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Thursday 08/16/2018
The Latest: Senate Intelligence chairman challenges Brennan
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 9:18 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on former CIA Director John Brennan (all times local):

Detroit residents remember Aretha Franklin, impact on city
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 9:03 pm

DETROIT (AP) — To the rest of the world, she was the "Queen of Soul" — a woman whose strong and soulful voice could effortlessly jump multiple octaves whether belting out tear-jerking ballads or jump-and-shout gospel.

Remains found in New Mexico desert tunnel are missing boy
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 9:02 pm

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Forensic investigators said Thursday they identified the remains of a Georgia boy whose father is accused of abducting him and performing purification rituals on the child as he died at a remote New Mexico desert compound. The cause of the child's death remained unknown.

Where White House touts a boom, most economists see a blip
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 8:47 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — Is the latest pickup in U.S. economic growth destined to slow in the years ahead as most analysts say?

Bodies of missing wife, daughters found in Colorado
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 8:45 pm

FREDERICK, Colo. (AP) — After his pregnant wife and two daughters disappeared, Christopher Watts stood on his porch in Colorado and lamented to reporters how much he missed them.

US officials: Ex-IS fighter accepted in US as refugee
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 8:17 pm

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — An Iraqi man accused of killing for the Islamic State entered the U.S. as a refugee after claiming to be a victim of terrorism, in a case drawing attention amid the Trump administration's criticism of the resettlement program's vetting process.

Pentagon delays Trump's military parade until at least 2019
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 9:32 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department said Thursday that the Veterans Day military parade ordered up by President Donald Trump won't happen in 2018.

APNewsBreak: Google clarifies location-tracking policy
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 7:30 pm

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has revised an erroneous description on its website of how its "Location History" setting works, clarifying that it continues to track users even if they've disabled the setting.

Former US security leaders blast Trump for yanking clearance
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 7:30 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former U.S. security officials issued scathing rebukes to President Donald Trump on Thursday, admonishing him for yanking a top former spy chief's security clearance in what they cast as an act of political vengeance. Trump said he'd had to do "something" about the "rigged" federal probe of Russian election interference.

Correction: Infant Drug-Overdose Death story
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 7:12 pm

ST. LOUIS (AP) — In an Aug. 15 story about a St. Louis couple charged in the drug overdose of their daughter, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Robert Hasenfratz said that he had used heroin in the girl's room. What he said was that Samantha Poppleton had used heroin in the girl's room.

'No one did it better' - Reaction to Aretha Franklin's death
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 7:12 pm

Reaction to the death of soul icon Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday:

Queen of Soul also leaves a powerful civil rights legacy
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 7:31 pm

Aretha Franklin, who was born and rose to fame during the segregation era and went on to sing at the inauguration of the first black president, often used her talent, fortune and platform to inspire millions of black Americans and support the fight for racial equality.

Police work to stop overdoses after 76 fall ill
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 6:33 pm

Police swarmed a Connecticut park near Yale University and searched people's homes for drugs Thursday in an effort to prevent more overdoses from a batch of synthetic marijuana blamed for sending more than 70 people to the hospital.

AP FACT CHECK: Ohio voters in special election not over 116
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 6:05 pm

With Ohio's special congressional election still too close to call, questions have been raised about the veracity of voter rolls in the swing state.

Phantom of the Courthouse: Manafort trial is Trump-free zone
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 5:45 pm

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Donald Trump is the phantom of U.S. District Courtroom 900.

Bishops request Vatican investigation as abuse crisis grows
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 5:45 pm

NEW YORK (AP) — Responding to what it calls a "moral catastrophe," the leading body of U.S. Catholic leaders said Thursday it would ask the Vatican to investigate the scandal involving a former cardinal who allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct with children and adult seminarians.

The Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation (ARPF) Announces Second Brain Longevity® Therapy Training Program in Washington D.C.
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 5:17 pm

TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation (ARPF) will host its second Brain Longevity® Therapy Training on October 12-14 at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. The training will help advance ARPF's mission to equip both the public as well as wellness and health care leaders to promote prevention strategies that help to prevent Alzheimer's disease.

