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12:30 PM on Thursday, August 21

Playing politics gets dangerous for Julie Delpy and Suranne Jones in ‘Hostage’

10:11 AM on Thursday, August 21

Julie Delpy and Suranne Jones found filming scenes as politicians terrifying for new Netflix thriller show “Hostage.”

Salah Abu-Hussein meets Israeli hostage coordinator Gal Hirsch upon his return from detention in Lebanon to Israel on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025 at the Rosh Hanikra border crossing. (Government Press Office via AP)

Lebanon releases Israeli citizen held in detention for a year

8:51 AM on Thursday, August 21

An Israeli citizen detained in Lebanon has been returned home after more than a year, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office

FILE - A family of five claiming to be from Guatemala and a man stating he was from Peru, in pink shirt, walk through the desert after crossing the border wall in the Tucson Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border, Aug. 29, 2023, in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument near Lukeville, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Illegal immigration hit a record-high of 14 million in the US in 2023, Pew report finds

8:09 AM on Thursday, August 21

A closely watched report says the number of people in the United States illegally surged to an all-time high of 14 million in 2023

FILE - Tourists climb a Mayan temple at the archeological site of Coba, in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, Aug. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

How Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize plan to protect 14 million acres of Mayan forest

8:08 AM on Thursday, August 21

Mexico, Guatemala and Belize have announced plans to create a huge reserve of tropical forest spanning across the three countries

In a Tuesday, March 11, 2008 photo, Christian evangelical leader and founder of "Focus on the Family", James Dobson, listens to President Bush, not pictured, address the National Religious Broadcasters 2008 Convention at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, file)

James Dobson, Focus on the Family founder and key leader on the Christian right, dies at 89

7:49 AM on Thursday, August 21

James Dobson, a child psychologist who founded the conservative ministry Focus on the Family and was a politically influential campaigner against abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, has died at age 89

Powell to give his last Jackson Hole speech under watchful gaze of Wall Street and the White House

7:33 AM on Thursday, August 21

Both Wall Street and the White House will be paying close attention to Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s high-profile speech Friday at the Fed’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming

In this photo, released by the Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ishaq Dar, right, shakes hand with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, prior to their meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. (Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AP)

China and Pakistan foreign ministers agree to launch new economic corridor projects

5:37 AM on Thursday, August 21

Pakistan and China have pledged to expand economic cooperation and investment under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a flagship program of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security, Maros Sefcovic, speaks during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

The US and EU release a bare-bones account of their trade deal, but it's a work in progress

5:11 AM on Thursday, August 21

American and European Union officials have released a bare-bones account of their trade deal that imposes a 15% import tax on 70% of European goods exported to the United States

Ahn Hak-sop, center, a 95-year-old former North Korean soldier who spent decades imprisoned in the South, talks with a South Korean police officer near the Unification Bridge which leads to the Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. (Im Byung-shik/Yonhap via AP)

95-year-old former North Korean soldier in South campaigns to be sent to the North

2:49 AM on Thursday, August 21

A 95-year-old former North Korean soldier who spent decades imprisoned in the South will continue his campaign to return to the North, an activist said Thursday, after South Korean troops stopped his symbolic border march this week

U.S. Congressman Joaquin Castro, right, speaks to protesters gather in the rotunda outside the House Chamber at the Texas Capitol as lawmakers debate a redrawn U.S. congressional map in Texas during a special session, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Texas House approves redrawn maps sought by Trump ahead of 2026 elections

4:09 AM on Wednesday, August 20

Texas’ House of Representatives is approving a new map that creates up to five new, winnable congressional seats for the GOP

Sebastian Kettner fishes on Jennette's Pier as waves from Hurricane Erin crash ashore in Nags Head, N.C., Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

What to know about powerful Hurricane Erin as it moves away from the US East Coast

10:44 AM on Monday, August 18

Hurricane Erin has pounded the North Carolina coast with strong waves and gusty winds as it slowly moves out to sea

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