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4:44 PM on Friday, August 22

Principals in El Salvador have started greeting students at school gates to inspect haircuts and uniforms

4:41 PM on Friday, August 22

President Donald Trump was quick to declare “TOTAL VICTORY” after a New York appeals court threw out a civil fraud penalty that stood to cost him more than a half-billion dollars

4:32 PM on Friday, August 22

President Donald Trump visited a gift shop near the White House and stopped by the Kennedy Center on Friday, all while his federal takeover of Washington is keeping residents on edge

4:21 PM on Friday, August 22

The Trump administration's decision to review the visas of more than 55 million people is leading to false reports on social media for the number of noncitizens living in the U.S., with claims as high as 70 million to 100 million people

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

2:40 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

1:19 PM on Friday, August 22

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of U.S. damage to Iran nuclear sites angered President Donald Trump

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

12:22 PM on Friday, August 22

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

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

6:32 AM on Friday, August 22

Millions of Americans are facing record heat with temperatures frequently over 90 degrees Fahrenheit

6:11 AM on Friday, August 22

Finnish air guitarist Aapo “The Angus” Rautio has plucked victory from thin air, grabbing the world championship title for his homeland for the first time since 2000

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