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7:51 PM on Friday, June 5

Democrat Xavier Becerra has advanced to the general election for California governor after pitching himself as an experienced choice to lead the nation’s most populous state

7:38 PM on Friday, June 5

California Democratic Rep. Doris Matsui has advanced to the November ballot after facing a reelection challenge from a younger Democrat

7:27 PM on Friday, June 5

Argentina is expanding its investigation into a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship

7:25 PM on Friday, June 5

The U.N. food agency says millions of people are being pushed into acute hunger by the Iran war, as it warned would happen if the conflict escalated and oil prices remained high

7:22 PM on Friday, June 5

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7:09 PM on Friday, June 5

President Donald Trump is keeping open the possibility of speaking directly with Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te— even after Beijing has publicly urged him not to

7:03 PM on Friday, June 5

The U.S. military says it shot down four Iranian drones that were launched toward the Strait of Hormuz on Friday and then struck some of the Islamic Republic’s coastal surveillance radar sites in response

6:56 PM on Friday, June 5

Chris Richards is training with the U.S. in a positive sign for the top American defender as he tries to make it back in time for the World Cup

6:37 PM on Friday, June 5

Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey said there’s no talk of a merger with the Big Ten and called the notion that the SEC wants to form a super league as “not consistent with the truth.”

6:35 PM on Friday, June 5

The U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles says it has opened “multiple election fraud investigations” related to California’s elections and sent a prosecutor to the county’s vote-counting center

5:14 PM on Friday, June 5

Members of the Iranian World Cup soccer team have been granted U.S. visas, clearing them to enter the country ahead of their first two matches near Los Angeles this month

3:53 PM on Friday, June 5

Carlos Alberto Solari, the Argentine singer-songwriter known as “the Indio” who led Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota, one of the most popular and influential Argentine rock groups of the 1970s-1990s, has died outside the capital of Buenos Aires

1:57 PM on Friday, June 5

Inflation is rising again, squeezing budgets and making essentials harder to afford

1:15 PM on Friday, June 5

Denver Broncos linebacker Jonathon Cooper has been arrested on domestic violence charges

12:35 PM on Friday, June 5

A Los Angeles jury has awarded $176 million for the hit-and-run deaths of two young brothers struck in a crosswalk by a California socialite

12:26 PM on Friday, June 5

A white police officer in Connecticut who fatally shot a Black man suffering a mental health crisis has made his first court appearance on a manslaughter charge

8:19 AM on Friday, June 5

A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration policy that made it harder for immigrants from dozens of countries to enter and stay in the U.S. The judge criticized the policy for putting immigrants' lives in "indeterminate legal limbo" and accused the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of ignoring the law

3:56 AM on Friday, June 5

Far from its European homeland, Bosnia and Herzegovina has zealous fans in the American Midwest as it prepares for its second World Cup

12:20 AM on Friday, June 5

Actor James Handy has been stabbed to death, and police have charged the son of his girlfriend in the killing

12:01 AM on Friday, June 5

Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner is hosting his first major campaign event since media reports surfaced that he previously exchanged sexually explicit text messages with several women while he was married