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3:43 PM on Tuesday, March 17

The transit agency in charge of New York City’s subway system has sued the Trump administration

3:37 PM on Tuesday, March 17

Attorney General Pam Bondi has been subpoenaed to answer questions from Congress about the Justice Department’s sex trafficking investigation of Jeffrey Epstein and the agency’s handling of millions of files related to the disgraced financier

2:49 PM on Tuesday, March 17

A federal judge has for now halted Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s biggest vaccine moves, disrupting his push to remake U.S. immunization policy

1:09 PM on Tuesday, March 17

The Iran war has scrambled the Federal Reserve’s outlook on inflation and unemployment and will likely further delay interest rate cuts this year, putting off any relief for consumers struggling with high borrowing costs for home and car purchases

1:00 PM on Tuesday, March 17

Bank of America has tentatively settled a lawsuit claiming it ignored suspicious financial transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein while he was sexually abusing hundreds of girls and women

12:21 PM on Tuesday, March 17

President Donald Trump is delaying a diplomatic trip to China that was planned for months but began to unravel as he pressured Beijing and other world powers to form a military coalition to protect the vital Strait of Hormuz

11:28 AM on Tuesday, March 17

College Republicans at the University of Florida are suing the school president over what they call an unlawful crackdown on free speech

11:02 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Japanese atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori has died at age 88

10:29 AM on Tuesday, March 17

A man charged with planting pipe bombs near the U.S. Capitol on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot claims he's covered by President Donald Trump's blanket pardons

9:55 AM on Tuesday, March 17

The Vatican appeals tribunal has declared a mistrial in the Holy See’s big “trial of the century.”

9:49 AM on Tuesday, March 17

President Donald Trump is pushing back against claims by the director of the National Counterterrorism Center about the motivations for the Iran war

9:04 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Warming winters are making ice thinner and less predictable, leading to more drownings as people fall through while fishing, hunting and recreating on frozen waters

8:08 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Millions more Americans will likely donate to nonprofits as a result of changes to tax laws, but those changes will also likely reduce the overall amount of money given to charity

7:03 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Republicans have launched an unprecedented effort to hold the Senate floor and talk for days about a bill that they know won’t pass — an attempt to capture public attention on legislation requiring stricter voter registration rules as President Donald Trump pressures Congress to act before November’s midterm elections

6:59 AM on Tuesday, March 17

The U.N. human rights office has expressed concerns about possible “ethnic cleansing,” warning of an acceleration of Israeli settlements and displacements of thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank

3:13 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Rescue crews are digging bodies from the rubble of a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul

12:11 AM on Tuesday, March 17

An advocacy group is providing support to candidates who want to expand support for child and elder care in the midterm elections

12:03 AM on Tuesday, March 17

President Donald Trump and his team are increasing the pressure on journalists to cover the war in the Middle East the way the administration wants

12:02 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Two Massachusetts brothers have built a fleet of miniature Irish pubs on wheels

3:29 PM on Monday, March 16

The Supreme Court will hear arguments over the Trump administration’s push to end legal protections for people fleeing war and natural disaster from countries around the world, including Haiti and Syria