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1:08 AM on Tuesday, March 17

The beginning of 2026 ranks as the deadliest start to any year for people trying to cross the Mediterranean

12:04 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Can you scream your way to happiness

9:40 PM on Monday, March 16

The United Nations' expert on human rights in Haiti said it has a chance now to tackle gang violence with a U.S.-initiated force starting to deploy and a prime minister committed to providing alternatives for young gang members

7:20 PM on Monday, March 16

The ex-wife of the gunman who drove a pickup truck into a Detroit-area synagogue told police that he was distraught and suicidal

5:50 PM on Monday, March 16

A Palestinian woman who was the last person still in immigration detention after the Trump administration’s 2025 crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists has been released

5:34 PM on Monday, March 16

Sen. Lindsey Graham is tying his reelection pitch to President Donald Trump and the war with Iran, a conflict for which he's long advocated

4:57 PM on Monday, March 16

The transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a pair of international companies that plan to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America is complete

4:55 PM on Monday, March 16

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday elaborated on his vision for keeping his company at the forefront of the artificial intelligence boom that he predicted will produce a $1 trillion backlog in orders within the next year

4:52 PM on Monday, March 16

A New York man who spent nearly two decades in prison for a roughly $550 robbery has been exonerated and freed

4:39 PM on Monday, March 16

A federal judge in Boston has blocked federal health officials from cutting the number of vaccines recommended for every child, and says U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likely violated federal procedures in revamping a key vaccine advisory committee

2:45 PM on Monday, March 16

Storms sweeping across the eastern half of the country are disrupting air travel across the United States

2:13 PM on Monday, March 16

Officials in Cuba report an islandwide blackout in the country of some 11 million people as its energy and economic crises deepen

1:36 PM on Monday, March 16

The Vatican has released details of Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming four-nation Africa tour

1:05 PM on Monday, March 16

Officials say an Afghan immigrant whose family said had worked with U.S. forces in his home country died at a Texas hospital after having been detained by immigration authorities

9:46 AM on Monday, March 16

Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of targeting a drug rehabilitation hospital in the Afghan capital with an airstrike

1:34 AM on Monday, March 16

Poland once was in economic ruins when communism fell more than three decades ago

1:32 AM on Monday, March 16

Explosions are sounding in Dubai after the United Arab Emirates reopened its airspace following a brief closure amid incoming attacks from Iran

12:34 AM on Monday, March 16

U.S. President Donald Trump says he has pressured around seven countries to send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz open as fears of a global energy crisis persist and Iranian attacks and threats have choked off shipping in the vital waterway

12:24 AM on Monday, March 16

A Utah woman has been convicted of aggravated murder after poisoning her husband with fentanyl and then self-publishing a children’s book about coping with grief

12:11 AM on Monday, March 16

Thousands of workers for the world’s largest meatpacking company have gone on strike