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9:08 PM on Thursday, September 18

Oregon authorities say DNA has helped identify a woman's remains after 49 years

9:07 PM on Thursday, September 18

Republicans and Democratic lawmakers show no signs of budging as the House takes up a bill to avert a partial government shutdown in less than two weeks

9:03 PM on Thursday, September 18

Robin is a therapeutic robot programed to act like a 7-year-old girl as it travels around nursing homes and hospitals’ pediatric units providing emotional support while helping to combat staffing shortages

7:49 PM on Thursday, September 18

Kamala Harris shares her candid reflections in her new book, "107 Days," about her 2024 presidential campaign against Donald Trump

7:45 PM on Thursday, September 18

7:40 PM on Thursday, September 18

Texas A&M University’s president is stepping down after facing criticism over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature lesson about gender, which led to the professor’s firing

6:31 PM on Thursday, September 18

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U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to talk with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in a push to finalize a deal to allow the popular social media app TikTok to keep operating in the U.S. The call Friday also may offer clues about whether the two leaders might meet in person to hash out a final agreement to end a trade war and provide clarity on where relations between superpowers may be headed

5:49 PM on Thursday, September 18

Russia and Vietnam have developed a mechanism to conceal arms deal payments to avoid American and other Western sanctions, using profits from joint energy-sector ventures to pay for defense contracts, according to internal Vietnamese documents obtained by The Associated Press

5:08 PM on Thursday, September 18

An FBI sniper testified about the effectiveness of a hiding spot chosen by a man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course last year

5:06 PM on Thursday, September 18

A Kansas sheriff’s deputy has been charged with murder in the death of an inmate who sustained broken ribs after his back was kneeled on after he was wheeled from the infirmary to his cell

4:36 PM on Thursday, September 18

An Arizona prisoner scheduled to be executed next month for killing four members of a family in their Phoenix home over 30 years ago has apologized for the pain he’s caused

4:26 PM on Thursday, September 18

Three members of a federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico’s finances who were recently fired by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump have filed a lawsuit in U.S. court alleging their firings were illegal

3:45 PM on Thursday, September 18

More than a dozen elected officials have been arrested while protesting conditions at a New York City immigration holding facility where a federal judge extended a court order requiring the government to shape up its treatment of detainees

3:01 PM on Thursday, September 18

A researcher who studied fingernail growth and a group that explored whether painting zebra-like stripes on cows reduced fly bites are among the winners of this year's Ig Nobels

8:07 AM on Thursday, September 18

Fourteen former N

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U.S. Health Secretary Robert F

2:17 AM on Thursday, September 18

Congressional Democrats have unveiled a bill that would bolster free speech protections against government officials

9:41 PM on Wednesday, September 17

A prosecutor says a suspected stalker armed with a rifle hid inside his ex-girlfriend’s home in Pennsylvania and ambushed police officers who came to arrest him, killing three of them

9:34 PM on Wednesday, September 17

Protesters have hit France with transport strikes, demonstrations and blockades that are targeting the Paris Metro and other sectors