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6:57 AM on Saturday, April 25

Okello Chatrie’s cellphone gave him away

6:00 AM on Saturday, April 25

On Newport’s south side, historic and opulent mansions sit on an avenue with mature trees that help cool the neighborhoods, clean the air and foster wildlife

5:38 AM on Saturday, April 25

Tick season seems to be off to a fast start, with an unusually high number of bites already reported across the country

9:03 PM on Friday, April 24

Top European Union officials say the bloc is looking into funding alternative energy infrastructure in the Middle East that would circumvent conflict hot spots like the Strait of Hormuz

6:03 PM on Friday, April 24

The two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came decades apart

5:20 PM on Friday, April 24

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is announcing a special session for judicial redistricting following an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a major Voting Rights Act case

5:04 PM on Friday, April 24

A proposal that would require California to verify proof of citizenship when a person registers to vote — and require voters to provide identification at polling places — will appear on the November ballot

4:34 PM on Friday, April 24

Louisiana police say a podcast helped them solve the decades-old rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl

4:17 PM on Friday, April 24

A jury has convicted Brian Scott Lorenz in the 1993 murder of Deborah Meindl near Buffalo

4:07 PM on Friday, April 24

It’s the final year of an event that bills itself as the largest powwow in North America, and the winners of the pageant that headlined it for decades are mourning the end of the tradition

2:48 PM on Friday, April 24

President Donald Trump has made it clear he expects his choice for Federal Reserve chair to quickly cut interest rates once he takes office

2:43 PM on Friday, April 24

A 17-year-old has been charged with murder following a deadly shooting at a Louisiana mall that injured five and killed a high school girl, authorities announced on Friday

10:39 AM on Friday, April 24

Jack Thornell, the Associated Press photographer whose picture from an assassination attempt on James Meredith in 1966 won a Pulitzer Prize, has died at age 86

9:01 AM on Friday, April 24

Officials say a volunteer firefighter has died battling a wildfire in Florida, while two large fires in Georgia have destroyed more than 120 homes

6:43 AM on Friday, April 24

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that he has undergone treatment for prostate cancer

3:55 AM on Friday, April 24

President Donald Trump is sending his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan to meet with Iran’s foreign minister as officials in the South Asian nation push to revive ceasefire talks

12:33 AM on Friday, April 24

U.S. President Donald Trump is sending envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan on Saturday to continue talks with Iran

12:26 AM on Friday, April 24

The United States once protected ships from Iranian attacks in the Strait of Hormuz in the 1980s

9:29 PM on Thursday, April 23

Officials say a powerful storm churned up multiple tornadoes that barreled through Oklahoma, damaging at least 40 homes and sending emergency crews door-to-door in a hard hit neighborhood

9:03 PM on Thursday, April 23

A former Colorado funeral home owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies has been sentenced to 30 years in prison