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Mavis Wanczyk, of Chicopee, Mass., speaks during a news conference where she claimed the $758.7 million Powerball prize at Massachusetts State Lottery headquarters, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, in Braintree, Mass. Officials said it is the largest single-ticket Powerball prize in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)
The Latest: 5 dead as Guru's backers riot after rape verdict
The Latest: IS attack targets Afghanistan's Shiites
Policemen walk near the site of an ongoing attack on a Shiite mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. Gunmen stormed a Shiite mosque in the Afghan capital while worshippers were at Friday prayers, setting off an explosion that killed a security guard outside and pushing into the shrine, officials said. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)
U.S. launches investigation into spate of North Atlantic right whale deaths
This April 2017 photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows a young right whale that was founded dead in Cape Cod Bay. The right whale is one of 13 to die in the United States and Canada in 2017. Regulators in both countries say they are launching an investigation to find out what is causing the deaths of the endangered cetaceans. (R. Miller/U.S. Coast Guard via AP)
Thieves strike Habitat for Humanity build for third time
Q&A: Samsung chief is jailed. Here's what you need to know.
Philippine police face murder complaints over drug killing
Students display placards as they picket at the Justice Department to coincide with the filing of murder charges by the parents of the late Kian Loyd Delos Santos, a 17-year-old student who was killed during an alleged drug crackdown Friday, Aug.25, 2017, at the Justice Department in Manila, Philippines. The killing of Kian Aug. 16, has sparked public outrage and condemnation at President Rodrigo Duterte's so-called war on drugs. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
Embracing diversity is uncomfortable – and that’s a good thing
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Rosa Parks' house may be returned to US from Germany
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Official: Death toll from mosque attack in Kabul reaches 28
A shocked man shouts slogans against the Afghan President after he ran out of the Shiite mosque during an ongoing attack, Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. Gunmen stormed a Shiite mosque in the Afghan capital while worshippers were at Friday prayers, setting off an explosion that killed a security guard outside and pushing into the shrine, officials said. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)
Britain to test part-driverless platoons of trucks
Even God couldn’t build the perfect portfolio
MOVIE: Oh, God! (Vision, 9 p.m. ET; 6 p.m. PT) The owlish folk-singer John Denver and gnomish comedy legend George Burns only made one movie together, but it was a keeper. This 1977 comedy stars Denver as Jerry, a nice-guy supermarket manager tapped by God (Burns, naturally) to be his personal messenger of goodwill in the modern world. Not surprisingly, Jerry is branded a crackpot by the media, religious leaders and even his own wife, Bobbie (Teri Garr). Jerry finally decides to prove God’s existence in a courtroom when he’s sued for slander by the grandstanding evangelist Rev. Willie Williams (Paul Sorvino).
Volunteers restoring piece of African-American history
EXCHANGE: Normal couple opens home to travelling cyclists
In this July, 29, 2017 photo, Rebecca Houtsma center, bids farewell to cyclists, Ha Juyoung, left, and Joyong Joo of South Korea, as her husband Willy Hunter, right, looks on, in Normal, Ill. The two cyclists overnighted at the Hunter-Houstma home on their journey across the United States. The individuals made their connections called "Warm Showers." The website describes the "Warm Showers Community" as "a free, worldwide hospitality exchange for touring cyclists." (Lenore Sobota,/The Pantagraph via AP)
What Canada’s new tax-planning proposals mean for private businesses
Is violence the way to fight racism?
Anti-fascist counterprotesters gather in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12. Some activists with the so-called ‘antifa’ movement have advocated for a violent response to white nationalism.
India and China are at a standoff and we need to pay attention
Aug. 25: History and Sir John A Macdonald. Plus, other letters to the editor
Sir John A. Macdonald, c. 1870s.
Majority of shark fins, manta ray gills on market from at-risk species: study
In Chinese culture, shark fin is widely considered a luxury ingredient and a single bowl of shark-fin soup often costs more than $100 a bowl.
Clarification: Japan-Foreign Minister story
Judge extends detention of suspect in Dutch concert threat
In this image taken from video people and security stand around a van in Rotterdam, Wednesday Aug. 23, 2017, after a concert by an American rock band was cancelled Wednesday night following a threat, the city's mayor said. Police detained the driver of a van with Spanish license plates carrying a number of gas tanks inside. (RTL via AP)
Florida uses new drug to execute man convicted of 2 murders
FILE- This undated file photo provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows Mark Asay. Florida on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, executed Asay with an anesthetic never used before in a U.S. lethal injection, carrying out its first execution in more than 18 months on an inmate convicted of two racially motivated murders. Authorities said Asay, the first white man executed in Florida for the killing of a black man, was pronounced dead at 6:22 p.m. Thursday at the state prison in Starke. Asay received a three-drug injection that began with the anesthetic, etomidate. Asay was convicted by a jury of two racially motivated, premeditated murders in Jacksonville in 1987. (Florida Department of Corrections via AP, File)
Egypt: Trump calls el-Sissi to stress ties despite aid cut
German magazine slammed for Trump "Nazi salute" cover
A person holds a copy of the 'Stern' news magazine in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017 showing U.S. President Donald Trump draped in the American flag while giving a stiff-armed Nazi salute. Stern magazine's illustration is part of a cover story headlined 'Sein Kampf' which translates as 'His Struggle' and is a play on Adolf Hitler's infamous 'Mein Kampf'. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
Germany bans far-left website accused of promoting violence
Six stories in the news for today, Aug. 25
A wildfire is seen from a Canadian Forces Chinook helicopter as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau views areas affected by wildfire near Williams Lake, B.C., on Monday July 31, 2017. An evacuation order affecting about 1,100 people living east of Kelowna, B.C., was issued Thursday because of the threat of a wildfire. Elsewhere, calmer weather and continuing progress battling some of the other wildfires in the province means more people can return home while campers and hikers will be able to access more of the backcountry in the Interior. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Rising household debt could be drag on long-term growth: federal document
Danish submarine death: Inventor faces another charge
FILE - This April 30, 2008 file photo, shows a submarine and its owner Peter Madsen. Danish police confirmed Wednesday Aug. 23, 2017, a headless torso found on a beach off Copenhagen has been identified as that of missing Swedish journalist Kim Wall. She is believed to have died on an amateur-built submarine earlier this month. Madsen has been arrested on suspicion of killing her. (Niels Hougaard /Ritzau via AP, File)
German business confidence falls slightly in August
Saudi-led airstrikes kill 14 civilians in Yemen's capital
A man climbs rubble from an airstrike on a hotel in Arhab, Yemen Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017. The Saudi-led coalition carried out several airstrikes in Yemen early on Wednesday, hitting a small hotel near the capital of Sanaa and killing dozens of Shiite Houthi rebels and civilians, Yemeni officials and witnesses said. (Al-Masira TV via AP)
AP releases restored footage of Charles and Diana's wedding
FILE - In this July 29, 1981 file photo, Britain's Prince Charles kisses his bride, the former Diana Spencer, on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in London after their wedding. Thirty-six years after Lady Diana Spencer married Prince Charles, The Associated Press has restored original footage from the wedding and is making it available to the public on YouTube. The 25 minutes of footage comes from the archive of British Movietone, which AP acquired in 2016. (AP Photo, File)
Indian IT company Infosys co-founder Nilekani rejoins as CEO
Sect leader: Commune safe, child sexual abuse claims 'fake'
Hannah Jordan, left, and Joshua Green, right, members of a paramilitary Christian sect with members linked to a child sexual abuse investigation, walk out of Cibola County Magistrates Court in Grants, N.M. on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. Eight members of the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps, including Green, are facing charges in connection with a child abuse and child sexual abuse investigation in New Mexico. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
Sentencing hearing delayed for La Loche school shooter, defence says he has FASD
Members of the RCMP stand outside the La Loche Community School in La Loche, Sask., on Jan. 25, 2016. Final submissions are to scheduled today at the sentencing hearing for a teenager who shot and killed four people and injured seven others at a home and a high school in northern Saskatchewan. The teen pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder in the January 2016 shooting in La Loche. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
German ambassador expresses concern over Chinese activist
Homeless wary as Atlanta closes its last-resort shelter
This Monday, Aug. 7, 2017 photo shows Laura Wheaton and her four children in the Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter. With the shelter closing at the end of the month, “It’s hard not knowing where we’re going to live,” said Wheaton, 34, who has been staying at the shelter with her children for more than a month. (AP Photo/Robert Ray)
In the Persian Gulf, Iran's drones pose rising threat to US
Gen. Joseph Votel, the top U.S. commander for the Middle East, right, gets a briefing on the USS Nimitz, from Lt. Cmdr. Vern Jensen, the aircraft handling officer for the ship, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. The Nimitz is in the Persian Gulf, and fighter jets are flying off the aircraft to conduct strikes in Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)
Bus drives off a pier in southern Russia, killing 17 workers
In this Russian Emergency Situations Ministry photo, made available on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017 shows a bus being pulled out of the water at a pier in Volna village, Krasnodar region, Russia . The bus was carrying workers who were building a pier for an oil company on the Black Sea coast not far from Crimea, the Russian Investigative Committee said. (Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations photo via AP)
