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3:53 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Minnesota has joined a wave of states suing TikTok, claiming the app uses addictive algorithms that harm young people's mental health

3:52 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Trump administration revokes security clearances of 37 officials, alleging they weaponized intelligence, AP sources say

3:13 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Major cuts in humanitarian aid have left victims of sexual violence in conflicts around the world without lifesaving help as clinics and shelters close

3:04 PM on Tuesday, August 19

The Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether police officials in Washington, D

2:46 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Trump's Justice Department is investigating whether DC police officials falsified crime data, AP source says

2:18 PM on Tuesday, August 19

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2:16 PM on Tuesday, August 19

The Justice Department official tapped by President Donald Trump’s administration to investigate New York Attorney General Letitia James sent a letter urging the Democrat to resign from office “as an act of good faith” four days into his probe

2:05 PM on Tuesday, August 19

1:28 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Georgia Republicans are pushing to eliminate the state income tax as the 2026 election approaches

12:52 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Former U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway has been appointed as Missouri's next attorney general

12:42 PM on Tuesday, August 19

A hotel near London that has become the focus of heated anti-migrant protests will have to remove asylum-seekers who are staying there after authorities won a legal bid

12:22 PM on Tuesday, August 19

U.S. veterans of the war in Afghanistan are telling a commission reviewing decisions on the 20-year conflict that their experience was not only hell, but also confounding, demoralizing and at times humiliating

12:15 PM on Tuesday, August 19

A federal judge has blocked parts of Mississippi's ban on diversity, equity and inclusion practices in public schools while a lawsuit against the law is underway

10:57 AM on Tuesday, August 19

Indigenous leaders from the Amazon are urging South American presidents to turn promises to the protect the region's rainforest into action at a summit in Bogota

9:18 AM on Tuesday, August 19

The second Oval Office meeting in six months between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went off smoothly, in sharp contrast to their disastrous encounter in February

9:15 AM on Tuesday, August 19

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gushed with gratitude toward President Donald Trump during an Oval Office meeting

7:57 AM on Tuesday, August 19

Pakistan has restored 70% of electricity and reopened damaged roads in the north and northwest after flash floods killed more than 300 people

7:43 AM on Tuesday, August 19

A federal judge in Miami has dismissed part of a lawsuit that claimed detainees were denied access to the legal system at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”

1:15 AM on Tuesday, August 19

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Tuesday confirmed the U.S. government is vying for a 10% stake in Silicon Valley pioneer Intel in an unusual deal that would deepen the Trump administration’s financial ties with major computer chip manufacturers and punctuate a dramatic about-face from the president’s recent push to oust the company’s CEO

12:02 AM on Tuesday, August 19

The U.N. humanitarian office says a record 383 aid workers were killed in global hotspots in 2024, nearly half of them in Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas