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6:53 AM on Thursday, August 14

A man accused of driving into a parade of Liverpool soccer fans in May faces 24 more charges

6:37 AM on Thursday, August 14

Death toll in flash floods rises to at least 32, says disaster management official in Indian-controlled Kashmir

5:21 AM on Thursday, August 14

The U.S. State Department has approved a possible $346 million weapons sale to Nigeria to help improve security in the sub-Saharan country

5:15 AM on Thursday, August 14

Officials say a team of mountaineers has set out to recover the body of a Chinese climber from the world's second-highest peak after bad weather grounded helicopter flights

4:29 AM on Thursday, August 14

(CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously carried a dateline of MAALE ADUMIM, Israel. The dateline should be MAALE ADUMIM, West Bank.)

12:19 AM on Thursday, August 14

Japan and China are marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II with major events on different dates

11:42 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Florida has moved the education of students in juvenile detention online, despite evidence that many students struggled with online school during the pandemic

11:33 PM on Wednesday, August 13

South Korea’s Supreme Court has rejected a 30 million won damage claim by an American composer who accused a South Korean kids content company of plagiarizing his version of “Baby Shark.”

11:21 PM on Wednesday, August 13

The Olympics’ newest rowing competition is a beach run, a coastal row and a music party rolled into one

11:11 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Michael Harris II hit a grand slam to cap Atlanta’s biggest inning in almost five years — a nine-run outburst in the fourth that propelled the Braves to an 11-6 comeback win over the slumping New York Mets

11:07 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Rhode Island man accused of faking his death to avoid rape charges is found guilty of sexual assault in Utah

11:05 PM on Wednesday, August 13

President Donald Trump’s meeting in Alaska with Vladimir Putin could be a decisive moment in the war in Ukraine and in the U.S. leader’s anomalous relationship with his Russian counterpart

10:52 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Shohei Ohtani returned to the Angel Stadium mound with 4 1/3 innings of five-hit, four-run ball for the Los Angeles Dodgers in his first pitching appearance in Anaheim since he left the Los Angeles Angels nearly two years ago

8:13 PM on Wednesday, August 13

An official says three sheriff's deputies injured in gunfire while executing warrants in southern Virginia were shaken up but are “OK."

5:21 PM on Wednesday, August 13

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has dismissed South Korean claims that North Korea is removing loudspeakers along the inter-Korean border

4:28 PM on Wednesday, August 13

The leader of the small Baha’i community in Qatar has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges alleging that posts on Baha’i social media accounts “cast doubt on the foundations of the Islamic religion."

1:05 PM on Wednesday, August 13

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3:41 AM on Wednesday, August 13

Clashes have erupted for a second day at protests in Serbia between opponents and supporters of the government

11:01 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Taylor Swift’s latest era is almost upon us

11:25 PM on Monday, August 11

Taylor Swift has announced her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”