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5:34 AM on Friday, August 15

Retail sales rose 0.5% in July from June particularly in autos as spending remains solid even in a tariff environment

4:46 AM on Friday, August 15

Shares of UnitedHealth Group are surging before the market open Friday as Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed that it recently purchased shares of the beleaguered insurer

4:06 AM on Friday, August 15

The human ancestor fossil known as Lucy has left Ethiopia for display in a European museum

4:00 AM on Friday, August 15

Official says at least 56 killed in flash floods in Pakistan’s northwestern Buner district

3:07 AM on Friday, August 15

Hezbollah's leader has vowed not to disarm, saying the Lebanese government's decision to remove its weapons by the end of the year serves Israel's interests

12:08 AM on Friday, August 15

Officials in Pakistan say flash floods triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 49 people in the northwest and elsewhere in the country over the past 24 hours

12:02 AM on Friday, August 15

Flash floods triggered by heavy rains kill at least 49 people in northwestern Pakistan, officials say

11:44 PM on Thursday, August 14

A senior lawyer in Australia has apologized to a judge for using AI-generated fake quotes and nonexistent case judgments in a murder case

10:53 PM on Thursday, August 14

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned Pakistan that India will punish its archrival neighbor if there are future attacks on India

10:24 PM on Thursday, August 14

Plastic pollution treaty talks are ending in Geneva with no agreement

10:02 PM on Thursday, August 14

Days before the leaders of Russia and the U.S. hold a summit meeting in Alaska, Moscow’s forces breached Ukrainian lines in a series of infiltrations this week in the country’s industrial heartland of Donetsk

9:43 PM on Thursday, August 14

The clearing of homeless encampments in the nation's capital is unfolding under what President Donald Trump calls his Making D

9:05 PM on Thursday, August 14

Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip 20 years ago, dismantling 21 Jewish settlements and pulling out its forces

8:48 PM on Thursday, August 14

Paleontologists have identified a new whale species from a 25-million-year-old fossil found on an Australian beach

7:42 PM on Thursday, August 14

Attorney General Pam Bondi has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration to be Washington’s “emergency police commissioner” as she carries out President Donald Trump’s unprecedented decision to take over the Washington police department

7:38 PM on Thursday, August 14

South Korea’s new liberal president, Lee Jae Myung, says he will seek to restore a 2018 military agreement with North Korea aimed at reducing border tensions and urged Pyongyang to respond to Seoul’s efforts to rebuild trust and revive dialogue

10:31 AM on Thursday, August 14

Attorney General Pam Bondi has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration as Washington’s “emergency police commissioner,” saying she is granting him the powers of the police chief amid President Donald Trump’s takeover

5:57 AM on Thursday, August 14

Thousands of anti-government protesters are back on the streets of Serbia after two days of clashes with loyalists of populist President Aleksandar Vucic and riot police that left dozens injured or detained

5:06 AM on Thursday, August 14

Firefighters with air support are scrambling to control a fast-moving wildfire that erupted in hills along Interstate 5 in northwestern Los Angeles County

2:51 AM on Thursday, August 14

Flash floods caused by torrential rains in Indian-controlled Kashmir have left at least 56 people