National News

12:01 AM on Saturday, August 23

As Hurricane Erin pelted North Carolina’s barrier islands with strong winds and waves, it destroyed many nests of threatened sea turtles

11:15 PM on Friday, August 22

Lyle Menendez has been denied parole by a panel of California commissioners

11:12 PM on Friday, August 22

California parole board says Lyle Menendez should remain in prison with brother Erik for murdering parents in 1989

11:02 PM on Friday, August 22

Six people who died in what authorities suspect was exposure to gas at a dairy farm include a 50-year-old father and two sons, one of whom was in high school

9:32 PM on Friday, August 22

A judge has ruled the Trump administration cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties because of policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts

9:26 PM on Friday, August 22

Judge rules Trump cannot deny funding to Los Angeles, Chicago and 32 other cities and counties over ‘sanctuary’ policies

8:57 PM on Friday, August 22

Former NBA star Shawn Kemp was sentenced to 30 days of electronic home monitoring for shooting at two men inside a vehicle in a Washington state mall parking lot

7:30 PM on Friday, August 22

The American Civil Liberties Union argues that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration continues to overly restrict access to mifepristone, a medication used for abortions and miscarriage management

3:33 PM on Friday, August 22

Weeks after David Rose was killed while responding to a shooting this month at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, officers are remembering the DeKalb County police officer as a courageous leader who prioritized family

3:22 PM on Friday, August 22

A pair of ospreys have disrupted the fall sports season at a Minnesota high school by nesting on a light pole on the football field

1:56 PM on Friday, August 22

Authorities say a tour bus returning to New York City from Niagara Falls has crashed on an interstate highway, killing five passengers and injuring many others

1:43 PM on Friday, August 22

Authorities in Southern California have arrested the parents of a missing 7-month-old boy as part of a murder investigation

10:37 AM on Friday, August 22

Hundreds of low-income parents in Georgia are billed for child support after their kids were placed in foster care

8:13 AM on Friday, August 22

The Justice Department has released transcripts of interviews its No. 2 official did with Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned former girlfriend as the Trump administration scrambles to present itself as transparent amid a fierce backlash over an earlier refusal to disclose a trove of records from the sex-trafficking case

7:38 AM on Friday, August 22

The FBI has searched the Maryland home and Washington office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton as part of an investigation into the handling of classified information

5:02 AM on Friday, August 22

The world's leading authority on food crises says the Gaza Strip’s largest city is gripped by famine, and that it is likely to spread without an immediate ceasefire and an end to restrictions on humanitarian aid

2:37 AM on Friday, August 22

Iran's foreign minister has spoken with his French, German, and British counterparts, trying to stop the reimposition of U.N. sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program

12:23 AM on Friday, August 22

A Florida conservative who has been a Donald Trump cheerleader dating back to the president’s days as a reality TV star is now the Republican National Committee chairman

5:02 PM on Wednesday, August 20

Lyle and Erik Menendez have both denied parole after serving decades in prison for killing their parents

3:28 PM on Wednesday, August 20

Lyle Menendez has been denied parole a day after his younger brother Erik received the same recommendation by a California state board