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11:01 PM on Friday, March 13

Anti-Muslim rhetoric is on the rise among some Republican lawmakers

9:43 PM on Friday, March 13

An offshore wind project targeted by the Trump administration has begun sending power to New England’s electric grid

8:59 PM on Friday, March 13

A federal judge in Massachusetts is temporarily blocking the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in the U.S. The judge issued an administrative stay on Friday

6:49 PM on Friday, March 13

A strong chemical smell has forced a temporary halt to flights at four major airports near Washington, D.C. The FAA says air traffic controllers cannot manage traffic safely during the incident

6:23 PM on Friday, March 13

The White House wants to build an underground center to provide security screening before visitors access the grounds

5:19 PM on Friday, March 13

An Oregon Army National Guard helicopter rescued an injured logger from Mount Hood National Forest after rough terrain blocked other options

4:29 PM on Friday, March 13

A federal jury has convicted eight people accused of having links to antifa on terrorism charges over what prosecutors called an attack on a Texas immigration detention center

4:24 PM on Friday, March 13

A Georgia prosecutor has dropped a vehicular homicide charge against a teen who police say was driving the truck that struck and killed a beloved high school teacher when a prank turned deadly, his lawyer says

4:12 PM on Friday, March 13

More than 30 states will resume their antitrust trial against Live Nation and Ticketmaster on Monday after negotiations this week failed to result in many states joining a tentative settlement reached by the Justice Department

3:50 PM on Friday, March 13

Georgia lawmakers pressed former special prosecutor Nathan Wade about contact his team had with federal investigators while pursuing an election interference case against President Donald Trump

3:28 PM on Friday, March 13

Richard Grenell is stepping down as president of the Kennedy Center after leading changes that drive artists away

2:31 PM on Friday, March 13

A federal judge on Friday quashed Justice Department subpoenas issued to the Federal Reserve in January, a severe blow to an investigation that has already attracted strong criticism on Capitol Hill

12:47 PM on Friday, March 13

The U.S. is temporarily easing part of its sanctions measures on Russian oil, a reflection of global worries about sharply higher oil prices due to the Iran war

9:04 AM on Friday, March 13

A man has been charged with selling a stolen gun to Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former member of the Army National Guard who used it to kill one person and wound two others at Old Dominion University

6:47 AM on Friday, March 13

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says his government has held recent talks with the U.S. His comments on Friday mark the first time the Caribbean country has confirmed speculation about active communication with the Trump administration which has been openly hostile toward the communist government

2:18 AM on Friday, March 13

The U.S. military says a KC-135 refueling aircraft supporting operations against Iran crashed in western Iraq, killing all six crew members

12:21 AM on Friday, March 13

President Donald Trump says the U.S. bombed military sites on an island vital to Iran’s oil network

11:03 PM on Thursday, March 12

The United States is getting slammed by a stretch of weather extremes, from flooding rain to record heat and late-season snow

11:03 PM on Thursday, March 12

A Lebanese-born man who had learned a week earlier that four of his family members were killed in an Israeli airstrike in his native country, waited in his car outside a Detroit-area synagogue for two hours before ramming into the building

11:01 PM on Thursday, March 12

The man who opened fire in a classroom at Virginia’s Old Dominion University completed a drug treatment program that allowed him early release from federal prison, even though he was convicted of a terrorism charge that should have disqualified him from that benefit