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4:15 PM on Tuesday, July 21

More gains for makers of computer chips and other AI winners carried Wall Street higher

3:09 PM on Tuesday, July 21

President Donald Trump has reached back to the Great Depression for an obscure trade weapon he can use to wallop Canada again

2:54 PM on Tuesday, July 21

The lawyer for five women who say they were sexually, psychologically and spiritually abused by a once-famous Jesuit priest has penned a scathing denunciation of the Vatican’s secretive legal system

2:15 PM on Tuesday, July 21

The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency responsible for enforcing anti-discrimination laws in the workplace

2:07 PM on Tuesday, July 21

1:52 PM on Tuesday, July 21

The bagel in America is an immigrant story with a hole in the middle

1:41 PM on Tuesday, July 21

The State Department has informed Congress that it plans to move ahead with the potential reopening of the U.S. Embassy in Libya

1:23 PM on Tuesday, July 21

A federal appeals panel has reversed a lower court decision ordering the release of pro-Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi, opening the door to his re-arrest

1:21 PM on Tuesday, July 21

An external review of the Gates Foundation's ties to Jeffrey Epstein has found that staff met more than two dozen times with the disgraced financier

12:42 PM on Tuesday, July 21

ESPN is undergoing a significant round of layoffs for the first time in three years after taking over NFL Network in April

11:46 AM on Tuesday, July 21

The progressive movement may already have hit its high point in the 2026 midterms

11:14 AM on Tuesday, July 21

The director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is pushing back against a White House report labeling the institution's leadership as radical activists

10:41 AM on Tuesday, July 21

A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement involving AI company Anthropic

10:00 AM on Tuesday, July 21

A new report says the Trump administration’s disruptions to a global AIDS relief program have forced organizations to close clinics, lay off staff and cut services, seriously impeding efforts to prevent and treat the disease in dozens of countries

8:12 AM on Tuesday, July 21

Joe Biden disagrees with an appeals court's rejection of his effort to block the release of audio recordings of his interviews with a memoir ghostwriter

8:06 AM on Tuesday, July 21

Luverne, Minnesota, now boasts the world's tallest nutcracker, Verne the Patriot, standing at over 65 feet

5:15 AM on Tuesday, July 21

Rescue crews in Afghanistan are searching for survivors and bodies among the rubble of buildings destroyed by devastating flash floods that authorities say have killed nearly two dozen people and left more than 100 people missing

2:02 PM on Monday, July 20

A court document says President Donald Trump's administration sought New York Times journalists’ phone records and even those of some of their relatives in an attempt to unmask the confidential sources of reporters who wrote about Trump’s Qatari-gifted Air Force One jet

11:44 PM on Sunday, July 19

Iran has attacked a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, forcing its crew to abandon the ship

1:12 AM on Sunday, July 19

Andy Burnham faces major challenges ahead as the latest British prime minister to take up residence in 10 Downing Street