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• Japan advances to the knockouts with a 2-1 victory, stunning Spain • Security forces kill protester celebrating Iran's World Cup defeat, rights group says

President Obama rallies in Atlanta for Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock ahead of the runoff election when he interrupts his own speech to let a four-year-old say a few words.

Inflation is cooling. Consumers are still spending. And hiring is slowing — but not collapsing. That's why Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi is increasingly confident that the American economy will — narrowly — escape a recession.

Tesla made the first deliveries of its Semi truck to customers Thursday evening, five years after the heavy-duty hauler was first unveiled. The event included two truck cabs decked out in the livery of Pepsi and Frito-Lay, PepsiCo's snack foods subsidiary.

It's a name so iconic, he comes with his own theme song, and boy, is it a sweet sound.

Closing arguments began Thursday in the Trump Organization tax fraud trial, where defense attorneys blamed the alleged criminal tax schemes on former CFO Allen Weisselberg, who's already pleaded guilty to 15 counts in the case.

Six people may have lived in the house where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death, police say.

The owner of Russia's notorious Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, admits to recruiting a prisoner from Zambia who died fighting in Ukraine. CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports.

President Joe Biden has asked Democratic National Committee leaders to drastically reshape the 2024 presidential nominating calendar and make South Carolina the first state to host a primary, followed by Nevada and New Hampshire on the same day a week later, Georgia the following week and then Michigan, a source confirms to CNN.

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After a very long wait, the closing chapter to the "Guardians of the Galaxy" trilogy is almost here.

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The Tampa Police Department has issued an arrest warrant for former NFL player Antonio Brown after a "domestic battery incident with a woman," police said in a statement.

The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has launched an investigation into an Atlanta public elementary school after allegations the principal was assigning Black students to certain classes.

A Helena's tree frog, camouflaged against bark except for its glowing golden eyes, has been named as the overall winner of this year's British Ecological Society photography competition, organizers have announced.

I don't know about y'all, but I could use some hopeful news today. So here's what I've got: Inflation appears to be — really, this time — easing.

The appeals court ruling throwing out the special master process that had been put in place for the Mar-a-Lago search was a major rebuke of former President Donald Trump's arguments for why the materials seized from his home should be subject to outside review.

The City of Uvalde has filed a lawsuit against Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell, alleging she is blocking the city's independent investigator from accessing key evidence into the May 24 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.

US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday demonstrated a united front in addressing the ongoing war in Ukraine but offered divergent answers over their willingness to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin, relaying that they spent much their recent meeting discussing the invasion.

• GOP tension builds over House speaker race as McCarthy and critics prep for floor fight • Americans have low expectations for the next Congress, new poll finds • Analysis: The 2024 Senate playing field starts to take shape