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6:13 PM on Monday, October 6

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has asked Pope Leo XIV to help maintain peace in Venezuela

5:49 PM on Monday, October 6

A former member of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ senior staff has been sentenced to a year of probation for reporting a fake bomb threat to City Hall while attending a virtual meeting in 2024

4:43 PM on Monday, October 6

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyers want the hip-hop mogul sent to a low-security federal prison in New Jersey to serve his four-year, two-month prison sentence

4:01 PM on Monday, October 6

Eleven pro-Palestinian demonstrators who were arrested at Stanford University last year after they occupied the president’s office building and allegedly caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage have been arraigned a second time in Northern California

3:14 PM on Monday, October 6

The FBI in 2023 analyzed phone records of more than a half dozen Republican lawmakers as part of an investigation into efforts by Donald Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election

3:13 PM on Monday, October 6

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the government shutdown is putting more stress on air traffic controllers who already have an extremely stressful job, as well as threatening a program that small communities rely on to help subsidize airline service

2:58 PM on Monday, October 6

President Donald Trump on Monday ordered approval of a proposed 211-mile road through an Alaska wilderness to allow mining of copper, cobalt, gold and other minerals

2:44 PM on Monday, October 6

Utah’s Republican-led Legislature has approved a revised congressional map that could give Democrats an improved chance at flipping a seat as the party fights to topple the GOP’s slim majority in the U.S. House

12:01 PM on Monday, October 6

President Donald Trump's plan to deploy the military on U.S. soil is sparking conflict with blue state governors that is playing out in the courts

11:28 AM on Monday, October 6

10:47 AM on Monday, October 6

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a network of companies and their affiliates on allegations that they supplied precursor chemicals for fentanyl production to a faction of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel

10:10 AM on Monday, October 6

Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez is facing a felony battery charge for what authorities say was a fight over parking

8:11 AM on Monday, October 6

Illinois and Chicago have filed a lawsuit aiming to stop President Donald Trump's administration from sending hundreds of National Guard troops to Chicago

7:38 AM on Monday, October 6

Frank Bisignano has been named CEO of the IRS, adding to his role as Social Security Administration Commissioner

5:34 AM on Monday, October 6

It’s now Day 6 of the shutdown, and the Democratic minority leader has challenged the Republican House speaker to a televised debate on the impasse over reopening the federal government

4:12 AM on Monday, October 6

President Donald Trump cracked the door slightly to negotiations with Democrats on the health care subsidies they’ve made central to the shutdown fight, then abruptly closed it Monday, leaving the two sides once again at a seemingly intractable impasse

4:08 AM on Monday, October 6

The International Criminal Court has convicted a leader of the feared Janjaweed militia of playing a leading role in atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region over 20 years ago

3:03 AM on Monday, October 6

British author Jilly Cooper, known for her bestselling novels, including “Rivals” and “Riders,” has died

2:06 PM on Sunday, October 5

3:10 AM on Saturday, October 4