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4:01 PM on Thursday, October 23

Audio recordings released by the Coast Guard capture the distress of a family who was rescued two days after their boat caught fire and sank, forcing them to swim to a private island

3:46 PM on Thursday, October 23

President Donald Trump has approved major disaster declarations for Alaska, Nebraska, North Dakota and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe

3:36 PM on Thursday, October 23

Tensions between the U.S. and China escalated in the weeks leading to a possible meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping

3:33 PM on Thursday, October 23

A Florida family is urging U.S. leaders to help free a 16-year-old Palestinian-American held in an Israeli prison for eight months

3:31 PM on Thursday, October 23

Some public figures carry threats to their livelihood in the palms of their hands

2:47 PM on Thursday, October 23

A federal food aid program that helps about one in eight Americans buy groceries stands to be paused Nov. 1 because of the government shutdown

2:34 PM on Thursday, October 23

As federal agents ramp up an immigration crackdown in the Chicago area, an increasing number of elected officials in the Democratic stronghold are getting caught in the crosshairs

2:06 PM on Thursday, October 23

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda says Russian military planes violated Lithuania’s airspace on Thursday evening

12:43 PM on Thursday, October 23

Oil prices spiked Thursday after the U.S. announced massive new sanctions on Russia’s oil industry in an attempt to get Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table and end Moscow’s brutal war on Ukraine

12:15 PM on Thursday, October 23

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has endorsed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the city’s mayoral race

12:07 PM on Thursday, October 23

Remember Clippy

11:40 AM on Thursday, October 23

An Associated Press analysis finds that the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions

11:19 AM on Thursday, October 23

President Donald Trump says he’s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking to the mayor, as protesters gathered outside a U.S. Coast Guard base where they were located

10:17 AM on Thursday, October 23

Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and former Cleveland Cavaliers assistant Damon Jones are among 34 people charged in connection with schemes involving illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by Mafia, authorities said on Thursday

9:37 AM on Thursday, October 23

Four family members of a Republican running for governor in Illinois have died in a helicopter crash in Montana

8:31 AM on Thursday, October 23

The head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers and a player for the Miami Heat have been arrested along with more than 30 other people in two criminal cases alleging sprawling schemes to rake in millions by rigging sports bets and poker games involving Mafia families

8:27 AM on Thursday, October 23

Both Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern delivered solid profits Thursday as the railroads continued to make the case for their proposed merger

8:27 AM on Thursday, October 23

President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who created the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and served prison time after failing to stop criminals from using the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking and terrorism

4:09 AM on Thursday, October 23

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation

1:47 AM on Thursday, October 23

U.S. stocks rose to the cusp of their records