RNC votes to condemn white supremacists over groans of some
Cecil Andrus, logger who rose to Idaho governor, dies at 85
CORRECTS MIDDLE NAME AND DATE OF DEATH FILE - In this Nov. 4, 1980, file photo, U.S. President Jimmy Carter is greeted at the White House by adviser Jack Watson, center, and Interior Secretary Cecil D. Andrus, right, after returning from Plains, Ga. Andrus, who engineered the conservation of millions of acres of Alaska land during the Carter administration, has died. He was 85. Andrus died late Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017 of complications from lung cancer, daughter Tracy Andrus said. (AP Photo/Harrity, File)
Fiat declines to comment on spinoff rumours
The Latest: US urges Myanmar to avoid inflaming tensions
Asian shares rise, Europe mixed before central banks meeting
People walk by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. Asian stocks were mostly higher Friday as market players watched for comments at a central banks' annual meeting later in the global day. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Police charge parents of four-year-old boy found alone on Edmonton street
Harvey lashes Texas coast with high wind, torrential rain
A lone car crosses the Queen Isabella Memorial Causeway in the distance as rain from Hurricane Harvey falls on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, in Port Isabel, Texas. The causeway will be closed to traffic by the Texas Department of Public Safety when conditions worsen, keeping individuals on South Padre Island in place while the storm passes near the deep South Texas coastal town. (Jason Hoekema/The Brownsville Herald via AP)
Officer charged with breaking into evidence room before OD
Cincinnati Zoo's baby hippo to star in Facebook video series
FILE - In this May 31, 2017 file photo, Fiona makes her debut to the media in Hippo Cove at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, in Cincinnati. The zoo says its popular baby hippo will star in an internet video series called "The Fiona Show" starting next week. The zoo says the first video will be available on the show's Facebook page on Tuesday, Aug. 29. It's not clear how many videos are planned or how regularly they will be produced.. (Liz Dufour/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP, File)
Calm returns after 30 die in India riots over guru verdict
Supporters of the Dera Sacha Sauda religious sect squat by a road leading to a court in Panchkula, India, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. Several north Indian cities were under a security lock down Friday as a court was expected to issue a verdict in a rape case involving a man who calls himself Saint Dr. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan, the flamboyant leader of the quasi-religious sect. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Weekly anti-Netanyahu rallies grow larger in Israel
FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016 file photo, people take pictures of a statue of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a central square in Tel Aviv, Israel. A series of scandals has left Netanyahu facing a growing grassroots protest movement that demands his indictment and removal from office. Weekly vigils in front of the home of Israel's attorney general now draw thousands of people, and the recent arrests of two vocal organizers have only further energized Netanyahu’s opponents. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
2nd victim found from USS McCain crash; 8 still missing
US urges Myanmar to avoid reprisals after attacks kill 89
In this Friday, July 14, 2017, photo, a border patrol stands guard at a police post that was previously attacked by a Muslim terrorist group in Kyee Kan Pyin, Buthidaung, Rakhine state Myanmar. Muslim militants armed with guns and machetes attacked Myanmar police and border outposts in a troubled northern state, with 12 deaths confirmed so far, police said Friday. (AP Photo/ Esther Htusan)
Tonga's king dissolves parliament and orders new elections
FILE - In this July 4, 2015, file photo, newly crowned King Tupou VI sits during his coronation at Centenary Church in Nuku'alofa, Tonga. The king of the small Pacific nation of Tonga on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017, took the extraordinary step of dissolving the nation's parliament and ordering new elections held by Nov. 16, 2017. (Linny Folau/Magangi Tonga via AP, File)
Ginseng harvesting prohibited in Daniel Boone Forest
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Flash, bang, and blood: Hiker tells harrowing lightning tale
Mail by pail is name of game for Detroit's floating ZIP code
FILE- This April 20, 2017, file photo shows the J.W. Westcott II at it's mooring on the Detroit River. A family-run Detroit company that operates the nation’s only floating ZIP code is halfway through its 144th season of making deliveries to passing Great Lakes freighters. The J.W. Westcott II cruises the Detroit River from April to December, distributing mail and other items to larger vessels. (Max Ortiz/The Detroit News via AP, File)
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Historians warn against rushing to take down statues
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The Latest: Analyst doubts Samsung scandal will hurt phones
Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, left, prepares to get on a vehicle as he leaves after his verdict trial at the Seoul Central District Court Friday, Aug. 25, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea. The court sentenced the billionaire Samsung heir to five years in prison for bribery and other crimes that fed public anger leading to the ouster of Park Geun-hye as South Korea's president. (Chung Sung-Jun/Pool Photo via AP)
South Korean court sentences Samsung heir to 5 years prison
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Maine getting nearly $280K for historic preservation
Massive graft probe in Brazil powers electronic bracelets
In this Aug. 3, 2017 photo, an employee demonstrates how an electronic bracelet works at the Sao Paulo-based Synergye, a company that makes the bracelets and monitors inmates, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Wealthy businessmen or politicians caught up in the massive "Car Wash" investigation are often serving time at home, either by reaching plea bargains or appealing, making the use of bracelets much more common. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
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