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5:20 PM on Wednesday, August 19

Local media reports five news reporters and two members of the military who were invited to an event at Vandenberg Space Force Base were briefly detained at gunpoint by security officers who thought they were gate crashers

4:41 PM on Wednesday, August 19

Two members of a university cycling team have been killed and seven others were injured in a car crash in northeastern Tennessee

4:05 PM on Wednesday, August 19

The U.S. Army says it will resume Apache helicopter training missions following a brief pause after two soldiers were killed in a crash last week in Texas

3:27 PM on Wednesday, August 19

A Missouri judge has rejected bid to let voters decide whether to use new U.S. House districts backed by President Donald Trump

3:06 PM on Wednesday, August 19

The United States plans to send a military hospital ship to Peru’s Pacific coast next year to help with the effects of El Nino

2:34 PM on Wednesday, August 19

Tens of thousands of people in northwest Indiana remain without power, more than a week after deadly storms leveled trees and knocked down power lines across the region

2:14 PM on Wednesday, August 19

The national debt has surpassed a record $40 trillion, highlighting the impact of defense costs, social programs, and interest on the deficit

1:57 PM on Wednesday, August 19

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12:48 PM on Wednesday, August 19

Canada and the United States have moved closer to finalizing a trade agreement that would avert threatened 50% U.S. tariffs

12:15 PM on Wednesday, August 19

The Los Angeles district attorney has reduced felony charges against a police officer who secretly recorded colleagues making racist remarks

10:01 AM on Wednesday, August 19

The death toll from a gold mine collapse in the Central African Republic has risen to more than 100

4:58 AM on Wednesday, August 19

President Donald Trump has picked Dr. Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration

4:51 AM on Wednesday, August 19

The Justice Department is defending its prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey and says there's "no serious dispute” that a social media post of seashells he made could be understood as a threat against President Donald Trump

2:33 AM on Wednesday, August 19

The International Criminal Court has criticized new U.S. sanctions on its senior staff as a “flagrant attack” on its independence

12:29 AM on Wednesday, August 19

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired a senior official amid a corruption investigation involving a deputy head of the presidential office

10:29 PM on Tuesday, August 18

Sen. Darline Graham, running in South Carolina's runoff election, stumbled over a foreign policy question during a debate

9:26 PM on Tuesday, August 18

Residents on Hawaii's Big Island are struggling to recover after last week's hurricane that authorities say killed two people

9:07 PM on Tuesday, August 18

The trial judge who presided over the case of the Texas teenager convicted of fatally stabbing a 17-year-old athlete at a high school track meet was ordered removed from the case as the defendant seeks a new trial

9:05 PM on Tuesday, August 18

Ukrainian drones have targeted a major logistics center outside Moscow, setting it ablaze

5:53 PM on Tuesday, August 18

North Korea says the U.S. decision to scale back military exercises with South Korea doesn't change what it views as the provocative nature of the drills