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7:43 PM on Thursday, May 28

A federal judge has ruled Alabama's use of nitrogen gas to carry out executions does not violate the U.S. Constitution

7:12 PM on Thursday, May 28

A pregnant woman from Ghana who entered the U.S. on a valid visa with her son so he could get medical attention has been held for more than a week in a windowless detention room at a Washington airport, her lawyers said in court documents

7:09 PM on Thursday, May 28

New York Knicks center Mitchell Robinson has a broken right pinkie finger and there is no timetable for his return, a person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press

6:44 PM on Thursday, May 28

An annual United Nations report documenting sexual violence in conflicts worldwide has included Israeli forces for the first time since the review began more than 15 years ago for their treatment of Palestinian detainees

6:24 PM on Thursday, May 28

Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni has confirmed that most of the reigning world champions, including Lionel Messi, will be part of the squad for the upcoming World Cup

5:38 PM on Thursday, May 28

Rescuers are trying to reach four climbers who fell on Alaska’s Mount McKinley, North America’s tallest peak, the National Park Service said Thursday

5:06 PM on Thursday, May 28

The U.S. State Department says it will designate Brazil’s two biggest criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations early next month, a move that the South American nation’s government has repeatedly said it will interpret as undue interference in its politics

4:55 PM on Thursday, May 28

Nearly 3 million Cubans are experiencing water shortages every day because of a severe oil shortage that government officials blame on a U.S. energy blockade

2:06 PM on Thursday, May 28

Ohio is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states to attract the massive new facilities that power and train artificial intelligence chatbots

1:56 PM on Thursday, May 28

Crews have recovered the remains of six of nine workers who were missing after a chemical tank ruptured at at paper mill in Washington state, officials said Thursday

12:33 PM on Thursday, May 28

Dozens of Palestinians in Gaza City gathered for funeral prayers for 10 people killed in Israeli strikes

12:20 PM on Thursday, May 28

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is calling for a new partnership with the United States

11:00 AM on Thursday, May 28

Other southern states are advocating for South Carolina to remain the first to vote in the Democratic presidential primaries

8:49 AM on Thursday, May 28

Yemen's former President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has died at 80

8:02 AM on Thursday, May 28

The top federal prosecutor in Chicago denies that his office has opened an investigation into E

7:12 AM on Thursday, May 28

U.S. and Iranian negotiators have reached a tentative agreement to extend the ceasefire by 60 days and start talks on Iran’s nuclear program

4:18 AM on Thursday, May 28

A man has stabbed and wounded three people at the train station in the Swiss city of Winterthur before being arrested

12:10 AM on Thursday, May 28

French lawmakers have voted to repeal a 17th-century law that governed enslaved people in France's colonies

11:53 PM on Wednesday, May 27

A fire has devastated a girls' boarding school in central Kenya, killing at least 16 students and injuring many more

4:10 PM on Tuesday, May 26

The Scripps National Spelling Bee has moved from suburban Maryland to downtown Washington, and not all spellers and their families appreciate the change