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5:17 PM on Tuesday, December 16

A judge says he’s optimistic that a pretrial hearing in Luigi Mangione’s New York murder case will end this week

4:48 PM on Tuesday, December 16

House Republican leaders are determined to push ahead with a health care bill that excludes efforts to address the soaring monthly premiums for Affordable Care Act recipients

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

4:15 PM on Tuesday, December 16

U.S. stocks drifted lower following mixed data on the economy’s strength

4:13 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Prosecutors say they will charge Rob Reiner’s son Nick with 2 counts of murder in killing of his parents

4:02 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Public transit in the Chicago metropolitan area will get a $1.5 billion infusion to save it from financial disaster under a law that will take effect next summer

3:29 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Sixteen states and the District of Columbia are suing President Donald Trump’s administration for what they say is unlawfully withholding billions of dollars in funding for two electric vehicle charging programs

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

3:16 PM on Tuesday, December 16

The Trump administration has designated another Latin American drug cartel as a foreign terrorist group, increasing financial pressure on its members and opening the door to potential military action against them

3:06 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Brown University is mourning the loss of two students killed in a classroom shooting

3:04 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Texas is suing the utility company whose downed power lines sparked the largest wildfire in state history

3:00 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Trump administration expands travel ban to include 5 more countries and imposes new limits on others

2:19 PM on Tuesday, December 16

President Donald Trump will go to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Wednesday for a dignified transfer for the two Iowa National Guard members killed in an attack in the Syrian desert

2:05 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona says the Pentagon’s escalating investigation into his plea to troops to refuse unlawful orders is part of an effort to silence dissent within the military

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

1:49 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Automakers Hyundai and Kia have reached a settlement with dozens of states over anti-theft technology in models of their vehicles

10:03 AM on Tuesday, December 16

An off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer fired his gun several times during a confrontation with another motorist on an access road for New York's Kennedy Airport

10:00 AM on Tuesday, December 16

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is criticizing Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and broadly defending Donald Trump's second presidency in a series of interviews published Tuesday

12:31 AM on Tuesday, December 16

The U.S. stock market drifted through a mixed day of trading after reports on the economy did little to clear uncertainty about where interest rates may be heading