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12:07 AM on Wednesday, August 12

9:03 PM on Tuesday, August 11

One Somali family's long trek to escape drought conditions is an example of a deepening humanitarian emergency in Somalia, where years of drought, conflict and economic pressures are pushing more families from rural communities into displacement camps as hunger rises and humanitarian funding shrinks

9:02 PM on Tuesday, August 11

Doctors worry that President Donald Trump’s new executive order on vaccines will stoke fear and confusion among parents at a time when measles is raging, immunization rates are falling and children are heading back to school

3:23 PM on Tuesday, August 11

Late mob boss John Gotti's reality TV star grandson has reported to federal prison after trying to stave off his fraud sentence by saying he was going to donate a kidney to his ailing mother

2:52 PM on Tuesday, August 11

A federal judge has agreed to halt President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to have the U.S. Postal Service play a central role in deciding who can receive a mail ballot

2:38 PM on Tuesday, August 11

Body camera footage shows how rescue teams found two women and 9-year-old boy who were stranded for three days when their river tubing trip went wrong

2:21 PM on Tuesday, August 11

Tennessee, Alabama, and Oklahoma plan to execute inmates on the same day this week

1:48 PM on Tuesday, August 11

Authorities in Zimbabwe say at least 15 people have died and another 27 are missing after a ferry capsized on Lake Kariba

1:02 PM on Tuesday, August 11

A set of unique, extremely rare Super Mario cartridges was found in a gaming store in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and will be auctioned off starting Friday

10:59 AM on Tuesday, August 11

The Minnesota Vikings have chosen Kyler Murray as their starting quarterback over J

10:22 AM on Tuesday, August 11

The only person to break the sound barrier in a car has earned another world record, this time in a show of force for hydrogen power

10:16 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Severe weather has cut power to over half a million people in the Chicago area, Indiana and Ohio

7:59 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Russia has released an American military veteran, allowing his return to the U.S. after four years of what his family and U.S. officials allege was wrongful incarceration and abusive treatment that left him near death

6:40 AM on Tuesday, August 11

A wildfire in western Canada that has forced about 20,000 people to flee grew overnight

6:38 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Primary elections are taking place in six U.S. states — Alabama, Connecticut, Minnesota, South Carolina, Vermont and Wisconsin

1:03 AM on Tuesday, August 11

U.S. President Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last year that he had “no cards" in the fight against Russia

9:08 PM on Monday, August 10

Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures will face a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump in his fight for reelection to an Alabama congressional seat the GOP redrew as part of a larger effort to help the party keep control of the U.S. House

9:07 PM on Monday, August 10

Former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin has won the Democratic nomination in Connecticut’s 1st Congressional District, ousting U.S. Rep. John Larson

9:04 PM on Monday, August 10

Sen. Darline Graham and U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman have advanced to a runoff in South Carolina’s special Republican primary to replace the late Lindsey Graham in the Senate

9:01 PM on Monday, August 10

Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan won the Minnesota Democratic Senate primary in the latest victory for an insurgent progressive over the party’s establishment