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4:36 PM on Thursday, August 14

Federal Reserve policymakers will be debating whether stubborn inflation or slower hiring is the bigger problem for the economy as they prepare for an annual conference in Jackson, Wyoming, next week and a crucial policy meeting in September

4:31 PM on Thursday, August 14

A state judge in Texas has appointed a receiver to take over and sell conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars assets

4:05 PM on Thursday, August 14

The NFL is continuing its on-field social justice messaging for a sixth straight season

4:01 PM on Thursday, August 14

Federal judge strikes down Education Department guidance aimed at ending diversity programs at schools and colleges

3:56 PM on Thursday, August 14

Orthodox Christians across Alaska are taking part in three days of prayer for peace, ahead of a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin

3:30 PM on Thursday, August 14

The Los Angeles Lakers will unveil a statue of former coach Pat Riley on Feb. 22

3:29 PM on Thursday, August 14

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice will have a disciplinary hearing with the NFL on Sept. 30 in New York

3:13 PM on Thursday, August 14

An Oregon university says Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny Knight have pledged a record $2 billion to its cancer center

3:11 PM on Thursday, August 14

A federal judge has struck down key parts of a Florida law that allowed parents to remove books they found objectionable from public school libraries

3:08 PM on Thursday, August 14

Nike co-founder Phil Knight and wife give record $2B to Oregon university’s cancer center, university says

2:57 PM on Thursday, August 14

Texas Democrats have moved closer to ending a nearly two-week walkout that has blocked the GOP's redrawing of U.S. House maps before the 2026 election

2:52 PM on Thursday, August 14

After getting out of the scripted TV business in 2021 for reality TV and sports coverage, USA Network is returning to air scripted originals with the legal drama “The Rainmaker."

2:51 PM on Thursday, August 14

Texas Democrats announce plan to end nearly 2-week walkout over GOP’s redraw of US House maps

1:25 PM on Thursday, August 14

The Justice Department says it will seek the death penalty against a member of the cultlike Zizians group accused of killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont

1:16 PM on Thursday, August 14

The Supreme Court has refused for now to block enforcement of a Mississippi law aimed at regulating the use of social media by children

11:27 AM on Thursday, August 14

A man charged with a felony for hurling a sandwich at a federal law-enforcement official in the nation’s capital has been fired from his job at the Justice Department

9:03 AM on Thursday, August 14

Florida Republican Gov_ Ron DeSantis’ administration is preparing to open a second immigration detention facility at a state prison in north Florida, as a federal judge decides the fate of the state’s holding center for immigrants at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

4:20 AM on Thursday, August 14

Over 100 nonprofit groups have warned that Israel's rules for aid organizations in Gaza and the West Bank will block crucial relief efforts

11:23 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A network of clinics that provides health care in Maine asked a judge on Thursday to restore its Medicaid funding while it fights a Trump administration effort to block federal money for abortion providers

10:46 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Los Angeles area students are returning to class under a cloud of apprehension after a summer of immigration raids and amid worries that schools could become targets in the Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown