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11:25 PM on Thursday, May 21

Large numbers of Muslims converge once a year in Saudi Arabia to unite in a series of religious rituals and acts of worship as they perform the Hajj, the pilgrimage that is one of the pillars of Islam

9:03 PM on Thursday, May 21

California is one of the most heavily Democratic states in the country

9:02 PM on Thursday, May 21

5:18 PM on Thursday, May 21

SpaceX's newest and biggest Starship will have to wait at least another day before launching on a test flight from Texas

4:01 PM on Thursday, May 21

President Donald Trump has stirred confusion by saying the U.S. will send an additional 5,000 American troops to Poland

3:57 PM on Thursday, May 21

The House has rejected a proposal for a new Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum on the National Mall

1:56 PM on Thursday, May 21

Prosecutors say the former girlfriend of a member of the boy band Why Don’t We has been charged with trying to hire a hitman on the dark web to kill him as part of a custody dispute over their now 7-year-old daughter

1:07 PM on Thursday, May 21

The Democratic National Committee has released a controversial autopsy report on the 2024 election

12:31 PM on Thursday, May 21

Colorado Democrats have voted overwhelmingly to censure the state's governor for commuting the prison sentence of an election conspiracy theorist

11:47 AM on Thursday, May 21

President Donald Trump has again raised the specter of U.S. military intervention in Cuba

11:40 AM on Thursday, May 21

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said that she and the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin agreed to maintain bilateral cooperation rooted in mutual respect

9:13 AM on Thursday, May 21

Federal officials have given final approval for a controversial segment of the Dakota Access oil pipeline that crosses the Missouri River

9:09 AM on Thursday, May 21

Investigators in New Mexico are trying to identify a mysterious substance that may have contributed to the deaths of three people

8:24 AM on Thursday, May 21

Meteorologists predict a developing El Nino could dampen the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season, but it won't eliminate storms

7:06 AM on Thursday, May 21

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said an Air France flight bound for Detroit was diverted to Montreal after a passenger from the Congo boarded “in error” amid flight restrictions tied to the Ebola outbreak

4:04 AM on Thursday, May 21

Republicans are struggling to find the votes to dismiss legislation that would compel President Donald Trump to withdraw from the war with Iran

3:47 AM on Thursday, May 21

People have set fire to an Ebola treatment center in one of the towns at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo as fear and anger grows over a health crisis authorities and aid agencies are struggling to contain

3:18 AM on Thursday, May 21

Documents reveal Queen Elizabeth II was eager for her second son, Andrew, to become Britain's trade envoy in 2001

9:14 PM on Wednesday, May 20

An attack at a California Islamic center is the latest violence where the perpetrators said they were inspired by past atrocities, such as the 2019 massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand

9:11 PM on Wednesday, May 20

A man convicted of fatally stabbing of his cousin’s girlfriend and the couple's 4-year-old daughter has been executed in Florida