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5:45 PM on Wednesday, August 26

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5:34 PM on Wednesday, August 26

A settlement announced Wednesday between Meta and dozens of states resolves one of its biggest legal fights, but the social media giant is still facing litigation elsewhere over its products’ effects on young people’s mental health

4:31 PM on Wednesday, August 26

The U.S. stock market drifted through a quiet day of trading after a report said inflation last month was a touch worse than economists expected

4:01 PM on Wednesday, August 26

Social media users are claiming that Canada could shut off electricity in the U.S. and cause massive blackouts if the trade war between the two countries escalates further

3:36 PM on Wednesday, August 26

NFL owners on Wednesday unanimously approved the sale of the Seattle Seahawks to the Khosla family

3:17 PM on Wednesday, August 26

2:45 PM on Wednesday, August 26

Bobby Charles, the Republican nominee for governor in Maine, has told supporters that he plans to ask a top Homeland Security official to send ICE agents and U.S. Marshals to polling places in Maine before the midterm elections

1:24 PM on Wednesday, August 26

A federal judge says Blake Lively can have just over $400,000 of the $8 million in legal fees she sought for defending herself against a lawsuit that actor Justin Baldoni lodged against her in response to her lawsuit over the production of their 2024 film “It Ends With Us.”

12:13 PM on Wednesday, August 26

Tim Curry has died at 80

11:30 AM on Wednesday, August 26

The U.S. government has announced a drought disaster for more than two dozen cities and towns in Puerto Rico as water woes deepen across the U.S. Caribbean territory with no relief in sight

11:22 AM on Wednesday, August 26

A man accused of arranging the fatal shooting of a Microsoft design manager on a Florida road has been convicted of murder

11:02 AM on Wednesday, August 26

A federal judge has lifted a major obstacle to President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail voting, but Democratic state officials are already filing a new court challenge with the midterm elections fast approaching

9:58 AM on Wednesday, August 26

All testimony has concluded in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy

9:38 AM on Wednesday, August 26

Meta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion and add stronger child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms as part of a landmark legal settlement

9:01 AM on Wednesday, August 26

The invasive European green crab has long been seen as a nuisance in New England, hurting local fisheries and damaging ecosystems

6:01 AM on Wednesday, August 26

James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, wants to reveal depositions involving his Republican opponent, Ken Paxton

12:08 AM on Wednesday, August 26

Robert Gilman is the latest in a succession of high-profile prisoners freed by Russia going back years, but his release hardly cleared the decks of Americans behind bars there

11:59 PM on Tuesday, August 25

The U.S. stock market drifted through a quiet day of trading after a report said inflation last month was a touch worse than economists expected

10:09 PM on Tuesday, August 25

Three U.S. Secret Service officials have been placed on administrative leave, pending the outcome of an investigation by the agency’s professional standards office

3:26 PM on Tuesday, August 25

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said a report on the lead-water crisis in the city of Flint is the final step her office can take toward accountability, years after a state Supreme Court ruling shut down criminal cases against a former governor and eight other people