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9:04 PM on Monday, August 18

Missouri's attorney general is resigning to take a leadership position with the FBI

8:42 PM on Monday, August 18

Alabama has scheduled an October execution using nitrogen gas

8:39 PM on Monday, August 18

Jules Witcover, who cowrote one of the nation’s leading political columns for nearly three decades, died Saturday at the age of 98

8:28 PM on Monday, August 18

A sheriff says a shooting in southern West Virginia has left two people dead, include a suspected gunman, and three others have been wounded

8:13 PM on Monday, August 18

Fellow grad students told investigators that Bryan Kohberger developed a reputation for being sexist and creepy while attending a criminal justice program in the months before he killed four University of Idaho students in 2022

6:51 PM on Monday, August 18

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has taken emergency action to ban the sale of a synthetic drug known as “designer Xanax” in his state

5:51 PM on Monday, August 18

North Carolina election officials have successfully amended over 20,000 voter registration records

5:25 PM on Monday, August 18

One candidate is Rodrigo Paz, a conservative centrist senator and son of a neoliberal ex-president who is pitching himself as a moderate reformer

4:24 PM on Monday, August 18

President Donald Trump is vowing more changes to the way elections are conducted in the U.S., but based on the Constitution there is little to nothing he can do on his own

4:06 PM on Monday, August 18

The Justice Department has agreed to provide to Congress documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation

3:40 PM on Monday, August 18

A woman charged with selling Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him has agreed to plead guilty

2:41 PM on Monday, August 18

1:57 PM on Monday, August 18

Three more Republican governors have authorized the deployment of National Guard troops to Washington

8:28 AM on Monday, August 18

U.S. President Donald Trump says he has called Russian President Vladimir Putin and begun to arrange a meeting between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

6:53 AM on Monday, August 18

Authorities say two police officers were shot and killed in Utah and a man was taken into custody after bystanders persuaded him to drop the gun

6:39 AM on Monday, August 18

President Donald Trump says the U.S. could support a European force in Ukraine to maintain a lasting peace in Russia's war

6:35 AM on Monday, August 18

Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 was quick and bloodless, and it sent Moscow’s relations with the West into a downward spiral unseen since the Cold War

12:42 AM on Monday, August 18

Hurricane Erin is forcing evacuations on North Carolina’s Outer Banks as it churns in the Atlantic where high winds and heavy rain are pelting the Turks and Caicos Islands and parts of the Bahamas

12:09 AM on Monday, August 18

President Donald Trump has started arranging a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

11:54 PM on Sunday, August 17

Texas Democrats have ended a two-week walkout that stalled efforts to redraw congressional districts as part of a national partisan brawl over President Donald Trump’s desire to reshape U.S. House maps to his advantage