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The Buzz | 16-year-old Fortnite world champ wins $3 million

All those hours playing video games have paid off for a 16-year-old. Kyle Giersdorf, of Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, racked up the most points and won $3 million as

Trump signs Sept. 11 victims’ compensation fund extension

President Donald Trump yesterday signed a bill ensuring that a victims’ compensation fund related to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks never runs out of money, ending years

S. Koreans, Russians returned days after boat drifts to N. Korea

Two South Koreans and 15 Russians returned to South Korea yesterday, following 10 days of detention in North Korea after their fishing boat drifted into North

Nearly 1,400 detained in Moscow protest; largest in decade

Nearly 1,400 people were detained in a violent police crackdown on an opposition protest in Moscow, a Russian monitoring group said yesterday, adding that was

USA | 1 dead, 11 others shot at community event in Brooklyn

Late night gunfire at a large, outdoor event in Brooklyn killed one man, wounded 11 others and sent hundreds and perhaps thousands of people running for

Offbeat | Gulp! Arkansas photographer snaps images of snake eating bug

An amateur photographer has snapped some startling gone-in-a-gulp images of a venomous snake devouring an unlucky bug at Ozark National Forest in Arkansas. Charlton McDaniel of Fort

This Day in History | 1968 – Pope renews birth control ban

Pope Paul VI has confirmed a ban on the use of contraceptives by Roman Catholics in spite of a Church commission’s recommendation for change. Most members of the

Life & Style | Jay-Z pulls out of Woodstock 50 performance

Jay-Z’s got 99 problems but Woodstock isn’t one: The rap king has pulled out of the 50th anniversary Woodstock festival just weeks before the troubled

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Tyson keeps museum post after sexual misconduct probe

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will keep his job as head of the Hayden Planetarium at New York’s American Museum of Natural History after the museum concluded its investigation

French wine vs US tech prowess: new Trump-Macron standoff

France is pushing ahead with a landmark tax on tech companies like Google and Facebook despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats of retaliatory tariffs on French wine.

Judge blocks Trump asylum restrictions at US-Mexico border

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to stop denying asylum to anyone who transits through another country to reach the U.S. border, marking the latest

New British PM Johnson urges EU to renegotiate Brexit deal

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the European Union yesterday to rethink its refusal to renegotiate the Brexit deal, setting himself on a collision course

Offbeat | Goose freed, got stuck in pizza driver’s car grille

Authorities say a goose that got stuck in a pizza delivery driver’s car grille in Vermont is expected to make a full recovery. Driver Ryan Harrington tells

This Day in History | 1945 – Churchill loses general election

Clement Attlee has been elected Britain’s new prime minister after Labour won a sweeping victory in the general election. The outgoing prime minister and great wartime leader

Life & Style | Alexander Neef to become Paris Opera director in 2021-22

Alexander Neef has been hired to succeed Stephane Lissner as director of the Paris Opera starting with the 2021-22 season. The 45-year-old Neef, whose hiring

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76th Venice Film Festival to embrace Netflix productions

The 76th Venice Film Festival will feature three Netflix productions alongside Hollywood titles, embracing the streaming giant after the Cannes Film Festival excluded it for a second year in

Derek Sheils extends Superbike victory streak to 7

He did, however, win both Superbike races to stretch his unbeaten streak in the class to seven. Derek, who qualified second fastest on the front

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