Crews try to tame massive forest fire north of Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Light winds and scattered thundershowers early Thursday were helping to calm the flames of a huge wildfire that prompted evacuations north of Los Angeles, and firefighters hoped to rein in the bl…

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UK begins testing a new app to fight COVID-19 spread

LONDON (AP) — Britain started testing a new smartphone app Thursday to help people find out whether they’ve been close to someone infected with COVID-19 after security concerns torpedoed an earlier effort to use te…

Wall Street drifts, indexes mixed after latest run at record

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are drifting in early trading on Wall Street Thursday, with indexes mixed, and the market remains within a breath of erasing the last of its pandemic losses.

3 Milwaukee residents headed to DC event arrested in Indiana

WARSAW, Ind. (AP) — Three men who are members of a Milwaukee group that's marching to the nation's capital for a

Lithuania designates Hezbollah as a terrorist organization

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania on Thursday designated the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group as a terrorist organization and issued a 10-year ban on all individuals related to the Iran-backed group from enterin…

Utility says equipment not to blame for Baltimore explosion

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore Gas and Electric said Thursday that all of its equipment had been operating safely before a gas explosion leveled three row homes, killed two people and sent seven more to the hospital.

UK engineers to examine slopes near tracks after derailment

LONDON (AP) — Britain's railway operator says inspectors will be examining track-side slopes after a passenger train derailed following heavy rain and flooding in Scotland, killing three people.

Turkey detains IS suspect planning attack on police

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish police have detained a suspected Islamic State group militant who was allegedly planning to attack a police station, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported Thursday.

Stocks open mostly lower a day after latest run at record

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening mostly lower on Wall Street Thursday a day after the S&P 500 closed just below its pre-pandemic record high. The index was down 0.1% in the early going. Cisco, which makes routers…

Police: 4 people charged after 2 goats found killed

SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. (AP) — Four people have been charged after two goats were fatally attacked by dogs and someone wielding a spiked bat and what appeared to be a machete, authorities in Virginia said.

UN: 8 children die within days in Syria camp for IS families

BEIRUT (AP) — At least eight children under the age of five have died in recent days from health problems linked to the dire conditions in a camp in northern Syria housing tens of thousands of female supporters of …

Lebanon's military gets sweeping powers after Beirut blast

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's Parliament on Thursday approved a state of emergency in Beirut in its first session since the catastrophic Aug. 4 explosion, granting the military sweeping powers amid rising popular anger a…

Rights group: Houthis, Saudis killed Ethiopian migrants

CAIRO (AP) — A prominent rights group Thursday accused Yemen's Houthi rebels and rival Saudi border guards of killing several dozen Ethiopian migrants in an incident at the border earlier this year.

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The number of laid-off workers applying for unemployment aid fell below 1 million for the first time since the pandemic intensified in March, though applications remain at an extraordinarily high level. The Labor D…