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7:09 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Democrats in North Carolina are scrambling to turn out rural Black voters and say the party cannot win the state without them

7:07 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Good Friday is a unique and uniquely solemn day in the Christian calendar

6:05 AM on Wednesday, April 1

U.S. and Iraqi officials say U.S. journalist Shelly Kittleson was warned of threats before she was kidnapped in Baghdad

5:58 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Global leaders have been scrambling to contain the rising cost of oil and gasoline since the start of the Iran war

5:22 AM on Wednesday, April 1

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4:35 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Officials say Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban governments have resumed talks in China, which is mediating between the two sides to broker a durable ceasefire after more than a month of fighting

4:17 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Chile’s new president is a devout Catholic in a country that has grown increasingly secular but retains conservative traits in various areas

3:56 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Should the United States decide to send in military forces to secure Iran’s uranium stockpile, experts and former U.S. government officials say it would be a complex, risky and lengthy operation, fraught with radiation and chemical dangers

3:36 AM on Wednesday, April 1

2:40 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Iran has hit an oil tanker off the coast of Qatar and Kuwait’s airport

1:46 AM on Wednesday, April 1

A Russian military plane has crashed in annexed Crimea, killing six crew and 23 passengers on board

1:01 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Amsterdam is marking 25 years since the world's first gay marriages were celebrated in the Netherlands

12:03 AM on Wednesday, April 1

The Supreme Court is taking up one of the term’s most consequential cases, President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens

Wednesday, April 1

U.S. President Donald Trump says the military could end its Iran offensive in two to three weeks as the White House announced a prime-time presidential address Wednesday evening on the war

9:56 PM on Tuesday, March 31

Advocacy groups and experts have slammed YouTube for serving up low-quality artificial intelligence-generated videos to its most vulnerable audience: children

9:16 PM on Tuesday, March 31

World shares are higher and oil prices have dropped after U.S. stocks soared to their best day in almost a year over renewed hopes that the Iran war could soon end

4:31 PM on Tuesday, March 31

A scrawny hippie and a nerdy engineer who became prank-playing friends vowed to change the world when they founded a Silicon Valley startup on April Fools’ Day 50 years ago and then — no joke — pulled it off

1:28 PM on Monday, March 30

12:07 PM on Monday, March 16