Police: Boy repeatedly stabs girl during school assembly
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 5:17 pm

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A boy stood up and repeatedly stabbed a 14-year-old girl during an assembly at an Oklahoma high school on the first day of classes Thursday and she was airlifted to a hospital, a local sheriff's spokesman said.

NTSB report offers little insight into Alaska plane crash
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 5:03 pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska sightseeing airplane was flying toward its home base when it crashed earlier this month on a mountainside in Denali National Park, killing all five people aboard, according to a preliminary report released Wednesday by the National Transportation Safety Board.

Bridge in Italy had unusual design, required constant work
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 4:47 pm

NEW YORK (AP) — The bridge that collapsed in the Italian port city of Genoa was considered a feat of engineering innovation when it was built five decades ago, but it came to require constant maintenance over the years. Its design is now being investigated as a possible contributor to its stunning collapse.

Stocks march higher on growing hopes for China trade talks
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 5:03 pm

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks jumped Thursday as China and the U.S. said they will hold their first trade discussions in months, a potential sign of progress toward ending their trade war.

Kroger rolls out driverless cars for grocery deliveries
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 4:04 pm

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — At a time when big-box retailers are trying to offer the same conveniences as their online competitors, the biggest U.S. grocery chain is testing the use of driverless cars to deliver groceries in a Phoenix suburb.

Washington cardinal entangled in two sex-abuse scandals
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 3:45 pm

Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, is facing a storm of criticism and calls for his resignation after becoming entangled in two major sexual abuse scandals roiling the church that he has served with distinction since 1966.

NOT REAL NEWS: Queen is not making Prince William king
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 3:35 pm

Queen Elizabeth II has not announced that she will pass the crown directly to her grandson Prince William, despite what articles circulating online claim.

University honors students who found love in elevator in '72
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 3:35 pm

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia's Temple University is honoring a 45-year relationship sparked in a campus elevator.

The Latest: Fans mourning Franklin in Detroit, New York
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 3:35 pm

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the death of Aretha Franklin. (all times local):

Equipment failure probed after DC airport outage
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 2:32 pm

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Officials are investigating the failure of two electrical feeds and underground equipment after a power outage at Reagan National Airport outside Washington.

The thrill and the truth of Aretha Franklin
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 7:30 pm

NEW YORK (AP) — The clarity and the command. The daring and the discipline. The thrill of her voice and the truth of her emotions.

Was a great white shark to blame for Cape Cod attack?
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 1:18 pm

TRURO, Mass. (AP) — On a windswept dune overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, hastily erected signs warned Cape Cod beachgoers to stay out of the water on Thursday, a day after a New York man became the first person to be attacked by a shark off the coast of Massachusetts since 2012.

The Latest: Beach where shark attacked closed through Friday
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 1:18 pm

TRURO, Mass. (AP) — The Latest on a Cape Cod shark attack (all times local):

'Queen of Soul' Aretha Franklin dies in Detroit at 76
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 12:46 pm

NEW YORK (AP) — Aretha Franklin, the undisputed "Queen of Soul" who sang with matchless style on such classics as "Think," ''I Say a Little Prayer" and her signature song, "Respect," and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, has died from pancreatic cancer. She was 76.

'Queen of Soul' Aretha Franklin dies at 76
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 12:17 pm

NEW YORK (AP) — Aretha Franklin, the undisputed "Queen of Soul" who sang with matchless style on such classics as "Think," ''I Say a Little Prayer" and her signature song, "Respect," and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, died Thursday at age 76 from pancreatic cancer.

AP FACT CHECK: No Pritzker plan to increase taxes 26 percent
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 12:03 pm

CHICAGO (AP) — Republican Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner is telling voters that his Democratic opponent J.B. Pritzker plans to raise taxes by 26 percent if he's elected to office.

A timeline of major events in the life of Aretha Franklin
Posted: August 16, 2018 - 10:20 am

DETROIT (AP) — A timeline of major events in the life and work of Aretha Franklin:

4 Places to Find Last-Minute Scholarships
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 10:16 am

Only a few weeks — or maybe even days — remain until college campuses reopen, but there may still be time to get a scholarship and reduce the amount of student loans you have to borrow.

