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11:33 PM on Tuesday, February 24

President Donald Trump has presented the Purple Heart medal during his State of the Union Address and honored two National Guard members who were shot while patrolling in Washington last year

10:54 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Trump breaks record for longest State of the Union, speaking for more than 1 hour and 41 minutes

10:23 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Federal prosecutors are describing those who participated in a July 4 gathering outside a Texas immigration detention center that left a police officer wounded as antifa members intent on a “violent campaign” to influence U.S. policy

10:07 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Legal advocates are asking a judge to stop U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents from urging unaccompanied immigrant children to voluntarily deport themselves

10:01 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Discord is postponing its controversial age verification policy after users of the popular platform for gamers to communicate online expressed strong objections and privacy concerns

9:12 PM on Tuesday, February 24

President Donald Trump begins delivering State of the Union address

8:26 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is appealing a judge’s order that blocks him from punishing Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a former Navy pilot, for participating in a video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders

7:36 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Authorities have charged a New Hampshire resident in connection with a shooting that occurred at the state’s border with Canada

7:29 PM on Tuesday, February 24

A magistrate judge has barred federal authorities from conducting an unsupervised, wholesale search of electronic devices that they seized from a Washington Post reporter’s Virginia home while investigating allegations that a Pentagon contractor illegally leaked classified information to the journalist

7:09 PM on Tuesday, February 24

If politicians write memoirs to generate online buzz and headlines, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is getting plenty of both - favorable and not

5:09 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Federal workplace safety regulators have penalized three businesses over their failure to protect six Colorado dairy workers who were killed by exposure to highly toxic hydrogen sulfide gas after a manure pipe disconnected in an enclosed space

4:58 PM on Tuesday, February 24

The Justice Department is suing the University of California over allegations that UCLA failed to protect Jewish employees from antisemitic harassment amid pro-Palestinian protests that roiled the campus in 2023 and 2024

4:40 PM on Tuesday, February 24

More than a dozen states are suing the Trump administration over its changes to vaccine recommendations for children

3:53 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Authorities say a man fatally stabbed four people in Washington state as sheriff's deputies were on their way to deliver him a domestic violence protection order

3:36 PM on Tuesday, February 24

The CIA is offering help to potential informants in Iran as President Donald Trump mulls possible military action

8:54 AM on Tuesday, February 24

A man with a long criminal history fatally shot one Missouri sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop and then killed a second deputy in a gunbattle hours later as the Army veteran tried to save two wounded officers

8:29 AM on Tuesday, February 24

Legislation to require all aircraft flying around busy airports to have key locator systems to prevent midair collisions failed to win approval in the House on Tuesday

7:00 AM on Tuesday, February 24

The designated survivor for a president's address to Congress starts the day as a Cabinet secretary and ends it that way, too, God willing

12:36 AM on Tuesday, February 24

A man convicted of killing a 70-year-old grocery store owner has been put to death in Florida, becoming the second person executed by the state this year

12:34 AM on Tuesday, February 24

Millions across the northeastern United States contended with treks to school and work as they dug out from a major storm that blanketed the region with snow, canceled flights, disrupted transit and downed power lines