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6:53 PM on Friday, January 23

U.S. officials have granted an extension for housing assistance to survivors of the 2023 wildfires in Hawaii, according to Gov. Josh Green

6:48 PM on Friday, January 23

The Pentagon has released a National Defense Strategy that chastises U.S. allies to take control of their own security and reasserts the Trump administration’s focus on dominance in the Western Hemisphere over a longtime goal of countering China

6:42 PM on Friday, January 23

New US defense strategy tells allies to take more responsibility, shifts biggest focus to Western Hemisphere from China

6:36 PM on Friday, January 23

Federal immigration agents in Minnesota are accused of using a 5-year-old boy as "bait" to arrest his father

6:18 PM on Friday, January 23

Guan Heng sought asylum in the United States after exposing human rights abuses in his native China

5:11 PM on Friday, January 23

U.S. health officials say testing showed that powdered whole milk used to make ByHeart infant formula could be a source of contamination that led to an outbreak of infant botulism that has sickened dozens of babies

4:51 PM on Friday, January 23

A private security guard told a 911 dispatcher that a Cuban immigrant at a Texas detention center tried to hang himself, was restrained by guards in handcuffs, and stopped breathing during a subsequent struggle

4:26 PM on Friday, January 23

The family of a homeless man who died after a bulldozer crushed his tent has filed a second lawsuit against the nonprofits involved in clearing the encampment

4:12 PM on Friday, January 23

Meta is halting teens’ access to artificial intelligence characters, at least temporarily, the company said in a blog post Friday

3:51 PM on Friday, January 23

The U.S. military says it’s carried out a deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the first since the raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro earlier this month

2:56 PM on Friday, January 23

The Justice Department says in a sharply worded court filing that a report by former special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation into President Donald Trump’s hoarding of classified documents belongs in the “dustbin of history” and should remain sealed

2:29 PM on Friday, January 23

Officials have declared that a Texas Black man executed nearly 70 years ago is innocent in a case prosecutors now say was based on false evidence and riddled with racial bias

1:23 PM on Friday, January 23

10:40 AM on Friday, January 23

Maine’s leading Republican and Democratic officials are taking different approaches to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s sweeping ongoing action in the state

10:06 AM on Friday, January 23

A massive pipe rupture has sent sewage spilling into the Potomac River

8:27 AM on Friday, January 23

Outraged critics are accusing President Donald Trump of “whitewashing history” after the National Park Service removed an exhibit on slavery at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park

6:22 AM on Friday, January 23

Leaders at the World Economic Forum urged countries and businesses to filter out the turmoil from a week of clashes with the Trump administration and focus on boosting growth and fighting inequality

11:03 PM on Thursday, January 22

Police have arrested about 100 clergy who were demonstrating against immigration enforcement at Minnesota’s largest airport

10:02 PM on Thursday, January 22

A group of animal advocates are preparing to weather a massive winter storm with 80 dogs inside a warehouse

8:49 PM on Thursday, January 22

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the future of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region is a key focus as negotiators from Ukraine, Russia, and the United States meet in Abu Dhabi