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Ukrainian servicemen of 148th separate artillery brigade of the Air Assault Forces prepare M777 howitzer to fire towards Russian positions at the frontline in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, August 21, 2024.

Moscow sees one of Ukraine’s largest drone attacks as fighting rages in Kursk and eastern Ukraine

August 21, 2024, 1:20pm Nation & World

Moscow came under one of the largest attacks by Ukrainian drones since the start of fighting in 2022, Russian authorities reported Wednesday, saying they destroyed all of those headed toward the capital. Read story

FILE - Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, testifies before the credentials committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J., on Aug. 22, 1964, as her racially integrated group challenged the seating of the all-white Mississippi delegation.

Fannie Lou Hamer rattled the Democratic convention with her ‘Is this America?’ speech 60 years ago

August 21, 2024, 1:15pm Latest News

Vice President Kamala Harris is accepting the Democrats’ presidential nomination Thursday, exactly 60 years after another Black woman mesmerized the nation with a televised speech that challenged the seating of Mississippi’s all-white delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Read story

FAA sent 43 more cases of unruly airline passengers to the FBI for possible prosecution

August 21, 2024, 1:12pm Business

U.S. officials say they are referring fewer unruly airline passengers to the FBI for possible prosecution than they did during the pandemic, although they say the number of incidents remains too high. Read story

FILE - This photo released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on April 19, 2013, shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man convicted of carrying out the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing attack.

Defense attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber seek recusal of judge overseeing case

August 21, 2024, 1:11pm Nation & World

Attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are seeking to remove the judge overseeing the protracted legal battle over Tsarnaev’s death sentence. Read story

Willow, a subadult loggerhead sea turtle, makes her way past a crowd of onlookers, back into the ocean after being treated at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, in Juno Beach, Fla.

Subadult loggerhead sea turtle returns to Atlantic Ocean in Florida after rehabilitation

August 21, 2024, 1:10pm Life

A rehabilitated sea turtle was released back into the Atlantic Ocean from a Florida beach Wednesday morning. Read story

Sam Sam the Kittycat Man ran away. Thanks to a microchip, he was found close by — 11 years later

In this photo provided by the Charleston Animal Society, Jennifer Ravenel pets her cat, Sam, when the two were reunited after 11 years Monday, Aug. 12, 2024, at the Charleston Animal Society in Charleston, South Carolina.

August 21, 2024, 1:09pm Life

After Sam Sam the Kittycat Man disappeared 11 years ago, Jennifer Ravenel couldn’t hold another cat in her lap. Her heart never could overcome the loss of that feral kitten she had rescued from the crook of a tree on her South Carolina farm. Read story

Heat dome moves into Texas with record highs expected

A tuber floats the cool Comal River as temperatures in South Texas hit triple-digit numbers, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, in New Braunfels, Texas.

August 21, 2024, 1:08pm Nation & World

A heat dome that has led to nearly 90 consecutive days of triple-digit high temperatures in Phoenix moved into Texas Wednesday, with high temperature records expected to fall by the weekend, according to the National Weather Service. Read story