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Mexico recovers 2 bodies from the Rio Grande, one found near a floating barrier that Texas installed

Mexican authorities are trying to identify two bodies found in the Rio Grande this week, including one that was spotted along the floating barrier that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had installed recently in the Rio Grande, across from Eagle Pass, Texas. Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department reported for the first time Wednesday that a body had been found along the floating barrier. The Coahuila state prosecutor’s office later told local media outlets that the two bodies were recovered and that the process of identification was underway. The department initially said one body was found along the barrier,

Mexico recovers 2 bodies from the Rio Grande, one found near a floating barrier that Texas installed
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Swaths of the US are living through a brutal summer. It's a climate wake-up call for many

Veronica Iordanova remembers Octobers growing up in Arizona when it was too cold to trick-or-treat in a short-sleeved Halloween costume. She can’t imagine that anymore. The summer heat lasts longer and feels more intense now, and she knows that is a result of human-caused global warming. She worries about her and her family’s future. “We need to realistically look at the situation and realize it’s not going to get better,” said Iordanova, who lives in Tempe. Across the U.S., many people are living through one of the most brutal summers of their lives. And some psychologists believe the attention on

Swaths of the US are living through a brutal summer. It's a climate wake-up call for many
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Weekly applications for US jobless aid tick up from 5-month low

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose slightly last week but remained at a historically low level that points to a robust job market. Applications for jobless aid rose 6,000 to 227,000 for the week ending July 29, the Labor Department said Thursday. The four-week moving average of claims, a less volatile measure, fell 5,500 to 228,250. Jobless benefit applications are seen as a proxy for the number of layoffs in a given week. Thursday’s report comes just a day before the July jobs report will be released, which will provide a broader and more detailed

Weekly applications for US jobless aid tick up from 5-month low
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A car-carrying ship that burned for a week on the North Sea is towed to a Dutch port for salvaging

Tugboats towed a freight ship that burned for a week on the North Sea while carrying thousands of cars into a Dutch port on Thursday for salvaging, laying to rest fears that it could sink close to shipping lanes and a protected habitat for birds. The Fremantle Highway was taken to the northern port of Eemshaven, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management said. A boat that has special booms to clean up oil spills accompanied the nearly 200-meter-long (around 650-foot-long) vessel as a precaution. The ship with 3,784 new vehicles, including 498 electric ones,

A car-carrying ship that burned for a week on the North Sea is towed to a Dutch port for salvaging
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Diana Taurasi closing in on another WNBA milestone as she approaches 10,000 points

Diana Taurasi is an icon in the world of hoops, and the perennial All-Star known as the “White Mamba” is on the cusp of another milestone in her illustrious WNBA career. She is closing in on becoming the first player in league history to score 10,000 points in the regular season. But like most of the greats in any sport, Taurasi says she has always cared more about winning than milestones and records. “I really don’t think about the number, I really don’t,” Taurasi said after scoring 29 points in a one-point loss to Indiana on Tuesday night. “I’ve always

Diana Taurasi closing in on another WNBA milestone as she approaches 10,000 points
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Clothes for kids with disabilities get better, but teens see a lack of fashionable options

Mindy Scheirer was working in fashion before her son, Oliver, was born with muscular dystrophy. As he grew, and she watched him struggle to get dressed, her eyes were opened to her industry’s limitations for people with disabilities. At 8, Oliver wanted to ditch his daily sweatpants for jeans, favored by his peers. His mom couldn’t find any to accommodate his leg braces and difficulty working zippers and buttons, so she began making adaptations herself. She put strips of fabric fastener on the inseams of the jeans, and she replaced the button and zipper on the

Clothes for kids with disabilities get better, but teens see a lack of fashionable options
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13 injured in South Korea when a man rams a car onto a sidewalk, stabs pedestrians

At least 13 people were injured in South Korea on Thursday when a man rammed a car onto a sidewalk and then stepped out of the vehicle and began stabbing people near a subway station in the city of Seongnam. Yoon Sung-hyun, an official from the southern Gyeonggi provincial police department, said at least nine people were stabbed and four others were injured by the vehicle. Police did not confirm whether any were in serious condition. Police were questioning an unidentified suspect who was arrested at the scene. In response to the attack, the National

13 injured in South Korea when a man rams a car onto a sidewalk, stabs pedestrians
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Florida set to execute inmate James Phillip Barnes in nurse's 1988 hammer killing

A Florida man sentenced to death for the 1988 attack on a woman who was sexually assaulted and killed with a hammer, then set on fire in her own bed, is set for execution Thursday after dropping all his appeals and saying he was ready to die. James Phillip Barnes, 61, was to be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison in Starke. It would mark the fifth execution this year in Florida. Barnes was serving a life sentence for the 1997 strangulation of his wife, 44-year-old Linda Barnes, when he wrote letters in 2005 to

Florida set to execute inmate James Phillip Barnes in nurse's 1988 hammer killing
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Reenactment of Florida school massacre will bring gunfire back to Parkland campus

Gunfire will again ring out at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Friday as a reenactment of the 2018 massacre that left 17 dead, 17 wounded and hundreds emotionally traumatized is conducted as part of lawsuits filed by the victims’ families and the injured. Ballistics experts for the families will conduct the test, firing up to 139 shots inside a three-story classroom building as part of the lawsuit against the families’ primary targets: the school’s then-assigned deputy, Scot Peterson, and his employer, the Broward Sheriff’s Office. They will fire live ammunition from the same spots

Reenactment of Florida school massacre will bring gunfire back to Parkland campus
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Bud Light sales plunge following boycott over campaign with transgender influencer

Anheuser-Busch Inbev reported a drop in U.S. revenue in the second quarter as Bud Light sales plunged amid a conservative backlash over a campaign with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. The world’s largest brewer said Thursday that revenue in the United States declined by 10.5% in the April-to-June period from a year earlier, “primarily due to the volume decline of Bud Light.” It has lost its place as America’s best-selling beer after more than two decades, slipping into second place in June behind Mexican lager Modelo Especial, which is also owned by the Belgium-based ABInBev. The company faced blowback after sending

Bud Light sales plunge following boycott over campaign with transgender influencer
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Russian shelling hits a landmark church in the Ukrainian city of Kherson

Russian shelling on Thursday damaged a landmark church in the city of Kherson that once held the remains of the renowned 18th-century commander who exerted Russian control through the southeast parts of modern Ukraine and annexed the Crimean Peninsula. Ukraine’s emergency service said four of its workers were wounded in a second round of shelling as they fought the fire at St. Catherine’s Cathedral. Four other people were wounded in the first shelling attack, which also hit a trolleybus, the prosecutor general’s office said. The shelling followed the severe damage sustained by a beloved Orthodox cathedral

Russian shelling hits a landmark church in the Ukrainian city of Kherson
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Banks from 4 Arab countries are in talks to invest in struggling Lebanese banks, official says

Banks from four Arab countries are interested in investing in Lebanon’s struggling banking sector, which was hard-hit by the small nation’s three-year economic meltdown, a top Arab banker said Thursday. Lebanon is in the throes of its worst economic crisis in its short and troubled history that has skyrocketed poverty and inflation, and crippled its bloated public sector and infrastructure. Wissam Fattouh, the Secretary General of the Union of Arab Banks, spoke to The Associated Press on the sidelines of the biggest regional banking conference held in Beirut since the historic economic crisis began in October 2019.

