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2:34 PM on Wednesday, August 26

A settlement announced Wednesday between Meta and dozens of states resolves one of its biggest legal fights, but the social media giant is still facing litigation elsewhere over its products’ effects on young people’s mental health

1:23 PM on Wednesday, August 26

LIV Golf has informed employees their jobs will end next week as the league begins life without Saudi funding

1:20 PM on Wednesday, August 26

A Peruvian court has convicted four men of murder-for-hire and sentenced them to between 15 and 35 years in prison for the 2023 killing of an Indigenous Kichwa leader and rainforest defender

1:01 PM on Wednesday, August 26

Social media users are claiming that Canada could shut off electricity in the U.S. and cause massive blackouts if the trade war between the two countries escalates further

12:49 PM on Wednesday, August 26

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have officially dissolved, with their fighters integrating into Syria's state military

11:45 AM on Wednesday, August 26

Bobby Charles, the Republican nominee for governor in Maine, has told supporters that he plans to ask a top Homeland Security official to send ICE agents and U.S. Marshals to polling places in Maine before the midterm elections

10:24 AM on Wednesday, August 26

A federal judge says Blake Lively can have just over $400,000 of the $8 million in legal fees she sought for defending herself against a lawsuit that actor Justin Baldoni lodged against her in response to her lawsuit over the production of their 2024 film “It Ends With Us.”

9:13 AM on Wednesday, August 26

Tim Curry has died at 80

8:30 AM on Wednesday, August 26

The U.S. government has announced a drought disaster for more than two dozen cities and towns in Puerto Rico as water woes deepen across the U.S. Caribbean territory with no relief in sight

8:22 AM on Wednesday, August 26

A man accused of arranging the fatal shooting of a Microsoft design manager on a Florida road has been convicted of murder

8:02 AM on Wednesday, August 26

A federal judge has lifted a major obstacle to President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail voting, but Democratic state officials are already filing a new court challenge with the midterm elections fast approaching

6:58 AM on Wednesday, August 26

All testimony has concluded in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy

6:45 AM on Wednesday, August 26

New York Giants wide receiver Calvin Austin has a torn ACL in his right knee and is expected to miss the season, according to a person with knowledge of the injury

6:38 AM on Wednesday, August 26

Meta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion and add stronger child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms as part of a landmark legal settlement

3:01 AM on Wednesday, August 26

James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, wants to reveal depositions involving his Republican opponent, Ken Paxton

9:08 PM on Tuesday, August 25

Robert Gilman is the latest in a succession of high-profile prisoners freed by Russia going back years, but his release hardly cleared the decks of Americans behind bars there

9:06 PM on Tuesday, August 25

The U.S. and Canada have ramped up their trade war, hitting each other with steep new tit-for-tat tariffs

8:59 PM on Tuesday, August 25

The U.S. stock market drifted through a quiet day of trading after a report said inflation last month was a touch worse than economists expected

7:09 PM on Tuesday, August 25

Three U.S. Secret Service officials have been placed on administrative leave, pending the outcome of an investigation by the agency’s professional standards office

12:26 PM on Tuesday, August 25

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said a report on the lead-water crisis in the city of Flint is the final step her office can take toward accountability, years after a state Supreme Court ruling shut down criminal cases against a former governor and eight other people