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11:03 PM on Friday, March 6

The Iditarod returns to Anchorage as hundreds of dogs and their mushers line up for the race’s ceremonial start

11:00 PM on Friday, March 6

The family of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is honoring him with a private memorial at Rainbow PUSH headquarters in Chicago

10:48 PM on Friday, March 6

Charles “Sonny” Burton is scheduled to be executed March 12 for his role in a 1991 robbery in which a man was fatally shot

10:11 PM on Friday, March 6

The travel chaos from the war in the Middle East has ensnared many of the Muslims who have converged on Saudi Arabia for the Umrah pilgrimage, leaving them stranded and scrambling to find other ways home

9:36 PM on Friday, March 6

The price of oil surged higher and showed no signs of halting its rapid climb a week after the U.S. and Israel launched major attacks on Iran that escalated into a war in the Middle East

8:04 PM on Friday, March 6

California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa is retiring, just three months after declaring, “I can hold this seat

7:58 PM on Friday, March 6

A woman has sued memoir author Amy Griffin, saying Griffin stole descriptions of childhood sexual abuse from incidents in her life

7:40 PM on Friday, March 6

President Donald Trump says questions about the war in Iran are “easy” compared to efforts to better regulate college sports

7:30 PM on Friday, March 6

3 people killed and others injured after apparent tornado rips through southern Michigan

7:14 PM on Friday, March 6

Affordable housing residents near a federal immigration building in Portland, Oregon, have won a court order limiting federal officers’ use of tear gas during protests at the facility

6:31 PM on Friday, March 6

A Bangladeshi man accused of using social media to trick teenage girls into sending him sexually explicit images — and then threatening to share them with their friends and family if they didn’t send more — has been transported to Alaska to face federal charges

6:12 PM on Friday, March 6

President Donald Trump has predicted the destruction not just of college sports but the entire U.S. collegiate system unless the industry is fixed quickly

5:11 PM on Friday, March 6

A preliminary report shows that a private jet that crashed in Maine in January remained on the ground 8 minutes longer than it should have after receiving a deicing treatment during a snowstorm

3:54 PM on Friday, March 6

Court documents show that a man accused of killing three women in Utah was already known to police in Iowa

3:02 PM on Friday, March 6

A Cleveland woman is jailed with bail set after $2 million after being accused of killing her two young daughters

1:48 PM on Friday, March 6

Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore has pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors in a criminal case that arose immediately after he was fired for having an inappropriate relationship with his executive assistant

1:13 PM on Friday, March 6

Russia has provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region

12:18 PM on Friday, March 6

Court documents say immigration authorities arrested a reporter for a Spanish-language news outlet in Tennessee without a warrant

11:39 PM on Thursday, March 5

Israeli airstrikes are pounding the capitals of Iran and Lebanon as the U.S. apparently struck an Iranian drone carrier at sea

9:10 PM on Thursday, March 5

Explosions are sending up plumes of smoke in Iran's capital city as the United States says the most intense bombing of the weeklong campaign is coming