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FILE - In this Tuesday, March 23, 2021 file photo, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to be the next Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), on Capitol Hill in Washington. Power landed Saturday, July 31, in Khartoum, aiming to support Sudan's fragile transition to democracy before travelling to Ethiopia to press the government there to allow humanitarian aid to the war-torn Tigray region. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP, File)

US official lands in Sudan to support democratic transition

Tenants prepare for unknown as eviction moratorium ends
Roxanne Schaefer holds a photograph in the living room of her apartment, in West Warwick, R.I., Tuesday, July 27, 2021. Schaefer, who is months behind on rent, is bracing for the end to a CDC federal moratorium Saturday, July 31, 2021, a move that could result in millions of people being evicted just as the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus is rapidly spreading. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Bacon may disappear in California as pig rules take effect
Jeannie Kim holds her popular bacon and eggs breakfast at her restaurant in San Francisco on Friday, July 30, 2021. Thanks to a reworked menu and long hours, Jeannie Kim managed to keep her San Francisco restaurant alive during the coronavirus pandemic. That makes it all the more frustrating that she fears her breakfast-focused diner could be ruined within months by new rules that could make one of her top menu items - bacon - hard to get in California. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Mask guidance divides parents heading into new school year
Joann Marcus of Fort Lauderdale, left, cheers as she listens to the Broward School Board's emergency meeting, Wednesday, July 28, 2021, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. A small but vocal group spoke vehemently against masks, saying their personal rights were being eroded and their children were suffering socially. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Forgotten oil and gas wells linger, leaking toxic chemicals
Ashley Williams Watt walks near a wellhead and flowline at her ranch, Friday, July 9, 2021, near Crane, Texas. The wells on Watt's property seem to be unplugging themselves. Some are leaking dangerous chemicals into the ground, which are seeping into her cattle's drinking water. And she doesn't know how long it's been going on. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Census: 1 in 5 dorms, prisons had no data at end of US count
FILE - College students begin moving in for the fall semester at N.C. State University in Raleigh, N.C., Friday, July 31, 2020. By the end of the U.S. head count last year, the Census Bureau lacked data for almost a fifth of the nation's occupied college dorms, nursing homes and prisons, requiring the statistical agency to make eleventh-hour calls to facilities in an effort to collect resident information or use a last-resort statistical technique to fill in the gaps. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, file)
President Joe Biden, left, looks over towards Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., right, during a meeting with Cuban-American leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

US sets new Cuba sanctions as Biden meets Cuban-Americans

Disney requiring US employees to be vaccinated against virus

Disney requiring US employees to be vaccinated against virus

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2015, file photo, Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., speaks at the 19th Annual Lake Tahoe Summit in South Lake Tahoe, Nev. Amodei had three surgeries and an outpatient procedure over the past 10 months for cancerous tumors on his kidneys and a cancerous spot in his esophagus, the Republican congressman disclosed Friday, July 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Nevada Rep. Amodei discloses cancer on kidneys, esophagus

A firefighter uses a drip torch to ignite vegetation while trying to stop the Dixie Fire from spreading in Lassen National Forest, Calif., on Monday, July 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

California wildfire flares but within line crews have built

In this photo provided by the Colorado Department of Transportation, equipment works to clear mud and debris from a mudslide on Interstate-70 through Glenwood Canyon, Colo., on Friday, July 30, 2021. Authorities say more than 100 people had to spend the night on the highway, including nearly 30 who took refuge inside a highway tunnel along I-70 in Glenwood Canyon after rain over an area burned by a wildfire triggered the mudslides in Western Colorado. The people were caught with their vehicles Thursday night, July 29, 2021 and it took crews nine hours to carve out a path through the mud to reach them about 6:30 a.m. Friday, Garfield County Sheriff's Office spokesman Walt Stowe said. (Colorado Department of Transportation via AP)

Mudslides force more than 100 to spend night on highway

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 16, 2021 file photo, A Texas Department of Public Safety officer in Del Rio, Texas directs a group of migrants who crossed the border and turned themselves in. he Biden administration sued Texas on Friday, July 30, 2021 to prevent state troopers from stopping vehicles carrying migrants on grounds that they may spread COVID-19, warning that the practice would exacerbate problems amid high levels of crossings on the state's border with Mexico. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

US sues Texas to block state troopers from stopping migrants

Europe

A man walks toward wildfires in Kacarlar village near the Mediterranean coastal town of Manavgat, Antalya, Turkey, Saturday, July 31, 2021. The death toll from wildfires raging in Turkey's Mediterranean towns rose to six Saturday after two forest workers were killed, the country's health minister said. Fires across Turkey since Wednesday burned down forests, encroaching on villages and tourist destinations and forcing people to evacuate. (AP Photo)

