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9:42 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The rapper Mystikal will serve 20 years in prison for raping a woman at his Louisiana home in 2022

8:53 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The U.S. military has attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one man and leaving two survivors

8:49 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The federal government has asked a judge to halt the United States' first reparations program in Evanston, Illinois

7:30 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The Education Department is transferring oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies

7:19 PM on Tuesday, June 16

President Donald Trump's remodeled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has turned chartreuse from an algal bloom

7:09 PM on Tuesday, June 16

6:33 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Boxer Floyd Mayweather faces two felony charges in Las Vegas for theft and the “intent to defraud,” alleging he wrote a bad check to buy a watch at a Las Vegas luxury resale store

6:27 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The U.S. Justice Department has accused New York state officials of facilitating fraud by letting a Georgia company use a sham bidding process to gain control of a $10 billion program to provide home care to disabled Medicaid patients

6:04 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk’s companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in Mississippi

5:05 PM on Tuesday, June 16

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has refused to release a cruise ship passenger exposed to hantavirus from the Nebraska quarantine facility where she is being held

4:06 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — whose work helped propel artificial intelligence — is stressing in an Associated Press interview that society has no choice but to change in the advent of AI

4:04 PM on Tuesday, June 16

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has visited Haiti, where surging gang violence has left more than 1 in 10 people homeless

1:15 PM on Tuesday, June 16

President Donald Trump’s administration is further dismantling the Department of Education, moving oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies

12:44 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Federal prosecutors have charged 15 people with impeding federal agents during a massive immigration surge in Minnesota earlier this year

11:41 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Police in Chicago say a person is in custody in an investigation of a large cross set on fire in a well-known park

10:05 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Gov. Mike DeWine says he believes Ohio should abolish the death penalty

9:03 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Nvidia is betting on artificial intelligence to revive U.S. manufacturing

8:00 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Court papers say law enforcement officials disrupted a planned attack targeting the UFC cage-fighting show staged at the White House this past weekend

3:43 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Iran’s top diplomat says the tentative deal to end the war with the United States would require Israel to withdraw from Lebanon — a condition Israel has already rejected and that could sink the agreement

11:50 PM on Monday, June 15

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake has shaken central Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least one resident and injuring dozens of people