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12:17 AM on Saturday, March 21

10:19 PM on Friday, March 20

Accounts are emerging from people deported from the U.S. to the African petrostate of Equatorial Guinea in a multi-million-dollar, third-country deal with the Trump administration

9:05 PM on Friday, March 20

An Israeli strike has hit a Hezbollah-run health center in southern Lebanon and killed 12 medical workers, as Israel widens its campaign beyond fighters

9:01 PM on Friday, March 20

A judge this week ruled that Voice of America's employees — and the news organization itself — get back to work

6:58 PM on Friday, March 20

Police have released body camera footage from Justin Timberlake's drunken driving arrest in New York’s Hamptons in 2024

6:37 PM on Friday, March 20

The Iran war is tightening global tech supply chains by cutting off helium from Qatar, a key source of the gas used in advanced industries like chipmaking

5:56 PM on Friday, March 20

The Cuban government has refused a request by the U.S. Embassy in Havana to allow it to import diesel for its generators while the Trump administration continues to impose a fuel blockade on the island, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter

5:43 PM on Friday, March 20

32-year-old Taylor Tomlinson’s fourth Netflix special “Prodigal Daughter” is all about the comedian’s religious trauma

4:02 PM on Friday, March 20

Some 650 delegates from 33 countries and 120 organizations have started arriving in Cuba as part of a solidarity caravan transporting some 20 tons of humanitarian aid as the island grapples with a severe energy crisis

4:00 PM on Friday, March 20

Costa Rican authorities say a U.S. strike on a suspected drug-smuggling boat off the country's coast has left at least two people dead and one critically injured

2:42 PM on Friday, March 20

A jury has found Elon Musk liable for defrauding investors by deliberately driving down Twitter’s stock price in the tumultuous months leading up to his 2022 acquisition of the social media company for $44 billion

12:59 PM on Friday, March 20

Orthodox Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv has died at 97

10:59 AM on Friday, March 20

More than 200 people were rescued Friday as heavy rains pummeled the Hawaiian island of Oahu and triggered the worst flooding the island has in 20 years

10:20 AM on Friday, March 20

Former reality TV star Joseph Duggar waived an extradition hearing in Arkansas, setting in motion his transfer to Florida, where he faces a child molestation charge

9:58 AM on Friday, March 20

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has been designated a “priority target” by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as federal prosecutors in New York probe his alleged ties to drug traffickers, according to people familiar with the matter and records seen by The Associated Press

12:07 AM on Friday, March 20

Scientists say a record-smashing March heat wave in the U.S. Southwest shows climate change is already driving more dangerous weather extremes

11:00 PM on Thursday, March 19

South Korean rescue workers on Saturday recovered the remains of 10 people from the charred wreckage of an auto parts factory in the central city of Daejeon, where a blaze likely triggered by an explosion injured at least 59 others and left four missing

10:34 PM on Thursday, March 19

Iran is threatening recreational and tourist sites worldwide and insisting it is still building missiles three weeks into an escalating war in the Middle East

9:33 PM on Thursday, March 19

The U.S. military is deploying three more warships and roughly 2,500 more marines to the Middle East as Iran fires on Israel and energy sites in neighboring Gulf Arab states, sending oil and gas prices soaring

9:02 PM on Thursday, March 19

A daunting stream of testimony and documentation has been presented in a New Mexico case that explores what Meta knew about the effects of its platforms on children