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2:23 AM on Sunday, July 19

China's top anti-graft watchdog has announced an investigation into a former president of China Development Bank

12:13 AM on Sunday, July 19

In Japan, the Gion Matsuri festival brings towering floats to the streets in Shinto religious processions that are rooted in rituals dating back more than 1,000 years and that were intended to ward off epidemics

11:36 PM on Saturday, July 18

Rescue crews are using excavators on Sunday to search the rubble for survivors of a landslide in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing that killed at least eight people and left another 34 missing

10:49 PM on Saturday, July 18

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7:03 PM on Saturday, July 18

Wilyer Abreu hit two home runs — the second a go-ahead, two-run shot in the seventh inning that gave him four homers in two games — and the Boston Red Sox rallied for a 7-6 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday to extend their winning streak to 12 games

6:22 PM on Saturday, July 18

Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested by federal authorities in Miami

6:16 PM on Saturday, July 18

Toronto Tempo coach Sandy Brondello has been suspended for one game by the WNBA for an inappropriate comment she used during a game against the Atlanta Dream on Friday

5:53 PM on Saturday, July 18

Aaron Judge will need another scan before increasing activity as his fractured rib heals

5:43 PM on Saturday, July 18

Kylian Mbappé moved past Lionel Messi for the career World Cup scoring record with 22 goals, scoring twice for France in a 6-4 loss to England in the third-place match

5:33 PM on Saturday, July 18

Ryan Blaney is on a tear with eight straight top 10 finishes, including a win last week at Atlanta

4:51 PM on Saturday, July 18

Taylor Farms has expanded a voluntary recall of its iceberg lettuce products sourced from central Mexico because of a potential link to the multistate cyclospora outbreak that has sickened people across the U.S. The California-based company said products with the potential to be contaminated with the diarrhea-causing parasite were shipped to 27 states including Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania and Illinois

4:01 PM on Saturday, July 18

Bukayo Saka scored three goals to lead England to a 6-4 win over France for third place in the World Cup, while Kylian Mbappé surpassed Lionel Messi’s career World Cup scoring record and took the lead in the Golden Boot race with a pair of second-half goals

2:49 PM on Saturday, July 18

Sam Burns has a great chance to win a major he never planned on playing

2:20 PM on Saturday, July 18

The ball from current Cubs first baseman Michael Busch’s first inning solo homer against Minnesota was recovered in Wrigley Field’s right-field bleachers by former Chicago first baseman Anthony Rizzo

2:08 PM on Saturday, July 18

Bryson DeChambeau enjoyed overwhelmingly positive support from the galleries at Royal Birkdale the day after his heated brush with officials and subsequent two-shot penalty at the British Open

12:20 PM on Saturday, July 18

Meteorologists say smoke from the Canadian wildfires that has engulfed the Northeast in haze is expected to mostly clear from the New Jersey area just in time for the World Cup final on Sunday, thanks to thunderstorms passing through the area

10:33 AM on Saturday, July 18

David Crowley has reentered Wisconsin's Democratic primary for governor, two weeks after suspending his campaign

8:39 AM on Saturday, July 18

Ryan Fox has joined the list of players with a major championship scoring record

3:56 AM on Saturday, July 18

Russian officials report that Ukrainian drone attacks overnight and later on Saturday have killed nine people and wounded more than 80 others

2:31 AM on Saturday, July 18

The U.S. military says it has carried out new airstrikes against Iran to “swiftly punish” the country’s Revolutionary Guard for an attack in Jordan that killed two American service members, left one more missing and four requiring hospitalization