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6:10 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Authorities in Oregon are trying to extinguish a fire burning in one of the world's tallest trees near the state's southern coast

5:52 PM on Tuesday, August 19

President Donald Trump has made clear in recent weeks that he’s willing to use the vast powers of his office to prevent his party from losing control of Congress in next year’s midterm elections

5:35 PM on Tuesday, August 19

5:30 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Immigrants seeking a legal pathway to live and work in the United States will now be subject to screening for ‘anti-Americanism’ due to a new policy implemented by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

5:24 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Florida man executed for the killing of a woman abducted from an insurance office in 1982

5:20 PM on Tuesday, August 19

President Donald Trump is willing to “crush” Russia's economy with sanctions if Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

4:46 PM on Tuesday, August 19

A dozen newspapers in Wyoming and South Dakota are set to publish again after buyers stepped in to keep the communities from becoming news deserts where little or no local media remains

4:34 PM on Tuesday, August 19

President Donald Trump has been projecting himself as a global peacemaker since returning to the White house in January, claiming to have ended seven wars during the first months of his second term

4:24 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Syria’s state-run news agency says the country’s foreign minister has held a rare meeting with an Israeli delegation in Paris

4:07 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Nebraska has announced plans for an immigration detention center in the state’s remote southwest corner as President Donald Trump’s administration races to expand the infrastructure necessary for increasing deportations

2:27 PM on Tuesday, August 19

President Donald Trump’s decision to increase federal law enforcement and immigration agents in Washington, D

2:06 PM on Tuesday, August 19

A panel of federal appellate judges has ruled that New Mexico’s seven-day waiting period on gun purchases likely infringes on citizens’ Second Amendment rights

1:28 PM on Tuesday, August 19

A U.S. appeals court has put the brakes on the transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a company that plans to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America

12:28 PM on Tuesday, August 19

A California man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after admitting to shipping weapons and ammunition to North Korea

11:06 AM on Tuesday, August 19

Mexico’s president says there’s been no agreement with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

10:54 AM on Tuesday, August 19

The United States is deploying three guided-missile destroyers to the waters off Venezuela as part of President Donald Trump’s effort to combat threats from Latin American drug cartels

10:11 AM on Tuesday, August 19

Authorities are investigating the cause of an explosion aboard a cargo ship that was leaving the Port of Baltimore when it issued a mayday call

7:36 AM on Tuesday, August 19

President Donald Trump on Tuesday offered his assurances that U.S. troops would not be sent to Ukraine to defend against Russia, after seeming to leave open the possibility the day before

11:08 PM on Monday, August 18

Hurricane Erin is expected to impact the Outer Banks in North Carolina, sending massive waves crashing into the islands

11:01 PM on Monday, August 18

A California hearing on Democrats' redistricting effort turned into a shouting match Tuesday