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9:46 PM on Tuesday, January 6

One of the New York City area’s most notorious serial killers has confessed to another killing

8:04 PM on Tuesday, January 6

CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia, has died in a Maryland prison

8:00 PM on Tuesday, January 6

CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed US agents to Moscow, dies in prison at 84

7:40 PM on Tuesday, January 6

Danny Briere is focused on the future as the Flyers reach the season's midpoint in playoff contention

4:52 PM on Tuesday, January 6

Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela's interim president, has risen to prominence through strategic moves and political savvy

4:16 PM on Tuesday, January 6

The Department of Homeland Security says it has launched in Minnesota what it's calling the largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out by the agency

4:06 PM on Tuesday, January 6

Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband by her teenage student in 1990, is seeking to overturn her conviction over what her lawyers claim were several constitutional violations

2:24 PM on Tuesday, January 6

The Alaska Airlines pilot who was praised as a hero for safely landing a plane after a door plug panel flew off shortly after takeoff in 2004 is suing Boeing because he believes the plane maker wrongly tried to blame him and the rest of the crew in past legal filings

2:15 PM on Tuesday, January 6

The Cuban government has revealed the identities of 32 military personnel killed during the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro

1:06 PM on Tuesday, January 6

President Donald Trump says Venezuela will be providing 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the U.S., and he pledges to use proceeds from the sale of this oil “to benefit the people” of both countries

12:56 PM on Tuesday, January 6

Lisette Oropesa impresses Metropolitan Opera's Peter Gelb with her talent and intellect

12:32 PM on Tuesday, January 6

Israel has cleared the final hurdle before starting construction on a controversial settlement project near Jerusalem that would effectively cut the West Bank in two

12:02 PM on Tuesday, January 6

Prime Minister Mark Carney says his foreign minister and the governor general will visit Greenland in early February in the wake of renewed threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to annex the Danish territory

11:27 AM on Tuesday, January 6

Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Baird of Indiana is recovering from a car crash and expected to make a full recovery, A statement from Baird's office says he is recovering, but details of the crash are not immediately clear

11:11 AM on Tuesday, January 6

Former Michigan State and NBA player Paul Davis apologized for verbally abusing an official at the Breslin Center and being removed from his seat during the 12th-ranked Spartans’ 80-51 victory over Southern California

8:16 AM on Tuesday, January 6

Venezuela's military says the U.S. operation to capture Nicolás Maduro resulted in dozens of casualties

4:58 AM on Tuesday, January 6

China has banned exports to Japan of dual-use goods for military purposes

12:02 AM on Tuesday, January 6

A former Republican lawmaker in Arizona has been sentenced to probation and a five-year ban on running for public office

12:01 AM on Tuesday, January 6

A Texas prosecutor says a school police officer made no attempt to distract or stop the gunman during the school shooting in Uvalde in 2022

7:38 PM on Monday, January 5

Protesters angry over Iran's ailing economy have conducted a sit-in at Tehran's Grand Bazaar