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12:30 PM on Friday, September 26

Robert Barnett, Washington literary power broker, passes away at 79

12:30 PM on Friday, September 26

Cuba announces the death of Assata Shakur, a fugitive Black Liberation Army militant sought by US since 1979

12:22 PM on Friday, September 26

Minnesota is grappling with a political deadlock over gun control after a church shooting in August left two children dead and 21 injured

12:16 PM on Friday, September 26

This week, addressing the United Nations, President Donald Trump made several false claims about climate change, including that it didn’t actually exist

12:05 PM on Friday, September 26

Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves have reunited on Broadway for “Waiting for Godot,” decades after their “Bill & Ted” films

11:59 AM on Friday, September 26

Chinese authorities have detained Zhang Yadi, a 22-year-old student, on suspicion of inciting separatism

11:42 AM on Friday, September 26

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a long history of turning to props and visual aids in his speeches to the U.N. But even by the Israeli leader’s elevated standards of showmanship, this year’s address took things to a new level

11:28 AM on Friday, September 26

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” isn’t part of the New York Film Festival’s lineup, but its agitated sense of inheritance and keeping a fighting spirit alive are all over this year’s cinematic convergence at Lincoln Center

11:17 AM on Friday, September 26

Tennessee governor says more federal agents will help city police to fight crime in Memphis starting next week

10:52 AM on Friday, September 26

The many conferences on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly’s annual gathering of world leaders offer a unique forum for companies and philanthropies to help shape an uncertain future

10:00 AM on Friday, September 26

Pakistan's health minister says the country has vaccinated about 9 million adolescent girls against the virus that causes cervical cancer, as part of a continuing national campaign that has overcome early setbacks fueled by skeptics online

9:56 AM on Friday, September 26

Aaron Rodgers was dressed in black, appropriately, to field questions about Guinness

9:42 AM on Friday, September 26

Netanyahu, at UN General Assembly, calls countries' recognition of Palestinian state 'shameful'

9:14 AM on Friday, September 26

Shares of some big drugmakers rose Friday as Wall Street started sorting out the impact of President Donald Trump’s latest tariff announcement

8:39 AM on Friday, September 26

The Federal Reserve’s favored inflation gauge accelerated slightly in August from a year earlier

7:08 AM on Friday, September 26

Russia is selling military equipment and technology to China that could help Beijing prepare an airborne takeover of Taiwan, according to a UK-based defense forum

12:26 AM on Friday, September 26

A tropical storm has blown out of the Philippines and left at least 10 dead and prompted the evacuations of more than 430,000 people from landslide- and flood-prone villages

9:03 PM on Thursday, September 25

Former FBI Director James Comey might not be the only critic of President Donald Trump to face charges

9:46 AM on Thursday, September 25

A new exhibition in Germany called “Queer Modernism

10:47 AM on Wednesday, September 24

This week’s Ryder Cup is an example of sports as an international score-settler