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6:11 PM on Wednesday, August 12

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

5:50 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

5:21 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

5:03 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

4:35 PM on Wednesday, August 12

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

3:53 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

3:48 PM on Wednesday, August 12

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be leaving the Trump administration at the end of the month to spend time with her young family

3:19 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

3:05 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

2:17 PM 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

11:56 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

11:32 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

11:10 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

11:08 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

11:08 AM on Wednesday, August 12

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

10:47 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

5:52 AM on Wednesday, August 12

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

5:27 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

1:20 AM on Wednesday, August 12

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

12:42 AM on Wednesday, August 12

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