National News

7:40 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Three family members face charges for allegedly assaulting a journalist who writes for a conservative organization during a protest in Minnesota

7:38 PM on Wednesday, April 29

President Donald Trump is leveling a new threat against NATO ally Germany by suggesting he could soon reduce the U.S. military presence there

7:14 PM on Wednesday, April 29

A Romanian man has been sentenced to four years in prison for organizing a wave of swatting calls and bomb threats against dozens of U.S. government targets, including members of Congress, cabinet-level officials, federal judges and the heads of federal law-enforcement agencies

7:11 PM on Wednesday, April 29

A grand jury indicted Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson on 30 felony counts Wednesday following a state probe into one of the largest jailbreaks in the nation’s history that occurred under her watch last year

7:10 PM on Wednesday, April 29

The USS Gerald R

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

5:52 PM on Wednesday, April 29

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

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

4:59 PM on Wednesday, April 29

The Onion is taking another stab at getting control of Alex Jones’ Infowars platforms and turning them into comedy sites spoofing the conspiracy theorist

4:48 PM on Wednesday, April 29

One of the worst hailstorms to hit Missouri killed an emu at the Springfield zoo, injured drivers, knocked out power to thousands, and damaging hundreds of vehicles and even some aircraft

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

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

8:44 AM on Wednesday, April 29

While Charles and Queen Camilla make their first state visit to the U.S. since he became king, they will also support The King’s Trust, as it celebrates its 50th anniversary with a gala in New York on Wednesday

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

12:05 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

12:01 AM on Wednesday, April 29

Singer D4vd, pronounced “David,” is charged with killing and dismembering 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez