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3:59 PM on Friday, November 7

U.S. airlines cancel more than 1,000 flights on first day of cuts tied to government shutdown

3:51 PM on Friday, November 7

Florida’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood, claiming the organization is “misrepresenting the safety” of abortion pills

3:50 PM on Friday, November 7

After voters swung toward Republican Donald Trump during last fall’s presidential election, states like Virginia and New Jersey swung back towards Democratic candidates at nearly the same velocity as 2024’s shift, an Associated Press analysis of election data from this week found

3:40 PM on Friday, November 7

The Justice Department is scrutinizing a trip that Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser took to Qatar, but the mayor is not a target of the investigation, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press, The probe into a trip Bowser took with staff in 2023 is focused on a lobbyist tied to the Democratic mayor, according to the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the investigation

3:27 PM on Friday, November 7

Stock indexes wound up mixed on Wall Street but still clocked their first weekly loss in the last four

3:18 PM on Friday, November 7

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon is revamping how the military buys weapons, shifting the focus away from producing advanced and complex technology and toward products that can be made and delivered quickly

3:05 PM on Friday, November 7

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to open a national call center to help local and state law enforcement agencies find unaccompanied migrant children

2:57 PM on Friday, November 7

Trump accuses foreign-owned meat packers of inflating US beef prices and directs Justice Department to investigate

2:49 PM on Friday, November 7

Orban says Trump will not punish Hungary for buying Russian energy, reducing impact of Ukraine-related sanctions

2:05 PM on Friday, November 7

The Israeli military says that remains of a hostage have been turned over to the Red Cross in Gaza

1:54 PM on Friday, November 7

James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97

1:51 PM on Friday, November 7

The U.S. government shutdown has rattled air travel — most recently with an unprecedented effort from the Federal Aviation Administration to cut flights by 10% at airports nationwide

1:29 PM on Friday, November 7

Volunteers usually gather at Riverside National Cemetery in California on Veterans Day to place flags on graves, but not this year

1:25 PM on Friday, November 7

The United States on Friday snubbed a U.N. body charged with keeping tabs on the human rights records of all its member countries, on orders of the Trump administration — which has turned its back on the Human Rights Council

1:13 PM on Friday, November 7

President Donald Trump has pardoned former New York Mets star Darryl Strawberry on past tax evasion and drug charges

12:47 PM on Friday, November 7

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has filed the necessary paperwork to seek a third term in 2026

12:02 PM on Friday, November 7

Fox Sports has let go of NFL analyst Mark Sanchez and hired Drew Brees in his place

11:31 PM on Thursday, November 6

The 208-year-old Maine-based Farmers’ Almanac says it will publish its planting guidance and weather predictions for the final time, citing financial challenges

11:00 PM on Thursday, November 6

Kendrick Lamar leads the 2026 Grammy Award nominations

11:02 PM on Wednesday, November 5

The latest round of exhumations of Native American students from a cemetery at the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania resulted in the remains of 17 students being repatriated to their families and tribes, the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma