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5:00 PM on Monday, August 3

The Chicago Cubs are poised to acquire pitcher Clay Holmes and outfielder Tyrone Taylor from the New York Mets for touted infield prospect Jefferson Rojas

4:37 PM on Monday, August 3

Larry Berg, co-owner of Los Angeles FC, will be the next commissioner of the MLS, the league said

3:44 PM on Monday, August 3

President Donald Trump says U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro “choked” and “folded like an umbrella” in moving to drop charges against a former Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

3:25 PM on Monday, August 3

Twenty-five states sued the Trump administration Monday over its latest tariffs, calling them a pretext for replacing import taxes the Supreme Court struck down in February

3:20 PM on Monday, August 3

Nate Rouette and his brother Nelson went shark fishing on Cape Cod hoping for an exciting catch, but were shocked by what they reeled in

2:57 PM on Monday, August 3

The Boston Red Sox have acquired All-Star catcher Adley Rutschman from the Baltimore Orioles for a package that includes three of their top prospects

2:40 PM on Monday, August 3

The Pittsburgh Pirates have made a significant move to boost their struggling bullpen by acquiring veteran pitcher Luke Weaver from the New York Mets

2:27 PM on Monday, August 3

The House Ethics Committee has recommended that Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina be censured after finding that he engaged in persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct toward two young female aides

2:10 PM on Monday, August 3

The Board of Peace official overseeing Gaza’s postwar transition has met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

11:59 AM on Monday, August 3

Investigators are trying to determine what led a 24-year-old man to open fire at an Idaho fast-food restaurant , in an attack that left three people dead and seven others wounded before authorities say he killed himself

11:42 AM on Monday, August 3

State health officials say two people have died in the cyclospora outbreak in Michigan

11:19 AM on Monday, August 3

Some Cubans are sleeping on Havana's famous seaside boulevard, the Malecón, in the face of crippling blackouts stretching up to 20 hours during suffocating summer heat

10:12 AM on Monday, August 3

The Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies took big swings ahead of baseball’s trade deadline, with the Red Sox adding three-time All-Star catcher Adley Rutschman a few hours after the Phillies picked up three-time batting champion Luis Arraez

7:18 AM on Monday, August 3

Some residents have returned to devastated neighborhoods in eastern Washington state to find their homes leveled by wildfires that erupted across a parched landscape over the weekend

7:10 AM on Monday, August 3

President Donald Trump says newly planned talks between the U.S. and Tehran are the “last chance” for Iran to forge a deal and avoid an escalation of U.S. strikes

6:55 AM on Monday, August 3

Washington state will hold a primary Tuesday for the U.S. House and other offices as firefighters battle wildfires that have devastated the Spokane area and forced local election officials to operate under a state of emergency

12:50 AM on Monday, August 3

Europe is grappling with a record-breaking hot and dry summer

11:27 PM on Sunday, August 2

Maryland lawmakers have opened a special session to consider a first step in a partisan redistricting initiative that could help Democrats pick up an additional U.S. House seat by 2028

11:10 PM on Sunday, August 2

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed are spending the final hours of Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary in settings that reflect their starkly different campaigns

11:06 PM on Sunday, August 2

The second week of testimony in the trial of Lindsay Clancy focused on her mental state when she killed her three children in 2023