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2:59 PM on Friday, May 15

1:31 PM on Friday, May 15

Beginning in the 1970s, just about every Filipino household in America was either hauling balikbayan boxes in person or mailing them to relatives back in the Philippines

1:24 PM on Friday, May 15

Military identification tags — popularly known as dog tags — became standard issue for U.S. troops at the request of an Army chaplain concerned about identifying fallen soldiers at the beginning of the 20th century

1:04 PM on Friday, May 15

A great horned owl found stuck in a concrete mixer in Utah is now flying free after recovering at an animal sanctuary

12:25 PM on Friday, May 15

Social media CEOs have been called to testify before Congress amid growing pressure to protect young users

12:02 PM on Friday, May 15

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has signed legislation banning certain semi-automatic firearms

11:25 AM on Friday, May 15

The Justice Department will seek the death penalty for the man accused of fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington outside a Jewish museum

10:13 AM on Friday, May 15

The Texas Supreme Court has refused to declare that Democratic state lawmakers who briefly left the state last year in a quorum break to stop a vote on new congressional voting maps pushed by President Donald Trump vacated their offices

10:07 AM on Friday, May 15

Belarus’ authoritarian leader has greeted U.S. evangelist Franklin Graham, who arrived in the tightly controlled country to hold the largest evangelical gathering in its history

9:58 AM on Friday, May 15

U.S. President Donald Trump says Chinese President Xi Jinping is considering the case of detained pastor Ezra Jin Mingri

9:56 AM on Friday, May 15

President Donald Trump plans to build an exhibit of statues featuring prominent Americans along the Potomac River

8:18 AM on Friday, May 15

The Trump administration has deported 15 Latin Americans to the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite U.S. court orders protecting them from deportation to their homelands

4:54 AM on Friday, May 15

Maldivian authorities have suspended a high-risk operation to recover the bodies of four Italian divers believed trapped inside a deep underwater cave, after one body was recovered the day before

4:10 AM on Friday, May 15

French singer and actor Claudine Longet has died at age 84

4:00 AM on Friday, May 15

Democratic leaders are embracing independent candidates in red states where their party brand struggles

2:45 AM on Friday, May 15

The death toll from a Russian missile attack that flattened a Kyiv apartment building has risen to 24

2:11 AM on Friday, May 15

Africa’s top public health body confirms a new Ebola outbreak in Congo's Ituri province

11:02 PM on Thursday, May 14

A bungled message from a South Texas housing authority prompted mass flight

7:00 PM on Thursday, May 14

President Donald Trump says he’s not yet made a decision on whether a major sale of U.S. arms to Taiwan can move forward following his three-day visit to China

12:26 PM on Wednesday, May 13