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5:25 PM on Wednesday, October 8

A New York county’s law banning transgender women from playing on female sports teams at county-run parks and recreational facilities has been halted for now

5:24 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny’s music catalog has seen a jump in streams since his 2026 Super Bowl halftime performance was announced last week

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

5:03 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Journalists who cover the U.S. military appear headed toward a showdown with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

4:06 PM on Wednesday, October 8

The NBA is returning to China with preseason games between the Brooklyn Nets and Phoenix Suns in Macao

3:33 PM on Wednesday, October 8

The Supreme Court seemed ready to revive a Republican challenge to an Illinois law that allows the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, which have been a target of President Donald Trump

2:38 PM on Wednesday, October 8

A dog named Eeyore became a hero by leading a Florida sheriff's deputy to a missing 86-year-old woman who had fallen while walking him

2:36 PM on Wednesday, October 8

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

1:50 PM on Wednesday, October 8

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

1:39 PM on Wednesday, October 8

A New York City judge has dismissed a civil summons against Alex O’Keefe, a former writer for FX’s “The Bear.”

12:31 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Kyle Connor is staying in Winnipeg

11:56 AM on Wednesday, October 8

More than 200 animals were found at the home of a wildlife rehabilitator in New York where authorities also discovered a 95-year-old woman who was essentially trapped in her room due to clutter in the residence

11:15 AM on Wednesday, October 8

President Donald Trump says the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops for his immigration and crime crackdown in the nation’s third-largest city

10:00 AM on Wednesday, October 8

Authorities say 13 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested in Boston after a clash with police that resulted in four officers being sent to hospitals for non-life-threatening injuries

9:58 AM on Wednesday, October 8

Kathryn Bigelow's new film, "A House of Dynamite," explores the chilling reality of nuclear annihilation

8:00 AM on Wednesday, October 8

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has launched her reelection campaign as her party looks to bounce back nationally from sweeping losses in 2024

4:23 AM on Wednesday, October 8

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

3:30 AM on Wednesday, October 8

Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their development of new molecular structures that can trap vast quantities of gas inside

12:02 AM on Wednesday, October 8

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

11:12 PM on Tuesday, October 7

Wall Street’s pause from its record-breaking rally didn’t last long