National News

12:08 AM on Sunday, August 9

As Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” renews global interest in Homer’s epic, Greece’s ancient Epidaurus theater is presenting another side of the Trojan War

10:23 PM on Saturday, August 8

Artisans at a weaving cooperative in Tibet are working to preserve Pulu, a traditional wool fabric that has been used on the Tibetan plateau for centuries

10:00 PM on Saturday, August 8

The Pentagon is pressing the U.S. defense industry to accelerate production of weapons to help replenish its diminished stockpile of munitions, including those depleted in the ongoing war with Iran

5:05 PM on Saturday, August 8

Officials have confirmed that two pilots who crashed while fighting a wildfire in Utah are dead

3:17 PM on Saturday, August 8

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it expects every officer and agent in the field to be equipped with a body camera by the end of August, a rapid expansion that could provide an unprecedented visual record of the federal government’s immigration enforcement operations

2:19 PM on Saturday, August 8

Two drivers of Mercedes AMG cars have filed a class action lawsuit against the luxury car company, saying that the AMG logo on their driver’s seat gets so hot that it literally brands them and causes burns

1:36 PM on Saturday, August 8

Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Kirk Cousins and defensive end Maxx Crosby were suspended from team drills Saturday after a fight during practice the day before

11:55 AM on Saturday, August 8

Darline Graham, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, is running in a crowded Republican Senate primary on Tuesday

10:39 AM on Saturday, August 8

British Columbia has declared a state of emergency as a fast-moving wildfire forced more than 20,000 people from communities in western Canada, destroying homes as it raced toward towns along Okanagan Lake

10:28 AM on Saturday, August 8

Jorge Messi, the father of soccer star and Argentina captain Lionel Messi

10:01 AM on Saturday, August 8

The largest reservoir in the United States has plummeted to its lowest water level since it was created some 90 years ago

9:01 AM on Saturday, August 8

Former U.S. President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer has spread to other parts of his body and is causing him pain, even as he continues to speak out on public issues

8:26 AM on Saturday, August 8

Three ex-presidents have joined an all-star roster of historians in contributing to a series of essays about presidents back to George Washington

6:41 AM on Saturday, August 8

Iran has issued dramatic new demands around the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz

4:32 AM on Saturday, August 8

The Senate has confirmed Todd Blanche as the next attorney general of the United States

4:12 AM on Saturday, August 8

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in Serbia for talks on economic ties and security issues

4:11 AM on Saturday, August 8

A schoolgirl has died from critical wounds after a student opened fire at a high school and his home outside Bangkok the day before, raising the death toll to at least eight

12:03 AM on Saturday, August 8

Iran's leaders believe that sooner or later the United States will have to accede to their control over the Strait of Hormuz

6:03 PM on Friday, August 7

11:38 AM on Friday, August 7

Reports on inflation and retail sales are the central updates for Wall Street this week