US, Australia, Canada, Philippines stage naval and air force manoeuvers in disputed South China Sea (apnews.com)
The UN is moving to fight cybercrime but privacy groups say human rights will be violated (apnews.com)
Israel broadens its evacuation orders after deadly strike on Gaza school-turned-shelter (apnews.com)
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military ordered more evacuations in southern Gaza early Sunday after a deadly airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in the north killed at least 80 Palestinians, according to local health authorities. Israel said it targeted a militant command post, killing 19 fighters....
A man is seen climbing the Eiffel Tower, prompting an evacuation hours before closing ceremony (apnews.com)
PARIS (AP) — French police have evacuated the area around the Eiffel Tower after a man was seen climbing the Paris landmark hours before the Olympics closing ceremony Sunday....
A man is seen climbing the Eiffel Tower, prompting an evacuation hours before closing ceremony (apnews.com)
Canadian b-boy Phil Wizard takes gold in Olympic breaking final (apnews.com)
Canadian b-boy Phil Wizard (Philip Kim) took gold in the first Olympic men’s breaking tournament Saturday....
Fossils suggest even smaller ‘hobbits’ roamed an Indonesian island 700,000 years ago (apnews.com)
Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet (1.07 meters) tall — earning them the nickname “hobbits.”...
Peru enacts law restricting prosecution of crimes against humanity, favoring former leader Fujimori (apnews.com)
Uvalde shooter’s uncle begged police to let him talk to the gunman (apnews.com)
DALLAS (AP) — The uncle of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooter who killed 19 students and two teachers begged police to let him try to talk his nephew down, according to a 911 call included in a massive trove of recordings and transcripts released by city officials Saturday....
UN refugee agency urges Cyprus government to process asylum seekers pushed into a UN buffer zone (apnews.com)
Medical examiner determines dead woman found entangled in O'Hare baggage machinery died by suicide (apnews.com)
The dead woman who was found entangled in a baggage conveyor belt at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport died by suicide, authorities said Friday....
Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and longtime Google executive, has died at 56 (apnews.com)
Susan Wojcicki, a pioneering tech executive who helped shape Google and YouTube, has died, her husband said. She was 56....
Olympians are turning to OnlyFans to fund dreams as they face a 'broken' finance system (apnews.com)
Dire financial straits are leading droves of Olympic athletes to sell images of their bodies to subscribers on OnlyFans — known for sexually explicit content — to sustain their dreams of gold at the Games. As they struggle to make ends meet, a spotlight is being cast on an Olympics funding system that watchdog groups condemn...
Are you a Cash App user? You may be eligible for a piece of this $15 million settlement (apnews.com)
Earlier this year, Cash App Investing and its parent company Block Inc. agreed to pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged a “failure to exercise reasonable care” in protecting user information leading up to and after recent data breaches. The class-action complaint cited two incidents where access to some account...
'Original sin': Torture of 9/11 suspects means even without plea deal, they may never face a verdict (apnews.com)
A Defense Department disagreement over how to bring to justice the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and two others has thrown the cases into disarray and surfaced tension between the desire of some victims’ families to see a final legal reckoning and the significant obstacles that may make that impossible....
US announces $125 million military aid package for Ukraine (apnews.com)
The U.S. is sending Ukraine an additional $125 million in weapons to assist in its military operations against Russia, including much-needed air defense capabilities, radars to detect and counter enemy artillery and anti-tank weapons, the White House announced Friday....
Flooding from the remnants of Debby leads to high water rescues in New York, Pennsylvania (apnews.com)
US ambassador confirms Mexican drug lord Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada was brought to US against his will (apnews.com)
Brazil plane crash in Sao Paulo state kills all 61 aboard, airline says | AP News (apnews.com)
Plane crashes in Brazil's Sao Paulo state, killing all 61 aboard, airline says (apnews.com)
A passenger plane crashed into a gated residential community in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state Friday, killing all 61 people aboard and leaving a smoldering wreck, officials and the airline said....
Olympic sprinter Knighton allowed to run at US trials after contamination case (apnews.com)
NYC's ice cream museum is sued by a man who says he broke his ankle jumping into the sprinkle pool (apnews.com)
A man who says he broke his ankle jumping into the sprinkle pool at the Museum of Ice Cream in New York City has filed a lawsuit alleging that the facility was negligent for not warning visitors that it is unsafe to jump into the sprinkle pool.
Veteran human rights advocate freed in swap says Russia is sliding back toward Stalinist times (apnews.com)
A human rights activist since the 1980s, Oleg Orlov thought Russia had turned a corner when the Soviet Union collapsed and a democratically elected president became leader....
3rd person in custody over foiled plot targeting now-canceled Taylor Swift shows in Vienna (apnews.com)
A third teenager has been arrested in connection with a foiled attack on now-canceled Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna, Austria’s interior minister said Friday....
An aid worker’s airport disappearance stirs fear of repression following disputed Venezuela election (apnews.com)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The last time anyone heard from Edni López was Sunday. The 33-year-old political science professor and award-winning poet was preparing to board a flight to Argentina to visit a friend when she texted from the airport that something was wrong with her passport....
