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Workers at an Ebola treatment center go on strike over unpaid salaries and bonuses at Rwampara General Hospital, in Ituri, northeastern Congo, Monday, July 13, 2026, (AP Photo/Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne)

Why the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history is becoming more challenging

By The Associated Press

July 22, 2026 at 1:14 p.m.

More than 1,000 people have died in eastern Congo's latest rare Ebola virus outbreak.

FILE – In this July 21, 1934 file photo, people pose in front of the Biograph Theater on N. Lincoln Avenue in Chicago as one woman displays the newspaper headline “Dillinger Slain.” Outlaw John Dillinger was shot and killed by federal agents outside the movie theater after watching the feature “Manhattan Melodrama.” The film “Public Enemies” being released July 1, 2009, stars Johnny Depp as Dillinger, who drove the same streets, burst out of the same buildings and emerged from the same theater and pretended to die in the same alley where the feds plugged Dillinger more than 70 years ago. (AP Photo, File)

Today in History: July 22, feds kill bank robber John Dillinger outside Chicago movie theater

By The Associated Press

July 22, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater,...

** FILE ** This three picture combination shows: on the left, Bosnian Serb Leader Radovan Karadzic in an April 1996 file photo during the Bosnian Serb assembly session in Pale, some 16 kilometers (10 miles) east of Sarajevo, the centre photo shows, Karadzic in an undated photo released by Belgrade’s “Healthy Life” magazine Tuesday July 22, 2008, made at an undisclosed location in Belgrade with glasses, long white hair and a beard and the photo on the right shows Karadzic appearing in the courtroom during his initial appearance at the U.N.’s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday July 31, 2008 (AP Photo)

Today in History: July 21, Bosnian war crime fugitive arrested in Belgrade suburb

By The Associated Press

July 21, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s top war crimes fugitives, was...

Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, right, draws from a fish bowl the first number in the World War I draft July 20, 1917. Current Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson will draw from this goldfish bowl on Oct. 29, 1940, the first number in a nationwide lottery to determine the order of calling men for military training under selective service for the new World War. (AP Photo)

Today in History: July 20, World War I draft lottery begins

By The Associated Press

July 20, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

America’s World War I draft lottery began as Secretary of War Newton Baker, wearing a...

A burnt area shows the contact point and crash path of United Airlines flight 232 after it exploded on impact during an attempted emergency landing at Sioux City Airport in Sioux City, Iowa on July 20, 1989. The old runways of the original airport, now used as taxiways, are seen criss-crossing the crash path. The pilot was attempting to land on one of the closed runways. (AP Photo/Jeff Bundy)

Today in History: July 19, plane crashes during emergency landing, kills 111

By The Associated Press

July 19, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

111 people were killed when United Airlines Flight 232, a DC-10 that sustained a tail...

A steel-helmeted policeman wields his club on fleeing African American youths at West 125th Street during violence in New Yorks Harlem neighborhood, July 20, 1964. Demonstrators were protesting the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old African American, James Powell, by a white police officer. (AP Photo)

Today in History: July 18, Harlem riots after fatal police shooting of Black teen

By The Associated Press

July 18, 2026 at 2:01 a.m.

Nearly a week of rioting erupted in New York’s Harlem neighborhood following the fatal police...

Undated picture of Tsar Nicholas II who was executed in Jekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks 17 July 1918. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Today in History: July 17, Russian Czar and his family executed

By The Associated Press

July 17, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

Russia’s Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.

WOODS HOLE, UNITED STATES: A Coast Guard ship carrying the bodies of John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren G. Bessette enter the waters of Woods Hole, MA, 21 July 1999 in front of a passenger ferry. The bodies were recovered from the crash site of the small plane flown by John F. Kennedy, Jr. which went missing late 16 July, 1999 off Martha’s Vineyard, MA. The recovered bodies were later being taken to the Barnstable County Medical Examiner office, MA, for autopsy. Accompanying the bodies were Sen. Edward Kennedy and his sons Edward Kennedy, Jr. and Patrick Kennedy. AFP PHOTO Matt CAMPBELL (Photo credit should read MATT CAMPBELL/AFP via Getty Images)

Today in History: July 16, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and her sister die in plane crash

By The Associated Press

July 16, 2026 at 2:00 a.m.

John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died when their...

Palestinians mourn the bodies of people killed in an Israeli military strike.

Israel’s latest strikes kill a dozen people in Gaza, including police officers

By The Associated Press

July 16, 2026 at 6:10 a.m.

On Wednesday, three members of a family were killed in central Gaza, officials said.

A woman stands at the water's edge along the Strait of Hormuz.

US airstrikes hit northern Iran as it disables ship trying to run the blockade

By The Associated Press

July 16, 2026 at 6:04 a.m.

U.S. strikes hit an Iranian army barracks, killing at least seven troops.

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Why the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history is becoming more challenging

Today in History: July 22, feds kill bank robber John Dillinger outside Chicago movie theater

Today in History: July 21, Bosnian war crime fugitive arrested in Belgrade suburb

Today in History: July 20, World War I draft lottery begins

Today in History: July 19, plane crashes during emergency landing, kills 111

Today in History: July 18, Harlem riots after fatal police shooting of Black teen

Today in History: July 17, Russian Czar and his family executed

Today in History: July 16, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and her sister die in plane crash

Israel’s latest strikes kill a dozen people in Gaza, including police officers

US airstrikes hit northern Iran as it disables ship trying to run the blockade