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6:25 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Carlos Alcaraz’s accidental buzz cut is moving on at the U.S. Open thanks to an easy-as-can-be victory in the second round

5:02 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A day after Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement, some wild details are emerging about how folks spread the news

4:34 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Attorneys for ousted CDC director say she was targeted for 'protecting the public over serving a political agenda' (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported Monarez made the comment.

4:26 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A jury has awarded at least $2.2 million to a protester who was shot in the face with a less-lethal munition by a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy during a demonstration against police brutality in 2020

3:33 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Cardi B has testified in a Los Angeles County court, denying allegations that she injured a security guard during her first pregnancy

3:08 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Louisiana has abandoned its defense of a political map that elected two Black members of Congress and instead called on the Supreme Court to reject any consideration of race in redistricting in a case that could bring major changes to the Voting Rights Act

2:55 PM on Wednesday, August 27

The director of the nation’s top public health agency has been fired after less than one month in the job

2:21 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Manchester United sank to a new low under Ruben Amorim by getting eliminated by fourth-tier Grimsby Town after a marathon penalty shootout in the second round of the English League Cup on Wednesday

2:01 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A missing 12-year-old boy with autism, whose body was discovered in a New Orleans canal following a nearly two-week-long search, died from “blunt force due to an alligator” and drowning

1:16 PM on Wednesday, August 27

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10:32 AM on Wednesday, August 27

The Uvalde school district released only a small fraction of the documents it said would be made public related to the 2022 Robb Elementary School massacre

9:56 AM on Wednesday, August 27

The Food and Drug Administration has approved updated COVID-19 vaccines for the upcoming fall and winter season

9:43 AM on Wednesday, August 27

A top Florida official says the controversial state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades will likely be empty in a matter of days, even as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration fights a federal judge’s order to shutter the facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by a late October deadline

8:22 AM on Wednesday, August 27

Officials say a shooter opened fire during Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school, killing two children and injuring 17 other people before killing himself

5:35 AM on Wednesday, August 27

As President Donald Trump asserts more unilateral authority, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has announced that his department will take over managing Union Station from Amtrak

4:13 AM on Wednesday, August 27

A South Korean woman adopted to France in 1984 without her parents' consent is seeks compensation from South Korea's government

10:25 PM on Tuesday, August 26

Stocks edged higher ahead of a closely watched earnings report from Nvidia

9:12 PM on Tuesday, August 26

Argentine police are looking for a 18th-century Italian portrait allegedly looted 80 years ago from a Jewish collector by a fugitive Nazi officer who settled in Argentina after World War II

9:06 PM on Tuesday, August 26

Donald Trump’s vow to fire Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook is at the intersection of the Republican president’s efforts to consolidate power and purge diverse voices from the higher ranks of American leadership

5:32 PM on Tuesday, August 26

Nvidia’s sales of its artificial intelligence chipsets rose at a slower pace than analysts anticipated during the company’s latest quarter, a letdown likely to stoke worries that technology’s latest craze has been fool’s gold