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2:04 AM on Thursday, August 13

A new AP-Ipsos poll finds Americans overwhelmingly see major benefits to children playing organized sports, but higher-income families are more likely to participate

9:37 PM on Wednesday, August 12

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6:54 PM on Wednesday, August 12

U.S. immigration officials say they didn’t publicly disclose the death of a Guatemalan man who had a seizure at a New Jersey detention center because they weren’t notified that he died after they sent him to the hospital

6:44 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent flew out of last month’s NATO summit in Turkey on what was effectively a decoy plane, while President Donald Trump was secreted onto another plane following an Iranian threat

5:30 PM on Wednesday, August 12

A surrogate who went to Texas after a dispute with a California couple over treating a severe birth defect has given birth a day after a judge in Texas ordered a hospital to provide life-sustaining care

4:18 PM on Wednesday, August 12

A shooting at a Georgia high school has left one student wounded, and police say a suspect is in custody

1:32 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks is facing criticism from Democratic elected officials and civil rights advocates, who call it unnecessary and cruel

12:50 PM on Wednesday, August 12

A Houston-based law firm tapped to receive a $150 million federal contract to provide legal representation unaccompanied immigrant children in federal custody has dropped out

12:42 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Russell Westbrook, the NBA’s career leader in triple-doubles and the 2017 MVP, announced Wednesday he’s retiring after 18 seasons during which he was selected to the league’s 75th anniversary team

11:57 AM on Wednesday, August 12

A Los Angeles County grand jury has indicted Nick Reiner on murder charges in the killing of his parents, actor Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner

11:50 AM on Wednesday, August 12

Newly unsealed court records show that a former Southern Poverty Law Center official has been charged in the Department of Justice’s broader criminal case against the Alabama-based civil rights group

10:48 AM on Wednesday, August 12

Travis Kelce calls training camp with the Kansas City Chiefs his “sanctuary.”

9:34 AM on Wednesday, August 12

Lawyers for the man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk say he shouldn’t be eligible for the death penalty because the shooter hit the “intended target” during an event attended by thousands of people last year in Utah

9:31 AM on Wednesday, August 12

Police in Minnesota say a man who killed his wife and their 7-year-old daughter at a daycare is also suspected of killing a 78-year-old relative in a separate attack

5:22 AM on Wednesday, August 12

President Donald Trump says White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave the administration at the end of the month to spend more time with her family

4:53 AM on Wednesday, August 12

Severe storms have wreaked havoc across the Midwest, causing tornadoes, heavy rains, and flash flooding

1:04 AM on Wednesday, August 12

Millions of people crowded cloudless cities and towns in Spain in search of the best views of a total solar eclipse, when the alignment of the sun, moon and Earth briefly plunged parts of the planet into darkness

9:07 PM on Tuesday, August 11

The search for life in the rubble of Colombia’s powerful earthquake is growing more desperate as search teams push up against a key time threshold to locate survivors before it's too late

9:02 PM on Tuesday, August 11

Authorities in Indonesia say rescuers evacuated 211 people and recovered the body of a passenger from a ferry that caught fire Wednesday in rough seas between Bali and Lombok