National News

4:11 PM on Tuesday, August 12

A jury has awarded nearly $60 million to a man who accused a disgraced Michigan prosecutor and a police officer of violating his rights in filing sexual abuse charges

4:11 PM on Tuesday, August 12

An Army sergeant accused of shooting five fellow soldiers at a Georgia base has been charged by the military with attempted murder

3:51 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Guatemala judge convicts 6 former officials in deaths of 41 girls in 2017 fire at state-run facility

3:45 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao’s status as a powerhouse couple was on display as they attended a ceremony in Kentucky for the archives that will catalogue their careers

3:45 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Former U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, Ohio’s best-known Democrat, is expected to make another run for the Senate next year as Democrats wage an uphill fight to win control of the chamber

3:42 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Former Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio is expected to run for the US Senate in 2026, giving Democrats a likely boost

3:28 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Attorneys for grassroots campaigners are again asking a judge to halt enforcement of parts of a new Florida law that restricts the state’s process to get citizens’ initiatives on the ballot

3:12 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Man who opened fire at a Texas Target shot randomly, killing a grandfather and his 4-year-old granddaughter, police say

3:09 PM on Tuesday, August 12

As he seeks to boost his campaign for New York City mayor, Andrew Cuomo is proposing an overhaul to New York City’s rent laws and escalating his attacks on the frontrunner, Zohran Mamdani

2:31 PM on Tuesday, August 12

A basin of water dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, threatening parts of Juneau with flooding

2:07 PM on Tuesday, August 12

President Donald Trump is taking a new look at reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug

1:54 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Israel is in talks with South Sudan about the possibility of resettling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the war-torn East African country

1:42 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Water pressure is starting to improve for thousands of frustrated residents in a northern New Jersey city

1:28 PM on Tuesday, August 12

A manatee was recently spotted off the coast of Massachusetts for the first time in almost a decade

1:26 PM on Tuesday, August 12

A North Carolina judge has thrown out the convictions of four men in the death of basketball star Chris Paul's grandfather over two decades ago

10:59 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Tuesday is World Elephant Day

12:21 AM on Tuesday, August 12

An explosion at a U.S. Steel plant south of Pittsburgh has killed two people and injured more than 10 others

4:58 PM on Monday, August 11

The man who attacked the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on Friday fired more than 180 shots into the campus and broke about 150 windows

9:07 AM on Monday, August 11

Local health officials in Gaza say Israeli forces have killed at least 55 people overnight, including a well-known journalist who Israel said was a militant and people who witnesses say were seeking humanitarian aid

3:43 AM on Monday, August 11

Israel’s military has targeted and killed an Al Jazeera correspondent and others with an airstrike as they sheltered outside a Gaza City hospital