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Saudi Arabia is known for its oil, but it is also one of the world's great producers of dates, which are now in season.

Trumpeter Hugh Masekela and producer Stewart Levine organized the 1974 festival and produced the new album Zaire 74: The African Artists, which captures performances by Miriam Makeba, Franco and more.

Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson gets an 11-game suspension, the Big Ten Conference announces a huge TV rights deal, and the WNBA playoffs get underway.

The novelist, activist and short story writer explored the lives of the marginalized and the powerless in American life. He was known for his books, Cloudsplitter, Affliction and Continental Drift.

The 19-year-old also faces 27 charges at the federal level, one of which carries a possible death sentence. He will make an appearance in federal court this week.

The NCAA men's basketball tournament returned to Albany Friday for the first time since 2003.

On July 1, 1963, the U.S. Post Office Department introduced the ZIP code program to get a handle on the heaping surplus of mail. Today, those five digits represent much more for American society.

Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have been sparring over energy policy. McCain's plan to expand offshore oil drilling seems to be catching on. Obama has responded with his own call for energy rebates, to be funded by a windfall tax on oil companies.

The former bandmates of Neil Young say they are supporting his protest against COVID-19 misinformation on the music-streaming platform.

Immigration authorities arrested more families in August than in any month on record. U.S. officials have long grappled with discouraging families from coming — and found there are no easy solutions.