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3:47 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Marshall University says its president, Brad Smith, and his wife, Alys Smith, have made a $50 million gift to the university to promote a program aimed at eliminating student debt

3:38 PM on Tuesday, September 16

A retired four-star U.S. Navy admiral has been sentenced to six years in prison for his conviction on corruption charges that he agreed to exchange a military contract for a lucrative postretirement job

3:22 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Alabama is asking a federal appeals court to lift an injunction that blocked part of a law that limits assistance with absentee ballot applications

3:16 PM on Tuesday, September 16

U.S. stocks drifted a bit below their record heights

2:45 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says improved civic education across the country would help people make better decisions

1:59 PM on Tuesday, September 16

A wild burro dubbed Cupid is recovering from surgery after being shot with an arrow in what officials say is the latest in a series of a half-dozen attacks since June on donkeys that roam semirural areas of inland Southern California

1:57 PM on Tuesday, September 16

President Donald Trump formally extended the deadline to keep the social media app TikTok available in the United States until Dec. 16

1:35 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Born during the Great Depression with sun-kissed California looks, Robert Redford never failed to epitomize something quintessential and hopeful about the American character

1:01 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Democratic leaders are lashing out at a stop-gap spending bill to avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of the month

10:41 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Eight people have been injured in a shooting at a homeless camp in Minneapolis, with four in critical condition

10:27 AM on Tuesday, September 16

After a late-night vote and last-minute ruling, the Federal Reserve began a key meeting on interest rate policy Tuesday with both a new Trump administration appointee and an official the White House has targeted for removal

8:27 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Federal auto safety regulators opened an investigation Tuesday into a possible defect in Tesla door handles that have reportedly left parents unable to reach into back seats to get their children out of the cars

7:33 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Robert Redford has died at 89

6:15 AM on Tuesday, September 16

President Donald Trump is intensifying immigration enforcement in sanctuary cities like Boston

6:05 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Rivian Automotive is starting to build a long-delayed electric vehicle plant in Georgia, despite tough challenges in the U.S. market

12:45 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Israeli forces have launched a new ground offensive in Gaza City, with heavy strikes reported across the area

12:23 AM on Tuesday, September 16

The New York Times says President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the newspaper and four of its journalists is meritless and an attempt to discourage independent reporting

11:00 PM on Monday, September 15

A judge has dismissed terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione in New York state’s case over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but he kept the state’s second-degree murder charges against him

10:56 PM on Monday, September 15

U.S. stocks edged back from their record heights

4:26 PM on Monday, September 15

A central question to TikTok’s potential shutdown saga has been whether the popular social video platform would keep its algorithm — the secret sauce that powers its addictive video feed — after it’s divested from Chinese parent company ByteDance