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5:38 PM on Monday, August 17

At least three fans were asked by WNBA security personnel to cover shirts that had messages about transgender women participating in women’s sports during Sunday’s game at Atlanta between the Dream and the Indiana Fever

5:18 PM on Monday, August 17

President Donald Trump’s decision to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea does not just slight a longtime ally

4:20 PM on Monday, August 17

Brazil’s President Lula da Silva says oil drilling in northern coastal regions could be a "passport to the country’s future."

3:35 PM on Monday, August 17

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3:20 PM on Monday, August 17

Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, said it suspended its livestreams in Brazil

2:31 PM on Monday, August 17

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pitching a plan to help shield local police officers who make immigration arrests from possible financial consequences if they are accused of on-duty misconduct

2:27 PM on Monday, August 17

A teenage lifeguard and the boy he rescued off the coast of California have been reunited as President Donald Trump honored both as heroes

1:46 PM on Monday, August 17

Los Angeles Lakers governor Jeanie Buss is legally contesting her siblings’ plan to sell the family’s remaining 17.8% minority ownership stake in the team to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press

1:15 PM on Monday, August 17

Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been postponed indefinitely

1:04 PM on Monday, August 17

U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates have declined again, with exemptions reaching a record high

12:46 PM on Monday, August 17

LIV Golf is ending its season one tournament early

11:26 AM on Monday, August 17

Major League Baseball’s team owners unanimously have approved the sale of the San Diego Padres to an investor group led by private equity billionaire José E

11:20 AM on Monday, August 17

The Trump administration says it is temporarily pausing construction of a controversial border construction project in the Big Bend National Park while the head of the agency tasked with building the wall visits Texas to do an “on-the-ground evaluation.”

9:52 AM on Monday, August 17

A Palestinian American whose home in the occupied West Bank has been besieged by Israeli settlers for over a week has arrived there to help family members defend the property

8:46 AM on Monday, August 17

Fans have gathered outside a Welsh church to honor singer Bonnie Tyler, who died last month at age 75

7:10 AM on Monday, August 17

A deadly stretch of unsettled weather is continuing with thunderstorms, heavy rain and flash flooding an ongoing threat from the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic

4:49 AM on Monday, August 17

President Donald Trump has downplayed reports about conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln to reporters in the Oval Office

10:15 PM on Sunday, August 16

U.S. stocks slipped further from their record heights after rising oil prices cranked up the pressure on inflation and financial markets

9:08 PM on Sunday, August 16

Lawyers have given opening statements in Florida in the trial of a man charged with arranging the murder of a Microsoft design manager

7:36 PM on Sunday, August 16

President Donald Trump says vandals are to blame for large swaths of dead grass on the National Mall near the World War II Memorial