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Journalist Daniel Pearl's beheaded body was found in a shallow grave in the Pakistani port city of Karachi in 2002. The murder conviction of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was overturned last year.

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh's murder conviction was overturned in April and he was ordered released for time served for kidnapping Pearl. He has remained in detention pending appeals.

Officers discovered 25 men and one woman inside a boarded-up house in the Houston suburbs. Many said they were being held against their will and had been there for up to a week.

The 27th named storm of the season promises heavy rain and damaging winds. It's set to make landfall in the U.S. on Wednesday.

Judge rules against USAGM CEO Michael Pack's moves to dismiss top executives and board of a fund that helps people who live under repressive regimes to access the Web and to communicate securely.

"All of Louisiana needs to prepare," says Gov. John Bel Edwards. Delta, which is headed first for Cuba and Mexico, is part of a storm season that exhausted the usual list of alphabetized names.

A U.S. military court judge who took over the 9/11 case two weeks ago has quit. That means a 9/11 trial is unlikely to begin by the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Cuba has opened stores for shoppers with U.S. dollars and dropped a tax on dollar transactions. The government is trying to pull the country out of a deep economic slump, made worse by the pandemic.

When Raúl Castro passed Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez the job, the Communist Party stalwart became Cuba's first president not named Castro in decades. But don't expect radical reforms.

Raul Castro, who has led Cuba since his brother Fidel retired in 2008, will leave the presidency Thursday. And he has a successor in mind: Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, who is 30 years his junior.