August 22, 2024, 3:00pm Latest News
On a dirt road below the shrub-dotted hills of Arizona, Donald Trump used a stretch of wall and a pile of steel beams to draw a visual contrast between his approach to securing the border and that of his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. Read story
August 22, 2024, 2:42pm Nation & World
The Biden administration will send about $125 million in new military aid to Ukraine, U.S. officials said Thursday, even as Washington works to get a better understanding of Kyiv’s incursion into Russia and how it advances the broader battlefield goals more than two years into the war. Read story
August 22, 2024, 2:22pm Nation & World
Pushing back against isolationism in his own ranks, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday the challenge of deterring America’s adversaries should be “front and center” for the next president, as he advocated maintaining a strong military and support for allies, especially in war-torn Ukraine. Read story
August 22, 2024, 1:36pm Latest News
The strange saga of how two Mexican drug lords were detained after landing in a plane in the United States in July just got stranger. Read story
August 22, 2024, 1:32pm Nation & World
The largest diamond found in more than a century has been unearthed at a mine in Botswana, and the country’s president showed off the fist-sized stone to the world at a viewing ceremony Thursday. Read story
August 22, 2024, 1:25pm Health
U.S. regulators approved updated COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday, shots designed to more closely target recent virus strains -- and hopefully whatever variants cause trouble this winter, too. Read story
August 22, 2024, 1:21pm Nation & World
Half of the population in Haiti is not getting enough to eat and barely a quarter of the hospitals are operating at normal levels. And between March and June of this year, the number of internally displaced people shot up 60 percent, bringing the total number forced out of their… Read story
August 22, 2024, 12:54pm Nation & World
A second former Memphis police officer accused in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols last year is changing his not-guilty plea in the case that sparked outrage and calls for police reform. Read story
August 22, 2024, 12:53pm Nation & World
Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes have killed at least 16 people in the Gaza Strip. Read story
August 22, 2024, 9:35am Latest News
Arrests following the 2022 deaths of 53 migrants in Texas who were left in a sweltering tractor-trailer have climbed to more than a dozen, and now stretch to Central America, following years of investigations into the deadliest smuggling attempt from the U.S.-Mexico border. Read story
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