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9:03 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Pollution levels in Iowa's water have been abnormally high this winter

9:00 AM on Wednesday, April 1

As droughts worsen and freshwater grows scarce, desalination is expanding rapidly

8:45 AM on Wednesday, April 1

NASA has begun filling its moon rocket gas tank for humanity's first lunar trip in more than half a century

8:43 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Shoppers increased their spending in February after pulling back at the start of the year, reflecting volatile and cautious activity by American consumers even before the Iran war sent gasoline prices soaring

8:43 AM on Wednesday, April 1

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments at 10 a.m. ET over the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to someone in the country illegally or temporarily

8:11 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Rescuers say they lost hope for the humpback whale that has become stranded repeatedly off Germany’s Baltic Sea coast

7:09 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Democrats in North Carolina are scrambling to turn out rural Black voters and say the party cannot win the state without them

7:07 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Good Friday is a unique and uniquely solemn day in the Christian calendar

6:05 AM on Wednesday, April 1

U.S. and Iraqi officials say U.S. journalist Shelly Kittleson was warned of threats before she was kidnapped in Baghdad

5:58 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Global leaders have been scrambling to contain the rising cost of oil and gasoline since the start of the Iran war

5:22 AM on Wednesday, April 1

4:35 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Officials say Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban governments have resumed talks in China, which is mediating between the two sides to broker a durable ceasefire after more than a month of fighting

2:40 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Iran has hit an oil tanker off the coast of Qatar and Kuwait’s airport

1:46 AM on Wednesday, April 1

A Russian military plane has crashed in annexed Crimea, killing six crew and 23 passengers on board

1:01 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Amsterdam is marking 25 years since the world's first gay marriages were celebrated in the Netherlands

12:03 AM on Wednesday, April 1

The Supreme Court is taking up one of the term’s most consequential cases, President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens

Wednesday, April 1

U.S. President Donald Trump claims Iran’s president wanted a ceasefire ahead of his speech to the American people

9:56 PM on Tuesday, March 31

Advocacy groups and experts have slammed YouTube for serving up low-quality artificial intelligence-generated videos to its most vulnerable audience: children

9:16 PM on Tuesday, March 31

U.S. crude fell below $100 a barrel and Wall Street was headed for gains again Wednesday after U.S. markets soared to their best day in almost a year on renewed hopes that the Iran war could soon end

4:31 PM on Tuesday, March 31

A scrawny hippie and a nerdy engineer who became prank-playing friends vowed to change the world when they founded a Silicon Valley startup on April Fools’ Day 50 years ago and then — no joke — pulled it off