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9:04 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Warming winters are making ice thinner and less predictable, leading to more drownings as people fall through while fishing, hunting and recreating on frozen waters

9:00 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Over the past decade, demand for mezcal has rapidly surged as international brands promoted its artisanal image

8:56 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Scotland’s Parliament is deciding whether to legalize assisted dying for terminally ill adults, in a vote that could make it a first in the U.K. Lawmakers will get a free vote, so the result is hard to predict

8:08 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Millions more Americans will likely donate to nonprofits as a result of changes to tax laws, but those changes will also likely reduce the overall amount of money given to charity

7:32 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived in London

7:03 AM on Tuesday, March 17

President Donald Trump is issuing a warning to fellow Republicans as they launch an unprecedented effort to hold the Senate floor and talk for days about a voting bill they know can’t pass

6:59 AM on Tuesday, March 17

The U.N. human rights office has expressed concerns about possible “ethnic cleansing,” warning of an acceleration of Israeli settlements and displacements of thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank

6:40 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Len Deighton, a prolific writer whose tough, stylish spy thrillers featured on bestseller lists for decades, has died

3:13 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Rescue crews are digging bodies out of the rubble of a drug rehabilitation hospital in Afghanistan's capital

2:48 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Police in Nigeria say suspected suicide bombings have killed at least 23 people and injured more than 100 in Maiduguri

1:40 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Israel says it has killed two senior Iranian security officials in overnight strikes in a major blow to the country’s leadership

12:49 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Oil prices are yo-yoing back up, but the U.S. stock market is holding steadier this time and drifting higher

12:28 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Israel’s defense minister says the military killed top Iranian security official Ali Larijani in an overnight strike

12:11 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Hundreds of flights are canceled or delayed one day after powerful storms swept across the eastern half of the country and disrupted thousands of others

12:02 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Two Massachusetts brothers have built a fleet of tiny Irish pubs on wheels

11:58 PM on Monday, March 16

The escalating Iran war is pushing parts of the world into energy triage

8:59 PM on Monday, March 16

President Donald Trump says a former president has told him that he now wishes he had attacked Iran when he occupied the Oval Office

6:12 PM on Monday, March 16

Amazon says it has started offering faster U.S. deliveries of selected products for a fee

2:28 PM on Monday, March 16

12:04 PM on Monday, March 16

The NBA may move a step closer to adding teams in Seattle and Las Vegas next week when expansion will be again discussed by the league’s board of governors, two people with knowledge of the matter tell The Associated Press