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  • Former Madison Police Chief Noble Wray answers a question from the media during a news conference, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. Wray will serve as an independent consultant in the police-involved shooting case of Kenosha resident Jacob Blake. (Dan Truttschel/Kenosha News via AP)

    Former Wisconsin police chief to review Jacob Blake shooting

  • In this May 19, 2018, file photo, Amy Coney Barrett, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit judge, speaks during the University of Notre Dame's Law School commencement ceremony at the university, in South Bend, Ind. (Robert Franklin/South Bend Tribune via AP, File)

    Barrett emerges as court favourite; Trump to pick by weekend

  • A woman checks face masks for sale at a shop in downtown Madrid, Spain, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

    Europe adopts tougher virus restrictions as infections surge

  • A motorcyclist is silhouetted against the setting sun, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020, in Shawnee, Kan. Sunsets have been more vibrant than normal recently as smoke from western wildfires drifts across the United States. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

    Desert homes threatened by enormous California wildfire

  • In this Jan. 27, 2020, file photo, trader Michael Capolino works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, FIle)

    Wall Street falls, S&P 500 down 1.2% as global markets swoon

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    Closing time: UK pubs must shut early as COVID cases surge

  • In this Jan. 3, 2011 file photo, Mohammed Dahlan speaks during an interview at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

    Palestinians arrest supporters of Abbas rival close to UAE

  • FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2020 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron, left, smiles as he meets Lebanon's President Michel Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. In a televised address Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, Aoun warned that the crisis-hit country could be going to “hell” if a new government is not formed. An initiative led by Macron called for a Lebanese government of independent specialists that was to be formed by Sept. 15. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool via AP, File)

    Lebanese president warns of 'hell' if no new gov't formed

  • FILE - In this March 3, 2013 file photo, elephants drink from the Chobe National Park in Botswana. The sudden deaths of some 330 elephants in the northern part of the country earlier this year may have occurred because they drank water contaminated by toxic blue-green algae, the government announced Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Charmaine Noronha, File)

    330 elephants in Botswana may have died from toxic algae

  • FILE - This Jan. 27, 2020, file photo shows a General Motors logo at the General Motors Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant in Hamtramck, Mich. Shares in electric- and hydrogen-powered truck startup Nikola plunged on Monday Sept. 21, 2020, after the company's founder Trevor Milton resigned amid allegations of fraud - just two weeks after signing a $2 billion partnership with General Motors. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

    Founder of GM electric truck partner quits amid fraud allegations

  • In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force, Col. Todd Benson, the U.S. Air Force Central Command director of space forces, center, leads airmen through their enlistment ceremony as they became members of the Space Force at Al-Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. Space Force, the first new U.S. military service since the creation of the Air Force in 1947, now has some 20 members stationed at the Qatari base in its first foreign deployment. (Staff Sgt. Kayla White/U.S. Air Force via AP)

    America's 'Space Force' deploys troops in new frontier: the Arabian Desert

  • An Indian army convoy moves on the Srinagar- Ladakh highway at Gagangeer, northeast of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. China and India have been engaged in a tense standoff in the cold-desert Ladakh region since May, and their defense ministers met Friday in Moscow in the first high-level direct contact between the sides since the standoff began. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

    Indian and Chinese officers hold talks aimed at ending deadly border standoff

  • Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya speaks speaks with journalists after a meeting with EU foreign ministers in Brussels, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. European Union foreign ministers on Monday were weighing whether to impose sanctions on dozens of Belarus officials, including President Alexander Lukashenko, after holding talks with the country's exiled opposition leader. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

    Belarus opposition leader asks EU leaders for help, fresh elections

  • A man takes a picture of a hole at the Sanam Luang field in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. A plaque symbolizing Thailand's transition to democracy has been removed less than 24 hours after it was installed by anti-government demonstrators in a historic royal field. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

    Plaque symbolizing Thai democracy removed in less than a day