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1 Medal of Honor: President Donald Trump will award the nation’s highest military honor to a soldier who served in Afghanistan and braved enemy fire multiple times while rescuing other members of his task force and evacuating numerous casualties, the White House announced. Master Sgt. Matthew O. Williams, who still serves in the Army, will receive the Medal of Honor during an Oct. 30 ceremony.

Nuremberg audio: Audio 2 recordings from the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders will be made available to the public for the first time in digital form after nearly two years of work conducted in secret. The files capture several hundred hours of the first, highprofile trial of top Nazis after World War II. Since 1950, they have existed only on 2,000 large discs housed in the Netherlands.

Lowey retiring: Rep. Nita Lowey, 3 D-N.Y., who leads the House Appropriations Committee, announced Thursday that she will retire at the end of next year. Lowey, 82, worked to fund the fight against AIDS, deliver economic aid to developing nations, and has been a reliable ally of Israel in her 31-year career in Congress.

Global Fund: An organization 4 that funds programs to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria raised at least $13.92 billion for the next three years at an international conference, French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday.

Uber acquittal: A jury on 5 Thursday found Uber driver Michael Hancock not guilty of murder in the fatal shooting of a passenger he said attacked him while he was driving on a freeway in Denver in June 2018. Hancock said he was defending himself against passenger Hyun (Huhn) Kim, 45, who he said made unwanted sexual advances and attacked him when he threatened to pull over.