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10:56 AM on Tuesday, August 19

Rip currents are one of the coast’s greatest dangers and account for the most beach rescues every year

10:26 AM on Tuesday, August 19

The Air Force’s top uniformed officer is set to retire early in the most recent shake-up of military leadership during President Donald Trump’s second term

6:39 AM on Tuesday, August 19

Judge dismisses part of lawsuit over Florida immigration detention center and moves case to another jurisdiction

5:53 AM on Tuesday, August 19

A commuter train is stalled on a flooded railway track in Mumbai

4:48 AM on Tuesday, August 19

Union for Air Canada flight attendants says it has reached a tentative agreement with the airline to end strike

11:03 PM on Monday, August 18

The top U.N. human rights body has accused both the Sudanese armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces of detaining tens of thousands of people without charge since Sudan’s civil war began in 2023

10:50 PM on Monday, August 18

The Menendez brothers are set to make their cases for parole this week

10:22 PM on Monday, August 18

8:14 PM on Monday, August 18

7:39 PM on Monday, August 18

Jules Witcover, who cowrote one of the nation’s leading political columns for nearly three decades, died Saturday at the age of 98

4:51 PM on Monday, August 18

North Carolina election officials have successfully amended over 20,000 voter registration records

4:25 PM on Monday, August 18

One candidate is Rodrigo Paz, a conservative centrist senator and son of a neoliberal ex-president who is pitching himself as a moderate reformer

3:24 PM on Monday, August 18

President Donald Trump is vowing more changes to the way elections are conducted in the U.S., but based on the Constitution there is little to nothing he can do on his own

3:06 PM on Monday, August 18

The Justice Department has agreed to provide to Congress documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation

11:12 AM on Monday, August 18

Two of the three people killed in a bar shooting in the New York City borough of Brooklyn were among the four shooters who opened fire inside the building

7:53 AM on Monday, August 18

With the last campaigns only one day in the rearview mirror, Bolivia’s political world has delved into preparations for an unprecedented runoff election that will reveal the extent of a centrist senator’s unexpected traction in the presidential vote

7:28 AM on Monday, August 18

U.S. President Donald Trump says he has called Russian President Vladimir Putin and begun to arrange a meeting between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

6:53 AM on Monday, August 18

Swiss watchmaker Swatch has apologized for an ad campaign that has upset consumers in China and elsewhere and says it has removed all related materials worldwide

3:55 AM on Monday, August 18

The U.S. special envoy to Lebanon says his team will discuss a long-term cessation of hostilities with Israel

11:42 PM on Sunday, August 17

Hurricane Erin is forcing evacuations on North Carolina’s Outer Banks as it churns in the Atlantic where high winds and heavy rain are pelting the Turks and Caicos Islands and parts of the Bahamas