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9:38 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Human Rights Watch, in a detailed new report, says Chinese authorities are increasing pressure on underground Catholic communities to join the state-controlled official church while tightening surveillance and travel restrictions on all of China’s estimated 12 million Catholics

8:47 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Music lovers who have long complained about Ticketmaster fees for concert tickets are surely reveling in a jury verdict that found its parent company Live Nation has been running a harmful monopoly over big venues

8:35 PM on Wednesday, April 15

More than three dozen Democrats supported an effort by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday to block arms sales to Israel, signaling a growing discontent in the party with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the wars in Gaza and Iran

8:33 PM on Wednesday, April 15

A California attorney who aided President Donald Trump’s efforts to stay in power following his 2020 election loss is no longer licensed to practice in California

7:50 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Carnival Cruise Line must pay $300,000 to a former passenger after a federal jury in South Florida found that the company was negligent in serving the woman more than a dozen shots of tequila before she fell and suffered a possible traumatic brain injury

7:41 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Two men have pleaded not guilty to charges they brought homemade bombs to an anti-Muslim protest outside New York City’s mayor's home in a failed attempt at a terror attack inspired by the Islamic State group

6:00 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Arizona’s largest utility has agreed not to cut off electrical service to customers for nonpayment while forecasted high temperatures are 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius) or above

3:10 PM on Wednesday, April 15

A jury has found that concert giant Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary engaged in an anticompetitive monopoly

2:41 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Thousands of New York City apartment building doorpersons, superintendents and other workers have approved a potential strike in the coming days

2:24 PM on Wednesday, April 15

A man has been charged in a string of attacks near Atlanta over a matter of hours that left two women dead and a man in critical condition

1:37 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Major League Baseball is celebrating Jackie Robinson Day with every player, coach and umpire wearing his No. 42 to mark the 79th anniversary of the infielder breaking the sport’s color barrier

11:26 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni's relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump appears strained

9:46 AM on Wednesday, April 15

An official says some hard hit areas of the Northern Marianas could be without power and water for weeks after the Pacific Ocean islands were battered by a super typhoon

8:57 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The largest restored wetlands in Massachusetts now cover hundreds of acres of what used to be cranberry farms

7:57 AM on Wednesday, April 15

An American YouTuber who sparked outrage in South Korea for provocative stunts, including dancing on a statue honoring victims of wartime sexual slavery, was sentenced to six months in prison Wednesday

6:49 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar says the country's president has assured him that his new government could take power in the first week of May

2:38 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Pope Leo XIV has arrived in the central African nation of Cameroon on the second leg of his Africa tour

12:45 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Pakistan’s army chief is meeting with Iranian officials for talks in Tehran in the latest diplomatic move to ease tensions in the region and arrange a second round of negotiations between the United States and Iran

12:30 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The United Nations says at least 250 people including Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals are either feared dead or missing after a boat capsized in the Andaman Sea recently

12:07 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Jury selection is underway in Harvey Weinstein's rape retrial