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12:01 PM on Sunday, May 17

It was a hurdle too high for Bill Cassidy to clear

8:43 AM on Sunday, May 17

The Michael Jackson biopic, “Michael,” is reclaiming the top spot in the North American box office

6:05 AM on Sunday, May 17

Parents with newborns in intensive care units have long faced a difficult but overlooked plight: Any parental leave they might have does not take into account the days or even months their newborns spend in intensive care

6:03 AM on Sunday, May 17

Indigenous leaders say that federal contractors are desecrating sacred Native American places and cultural sites at an unprecedented pace in the rush to build more walls on the U.S.-Mexico border

5:12 AM on Sunday, May 17

The year was 1965 and Black Americans had come to Montgomery, Alabama, to demonstrate peacefully voting rights

4:34 AM on Sunday, May 17

A Michigan community college student will be the first female welder to represent the United States at a worldwide competition described as the Olympics of the skilled trades

4:08 AM on Sunday, May 17

Authorities say a driver crashed into multiple cars and pedestrians in Oakland, California, late Saturday night, killing three people

4:06 AM on Sunday, May 17

The Trump administration has run the names of at least 67 million voters through government databases as it looks for noncitizens and people who've died

1:15 AM on Sunday, May 17

Chelsea has hired Xabi Alonso as its latest manager on a four-year deal, with the former Real Madrid coach set to take over on July 1

1:01 AM on Sunday, May 17

Wes Streeting's ambition to head the British government was one of the worst-kept secrets in U.K. politics

12:57 AM on Sunday, May 17

Russian officials say overnight Ukrainian drone strikes killed at least four people including three near Moscow

10:29 PM on Saturday, May 16

Researchers in Dublin have uncovered the oldest surviving English poem in a Roman library

9:03 PM on Saturday, May 16

Hawaii's recent catastrophic flooding has devastated local farms, leaving many farmers struggling

7:39 PM on Saturday, May 16

The day John Lennon was shot in 1980, he and Yoko Ono gave an interview to a San Francisco radio crew from their home in New York’s Dakota Apartments

3:10 PM on Saturday, May 16

Recent outbreaks of hantavirus and norovirus on cruise ships are making headlines, but they’re unlikely to dim vacationers’ growing love of cruises

11:13 AM on Saturday, May 16

Félicien Kabuga, accused of bankrolling the Rwandan genocide, died in a hospital in The Hague while in custody, a U.N. court said

9:19 AM on Saturday, May 16

4:11 AM on Saturday, May 16

The shutdown of North America’s largest commuter rail system has continued into a second day with no end in sight after unionized workers went on strike

8:58 PM on Friday, May 15

U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow and state Treasurer John Fleming have advanced to a runoff in Louisiana’s Republican Senate primary

9:04 AM on Friday, May 15

Health authorities say there is a new Ebola outbreak in the Central African country of Congo, with more than 300 suspected cases and at least 88 deaths