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4:35 PM on Wednesday, August 5

Pete Crow-Armstrong homered twice and drove in four runs, and the Chicago Cubs swept Shohei Ohtani and the struggling Los Angeles Dodgers with a wild 7-6 victory

4:23 PM on Wednesday, August 5

Michael Fuqua couldn't immediately recall the name of the candidate he voted for in Michigan's 13th Congressional District primary

4:11 PM on Wednesday, August 5

Three people have been charged with threatening a judge, a witness and local officials connected to the investigation into the death of Nolan Wells

4:09 PM on Wednesday, August 5

Parasitic illness cases in 15 states have been linked to iceberg lettuce

3:43 PM on Wednesday, August 5

Indiana Hoosiers defensive end Stephen Daley thought his college career ended in December when he suffered a season-ending knee injury during the Big Ten championship postgame celebration

3:30 PM on Wednesday, August 5

Pete Crow-Armstrong has added to his NL MVP campaign right in front of Shohei Ohtani

3:28 PM on Wednesday, August 5

Crews have taken advantage of cooler weather to begin getting a handle on wildfires that have displaced tens of thousands of people around Washington state’s second-largest city, but hotter, drier and windier days lie ahead

3:12 PM on Wednesday, August 5

New Oklahoma State football coach Eric Morris was busy bringing people together long before fall camp started Wednesday

2:05 PM on Wednesday, August 5

Dr. Erica Schwartz has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

1:28 PM on Wednesday, August 5

Stefon Diggs is signing with the Washington Commanders, a person familiar with the agreement tells The Associated Press

12:14 PM on Wednesday, August 5

A federal appeals court has signaled that it might not allow a lawsuit brought by New England fishing businesses and industry groups against a California aquarium to proceed because of the case’s potential impact on free speech

12:14 PM on Wednesday, August 5

The state of New Mexico has sued the Department of Justice and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, saying the federal government has blocked it from carrying out its own investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes

12:03 PM on Wednesday, August 5

A California man who was arrested at President Donald Trump’s Los Angeles-area golf course was pretending to be part of the security detail preparing for Trump’s visit and had a stash of illegal weapons in his car and home

10:52 AM on Wednesday, August 5

It's not clear why a plane was allowed to take off as President Donald Trump’s helicopter was approaching Reagan National Airport in an apparent violation of safety procedures put in place after last year’s midair collision between an airliner and an Army helicopter near that busy Washington D.C. airport

9:29 AM on Wednesday, August 5

Israel's military for the first time in weeks has told residents in southern Lebanon to evacuate, citing a “blatant violation of the ceasefire” by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah

9:03 AM on Wednesday, August 5

The association of European soccer leagues has called for governance reform of FIFA

8:43 AM on Wednesday, August 5

Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in a victory for the party’s progressive wing in a battleground state

7:59 AM on Wednesday, August 5

President Donald Trump is making a rare appearance in Nevada to sell voters on his handling of the economy against a backdrop of high interest rates, a national housing shortage and gasoline made more expensive by the Iran war

Wednesday, August 5

Stocks held close to their records on Wall Street, while oil prices were relatively steady

6:38 PM on Monday, August 3

Customs and Border Protection has ordered construction crews building Trump’s second border wall to stop drilling wells in drought-stricken New Mexico after ranchers said pumping the groundwater needed to mix cement could threaten their livestock