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6:07 AM on Thursday, May 7

1:23 AM on Thursday, May 7

China is signaling that Taiwan will be a priority ahead of a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping next week

12:42 AM on Thursday, May 7

Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña has arrived in Taiwan for his first visit to the self-ruled island

11:05 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Tech leaders are betting on a former executive to take the lead in the California governor's race

9:57 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Southeast Asian leaders plan to issue a contingency plan that upholds international law, sovereignty and freedom of navigation in what could be seen as a veiled rebuke to the United States, Israel and Iran over the Middle East war which has impacted their region, according to a draft declaration seen by The Associated Press

7:34 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Justice Department is working to remove immigration judges who are slow or not following the law

7:03 PM on Wednesday, May 6

A new report reveals European companies have taken a third of the Indian Ocean's tropical tuna catch

6:33 PM on Wednesday, May 6

A note Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate claimed he found after the financier’s first jail suicide attempt has been made public after it had been sealed and locked in a courthouse vault for nearly five years as part of an unrelated legal dispute

5:01 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Congo’s president says the African nation won't be able to hold elections after his term ends in two years unless the conflict that has gripped the country’s east is resolved

4:12 PM on Wednesday, May 6

President Donald Trump's lawyer, hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory, is asking a federal appeals court in New York to temporarily block a longtime columnist from collecting an $83 million defamation award

3:46 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva plans to discuss organized crime and tariffs with U.S. President Donald Trump, according to Brazil’s finance minister

2:19 PM on Wednesday, May 6

In 24 hours, the Trump administration’s stance on the Iran war has pinballed from declarations that a tenuous ceasefire was holding and military operations were over to new threats of bombing the Islamic Republic

11:14 AM on Wednesday, May 6

The FBI has searched the Democratic Virginia state Senate leader’s hometown office and her neighboring cannabis shop

9:03 AM on Wednesday, May 6

France’s aircraft carrier strike group is moving south of the Suez Canal into the Red Sea

7:29 AM on Wednesday, May 6

A U.S. fighter jet on Wednesday fired on an Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman as it tried to breach the U.S. blockade of Iran’s ports, the U.S. military said

7:05 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Members of Congress have come away from a private House committee interview with vastly different assessments of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s answers about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl

6:17 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Punk group Pussy Riot and Ukraine's FEMEN feminist organization have swarmed the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, protesting outside the venue and releasing colored smoke

2:20 AM on Wednesday, May 6

The U.S. military fired on an Iranian oil tanker as President Donald Trump sought to pressure Tehran into reaching a deal to end the war

11:02 PM on Tuesday, May 5

Republicans are rapidly pursuing redistricting efforts across the South following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affects majority-Black congressional districts

5:56 PM on Tuesday, May 5

A federal civil rights agency filed a discrimination lawsuit Tuesday against the New York Times, claiming that the new organization passed over a white male employee for a promotion in favor of a lesser qualified woman to meet its diversity goals