Something borrowed: Georgia planner nabs wedding grifter
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 10:02 am

MILTON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia wedding planner came in handy for one couple who nearly had more than $2,000 stolen from their reception.

Jury deliberations under way in fraud trial of Paul Manafort
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 10:48 am

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Jurors began their deliberations Thursday in the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who prosecutors say earned $60 million advising Russia-backed politicians in Ukraine, hid much of it from the IRS and then lied to banks to get loans when the money dried up.

July housing starts up a slight 0.9 percent as tariffs bite
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 2:02 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. housing starts ticked up just 0.9 percent in July, a sign that higher construction costs might be weighing on homebuilders.

'Weaponization of faith': Examples from clergy abuse report
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 8:47 am

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A landmark grand jury report on clergy abuse in six Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania detailed how priests often used religious rituals, symbols of the faith and the threat of eternity in hell to groom, molest and rape children.

Passengers held at Nashville airport due to sick traveler
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 8:33 am

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Passengers on an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles were held on arrival at the Nashville International Airport for about an hour due to a sick traveler.

10 Things to Know for Today
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 8:02 am

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

WWII POWs buried as unknowns in Hawaii get memorial marker
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 12:30 am

HONOLULU (AP) — Nancy Kragh grew up without her father, who was among 400 prisoners of war killed when a ship taking them from the Philippines to Japan was bombed.

Wednesday 08/15/2018
Asian stocks slide as investors fret over China's economy
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 12:17 am

TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares fell Thursday after deepening worries about global economic growth, particularly in China, set off a rout on Wall Street.

Inside a super PAC that spends on everything but winning
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 12:03 am

WASHINGTON (AP) — The two billionaire mega donors poured $1.25 million into a super PAC that was supposed to supercharge Chris McDaniel's insurgent bid to be Mississippi's next Republican senator.

Trump's list: Those who might lose their security clearance
Updated: August 15, 2018 - 11:49 pm

President Donald Trump has acted on a threat to revoke the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan, citing a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information. Brennan, who served in the Obama administration, had become an increasingly sharp critic of Trump's.

Trump yanks ex-CIA chief's clearance, hitting vocal critic
Posted: August 15, 2018 - 11:15 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump abruptly revoked the security clearance of ex-CIA Director John Brennan on Wednesday, an unprecedented act of retribution against a vocally critical former top U.S. official.

Today in History
Updated: August 15, 2018 - 11:35 pm

Today in History

Man arrested after overdoses at downtown city park
Updated: August 15, 2018 - 11:16 pm

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Forty-six people overdosed Wednesday at or near a Connecticut park from a suspected bad batch of "K2" synthetic marijuana, requiring paramedics to be stationed there to provide treatment, authorities said.

The Latest: Trump connects Russia probe, action on Brennan
Updated: August 15, 2018 - 11:06 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the revocation of former CIA director John Brennan's security clearance (all times local):

'Manafort and his lies' at heart of case, prosecution argues
Updated: August 15, 2018 - 9:17 pm

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Paul Manafort lied to keep himself flush with cash for his luxurious lifestyle and lied some more to procure millions in bank loans when his income dropped off, prosecutors told jurors Wednesday in closing arguments at the former Trump campaign chairman's financial fraud trial. Jurors will begin deliberations Thursday.

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Thursday 08/16/2018
Mattis aide to be nominated to head US Southern Command
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 9:32 pm

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday that his senior military assistant, Navy Vice Adm. Craig Faller, will be nominated to serve as the next head of U.S. Southern Command.

Judge finds conspiracy to kill Kim with VX, women to testify
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 9:16 pm

SHAH ALAM, Malaysia (AP) — Two women accused in the brazen assassination of the North Korean leader's half brother were told Thursday to make their defense after a Malaysian judge found evidence they participated in a "well-planned conspiracy" to kill, extending their murder trial until next year.

India's Vajpayee, who set off nuke race and peace, has died
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 9:01 pm

NEW DELHI (AP) — Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a Hindu nationalist who set off a nuclear arms race with rival Pakistan but later reached across the border to begin a groundbreaking peace process, died Thursday after a long illness. He was 93.

