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3:23 PM on Tuesday, October 7

The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to fill a critical vacancy at the top agency for worker rights, restoring it to the full power needed to deepen his overhaul of civil rights enforcement

3:00 PM on Tuesday, October 7

The attorney of the late Kyren Lacy, a former LSU football player who was accused of negligent homicide for his alleged role in a fatal car crash last year, is questioning his involvement in the deadly wreck

2:29 PM on Tuesday, October 7

Free agent WR Odell Beckham Jr. accepted a six-game suspension from the NFL after he reportedly failed a performance-enhancing drug test last year, he said on the Pivot podcast Tuesday

2:28 PM on Tuesday, October 7

President Donald Trump’s efforts to send National Guard troops into U.S. cities — including Los Angeles; Portland, Oregon; and Chicago — over the objections of Democratic mayors and governors have prompted a host of questions about the president’s authority and who controls the Guard

2:16 PM on Tuesday, October 7

Planned Parenthood officials say in court filings that Missouri's Republican attorney general is trying to get the medical records of patients who’ve had abortions

2:12 PM on Tuesday, October 7

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman says the online gaming platform Roblox has become a “playground for predators.”

1:29 PM on Tuesday, October 7

Democrats say fallout from the Trump administration’s aggressive tactics on the government shutdown could give them a welcome boost in the only two governors’ races on the ballot this year

1:23 PM on Tuesday, October 7

A prosecutor told a jury that three former upstate New York prison guards on trial in the fatal beating of Black handcuffed inmate were part of a “gang” that took part in an act of of “sheer, unimaginable brutality.”

1:12 PM on Tuesday, October 7

Alex Ovechkin begins season No. 21 with the Washington Capitals on Wednesday night when they host the Boston Bruins

11:54 AM on Tuesday, October 7

Arsenal has started its Women’s Champions League defense with a 2-1 loss to Lyon on Tuesday

11:44 AM on Tuesday, October 7

Authorities say a man's DNA was found on a gasoline can that was placed under a news vehicle in a failed arson attempt in Salt Lake City

11:36 AM on Tuesday, October 7

Francine the cat is back home at a Lowe’s store in Virginia after going missing for a few weeks

10:04 AM on Tuesday, October 7

Jaxson Dart said there's no doubt he'll play in the New York Giants' game Thursday night against Philadelphia

6:22 AM on Tuesday, October 7

Gold futures have soared above $4,000 per troy ounce for the first time, as many investors seek a “safe haven” to park their money during the continuing U.S. government shutdown

5:07 AM on Tuesday, October 7

Madrid Mayor José Luis Martínez Almeida says two construction workers died and two more are missing after a building under renovation collapsed in central Madrid

11:16 PM on Monday, October 6

Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize in physics for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling

9:09 PM on Monday, October 6

A majority of Supreme Court justices seem to be leaning in favor of a Christian counselor who is challenging bans on LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy” for kids as a violation of her First Amendment rights

9:04 PM on Monday, October 6

Attorney General Pam Bondi has repeatedly deflected questions while seeking to defend herself during a combative congressional hearing in the face of growing criticism that she's turning the law enforcement agency into a weapon to seek vengeance against President Donald Trump’s political opponents

9:01 PM on Monday, October 6

U.S. stocks sank to their first loss in eight days

8:34 PM on Monday, October 6

Federal health officials have issued a public health alert for certain Hello Fresh subscription meals containing spinach that may be contaminated with listeria