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6:32 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The U.S. Department of Justice has requested access to voting equipment used in the 2020 election in two Missouri counties in what appears to be a wide-ranging effort to more closely monitor election processes around the country

6:06 PM on Wednesday, September 3

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is insisting that he isn’t dropping his reelection campaign after reports he had been approached about potentially taking a job with the federal government

5:51 PM on Wednesday, September 3

As Congress returns for a busy fall stretch, President Donald Trump is reaching into the affairs of the legislative branch, chiseling away at the separation of powers

5:48 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The NBA is close to finalizing another new format for this season’s All-Star Game that would include two eight-man teams from the U.S. and one eight-man team composed of international players squaring off in a round-robin tournament

5:41 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Republican senators say they are prepared to change the chamber’s rules to get around the Democratic blockade of President Donald Trump’s nominees, discussing a proposal to make it easier to confirm multiple nominees at once

5:33 PM on Wednesday, September 3

A judge has sentenced four former Milwaukee hotel workers charged with killing a man by piling on top of him to a mix of probation and time already served, allowing them to avoid spending any more time behind bars

5:17 PM on Wednesday, September 3

An Argentine federal court has announced the recovery of the long-lost “Portrait of a Lady,” an 18th-century painting by Giuseppe Ghislandi

4:57 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The Transportation Department is going to train 163 track inspectors to dramatically increase the number of people who know how to spot critical problems with railroad bridges, but the railroads themselves will still be responsible for inspecting their own bridges and the results will still be kept confidential

4:50 PM on Wednesday, September 3

A federal judge has returned full control of policing practices to the Seattle Police Department

4:42 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The deadly U.S. military attack on a boat accused of carrying drugs in the Caribbean is the latest in a series of extraordinary measures that President Donald Trump has taken to combat the threat he sees from the Tren de Aragua gang

4:41 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh said Wednesday he wasn’t thinking of the challenges of starting the season in Brazil when he learned Los Angeles would be making the long trip to face the Kansas City Chiefs

4:31 PM on Wednesday, September 3

A federal judge has denied a preliminary injunction in an antitrust suit involving two NASCAR teams, including one owned by Michael Jordan

4:24 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Investigators have concluded that two experienced racing pilots deviated from their expected flight paths and never saw each other before a fatal midair collision in 2023 at the National Championship Air Races

2:25 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Chicago residents are bracing for an influx of military patrols and immigration agents in the coming days

1:45 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy’s support was crucial to Robert F

12:10 PM on Wednesday, September 3

A Montana man suspected of killing four people at a bar then evading capture for a week has been charged with additional crimes, including attempted arson

11:46 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Florida plans to become the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates that have been a cornerstone of public health policy for decades in keeping schoolchildren and citizens safe from infectious diseases

11:09 AM on Wednesday, September 3

The Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California have created an alliance to safeguard health policies, believing the Trump administration is putting Americans’ health and safety at risk by politicizing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

11:05 PM on Tuesday, September 2

President Donald Trump has affirmed that the United States will keep a robust military presence in Poland as he held a warm meeting with Karol Nawrocki, the new president of the American ally in Europe

11:02 PM on Tuesday, September 2

Grieving families filled a Texas courtroom Wednesday to ask a judge to reject a deal that would let Boeing avoid criminal prosecution in two deadly 737 Max crashes