Banks from 4 Arab countries are in talks to invest in struggling Lebanese banks, official says
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An uneasy calm settles over Lebanon's Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian camps after overnight clashes

A cautious calm returned to Lebanon’s Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian camp in south Lebanon Thursday after a night of renewed clashes. Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, which is home to about 50,000 people, has been racked since Sunday by fierce battles between President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party and Islamist groups Jund al Sham and Shabab al Muslim. Fatah has accused the Islamists of gunning down a Fatah military general, Abu Ashraf al Armoushi, in the camp on Sunday. The fighting has so far killed more than a dozen people, wounded dozens more, and displaced thousands. In the

An uneasy calm settles over Lebanon's Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian camps after overnight clashes
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Greenpeace demonstrators drape UK prime minister's house in black to protest oil expansion

Greenpeace demonstrators draped the country estate of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in black fabric Thursday to protest his plan to expand oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. Video posted by the group showed a crew dressed in bright red jumpsuits, helmets, and safety harnesses carrying ladders and climbing onto the roof of the Yorkshire house. They slowly unfurled long black sheets of fabric over the front of the home and held a yellow sign on the roof that read “No New Oil.” The prime minister was not home because he is vacationing with his

Greenpeace demonstrators drape UK prime minister's house in black to protest oil expansion
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Nintendo's profit jumps as Super Mario franchise gets a boost from hit film

Nintendo reported a 52% increase in net profit for the first fiscal quarter on Thursday following the success of its Super Mario movie and the new Zelda video game. Demand was strong for Nintendo Switch game software, which received a boost from the release earlier this year of the film about the jumping plumber called “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” according to Nintendo Co. The film has so far drawn more than 168 million people globally, grossing $1.3 billion. That makes it one of the top-selling animation films on record, second only to “Frozen II,” and the

Nintendo's profit jumps as Super Mario franchise gets a boost from hit film
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Pope Francis urges students in Portugal to fight economic injustice and protect the environment

Pope Francis challenged university students on Thursday to make the world a more just and inclusive place, as he focused the second day of his Portugal trip on inspiring young people to use their privilege to combat global warming and economic inequalities. Francis received a warm welcome at the Catholic University, one of Portugal’s top institutions of higher learning, where students broke into periodic papal chants under an already bright sun on the central Lisbon campus. After the event, Francis was heading to the seaside town of Cascais to visit the local branch of his Scolas

Pope Francis urges students in Portugal to fight economic injustice and protect the environment
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Violent unrest is rising in Ethiopia's Amhara region after attempt to disarm fighters, witnesses say

Violent unrest is escalating in Ethiopia’s Amhara region as federal security forces clash with a local ethnic militia, leading the deputy prime minister in an unusually outspoken statement to call the situation “increasingly grave.” Ethiopia’s second most populous region has been gripped by instability since April, when federal authorities disarmed the Amhara regional force as part of the recovery from a devastating two-year conflict in the neighboring Tigray region. Authorities last year also tried to dismantle the Amhara militia known as Fano. Both forces had fought alongside federal ones in the Tigray conflict, but now the

Violent unrest is rising in Ethiopia's Amhara region after attempt to disarm fighters, witnesses say
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Tom Brady enters the world of soccer as minority owner of English club Birmingham

NFL great Tom Brady has become a minority owner of English second-tier soccer team Birmingham and wants to bring a winning mentality to an underperforming club. The seven-time Super Bowl champion has partnered with the club’s holding company, U.S.-based Knighthead Capital Management, and becomes chairman of a new advisory board, Brady and Birmingham said Thursday. “Maybe you are asking, ‘What do you know about English football, Tom?’” Brady said in a club video. “Well, let’s just say I’ve got a lot to learn. But I do know a few things about winning.” Birmingham said Brady will

Tom Brady enters the world of soccer as minority owner of English club Birmingham
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Israel's Supreme Court hears case against a law protecting Netanyahu from being removed from office

Israel’s Supreme Court heard a petition on Thursday against a law that protects Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from being removed from office over claims of a conflict of interest due to his ongoing corruption trial. Netanyahu’s governing coalition passed a law in March that limits removing a prime minister from office to cases of medical and mental incapacitation. It would protect Netanyahu from being deemed unfit for office because of his ongoing corruption trial and claims of a conflict of interest. Critics say the law is tailor-made for Netanyahu and encourages corruption. A few dozen people protested

