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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

7:16 PM on Monday, August 18

Third-ranked Iga Swiatek captured the Cincinnati Open title by defeating No. 7 Jasmine Paolini 7-5, 6-4 on Monday night

7:13 PM on Monday, August 18

Fellow grad students told investigators that Bryan Kohberger developed a reputation for being sexist and creepy while attending a criminal justice program in the months before he killed four University of Idaho students in 2022

5:51 PM on Monday, August 18

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has taken emergency action to ban the sale of a synthetic drug known as “designer Xanax” in his state

5:32 PM on Monday, August 18

An American Orthodox archbishop exchanged warm greetings and gifts of holy icons with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska

5:28 PM on Monday, August 18

Thousands of anti-government protesters have marched again in Serbia with baton-wielding police chasing them in downtown Belgrade, prompting Serbia’s president to renew a pledge to crack down on the demonstrators

5:12 PM on Monday, August 18

Trump says he has begun arrangements for face-to-face meeting between Russia's Putin and Ukraine's Zelenskyy

5:08 PM on Monday, August 18

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit Monday against a ticket broker, alleging the company used illegal tactics to exceed purchasing limits for popular events and then resold tickets at significantly higher prices

3:32 PM on Monday, August 18

A federal agent fired three shots at a moving vehicle after the driver sped off following an immigration stop in Southern California

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

2:40 PM on Monday, August 18

A woman charged with selling Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him has agreed to plead guilty

1:21 PM on Monday, August 18

The trial of a man charged with organizing the daytime ambush killing of rapper Young Dolph at a Memphis bakery in 2021 is underway

12:57 PM on Monday, August 18

Three more Republican governors have authorized the deployment of National Guard troops to Washington

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

5:53 AM on Monday, August 18

Authorities say two police officers were shot and killed in Utah and a man was taken into custody after bystanders persuaded him to drop the gun

3:55 AM on Monday, August 18

Anguished Pakistanis are searching remote areas for bodies swept away by weekend flash floods as the death toll has reached 277

11:09 PM on Sunday, August 17

President Donald Trump has started arranging a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

10:54 PM on Sunday, August 17

Texas Democrats have ended a two-week walkout that stalled efforts to redraw congressional districts as part of a national partisan brawl over President Donald Trump’s desire to reshape U.S. House maps to his advantage

10:53 PM on Sunday, August 17

The California Legislature comes back from a summer recess and is slated to vote on a partisan plan to redraw congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms