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The 2023 World Beach Games, scheduled to take place in Bali next month, have been canceled after hosts Indonesia suddenly withdrew from the tournament.

Hong Kong-born singer and actress CoCo Lee, whose decades-long career included dozens of successful albums, movies and television shows, died Wednesday, her sisters announced on social media.

A man arrested last week with weapons in former President Barack Obama's Washington, DC, neighborhood began live-streaming in the area shortly after resharing a social media post from Donald Trump in which the former president posted what he claimed was Obama's address, according to federal prosecutors.

Two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies have been taken off field duty as their department investigates force they used when a couple was being detained at a Southern California grocery store last month, the county sheriff's department said.

Police in Southern California are investigating a theft at a high-end wine shop where, according to the store, a burglar drilled a hole into its roof, descended via rope and stole around 600 bottles of wine and liquor worth over $500,000.

President Joe Biden's emphatic Oval Office statement Wednesday that the US "fully, fully, fully" backs Sweden's bid to join NATO emphasized the extraordinary, legacy defining role he has played in defying 21st century Russian expansionism.

Shark patrols are ramping up off Long Island beaches after five people were bitten in two days by marine animals that are likely sharks, authorities say.

A former top Republican official in Arizona, who rejected pressure from Donald Trump and his allies following the former president's 2020 election defeat, told CNN Wednesday night that he has spoken with the FBI as part of the ongoing criminal probe related to efforts to overturn the vote.

Large crowds blocked Tel Aviv's main highway, and roads in other Israeli cities, in response to the resignation of the city's police chief.

The gunman who killed 23 people at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart faces a sentencing hearing in federal court this week, as prosecutors seek to have him serve dozens of consecutive life sentences for the August 2019 shooting.

Beauty salons in Afghanistan have been given one month to close as the country's Taliban leaders extend their repressive rule over women, who are already largely confined to their homes with bans on most work and study.

The United States "fully supports" Sweden's membership in NATO, President Joe Biden said Wednesday ahead of next week's alliance summit. Both Sweden and Finland applied to join the alliance following Russia's invasion of Ukraine — but Turkey has to date blocked Sweden's admission.

Three Russian fighter jets intercepted three US Air Force drones in northeastern Syria on Wednesday morning local time, according to the senior commander in charge of Air Force operations in the Middle East.

Ohio is poised to become the next major abortion battleground after groups seeking to enshrine abortion rights in the state's constitution on Wednesday submitted hundreds of thousands of petition signatures to the secretary of state's office.

The Justice Department is appealing a judge's order prohibiting various Biden administration agencies and officials from communicating with social media companies about certain content.

California Highway Patrol officers are on the hunt for a green military vehicle stolen from a National Guard armory north of San Francisco on Monday.

Bob Dylan, folk music legend and prolific songwriter, had some (probably very well written) notes for director James Mangold on the script for the filmmaker's new movie about Dylan, "A Complete Unknown."

A man accused of impregnating an Ohio child -- a girl who then went to Indiana for an abortion in a case that became a flashpoint in debates about post-Roe v. Wade abortion rights -- was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to rape, according to court documents.

Lin Wood, a prominent right-wing attorney and election denier, has given up his law license in an apparent move to stave off disciplinary proceedings tied to his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

The man accused of fatally shooting five people in Philadelphia on Monday night told police in sum and substance that he carried out the attack to clean up the neighborhood, two law enforcement sources told CNN.