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6:32 AM on Wednesday, April 15

New York launched ambitious goals to cut its long-term greenhouse gas emissions with clarion calls about saving the future

6:31 AM on Wednesday, April 15

President Donald Trump has again threatened to fire Jerome Powell if the Federal Reserve Chair decides to stay on the central bank’s governing board after his term as chair expires next month

6:15 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Federal health officials will meet this summer to consider easing restrictions on a controversial group of drugs popular with followers of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement

6:01 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the same strict air pollution standards as incinerators

6:00 AM on Wednesday, April 15

House Democrats are launching what they call an anti-corruption task force in an attempt to strengthen ethics rules and protect voting access

5:57 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The largest restored wetlands in Massachusetts now cover hundreds of acres of what used to be cranberry farms

5:03 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The tax filing deadline for most Americans is Wednesday, and the Trump administration is highlighting the impacts of Republicans' massive tax and spending law

4:57 AM on Wednesday, April 15

An American YouTuber who sparked national outrage in South Korea for provocative stunts, including dancing on a statue honoring victims of wartime sexual slavery, was sentenced to six months in prison by a Seoul court on Wednesday

4:48 AM on Wednesday, April 15

It’s officially Tax Day in the U.S. And if you’ve waited till the last minute to file your taxes, don’t panic

4:16 AM on Wednesday, April 15

An official in Turkey says that four people have been killed and 20 others wounded after a student opened fire at two classrooms

4:02 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Two decades after Steve Jobs premiered the iPhone, a small but intensely passionate movement is rebelling against the omnipresent screen

11:15 PM on Tuesday, April 14

Sudan is entering a fourth year of war marked by famine and massacres in what the United Nations calls an “abandoned crisis.”

10:32 PM on Tuesday, April 14

U.S. President Donald Trump says China has agreed not to provide weapons to Iran as reports circulate that Beijing has considered transferring arms

9:45 PM on Tuesday, April 14

Mediators are moving closer to extending the ceasefire between the United States and Iran and restarting negotiations to salvage the fragile truce before it expires next week

9:22 PM on Tuesday, April 14

Resignations came quickly this week from two congressmen accused of sexual misconduct toward staff members

9:14 PM on Tuesday, April 14

Many Americans are turning to artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT for health advice

9:11 PM on Tuesday, April 14

A long-lasting weather pattern is blasting hot air across the eastern U.S. and threatening to shatter record highs

9:05 PM on Tuesday, April 14

They're called meat raffles, and they're a tradition in a few pockets of the U.S. They're featured mainly at neighborhood bars or at American Legion or VFW posts in Minnesota, Wisconsin and New York state

9:03 PM on Tuesday, April 14

Vice President JD Vance used a Turning Point USA event to defend President Donald Trump’s aggression in Iran and play down the resulting tensions between Washington and the Vatican

8:26 PM on Tuesday, April 14

The U.S. stock market is hanging around its record high as Wall Street waits for the next signal on what will happen with the U.S.-Iran war