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6:30 PM on Friday, December 26

The ECHL postponed 13 games Friday after players went on strike

6:16 PM on Friday, December 26

Michigan has agreed to a five-year contract with Kyle Whittingham to replace fired and disgraced football coach Sherrone Moore

6:05 PM on Friday, December 26

The Las Vegas Raiders have decided to bench defensive end Maxx Crosby for Sunday’s home game against the New York Giants in a matchup of teams with the NFL’s worst records

6:03 PM on Friday, December 26

Kyle Whittingham to take over as football coach at Michigan, agreeing to 5-year deal, AP sources say

5:53 PM on Friday, December 26

Tyler Perry faces a lawsuit for sexual assault by actor Mario Rodriguez, marking the second such case against him recently

5:40 PM on Friday, December 26

Patrick Dorgu's first goal for Manchester United has given the club a 1-0 win over Newcastle in a pulsating Premier League match at Old Trafford

5:07 PM on Friday, December 26

A federal judge has canceled the trial of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man mistakenly deported, and scheduled a hearing on whether the prosecution is being vindictive in its human smuggling case against him

5:03 PM on Friday, December 26

The president of the Kennedy Center is criticizing musician Chuck Redd for canceling a Christmas Eve performance

4:27 PM on Friday, December 26

Venezuelan migrants transferred to a prison in El Salvador by the U.S. government are demanding justice

2:59 PM on Friday, December 26

The shopping rush leading up to Christmas is over and in its place, like every year, another has begun as millions of people hunt for post-holiday deals and get in line to return gifts that didn’t fit, or didn’t hit quite right

2:59 PM on Friday, December 26

Perry Archangelo Bamonte, longtime guitarist and keyboardist for the influential goth band The Cure, has died

2:19 PM on Friday, December 26

Soprano Asmik Grigorian is to sing the title role in Georges Bizet's “Carmen,” a mezzo-soprano touchstone, for the first time at the Salzburg Festival this summer

10:22 AM on Friday, December 26

A U.S. airstrike that targeted an alleged camp of the Islamic State group in Nigeria has caused panic in the village of Jabo, close to where the strike hit

9:06 AM on Friday, December 26

A Cuban immigrant who worked at a Kentucky scrapyard has died from severe burns suffered in last month’s UPS cargo plane crash, raising the death toll to 15 people

7:34 AM on Friday, December 26

Police say that two people have been killed and at least two more injured in northern Israel in a car-ramming and stabbing attack by a Palestinian man

6:56 AM on Friday, December 26

A bombing at a mosque in Homs, Syria, during Friday prayers has killed at least eight people and wounded 18 others

12:37 AM on Friday, December 26

The United States airstrikes targeting militants affiliated with the Islamic State group in northwestern Nigeria are a major escalation of an offensive that Nigeria’s overstretched military has struggled with for years

12:31 AM on Friday, December 26

Stocks closed slightly lower as investors returned from the Christmas holiday

12:04 AM on Friday, December 26

Powerful winter storms brought the wettest Christmas season to Southern California this week

6:40 PM on Thursday, December 25

President Donald Trump says the U.S. launched a deadly strike against Islamic State forces in Nigeria, after spending weeks accusing the West African country's government of failing to rein in the persecution of Christians