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2:01 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Neither the United States nor Iran seems able to agree on even the basic contours of the key issues being discussed as part of a two-week ceasefire

1:58 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Health Secretary Robert F_ Kennedy Jr_ is launching a new podcast called “The Secretary Kennedy Podcast.”

1:48 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Southwest Airlines said Wednesday it is raising its checked baggage fees by $10 less than a year after ending its famous “bags fly free” policy

1:47 PM on Wednesday, April 8

The mother of an freelance American journalist who was released from captivity in Iraq says she hopes her daughter will finally return home to rural Wisconsin after living abroad for decades

1:15 PM on Wednesday, April 8

A British pastor faces manslaughter charges in the drowning of a 61-year-old man during a backyard baptism

1:13 PM on Wednesday, April 8

The California Supreme Court has ordered a Republican county sheriff who seized more than half a million 2025 election ballots to pause his probe into election fraud allegations while the judges review the legal challenge against it

1:10 PM on Wednesday, April 8

The Department of Justice has indicated that former Attorney General Pam Bondi won't appear for a scheduled deposition next week before a House committee investigating how the government handled its investigations into Jeffrey Epstein

12:58 PM on Wednesday, April 8

March has been the hottest month on record for the continental United States in 132 years, according to federal weather data

12:08 PM on Wednesday, April 8

In 2010, police searching for a missing woman began finding human remains in the scrub along a barrier island parkway near New York’s Gilgo Beach

12:00 PM on Wednesday, April 8

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday defended his decision to repeal the legal determination that serves as the basis for federal rules to slow climate change

11:51 AM on Wednesday, April 8

11:50 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Authorities in the Bahamas are searching for a U.S. woman who is missing at sea after her husband reported that she fell overboard

8:27 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Israeli strikes have hit central Beirut without warning, causing panic after the announcement of the ceasefire in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran

5:08 AM on Wednesday, April 8

A woman who admitted to selling Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him is set to be sentenced

12:33 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Iran, the United States and Israel have agreed to a two-week ceasefire, an 11th-hour deal that headed off U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to unleash a bombing campaign that would destroy Iranian civilization

12:18 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Over the course of a single day, President Donald Trump went from threatening Iran with “annihilation” to proclaiming that Iran's leadership had presented a “workable” plan that led him to agree to a two-week ceasefire

12:14 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz again in response to Israeli attacks against the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon

12:04 AM on Wednesday, April 8

A Long Island architect has pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and admitted he killed an eighth in a string of long-unsolved crimes known as the Gilgo Beach killings

12:02 AM on Wednesday, April 8

In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz

11:17 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Oil prices plunged back toward $95 per barrel, and stock markets surged worldwide after President Donald Trump pulled back from his threat to force a whole civilization to die in the war with Iran