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6:37 PM on Friday, October 17

President Donald Trump talks plainly, bluntly, often even coarsely

6:07 PM on Friday, October 17

Trump says he has commuted sentence of former US Rep. George Santos in federal fraud case

5:49 PM on Friday, October 17

Israel received coffin of missing hostage handed over to the Red Cross from Hamas, Israeli prime minister's office says.

5:46 PM on Friday, October 17

Dozens of reporters stationed at the Pentagon walked out this week and surrendered their access badges rather than sign on to new rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth they said would restrict how they do their jobs

5:27 PM on Friday, October 17

Authorities in Philadelphia say they are no closer to locating a missing 23-year-old woman who disappeared from her nursing home job nearly two weeks ago

5:09 PM on Friday, October 17

Red Cross has received the remains of one more hostage to be returned to Israel from Gaza, Israeli military says

4:55 PM on Friday, October 17

Following meeting with Ukraine's Zelenskyy, Trump calls on Kyiv and Moscow to 'stop where they are' and end the war

4:22 PM on Friday, October 17

Wall Street cruised to the finish of a winning week that began much bumpier

4:09 PM on Friday, October 17

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area, escalating President Donald Trump’s conflict with Democratic governors over using the military on U.S. soil

4:09 PM on Friday, October 17

Tension between Indiana University and its student newspaper flared this week with the elimination of the outlet’s print editions and the firing of a faculty adviser, who refused an order to keep news stories out of a homecoming edition

4:07 PM on Friday, October 17

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow deployment of National Guard in Chicago area

3:45 PM on Friday, October 17

New York City’s mayoral candidates have duked it out in their first general election debate, with contenders Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa sparring over everything from the Israel-Hamas war to the city’s education system

3:39 PM on Friday, October 17

Los Angeles County has reached a tentative $828 million agreement to settle more than 400 additional sexual abuse claims against county employees that were not included in an earlier settlement that was the largest sexual abuse settlement in U.S. history

2:48 PM on Friday, October 17

The former superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district has been indicted by a federal grand jury after authorities say he falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen who was eligible to work

2:10 PM on Friday, October 17

Prince Andrew says he is giving up his royal title of the Duke of York after his friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein returned to the headlines

12:48 PM on Friday, October 17

The FBI is accusing a Louisiana resident of participating in the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, then lying on his application for a visa to live in the U.S. On Friday, Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub Al-Muhtadi, 33, was scheduled to make his first appearance in federal court

11:46 AM on Friday, October 17

The U.S. has seized survivors after a strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean, the first since President Donald Trump began launching deadly attacks in the region this summer

7:39 AM on Friday, October 17

John Bolton has pleaded not guilty in the Justice Department case accusing him of sharing classified information

6:11 AM on Friday, October 17

Meta is adding parental controls to kids’ interactions with artificial intelligence chatbots — including the ability to turn off one-on-one chats with AI characters altogether

12:53 AM on Friday, October 17

Wall Street cruised to the finish of a winning week that began much bumpier