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8:30 AM on Tuesday, August 12

A man admitted trying to smuggle protected turtles worth more than $1 million from New York City to Hong Kong

8:09 AM on Tuesday, August 12

President Javier Milei of Argentina is helping to launch a $1 million initiative to improve diplomatic relations between Israel and several Latin American countries

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.”

6:13 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has expressed pride in being part of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, a conservative Christian network

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

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

4:53 PM on Monday, August 11

Soccer great Cristiano Ronaldo and his long-term partner Georgina Rodriguez are engaged

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