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President Donald Trump hosted a dinner Friday night for members of Congress in the newly paved White House Rose Garden, telling them they were the first gathering of what he dubbed the “Rose Garden Club.”

5:45 PM on Friday, September 5

A driver who crashed into a group of bicyclists in suburban Phoenix, killing two and injuring several others, has been sentenced to one year in jail

4:44 PM on Friday, September 5

In a pointed show of solidarity against President Donald Trump, state and local leaders walked through one of Baltimore’s most historically underserved neighborhoods amid ongoing efforts to curb gun violence

3:49 PM on Friday, September 5

Confusion has emerged over Trump administration plans to halt some security assistance funding to European countries along the border with Russia

3:36 PM on Friday, September 5

Federal agents conducted a surprise raid at a snack bar manufacturer in Cato, New York, taking away dozens of workers

3:16 PM on Friday, September 5

A judge has sided with Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey in a dispute over where school voucher recipients can play sports this year

3:00 PM on Friday, September 5

President Donald Trump is planning to attend the men's singles final at the U.S. Open on Sunday as a client guest and will watch the match from a suite, a spokesperson for the U.S. Tennis Association said Friday

2:54 PM on Friday, September 5

If someone wins the $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot there’s a good chance the public will find out little or nothing about the person

2:44 PM on Friday, September 5

Democrats and Republicans are testing dueling playbooks in fall elections that will decide the leadership of Virginia and New Jersey — and perhaps a new direction for the parties heading into next year’s midterms

2:31 PM on Friday, September 5

President Donald Trump says the U.S. will host next year’s Group of 20 summit at his golf club in southern Florida

12:54 PM on Friday, September 5

The widening debate over vaccine mandates in the U.S. and recent moves to get rid of them for schoolchildren in Florida are pushing some states to take steps to protect vaccines for children and adults

12:12 PM on Friday, September 5

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot

12:01 PM on Friday, September 5

The Justice Department is drawing swift condemnation from gun rights groups and LGBTQ advocates alike after floating that it was considering restricting transgender people from owning guns — a move that would all but certainly face immediate constitutional challenges if ever implemented

11:16 AM on Friday, September 5

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has said again that he won’t end his reelection campaign

10:43 AM on Friday, September 5

A former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to cut the engines of a passenger flight in 2023 has pleaded guilty or no-contest to all charges against him

10:18 AM on Friday, September 5

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to rebrand the Department of Defense as the Department of War

8:56 AM on Friday, September 5

The debut of updated COVID-19 vaccines has gotten off to a clunky start in many states

5:42 AM on Friday, September 5

According to a Homeland Security official, some 475 people were detained during an immigration raid at a sprawling Georgia site where South Korean auto company Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles

4:42 AM on Friday, September 5

Tesla is asking its investors to approve a proposed compensation package for CEO Elon Musk that could be worth almost $1 trillion and is based on the electric vehicle maker hitting certain ambitious milestones over the next decade