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8:03 AM on Tuesday, July 28

Many people throw away food based on confusing expiration labels like “Best By” or “Sell By.”

5:06 AM on Tuesday, July 28

1:10 AM on Tuesday, July 28

The U.N. refugee agency is marking the 75th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention

11:56 PM on Monday, July 27

A federal judge has ordered U.S. immigration authorities to release a key witness in the fatal shooting of a Mexican homebuilder by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston

8:00 PM on Monday, July 27

The Trump administration is preparing to ramp up funding by hundreds of millions of dollars for programs designed to counter China’s growing influence worldwide

7:22 PM on Monday, July 27

A former Olympian charged with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is seeking access to all the closed-door testimony that led to his indictment

5:43 PM on Monday, July 27

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission

3:46 PM on Monday, July 27

A major interstate in Oregon was closed for some 70 miles due to wildfire

3:44 PM on Monday, July 27

U.S. diplomats walked out as their French counterparts spoke at the United Nations after the European ally criticized the Trump administration’s human rights record

3:37 PM on Monday, July 27

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow for now an executive order targeting mail-in voting

2:47 PM on Monday, July 27

A tornado has struck northeastern Wisconsin, causing widespread damage and power outages

2:05 PM on Monday, July 27

A judge has ruled there’s enough evidence to send singer D4vd to trial for the killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez

12:37 PM on Monday, July 27

Federal prosecutors have moved to dismiss a charge against a labor union leader who was arrested while protesting against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in California

12:30 PM on Monday, July 27

Investigators say a man fatally shot his wife and their six children, then himself, before they all were found in their burning Michigan home last week

6:28 AM on Monday, July 27

Police say at least three people exchanged gunfire at a food festival near Seattle’s Space Needle over the weekend

5:42 AM on Monday, July 27

Mediators have made progress in efforts to bring the United States and Iran back to negotiations and prevent an all-out war in the Middle East

5:01 AM on Monday, July 27

Major Hurricane Genevieve is roaring in the Pacific Ocean far from land while Tropical Storm Fausto increases impacts on Hawaii

2:27 AM on Monday, July 27

French President Emmanuel Macron has urged fire crews to “stay strong” as they battle to bring a monster wildfire under control, warning that the fight will take time

12:22 AM on Monday, July 27

12:04 AM on Monday, July 27

A Massachusetts woman is on trial in a case where her lawyers argue that postpartum psychosis was the reason she killed her three children, aged 5 and younger