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Bolivia’s incendiary ex-interior minister has been arrested at the airport after being deported from the United States to face a litany of charges, including crimes against humanity for ordering a deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters in 2019

8:55 PM on Thursday, September 4

President Donald Trump says he thinks Democrat Zohran Mamdani is likely to become New York City’s next mayor unless two of the three candidates running against him drop out of the race

8:16 PM on Thursday, September 4

Ruth Paine, whose kindness to Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife as a young mother near Dallas would leave her inexorably linked to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has died

7:19 PM on Thursday, September 4

The Trump administration has decided to abandon a Biden-era plan that would have required airlines to pay cash compensation and cover lodging and meals for stranded passengers when airlines cause flight cancellations or changes

6:52 PM on Thursday, September 4

The Trump administration has sued the city of Boston and its leaders, aiming to invalidate policies seen as interfering with immigration enforcement

6:30 PM on Thursday, September 4

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's strategy of managing a tumultuous relationship with President Donald Trump may be running up against wider regional tensions and a lack of willingness by the Trump administration to make concessions

6:03 PM on Thursday, September 4

New Mexico’s governor is calling state lawmakers to a special legislative session in response to cuts to federal safety net programs enacted by President Donald Trump

5:35 PM on Thursday, September 4

The Trump administration has already denied visas for Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and his large delegation to attend the U.N. General Assembly later this month

4:48 PM on Thursday, September 4

Ten Alaska residents pleaded not guilty to voter misconduct or other charges

3:56 PM on Thursday, September 4

The head of the National Capital Planning Commission says crews can start demolishing parts of the White House for a new ballroom without needing approval

2:02 PM on Thursday, September 4

The FBI seized phones, computer equipment and typed documents from the home of John Bolton as part of an investigation into whether President Donald Trump's first-term national security adviser mishandled government secrets

12:28 PM on Thursday, September 4

Sudanese authorities have recovered and buried hundreds of bodies after a landslide in Darfur

11:05 AM on Thursday, September 4

The District of Columbia is challenging President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard in Washington

10:56 AM on Thursday, September 4

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the United States is designating two Ecuadorian gangs as foreign terrorist organizations

9:00 AM on Thursday, September 4

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7:18 AM on Thursday, September 4

Nepal's government says it is blocking most social media platforms, including Facebook, X and YouTube, because they failed to register with the government

6:23 AM on Thursday, September 4

French President Emmanuel Macron says that 26 of Ukraine’s allies have pledged to deploy troops as a “reassurance force” for the war-torn country once fighting ends in the conflict with Russia

5:14 AM on Thursday, September 4

Pope Leo XIV and his top diplomats have told Israel’s president that a two-state solution is the “only way out of the war,” in Gaza

3:09 AM on Thursday, September 4

Portuguese officials are sifting through the wreckage of a streetcar in downtown Lisbon, trying to determine why the popular tourist attraction derailed during the busy summer season