

LEBANON-CANCER PATIENTS — In Lebanon, where a devastating financial crisis has upended every day life, there are almost no therapeutic drugs to be found. The shortages are threatening the treatment of tens of thousands of people, many of whom have taken to social media and relied on travelers from abroad to secure their medication. By Bassem Mroue and Fay Abuelgasim. SENT: 950 words, photos.

CHINA-US-STRANDED-STUDENTS — Amid tensions between Beijing and Washington, China says at least 500 hundred students have had U.S. visas rejected on security grounds, a policy issued by then-President Trump to block China from obtaining U.S. technology with possible military uses. Students argue it is applied too broadly and fume at what they say is an accusation they are spies. By Fu Ting. SENT: 1,020 words, photos.

RUSSIA ELECTION-OPPOSITION — In the months before this year’s parliamentary election in Russia, the authorities unleashed an unprecedented crackdown on the opposition, making sure that the best-known and loudest Kremlin critics didn’t enter the race. By Daria Litvinova. SENT: 1,190 words, photos. With RUSSIA-ELECTION-SMART-VOTING-EXPLAINER — How Navalny election tool challenges the Kremlin; RUSSIA PUTIN ASSAD — Putin and Syria’s Assad hold talks in Moscow on rebel area.

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