Madonna is the Queen of Pop and a soccer mom, too
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 8:47 pm

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — The Queen of Pop is also a soccer mom, and she's getting ever more involved in the beautiful game.

Chinese plane skids off Manila runway in downpour, all safe
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 8:47 pm

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A plane from China skidded off a runway at Manila's airport while landing in a downpour and its 157 passengers and eight crew members evacuated safely by the emergency slides.

The Latest: Indonesian to testify when murder trial resumes
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 8:04 pm

SHAH ALAM, Malaysia (AP) — The Latest on the murder trial of two Southeast Asian women in the assassination of the North Korean leader's half brother (all times local):

Vatican in 'shame and sorrow' over abuses in Pennsylvania
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 7:30 pm

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican expressed "shame and sorrow" Thursday over a scathing Pennsylvania grand jury report about clergy who raped and molested children in six dioceses in that state, calling the abuse "criminally and morally reprehensible" and saying Pope Francis wants to eradicate "this tragic horror."

Bridge collapse highlights Italy's aging infrastructure
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 4:30 pm

MILAN (AP) — Collapsed concrete, twisted metal, crushed cars.

Italy lowers confirmed death toll to 38 in Genoa collapse
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 1:02 pm

GENOA, Italy (AP) — The death toll from the collapse of a highway bridge in the Italian city of Genoa that is already confirmed to have claimed at least 38 lives will certainly rise, a senior official said Thursday.

Colombian city urges a break from sex to fight heat wave
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 12:33 pm

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Health officials in one Colombian coastal city have a controversial recommendation for residents trying to stay cool during an intense heat wave: Take a break from sex.

Kuwait's Olympic suspension provisionally lifted
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 11:49 am

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The International Olympic Committee says it has provisionally lifted Kuwait's suspension which had been in place for nearly three years.

The Latest: Amnesty: Kabul attack on Shiites is 'war crime'
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 7:30 pm

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Latest on developments in Afghanistan after a deadly suicide bombing in a Shiite area of Kabul (all times local):

Brussels highlights sun-splashed summer with flower carpet
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 7:45 am

BRUSSELS (AP) — Brussels is highlighting its sun-splashed summer with a Mexican-themed carpet of over half a million flowers on its historic Grand-Place.

Swiss vintage planes can fly after crash, with conditions
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 4:45 am

BERLIN (AP) — Switzerland's civil aviation authority says a local airline can resume flights with vintage Junkers Ju-52 planes after one of its aircraft crashed earlier this month, on condition that it take several precautionary measures.

Through hoops: Combined Koreas set tone for Asian Games
Posted: August 16, 2018 - 3:00 am

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — One win into the Asian Games and the bigger picture is already clear for the combined Koreas basketball team.

The Latest: Survivors describe Italy bridge collapse
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 12:46 am

GENOA, Italy (AP) — The latest developments following the deadly collapse of a highway bridge in Italy (all times local):

Wednesday 08/15/2018
Asian stocks slide as investors fret over China's economy
Updated: August 16, 2018 - 12:17 am

TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares fell Thursday after deepening worries about global economic growth, particularly in China, set off a rout on Wall Street.

Italy hunts for blame in bridge collapse that killed 39
Updated: August 15, 2018 - 8:34 pm

GENOA, Italy (AP) — As more bodies were pulled Wednesday from a mountain of jagged concrete and twisted steel left by a highway bridge collapse that killed 39, prosecutors focused on possible design flaws and past maintenance of the heavily used span, and politicians squabbled over blame.

Suicide bomber targets Shiite students in Kabul, killing 48
Updated: August 15, 2018 - 6:31 pm

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber struck a private education center in a Shiite neighborhood of Kabul on Wednesday where high school graduates were preparing for university entrance exams, killing 48 young men and women and leaving behind a scene of devastation and tragedy.

