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The International Committee of the Red Cross has been losing influence, funding and staff, and disparaging remarks from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are just the latest headache for the Geneva-based humanitarian group.

"Age is just a number," actor Joan Collins, now 90, mused when she was 82. "It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine."

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The lucrative Saudi soccer league lost one of its high-profile players on Thursday when England midfielder Jordan Henderson quit Al-Ettifaq to sign for struggling Dutch powerhouse Ajax.

A transgender candidate vying for a seat in the Republican-majority Ohio House was cleared to run Thursday after her certification had been called into question for omitting her former name on qualifying petitions as required by a little-used state elections law.

Your dishes are safe from the Biden administration -- for now.

Shawn Barber, the Canadian pole vault record holder and 2015 world champion, has died from medical complications. He was 29.

RuPaul's shout-out to drag-queen story hours at the 75th Emmy Awards drew pushback from those leery of grown men wearing sexually provocative women's garb reading books at public libraries to children.

Right-hander Jordan Hicks and the San Francisco Giants finalized a $44 million, four-year contract on Thursday, a deal that includes performance bonuses for innings that could increase the total to $52 million.

Harvard coach Tim Murphy won his 200th game during his 30th season with the Crimson - the school's 150th season of football. He won his 10th Ivy League title this year, matching the conference record for a coach.

An annual poll traditionally friendly to anti-abortion advocates shows support for some pro-life positions wavering over the past year, reflecting possible pushback against the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.

A month before their fellow major leaguers will report for spring training, Aroldis Chapman, Yuli Gurriel and several other Cuban big leaguers assembled on an intimate field in Miami this week and slipped on gear with reminders of home. Joined by aspiring baseball prospects and grizzled retirees, they donned blue hats adorned with tiny Cuban flags and a rallying cry just above the red brim:

Harvard coach Tim Murphy won his 200th game during his 30th season with the Crimson - the school's 150th season of football. He won his 10th Ivy League title this year, matching the conference record for a coach.

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida has laid out a roadmap for Republicans to drive the abortion narrative away from Democrats, boost the GOP at the ballot box and -- most importantly -- save the lives of the unborn.

Mike Tomlin remains "on go" in Pittsburgh.

Jackson Irvine delivered again as Australia booked its place in the knockout stage of the Asian Cup on Thursday by beating Syria 1-0.

Her hand and her legs were shaking, she'd missed nine match points but also saved six, and Anna Blinkova was 41 points into a wild tiebreaker that was the longest ever in a women's Grand Slam event.

Chants of "free, free Palestine" rang out again from the crowd during the Palestinian soccer team's game against United Arab Emirates at the Asian Cup on Thursday.

The German parliament on Thursday approved legislation that is intended to ease deportations of unsuccessful asylum-seekers as Chancellor Olaf Scholz seeks to defuse migration as a political problem.

President Biden on Thursday brushed off weakened backing by Muslim Americans amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, saying he still thinks they'll show up for him on Election Day.

Social media site Reddit seeks to launch its initial public offering in March, three years after it first filed.

An attorney for ex-President Donald Trump finished her cross-examination of E. Jean Carroll, the columnist who alleges Mr. Trump raped her in 1996, on Thursday while the GOP front-runner attended his mother-in-law's funeral in Florida instead of watching testimony in New York.

Thank you, next: Ariana Grande announced on Wednesday that her new album, titled "eternal sunshine," will be released on March 8.

The author of "Little Women" may have been even more productive and sensational than previously thought.

Gunfire broke out inside a popular shopping mall on the edge of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, wounding six people, authorities said.