Clinton campaign faults AP study ... 11 dead in Italian quake ... Vice President in Turkey

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton's campaign is criticizing an Associated Press analysis as flawed. The AP found that more than half the people outside the government who'd met with Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money to the Clinton Foundation. Clinton's campaign says the AP did not include meetings with foreign diplomats or U.S. officials, and that the AP examined only the first half of Clinton's tenure at the State Department.

AMATRICE, Italy (AP) — At least 11 people are reported dead after a strong earthquake rocked central Italy early today, collapsing homes on top of residents as they slept. Rescue crews are racing to dig out survivors. But the toll is expected to rise as crews reach homes in harder-to-reach hamlets. The hardest-hit towns were Amatrice (ah-mah-TREE'-cheh) and Accumoli (ah-KOO'-moh-lee) some 80 miles northeast of Rome.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Ankara for talks with Turkish leaders as Turkey carries out a military operation to clear a Syrian border town of Islamic State militants. Biden is scheduled to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (REH'-jehp TY'-ihp UR'-doh-wahn) as well as the prime minister.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina Highway Patrol is urging people to not jump to conclusions after a trooper shot and killed a deaf driver. Authorities are investigating how the driver, who had a history of minor offenses, ended up dead after leading the trooper on a 10-mile chase. The family of Daniel Kevin Harris says he was unarmed and suggested the sequence of events last week was a tragic misunderstanding.

HONOLULU (AP) — Federal regulators are proposing to ban swimming with dolphins in Hawaii. Such a move could imperil one of the Aloha State's most popular tourist activities and the industry that has sprung up around it. The National Marine Fisheries Service says spinner dolphins that humans in Hawaii routinely frolic with are being deprived of rest and becoming stressed out.