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President Donald Trump has voiced strong support for AI and data centers, emphasizing their economic benefits and importance in the global AI race

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The U.S. military says the Asia-based USS George Washington aircraft carrier is now operating in the Middle East

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Media freedom group Reporters Without Borders says that two French filmmakers and their Togolese fixer have been jailed in Togo after more than three weeks in custody

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection faces criticism after a watchdog group warns that forced labor persists on sugarcane fields in the Dominican Republic

6:55 AM on Thursday, August 20

Bangladesh's Parliament has elected Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as president after the former president's resignation

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Democrats have narrowed the list of potential host cities for their 2028 presidential convention to Boston, Denver and Philadelphia as their party looks ahead to a wide-open primary to succeed Republican President Donald Trump

1:32 AM on Thursday, August 20

South Korea’s military says North Korea has launched about 10 short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea

3:27 PM on Wednesday, August 19

A Missouri judge has rejected bid to let voters decide whether to use new U.S. House districts backed by President Donald Trump

12:48 PM on Wednesday, August 19

Canada and the United States have moved closer to finalizing a trade agreement that would avert threatened 50% U.S. tariffs

12:35 PM on Wednesday, August 19

The U.N.'s humanitarian chief warns of the growing threat of drones against civilians and aid workers in Ukraine

4:51 AM on Wednesday, August 19

The Justice Department is defending its prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey and says there's "no serious dispute” that a social media post of seashells he made could be understood as a threat against President Donald Trump

2:33 AM on Wednesday, August 19

The International Criminal Court has criticized new U.S. sanctions on its senior staff as a “flagrant attack” on its independence

12:29 AM on Wednesday, August 19

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired a senior official amid a corruption investigation involving a deputy head of the presidential office

10:29 PM on Tuesday, August 18

Sen. Darline Graham, running in South Carolina's runoff election, stumbled over a foreign policy question during a debate

5:53 PM on Tuesday, August 18

North Korea says the U.S. decision to scale back military exercises with South Korea doesn't change what it views as the provocative nature of the drills