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The Seattle Sounders acquired forward Dejan Joveljic as a designated player from Sporting Kansas City on Tuesday in exchange for $6 million. Joveljic, 27, promptly agreed to a four-year contract with the Sounders through June 2030, with a club option through June 2031. Seattle midfielder Albert Rusnak restructured his current agreement to aid in bringing Joveljic to the club. “We’re thrilled to add a player of Dejan’s caliber to our […]

WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) – A U.S. military service member who called for President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance to be impeached is facing charges under the military justice system, his lawyer and the Air Force said on Tuesday. The active-duty officer, Major Jason Watson, denounced Trump and Vance last month for actions ​including going to war with Iran without congressional authorization, according ​to a video of the […]

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese humanoid robot set a new 100-meter sprint record of 8.86 seconds in Beijing on Tuesday, beating its robot competitors — and the fastest recorded human time. The race was part of China’s World Humanoid Robot Games, an Olympic-style competition now in its second year in Beijing. The event is also a showcase for China’s rapid advances in robotics amid an intensifying technology rivalry with the […]

NEW DELHI (AP) — Rescuers searching for 22 missing sailors have found no trace of their Panama-flagged cargo ship after the vessel sank in the Bay of Bengal last week, the Indian Coast Guard said Tuesday. Search aircraft and ships on Tuesday were scouring the area where the cargo ship MV Ocean Winner reportedly sunk Saturday about 276 miles (444 kilometers) from the Paradip coast of India’s eastern Odisha state. […]

MONTAUK, N.Y. (AP) — The monumental collection of 76 statues in Suse Lowenstein’s backyard captures the moment she and other women learned their loved ones were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. Each nude, life-size creation represents a mother, wife, sister or other female relative in her darkest grief — weeping, praying, screaming, collapsing. “The grief, everything, stays the […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Lines have grown outside gas stations across Tehran in recent weeks as the United States has tightened its blockade and threatened more severe sanctions, with some people waiting for two hours or more to fill up. The uncertainty deepened on Tuesday, after U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent vowed to fully sever the country from the global economy. In recent days, Iranian officials have spoken […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A legal watchdog says it filed bar complaints on Tuesday accusing U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and two lieutenants of violating their ethical duties in seeking to charge six Democratic lawmakers with federal crimes for appearing in a video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders. The Legal Accountability Center’s bar complaints, filed in New York and Virginia, claim Pirro and her subordinates, Carlton Davis and Steven […]

Aug 25 (Reuters) – Directors at four of the Federal Reserve’s 12 banks voted to increase the interest rate charged to commercial banks for emergency loans in the days before the U.S. central bank’s July meeting, minutes of the central bank’s discount rate meetings released on Tuesday showed. The rate recommendations, overruled when Fed policymakers decided in a 9-3 vote to leave the policy rate unchanged at their July 28-29 […]

WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) – International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Tuesday that the global economy has weathered the Iran war energy shock better than feared, but she raised concerns about deteriorating fiscal conditions in some countries as evidenced by rising bond yields and a stalled disinflation process. Georgieva told reporters in a briefing ahead of next week’s Group of 20 finance leaders meeting in Asheville, North […]