NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks drifted higher following another encouraging update on inflation. The S&P 500 added 0.4% Thursday and is sitting less than 2% below its record. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.2%, and the Nasdaq composite rose 0.2%. Treasury yields fell again in the bond market.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Record floodwaters on Australia's east coast have left four people dead and one missing, officials said Friday as rain eased over the disaster area.

TEl AVIV, Israel (AP) - Iranian state television confirmed the head of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was killed in Israel’s strikes Friday morning. Gen. Hossein Salami was the chief of one of the country’s most powerful centers, and his death was a tough blow to Iran’s embattled leadership.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Record floodwaters on Australia’s east coast left one person dead and three others missing, officials said Thursday, as more heavy rain was forecast in the area.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - President Donald Trump must return to California Gov. Gavin Newsom control over National Guard troops the president deployed to Los Angeles to assist in immigration enforcement and controlling unrest, a federal judge said in a temporary restraining order Thursday.

Australia's most decorated living war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith on Friday lost his appeal of a civil court ruling that blamed him for unlawfully killing four Afghans while he served in Afghanistan.

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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Australia's newly reelected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on Thursday, in a visit aiming to strengthen his country's economic and defense ties with its closest major neighbor.