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4:01 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Nine people have pleaded not guilty to felony charges brought forth in a rural Texas county by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton as part of a widening elections investigation

3:37 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A federal judge in San Francisco is weighing whether the Trump administration violated federal law by sending National Guard troops to accompany federal agents on immigration raids in Southern California

3:17 PM on Wednesday, August 13

New York’s attorney general has sued the parent company of the Zelle payment platform, months after the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau abandoned a similar case under the Trump administration

2:01 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A jury in South Texas has found two bakery owners accused of concealing and harboring employees in the U.S. illegally guilty

1:18 PM on Wednesday, August 13

U.S. stocks notched some more records as a rally spurred by hopes for lower U.S. interest rates wrapped around the world

1:04 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore millions in National Science Foundation grants to UCLA

12:37 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Prosecutors say Chicago police officers who fired their guns nearly 100 times during a 2024 traffic stop and killed a 26-year-old man won’t face criminal charges

12:29 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Mexico says it sent 26 alleged cartel figures to the United States at the request of the Trump administration and to prevent these individuals from running their illicit businesses from Mexican prisons

11:15 AM on Wednesday, August 13

Harvey Weinstein faces sentencing and another possible retrial in his New York City sex crimes case

11:06 AM on Wednesday, August 13

The first black bear hunt in Florida in a decade takes place in December under a rule adopted Wednesday by state wildlife officials

10:44 AM on Wednesday, August 13

A pickup truck has crashed into a van carrying members of an Amish group in rural Michigan, killing at least six people

10:09 AM on Wednesday, August 13

A judge is considering why it was necessary for the Trump administration to sue Maryland's entire federal bench over an order stopping the immediate deportation of immigrants challenging their removals

9:04 AM on Wednesday, August 13

President Donald Trump's meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin is set for a military base in Alaska that was crucial to countering the Soviet Union during the height of Cold War and still plays a role today

8:29 AM on Wednesday, August 13

A Tennessee man has avoided a trial and a possible death sentence by pleading guilty to fatally shooting three people and wounding three others in a daylong series of shootings livestreamed on social media

6:30 AM on Wednesday, August 13

An official says a mother, father and child were killed when a tree fell on their car as heavy rain and flooding hit Tennessee

3:20 AM on Wednesday, August 13

GE Appliances plans to shift production of refrigerators, gas ranges and water heaters out of China and Mexico as part of a more than $3 billion investment to expand its U.S. operations

2:03 AM on Wednesday, August 13

Wildfires are raging across southern Europe, killing at least three people in Spain, Turkey and Albania

10:13 PM on Tuesday, August 12

U.S. stocks rose after a rally spurred by hopes for lower U.S. interest rates wrapped around the world

9:05 PM on Tuesday, August 12

The fate of a makeshift immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” hangs in the balance, as a federal judge considers whether building on sensitive wetlands violated environmental laws

8:17 PM on Monday, August 11