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2:27 PM on Saturday, June 6

A tense, weekslong standoff between demonstrators and law enforcement outside a New Jersey immigration detention center had become the latest flashpoint for protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown

11:40 AM on Saturday, June 6

Attorneys for musician Chuck Redd said on Friday that a D.C. Superior Court judge had dismissed a breach of contract lawsuit filed against Redd after he canceled a Christmas Eve performance at the Kennedy Center in protest of President Donald Trump’s influence over the venue

9:49 AM on Saturday, June 6

Renegade remains the favorite for the 158th running of the Belmont Stakes with six hours to go before post time

9:21 AM on Saturday, June 6

The New York Knicks are up 2-0

8:08 AM on Saturday, June 6

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has uses a D-Day anniversary speech in France to link immigration by sea to wartime liberation

6:16 AM on Saturday, June 6

The upcoming World Cup will feature 48 teams and 104 matches across the United, Mexico, and Canada

5:24 AM on Saturday, June 6

Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva was already a tennis phenom at age 15

5:18 AM on Saturday, June 6

Several female Navy officers say they see Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's recent intervention in a promotions list as a sign their careers now have a ceiling

5:05 AM on Saturday, June 6

President Donald Trump has issued a pardon to Stephen Buyer, a former Republican congressman from Indiana who served nearly two years in prison for making illegal stock trades based on inside information after he left office

4:23 AM on Saturday, June 6

Iran’s World Cup soccer team is traveling from Turkey to their training base in Mexico

3:43 AM on Saturday, June 6

Bernadette Chirac, the steel-willed former first lady of France, has died

2:51 AM on Saturday, June 6

A spearfisher has been killed in Australia’s third fatal shark attack in four weeks, according to police

1:10 AM on Saturday, June 6

Iran has fired ballistic missiles and drones toward Bahrain and Kuwait

1:09 AM on Saturday, June 6

Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon on Saturday killed nine people, including three Lebanese military members, according to the Lebanese army and state media

11:16 PM on Friday, June 5

Palestinian officials say Israeli troops have killed a 7-month-old Palestinian baby in the occupied West Bank as violence surges there

9:47 PM on Friday, June 5

Ugandan authorities have tightened border controls with Congo to prevent Ebola's spread

9:36 PM on Friday, June 5

Pope Leo XIV’s weeklong visit to Spain has brought him to a once-staunchly Catholic country that has long been in the throes of waning religious practice

9:17 PM on Friday, June 5

Pope Leo XIV is urging Spaniards to stop “fanning the flames of polarization” as he arrived in Spain

9:03 PM on Friday, June 5

Armenia's parliamentary elections Sunday will focus on its geopolitical future as Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan seeks closer ties with the EU and the U.S. That is despite Armenia's longstanding relations with Russia that are favored by most of the country's opposition parties

8:22 AM on Wednesday, June 3

A massive coastal development project linked to Jared Kushner is facing resistance in Albania