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6:13 PM on Monday, October 6

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has asked Pope Leo XIV to help maintain peace in Venezuela

5:49 PM on Monday, October 6

A former member of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ senior staff has been sentenced to a year of probation for reporting a fake bomb threat to City Hall while attending a virtual meeting in 2024

4:43 PM on Monday, October 6

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyers want the hip-hop mogul sent to a low-security federal prison in New Jersey to serve his four-year, two-month prison sentence

4:01 PM on Monday, October 6

Eleven pro-Palestinian demonstrators who were arrested at Stanford University last year after they occupied the president’s office building and allegedly caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage have been arraigned a second time in Northern California

3:14 PM on Monday, October 6

The FBI in 2023 analyzed phone records of more than a half dozen Republican lawmakers as part of an investigation into efforts by Donald Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election

3:13 PM on Monday, October 6

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the government shutdown is putting more stress on air traffic controllers who already have an extremely stressful job, as well as threatening a program that small communities rely on to help subsidize airline service

2:44 PM on Monday, October 6

Utah’s Republican-led Legislature has approved a revised congressional map that could give Democrats an improved chance at flipping a seat as the party fights to topple the GOP’s slim majority in the U.S. House

2:06 PM on Monday, October 6

12:01 PM on Monday, October 6

President Donald Trump's plan to deploy the military on U.S. soil is sparking conflict with blue state governors that is playing out in the courts

11:28 AM on Monday, October 6

10:47 AM on Monday, October 6

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a network of companies and their affiliates on allegations that they supplied precursor chemicals for fentanyl production to a faction of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel

10:10 AM on Monday, October 6

Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez is facing a felony battery charge for what authorities say was a fight over parking

8:11 AM on Monday, October 6

Illinois and Chicago have filed a lawsuit aiming to stop President Donald Trump's administration from sending hundreds of National Guard troops to Chicago

7:38 AM on Monday, October 6

Frank Bisignano has been named CEO of the IRS, adding to his role as Social Security Administration Commissioner

4:08 AM on Monday, October 6

The International Criminal Court has convicted a leader of the feared Janjaweed militia of playing a leading role in atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region over 20 years ago

3:03 AM on Monday, October 6

British author Jilly Cooper, known for her bestselling novels, including “Rivals” and “Riders,” has died

12:31 AM on Monday, October 6

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9:54 AM on Saturday, October 4

Israel and Hamas have begun indirect talks on ending the war in Gaza after both sides signaled support for U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan

3:10 AM on Saturday, October 4

1:50 PM on Monday, September 29

Illinois has followed California and Oregon in filing lawsuits to stop President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Democrat-led big cities