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8:17 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

6:02 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

5:40 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

5:36 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

5:34 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.

5:26 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

4:33 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

4:08 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

3:55 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

3:40 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Mexico says its postal service is suspending package shipments to the United States, following similar steps taken by countries from the European Union and elsewhere

3:01 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

2:16 PM on Wednesday, August 27

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1:16 PM on Wednesday, August 27

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

10:56 AM on Wednesday, August 27

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

10:43 AM 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

9:22 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

6:58 AM on Wednesday, August 27

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

6:35 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

2:12 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

2:05 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