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6:06 PM on Thursday, August 13

A surrogate who gave birth in Texas to a California couple's child is embroiled in a legal battle

5:57 PM on Thursday, August 13

5:34 PM on Thursday, August 13

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and negotiator Jared Kushner will travel to the Middle East next week to try to advance plans for an end to the conflict in Gaza after a deal recently announced by the Trump administration ran into Israeli opposition

5:01 PM on Thursday, August 13

President Donald Trump is ordering the U.S. Navy to remove the advanced system used to launch fighter jets from its newest type of aircraft carriers and return to using older steam catapults that he has long said he prefers

4:51 PM on Thursday, August 13

A federal prosecutor says tests on a substance found in the van of a man shot by immigration officers in Texas last month showed it was not methamphetamine

3:42 PM on Thursday, August 13

Since its start, the festival has grown from a weekend workshop with a handful of participants to the largest festival of its kind in Europe, lasting more than a month, with daily workshops drawing hundreds of participants and near nightly concerts attended by over 10,000 people total, according to organizers

3:19 PM on Thursday, August 13

Police say a Minnesota man used a screwdriver to fatally stab his wife and their 7-year-old daughter at a daycare before killing himself

2:41 PM on Thursday, August 13

The trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy has turned to her search history about mental health concerns and medication side effects in the weeks before she strangled her three children in January 2023

1:52 PM on Thursday, August 13

White House border czar Tom Homan is defending Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks

1:51 PM on Thursday, August 13

A jury has been selected in the trial against the man charged in the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur

12:15 PM on Thursday, August 13

Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty as early as Friday in the federal case accusing him of stalking and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a stunning development in a case that rattled business leaders while galvanizing their critics, according to a person familiar with the matter

11:28 AM on Thursday, August 13

A federal investigation accuses California's prison system of failing to protect incarcerated women from sexual abuse by guards

11:27 AM on Thursday, August 13

Investigators say broken engine parts shattered a window on a Ryanair plane shortly after takeoff in Greece last month, causing a man’s head to be sucked into the hole in the fuselage before his fellow passengers pulled him to safety

8:28 AM on Thursday, August 13

Rescuers in Colombia are calling for silence as they listen for signs of life in the rubble left by a deadly earthquake

7:45 AM on Thursday, August 13

A company that operates a vast nationwide network of automated cameras that record the license plate numbers and other characteristics of all passing vehicles every day is making changes to its platform

3:42 AM on Thursday, August 13

Clashes between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and government forces in Yemen raged overnight

3:24 AM on Thursday, August 13

The biggest obstacles to President Donald Trump’s order on vaccines may be the logistical challenges it poses for parents, health providers and drugmakers in the United States

9:11 PM on Wednesday, August 12

The battle over the Kennedy Center’s future is escalating

9:02 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Democrats are gathering to finalize their 2028 presidential primary calendar this week, setting the stage for a wide-open contest to succeed President Donald Trump and chart a path ahead as the party’s voters oscillate between progressive and more moderate candidates

6:03 PM on Wednesday, August 12

A grand jury in Louisiana has declined to indict a former law enforcement officer who was accused of planning to kill Black people in a mass shooting at a New Orleans festival