National News

7:01 PM on Friday, June 12

A proposal that would require ordained clergy to be monogamous is on the docket at the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s General Assembly this summer, while a separate proposal asks for a study on relationships that would account for different familial realities

6:25 PM on Friday, June 12

6:11 PM on Friday, June 12

A youth-soccer nonprofit in Seattle has returned 20 free World Cup tickets to protest the U.S. decision to bar Somali referee Omar Artan from entering the country

6:09 PM on Friday, June 12

A federal judge found to have had sex in her chambers in earshot of her staff has apologized to a former law clerk for her “harmful, offensive, and unprofessional behavior.”

5:21 PM on Friday, June 12

A group of U.S. Democratic lawmakers have promised Puerto Ricans that they would try to speed up the island’s sluggish recovery from destructive hurricanes and earthquakes, a process that relies heavily on federal funds

5:06 PM on Friday, June 12

Taiwan’s Beijing-friendly opposition leader says her party is committed to defense of the self-ruled island that China views as its own but that peace is possible by taking permanent secession off the table

5:06 PM on Friday, June 12

The Treasury Department has moved to involve banks more deeply in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown

4:50 PM on Friday, June 12

4:47 PM on Friday, June 12

Democrats are rallying behind Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner despite a series of controversies that might have derailed a Democratic campaign during the height of the #MeToo movement

4:31 PM on Friday, June 12

Organizations providing legal aid to unaccompanied migrant children say agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Health and Human Services attempted to enter their offices

4:30 PM on Friday, June 12

U.S. stocks rose after oil prices fell again, and SpaceX soared in its highly anticipated debut on Wall Street

3:58 PM on Friday, June 12

New UFO files have been released by the Trump administration that include several vivid descriptions of mysterious sightings in the sky

10:26 AM on Friday, June 12

Catapulted by the market debut of his rocket company SpaceX, Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire

7:16 AM on Friday, June 12

Shares of SpaceX soared 19% in their Wall Street debut, making the rocket maker’s founder and CEO Elon Musk the first-ever trillionaire

7:01 AM on Friday, June 12

Steven Spielberg's new film “Disclosure Day” explores extraterrestrial life and its impact on religion

5:21 AM on Friday, June 12

Chinese authorities have arrested an American scholar on suspicion of espionage

1:19 AM on Friday, June 12

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to be more muted in his criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump at an upcoming summit in Europe

12:29 AM on Friday, June 12

U.S. stocks rose after oil prices fell again, and SpaceX soared in its highly anticipated debut on Wall Street

12:02 AM on Friday, June 12

Defense lawyers for the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk are asking a judge to block prosecutors from seeking the death penalty as punishment for comments they made in the media about a bullet fragment recovered from Kirk’s body

11:23 PM on Wednesday, June 10

At least three tornadoes have battered communities outside Chicago, leveling homes and ripping down trees and power poles