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U.S. authorities say a Guatemalan man has pleaded guilty in federal court to a felony offense stemming from the crash of human smugglers' truck in Mexico that killed more than 50 migrants in 2021

8:27 PM on Wednesday, April 8

A federal appeals court on Wednesday refused to block the Pentagon from blacklisting artificial intelligence laboratory Anthropic in a decision that differed from the conclusions reached in another judge’s ruling on the same issues

8:04 PM on Wednesday, April 8

A federal judge ordered rapper Pooh Shiesty to remain in custody after he and eight others were accused of kidnapping three music industry professionals and robbing them at gunpoint in Texas during a contract dispute involving rapper Gucci Mane’s record label

7:13 PM on Wednesday, April 8

An Oregon appeals court has sided with PacifiCorp in a ruling that could possibly jeopardize over $1 billion in damages for victims of the state's devastating 2020 wildfires

7:00 PM on Wednesday, April 8

A U.S. Army veteran has been charged with sharing classified information about an elite commando unit with a journalist

6:48 PM on Wednesday, April 8

More than 1,000 humanitarian workers have been killed across the globe in the last three years, nearly triple the death count in the previous three years, the U.N. says

6:46 PM on Wednesday, April 8

A Brooklyn activist has pleaded guilty to setting fire to 10 empty police vehicles

6:09 PM on Wednesday, April 8

A group of new accounts on the prediction market Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the U.S. and Iran would reach a ceasefire on April 7, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for those users

6:08 PM on Wednesday, April 8

A Pakistani man has pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge, saying it was a “morally reprehensible idea” to support the Islamic State group by plotting to kill Jewish people in Brooklyn

6:07 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Three former employees of a privately operated psychiatric hospital in the nation’s capital have been charged with criminal negligence in the death of a patient

4:53 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Two Minnesota school districts and the state’s main teachers union have asked a federal judge to block a Trump administration change in policy that gave immigration authorities a freer hand to conduct enforcement actions in and near schools

4:33 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Prosecutors are seeking Tiger Woods' prescription drug records from a Florida pharmacy

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The legendary mountaineer Jim Whittaker, the first American to summit Mount Everest, has died at age 97

11:50 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Police in the Bahamas say they have arrested the husband of a U.S. woman who was aboard a boat near the archipelago and vanished

10:51 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Fired Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman tells The Associated Press in his first interview since the ouster that he was “blindsided” by the move but has no hard feelings and is unlikely to sue

7:18 AM on Wednesday, April 8

President Donald Trump repeated his complaint about NATO after a private meeting with the alliance's Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Wednesday

12:18 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Over the course of a single day, President Donald Trump went from threatening Iran with “annihilation” to proclaiming that Iran's leadership had presented a “workable” plan that led him to agree to a two-week ceasefire

8:52 PM on Tuesday, April 7

A U.S. judge says a customs officer improperly canceled the visa of a Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher charged with smuggling frog embryos in the U.S. In a ruling Tuesday, the judge said Customs and Border Protection officers have limited authority to cancel visas and can't do so for suspected smuggling of biological samples