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4:50 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a year should now be kicked out of the service

4:47 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Marshall University says its president, Brad Smith, and his wife, Alys Smith, have made a $50 million gift to the university to promote a program aimed at eliminating student debt

4:41 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Marilyn Hagerty, the North Dakota newspaper columnist whose earnest review of her local Olive Garden became a social media sensation, has died

4:38 PM on Tuesday, September 16

A retired four-star U.S. Navy admiral has been sentenced to six years in prison for his conviction on corruption charges that he agreed to exchange a military contract for a lucrative postretirement job

4:22 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Alabama is asking a federal appeals court to lift an injunction that blocked part of a law that limits assistance with absentee ballot applications

4:16 PM on Tuesday, September 16

U.S. stocks drifted a bit below their record heights

4:00 PM on Tuesday, September 16

A California judge has rejected a request for a new trial for Erik and Lyle Menendez, shutting down another possible path to freedom for the brothers who have served decades in prison for killing their parents in 1989

2:59 PM on Tuesday, September 16

A wild burro dubbed Cupid is recovering from surgery after being shot with an arrow in what officials say is the latest in a series of a half-dozen attacks since June on donkeys that roam semirural areas of inland Southern California

2:58 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Federal prosecutors say an Indiana man has been charged with making a threat across state lines related to a lockdown and shooting at the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland last week

1:10 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Charlie Kirk's mastery of social media was key to him becoming a force in conservative politics

11:41 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Eight people have been injured in a shooting at a homeless camp in Minneapolis, with four in critical condition

9:27 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Federal auto safety regulators opened an investigation Tuesday into a possible defect in Tesla door handles that have reportedly left parents unable to reach into back seats to get their children out of the cars

8:37 AM on Tuesday, September 16

FBI Director Kash Patel is confronting skeptical Democrats at a Senate hearing Tuesday, touting his leadership of the nation’s top federal law enforcement agency and facing questions about the investigation into Charlie Kirk’s killing, the case against sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the firings of senior FBI officials who have accused Patel of illegal political retribution

8:33 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Robert Redford has died at 89

7:15 AM on Tuesday, September 16

President Donald Trump is intensifying immigration enforcement in sanctuary cities like Boston

7:05 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Rivian Automotive is starting to build a long-delayed electric vehicle plant in Georgia, despite tough challenges in the U.S. market

1:23 AM on Tuesday, September 16

The New York Times says President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the newspaper and four of its journalists is meritless and an attempt to discourage independent reporting

12:06 AM on Tuesday, September 16

FBI Director Kash Patel is defending his record and pushing back on criticism that he has politicized law enforcement

12:02 AM on Tuesday, September 16

The man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a Utah university has been charged with aggravated murder

11:56 PM on Monday, September 15

U.S. stocks edged back from their record heights