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17 US service members have died in the Iran war

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) – The U.S. military said Sunday that another American service member was killed as part of the war with Iran, bringing the total number of deaths to 17.

Thunderstorms will clear wildfire smoke from Northeast ahead of World Cup final

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) – Smoke from Canadian wildfires that has engulfed the Northeast in haze is expected to mostly clear from the New Jersey area just in time for the World Cup final on Sunday, thanks to thunderstorms passing through the area, meteorologists say.

Uncertainty on whether wildfire smoke will affect the World Cup final

NEW YORK (AP) – Mikel Merino can smell and see the smoke from the Canadian wildfires that are making for hazy conditions across large parts of the U.S., including northern New Jersey where he and Spain are set to face Argentina in the World Cup final on Sunday.

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Anthropic says its AI models hacked 3 organizations during testing

Anthropic said its artificial intelligence models hacked into three other organizations during testing, just days after ChatGPT maker OpenAI raised concerns over AI controls after it disclosed its rogue models hacked another company. Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI company behind Claude, posted on its website Thursday that it discovered the three incidents after reviewing more than 141,000 evaluation runs.

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Japan's Sony sees profit grow on demand for games, but quake damage unclear

TOKYO (AP) – Sony Group Corp. reported a 32% profit growth in the fiscal first quarter Friday while warning of a negative impact from the earthquake that hit southwestern Kumamoto earlier this week.

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China's factory activity unexpectedly slips into contraction in July

HONG KONG (AP) – China’s factory activity unexpectedly slowed in July, the first such contraction in five months, weighing on the pace of broader growth for the world’s second-largest economy. The official manufacturing purchasing managers index, or PMI, fell to 49.2 from 50.3 in June, China’s National Bureau of Statistics said Friday.

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The Trump Report: Latest Updates

Hamas said Friday that it reached an agreement to disarm, a significant move that could help end the war in Gaza – but one that will face many hurdles and could take a long time to achieve, if at all. Israel has not commented on the deal, which President Donald Trump announced hours earlier. It comes nine months after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire to end the fighting between Israel and the group was signed.

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Senior FIFA executive says staff were deceived over World Cup sell-off plan

GENEVA (AP) – FIFA’s chief operating officer said its staff were deceived by their president Gianni Infantino’s World Cup sell-off plan, and suggested on Friday the project must not go ahead.

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Trump hails 'unique' Cabinet meeting at Camp David and seizes on Spain's crisis

CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) – President Donald Trump took Friday’s Cabinet meeting on the road to the Camp David retreat in Maryland, using the historic rustic backdrop to boast of his administration’s achievements while seizing on a migrant crisis in Spain to make his case for why voters should choose Republicans in the midterm elections.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal officials involved in the prosecution of James Comey misled judges, submitted false statements and withheld key facts during the course of the investigation, according to new defense filings that seek the dismissal of a case charging the former FBI director with threatening President Donald Trump on social media.

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