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3:11 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Deshaun Watson will start Cleveland’s exhibition opener at Chicago on Saturday

2:50 PM on Wednesday, August 12

The United Nations says Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have detained two Afghan members of the U.N. political mission in the country

2:21 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Brazil’s Supreme Court has upheld state laws denying tax incentives to farmers who adhered to the country's soy moratorium

2:03 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Officials say an Army Apache attack helicopter crashed in a central Texas field, killing both people on board and sparking a wildfire that forced several homes to be evacuated

1:35 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Republicans in Minnesota see a chance to regain influence after a fraud scandal rocked state government

12:53 PM on Wednesday, August 12

The Department of Justice has charged nearly a dozen people with participating in a multimillion-dollar scheme to help hundreds of Chinese nationals fraudulently obtain green cards through sham marriages to U.S. citizens

12:19 PM on Wednesday, August 12

A small Kansas town has agreed to pay $850,000 to a former reporter at its weekly newspaper to end her federal lawsuit over a police raid of the paper’s offices in 2023 that ignited a national furor over press freedom

12:05 PM on Wednesday, August 12

The Jonas Brothers will perform at halftime of the NFL’s season opener between the San Francisco 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

11:17 AM on Wednesday, August 12

A Pentagon review has found that U.S. airstrikes targeting Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen last year killed more than 150 civilians

8:56 AM on Wednesday, August 12

The New York Knicks are going to open both of their title defenses against LeBron James and the Philadelphia 76ers

8:32 AM on Wednesday, August 12

Results in Democratic primaries in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Connecticut have reiterated that Democratic voters are hungry for change, even as they remain divided over the party’s ideological future

8:10 AM on Wednesday, August 12

David Crowley’s razor-thin primary win over a democratic socialist in swing state Wisconsin sets up a match against a congressman who has voted with President Donald Trump 100% of the time

8:08 AM on Wednesday, August 12

The World Health Organization is warning that the Ebola outbreak in Congo is on track to surpass the deadliest one in history

8:08 AM on Wednesday, August 12

Tropical Storm Cristobal, located well west of the Azores, is expected to dissipate soon

7:47 AM on Wednesday, August 12

Formula 1’s newest outfit Cadillac has fired its first team principal Graeme Lowdon and replaced him with former Alpine director Marcin Budkowski

2:52 AM on Wednesday, August 12

Israel's military says it struck a Hamas commander in northern Gaza targeted drone strike

2:27 AM on Wednesday, August 12

Paris Saint-Germain has won the UEFA Super Cup for a second straight year by beating Aston Villa 2-1 thanks to Désiré Doué’s second-half goal in the annual curtain-raiser to the European soccer season

10:20 PM on Tuesday, August 11

Wall Street finished just shy of a record after several AI stocks reported better growth for the spring than analysts expected, while a report showed inflation across the United States was slightly less bad last month

9:42 PM on Tuesday, August 11

Taylor Walls homered from both sides of the plate for the second time in his career, Nick Martinez tossed a complete game and the Tampa Bay Rays won their eighth straight game, 12-4 over the Athletics on Tuesday night

4:18 AM on Tuesday, August 4

President Donald Trump is making a rare visit to California and Nevada to try to draw contrasts with Democrats on the economy and other issues