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3:41 PM on Thursday, October 16

The United Nations chief has condemned the military takeover in Madagascar as an army colonel who led the coup is set to be quickly sworn in as president three days after announcing soldiers had taken charge

3:39 PM on Thursday, October 16

Ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton charged in probe into mishandling classified information, AP source says

3:09 PM on Thursday, October 16

Indiana announces new eight-year contract with football coach Curt Cignetti worth more than $92 million

3:07 PM on Thursday, October 16

Hamas freed the last 20 living hostages taken in its Oct. 7, 2023, attack earlier this week in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners

2:40 PM on Thursday, October 16

Spurs forward Jeremy Sochan will miss San Antonio’s season opener at Dallas on Wednesday with a sprained left wrist

2:36 PM on Thursday, October 16

Billionaire Gov. JB Pritzker had some extra income in 2024 — from a lucky blackjack hand in a Las Vegas casino

2:28 PM on Thursday, October 16

Josh O'Connor stars in four films this fall, including the New England romance “The History of Sound,” with Paul Mescal; “Rebuilding,” in which he plays a Colorado rancher whose home is taken by wildfires; Rian Johnson’s whodunit “Wake Up Deadman: A Knives Out Mystery”; and Kelly Reichardt’s “The Mastermind,” a 1970-set heist movie

2:28 PM on Thursday, October 16

Gov. Gavin Newsom says California will begin selling affordable insulin under its own label on Jan. 1, nearly three years after he first announced a partnership to sell state-branded generic drugs at lower prices

2:27 PM on Thursday, October 16

USA Basketball has explained the process of hiring Erik Spoelstra as the next Olympic coach

2:20 PM on Thursday, October 16

Many Canadians have been boycotting the U.S. since the Trump administration started threating Canada’s economy and sovereignty with tariffs and heated political rhetoric

2:05 PM on Thursday, October 16

The Tomahawk cruise missile has been in the U.S. military’s inventory since the 1980s

2:00 PM on Thursday, October 16

Former WWE CEO Vince McMahon has been allowed to enter a pretrial program to resolve a reckless driving charge stemming from a crash this summer in Connecticut

1:01 PM on Thursday, October 16

The Department of Energy says it has finalized a $1.6 billion loan guarantee to a subsidiary of one of the nation’s largest power companies to upgrade nearly 5,000 miles of transmission lines across five states, mostly in the Midwest, for largely fossil fuel-run energy

12:59 PM on Thursday, October 16

Carter Hart joins Golden Knights, first of five world junior players acquitted of sexual assault to land an NHL contract

12:26 PM on Thursday, October 16

Democrat Jackie Norris has ended her campaign for Iowa’s open U.S. Senate seat

11:21 AM on Thursday, October 16

Yankees star Aaron Judge won’t need surgery on his elbow but shortstop Anthony Volpe and left-hander Carlos Rodón had operations this week and could be sidelined until May

9:44 AM on Thursday, October 16

Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are using artificial intelligence to improve their cyberattacks on U.S. companies, governments and individuals, according to new research from Microsoft

5:48 AM on Thursday, October 16

Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the first Mount Everest expedition team, has died at 92

11:01 PM on Wednesday, October 15

For the first time in more than a decade, the number of states with rates of obesity of 35% or more has dropped

6:35 PM on Wednesday, October 15

President Donald Trump has confirmed that he authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela