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10:07 PM on Tuesday, February 17

An investigation shows that illegal luxury mansions have been built in a Sierra Leone national park that serves as an environmental buffer for its capital

9:42 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Japan has reported its exports surged nearly 17% in January from a year earlier, on strong shipments to China and other Asian markets

6:46 PM on Tuesday, February 17

California regulators say that Tesla had stopped misleading drivers about the safety of its cars and so would not suspend its license to sell in the state

6:04 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Conservation organizations and an Iñupiat group have filed legal challenges to the Trump administration’s renewed push for oil and gas development in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and an upcoming lease sale

5:30 PM on Tuesday, February 17

The Rev. Jesse Jackson had popularized the term “African American" as a way to reclaim cultural identity

4:27 PM on Tuesday, February 17

NASA has begun another practice launch countdown for its first moonshot in decades with astronauts

3:45 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Six years after Warren Buffett sold off all of Berkshire Hathaway’s newspapers and predicted unending declines for the industry, Berkshire disclosed a new $350 million investment in The New York Times on Tuesday

3:45 PM on Tuesday, February 17

An immigration judge has dismissed the Trump administration’s deportation case against Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian graduate student and Columbia protest leader

2:59 PM on Tuesday, February 17

1:26 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Authorities say six backcountry skiers are alive and 10 others are missing after an avalanche in Northern California that occurred during a powerful winter storm moving through the state

1:00 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Authorities say four people have died in crashes involving over 30 vehicles on a Colorado interstate after blowing dirt made it nearly impossible to see

12:32 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Investigators in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance say DNA from gloves did not match any entries in a national database

12:32 PM on Tuesday, February 17

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at the age of 84, was known not just as a tireless advocate for the Civil Rights Movement but as one of its most dynamic orators

8:22 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Stephen Colbert says his interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico was pulled from Monday's broadcast over fears it would violate “equal time” guidance from the Federal Communications Commission under the Trump administration

8:00 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Peru’s Congress has voted to remove interim President José Jerí from office as he faces corruption allegations

6:31 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Authorities say the person who opened fire during a youth hockey game at an ice rink in Rhode Island targeted and killed an ex-wife and one son

2:14 AM on Tuesday, February 17

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8:59 PM on Monday, February 16

As the sun rose in New Orleans, rows of parade-goers already lined the street

7:53 AM on Monday, February 16

California is being walloped by a powerful winter storm carrying thunderstorms, strong winds and heavy snow in the mountains

11:02 PM on Friday, January 30

Iran says it temporarily closed parts of the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most crucial shipping lanes, for a military drill and missile test