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9:55 AM on Friday, August 14

Summertime, the dreamy ideal of lazy days, is fading

9:54 AM on Friday, August 14

President Donald Trump's administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the White House to continue construction on its $400 million ballroom project while it appeals a lower court’s order to halt the work

9:33 AM on Friday, August 14

The wife of a U.S. soldier has been released from federal immigration custody after spending more than a month detained, according to her family

8:41 AM on Friday, August 14

Americans unexpectedly cut their spending in July by the biggest drop since May 2025, raising doubts about the resiliency of consumers who have kept spending and powering the economy despite the rising costs of daily expenses

7:56 AM on Friday, August 14

Vote counting in Zambia’s presidential election has been suspended by the electoral authority

7:02 AM on Friday, August 14

A late summer heat wave has gripped much of the United States in a sweaty headlock and won’t let go anytime soon

6:55 AM on Friday, August 14

A U.S. military official says American special operations forces are ready to step up warfighting-readiness exercises with counterparts in the Philippines and other countries in Asia

6:30 AM on Friday, August 14

Ash spewing from Sicily’s Mount Etna has forced the closure of the island’s largest airport for the fifth consecutive day

5:22 AM on Friday, August 14

5:07 AM on Friday, August 14

The United Arab Emirates has blamed Iran for firing drones at two tankers operated by a state-owned oil company in the Strait of Hormuz

3:47 AM on Friday, August 14

Firefighters across Europe are battling multiple wildfires as a record-breaking heat wave grips the continent

3:19 AM on Friday, August 14

Time is a concept that varies across cultures and history

1:58 AM on Friday, August 14

U.S. stocks are drifting around their all-time high following the latest report on the economy to come in surprisingly weak

1:14 AM on Friday, August 14

Nigel Farage has regained his seat in Parliament, beating a field of fringe candidates led by trash-can-wearing comic Count Binface in a special election boycotted by mainstream parties

12:05 AM on Friday, August 14

Zach Lahn, the Republican nominee for Iowa governor, says he's bringing a different message to Iowans

12:04 AM on Friday, August 14

The World War II Memorial on the National Mall has been vandalized, with bubbles filling a fountain and “Clean hands dirty $” written in red paint

12:04 AM on Friday, August 14

Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty Friday in the federal case stemming from the killing of the former UnitedHealthcare CEO on a Manhattan sidewalk

12:03 AM on Friday, August 14

Arizona State University has launched a new bachelor's degree in content creation

12:03 AM on Friday, August 14

As traumatic injuries and deaths continue to surge among the youngest e-bike riders, officials across the country are taking different paths to tackle a growing epidemic

10:53 PM on Thursday, August 13

Record-breaking rainfall has flooded cities east of Tokyo, killing at least five people and injuring over two dozen others