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5:43 PM on Thursday, May 28

A federal judge has ruled Alabama's use of nitrogen gas to carry out executions does not violate the U.S. Constitution

5:12 PM on Thursday, May 28

A pregnant woman from Ghana who entered the U.S. on a valid visa with her son so he could get medical attention has been held for more than a week in a windowless detention room at a Washington airport, her lawyers said in court documents

4:44 PM on Thursday, May 28

An annual United Nations report documenting sexual violence in conflicts worldwide has included Israeli forces for the first time since the review began more than 15 years ago for their treatment of Palestinian detainees

3:38 PM on Thursday, May 28

Rescuers are trying to reach four climbers who fell on Alaska’s Mount McKinley, North America’s tallest peak, the National Park Service said Thursday

3:35 PM on Thursday, May 28

A court investigation found that a federal judge had an affair with a police officer, including having sex in chambers overheard by staff, but remains on the bench with a “private reprimand.”

2:36 PM on Thursday, May 28

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2:12 PM on Thursday, May 28

In her new memoir, Jill Biden reflects on Joe Biden's poor 2024 presidential debate performance against Donald Trump

12:26 PM on Thursday, May 28

A fire official says a huge fire has destroyed a two-story apartment building in Dallas and killed a child and at least two other people

12:11 PM on Thursday, May 28

Protesters have clashed with armed federal immigration officers in front of a New Jersey detention center where advocates have asserted detainees are staging a hunger strike

12:06 PM on Thursday, May 28

Ohio is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states to attract the massive new facilities that power and train artificial intelligence chatbots

11:56 AM on Thursday, May 28

Crews have recovered the remains of six of nine workers who were missing after a chemical tank ruptured at at paper mill in Washington state, officials said Thursday

11:50 AM on Thursday, May 28

Major League Baseball owners made their long-expected salary cap proposal to the players’ association on Thursday, a system the union has vowed never to accept, setting the sides on course for a confrontation that threatens the 2027 season and perhaps beyond

10:33 AM on Thursday, May 28

Dozens of Palestinians in Gaza City gathered for funeral prayers for 10 people killed in Israeli strikes

10:20 AM on Thursday, May 28

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is calling for a new partnership with the United States

9:00 AM on Thursday, May 28

Other southern states are advocating for South Carolina to remain the first to vote in the Democratic presidential primaries

6:02 AM on Thursday, May 28

The top federal prosecutor in Chicago denies that his office has opened an investigation into E

5:12 AM on Thursday, May 28

U.S. and Iranian negotiators have reached a tentative agreement to extend the ceasefire by 60 days and start talks on Iran’s nuclear program

10:10 PM on Wednesday, May 27

French lawmakers have voted to repeal a 17th-century law that governed enslaved people in France's colonies

9:53 PM on Wednesday, May 27

A fire has devastated a girls' boarding school in central Kenya, killing at least 16 students and injuring many more

2:10 PM on Tuesday, May 26

The Scripps National Spelling Bee has moved from suburban Maryland to downtown Washington, and not all spellers and their families appreciate the change