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9:33 PM on Monday, May 4

The U.S. military says it’s launched another strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea

9:03 PM on Monday, May 4

Recent court rulings on abortion pill access have reignited a contentious political issue in a midterm year

8:25 PM on Monday, May 4

The U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into Smith College, an all-women’s institution in Massachusetts, for admitting transgender women

8:11 PM on Monday, May 4

A federal appeals court panel is expressing skepticism over the Trump administration indefinitely appointing top federal prosecutors without the nominees going before the U.S. Senate for approval

5:50 PM on Monday, May 4

California is investigating one of the Trump administration’s deals to end an offshore wind project

3:19 PM on Monday, May 4

A former corrections officer has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the fatal beating of an inmate at an upstate New York prison

3:12 PM on Monday, May 4

Doris Fisher, who co-founded the iconic clothing chain The Gap Inc. in 1969 with her late husband Don, has died

2:07 PM on Monday, May 4

The Associated Press has won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for stories on the expansion of government surveillance efforts in China and the role that U.S. tech firms played in it

1:23 PM on Monday, May 4

A man spotted carrying a gun near the White House complex was shot by law enforcement officers after he opened fire on them near the Washington Monument

12:49 PM on Monday, May 4

Pulitzer Prize judges have awarded the fiction prize to Daniel Kraus for “Angel Down,” a World War I narrative told in one long sentence

11:44 AM on Monday, May 4

A United Airlines jet came dangerously close to disaster Sunday when it hit a semitrailer truck and a light pole on the New Jersey turnpike as it came into land at Newark Liberty International Airport

9:11 AM on Monday, May 4

A branch of the Catholic church has expressed concern over reports that Israel is demolishing civilian and religious buildings in southern Lebanon

8:54 AM on Monday, May 4

Authorities say a driver has plowed into people in a busy shopping area in the German city of Leipzig

7:20 AM on Monday, May 4

John Sterling, the longtime radio broadcaster known for extravagant, individualized home run calls and declaring “theee Yankees win!”

4:43 AM on Monday, May 4

A cruise ship with nearly 150 people is waiting for help off Cape Verde's coast in the Atlantic Ocean after three passengers died and three others were left seriously ill in a suspected hantavirus outbreak

11:59 PM on Sunday, May 3

European leaders say President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Germany is just the latest signal that Europe must take more responsibility for its security

9:13 PM on Sunday, May 3

9:04 PM on Sunday, May 3

Lawmakers in several southern states are meeting this week to consider redistricting plans in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act

9:02 PM on Sunday, May 3

U.S. President Donald Trump’s pledge to shrink America’s military deployment in Germany is putting a new spotlight on the U.S. military presence in Europe

9:02 PM on Sunday, May 3

New Mexico state prosecutors are seeking fundamental changes to Meta’s social media apps and algorithms to safeguard children in the second phase of a landmark trial on allegations that platforms such as Instagram have created a public safety hazard