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7:18 PM on Thursday, May 21

SpaceX's newest and biggest Starship will have to wait at least another day before launching on a test flight from Texas

5:37 PM on Thursday, May 21

All charges against four activists who protested outside a federal building during last year’s immigration crackdown in Chicago have been dropped in an unusual hearing where a top federal prosecutor appeared to acknowledge grand jury misconduct by his office

5:34 PM on Thursday, May 21

Alexi Lalas has criticized U.S. soccer players for citing pressure ahead of the World Cup at home

5:03 PM on Thursday, May 21

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is warning people to avoid buying gas from Chevron stations over Memorial Day weekend because of the high price at the pump

3:07 PM on Thursday, May 21

The Democratic National Committee has released a controversial autopsy report on the 2024 election

3:01 PM on Thursday, May 21

Scottie Scheffler won’t be the wire-to-wire winner of his hometown CJ Cup Byron Nelson again this year

2:33 PM on Thursday, May 21

The official overseeing the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza is urging the U.N. Security Council to use “every means at its disposal” to press Hamas to disarm

2:31 PM on Thursday, May 21

Colorado Democrats have voted overwhelmingly to censure the state's governor for commuting the prison sentence of an election conspiracy theorist

1:40 PM on Thursday, May 21

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said that she and the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin agreed to maintain bilateral cooperation rooted in mutual respect

12:49 PM on Thursday, May 21

Howard Fendrich, a longtime national sports writer for The Associated Press, has died at 55

10:17 AM on Thursday, May 21

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin has released a critical study of the party’s performance in the 2024 campaign

10:04 AM on Thursday, May 21

Former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan says he is suspending his campaign for Michigan governor, citing an increasingly “toxic” political climate due to President Donald Trump’s war with Iran and skyrocketing gas prices

9:32 AM on Thursday, May 21

The United Nations has criticized a new Afghan law on separation in marriage, saying it entrenches discrimination against women and girls

7:24 AM on Thursday, May 21

President Donald Trump on Thursday said past U_S_ presidents have mulled intervening in Cuba for decades, but “it looks like I’ll be the one that does it.”

6:05 AM on Thursday, May 21

President Donald Trump says it’s “fantastic” that a key federal agency approved the design for the triumphal arch he wants to build at an entrance to the nation’s capital

4:12 AM on Thursday, May 21

Israel says it has released and deported hundreds of activists who took part in a flotilla attempting to breach Israel's naval blockade of Gaza

11:11 PM on Wednesday, May 20

Senate Republicans have departed Washington for the Memorial Day recess without voting on a roughly $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies

11:11 PM on Wednesday, May 20

A man convicted of fatally stabbing of his cousin’s girlfriend and the couple's 4-year-old daughter has been executed in Florida

11:10 PM on Wednesday, May 20

Tennessee officials have called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994, after his executioners tried and failed for over an hour to establish an intravenous line

12:24 PM on Tuesday, May 19

After more than 30 years, the World Cup is back in Boston