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3:12 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Lunar love knows no bounds

2:42 PM on Wednesday, April 8

An attorney for a man shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during an arrest in California says his client did not try to run officers over with his car and disputed claims that he has a warrant out for his arrest in El Salvador

2:09 PM on Wednesday, April 8

More Federal Reserve policymakers were willing to consider an interest rate hike this year at their March meeting than in January, as higher gas prices stemming from the Iran war threatened to worsen inflation in the coming months

2:01 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Neither the United States nor Iran seems able to agree on even the basic contours of the key issues being discussed as part of a two-week ceasefire

1:58 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Health Secretary Robert F_ Kennedy Jr_ is launching a new podcast called “The Secretary Kennedy Podcast.”

1:48 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Southwest Airlines said Wednesday it is raising its checked baggage fees by $10 less than a year after ending its famous “bags fly free” policy

1:47 PM on Wednesday, April 8

The mother of an freelance American journalist who was released from captivity in Iraq says she hopes her daughter will finally return home to rural Wisconsin after living abroad for decades

1:15 PM on Wednesday, April 8

A British pastor faces manslaughter charges in the drowning of a 61-year-old man during a backyard baptism

12:58 PM on Wednesday, April 8

March has been the hottest month on record for the continental United States in 132 years, according to federal weather data

11:51 AM on Wednesday, April 8

7:18 AM on Wednesday, April 8

The White House says President Donald Trump will discuss leaving NATO when he meets with the military alliance's Secretary-General Mark Rutte

5:08 AM on Wednesday, April 8

A federal judge has handed down a sentence of 15 years in prison to a woman who pleaded guilty to selling “Friends” star Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him in a 2023 overdose

12:33 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Iran, the United States and Israel have agreed to a two-week ceasefire, an 11th-hour deal that headed off U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to unleash a bombing campaign that would destroy Iranian civilization

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

12:14 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz again in response to Israeli attacks against the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon

12:04 AM on Wednesday, April 8

A Long Island architect has pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and admitted he killed an eighth in a string of long-unsolved crimes known as the Gilgo Beach killings

12:02 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Route 66 turns 100 this year, making the legendary road ripe for an American road trip

12:02 AM on Wednesday, April 8

In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz

11:17 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Oil prices plunged below $95 per barrel, and stock markets surged worldwide after President Donald Trump pulled back from his threat to force a whole civilization to die in the war with Iran

12:07 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Republican Clay Fuller has won Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former U.S. House seat in Georgia