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A mastodon tooth washed up on a California beach and then went missing. A local museum tried to track it down.

The Justice Department and the CIA's Inspector General are both investigating the agency's 2005 destruction of videotapes of the interrogations of top al-Qaida operatives. The Justice Department has already started what it calls a "preliminary inquiry" into the matter.

The future of Kosovo again tops the agenda of the United Nations Security Council. The U.N. has been running the region ever since NATO helped end a Serb crackdown on ethnic Albanians there eight years ago. But Kosovo's Albanians are planning to declare independence, a move resisted by Serbia.

A cannon used during the 1836 Battle of the Alamo, later repurposed as a birdbath on a San Antonio ranch, has been acquired by the Alamo and is now undergoing restoration.

Bexar County commissioners have teed off on plans for the 2026 Valero Texas Open golf tournament. The third oldest PGA Tour tournament will be hosted by the Oaks Course at TPC San Antonio on the far North Side.

After state and local officials in Montana sent mixed messages on whether a drive-in movie theater could open, the issue rose all the way to the top.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel had been hoping for a smooth transfer of power when she steps down next year. But now her chosen successor says she doesn't want the country's top job.

In a study of the early coronavirus epidemic in the U.S., a third of people who were hospitalized were African American. Top risk factors were high blood pressure and obesity.

The president says he hopes the initiative will develop a treatment for COVID-19 by early next year, a timeline that experts have called optimistic.