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2:28 PM on Wednesday, August 5

Stefon Diggs is signing with the Washington Commanders, a person familiar with the agreement tells The Associated Press

2:13 PM on Wednesday, August 5

Construction crews have taken apart the massive granite seal for the new White House helipad, signaling potential delays

2:06 PM on Wednesday, August 5

Carson Beck makes his NFL debut and Kenny Pickett starts for his fifth team in four years

1:19 PM on Wednesday, August 5

Jeanine Pirro this week found out there’s a tradeoff between loyalty to President Donald Trump and being loyal to reality

1:14 PM on Wednesday, August 5

A federal appeals court has signaled that it might not allow a lawsuit brought by New England fishing businesses and industry groups against a California aquarium to proceed because of the case’s potential impact on free speech

1:14 PM on Wednesday, August 5

The state of New Mexico has sued the Department of Justice and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, saying the federal government has blocked it from carrying out its own investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes

1:03 PM on Wednesday, August 5

A California man is expected in court on a federal weapons charge after authorities say he was arrested at President Donald Trump's golf course near Los Angeles

12:47 PM on Wednesday, August 5

A wildfire that swept across mountains and coastal areas west of Athens has left hundreds of animals displaced

12:14 PM on Wednesday, August 5

Atlanta Falcons linebacker Jalon Walker will miss the 2026 season with a torn ACL, the team announced Wednesday

11:52 AM on Wednesday, August 5

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating why a plane was allowed to take off as President Donald Trump’s helicopter was approaching Reagan National Airport in what appears to be a violation of safety procedures put in place after last year’s midair collision between an airliner and an Army helicopter near that busy Washington D.C. airport

11:40 AM on Wednesday, August 5

Scientists say they're certain that a SpaceX rocket has slammed into the moon as predicted

10:29 AM on Wednesday, August 5

Israel's military for the first time in weeks has told residents in southern Lebanon to evacuate, citing a “blatant violation of the ceasefire” by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah

9:43 AM on Wednesday, August 5

Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in a victory for the party’s progressive wing in a battleground state

8:59 AM on Wednesday, August 5

Progressive U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has defeated moderate U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan's Democratic primary, which became a proxy battle for the party's direction

7:56 AM on Wednesday, August 5

The Word of Life Center, a church in Salisbury, Maryland, is facing difficult times

5:07 AM on Wednesday, August 5

The world’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in Congo is still spreading faster than efforts to track it, according to the head of the World Health Organization

1:49 AM on Wednesday, August 5

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and its region have killed 17 people and wounded 44 others

1:35 AM on Wednesday, August 5

U.S. President Donald Trump says a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz could come this week

1:00 AM on Wednesday, August 5

Stocks are wavering in afternoon trading on Wall Street, while oil prices hold steady

10:05 PM on Tuesday, August 4

The Preakness Stakes is moving to three weeks and a day after the Kentucky Derby to be run on a Sunday for the first time