The Latest: UNICEF: Kabul attack on children 'deplorable'
Updated: August 15, 2018 - 2:47 pm

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Latest on the war in Afghanistan (all times local):

Publisher John Calder, champion of edgy authors, dies at 91
Updated: August 15, 2018 - 12:00 pm

LONDON (AP) — Influential publisher John Calder, who championed avant-garde authors and battled censorship, has died, a colleague said Wednesday. He was 91.

Turkey increases tariffs on some US goods, escalating feud
Updated: August 15, 2018 - 11:45 am

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey said Wednesday it is increasing tariffs on some U.S. products like cars, alcohol, and coal — a move that is unlikely to have much economic impact but highlights the deteriorating relations with the U.S. in a feud that has already helped trigger a currency crisis .

Heavy monsoon rains kill 67 in southern India, close airport
Updated: August 15, 2018 - 11:03 am

NEW DELHI (AP) — Torrential monsoon rains have disrupted air and train services in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where flooding, landslides and bridge collapses have killed at least 67 people in the past week, officials said Wednesday.

Unified Korean women's basketball team wins at Asian Games
Updated: August 15, 2018 - 11:03 am

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Three North Korean basketball players were part of a unified Korean women's basketball team that defeated Indonesia 108-40 on Wednesday at the Asian Games.

Danes to fence German border to stop boars with swine fever
Updated: August 15, 2018 - 10:16 am

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark is to erect a 70-kilometer (43.4-mile) fence along the German border to keep out wild boars, in the hope of preventing the spread of African swine fever, which can jeopardize the country's valuable pork industry.

Dutch air traffic control problem grounds Schiphol flights
Updated: August 15, 2018 - 7:30 am

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A problem with an air traffic control communications system has briefly halted all flights to and from Amsterdam's busy Schiphol Airport.

Senior Chinese monk accused of sexual misconduct quits post
Updated: August 15, 2018 - 3:15 am

BEIJING (AP) — One of China's most high-profile Buddhist monks has resigned from a top national post following reports of sexual misconduct, a religious association said Wednesday.

Tuesday 08/14/2018
The Latest: Italy authorities raise bridge death toll to 26
Updated: August 14, 2018 - 11:30 pm

MILAN (AP) — The Latest on the collapse of a bridge in Italy (all times local):

Foe accused by Maduro says Venezuela military is fracturing
Posted: August 14, 2018 - 11:01 pm

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The exiled opposition leader accused by Venezuelan authorities of directing a failed plot to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro says the greatest threat to the embattled socialist leader may be his detractors in uniform standing quietly behind him.

Judge may acquit women or call defense in Kim Jong Nam trial
Updated: August 14, 2018 - 8:30 pm

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Two Southeast Asian women on trial in Malaysia for the brazen assassination of the North Korean leader's half-brother could be acquitted Thursday or called to enter their defense in a case that has gripped the world.

Bus crash in Ecuador kills 24 people, injures 22
Posted: August 14, 2018 - 7:00 pm

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A bus apparently lost its brakes, then hit another vehicle at high speed and rolled over four times, killing at least 24 people and injuring 22 while smashing into several houses along a highway near Ecuador's capital early Tuesday, officials said.

Mexico City restaurant busted over protected tarantula tacos
Updated: August 14, 2018 - 6:35 pm

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Fancy a tarantula taco for a cool $27? Not so fast, Mexican authorities say.

Italian bridge collapse sends cars plunging, killing 26
Updated: August 14, 2018 - 7:17 pm

MILAN (AP) — A 51-year-old highway bridge in the Italian port city of Genoa collapsed in a driving rain Tuesday, killing at least 26 people and injuring 15 others as it sent dozens of vehicles tumbling into a heap of concrete and twisted steel.

The Latest: UK police say properties raided after car crash
Updated: August 14, 2018 - 3:46 pm

LONDON (AP) — The Latest on a crash outside the House of Parliament in London (all times local):

Taliban overrun Afghan army base, kill 17 troops
Updated: August 14, 2018 - 2:31 pm

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban overran a remote base in northern Afghanistan, killing 17 soldiers, as Afghan forces battled the insurgents for the fifth straight day in the eastern city of Ghazni on Tuesday, trying to flush them out of the city's outskirts, officials said.

