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8:02 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A day after Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement, some wild details are emerging about how folks spread the news

7:40 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Daniil Medvedev has been fined $42,500 by the U.S. Open for his meltdown during a first-round loss after a photographer wandered onto the court during the match

7:36 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A federal judge has ordered a new trial for an Alabama man on death row who argued that DNA evidence shows he's innocent

7:34 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Attorneys for ousted CDC director say she was targeted for 'protecting the public over serving a political agenda' (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported Monarez made the comment.

6:33 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Cardi B has testified in a Los Angeles County court, denying allegations that she injured a security guard during her first pregnancy

6:15 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Florida's chief financial officer has issued subpoenas to Orange County workers, saying they did not fully cooperate with the state's DOGE audit

6:08 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Louisiana has abandoned its defense of a political map that elected two Black members of Congress and instead called on the Supreme Court to reject any consideration of race in redistricting in a case that could bring major changes to the Voting Rights Act

5:57 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Officials say a man suspected of killing his wife and dumping her body in a Southern California forest earlier this month has been arrested in Peru and will be extradited back to the U.S. to face a murder charge

5:01 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A missing 12-year-old boy with autism, whose body was discovered in a New Orleans canal following a nearly two-week-long search, died from “blunt force due to an alligator” and drowning

5:01 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Rural hospitals are bracing for financial losses due to President Trump's tax and spending cut bill

4:16 PM on Wednesday, August 27

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3:16 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Federal officials say they are investigating the discovery of cremated human remains in the Nevada desert

1:32 PM on Wednesday, August 27

The Uvalde school district released only a small fraction of the documents it said would be made public related to the 2022 Robb Elementary School massacre

12:56 PM on Wednesday, August 27

The Food and Drug Administration has approved updated COVID-19 vaccines for the upcoming fall and winter season

12:43 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A top Florida official says the controversial state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades will likely be empty in a matter of days, even as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration fights a federal judge’s order to shutter the facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by a late October deadline

11:57 AM on Wednesday, August 27

YouTube TV has reached a short-term extension in its contract dispute with Fox

11:22 AM on Wednesday, August 27

Officials say a shooter opened fire during Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school, killing two children and injuring 17 other people before killing himself

8:58 AM on Wednesday, August 27

Israel is on the brink of launching another major offensive, this time in famine-stricken Gaza City

1:25 AM on Wednesday, August 27

Stocks edged higher ahead of a closely watched earnings report from Nvidia

12:06 AM on Wednesday, August 27

Donald Trump’s vow to fire Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook is at the intersection of the Republican president’s efforts to consolidate power and purge diverse voices from the higher ranks of American leadership