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5:02 PM on Monday, October 13

Federal employees working on mental health services, disease outbreaks and disaster preparedness were among those hit by the Trump administration’s mass firings over the weekend

4:09 PM on Monday, October 13

The matriarch of a wealthy South Florida family who was convicted in the hired killing of her former son-in-law has been sentenced to life in prison

3:42 PM on Monday, October 13

President Donald Trump repeatedly touted the “Abraham Accords” in his high-profile Middle East trip

3:05 PM on Monday, October 13

Democratic former Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has announced that he will not run for the U.S. Senate in 2026

2:54 PM on Monday, October 13

Authorities have identified the 16 people killed in a devastating blast at a rural Tennessee explosives plant last week

1:40 PM on Monday, October 13

North Carolina Republican legislative leaders say they will vote next week on redrawing the state’s U.S. House district map, with the aim of securing another GOP seat within already right-leaning boundaries

1:20 PM on Monday, October 13

Officials say a North Carolina government initiative is eliminating over $6.5 billion in medical debt for more than 2.5 million residents

11:00 AM on Monday, October 13

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he will travel to the United States this week for talks on the potential U.S. provision of long-range weapons

10:49 AM on Monday, October 13

Authorities have identified four people who were killed during a weekend mass shooting at a bar on a South Carolina island

10:47 AM on Monday, October 13

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson predicts the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history

10:25 AM on Monday, October 13

From Seattle to Baltimore, people in the United States are recognizing Monday as Indigenous Peoples Day

10:07 AM on Monday, October 13

A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was already hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the nation’s students and schools

8:37 AM on Monday, October 13

OpenAI has announced a collaboration with chipmaker Broadcom to design its own AI computer chips

7:47 AM on Monday, October 13

A small airplane has crashed onto a major Massachusetts highway, killing both people on board and scattering flaming debris across the interstate

5:04 AM on Monday, October 13

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina says he has fled the country in fear for his life following a military rebellion

4:54 AM on Monday, October 13

A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that's designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out another pillar of the 60-year-old law

11:44 PM on Sunday, October 12

11:03 PM on Sunday, October 12

Three researchers who probed the process of business innovation have won the Nobel memorial prize in economics for explaining how new products and inventions promote economic growth and human welfare, even as they leave older companies in the dust

10:37 PM on Sunday, October 12

U.S. stocks rallied and recovered more than half of their sell-off from Friday

6:22 PM on Sunday, October 12

Protesters are pedaling through Portland's streets wearing nothing or close to it to rally against the Trump administration