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6:03 AM on Friday, June 12

Hundreds of mourners gathered in Kenya’s central town of Gilgil for a memorial service to honor the lives of 16 students who died in a school fire last month that police said was caused by arson

5:48 AM on Friday, June 12

Artist David Hockney has died at 88

5:21 AM on Friday, June 12

Chinese authorities have arrested an American scholar on suspicion of espionage

5:14 AM on Friday, June 12

Attorneys say an Iranian woman is among a group of people who have been deported to the Central African Republic from the United States

5:02 AM on Friday, June 12

Independents have grown increasingly unhappy with President Donald Trump during his second term, particularly independents without a college degree

3:11 AM on Friday, June 12

Thousands of Puerto Ricans are struggling with water shortages so severe that the governor of the U.S. territory has activated the National Guard and emergency responders are fielding calls every day

2:46 AM on Friday, June 12

Philippine officials say that years of disaster-preparedness drills helped prevent a larger casualty toll when one of the strongest earthquakes in 50 years struck the south and left 55 people dead with 31 others still missing

1:19 AM on Friday, June 12

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney became a symbol of middle power resistance after a celebrated speech earlier this year

12:38 AM on Friday, June 12

Japan’s H3 rocket has returned to flight with the debut of its new low-cost variant

12:29 AM on Friday, June 12

World shares have advanced in the wake of big Wall Street gains, while oil prices tumbled more than 4% after U.S. President Donald Trump claimed there was a breakthrough in talks on ending the Iran war

12:05 AM on Friday, June 12

Hwang In-beom has led South Korea to a 2-1 comeback win over the Czech Republic in the World Cup

11:05 PM on Thursday, June 11

The Vegas Golden Knights lost a very important part of their run to the Stanley Cup Final and are now on the verge of getting eliminated by Carolina

10:56 PM on Thursday, June 11

South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol and his former defense minister have been sentenced to 30 years in prison in a case alleging Yoon ordered drone flights over Pyongyang to heighten tensions with North Korea and and justify declaring martial law at home

9:07 PM on Thursday, June 11

Taylor Swift has become the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at age 36

9:00 PM on Thursday, June 11

In a new blow to the Kremlin’s narrative that Moscow is winning the 4-year-old war in Ukraine, Kyiv’s forces have targeted fuel supplies to the Crimean Peninsula

8:54 PM on Thursday, June 11

Thailand’s Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol, a lawyer and the eldest of King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s children, has died at age 47

3:43 PM on Thursday, June 11

Andrei Svechnikov scored twice and Sebastian Aho added a second-period goal in a breakout game for Carolina’s top-line performers, helping the Hurricanes beat the Vegas Golden Knights 4-2 on Thursday night to move within a victory of winning the Stanley Cup

1:05 AM on Thursday, June 11

U.S. President Donald Trump has called off new military strikes on Iran, hours after threatening to escalate the war

12:05 AM on Thursday, June 11

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to let Alabama execute a man with nitrogen gas

11:23 PM on Wednesday, June 10

At least three tornadoes have battered communities outside Chicago, leveling homes and ripping down trees and power poles