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8:21 PM on Thursday, August 6

President Donald Trump has hosted the U.S. Winter Olympians and Paralympians at the White House, honoring their accomplishments in the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Games

7:55 PM on Thursday, August 6

Sydney Towle, known for her social media content about living with a rare cancer, has died at 26

7:06 PM on Thursday, August 6

The Justice Department has accused Duke University’s law school of unlawfully considering race in admissions in the latest Trump administration action against higher education institutions

6:38 PM on Thursday, August 6

Some of the savings being touted by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are incorrect or lack supporting evidence

6:33 PM on Thursday, August 6

A judge has approved a $106 million settlement that ends a yearslong legal battle over the deadly collapse in 2019 of a Hard Rock Hotel that was under construction in New Orleans

6:23 PM on Thursday, August 6

China’s embassy in Argentina accused the United States of hypocrisy after an Argentine electricity cooperative alleged the U.S. Embassy threatened to revoke its executives’ visas over a partnership with Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei

6:12 PM on Thursday, August 6

The labor union representing Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service workers has asked a judge to block a sweeping tax audit immunity agreement for President Donald Trump

5:55 PM on Thursday, August 6

A Louisiana school board and the federal government have agreed to end more than 60 years of oversight meant to end segregation

5:45 PM on Thursday, August 6

The U.S. has seen a rise in cases of cannabis hyperemesis syndrome, a nausea condition caused by heavy marijuana use

5:16 PM on Thursday, August 6

In April, President Donald Trump announced that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was being renovated to address long-standing cosmetic and structural issues

5:11 PM on Thursday, August 6

Authorities say a dead body has been found inside a central California home burned by a wildfire that investigators believe was accidentally started by sparks from a chain saw

5:10 PM on Thursday, August 6

President Donald Trump says he is once again trying to limit birthright citizenship in the U.S. He signed two executive actions on immigration

4:28 PM on Thursday, August 6

The jury in the Massachusetts murder trial of Lindsay Clancy saw autopsy photos of the youngest of three children, who she has admitted strangling in January 2023

3:58 PM on Thursday, August 6

A deluge of 90,000 rubber ducks poured out of a truck and into the Chicago River

11:52 AM on Thursday, August 6

Federal officials have traced a multistate salmonella outbreak to jalapeño peppers from a grower in Sinaloa, Mexico

8:15 AM on Thursday, August 6

A Senate committee has voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress and refer him to the Justice Department for potential prosecution over his refusal to answer questions at a hearing last week on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic

4:34 AM on Thursday, August 6

Iran says it is in the final stage of drafting an agreement on the Strait of Hormuz waterway with Oman

12:12 AM on Thursday, August 6

Wisconsin is the latest state where the battle over the direction of the Democratic Party will play out

12:07 AM on Thursday, August 6

A Senate committee has voted along party lines to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress over his refusal to answer questions at a hearing on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic

7:38 PM on Monday, August 3

Customs and Border Protection has ordered construction crews building Trump’s second border wall to stop drilling wells in drought-stricken New Mexico after ranchers said pumping the groundwater needed to mix cement could threaten their livestock