UK police treat Parliament crash as terrorism, seek motive
Updated: August 14, 2018 - 2:15 pm

LONDON (AP) — Police flooded central London streets and cordoned off the city's government district Tuesday, after a speeding car plowed into cyclists and crashed outside Parliament in what authorities were treating as an act of terrorism.

Turkish leader talks big, but can be pragmatic in crises
Updated: August 14, 2018 - 4:49 pm

ISTANBUL (AP) — The man at the center of Turkey's currency crisis and feud with the United States — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — is unleashing the same combative rhetoric that powered him through other grave challenges in his 16 years as the increasingly authoritarian leader of a key NATO ally.

In Haiti, slight progress for LGBT rights is seen as victory
Updated: August 14, 2018 - 2:48 pm

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Yaisah Val recently came out publicly as a transgender woman on YouTube, a potentially risky move in a country like Haiti where LGBT residents face pervasive hostility in most spheres of public life.

Qatar says Nepali worker dies building World Cup stadium
Updated: August 14, 2018 - 11:34 am

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar says a Nepali worker has died while helping to build a stadium for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in the Arab nation.

Uganda opposition figure held after anti-president protest
Updated: August 14, 2018 - 12:16 pm

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A prominent opposition figure in Uganda has been detained after violent clashes Monday night that allegedly started when President Yoweri Museveni's motorcade was pelted with stones, a military official said Tuesday.

Museum of London displays fatberg on 24-hour livestream
Updated: August 14, 2018 - 2:03 pm

LONDON (AP) — London's famous, festering fatberg lives on — and is getting its own livestream .

Wattle fences: Weaving branches takes time, yields rewards
Updated: August 14, 2018 - 10:09 am

CONTRADA PETRARO, Sicily (AP) — They come in the middle of the night and are gone by morning. But without fail, they leave their calling cards: Pronged footprints and gashes in the ground where they've dug with natural abandon.

Italian transport official: 22 dead, 8 injured in the Genoa highway bridge collapse
Updated: August 14, 2018 - 8:38 am

MILAN (AP) — Italian transport official: 22 dead, 8 injured in the Genoa highway bridge collapse.

The Latest: Afghan aid group offers to help Ghazni's wounded
Updated: August 14, 2018 - 5:45 am

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Latest on developments in Afghanistan after a surge in Taliban attacks (all times local):

Abbot's murder in desert monastery shocks Egypt's Christians
Updated: August 14, 2018 - 3:09 am

CAIRO (AP) — It reads like a murder mystery set in an exotic locale: an abbot found dead in a desert monastery; a monk defrocked and arrested; another held by police and hospitalized after trying to kill himself — or did his fellow monks stage a revenge attack?

Monday 08/13/2018
Asian markets mixed after Wall St falls on Turkey jitters
Updated: August 13, 2018 - 11:48 pm

BEIJING (AP) — Most Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday after Wall Street declined as Turkey's central bank struggled to contain a currency crisis that is feeding fears about other emerging markets.

Mexico: Lopez Obrador expands plan for Yucatan tourist train
Updated: August 13, 2018 - 11:36 pm

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's president-elect announced an even more ambitious proposal for a train on the Yucatan peninsula Monday that would link nearly all the region's main tourist draws and cost double or more than the previously announced figure.

Mexico: Lopez Obrador expands plan for Yucatan tourist train
Updated: August 13, 2018 - 11:36 pm

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's president-elect announced an even more ambitious proposal for a train on the Yucatan peninsula Monday that would link nearly all the region's main tourist draws and cost double or more than the previously announced figure.

As Asian Games host, Indonesia has more at stake than sport
Posted: August 13, 2018 - 9:06 pm

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia is deploying 100,000 police and soldiers to provide security for the Asian Games, the biggest event ever held in its terror attack prone capital Jakarta, parts of which have been dramatically spruced up as the city readies to welcome tens of thousands of athletes and visitors.

Now with power to long rule China, Xi beset by challenges
Updated: August 13, 2018 - 7:45 pm

BEIJING (AP) — As China's leaders gather for their annual Yellow Sea retreat, the country's political waters are looking choppy.

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