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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

2:16 PM on Friday, December 26

Nikola Jokic set an NBA record with 18 points in overtime

1:16 PM on Friday, December 26

The sister of a Harvey Weinstein accuser who testified at the movie mogul's most recent trial has sued her sibling, saying her public remarks are damaging her reputation as a cardiologist in Poland

10:22 AM on Friday, December 26

A U.S. airstrike that targeted an alleged Islamic State camp in Nigeria has caused panic in the village of Jabo

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

6:31 AM on Friday, December 26

Since returning to the White House in January, President Donald Trump has overturned decades of U.S. trade policy — building a wall of tariffs around what used to be a wide open economy

3:25 AM on Friday, December 26

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that he will meet on Sunday with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida

3:16 AM on Friday, December 26

Separatists in southern Yemen are accusing Saudi Arabia of targeting their forces with airstrikes

3:01 AM on Friday, December 26

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been sentenced to 15 years in prison and must pay 13.5 billion ringgit ($3.3 billion) for his role in the 1MDB corruption scandal

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