Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks to supporters at a primary night election rally in Manchester, N.H., Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. SANDERS EDGES BUTTIGIEG IN NEW HAMPSHIRE The self-described democratic socialist edges his moderate rival and scores the first clear victory in the Democratic Party's chaotic 2020 nomination fight.
2. CONCERNS GROW OVER NEVADA'S CAUCUS Volunteers say key information had yet to be shared, there has been no hands-on training with iPads being deployed to caucus sites nor opportunities to try out a new 'œtool.'ť
3. POPE FRANCIS DEFLECTS MARRIED PRIESTS ISSUE The pontiff declines to approve the ordination of married men to address the priest shortage in the Amazon, sidestepping a fraught issue.
4. CHINA'S COMMUNIST PARTY FACES DILEMMA Xi Jinping's government can either admit a viral outbreak isn't under control or bring 3,000 legislators to Beijing next month and risk fueling public anger at its handling of the disease.
5. ROGER STONE CASE TAKES UNEXPECTED TURN The lawyers who prosecuted Trump's longtime ally and confidant quit the case after the Justice Department overrules them and says it will take the extraordinary step of lowering the amount of prison time it is seeking.
6. WHAT MATERIAL IS ON THE RISE Incidents of white supremacist propaganda distributed across the nation jumps by more than 120% between 2018 and last year, an anti-bias group says.
7. WHERE ASIAN CARP BATTLE HAS OPENED In Kentucky, where the invasive species threatens to upend aquatic ecosystems, starve out native fish and wipe out endangered mussel and snail populations along the Mississippi River and dozens of tributaries.
8. GREATER SCRUTINY OF VINDMAN URGED Trump suggests that the Pentagon review the conduct of a former White House national security aide who played a central role in the Democrats' impeachment case.
9. DON'T GET ANGRY AND KEEP SMILING That's Chitetsu Watanabe secret to longevity as the Japanese man became the world's oldest male at 112 years and 344 days old, according to Guinness World Records.
10. BLUES GET A SCARE WHEN PLAYER STRICKEN St. Louis defenseman Jay Bouwmeester is hospitalized and undergoing tests after suffering a cardiac episode and collapsing on the bench during a game in Anaheim.
New Hampshire primary voters wait for their voting precinct to open outside Parker-Varney Elementary School, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Customer has lunch with a transparent plastic panel setup on the table to isolate her from others in hopes of stopping the spread of the coronavirus in a Hong Kong, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. China's ruling Communist Party needs to make a politically fraught decision: Admit a viral outbreak isn't under control and cancel this year's highest-profile official event. Or bring 3,000 legislators to Beijing next month and risk fueling public anger at the government's handling of the disease. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a worker cleans the floor of a temporary hospital with 1,100 beds converted from the Wuhan Sports Center in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. Without enough facilities to handle the number of cases of viral infection, Wuhan has been building prefabricated hospitals and converting a gym and other large spaces to house patients and try to isolate them from others. (Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua via AP)
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Syrian government helicopter is shot by a missile in Idlib province, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. Syrian rebels shot down a government helicopter Tuesday in the country's northwest where Syrian troops are on the offensive in the last rebel stronghold. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
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Palestinians clash with Israeli forces during a protest against President Donald Trump's Mideast initiative in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas plans to deliver a speech at the U.N. later in the day, but members will not be voting on a draft resolution. Palestinian officials denied the resolution had been pulled, but diplomats said many members, including European countries, rejected the language in a draft that had circulated. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed).
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Government supporters, left and front, fight with a member of the opposition who is awaiting the arrival of opposition leader Juan Guaido at the Simon Bolivar International Airport in La Guaira, Venezuela, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. Guaido is expected to return to Venezuela from a tour of nations that back his effort to oust socialist leader Nicolás Maduro. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
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Milena Jami whips her llama to win the first place in the a race for children of ages seven and eight at the Llanganates National Park, Ecuador, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020. Wooly llamas, an animal emblematic of the Andean mountains in South America, become the star for a day each year when Ecuadoreans dress up their prized animals for children to ride them in 500-meter races. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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In this Feb. 7, 2020 photo, a photographer offers burial service photos to Carmen Quispe at a cemetery in Lima, Peru. Quispe was able to bury her son, father, mother, brother and niece in a Lima cemetery facing the Pacific, almost three decades after they died under the ravages of cholera while being held by the terrorist group Shining Path in the Amazon of Peru. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Sebastian Steudtner from Germany rides a wave during the Nazare Tow Surfing Challenge at Praia do Norte or North Beach in Nazare, Portugal, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
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