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4:43 PM on Wednesday, October 15

President Donald Trump says Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has personally assured him that India will stop buying Russian oil

4:31 PM on Wednesday, October 15

Safety board concludes inadequate engineering led to deadly implosion of Titan submersible headed to Titanic wreckage

4:20 PM on Wednesday, October 15

Journalists begin leaving Pentagon after refusing to sign Trump administration agreements on rules of access

3:37 PM on Wednesday, October 15

The African Union condemns the coup in Madagascar and announces the country's suspension from the bloc

3:26 PM on Wednesday, October 15

The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plane made an unscheduled landing in the United Kingdom because a windshield cracked on a flight back to the U.S. from a NATO meeting and all aboard are safe

3:24 PM on Wednesday, October 15

Red Cross has received remains of 2 more Hamas hostages to be returned to Israel from Gaza, Israeli military says

2:48 PM on Wednesday, October 15

Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young settled into the role of doing the “dirty work” right away when he began working for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement — answering mail, working behind the scenes to set up marches

2:40 PM on Wednesday, October 15

Oklahoma's new public schools superintendent is rescinding a mandate from his predecessor that forced schools to incorporate the Bible into lesson plans for students

2:34 PM on Wednesday, October 15

A firefighter has rescued a stranded pup from rising floodwaters in Southern California

2:33 PM on Wednesday, October 15

Judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from firing federal workers during the government shutdown

1:40 PM on Wednesday, October 15

Former MVP Russell Westbrook is joining the Sacramento Kings, a person familiar with the agreement tells The Associated Press

1:40 PM on Wednesday, October 15

A jury has begun deliberations in the upstate New York murder trial of three former corrections officers accused in the fatal beating of an inmate

12:23 PM on Wednesday, October 15

Democratic governors from 14 states and Guam have launched a new public health alliance

11:54 AM on Wednesday, October 15

The government shutdown is entering a third week, and Democrats say they're not intimidated by President Donald Trump’s efforts to fire thousands of federal workers or by his threats of more firings to come

10:06 AM on Wednesday, October 15

Reese Witherspoon has co-authored her first adult novel, “Gone Before Goodbye,” with Harlan Coben

7:12 AM on Wednesday, October 15

Federal workers furloughed or working without pay are feeling the financial squeeze and fear being swept up in the Trump administration's layoffs

6:49 AM on Wednesday, October 15

The leader of Madagascar's military coup says he is “taking the position of president” and that the armed forces will remain in charge of the sprawling African island nation for up to two years before elections are held

6:05 AM on Wednesday, October 15

The campaign of U.S. Sen. Edward Markey says he is focused on the government shutdown in response to the announcement that Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton would run for his seat next year

4:10 AM on Wednesday, October 15

The United Nations' food aid agency has warned that severe funding cuts are impacting its operations in six countries

12:01 AM on Wednesday, October 15

The Supreme Court appears ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that's helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than a half century