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Floyd Jones, the founder of BackBlack, an initiative that supports underfunded Black-led nonprofits, poses for a portrait in Washington Heights, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

This campaign aims to boost Black nonprofit fundraising by convincing everyday donors of their power

8:22 AM on Friday, August 21

Fundraising platforms are organizing this month to raise more money for underfunded Black-led nonprofits

Motorists ride on a road as haze from wildfires blankets the city of Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Stefanus Taman)

Indonesia warns against starting open blazes as haze from wildfires spreads to Malaysia

6:53 AM on Friday, August 21

Indonesian authorities warn they will take legal action against anyone starting open fires, as huge blazes on Borneo and elsewhere created a choking haze that blankets cities

FILE - Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, Cuban ambassador to the United Nations, speaks to reporters in New York, Thursday, April 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig,File)

Cuba says US sanctions are blocking its efforts to open the economy to private investment

6:35 AM on Friday, August 21

The United States has demanded that Cuba open up to private investment, and Cuba has passed sweeping reforms to encourage just that

This combination of book cover images shows "American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump” by Kai Bird, "Music Against the Night: A Novel" by Yiyun Li, “Promise Me, America” by Joe Biden, "Switzy" by Emma Cline, and "The Disappearers" by Marlon James. (Scribner/FSG/Little, Brown & Co./Random House/Riverhead via AP)

5 books to read this fall, from Marlon James to Joe Biden

6:11 AM on Friday, August 21

Notable new books for the fall season range from Emma Cline's novel about a dying man's final journey to former President Joe Biden's White House memoir

This combination of images show, top row from left, "A Court of Splintered Harmony" by Sarah J. Maas, "American Hagwon" by Min Jin Lee, "American Scoundrel" by Kai Bird, "Birth of a Culture" by Grandmaster Flash with Scoop Jackson, "Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea" by Emily Wilson, "Exit Party," by Emily St. John Mandel, second row from left, "In Latin America You Could Be Free" by Yesenia Barragan, "Life of M" by Rachel Cusk, "Music Against the Night" by Yiyun Li, "Partita" by Barbara Kingsolver, "Peculiar Stars" by Rebecca Yarros, "Ply" by Hernan Diaz, third row from left, "Renaissance Men" by Harriet A Washington, "Staying Still" by Hieu Minh Nguyen, "Taipei Story" by R.F. Kuang, "The Brightness" by Chad Harbach, "The Disappearers" by Marlon James, "The French Illusion" by John Grisham, bottom row from left, "The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State" by Jill Lepore, "The Rush" by Nathaniel Philbrick, "The Telephone" by James Gleick, "The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman" by Deeshaw Philyaw, "Threshing Day" by Rebecca Yarros, and "The Witches of Cambridge" by Alice Hoffman. (AP Photo)

Fall books: Fiction takes the spotlight in bookstores during the midterm season

6:09 AM on Friday, August 21

Election news will likely fill the headlines this fall, but among book buyers fiction will likely have top billing

Jason Arday and the new politics of plagiarism

5:36 AM on Friday, August 21

People walk in Tehran's traditional main bazaar, Iran, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iranian families struggle to afford the basics as US ratchets up economic warfare

5:06 AM on Friday, August 21

Tehran’s grocery stores are well-stocked, but many Iranian families can barely afford the basics

Children watch a movie on a mobile device at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

First group of deportees arrives in troubled Haiti after US ends TPS program

11:36 PM on Thursday, August 20

The U.S. has deported more than 160 people to Haiti for the first time since the Trump administration won a legal battle to end Temporary Protected Status for some 350,000 Haitians

The exterior of the Kennedy Center is seen, Friday, July 31, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Federal court is asked to block Kennedy Center from returning Trump's name to building

9:44 PM on Thursday, August 20

Rep. Joyce Beatty has asked a federal court to block the Kennedy Center from adding President Donald Trump’s name to the building

FILE - Lee Cheuk-yan poses at the June 4 Museum his pro-democracy group operates in Hong Kong on May 28, 2014. Chinese character projected on him reads "Rehabilitate the June 4th Movement". (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

What to know about the Tiananmen vigil organizers convicted of inciting subversion in Hong Kong

7:05 PM on Thursday, August 20

Two former organizers of Hong Kong’s massive vigils to remember the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have been convicted under a Beijing-imposed national security law

State Sen. Aisha Wahab, a Democratic candidate for Congress in California's 14th district, speaks during a primary election night event on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026, in Hayward, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

California lawmaker Aisha Wahab wins special election to succeed Eric Swalwell in Congress

6:48 PM on Thursday, August 20

California state Sen. Aisha Wahab has secured victory in a special election to serve the rest of former Rep. Eric Swalwell’s House term, which ends in January

FILE - Guatemalans deported from the U.S. arrive at La Aurora airport in Guatemala City, Dec. 30, 2025, after deplaning a repatriation flight. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

More than 2,300 Mexicans sent to Guatemala and Honduras as Trump ramps up third-country deportations

4:09 PM on Thursday, August 20

The United States has deported nearly 2,300 Mexicans to Guatemala this year and sent dozens more to Honduras

Migrants who crossed from Morocco into Spain are escorted by Spanish police to temporary shelters after being cleared from a beach in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Sempere)

Thousands of migrants in Ceuta wait in limbo while Spain figures out what to do with them

4:07 PM on Thursday, August 20

Migrants in Ceuta have been moved to makeshift shelters by Spanish police

FILE - Michael Cohen speaks during a news conference announcing his new radio show in New York, July 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Trump appears on former fixer-turned-enemy Michael Cohen's radio show after detente

2:14 PM on Thursday, August 20

President Donald Trump appeared on his former fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen's radio show

FILE - Cameroon's President Paul Biya, of the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement party, waits to cast his vote during the presidential elections, Oct. 7, 2018, in Yaounde, Cameroon. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

Cameroon's President Biya returns after a long stay abroad raises health concerns

2:02 PM on Thursday, August 20

President Paul Biya has returned to Cameroon after spending over two months abroad, raising concerns about his health and a potential power vacuum

FILE - Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan gives a press conference at his home, in Lahore, Pakistan, on May 18, 2023. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan returned to prison after exam at a private hospital

1:48 PM on Thursday, August 20

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been taken back to prison after a medical examination at a private hospital

A plane carrying the deportees from the United States arrives at the Roberts International Airport outside of Monrovia, Liberia, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Alexander Wiaplah)

US carries out its first deportations under pact for Liberia to accept 1,200 non-Liberians

9:04 AM on Thursday, August 20

The United States has carried out its first deportation under an agreement for Liberia to accept up to 1,200 people who are not from the African country

People take part in a protest against rising prices, declining purchasing power and shortages of basic goods in Tunis, Tunisia, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026. Banner in French showing Preident Kais Saied reads "Leave". (AP Photo/Ons Abid)

New opposition group protests in Tunisia after extreme heat-driven power and water cuts

8:56 AM on Thursday, August 20

Tunisians are facing water and electricity shortages amid extreme heat, fueling anger at the country's leadership

Mourners carry the flag-draped bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes during the war with Hamas, whose remains were recently recovered from the rubble, in Gaza City, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Iran dismisses US economic threats, and other developments in the Middle East

6:15 AM on Thursday, August 20

Iran has dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats of economic pain and isolation

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