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3:24 PM on Friday, August 22

Maria Sharapova is using her induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame as a chance to reflect on her career

3:14 PM on Friday, August 22

The Trump administration says it will not defend a decades-old grant program for heavily Hispanic universities that is being challenged in court, declaring that the government believes the funding is unconstitutional

3:09 PM on Friday, August 22

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has moved to strip thousands of federal health agency employees of their collective bargaining rights

3:09 PM on Friday, August 22

Trump administration says grants for Hispanic-serving colleges are unconstitutional and it won't defend them in court

2:53 PM on Friday, August 22

Keegan Bradley says deciding whether to be the first Ryder Cup playing captain since 1963 will be the biggest decision of his life

2:40 PM on Friday, August 22

The North Carolina Supreme Court has issued favorable rulings for bars seeking compensation from the state for COVID-19 restrictions

2:26 PM on Friday, August 22

Coco Gauff has has fired one of her coaches on the eve of the U.S. Open and brought aboard the serve doctor who helped No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka work on her issues with that part of the game

2:05 PM on Friday, August 22

Hall of Fame jockey Ron Turcotte, who rode Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973, has died

1:08 PM on Friday, August 22

A jail release order from a Tennessee court requires Kilmar Abrego Garcia to travel directly to Maryland, where he'll be in home detention with his brother as his custodian

12:50 PM on Friday, August 22

Texas is favored to win the national championship, with Arch Manning leading the Heisman Trophy race

12:42 PM on Friday, August 22

In Cedar Rapids, Grant Wood painted “American Gothic,” the iconic portrait of a man and a woman standing in front of a white frame house

12:38 PM on Friday, August 22

The oldest surviving place of worship for Muslims in the United States was erected in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, almost a century ago by immigrants from present-day Lebanon

12:22 PM on Friday, August 22

Mariah the Scientist has emerged from her lab with a new album, “Hearts Sold Separately.”

12:21 PM on Friday, August 22

President Donald Trump says that the draw for the 2026 World Cup will happen on Dec. 5 at the Kennedy Center in Washington

9:56 AM on Friday, August 22

Canada is dropping retaliatory tariffs to match U.S. tariff exemptions for goods covered under the United States-Mexico-Canada trade pact

9:51 AM on Friday, August 22

Famine is now occurring in Gaza City

8:48 AM on Friday, August 22

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered National Guard troops to start carrying firearms while patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump’s law enforcement crackdown

3:54 AM on Friday, August 22

President Donald Trump started the week declaring a diplomatic breakthrough in his bid to get Russia and Ukraine closer to making peace, announcing he had begun arranging for direct talks between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy

11:28 PM on Thursday, August 21

Strong winds and waves from Hurricane Erin have battered Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard as dangerous rip currents continue to threaten from the Carolinas to New England

11:11 PM on Thursday, August 21

Wall Street rallied to its best day in months after the head of the Federal Reserve hinted that cuts to interest rates may be on the way