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4:39 PM on Monday, September 8

4:06 PM on Monday, September 8

Financial disclosure reports filed by California elected officials show that interest groups spent more than $820,000 last year to take dozens of legislators on both domestic and international trips

3:07 PM on Monday, September 8

House Democrats release sexually suggestive letter to Jeffrey Epstein purportedly signed by Trump, which he has denied

2:05 PM on Monday, September 8

A Wisconsin legislator has left the state Assembly's Democratic caucus after being accused by fellow party members of threatening to kill three lawmakers

1:12 PM on Monday, September 8

A new law requiring Texas schools to obtain parental consent before administering health care services to students has triggered confusion among campus nurses who worry they could face punishment for routine acts like offering bandages

1:00 PM on Monday, September 8

Legislators topple France's government in confidence vote, ousting François Bayrou as third prime minister in 12 months

11:38 AM on Monday, September 8

President Donald Trump celebrated news that an alumni group from West Point canceled an award ceremony set to honor Tom Hanks

11:35 AM on Monday, September 8

Supreme Court lifts restrictions on LA immigration stops set by judge after federal agents swept up US citizens

11:08 AM on Monday, September 8

A new Gallup poll finds that Democrats view socialism more positively than they did in the past, while their views of capitalism are more negative

11:08 AM on Monday, September 8

Chief Justice John Roberts has let President Donald Trump remove a member of the Federal Trade Commission, the latest in a string of high-profile firings allowed for now by the Supreme Court

10:44 AM on Monday, September 8

A federal appeals court has upheld a civil jury's decision requiring President Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million to columnist E

10:39 AM on Monday, September 8

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration is approving the use of hundreds of millions of dollars in capital project funding for Philadelphia’s public transit agency to help it restore bus, trolley and rail services that it had eliminated to shore up its deficit-riddled finances

9:55 AM on Monday, September 8

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court for an emergency order to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid frozen

8:38 AM on Monday, September 8

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has intensified criticism of Israel's actions in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict

8:06 AM on Monday, September 8

7:16 AM on Monday, September 8

Doug Wilson was once a fringe pastor in Idaho and is now a significant voice in the Christian right

4:38 AM on Monday, September 8

Police in Nepal’s capital of Kathmandu opened fire on demonstrators protesting a government attempt to regulate social media that blocked some of the world’s largest platforms, including Facebook, X and YouTube

2:21 AM on Monday, September 8

Legislators have toppled France’s government in a confidence vote

12:26 PM on Wednesday, September 3

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