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3:54 PM on Thursday, August 21

A $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News for its coverage after the 2020 presidential election focuses on the roles of hosts Jeanine Pirro, Maria Bartiromo and Lou Dobbs in spreading false stories about fraud in Democrat Joe Biden's victory over President Donald Trump

3:28 PM on Thursday, August 21

A lawyer for one of five former world junior hockey players acquitted of sexual assault charges last month says the Canadian government will not appeal the judge's ruling

3:15 PM on Thursday, August 21

California Legislature votes to set November special election on new US House map favoring Democrats

3:14 PM on Thursday, August 21

Villanova University president says report of a campus shooter that sent students scrambling was a "cruel hoax"

3:11 PM on Thursday, August 21

New York City officials have discovered a sixth death linked to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Central Harlem, where more than 100 people have been diagnosed with the ailment

2:34 PM on Thursday, August 21

The Southeastern Conference is moving to a nine-game conference schedule beginning in 2026

2:34 PM on Thursday, August 21

Elon Musk’s X has reached a tentative settlement with former employees of the company then known as Twitter who’d sued for $500 million in severance pay

2:26 PM on Thursday, August 21

Before his return to the White House this year, President Donald Trump faced a slew of criminal charges and lawsuits that threatened his finances and freedom

2:20 PM on Thursday, August 21

Villanova University reports an active shooter on campus, tells students to lock and barricade doors

2:10 PM on Thursday, August 21

More packages of frozen shrimp potentially affected by radioactive contamination have been recalled

2:00 PM on Thursday, August 21

An internal CDC email reveals that the Georgia man who shot at CDC buildings on Aug. 8 likely tried to enter the campus two days earlier

1:44 PM on Thursday, August 21

Supreme Court lets Trump administration cut nearly $800 million in health research funding in anti-DEI push

1:09 PM on Thursday, August 21

President Donald Trump is blaming renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power for skyrocketing energy costs

10:46 AM on Thursday, August 21

Orlando officials have denounced the removal of a rainbow-colored crosswalk outside the Pulse nightclub

10:46 AM on Thursday, August 21

The former singer-guitarist for the Grammy-winning band Mastodon, Brent HInds has died in a motorcycle accident in Atlanta

7:43 AM on Thursday, August 21

President Donald Trump is declaring victory after an appeals court threw out the massive civil fraud penalty against him

7:09 AM on Thursday, August 21

A former top aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams is among seven people facing new charges in the corruption investigation that has swirled around City Hall for two years

7:03 AM on Thursday, August 21

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in July as homebuyers were encouraged by a modest pullback in mortgage rates, slowing home price growth and more properties on the market

4:16 AM on Thursday, August 21

Some voices on the Christian right are arguing the virtue of empathy has become a vice

9:57 PM on Wednesday, August 20

Wall Street fell to a fifth straight loss