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6:23 PM on Friday, May 8

A note that a former cellmate says he discovered after Jeffrey Epstein’s first suspected jail suicide attempt was liked penned by the same person as a note that authorities found in the millionaire sex offender’s cell after he killed himself three weeks later

5:44 PM on Friday, May 8

The U.S. military’s latest strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean has killed two men while leaving one survivor

4:18 PM on Friday, May 8

A South Dakota mining company has canceled a drilling project in the Black Hills after opposition from Native American tribes and local groups

4:08 PM on Friday, May 8

Officials say there were no injuries reported after an explosion and a fire at a refinery in the New Orleans area

3:52 PM on Friday, May 8

A federal judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News

2:47 PM on Friday, May 8

A hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean has sparked fear among Spanish passengers, not from illness, but from potential stigma upon returning home

2:46 PM on Friday, May 8

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has defended the Trump administration's decision to impose new sanctions on Cuba

1:46 PM on Friday, May 8

U.S. immigration authorities have canceled the visas of more than two dozen people, including some who worked on a Disney Cruise Line ship, amid allegations they possessed or had viewed child sexual abuse images

1:11 PM on Friday, May 8

ABC is accusing the Trump administration of trying to chill free speech and hinder open political discussion

11:06 AM on Friday, May 8

President Donald Trump's administration is pushing federal land management officials to lift restrictions on hunting and trapping in national parks, refuges and wilderness areas

8:53 AM on Friday, May 8

Schools and universities across the country are recovering from an outage tied to a cyberattack that knocked down Canvas

7:38 AM on Friday, May 8

A key online learning system used by thousands of schools and universities is back after a cyberattack knocked it offline, creating chaos as students tried to study for finals

7:15 AM on Friday, May 8

The Virginia Supreme Court has struck down a Democratic congressional redistricting plan that had won voter approval

5:28 AM on Friday, May 8

The Pentagon has begun releasing files on UFOs, tapping into public curiosity about unidentified phenomena

5:18 AM on Friday, May 8

President Donald Trump says the leaders of Russia and Ukraine have agreed to his request for a three-day ceasefire and an exchange of prisoners

10:36 PM on Thursday, May 7

10:06 PM on Thursday, May 7

Partial results from local elections in England show significant losses for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party and gains for Reform UK

9:53 PM on Thursday, May 7

U.S. stocks rose to records following the latest sign that the nation’s job market is doing better than economists expected

9:02 PM on Thursday, May 7

A Utah judge has rejected a request from the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk to ban cameras from his high-profile murder case

9:01 PM on Thursday, May 7

The only person ever charged in the unsolved 2021 disappearance of Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay has been sentenced to five years in federal prison