Turkey evacuates panicked tourists by boat from wildfires

Glimpses of bygone era in English seaside holiday village
Bring in the kids: Estonian city targets youths for jabs
Roberto Calasso, Italian publisher and literary figure, dies
US bids 'do svidaniya' to Russian staff at Moscow embassy
Death toll in wildfires that hit southern Turkey rises to 4
Russia blames space station lab incident on software failure
Belarus leader ready to invite Russian troops 'if necessary'
Man pleads guilty to assaulting England's top doctor in park

Middle East

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 23, 2021 file photo, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to be the next Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), on Capitol Hill in Washington. Power landed Saturday, July 31, in Khartoum, aiming to support Sudan's fragile transition to democracy before travelling to Ethiopia to press the government there to allow humanitarian aid to the war-torn Tigray region. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP, File)

US official lands in Sudan to support democratic transition

US Navy says drone strike hit oil tanker off Oman, killing 2
Tunisian police detain lawmaker, Islamist party officials
Tunisia's turmoil is being watched warily around the globe
Ship tied to Israeli billionaire attacked off Oman, 2 killed
Palestinians, Israeli troops clash after West Bank funeral
Key Libya commander backs reopening of Mediterranean highway
Israel delivers booster shots of vaccine to people over 60
Israel to offer 3rd COVID booster shot to older citizens

Asia

Protesters hold placards during a demonstration demanding the prime minister step down near the Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur, Saturday, July 31, 2021. Hundreds of black-clad Malaysian youths have rallied in the city center, demanding Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin resign for mismanaging the coronavirus pandemic that has worsened. (AP Photo/FL Wong)

Malaysian PM postpones Parliament, avoids no-confidence vote

FILE-In this Friday, July 30, 2021, file photo, people wave a Hong Kong flag and a Chinese national flag as they watch Olympics events at a shopping mall in Hong Kong. Hong Kong police arrested a man Friday, July 30, 2021, on suspicion of insulting the national anthem, after he was allegedly caught booing the Chinese national anthem and waving a Hong Kong colonial flag while watching an Olympic event at a mall. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

Hong Kong police arrest man for booing national anthem

A women's rights activist places a candle beside a poster with the pictures of Noor Mukadam, who was recently beheaded, during a candle light vigil to pay tribute to Noor and other domestic violence victims, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, July 25, 2021. The killing of Mukadam in an upscale neighborhood of Pakistan's capital has shone a spotlight on the relentless violence against women in the country. Rights activists say such gender-based assaults are on the rise as Pakistan barrels toward greater religious extremism. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Brutal killing spotlights violence against women in Pakistan

People walk along a pedestrian crossing Friday, July 30, 2021, in Tokyo, as Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga expanded a coronavirus state of emergency to four more areas in addition to Tokyo following record spikes in infections as the capital hosts the Olympics. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan expands virus emergency after record spikes amid Games

File- In this Monday, July 6, 2020, file photo, Tong Ying-kit, 23 years old, arrives at a court for the violation of the new security law after carrying a flag reading

Hong Kong protester given 9-year term in 1st security case

An investigator examines a damaged police vehicle at the site of hand grenade attack in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, July 30, 2021. Attackers threw a hand grenade at a police van in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, killing and wounding policemen before fleeing the scene, police said. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Pakistan attackers throw grenade at police van, kill officer

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Study: Vaccinated people can carry as much virus as others
FILE - In this April 6, 2021, file photo, bartender Denis Angelov pours drinks at Tin Pan Alley restaurant in Provincetown, Mass. A study of a large coronavirus outbreak in Provincetown suggests the amount of virus in fully vaccinated people was as great as the viral load in unvaccinated people. Health officials released the study Friday, July 30, 2021, saying it explains their call this week for vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in parts of the U.S. where the delta variant of the coronavirus is fueling infection surges. The study focused on an outbreak this month in Provincetown, a seaside tourist spot located in the Massachusetts county with the state's highest vaccination rate. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Incident involving 2 crashes, stolen patrol car in Livingston County brings bail reform to forefront
Incident involving 2 crashes, stolen patrol car in Livingston County brings bail reform to forefront
Marshals: 1 in custody, 2 outstanding after pursuit leads to crash on North Street
Marshals: 1 in custody, 2 outstanding after pursuit leads to crash on North Street
Police identify man killed in double shooting on Lyell Avenue
Police identify man killed in double shooting on Lyell Avenue
Lt. Gov. Hochul on state's thoughts on masking guidelines and schools
Lt. Gov. Hochul on state's thoughts on masking guidelines and schools

