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2:35 PM on Tuesday, October 28

An autumn heat wave accompanied by gusty winds raised the wildfire risk for Southern California, with forecasters warning that grass and brush are still dangerously dry despite recent rains

2:30 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Vice President Vance says he believes US military will be paid Friday despite the shutdown, but does not specify how

2:19 PM on Tuesday, October 28

A North Carolina man who told authorities he killed four of his children and that the bodies were in the trunk of a vehicle at his home has been charged with one murder count

2:07 PM on Tuesday, October 28

North Carolina sheriff says man told 911 he killed his kids and had 4 bodies in vehicle trunk before remains were found

1:56 PM on Tuesday, October 28

An Illinois jury has begun deliberating over the first-degree murder charges against a sheriff's deputy in the shooting death last year of Sonya Massey, a Black woman in her home who had called 911 for help

1:53 PM on Tuesday, October 28

The sounds of tanks firing and explosions can be heard and seen in Gaza City and other parts of Gaza

1:52 PM on Tuesday, October 28

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from pulling sexual education funding over curricula mentioning diverse gender identities

1:21 PM on Tuesday, October 28

A new lawsuit by Democratic state officials seeks to uncork emergency money to help tens of millions of Americans keep buying food for their families after federal SNAP funding is expected run dry Saturday due to the U.S. government shutdown

12:48 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is accusing the companies behind Tylenol of deceptively marketing the pain reliever to pregnant mothers

12:41 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Air traffic controllers are missing another paycheck due to the ongoing government shutdown, raising concerns about financial stress affecting their work

9:50 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Authorities say a man from India stabbed two teenagers with a fork, slapped a female passenger and a crew member, and mimicked shooting himself during an international flight

9:44 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Russian lawmakers have endorsed a bill mandating year-round military conscription, rather than just in the spring and fall, as authorities seek to fill the ranks as fighting in Ukraine grinds through a fourth year

9:01 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Maine and Texas are the latest states where Republicans are pushing ballot initiatives targeting noncitizen voting, which is rare

8:28 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall on Jamaica as the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean island in the 174 years since records began

6:07 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Amazon will cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as the online retail giant ramps up spending on artificial intelligence

1:15 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the army to carry out “powerful strikes” in Gaza

12:20 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Hurricane Melissa has hit southwestern Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, causing heavy flooding and wind damage

12:10 AM on Tuesday, October 28

The U.S. stock market is drifting near its record heights

12:02 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Vice President JD Vance says that he believes U.S. military members will be paid at the end of the week as the Trump administration reconfigures funding in the second-longest government shutdown

10:46 PM on Monday, October 27

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis has ordered a senior U.S. Border Patrol official to meet with her daily “to hear about how the day went” after weeks of confrontations between immigration agents and the public in the Chicago area