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7:50 AM on Thursday, July 30

Prague Zoo has provided tons of ice to help animals beat the heat as Europe swelters in a summer heat wave

6:01 AM on Thursday, July 30

The European Union plans to invest 10 billion euros to build seven AI gigafactories, aiming to catch up with the U.S. and China

5:06 AM on Thursday, July 30

A new AP-NORC poll shows most Americans say the war in Iran has not been worth fighting

1:49 AM on Thursday, July 30

Australia’s online safety watchdog has taken legal action against Telegram for what the watchdog says is a failure to remove extremist content

12:55 AM on Thursday, July 30

Former San Diego Chargers linebacker and college football hall of famer Billy Ray Smith Jr. has died

12:10 AM on Thursday, July 30

David Cifaldi was approaching the top of Montana’s highest peak with two friends when their hiking adventure took a dangerous turn: Cifaldi slipped and impaled himself on his trekking pole

12:04 AM on Thursday, July 30

Voters in Manchester are electing a new mayor Thursday to replace Andy Burnham, who left the job to become Britain’s prime minister

12:01 AM on Thursday, July 30

President Donald Trump says car companies are thriving due to tariffs and other key policies he's instituted as president

10:32 PM on Wednesday, July 29

Son Heung-min scored two goals in a three-minute span in the first half off assists from Carles Gil to propel the MLS All-Stars past the LIGA MX All-Stars 4-3 in the Major League Soccer All-Star Game

9:58 PM on Wednesday, July 29

The Los Angeles Dodgers expect Shohei Ohtani to pitch again this season, but they're not rushing him back

9:42 PM on Wednesday, July 29

An Afghan woman accused of supporting an Islamic State-inspired attack in the U.S. on Election Day in 2024 is the first person facing deportation through the Trump administration’s use of an obscure court that remained dormant for 30 years

9:00 PM on Wednesday, July 29

Since former Macao pro-democracy lawmaker Au Kam San was arrested under a national security law in July 2025, little about his case has been made known

8:55 PM on Wednesday, July 29

South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics has reported a record operating profit of $62 billion for the April-June quarter

5:02 PM on Wednesday, July 29

The stop-start fighting between the United States and Iran appears to have entered a new phase as Saudi Arabia has publicly joined military escalations against Tehran-backed proxies

12:35 PM on Wednesday, July 29

Todd Blanche’s nomination to become attorney general has stalled as lawmakers scrapped a planned committee vote

11:33 AM on Wednesday, July 29

Wildfires near Bordeaux are hurting the wine region's economy

7:34 AM on Wednesday, July 29

Academy Award-winning Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard has died in a motorcycle crash

3:49 AM on Wednesday, July 29

Fire crews in southwest France are battling a massive blaze four times the size of Paris, while two firefighters were killed fighting a wind-driven blaze on the Greek island of Crete

1:09 AM on Wednesday, July 29

The U.S. military says it has completed what it describes as “a heavy wave of strikes against Iran” conducted in response to an earlier Iranian missile attack on a U.S. base in Jordan

9:17 PM on Tuesday, July 28

Soldiers and emergency workers are combing through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people in southwestern Japan