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4:34 PM on Friday, March 6

The U.S. is imposing visa restrictions on “several senior Rwandan officials for fueling instability” in eastern Congo, the State Department said on Friday, intensifying pressure on the East African country after sanctions announced earlier this week

4:18 PM on Friday, March 6

Oil shot to its highest price since 2023 after surging again because of the Iran war, and a weak update on the U.S. job market knocked stocks lower to cap Wall Street’s worst week since October

4:03 PM on Friday, March 6

Valerie Foushee wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in North Carolina's 4th Congressional District

3:54 PM on Friday, March 6

National Symphony Orchestra director Jean Davidson has left the Kennedy Center to lead the Wallis Annenberg Center in Los Angeles, as turmoil grows under President Donald Trump’s control

3:47 PM on Friday, March 6

Georgia’s races for governor and U.S. Senate are taking shape as candidates qualify and begin their sprint to the May 19 party primaries

3:34 PM on Friday, March 6

Cuba says a fifth detainee has died after a shootout with people on a Florida-flagged speedboat off its north coast

3:09 PM on Friday, March 6

The U.S. Coast Guard has called off a search for a person who went missing after a commercial fishing vessel has overturned and sank off Cape Cod

2:56 PM on Friday, March 6

Barack Obama credits Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. and his 'immense gifts' for creating racial progress in American politics

2:50 PM on Friday, March 6

Legal experts say a U.S. submarine’s deadly attack on an Iranian warship does not appear to have violated international or American military law

2:42 PM on Friday, March 6

Fired Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore pleads no contest to two misdemeanors to resolve felony home invasion case

2:17 PM on Friday, March 6

The New York Times is urging a federal judge to block a Pentagon policy that has limited access to the building for journalists from many mainstream news outlets

2:05 PM on Friday, March 6

Russia has provided Iran with information that can help Tehran strike US military, AP sources say

2:01 PM on Friday, March 6

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun

1:41 PM on Friday, March 6

The U.S. has issued a license that allows business to be done with Venezuela’s state gold mining company, Minerven

1:18 PM on Friday, March 6

Satellite images and videos of an Iranian girls school damaged by large explosions at the start of a U.S.-Israeli airstrike campaign targeting the Islamic Republic indicate a targeted attack from the air hit the building

12:34 PM on Friday, March 6

The U.S. Treasury Department’s decision to allow India to buy Russian oil for 30 days underscores a boost for Moscow's fortunes against the backdrop of the Iran war as Russia's oil export earnings help pay for its own war against Ukraine

7:12 AM on Friday, March 6

Muslims across the United States are observing Ramadan under rising fears tied to immigration raids, anti-Muslim rhetoric, and war in the Middle East

12:07 AM on Friday, March 6

The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas

5:24 PM on Thursday, March 5

American employers unexpectedly cut 92,000 jobs last month, a sign that the labor market remains under strain

2:13 PM on Tuesday, March 3

The broadening Iran war has ricocheted across the region and beyond