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6:51 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Trump says he is ordering a blockade of all 'sanctioned oil tankers' into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on Maduro

6:36 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Senior Border Patrol official Greg Bovino has returned to the Chicago area, about a month after leaving to lead immigration crackdowns in other cities

6:08 PM on Tuesday, December 16

The rapper known as Kay Flock has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for a series of shootings in his Bronx neighborhood, derailing a music career that was just taking off before his 2021 arrest

5:24 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Auction bidders spent top dollar for some of the final pennies to be circulated in the U.S. before the government ended the cent’s production

4:37 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Maryland will create a commission to study potential slavery reparations in the state, after lawmakers overrode a veto by Democratic Gov. Wes Moore

4:20 PM on Tuesday, December 16

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles has offered an unusually candid look inside an ongoing presidency

4:06 PM on Tuesday, December 16

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration says he won’t forget the 67 people who died when an airliner collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., in January

3:17 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Members of a secretive California religious group have been charged with murder in the deaths of a man who disappeared in 2023 and a child who died in 2010

3:04 PM on Tuesday, December 16

The Trump administration has announced an expansion of travel restrictions to include 20 more countries

3:01 PM on Tuesday, December 16

A doctor who pleaded guilty in a scheme to supply ketamine to actor Matthew Perry has been sentenced to 8 months of home confinement

1:50 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to recover from torrential rains that have battered the enclave for days, flooding camps for the displaced, collapsing buildings already badly damaged in the two-year war and leaving at least 12 dead, including a two-week-old baby

1:39 PM on Tuesday, December 16

A colleague of the Milwaukee judge accused of helping an immigrant evade arrest is testifying at her criminal trial that she was shocked by her fellow judge’s behavior

11:58 AM on Tuesday, December 16

Curt Cignetti has been named The Associated Press coach of the year in college football for the second consecutive season

7:04 AM on Tuesday, December 16

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon will not publicly release unedited video of a strike that killed two survivors of an initial attack on a boat allegedly carrying cocaine in the Caribbean

1:49 AM on Tuesday, December 16

The victims of a mass shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach range from a 10-year-old girl with a gentle soul to an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor

12:18 AM on Tuesday, December 16

The effort to find a man who walked onto Brown University’s campus and shot nearly a dozen students in a crowded lecture hall has raised serious questions about the school’s security systems and the urgency of the investigation itself

12:05 AM on Tuesday, December 16

Rob Reiner’s son Nick Reiner has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents

12:02 AM on Tuesday, December 16

The U.S. Capitol has begun displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school

10:01 PM on Monday, December 15

Australia is preparing for the funerals of some of the victims of an antisemitic mass shooting during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach

1:39 PM on Monday, December 15

With the Brown University shooter still on the loose, authorities released a video timeline of a suspect and police fanned out to Providence schools to reassure parents, kids and teachers as investigators push for new evidence that might help them crack the case