National News

6:23 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Several states already are taking steps to respond to a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana

6:13 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Cultural and historic preservation groups are urging a federal judge to block President Donald Trump from renovating the Kennedy Center

6:07 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Minnesota has been dealing with overlapping fraud investigations involving potentially billions of dollars in wasted federal funds

5:55 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Federal investigators say the man who carried out a mass shooting at Brown University and later killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor did not act randomly, but targeted places and people that held symbolic meaning tied to his perceived failures

5:52 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Prosecutors say singer D4vd killed 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez by stabbing her multiple times

5:46 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Animal refuge groups say they have agreed to buy nearly 1,500 beagles at a Wisconsin dog breeding and research business that was the site of a violent clash earlier this month between activists trying to break in and police who repelled them with tear gas and pepper spray

5:38 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Meta Platforms Inc. reports strong first-quarter results, surpassing expectations with significant earnings growth, but the stock slipped in after-hours trading

5:27 PM on Wednesday, April 29

A father and daughter in New Jersey have pleaded guilty to running a years-long counterfeiting scheme to trick art galleries and auction houses into buying forged paintings

4:21 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Amazon is reporting increased profits and net sales during its fiscal first quarter, helped by surging growth in its prominent cloud computing unit

4:20 PM on Wednesday, April 29

The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority has handed Republicans their biggest victory yet in the battle to control the House of Representatives and statehouses across the country

3:54 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Family members say the behavior of a suspect in the murders of two University of South Florida students worsened over time because of marijuana use

3:48 PM on Wednesday, April 29

The Republican-controlled House gave approval to a three-year extension of a key U.S. surveillance program after weeks of infighting

3:22 PM on Wednesday, April 29

The U.S. government has charged the governor of Mexico's Sinaloa state and nine other current and former Mexican officials with drug trafficking and weapons offenses in a federal indictment

10:27 AM on Wednesday, April 29

The man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and kill President Donald Trump took a picture of himself in his hotel room just minutes earlier, outfitted with an ammunition bag, a shoulder gun holster and a sheathed knife

6:47 AM on Wednesday, April 29

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced nearly six hours of questioning Wednesday from House lawmakers for the first time since President Donald Trump’s administration launched the war against Iran

12:25 AM on Wednesday, April 29

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced withering questioning in his first appearance before Congress since the Trump administration went to war against Iran

12:14 AM on Wednesday, April 29

King Charles III and Queen Camilla have begun their trip to New York City with a visit to the National 9/11 Memorial, honoring victims of the 2001 attacks

12:05 AM on Wednesday, April 29

Jerome Powell plans to remain on the board of the Federal Reserve after his term as chair ends next month “for an undetermined period of time,” saying the “unprecedented” legal attacks by the Trump administration have put the independence of the nation’s central bank at risk

11:17 PM on Tuesday, April 28

Officials have confirmed a tornado with winds of at least 120 mph tore through a small Texas city where manufacturing buildings got flattened and roofs were torn from homes

10:41 PM on Monday, April 27