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iStock/rThinkstock(KANDAHAR, Afghanistan) — Three top officials in Kandahar, Afghanistan, were killed and two U.S. soldiers wounded in an attack by the officials’ own guards. The province’s governor, its police chief and its intelligence chief were [Read More…]

ABC News(AUSTIN, Texas) — Rain hasn’t stopped all week in Texas and flooding concerns are stretching into another day in center of the state. The Colorado River, near Lake Travis outside of Austin, is still [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(ISTANBUL) — Missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi warned of increasing efforts to silence the media in the Middle East in a column he wrote just before he vanished earlier this month. The “final column” was [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The New York attorney general’s office has launched an investigation into whether the parent company of MoviePass, Helios and Matheson, misled investors about their finances, a source familiar with the investigation confirmed [Read More…]

Emilie Richardson/ABC News(NEW YORK) — Powerball pulled its numbers on Wednesday as the prize for Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot has crept past $900 million earlier in the day. The winning numbers for Powerball, a comparatively [Read More…]

Alexandra Wyman/Getty Images For TWC(NEW YORK) — The Manhattan District Attorney’s office this afternoon issued a pre-emptive notice to Harvey Weinstein’s defense team, alerting them to yet another potentially serious problem connected with the investigation [Read More…]

ABCNews.com(ISTANBUL) — In his first sit-down interview with U.S. media, a close friend of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist who disappeared after being seen entering a Saudi consulate in Istanbul more than two weeks [Read More…]

Bucks County District Attorney’s Office(PHILADELPHIA) — Amid an ongoing investigation into a spate of mysterious explosions that shook northeastern Pennsylvania earlier this year, authorities warned residents there could still be explosives in the area. The [Read More…]

Twitter(NEW YORK) — Twitter has released data on more than 10 million tweets from nearly 4,000 accounts it said were linked to Russia and Iran, which paint a more nuanced portrait of the nations’ purported [Read More…]

Pool/Samir Hussein/WireImage via Getty Images(LONDON) — Meghan Markle has confirmed while on a royal tour of Australia that she’s the type of guest anyone would like to invite over. When the Duchess of Sussex, 37, [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(KERCH, Crimea) — At least 19 people, many of them teenagers, were killed, and over 50 others were injured in a bomb and shooting attack at a college in Crimea that local officials said was [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(TORONTO) — The Trudeau administration has announced a plan to expedite pardons for Canadians convicted of minor marijuana offenses. “We will be introducing legislation to introduce an expedited pardon process, with no fee, for those [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — An Uber driver has been charged in federal court after allegedly kidnapping a woman, groping her after she fell asleep and then charging more than $1,000 for the ride after abandoning her [Read More…]