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U.S. first lady Melania Trump will preside over a U.N. Security Council meeting in what the United Nations said Thursday would be a first

4:40 PM on Thursday, February 26

The head of the Food and Drug Administration plans to start offering bonus payments to agency drug reviewers who complete their work ahead of the schedule

4:30 PM on Thursday, February 26

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is making his first trip to India this week in his latest effort to diversify trade away from the United States and restore relations with the world’s fourth largest economy

4:18 PM on Thursday, February 26

Berkeley leaders have approved two high-rise housing projects even though the developers are using a California law to bypass city labor rules

4:15 PM on Thursday, February 26

Vermont towns are pushing lawmakers to change public records rules because several out-of-state companies have been flooding them with requests

3:45 PM on Thursday, February 26

Congolese authorities and a civil society group say they found mass graves in an area of eastern Congo that the M23 rebel group has recently withdrawn from, as fighting in the region escalates despite a U.S. mediated peace deal

3:30 PM on Thursday, February 26

Uruguay and Argentina have ratified a Mercosur trade deal with the European Union to create one of the world’s largest free trade zones

3:27 PM on Thursday, February 26

A federal judge said that the IRS broke the law by illegally sharing thousands of taxpayers’ addresses with Immigration and Customs Enforcement

2:36 PM on Thursday, February 26

Iran's foreign minister calls indirect US talks 'one of our most intense and longest rounds of negotiations'

1:21 PM on Thursday, February 26

Cartel-linked violence in parts of Mexico may have some spring break travelers rethinking their plans

12:47 PM on Thursday, February 26

A federal judge has rejected a preservationist group’s request to block the Trump administration from continuing construction of a $400 million ballroom where it demolished the East Wing of the White House

12:18 PM on Thursday, February 26

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic an ultimatum this week: Open its artificial intelligence technology for unrestricted military use by Friday, or risk losing its government contract

10:54 AM on Thursday, February 26

Cuban soldiers confronted a speedboat carrying 10 people as the vessel approached the island and opened fire on the troops, who fired back

10:20 AM on Thursday, February 26

A Pakistani man is on trial this week on charges of trying to orchestrate the killing of a U.S. politician — potentially President Donald Trump as he campaigned in 2024

10:19 AM on Thursday, February 26

The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to allow the government to end legal protections for migrants from Syria for now

7:37 AM on Thursday, February 26

Syrian government forces and Druze fighters in the southern Sweida province have exchanged prisoners from last summer's clashes in a step toward a political deal

12:45 AM on Thursday, February 26

Iran and the United States held a third round of nuclear talks in Geneva as Washington sends airships and warships to the Middle East to underscore the U.S. demand that Iran stop enriching uranium

12:10 AM on Thursday, February 26

A federal judge in Oregon has ordered narrow changes to hydropower dam operations on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest to help salmon

12:08 AM on Thursday, February 26

Memorial services for the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. begin in Chicago and stretch across the country to honor his long civil rights legacy