Science

Drive to charge packagers for recycling, but industry fights
FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, file photo, workers clean consumer plastic shopping bags from the clogged rollers of a machine which separates paper, plastic and metal recyclable material, in a processing building at EL Harvey & Sons, a waste and recycling company, in Westborough, Mass. States around the country are looking to adopt new recycling regimes that require producers of packaging to pay for its inevitable disposal. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
California wildfire flares but within line crews have built
A firefighter uses a drip torch to ignite vegetation while trying to stop the Dixie Fire from spreading in Lassen National Forest, Calif., on Monday, July 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Bezos loses appeal of NASA's plans to use Musk moon lander
This is an illustration provided by SpaceX shows the SpaceX Starship human lander design that will carry the first NASA astronauts to the surface of the Moon under the Artemis program. Jeff Bezos has lost his appeal of NASA's contract with Elon Musk's SpaceX to build its new moon lander. The Government Accountability Office Friday, July 30, 2021 ruled that NASA's award of the $2.9 billion contract to just SpaceX was legal and proper.(SpaceX/NASA via AP)
Russia blames space station lab incident on software failure
In this photo taken by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and provided by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service, the Nauka module is seen prior to docking with the International Space Station on Thursday, July 29, 2021. The newly arrived Russian science lab briefly knocked the International Space Station out of position Thursday when it accidentally fired its thrusters. For 47 minutes, the space station lost control of its orientation when the firing occurred a few hours after docking, pushing the orbiting complex from its normal configuration. The station's position is key for getting power from solar panels and or communications. Communications with ground controllers also blipped out twice for a few minutes. (Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service photo via AP)
In heat emergency, Greece adds checks for fires, power cuts
A woman reads a book at a beach of Kavouri suburb, southwest of Athens, on Friday, July 30, 2021. Greek authorities ordered additional fire patrols and infrastructure maintenance inspections Friday as the country grappled with a heat wave expected to last more than a week, with temperatures expected to reach 42 C (107.6 F). (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)
New Russian lab briefly knocks space station out of position
In this photo provided by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service, the Nauka module is seen prior to docking with the International Space Station on Thursday, July 29, 2021. Russia's long-delayed lab module successfully docked with the International Space Station on Thursday, eight days after it was launched from the Russian space launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The 20-metric-ton (22-ton) Nauka module, also called the Multipurpose Laboratory Module, docked with the orbiting outpost after a long journey and a series of manoeuvres. (Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service photo via AP)

Technology

Justice Department says Russians hacked federal prosecutors
FILE - This May 4, 2021 file photo shows a sign outside the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building in Washington. The Russian hackers behind the massive SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign broke into the email accounts some of the most prominent federal prosecutors' offices around the country last year, the Department of Justice said Friday, July 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Justice Department says Russians hacked federal prosecutors
FILE - This May 4, 2021 file photo shows a sign outside the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building in Washington. The Russian hackers behind the massive SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign broke into the email accounts some of the most prominent federal prosecutors' offices around the country last year, the Department of Justice said Friday, July 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
US regulators step up scrutiny of IPO hopefuls from China
FILE - In this July 30, 2013, file photo, Gary Gensler testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Chinese companies hoping to sell their shares in the United States must start making more disclosures about their potential risks before U.S. regulators will allow them to list their stock. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the move Friday, July 30, 2021, after Beijing said it would step up its supervision of Chinese companies listed overseas, including reviews of their cybersecurity. SEC Chair Gensler pointed in particular to Chinese businesses that use shell companies to get around Chinese rules blocking foreign ownership for their industries. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Robotic police dogs: Useful hounds or dehumanizing machines?
Honolulu Police Acting Lt. Joseph O'Neal demonstrates a robotic dog in Honolulu, Friday May 14, 2021. Police officials experimenting with the four-legged machines say they're just another tool, like drones or simpler wheeled robots, to keep emergency responders out of harm's way. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)
In effort to curb COVID, Tokyo Olympics collect lots of spit
Plastic vials for testing the coronavirus infection sit on a table at the Main Press Center for the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 30, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. About 30,000 people are spitting into tiny plastic vials every day at the Tokyo Olympics in a routine that's grown crucial in going ahead with the pandemic-era Games. (AP Photo)
China's Didi denies report of plan to buy back shares
Workers pass by the Didi headquarters in Beijing Friday, July 16, 2021. Didi Global Inc. on Friday, July 30, 2021 denied a report by The Wall Street Journal that the ride-hailing service was considering buying back its U.S.-traded shares after its June market debut was disrupted by Chinese government orders to overhaul data security. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)