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5:11 PM on Wednesday, October 1

The three people killed in a mass shooting at a waterfront bar last weekend in Southport, North Carolina, have been identified

5:07 PM on Wednesday, October 1

Rohingya Muslims have pleaded with the international community at the first United Nations high-level meeting on the plight of the ethnic minority to prevent the mass killings taking place in Myanmar and to help those in the persecuted group lead normal lives

5:02 PM on Wednesday, October 1

Senate Democrats kept their promise to reject any Republican spending bill that didn’t extend or restore health care benefits, choosing instead to force a government shutdown

4:13 PM on Wednesday, October 1

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has hinted that she may not be interested in running for president in 2028

2:47 PM on Wednesday, October 1

It's flu vaccine time again

2:28 PM on Wednesday, October 1

The Tennessee Supreme Court has set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row

1:38 PM on Wednesday, October 1

President Donald Trump got a significant amount of blame during the last partial government shutdown, which took place toward the end of his first term after he forced a shutdown over border wall funding — but with Democrats embracing the shutdown fight this time, the outcome could be different

12:52 PM on Wednesday, October 1

A New York City rapper who joined President Donald Trump during a campaign rally last year has been sentenced to five years behind bars after pleading guilty to attempted murder and conspiracy charges

12:21 PM on Wednesday, October 1

As uncertainty deepens amid the U.S. government’s first shutdown in almost seven years, the gold frenzy continues to climb to new heights

12:18 PM on Wednesday, October 1

A U.S. citizen who is a construction worker in Alabama has filed a federal lawsuit after he says he was detained twice by immigration agents within just a few weeks

11:39 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Confusion surrounds internet connectivity in Afghanistan after some networks were restored on Wednesday following an outage that began Monday

11:36 AM on Wednesday, October 1

A network of medical clinics that serves low-income residents in Maine says it is shutting down its primary care operations because of Trump administration cuts to abortion providers

10:40 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Hundreds of migrants have embarked on a protest march in southern Mexico in support of an aim to legalize their immigration status and find more work opportunities after a long frustrating wait near the Guatemala border

9:59 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Detainees arriving at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades are given color-coded uniforms and segregated based on criminal history and flight risk

9:40 AM on Wednesday, October 1

The Trump’s administration is citing the government shutdown in explaining why it's holding up roughly $18 billion for a new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River between New York City and New Jersey and an extension of the city’s Second Avenue subway

7:31 AM on Wednesday, October 1

A new report on book bans in U.S. schools finds Stephen King as the author most likely to be censored

11:05 PM on Tuesday, September 30

The government shutdown means further disruption for the U.S. Education Department, which has seen half of its employees laid off by the Republican Trump administration

11:01 PM on Tuesday, September 30

The federal government was thrown into a shutdown with no easy endgame in sight

10:30 PM on Tuesday, September 30

U.S. stocks rose to more records as Wall Street still doesn’t seem to care much about the latest shutdown of the U.S. government

10:44 PM on Sunday, September 28

A man convicted of killing eight people in metro Phoenix in 2017 has waived his presence in court as the sentencing portion of his trial began