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12:36 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

12:33 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

12:31 PM on Thursday, October 23

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

11:51 AM on Thursday, October 23

Elon Musk literally left a government job with a black eye, has seen profits at his car company sink and must worry about federal regulators disrupting his plans to unleash a fleet of driverless taxis on America's roads in the next few years

11:34 AM on Thursday, October 23

A trail of debts that persisted during Jim Justice’s time as West Virginia’s governor has followed him to the U.S. Senate

11:31 AM on Thursday, October 23

If Zohran Mamdani wins New York City’s mayor’s race next month, he would become the city’s first Muslim mayor and its youngest in a century

11:26 AM on Thursday, October 23

New satellite images taken Thursday show the scale of the demolition of the White House East Wing as President Donald Trump moves forward with the construction of a new ballroom at the White House

11:03 AM on Thursday, October 23

Researchers have unearthed a spooky pair of dinosaur mummies that seem to have been preserved in an unexpected way

11:01 AM on Thursday, October 23

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda says Russian military planes have violated Lithuania's airspace

11:00 AM on Thursday, October 23

New research suggests that dinosaur populations were thriving in North America before the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that caused mass extinction

10:53 AM on Thursday, October 23

Jesse Plemons urges movie lovers to pause Netflix and watch “Bugonia” in theaters

10:33 AM on Thursday, October 23

The Senate on Thursday rejected dueling partisan bills to pay federal workers during the government shutdown, with both Republicans and Democrats deflecting blame as many employees are set to miss their first full paycheck at the end of this week

10:12 AM on Thursday, October 23

Trump says in social media post he's decided to back away from plan to surge federal agents into San Francisco for now

9:43 AM 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

9:07 AM on Thursday, October 23

Remember Clippy

4:44 AM on Thursday, October 23

Weddings are meant to be celebrations of love

1:09 AM on Thursday, October 23

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

1:45 PM on Wednesday, October 22

Freddie Freeman is returning to his family roots as the Los Angeles Dodgers open their World Series defense against the Blue Jays in Toronto on Friday

7:01 AM on Wednesday, October 22

Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, tells The Associated Press that he's covered a tattoo on his chest to no longer reflect an image widely recognized as a Nazi symbol that he got nearly 20 years ago

6:59 AM on Wednesday, October 22

Ballerina Misty Copeland has taken one last passionate spin on the ballet stage before saying goodbye