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The middle of the American League standings has turned into a medicore mess. It might make for a fascinating playoff race. There are seven teams fighting for the final AL wild-card spot and all of them have a record below .500. The Baltimore Orioles would make the playoffs if the season ended Sunday, sporting a 61-63 record. Right behind them: The Texas Rangers (61-64), Toronto Blue Jays (61-65), Detroit Tigers […]

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak has now killed over 2,300 people and become the deadliest outbreak of the disease on record in the Central African nation. The outbreak unfolding in one of Congo’s most vulnerable regions is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever, with 4,945 cases including 2,325 deaths, according to government data released overnight into Monday. This is Congo’s 17th and largest Ebola outbreak. The toll eclipses […]

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP) — Thunderstorms, heavy rain and flash flooding continued to threaten a swath of the U.S. from the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic Monday, extending a deadly stretch of unsettled weather. The National Weather Service said repeated rounds of heavy rain and thunderstorms would continue for one more day before a cold front sweeps the weather pattern off the East Coast on Tuesday. In the meantime, much of West […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump’s push to throw out a jury’s $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. The Republican president’s lawyers had asked the justices to reconsider their refusal to hear his appeal. The court denied Trump’s petition along with several others. […]

TUNIS, Aug 17 (Reuters) – The charity rescue ship, EMERGENCY, rescued 50 migrants from an wooden boat in international waters off Libya on Monday, while seven others were found dead, the charity said. Two people are in critical condition and suffering from suffocation and needed urgent medical evacuation, EMERGENCY said in a statement sent to Reuters, without giving further details. The survivors said they had left the Libyan coastal town […]

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Israeli flags planted on a main coastal highway in southern Lebanon are a violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution, the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon said on Monday, urging all sides to avoid “provocative actions”. Israel’s military invaded a swathe of southern Lebanon during a war with Hezbollah earlier this year, establishing a self-declared security zone it says aims to shield northern Israel from […]

TEHRAN (AP) — Iran said Monday it is close to finalizing an agreement with Oman on a plan to manage shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, while President Donald Trump renewed threats against the Gulf nation and downplayed the expiration of a U.S.-Iran negotiating deadline. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said Tehran and Muscat have reached “an understanding” on a transit route through the strategic waterway, with both sides […]

(AP) – President Trump is directing the Pentagon to significantly reduce upcoming joint military exercises with South Korea, arguing the costly operations burden American taxpayers while sending the wrong message to North Korea. In a post on Truth Social Sunday, the president announced he has instructed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to “substantially reduce” the exercises, even though he acknowledged it is too late to cancel them outright. Mr. Trump […]

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with an impostor posing as U.S. President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, according to reports published Monday. A spokesperson for Burnham declined to comment, saying it was policy not to discuss “national security matters.” Politico cited four unnamed officials in first reporting that Burnham thought he was messaging with Susie Wiles before he became suspicious and cut off communications. Last […]