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UK leader Burnham gathers his Cabinet after sweeping away Starmer supporters

By JILL LAWLESS
Jul 21, 2026 12:18 pm - LONDON — New U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham gathered his Cabinet for its first meeting on Tuesday and vowed to take a “one-team approach” despite purging allies of pred...
Attacks between US and Iran across Mideast overshadow efforts to keep diplomacy alive

By JON GAMBRELL and MUNIR AHMED
Jul 21, 2026 12:15 pm - ISLAMABAD — A 10th straight day of attacks between the United States and Iran across the Middle East on Tuesday overshadowed diplomatic efforts in Pakistan to salvage an ...
Rescuers in Afghanistan search for scores missing after floods kill at least 23

By ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN
Jul 21, 2026 8:36 am - KABUL, Afghanistan — Rescue crews in Afghanistan searched Tuesday for survivors and bodies in the rubble of houses destroyed by devastating flash floods that authorities ...
Luke Skywalker’s ‘Empire Strikes Back’ lightsaber with severed hand attached auctioned for $3.75M

Jul 21, 2026 7:04 am - A lightsaber with Luke Skywalker’s severed hand from “The Empire Strikes Back” has sold for $3.75 million at auction.
FDA still focused on lettuce supplier as source of parasite, despite faulty test result

By MATTHEW PERRONE
Jul 20, 2026 7:42 pm - Federal health officials said Monday they remain focused on lettuce from Taylor Farms as the source of a multistate outbreak of a diarrhea-causing parasite, despite inaccurate test results that the government briefly publicized over the weekend.
FDA retracts test result but still links Taylor Farms lettuce to cyclosporiasis

Lena H. Sun
Jul 20, 2026 1:31 pm - The Food and Drug Administration said Sunday that a laboratory finding showing cyclospora contamination in a sample of shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms d...
The U.S. saw the first ‘China Shock.’ Now the world gets the sequel.

By David J. Lynch and Joshua Yang
Jul 20, 2026 11:46 am - Twenty-five years ago, low-cost Chinese goods flooded the U.S. market, contributing to the loss of 3 million factory jobs and upending American politics, a phenomenon that came to be known as the “China Shock.” Now a second China Shock is reverberating across Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America, raising fears of greater deindustrialization and political tumult.
The Tate brothers are expected in a Miami court following their arrest and a UK extradition request

By DAVID FISCHER
Jul 20, 2026 9:28 am - Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate are scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate in Miami on Monday after they were arrested to face rape and sex trafficki...
Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthis say they will block Saudi shipping at Red Sea gateway

By FATMA KHALED
Jul 20, 2026 9:26 am - CAIRO — Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels on Monday announced they are imposing a maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia in retaliation for a blockade on Yemen and a re...
A ferry carrying 133 people capsizes off Guyana's coast, leaving dozens missing

By BERT WILKINSON
Jul 19, 2026 3:12 pm - GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A government ferry carrying 133 passengers and crew capsized in Guyana with 67 people rescued so far, authorities said Sunday, as a massive sear...

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