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3:19 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Police say a man accused of shooting five people, killing two, in back-to-back shootings at a shopping center and an apartment building in suburban Dallas has been charged with two counts of capital murder

3:17 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Oil prices sank, and stock markets burst higher worldwide with hopes that a deal is nearing to allow tankers to deliver crude from the Persian Gulf again

3:10 PM on Wednesday, May 6

The Mississippi Court of Appeals has revived a lawsuit against Rankin County deputies over the 2021 death of Damien Cameron

3:03 PM on Wednesday, May 6

U_S_ prosecutors say a plain glass-clad building in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood was a secret Chinese spy outpost, with orders to silence, harass and intimidate pro-democracy dissidents in the U_S_ It had a banner inside that said: “Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station, New York USA.”

2:36 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Kentucky Derby winner Golden Tempo will not run in the Preakness Stakes next weekend

1:45 PM on Wednesday, May 6

A jury has begun deliberating in the retrial of a former sheriff's deputy in Ohio charged with murder and reckless homicide in the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr. in 2020

1:24 PM on Wednesday, May 6

The Justice Department has agreed to return Tennessee Republican congressman Andy Ogles’ personal cellphone that was seized during an investigation into his campaign finances, signaling it's abandoning its probe into the President Donald Trump supporter

12:20 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Over 600 military personnel from multiple countries are searching for two U.S. soldiers who went missing in Morocco during U.S.-African military exercises

12:09 PM on Wednesday, May 6

With hundreds of vessels still stuck in the Persian Gulf and costs piling up, shipping companies are being whipsawed by uncertainty over how and when the Strait of Hormuz might reopen more than two months into the Iran war

11:32 AM on Wednesday, May 6

CNN founder Ted Turner has died at age 87

11:17 AM on Wednesday, May 6

President Donald Trump has signed off on a new U.S. counterterrorism strategy, and it sets eliminating drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere as the administration’s highest priority

10:39 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Lower-income Americans sharply reduced their gas consumption in the month following the Iran war, yet spiking prices still forced them to spend more at the pump, worsening the economy’s disparities, new research released Wednesday showed

10:25 AM on Wednesday, May 6

A Florida-based activist who camped out atop one of Washington’s bridges for five days has ended his protest vigil

10:11 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Rutgers University has canceled a planned graduation speech by business leader Rami Elghandour after students raised concerns about his criticism of Israel on social media

6:53 AM on Wednesday, May 6

The number of antisemitic incidents in the United States tallied by the Anti-Defamation League declined by 33% in 2025 — the first drop in five years — due in large part to what the ADL said was a dramatic decrease of incidents on college campuses

6:01 AM on Wednesday, May 6

State officials knew nearly two decades ago that toxic chemicals called PFAS were spreading from the carpet mills of northwest Georgia into rivers that are the region's main source of drinking water

5:50 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Apple has agreed to a $250 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit over false advertising of Siri's AI capabilities

2:54 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Russia has fired dozens of drones at Ukraine, ignoring a unilateral ceasefire announced by Kyiv

11:58 PM on Tuesday, May 5

British voters will cast ballots in elections that could hasten the end of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s troubled term

2:08 PM on Tuesday, May 5

A lone coyote stunned biologists and others by swimming to Alcatraz Island earlier this year