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2:30 PM on Wednesday, October 8

2:25 PM on Wednesday, October 8

A New York county’s law banning transgender women from playing on female sports teams at county-run parks and recreational facilities has been halted for now

2:08 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy says he is troubled that partisanship seemed to be “creeping its way into the court,” and that the state of political discourse in the country has gotten so vulgar and vile that he worries for the country

2:03 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Journalists who cover the U.S. military appear headed toward a showdown with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

1:29 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Wall Street’s pause from its record-breaking rally didn’t last long

12:33 PM on Wednesday, October 8

The Supreme Court seemed ready to revive a Republican challenge to an Illinois law that allows the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, which have been a target of President Donald Trump

11:38 AM on Wednesday, October 8

A dog named Eeyore became a hero by leading a Florida sheriff's deputy to a missing 86-year-old woman who had fallen while walking him

11:36 AM on Wednesday, October 8

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff says he raised more than $12 million from July through September

10:50 AM on Wednesday, October 8

The IRS will furlough nearly half of its workforce as part of a new contingency plan

10:39 AM on Wednesday, October 8

A New York City judge has dismissed a civil summons against Alex O’Keefe, a former writer for FX’s “The Bear.”

8:56 AM on Wednesday, October 8

More than 200 animals were found at the home of a wildlife rehabilitator in New York where authorities also discovered a 95-year-old woman who was essentially trapped in her room due to clutter in the residence

8:15 AM on Wednesday, October 8

President Donald Trump says the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops for his immigration and crime crackdown in the nation’s third-largest city

7:16 AM on Wednesday, October 8

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson says he is running for a U.S. House seat representing Memphis, challenging longtime Democratic congressman Steve Cohen to represent the majority-Black city in a contest of youth versus experience

7:00 AM on Wednesday, October 8

Authorities say 13 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested in Boston after a clash with police that resulted in four officers being sent to hospitals for non-life-threatening injuries

6:58 AM on Wednesday, October 8

Kathryn Bigelow's new film, "A House of Dynamite," explores the chilling reality of nuclear annihilation

5:00 AM on Wednesday, October 8

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has launched her reelection campaign as her party looks to bounce back nationally from sweeping losses in 2024

12:30 AM on Wednesday, October 8

Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their development of new molecular structures that can trap vast quantities of gas inside

9:02 PM on Tuesday, October 7

As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight

8:12 PM on Tuesday, October 7

Wall Street’s pause from its record-breaking rally didn’t last long

7:18 AM on Tuesday, October 7

A Miami activist alleges that officials at a local college violated Florida’s open government law when they gifted a sizable plot of prime downtown real estate to the state, which then transferred it to the foundation for Donald Trump’s future presidential library