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9:17 PM on Wednesday, August 27

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to attend military parade in Beijing next week, North Korean and Chinese state media say

8:25 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Carlos Alcaraz’s accidental buzz cut is moving on at the U.S. Open thanks to an easy-as-can-be victory in the second round

7:02 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A day after Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement, some wild details are emerging about how folks spread the news

6:34 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Attorneys for ousted CDC director say she was targeted for 'protecting the public over serving a political agenda' (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported Monarez made the comment.

6:26 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A jury has awarded at least $2.2 million to a protester who was shot in the face with a less-lethal munition by a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy during a demonstration against police brutality in 2020

5:33 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Cardi B has testified in a Los Angeles County court, denying allegations that she injured a security guard during her first pregnancy

5:08 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Louisiana has abandoned its defense of a political map that elected two Black members of Congress and instead called on the Supreme Court to reject any consideration of race in redistricting in a case that could bring major changes to the Voting Rights Act

4:55 PM on Wednesday, August 27

The director of the nation’s top public health agency has been fired after less than one month in the job

4:01 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A missing 12-year-old boy with autism, whose body was discovered in a New Orleans canal following a nearly two-week-long search, died from “blunt force due to an alligator” and drowning

3:57 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Jacksonville Jaguars general manager James Gladstone says two-way star and new father Travis Hunter is “rolling full speed” after missing the final two games of the preseason with an upper-body injury

3:16 PM on Wednesday, August 27

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12:32 PM on Wednesday, August 27

The Uvalde school district released only a small fraction of the documents it said would be made public related to the 2022 Robb Elementary School massacre

11:56 AM on Wednesday, August 27

The Food and Drug Administration has approved updated COVID-19 vaccines for the upcoming fall and winter season

11:43 AM on Wednesday, August 27

A top Florida official says the controversial state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades will likely be empty in a matter of days, even as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration fights a federal judge’s order to shutter the facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by a late October deadline

10:22 AM on Wednesday, August 27

Officials say a shooter opened fire during Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school, killing two children and injuring 17 other people before killing himself

7:35 AM on Wednesday, August 27

As President Donald Trump asserts more unilateral authority, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has announced that his department will take over managing Union Station from Amtrak

6:13 AM on Wednesday, August 27

A South Korean woman adopted to France in 1984 without her parents' consent is seeks compensation from South Korea's government

3:12 AM on Wednesday, August 27

Torrential rainfall has left at least 34 people dead in Pakistan and India and triggered flash floods and landslides in Indian-controlled Kashmir

3:05 AM on Wednesday, August 27

The top U.S. diplomat in Denmark has been summoned by the government after a report that people connected to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland

12:25 AM on Wednesday, August 27

Stocks edged higher ahead of a closely watched earnings report from Nvidia