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Rockies Easily Handle Nationals To Keep Rolling On Road Trip
Kyle Freeland struck out seven over six innings, Trevor Story hit a threerun homer and the Colorado Rockies beat the Washington Nationals 60 Saturday.
US Border Agents Get Help On Custody Work, Return To Field
Dozens, even hundreds, of asylumseeking migrants often wait hours to surrender to U.S. Border Patrol agents, but the thousands of Haitians gathered at a bridge in the small Texas border town of Del Rio may be unprecedented and point to a glaring problem w...
New York Millionaire Robert Durst Guilty of Best Friend's Murder
Susan Berman was shot at point-blank range in the back of the head in her Los Angeles home in December 2000 as she was prepared to tell police how she helped cover up his wife's killing.
Grandad Defends Taking Boy From Cable Car Crash To Israel
The grandfather of a 6yearold boy who survived a cable car crash in Italy that killed his immediate family and is now the target of a bitter custody battle on Friday defended his decision to spirit the child off to Israel.
Pentagon Reverses Itself, Calls Deadly Kabul Strike An Error
The Pentagon retreated from its defense of a drone strike that killed multiple civilians in Afghanistan last month, announcing Friday that an internal review revealed that only civilians were killed in the attack, not an Islamic State extremist as first b...
Australia Agrees to Increased U.S. Air Deployments After Sub Deal
"This will include greater air cooperation through rotational deployments of all types of U.S. military aircraft to Australia," Dutton told a joint news conference in Washington.
Florida Surpasses 50K COVID Deaths After Battling Delta Wave
Florida surpassed 50,000 coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began, health officials reported Thursday, with more than one fourth of those succumbing this summer as the state battled a fierce surge in infections fueled by the delta variant.
Australia Agrees To Increased U.S. Air Deployments After Sub Deal
Australia and the United States announced expanded military cooperation on Thursday, including rotational deployments of all types of U.S. military aircraft to Australia, a day after announcing a submarine deal denounced by China as intensifying a regiona...
US, UK, Australia Launch New Trilateral Indo-Pacific Alliance to Counter China
>At the September 24 Quad summit, Biden, PM Modi, Morrison and Suga would discuss promoting a free and open Indo-Pacific
France Says Head Of Islamic State In Sahara Has Been Killed
France's president announced the death of Islamic State in the Greater Sahara's leader late Wednesday, calling Abu alWalid alSahrawi's killing a major success for the French military after more than eight years fighting extremists in the Sahel.
Police: Lawyer Murdaugh Arranged Own Death But Shot Grazed
A prominent South Carolina lawyer who found the bodies of his wife and son three months ago tried to arrange his own death earlier this month so his son would get a $10 million life insurance payment, but the planned fatal shot only grazed his head, stat...
Ex-House Speaker Settles Child Sexual Abuse Payments Suit
Once powerful former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and a man who accused him of child sexual abuse reached a tentative outofcourt settlement Wednesday over Hasterts refusal to pay $1.8 million in exchange for his silence, lawyers for both men said.
UN Encourages New Negotiations In Dispute Over Ethiopian Dam
The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday encouraged Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to resume negotiations on the contentious issue of water availability from the dam that the Ethiopians are building on the main tributary of the Nile River.
UK Cabinet Reshuffle: Rishi Sunak Retains Role as FinMin; Dominic Raab Moved Over Afghan Crisis Flak
UK PM Boris Johnson moved foreign minister Dominic Raab following sustained criticism of his handling of the Afghanistan crisis.
Worried About 'Out of Control' Trump, US General Secretly Called China; Feared Ex-Prez Could Spark War
Milley called Chinese counterpart General Li Zuocheng twice to reassure him that the Republican president's anti-China rhetoric could not translate into military action.
UN Refugee Chief Says Afghan Stability Needed, Urgent Compromise Needed to Avoid Economic Meltdown
The task of meeting Afghanistan's humanitarian needs has global support, he said, as indicated by the $1.2 billion raised by the UN on Monday.