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11:26 PM on Tuesday, February 10

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he told visiting Israeli President Isaac Herzog that Australia is seeking criminal charges over a 2024 airstrike in Gaza

9:39 PM on Tuesday, February 10

A Chinese sea captain of a Hong Kong-flagged vessel has pleaded not guilty to damaging undersea cables in the Baltic Sea in 2023

9:23 PM on Tuesday, February 10

Bangladeshis will cast ballots Thursday in a crucial national election, the first since a mass uprising ended former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's 15-year rule

9:17 PM on Tuesday, February 10

A review of public documents by The Associated Press has found that at least two dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have been charged with crimes since 2020 — and their wrongdoing includes patterns of physical and sexual abuse and corruption

8:50 PM on Tuesday, February 10

How many Democrats are too many

8:15 PM on Tuesday, February 10

A Hong Kong court has convicted the father of a U.S.-based activist for attempting to deal with his daughter's financial assets in the city

6:40 PM on Tuesday, February 10

A grand jury in Washington has refused to indict Democratic lawmakers in connection with a video in which they urged U.S. military members to resist “illegal orders,” according to a person familiar with the matter

6:36 PM on Tuesday, February 10

Grand jury refuses to indict lawmakers in probe over video telling military to refuse illegal orders, AP source says

5:45 PM on Tuesday, February 10

Three suspected migrants have died and a fourth is hospitalized after two boats capsized off Panama’s Caribbean coast

5:22 PM on Tuesday, February 10

The father of slain Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay announced his plans to run for the nation’s presidency despite falling out with his son’s party the Democratic Center

4:49 PM on Tuesday, February 10

Congressional Democrats are accusing the Trump administration of trying to hijack plans to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary and using the nonprofit National Park Foundation to solicit money from private donors for some of the president’s pet projects

4:30 PM on Tuesday, February 10

Former CNN host Don Lemon has hired former federal prosecutor Joe Thompson for his legal defense

3:25 PM on Tuesday, February 10

A federal judge in Michigan has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice that sought to obtain access to Michigan's voter rolls, marking the latest set back to President Donald Trump's administration as it seeks voter data from a variety of states

3:13 PM on Tuesday, February 10

The U.S. Justice Department is targeting Alex Saab, a businessman linked to Nicolás Maduro, in an investigation that could impact the U.S. prosecution of the deposed Venezuelan leader

12:45 PM on Tuesday, February 10

More than two dozen privacy groups are urging California Governor Gavin Newsom to remove covert license plate readers in southern California

12:02 PM on Tuesday, February 10

The FBI relied on years-old claims of fraud, many of them thoroughly investigated, to obtain a search warrant to seize ballots from election offices in Fulton County, Georgia

11:51 AM on Tuesday, February 10

Republican lawmakers are decrying what they said are invasive tactics in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election

5:45 AM on Tuesday, February 10

The men in charge of the agencies carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda delivered a staunch defense of immigration enforcement operations in a three-hour testimony to Congress

5:42 AM on Tuesday, February 10

Officials say a person has been detained for questioning in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie