US soldier Travis King is in American custody after leaving North Korea, where he had been held since running across the border from the South in July. Washington's announcement came hours after North Korea's state news agency said Pyongyang had decided to expel King, in a surprise move amid deepening tensions on the Korean peninsula. King was detained by North Korea after crossing the frontier on July 18 after he joined a sightseeing tour of the DMZ between the two Koreas.

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The Justice Department sued eBay on Wednesday for allegedly selling restricted pesticide products and devices that defeat motor vehicle emission controls. The complaint against the online marketplace was filed on behalf of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a federal court in New York. It accused the San Jose, California-based company of selling hundreds of thousands of products in violation of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and other environmental protection legislation.

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Late-night talk shows, a mainstay of the US TV schedule, will be back on the air within a week, hosts said Wednesday, after leaders of the Writers Guild of America called off a strike. The shows -- fronted by Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Myers and John Oliver -- have been a glaring absence since writers went on strike in May over demands for better pay and protections from the threat of AI.

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Name the first late-night TV talk show, the host, network and debut year.

Wednesday's answer: Standard Oil was the first monopoly to be broken up by the U.S. government in 1911 under the Sherman Antitrust Act.