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4:59 PM on Tuesday, March 31

Authorities in western Michigan say a woman who shimmied out the rear window of a police cruiser while handcuffed and then fled has been arrested

4:20 PM on Tuesday, March 31

U.S. stocks surged to their best day since last spring, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average soared more than 1,100 points as doubt swings back to hope on Wall Street for a possible end to the war with Iran

4:18 PM on Tuesday, March 31

3:49 PM on Tuesday, March 31

The Supreme Court seems likely to rule for a Black death row inmate from Mississippi who claims there was racial bias in the makeup of the jury that convicted him

3:15 PM on Tuesday, March 31

A local Tennessee library board has fired the county’s top librarian for refusing to comply with its vote to move more than 100 LGBTQ books from the children’s to the adult section over claims

3:13 PM on Tuesday, March 31

Authorities say a 15-year-old student who shot and injured a teacher at a Texas high school and then fatally shot himself appeared to have been struggling academically before coming to the campus armed with a gun he brought from home

3:10 PM on Tuesday, March 31

A fire destroyed the main meditation hall at Tassajara Mountain Zen Center in Central California, as monks neared the end of a long retreat

2:28 PM on Tuesday, March 31

In a new lawsuit, one of the first three women to officiate an NFL game describes her three years at the pinnacle of her profession as a descent into the grip of a sexist institution unable to treat a woman as an equal

2:11 PM on Tuesday, March 31

A federal judge has agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service

1:54 PM on Tuesday, March 31

A federal indictment accuses an Arkansas doctor of drugging and abducting psychiatric patients to profit from health care reimbursements

1:50 PM on Tuesday, March 31

Cuba’s deepening economic crisis is pushing struggling families into hunger and forcing them to rely on donations and the black market

12:34 PM on Tuesday, March 31

The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned after pleading guilty to sexually abusing an Oklahoma woman in the 1980s has been released from an Oklahoma jail

11:30 AM on Tuesday, March 31

A jury has deadlocked in the trial of two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives charged for their roles in Ohio's $60 million bribery scandal

11:18 AM on Tuesday, March 31

A judge in Washington has dismissed a lawsuit against Fox News

10:08 AM on Tuesday, March 31

The Supreme Court has ruled against a law banning “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that banned the discredited practice

9:03 AM on Tuesday, March 31

In 1965, Filipino and Mexican American farmworkers in California became inextricably linked when they mobilized to strike against grape growers

8:17 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Spice and flavorings company McCormick is combining with Unilever’s foods division, which includes household names like Hellmann’s and Knorr

3:37 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Top European diplomats are visiting Ukraine to mark the anniversary of atrocities committed in a town near Kyiv by Russia’s invading forces four years ago

12:04 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Candidates in Utah are for the first time fighting to outflank each other on the left after a redistricting shakeup gave Democrats a prime pickup opportunity in the red state

12:03 AM on Tuesday, March 31

One of the world’s rarest whales, the Rice's whale, is in the way of the Trump administration's desire to expand oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico