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9:30 PM on Thursday, August 13

Kyle Schwarber grew up in Middletown, Ohio, played college ball at Indiana and spent his first six major league seasons with the Chicago Cubs

9:02 PM on Thursday, August 13

Ellen Greene is revisiting one of her defining roles for the 40th anniversary of “Little Shop of Horrors.”

8:03 PM on Thursday, August 13

Top overall draft pick Fernando Mendoza threw a touchdown pass in his first Raiders preseason game on Thursday night

7:05 PM on Thursday, August 13

Advocates are speaking against a sweeping undercover federal surveillance operation that court documents say targeted progressive groups and unions protesting the Minneapolis immigration crackdown

6:15 PM on Thursday, August 13

Josh Kushner and partner Bob Iger reached a deal this week to purchase control of the Los Angeles Lakers at a valuation of $12.5 billion

6:10 PM on Thursday, August 13

Major League Baseball came back to the Field of Dreams carrying a big piece of Cooperstown

6:00 PM on Thursday, August 13

North Korea has threatened unspecified stern steps against the United States and South Korea, slamming their upcoming military drills as a war rehearsal that it claimed would be more provocative than last year

5:34 PM on Thursday, August 13

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and negotiator Jared Kushner will travel to the Middle East next week to try to advance plans for an end to the conflict in Gaza after a deal recently announced by the Trump administration ran into Israeli opposition

4:11 PM on Thursday, August 13

A judge has dismissed Nevada’s fake electors case

2:29 PM on Thursday, August 13

LSU coach Lane Kiffin said Thursday that he is standing by his initial stance on allowing cornerback D

9:59 AM on Thursday, August 13

Rome’s ancient Nero’s Bridge has reemerged from the Tiber River as exceptionally low water levels expose parts of the historic structure near St. Peter’s Basilica

8:28 AM on Thursday, August 13

Rescuers in Colombia are calling for silence as they listen for signs of life in the rubble left by a deadly earthquake

8:23 AM on Thursday, August 13

Crew members of a Yemeni ship attacked by Houthi rebels earlier this week say a second missile hit during rescue efforts, causing more chaos and casualties

7:54 AM on Thursday, August 13

A British maritime company has been hired to salvage a grounded Russian tanker off Oman and stop a spreading oil spill

3:42 AM on Thursday, August 13

Clashes between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and government forces in Yemen raged overnight

2:00 AM on Thursday, August 13

Israeli settlers have besieged three homes in the occupied West Bank, including one owned by a Palestinian American, for several days

12:54 AM on Thursday, August 13

For 30 minutes, the internet in parts of Taiwan crawled

9:08 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Firefighters are tackling multiple fires in central England on a day that the U.K. recorded its hottest day of the year as an intense stretch of hot weather continued to grip Europe

9:03 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Tennessee and Oklahoma have put inmates to death within 30 minutes of each other and Alabama followed suit hours later as U.S. states executed three men in one day

6:03 PM on Wednesday, August 12

A grand jury in Louisiana has declined to indict a former law enforcement officer who was accused of planning to kill Black people in a mass shooting at a New Orleans festival