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If you've turned on a television in the last three years, chances are you've been inundated with advertisements for sports betting, and not only during game broadcasts.

TV stations in Philadelphia, New York City and Cleveland said Wednesday that they are taking down the "Dr. Oz Show," now that the show's host, Mehmet Oz, has formally become a candidate for U.S. Senate.

Mexico announced a joint plan with the United States Wednesday to send development and agricultural aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, to stem the wave of migration from those Central American countries.

Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador held a massive rally in Mexico City Wednesday to mark the midway point in his sixyear term amid polls showing that about twothirds of Mexicans approve of the job he is doing.

A legal battle is headed to North Dakota's Supreme Court over access to thousands of documents related to the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline and the company that oversaw security during construction.

New findings indicate the mutant coronavirus was already in Europe close to a week before South Africa sounded the alarm.

Britain plans to allow people who have tested positive for HIV to join the armed forces if they no longer carry a detectable amount of the virus, its defence ministry said on Wednesday.

Canada, seeking to halt the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant, will require people arriving by air from all nations except the United States to take a COVID19 test, Health Minister JeanYves Duclos said on Tuesday.

A special grand jury found that a Virginia Beach police officer was justified in fatally shooting a Black man armed with a gun during a chaotic night of violence on the city's oceanfront this spring, authorities said Tuesday.

The Gucci family is not pleased with the depiction of their relatives in the new film House of Gucci. In a statement issued this week, they said the narrative is anything but accurate and that the filmmakers did not consult them at all.

Several dozen Holocaust survivors marked the third night of Hanukkah on Tuesday with a menorahlighting ceremony at Jerusalem's Western Wall that paid tribute to them and the 6 million other Jews killed by the Nazis.

Finding the fossils of a large duck-billed dinosaur in southern Missouri is exciting enough, but a paleontologist who helped lead the dig believes there are many more in the same area.

A Turkish court jailed pending trial Metin Gurcan, a founder of the Turkish opposition Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA), over "political and military espionage," a staterun news agency said on Monday.

Washington, Nov 29 (AP) After months of study, the Pentagon has decided no immediate major changes are needed in the global positioning of US forces, although it will further analyze force needs in the Middle East and make refinements in Asia and the Paci...

Washington, Nov 29 (AP) After months of study, the Pentagon has decided no immediate major changes are needed in the global positioning of US forces, although it will further analyze force needs in the Middle East and make refinements in Asia and the Paci...

The countries affected by the ban are Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.