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5:52 PM on Tuesday, October 28

MacKenzie Scott has donated $60 million to the Center for Disaster Philanthropy

5:49 PM on Tuesday, October 28

The Senate is voting on legislation that would nullify President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, including oil, coffee and orange juice

5:42 PM on Tuesday, October 28

The Trump administration is moving to overrule state laws that protect consumers’ credit reports from medical debt

5:29 PM on Tuesday, October 28

President Donald Trump is musing about a potential third-term bid for the White House

5:17 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Two Florida college students and an advocacy group for retirees are asking a federal judge to let them intervene in a lawsuit to defend census methods used to protect privacy and fill in missing data

5:01 PM on Tuesday, October 28

After a charm offensive in Japan that culminated in $490 billion in investment commitments, President Donald Trump is set to meet with South Korea’s leader on Wednesday as a trade deal with that country appears more elusive

5:00 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Trial has begun in a $40 million lawsuit accusing a former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school of ignoring multiple warnings that a 6-year-old student had a gun hours before he shot his teacher

4:28 PM on Tuesday, October 28

A federal agent fired shots at an unarmed Black man during a recent traffic stop while patrolling the nation’s capital for President Donald Trump’s law-enforcement surge

4:08 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Thirteen families whose loved ones were taken hostage during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack are still waiting for Hamas to return their remains from Gaza

2:55 PM on Tuesday, October 28

About 2,500 Brazilian police and soldiers have launched a massive raid on a criminal gang in Rio de Janeiro and arrested 81 suspects while sparking shootouts that left at least 60 suspects dead

2:35 PM on Tuesday, October 28

An autumn heat wave accompanied by gusty winds raised the wildfire risk for Southern California, with forecasters warning that grass and brush are still dangerously dry despite recent rains

2:19 PM on Tuesday, October 28

A North Carolina man who told authorities he had killed his children and that the bodies were in the trunk of a vehicle at his home has been charged with four counts of murder

8:28 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall on Jamaica as the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean island in the 174 years since records began

8:19 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Conservative voters in Northern California are alarmed that a ballot measure designed to diminish Republican representation could pass in November

6:44 AM on Tuesday, October 28

The Dodgers have won a thrilling 18-inning game against the Toronto Blue Jays, taking a two-to-one lead in the World Series

1:15 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the army to carry out “powerful strikes” in Gaza

12:20 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Hurricane Melissa has hit southwestern Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, causing heavy flooding and wind damage

12:10 AM on Tuesday, October 28

The U.S. stock market pushed further into record heights

12:03 AM on Tuesday, October 28

A federal judge has ordered a senior U.S. Border Patrol official to meet her daily “to hear about how the day went” after weeks of confrontations between immigration agents and the public in the Chicago area

12:02 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Vice President JD Vance says that he believes U.S. military members will be paid at the end of the week as the Trump administration reconfigures funding in the second-longest government shutdown