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6:56 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Federal agents have used pepper spray to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis

6:38 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The U.S. military has flown a pair of fighter jets over the Gulf of Venezuela in what appears to be the closest American warplanes have come to the South American country’s airspace since the start of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign

6:26 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Florida has executed a man convicted of killing a woman during a home invasion

6:13 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The Chicago White Sox have won Major League Baseball’s amateur draft lottery

5:50 PM on Tuesday, December 9

A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday refused to step aside as requested by President Donald Trump’s former attorney who faces felony forgery case related to the 2020 election in the battleground state

5:29 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The nation’s leading doctors groups are in a standoff with federal health officials over vaccines

5:21 PM on Tuesday, December 9

A federal judge has ordered Georgia's prison system to provide hormone therapy for transgender inmates

5:14 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Federal health officials are reviewing the safety of two injectable drugs used to protect babies and toddlers from the RSV virus

4:55 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The United Nations chief is calling on Yemen’s Houthi rebels not to prosecute detained U.N. personnel and to work “in good faith” to immediately release all detained staff from the U.N. and foreign agencies and missions

4:43 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Cracker Barrel posted lower-than-expected sales in its fiscal first quarter and lowered its revenue forecast for the year as it continued to feel the fallout from a botched plan to revamp its logo and restaurants

4:26 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Mike Trout, the U.S. captain at 2023 World Baseball Classic, is still under consideration as the roster for the 2026 tournament takes shape

4:05 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The Justice Department has challenged a court order that complicated efforts to seek a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey by making a trove of evidence off-limits to prosecutors

3:57 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her country plans to send more water to the U.S., but not immediately

1:01 PM on Tuesday, December 9

A human rights group says dozens of people in Haiti’s capital have been killed following violent clashes within a powerful gang coalition

12:28 PM on Tuesday, December 9

A person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press that reliever Edwin Díaz has agreed to $69 million, three-year contract with the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers

8:51 AM on Tuesday, December 9

A leader of the West African regional bloc says coups and attempted coups have left the region in a state of emergency

4:49 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Liverpool picked up a much-needed win over Inter Milan in the Champions League without Mohamed Salah while Barcelona and Bayern Munich celebrated comeback wins and Chelsea lost

4:14 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reaffirmed his refusal to cede territory, resisting U.S. pressure for compromise with Russia

12:08 AM on Tuesday, December 9

A man convicted of killing a woman during a home invasion robbery has been executed in Florida

10:39 AM on Tuesday, December 2

The publishing world's notable releases this year included a new “Hunger Games” novel and a book by Thomas Pynchon