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7:35 AM on Tuesday, August 12

YouTube is ready to start testing a new age-verification system in the U.S. using artificial intelligence to distinguish between adults and minors based on their viewing habits

7:35 AM on Tuesday, August 12

US inflation was unchanged last month, though core prices accelerated

7:04 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Investigators with a Native American community in New Mexico are trying to crack a cold case, one irreplaceable item at a time

6:18 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Madonna has urged the pope to visit Gaza “before it's too late.”

6:07 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Red Bull’s sporting portfolio now includes a top-flight English rugby team after the energy drinks giant took full ownership of Newcastle Falcons

5:48 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Thailand’s army is warning that it may have to“exercise the right of self-defense” in response to continuing incidents it blames on Cambodia in which Thai soldiers patrolling along the two countries’ border have been wounded by land mines

5:42 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Iranian police say 21,000 people were detained during the 12-day war with Israel in June

5:30 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Environmentalists and Indigenous leaders held signs in front of the United Nations buildings in Geneva where talks for a global accord to end plastic pollution are taking place

4:40 AM on Tuesday, August 12

A U.N.-backed investigator says his team has turned up significant evidence of “systemic torture” in Myanmar’s detention centers, including electric shocks, strangulations, gang rape and burning of sexual body parts

12:13 AM on Tuesday, August 12

The San Francisco 49ers are counting on receiver Ricky Pearsall to step up this season

11:46 PM on Monday, August 11

Australia’s central bank has reduced its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point for a third time this year to 3.6%, with inflation tamed and economic growth stalling

11:43 PM on Monday, August 11

Australia’s central bank cuts interest rate for third time this year to 3.6%

11:15 PM on Monday, August 11

Shohei Ohtani has homered in his third straight game

9:46 PM on Monday, August 11

South Korea’s new President Lee Jae Myung will travel to Washington later this month to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, Lee’s office said Tuesday, for talks on trade and defense cooperation in the face of nuclear-armed North Korea and other threats

9:10 PM on Monday, August 11

Nathan Eovaldi’s impressive streak for the Texas Rangers ended with a dud, but without a decision

7:17 PM on Monday, August 11

President Donald Trump extended a trade truce with China for another 90 days Monday, at least delaying once again a dangerous showdown between the world’s two biggest economies

4:59 PM on Monday, August 11

Tennis Hall of Famer Monica Seles is discussing for the first time her diagnosis of myasthenia gravis — a neurological autoimmune disease she was diagnosed with in 2022

4:35 PM on Monday, August 11

Local rights groups say Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have attacked a displacement camp outside el-Fasher, killing 40 people

12:30 PM on Monday, August 11

Saving for the future can be difficult because of a cognitive bias known as hyperbolic discounting: our tendency to place greater weight on immediate satisfaction, even if focusing on the long term will have a greater payoff

8:42 AM on Monday, August 11

The Moomins, Finland’s most famous literary cartoon family, are celebrating their 80th birthday this year