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10:17 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

8:02 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

7:40 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Daniil Medvedev has been fined $42,500 by the U.S. Open for his meltdown during a first-round loss after a photographer wandered onto the court during the match

7:36 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A federal judge has ordered a new trial for an Alabama man on death row who argued that DNA evidence shows he's innocent

7:34 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.

7:26 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

6:33 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

6:08 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

5:55 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

5:01 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

4:16 PM on Wednesday, August 27

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3:16 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Federal officials say they are investigating the discovery of cremated human remains in the Nevada desert

12:56 PM on Wednesday, August 27

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

12:43 PM 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

11:22 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

8:58 AM on Wednesday, August 27

Israel is on the brink of launching another major offensive, this time in famine-stricken Gaza City

8:35 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

4:12 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

4:05 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

12:06 AM on Wednesday, August 27

Donald Trump’s vow to fire Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook is at the intersection of the Republican president’s efforts to consolidate power and purge diverse voices from the higher ranks of American leadership