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7:38 PM on Thursday, May 14

Abby Roque scored her second goal of the game 2:29 into overtime as the Montreal Victoire defeated the Ottawa Charge 3-2 in Game 1 of the Walter Cup Finals in the Professional Women’s Hockey League on Thursday night

6:19 PM on Thursday, May 14

NFL teams tapped into their creativity rolling out a variety of takes revealing their schedules for the 2026 season Thursday night with a mixture of art, video games and yes, even The Simpsons

3:19 PM on Thursday, May 14

A man who experts said was intellectually disabled has become the 600th person executed in Texas since the state resumed carrying out the death penalty in 1982

2:55 PM on Thursday, May 14

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged Americans to mark the nation’s 250th anniversary by defending deeply held beliefs and protecting free speech rather than relying on patriotic slogans or celebrations

2:31 PM on Thursday, May 14

The Supreme Court has preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues

2:21 PM on Thursday, May 14

Cuban and U.S. officials say that CIA Director John Ratcliffe has met with Cuban officials including Raul Castro’s grandson during a high-level visit to the island

2:18 PM on Thursday, May 14

Lawmakers are working to raise the retirement age for U.S. Capitol Police officers

1:29 PM on Thursday, May 14

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney unveils a clean electricity strategy aimed at doubling Canada’s electricity grid by 2050

12:16 PM on Thursday, May 14

A top California Democratic political aide has pleaded guilty in a scheme to steal campaign funds from Xavier Becerra when he served as the federal health secretary

10:59 AM on Thursday, May 14

A tourist from Washington state is facing federal charges after a witness recorded what prosecutors say was a video of him hurling a coconut-sized rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal

9:32 AM on Thursday, May 14

An Oklahoma man who has narrowly avoided execution three separate times could walk free from a county jail after a judge agreed to grant him bond while awaiting retrial

9:12 AM on Thursday, May 14

A small medical plane crashed in a mountain range outside Ruidoso, New Mexico, killing all four people aboard and sparking a wildfire in the surrounding forest

8:27 AM on Thursday, May 14

The 2026 NFL season will kick off with a Super Bowl rematch

7:08 AM on Thursday, May 14

The Justice Department is challenging efforts to sanction attorneys from the first and second Trump administrations, asserting in a lawsuit that the District of Columbia Bar is unfairly playing politics with the legal disciplinary process

5:59 AM on Thursday, May 14

Jannik Sinner beat Andrey Rublev 6-2, 6-4 to reach the Italian Open semifinals and move past Novak Djokovic with a record 32nd consecutive victory in Masters 1000 events

5:50 AM on Thursday, May 14

The Princess of Wales’ visit to Italy highlights the Reggio Approach, an educational model that values a child’s curiosity and potential

5:32 AM on Thursday, May 14

Pope Leo XIV has denounced investments in AI and high-tech weaponry, warning they lead to a “spiral of annihilation.”

4:25 AM on Thursday, May 14

The PGA Championship has its biggest logjam after one round in 57 years

2:44 AM on Thursday, May 14

A Philippine senator wanted by the International Criminal Court has fled from the Senate, where he sought refuge to evade arrest

1:41 AM on Thursday, May 14

Latvian center-right Prime Minister Evika Silina has resigned after losing support from the Progressives Party, her left-leaning coalition partner