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10:21 PM on Sunday, August 31

Chase Briscoe held off Tyler Reddick at Darlington Raceway on Sunday night to win the Southern 500 for the second straight year and advance to the second round of the NACAR Cup Series playoffs

9:57 PM on Sunday, August 31

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un inspected a new weapons factory that’s key to his plan to accelerate mass production of missiles

9:30 PM on Sunday, August 31

Justin Verlander helped the San Francisco Giants to a 13-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles

9:18 PM on Sunday, August 31

Houston police say an 11-year-old boy was fatally shot after a prank in which he rang the doorbell of a home and ran away

8:45 PM on Sunday, August 31

Novak Djokovic easily beat 144th-ranked qualifier Jan-Lennard Struff 6-3, 6-3, 6-2 despite dealing with some neck issues to reach his record 64th Grand Slam quarterfinal

7:00 PM on Sunday, August 31

Vicari Swain returned a punt 80 yards for a touchdown to break open a close game, LaNorris Sellers threw a 64-yard touchdown pass to Nyck Harbor, and No. 13 South Carolina beat Virginia Tech 24-11 in the opener for both teams

6:41 PM on Sunday, August 31

Miranda Wang is the seventh LPGA Tour rookie to win this year

6:06 PM on Sunday, August 31

Taylor Townsend couldn’t convert eight match points in a second set that ended with a 25-minute tiebreaker and was eliminated from the U.S. Open on Sunday with a 1-6, 7-6 (13), 6-3 loss to Barbora Krejcikova

5:10 PM on Sunday, August 31

Charles Bierbauer, a former CNN White House correspondent and journalism dean, has died at 83

4:54 PM on Sunday, August 31

Two adults were killed and seven children ranging in age from 1 to 12 years old were injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident at an off-road ATV park in Alabama

3:32 PM on Sunday, August 31

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says the war in Ukraine could continue for a long time

3:02 PM on Sunday, August 31

New York Yankees star Aaron Judge hit his 358th career homer in the first inning of their series finale against the White Sox, moving into a tie with Yogi Berra for fifth in franchise history

2:58 PM on Sunday, August 31

Virginia Tech coaching great Frank Beamer showed up for the Hokies’ season opener on Sunday against South Carolina, which is coached by son Shane Beamer, wearing Gamecocks black

2:33 PM on Sunday, August 31

The Dallas Cowboys have signed cornerback DaRon Bland to a $92 million, four-year contract extension four days before the NFL opener at defending champ and NFC East rival Philadelphia

1:38 PM on Sunday, August 31

Jessica Pegula is back in the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament, which used to be her roadblock

12:12 PM on Sunday, August 31

A U.S. judge has blocked the government from deporting Guatemalan children who had crossed the border without their families

11:01 AM on Sunday, August 31

Luka Doncic had a triple-double to power Slovenia to an 86-69 victory over Belgium on Sunday and its first win at EuroBasket

9:52 AM on Sunday, August 31

Iran-backed Houthis have raided United Nations offices in Yemen's capital, detaining at least 11 U.N. employees

6:15 AM on Sunday, August 31

A flotilla of ships has set sail from Barcelona to the Gaza Strip with humanitarian aid and activists on board

12:58 AM on Sunday, August 31

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have pledged to resolve their border differences and bolster cooperation ahead of the opening of a regional summit in Tianjin