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Human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar criminal business in the U.S. that continues with little effective opposition

Iran’s foreign minister has traveled to Saudi Arabia, marking the first trip to the kingdom by Tehran’s top diplomat in years after the two nations reached a détente with Chinese mediation.

North Korean athletes and officials were traveling through Beijing, apparently the first delegation to travel abroad since the nation closed its borders in early 2020 at the start of COVID-19. (AP video: Olivia Zhang)
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Residents in the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories were rushing to beat a noon Friday deadline to evacuate their homes as one of hundreds of wildfires raging in the territories moved closer to the city of 20,000. (Aug. 18)
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Away from historic Lahaina town, where much of the early focus has been, crews fanned out into pockets of oceanside neighborhoods that also were destroyed by the fast-moving fire (Aug. 18)(AP video: Mike Householder)

West African military chiefs met in Accra after a deadline passed for Niger’s coup leaders to reinstate the president or face intervention. (Aug. 18)

50% of Americans say they have tried marijuana at one point, according to this year’s Gallup annual Consumption Habits survey.

DNA from the the person who likely killed Rachel Morin on a Maryland trail matched that of a man who assaulted a girl in LA in March, police say.

The hot button topic of discussion at My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell’s event in Springfield, Missouri was how 2020 election was rigged by corrupt voting machines.

Jared Shadeed, a 27-year-old Baltimore resident was last seen leaving a Seattle Airbnb rental on July 30, where he left all of his belongings.