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FIFA President Gianni Infantino already is in globe-trotting campaign mode more than five months ahead of the vote when 211 member federations decide who will lead the world soccer body until 2031.

The U.S. military in Okinawa, Japan, is pausing all operations for two days, restricting the ability of troops to leave their base and ordering training after a Marine was arrested on suspicion of killing a local woman.

China has opened a foreign air force support center and is training pilots in Communist Laos -- the latest thrust south by Beijing's military, which is already training the armed forces of other Southeast Asian nations.

R&B singer Freddie Jackson, whose smooth ballads, including "You Are My Lady" and "Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)," made him one of R&B's biggest voices of the 1980s, has died. He was 70.

A memorable jack-o'-lantern does not require an art degree. It does, however, help to have something more dependable than a bent kitchen knife and a fistful of paper towels.

Almost every ceremonial object or ornament of the medieval papal monarchy has disappeared or lost its original purpose. Yet one survives: the golden rose.

Attorneys for David Hearn, the former Olympian accused by President Trump of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, have asked federal watchdogs to review the case.

Stanley Kubrick's personal archive heads to auction in London, with the "Star Child" prop from "2001: A Space Odyssey" expected to fetch up to $1.06 million and the ax from "The Shining" also up for bid.

Coco Gauff said she received an "insane" amount of racist comments on social media after controversy over a replayed point in her China Open victory over Sun Xinran.

President Trump and national Republicans are ramping up their push in the South Carolina Senate race.