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7:38 AM on Thursday, May 14

The number of Americans filing for jobless aid rose last week but remains historically low despite the economic uncertainty caused by the war in Iran

6:40 AM on Thursday, May 14

The leader of an Eastern European neo-Nazi group has been sentenced in New York to 15 years in prison for trying to recruit others to commit violent acts against Jews and racial minorities

6:01 AM on Thursday, May 14

A group of Black divers recently visited the site where the British slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 326 years ago

4:20 AM on Thursday, May 14

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries had warned Republicans they would come to regret the congressional redistricting fight

2:51 AM on Thursday, May 14

Dust storms, heavy rain, and lightning have damaged homes and killed at least 96 people in northern India

2:20 AM on Thursday, May 14

U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed interest in making Venezuela the 51st U.S. state

2:16 AM on Thursday, May 14

Honda says it racked up a full-year loss for the first time ever, losing $2.7 billion in the last fiscal year due to a costly electric-vehicle strategy

1:10 AM on Thursday, May 14

Danny Jansen chuckled after saying he didn’t really want to have to catch another inning

12:34 AM on Thursday, May 14

BRICS foreign ministers have started a two-day meeting in New Delhi

11:37 PM on Wednesday, May 13

Shohei Ohtani tossed four-hit ball over seven shutout innings, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-0 win over the San Francisco Giants

11:07 PM on Wednesday, May 13

Vienna's coffeehouses have embraced the Eurovision Song Contest, but tensions over Israel’s participation have surfaced

10:18 PM on Wednesday, May 13

James Harden scored a playoff-best 30 points and Donovan Mitchell had 21, helping the Cleveland Cavaliers come back from a nine-point deficit late in regulation and beat the Detroit Pistons 117-113 in overtime to take a 3-2 lead in their Eastern Conference semifinal series

10:14 PM on Wednesday, May 13

The Atlanta Braves keep finding new ways to win

9:59 PM on Wednesday, May 13

Brett Kulak scored 3:52 into overtime after Nathan MacKinnon tied it late in regulation and the Colorado Avalanche advanced to the Western Conference final with a 4-3 victory over the Minnesota Wild in Game 5 on Wednesday night

5:31 PM on Wednesday, May 13

Authorities say a man who livestreams himself saying racially derogatory statements to Black people in public settings has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after a shooting outside a Tennessee courthouse

2:49 PM on Wednesday, May 13

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has issued an investigative subpoena to the NFL regarding the Rooney Rule

1:09 PM on Wednesday, May 13

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says he quietly visited the United Arab Emirates during the Iran war

8:07 AM on Wednesday, May 13

Malaysia’s maritime agency says Iranian-linked tankers are exploiting “jurisdictional gaps” to conduct ship-to-ship transfers of sanctioned oil near its waters

11:03 PM on Tuesday, May 12

A judge has ruled that a Utah mother who wrote a children’s book about grief after her husband’s death will serve life in prison without parole for his murder

7:36 PM on Tuesday, May 12

The Philadelphia region is rich in golf history, yet the area's greatest contribution to the game may have come from public course in West Philadelphia