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7:45 PM on Thursday, September 18

7:40 PM on Thursday, September 18

Texas A&M University’s president is stepping down after facing criticism over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature lesson about gender, which led to the professor’s firing

6:00 PM on Thursday, September 18

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to talk with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in a push to finalize a deal to allow the popular social media app TikTok to keep operating in the U.S. The call Friday also may offer clues about whether the two leaders might meet in person to hash out a final agreement to end a trade war and provide clarity on where relations between superpowers may be headed

5:08 PM on Thursday, September 18

An FBI sniper testified about the effectiveness of a hiding spot chosen by a man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course last year

5:06 PM on Thursday, September 18

A Kansas sheriff’s deputy has been charged with murder in the death of an inmate who sustained broken ribs after his back was kneeled on after he was wheeled from the infirmary to his cell

4:36 PM on Thursday, September 18

An Arizona prisoner scheduled to be executed next month for killing four members of a family in their Phoenix home over 30 years ago has apologized for the pain he’s caused

4:26 PM on Thursday, September 18

Three members of a federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico’s finances who were recently fired by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump have filed a lawsuit in U.S. court alleging their firings were illegal

3:45 PM on Thursday, September 18

More than a dozen elected officials have been arrested while protesting conditions at a New York City immigration holding facility where a federal judge extended a court order requiring the government to shape up its treatment of detainees

3:32 PM on Thursday, September 18

Mississippi police say an autopsy by the state medical examiner's office has concluded a Black student found hanging from a tree at Delta State University died by suicide

3:31 PM on Thursday, September 18

A retreating glacier has revealed a new island in Alaska, as lake water filled in to surround a land mass once hugged by ice

3:14 PM on Thursday, September 18

Kentucky's Supreme Court has struck down a city's ban on no-knock warrants

2:05 PM on Thursday, September 18

Prosecutors have dropped assault charges against a New York man who claimed Egyptian officials dragged him off a Manhattan street and beat him

1:27 PM on Thursday, September 18

As encounters with federal immigration agents around Chicago increase, tactics used by activists and immigrant leaders to fight back are also escalating

10:41 AM on Thursday, September 18

The United States once again has vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that had demanded an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages

8:07 AM on Thursday, September 18

Fourteen former N

7:45 AM on Thursday, September 18

A judge is blocking the Trump administration from immediately deporting Guatemalan migrant children who came to the U.S. alone back to their home country

4:02 AM on Thursday, September 18

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F

2:17 AM on Thursday, September 18

Congressional Democrats have unveiled a bill that would bolster free speech protections against government officials

9:34 PM on Wednesday, September 17

Protesters have hit France with transport strikes, demonstrations and blockades that are targeting the Paris Metro and other sectors

11:55 AM on Wednesday, September 10