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7:46 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Hamas announces a deal leading to the end of war in Gaza, withdrawal of Israeli troops, aid entry and prisoner exchange

7:29 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Hamas to release all 20 living hostages this weekend, AP sources say, as Israelis to withdraw from majority of Gaza

7:01 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Netanyahu says, 'With God's help we will bring them all home,' after Trump announces first phase of Israel-Hamas deal

6:56 PM on Wednesday, October 8

The World Health Organization says an Ebola outbreak in southern Congo is starting to be contained

6:54 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Israel, Hamas reach agreement on 'first phase' of plan to stop fighting, release hostages and prisoners, Trump says

6:41 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Tyrique Stevenson says he’s ready to return to the scene of one of the most embarrassing moments in NFL history Monday night when the Chicago Bears visit Washington

6:13 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Riley Greene and Javier Báez homered in a four-run sixth inning and the Detroit Tigers kept their season alive with a 9-3 win over the Seattle Mariners in Game 4 of the American League Division Series

6:13 PM on Wednesday, October 8

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo says he wants to save Rikers Island, the notorious jail complex that has become a symbol of dysfunction in the city's criminal justice system

5:08 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy says he is troubled that partisanship seemed to be “creeping its way into the court,” and that the state of political discourse in the country has gotten so vulgar and vile that he worries for the country

3:00 PM on Wednesday, October 8

A soccer match between Argentina and Puerto Rico, initially set for next week in Chicago, has been moved to Florida

2:36 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff says he raised more than $12 million from July through September

2:28 PM on Wednesday, October 8

A new UNICEF report has found that the number of children displaced by violence in Haiti has nearly doubled to 680,000

2:20 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Dolly Parton says not to worry, she “ain't dead yet."

2:07 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Most members of the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate setting committee supported further reductions to its key interest rate this year, minutes from last month’s meeting showed

1:50 PM on Wednesday, October 8

The IRS will furlough nearly half of its workforce as part of a new contingency plan

8:29 AM on Wednesday, October 8

President Donald Trump said Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, both Democrats, should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago

4:23 AM on Wednesday, October 8

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to name a new prime minister within 48 hours

12:02 AM on Wednesday, October 8

Robert Roberson hopes he will again avoid becoming the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome

12:02 AM on Wednesday, October 8

As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight

7:55 PM on Tuesday, October 7

Staffing shortages led to more flight delays at airports across the U.S. as the federal government shutdown stretched into a seventh day