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San Francisco has launched an autonomous shuttle service a week after regulators approved the expansion of robotaxis despite safety concerns. San Francisco is one of a growing number of cities worldwide testing out driverless buses. (August 18) (AP Vid…

0819 Today in History

Thousands of Yellowknife residents joined road convoys and stood with packed bags at the airport to flee a looming wildfire approaching the capital of the Northwest Territories. (Aug. 18)

A sister’s decision to donate her brother’s body to science is helping doctors in the quest to one day ease the nation’s transplant shortage with organs from animals. (Aug. 18) (AP video/Shelby Lum)

Lawmakers in the traditionally conservative state of Tennessee are going back the statehouse to consider changes to the state’s gun laws and other public safety matters. The special session was called after a Nashville school shooting earlier this year…

Iran’s foreign minister has traveled to Saudi Arabia, marking the first trip to the kingdom by Tehran’s top diplomat in years after the two nations reached a détente with Chinese mediation.

North Korean athletes and officials were traveling through Beijing, apparently the first delegation to travel abroad since the nation closed its borders in early 2020 at the start of COVID-19. (AP video: Olivia Zhang)
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Residents in the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories were rushing to beat a noon Friday deadline to evacuate their homes as one of hundreds of wildfires raging in the territories moved closer to the city of 20,000. (Aug. 18)
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Away from historic Lahaina town, where much of the early focus has been, crews fanned out into pockets of oceanside neighborhoods that also were destroyed by the fast-moving fire (Aug. 18)(AP video: Mike Householder)

West African military chiefs met in Accra after a deadline passed for Niger’s coup leaders to reinstate the president or face intervention. (Aug. 18)