Israel's Supreme Court hears case against a law protecting Netanyahu from being removed from office
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to appear in Houston court hearing for his securities fraud trial

Embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, awaiting the start of a separate impeachment trial, is set to appear in a Houston courtroom Thursday to discuss his nearly decade-long delayed trial on securities fraud charges. It’s unclear if any decision will be made during the court hearing on when Paxton might finally go to trial on felony charges of defrauding investors in a tech startup. He was indicted in 2015. The case is back in a Houston courtroom after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld a decision last month by a judge who originally oversaw the case

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to appear in Houston court hearing for his securities fraud trial
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Many stars at Women's World Cup juggle parenthood while playing on the world stage

Alex Morgan was speaking to reporters at the Women’s World Cup when she had to excuse herself to Facetime her young daughter before the toddler’s bedtime back home in the United States. Just another day for a working mom. Forget about orange slices, players such as Morgan, Katrina Gorry of Australia and Cheyna Matthews of Jamaica are redefining what it means to be a “soccer mom.” There have been plenty of elite athletes who have also juggled parenthood, but the level of support the mothers are receiving while on the job at the Women’s World Cup is improving. Morgan’s daughter,

Many stars at Women's World Cup juggle parenthood while playing on the world stage
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Niger's civil society mobilizes the nation to fight for freedom from foreign interference

Niger ‘s ruling junta and civil society groups called on the nation to mobilize in the capital on Thursday to fight for the country’s freedom and push back against foreign interference. “We are talking about the immediate departure of all foreign forces,” Mahaman Sanoussi, interim coordinator for the M62 civil society group that’s organizing the protest, told The Associated Press. “(We’ll mobilize) against all forms of threats to continue the struggle for the sovereignty of the people. The dignity of the Nigerian people will be respected by all without exception.” The march falls on the West

Niger's civil society mobilizes the nation to fight for freedom from foreign interference
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Indian court allows survey of a 17th-century mosque to see if it was built over a Hindu temple

An Indian court on Thursday ruled that officials can conduct a scientific survey to determine if a 17th-century mosque in the country’s north was built over a Hindu temple. The Gyanvapi mosque in the holy Hindu city of Varanasi, an area Prime Minister Narendra Modi represents in India’s parliament, is one of several mosques in northern Uttar Pradesh state that some Hindus believe was built on top of demolished Hindu temples. The dispute over land ownership had been one of India’s most heated issues between India’s 80% majority Hindu community and Muslim minority, which makes up

Indian court allows survey of a 17th-century mosque to see if it was built over a Hindu temple
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Stock market today: Asia mixed after the US government's credit rating was cut

Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday after Fitch Ratings cut the United States government’s credit rating. Tokyo’s market benchmark fell more than 1%. Shanghai and Hong Kong gained. Oil prices edged higher. Wall Street turned in its biggest one-day decline in months after Fitch Ratings cut the U.S. government credit rating Wednesday by one level. The agency cited rising debt and a “steady deterioration in standards of governance” after Congress pushed Washington close to defaulting before agreeing to raise the amount it can borrow. “This is largely irrelevant despite some initial shock,” said Kristina Hooper of Invesco

Stock market today: Asia mixed after the US government's credit rating was cut
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Bank of England set to join Fed in raising interest rates again amid high UK inflation

The Bank of England is set to raise interest rates Thursday for the 14th time in a row to a fresh 15-year high and keep the door open for further increases in the months to come as it tries to tamp down persistently high inflation. Most economists think the U.K. central bank will increase its benchmark rate by a quarter of a percentage point, to 5.25%. There had been fears, certainly among hard-pressed households and businesses, that the bank would repeat its outsized half-point increase from June. But figures last month showing that inflation fell more than

Bank of England set to join Fed in raising interest rates again amid high UK inflation

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