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FILE- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan Saturday March 1, 2003 in this photo obtained by the Associated Press. The man accused of being the main plotter in al-Qaeda&#039;s Sept. 11, 2001 attacks has agreed to plead guilty, The Defense Department said Wednesday.

Guantanamo inmate accused of being main plotter of 9/11 attacks to plead guilty

FILE- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan Saturday March 1, 2003 in this photo obtained by the Associated Press. The man accused of being the main plotter in al-Qaeda&#039;s Sept. 11, 2001 attacks has agreed to plead guilty, The Defense Department said Wednesday.

July 31, 2024, 4:04pm Nation & World

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused as the main plotter in al-Qaeda’s Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, has agreed to plead guilty, the Defense Department said Wednesday, pointing to a long-delayed resolution in an attack that altered the course of the United States and much of the Middle East. Read story

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, moderated by from left, ABC&#039;s Rachel Scott, Semafor&#039;s Nadia Goba and FOX News&#039; Harris Faulkner, speaks at the National Association of Black Journalists, NABJ, convention, Wednesday, July 31, 2024, in Chicago.

Donald Trump falsely suggests Kamala Harris misled voters about her race

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, moderated by from left, ABC&#039;s Rachel Scott, Semafor&#039;s Nadia Goba and FOX News&#039; Harris Faulkner, speaks at the National Association of Black Journalists, NABJ, convention, Wednesday, July 31, 2024, in Chicago.

July 31, 2024, 3:14pm Latest News

Donald Trump falsely suggested Kamala Harris had misled voters about her race as the former president appeared before the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago Wednesday in an interview that quickly turned hostile. Read story

This image provided by the USDA Forest Service shows the Alexander Mountain Fire near Loveland, Colo., Tuesday, July 30, 2024.

1 person killed in Colorado wildfires as blazes torch large areas of the U.S. West

This image provided by the USDA Forest Service shows the Alexander Mountain Fire near Loveland, Colo., Tuesday, July 30, 2024.

July 31, 2024, 2:05pm Latest News

Human remains were found in a house burned by a Colorado wildfire, authorities said Wednesday as almost 100 large blazes burned across the western U.S. Read story

Supporters of the Pakistani religious group &ldquo;Jamaat-e-Islami&rdquo; hold a poster of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh during a protest to condemn his killing, in Hyderabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, Iran&rsquo;s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said early Wednesday.

Hamas’ top political leader is killed in Iran in strike that risks triggering all-out regional war

Supporters of the Pakistani religious group &ldquo;Jamaat-e-Islami&rdquo; hold a poster of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh during a protest to condemn his killing, in Hyderabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, Iran&rsquo;s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said early Wednesday.

July 31, 2024, 1:59pm Latest News

Hamas' top political leader was killed Wednesday by a predawn airstrike in the Iranian capital, Iran and the militant group said, blaming Israel for a shock assassination that risked escalating into an all-out regional war. Iran's supreme leader vowed revenge against Israel. Read story

Joan Browning and Charles Person chat at Emory University in Atlanta, Fridy, July 26, 2024. They were Freedom Riders. activists who rode buses into the Deep South in 1961, aiming to desegregate interstate transportation. Browning and Person are donating their archives to the university&rsquo;s Rose Library.

Civil Rights Movement Freedom Riders urge younger activists to get out the vote

Joan Browning and Charles Person chat at Emory University in Atlanta, Fridy, July 26, 2024. They were Freedom Riders. activists who rode buses into the Deep South in 1961, aiming to desegregate interstate transportation. Browning and Person are donating their archives to the university&rsquo;s Rose Library.

July 31, 2024, 1:34pm Latest News

Charles Person, one of the Civil Rights Movement’s original Freedom Riders, echoed organizers across Georgia when he urged a group of Generation Z and millenial activists to encourage young people to vote. Read story

A helicopter drops water on the Park Fire near Butte Meadows, Calif., Tuesday, July 30, 2024.

California wildfires have already charred 30 times as many acres as all of last year — and it’s still summer

A helicopter drops water on the Park Fire near Butte Meadows, Calif., Tuesday, July 30, 2024.

July 31, 2024, 9:57am Nation & World

Summer isn't even half over in California, and wildfires have already scorched more than 751,000 acres, straining firefighting resources, forcing evacuations and destroying homes. Read story

Ukraine receives first F-16 fighter jets to bolster defenses against Russia, a US official tells AP

July 31, 2024, 9:57am Nation & World

Ukraine has received the first F-16 fighter jets that it has sought for months to fight back against an onslaught of Russian missile strikes, a U.S. official confirmed to the Associated Press. Read story

FILE - Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico walk past large buoys being deployed as a border barrier on the river in Eagle Pass, Texas, July 12, 2023. The floating barrier is being deployed in an effort to block migrants from entering Texas from Mexico.

Texas’ floating Rio Grande barrier can stay for now, court rules as larger legal battle persists

FILE - Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico walk past large buoys being deployed as a border barrier on the river in Eagle Pass, Texas, July 12, 2023. The floating barrier is being deployed in an effort to block migrants from entering Texas from Mexico.

July 31, 2024, 9:30am Nation & World

A floating barrier in the Rio Grande meant to discourage migrants from trying to cross from Mexico into Texas can stay for now, a full federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Read story

A puddle of water remains at the entrance of the Springs Creekside Nursing and Rehabilitation in Yellville, Ark., after the residents were evacuated due to flooding on Wednesday, July 17, 2024.

Severe storms in the Southeast US leave 1 dead and cause widespread power outages

A puddle of water remains at the entrance of the Springs Creekside Nursing and Rehabilitation in Yellville, Ark., after the residents were evacuated due to flooding on Wednesday, July 17, 2024.

July 31, 2024, 9:03am Nation & World

A weather system that produced severe thunderstorms late into the night in the Southeast left one man dead in Georgia, caused damage in a South Carolina town and left hundreds of thousands of electricity customers without power for a time. Read story

Members of Hezbollah&rsquo;s al-Mahdi scouts, carry the coffins of Amira and Hassan Fadlallah during a funeral procession in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Hassan Fadlallah and his sister Amira were killed inside a building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday evening.

Israel carries out rare strike on Beirut that it says killed Hezbollah commander

Members of Hezbollah&rsquo;s al-Mahdi scouts, carry the coffins of Amira and Hassan Fadlallah during a funeral procession in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Hassan Fadlallah and his sister Amira were killed inside a building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday evening.

July 31, 2024, 8:51am Nation & World

Israel on Tuesday carried out a rare strike on Beirut, which it said killed a top Hezbollah commander who was allegedly behind a weekend rocket attack that killed 12 young people in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. The strike in the Lebanese capital killed at least one woman and two children… Read story