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6:28 PM on Wednesday, February 4

A Texas A&M University professor who was fired last year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature lesson about gender identity has sued the school

6:27 PM on Wednesday, February 4

Guan Heng, a Chinese asylum seeker who exposed human rights abuses in his homeland, has been released after more than five months in federal detention

6:22 PM on Wednesday, February 4

The federal agency for protecting workers’ civil rights revealed Wednesday that it is investigating sportswear giant Nike for allegedly discriminating against white employees through its diversity policies

5:57 PM on Wednesday, February 4

The CIA is ending the publication of its popular World Factbook reference manual

5:32 PM on Wednesday, February 4

The Washington Post has eliminated its sports section while laying off a third of its staff

5:00 PM on Wednesday, February 4

President Donald Trump is taking steps toward installing a statue of Christopher Columbus near the White House

4:55 PM on Wednesday, February 4

Minute Maid helped make orange juice a year-round morning staple in 1946, when it started shipping cans of frozen juice around the U.S. But 80 years later, the brand’s parent company is halting sales of frozen juice concentrates in the U.S. and Canada, saying it wants to focus on the fresh juices that customers now prefer

4:50 PM on Wednesday, February 4

Singer LaMonte McLemore has died at age 90

4:31 PM on Wednesday, February 4

The Pan American Health Organization has issued an alert due to a surge in measles cases across the Americas, with Mexico reporting the highest numbers

2:27 PM on Wednesday, February 4

Elon Musk is bringing the same revolutionary thinking that helped him upend the car industry to the data center business with promises this week to put up to a million new satellites in the sky

1:00 PM on Wednesday, February 4

The Supreme Court has allowed California to use a new voter-approved congressional map that is favorable to Democrats in this year’s elections, rejecting a plea from state Republicans and the Trump administration

10:07 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Russian missiles and drones have pounded Ukraine’s energy grid in recent weeks

9:53 AM on Wednesday, February 4

President Donald Trump says he and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the situation in Iran in a wide-ranging call as the U.S. administration pushes Beijing and others to further isolate Tehran

8:47 AM on Wednesday, February 4

The New York Jets have hired former NFL and Stanford head coach Frank Reich as their offensive coordinator

7:38 AM on Wednesday, February 4

The Angel Meloni is no more

6:51 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Renters facing high costs are turning to "rent now, pay later" services like Flex, Livble, and Affirm

6:21 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Armed extremists have killed over 162 people in attacks on two villages in Kwara state, western Nigeria, a lawmaker said

1:44 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Emotional medical staff on the Greek island of Chios have spoken of frantic efforts to identify the parents of injured children after an overnight collision between a coast guard patrol boat and a speedboat carrying migrants

11:03 PM on Tuesday, February 3

A federal judge appears poised to again reject President Donald Trump’s bid to erase his hush money conviction, slamming his lawyers for legal maneuvers he said amounted to taking “two bites at the apple.”

10:09 PM on Tuesday, February 3

More drops for technology stocks weighed on Wall Street