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18 May 2018 8:26pm GMT

Another mass shooting, another tweet from President Trump.

18 May 2018 4:53pm GMT

"I think we should expect to see an increase in Iranian cyberactivity against us," said Michael Daniel, the former White House cyber coordinator, in an interview on the Yahoo News podcast "Skullduggery."

18 May 2018 4:46pm GMT

There was another school shooting Friday, this time at Santa Fe High School near Houston, Texas. The shooter, a 17-year-old male who attended the school, is in custody and at least 10 people are dead. We're closing down our live blog but for the latest updates visit the Yahoo News homepage.

18 May 2018 3:03pm GMT

Multiple people were killed on Friday in a shooting at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, a law enforcement source said, in the latest gun violence in a country still shaken by the massacre at a Florida high school in February.

18 May 2018 2:47pm GMT

Experts on Iranian politics believe hard-line Iranian factions are behind the continued detentions of Americans held in Iran, including Xiyue Wang, a scholar and young father.

18 May 2018 11:01am GMT

The explanations about a 2016 meeting between members of the Trump campaign and a Russian lawyer have continually changed.

18 May 2018 9:00am GMT

FEMA Federal Coordinating Officer Mike Byrne announced additional assistance to Puerto Rico, where nearly all of the over 1.5 million residents lost power after hurricanes Irma and Maria hit the island two weeks apart last September.

17 May 2018 9:38pm GMT

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Thursday sharply defended President Trump's characterization of undocumented immigrants who commit violent crimes as "animals."

17 May 2018 6:51pm GMT

The U.S. Air Force walked back a tweet about the viral debate over whether a sound clip sounds like the word "Yanny" or "Laurel."

17 May 2018 6:08pm GMT

Oded Balilty is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Israeli photographer. Born and raised in Jerusalem, he began his career as a photographer for the Israeli army magazine Bamahane. In 2002, at the height of the second Palestinian uprising, Balilty joined the Associated Press.

17 May 2018 5:46pm GMT

Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., is calling on the EPA to follow through on its plan to prohibit a toxic pesticide that's been linked to brain damage in children. One of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's first actions in office was to reject his scientists' conclusion that it put children and farmworkers at risk and strike down a ban his agency had proposed two years earlier.

17 May 2018 4:19pm GMT

In front of an audience, the executive pitches the drones as "unstoppable" and calls them capable of "an airstrike of surgical precision" that could render nuclear weapons obsolete. The film, titled Slaughterbots and produced by the Future of Life Institute, shows how easily autonomous weapons could become weapons of mass destruction. In this week's episode of Yahoo News' Unfiltered, we talk to New School professor Peter Asaro about the dangers of artificial intelligence technology and autonomous weapons.

17 May 2018 3:12pm GMT

President Trump marked the one-year anniversary of special counsel Robert Mueller's appointment to lead the Russia investigation with a caustic tweet, while Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, ripped the probe in a pair of interviews with Fox News.

17 May 2018 1:24pm GMT

Mike Pence is busy building his own political operation. But close as he is to the presidency, his chances of ever getting the job fall somewhere between remote and imaginary.

17 May 2018 9:00am GMT

Communications obtained by investigators seem to contradict Michael Cohen's prior statements about Trump Tower Moscow.

16 May 2018 11:28pm GMT