National News

10:01 PM on Wednesday, October 22

Come October, monks and nuns are busy harvesting olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden — where the Gospel narrates Jesus spent the last night before being taken up the other side of the valley into Jerusalem to be crucified

5:15 PM on Wednesday, October 22

Family members of people incarcerated in Alabama prison held a rally at the Alabama Capitol

4:23 PM on Wednesday, October 22

A proposal to sell a city-owned golf course built on top of the burial grounds for enslaved people is sparking public outcry in Tallahassee

4:21 PM on Wednesday, October 22

One of Chicago's most infamous gang leaders is now asking Gov. JB Pritzker for clemency after winning a pardon from President Donald Trump earlier this year

3:58 PM on Wednesday, October 22

Investigators in Wyoming are trying to identify two men they believe left a homemade bomb in front of the state Capitol

3:38 PM on Wednesday, October 22

The Coast Guard says a family has been rescued from on a small island off Cape Cod where they were stranded for two days after their boat caught fire

2:50 PM on Wednesday, October 22

A Los Angeles man shot by federal officers while he tried to evade arrest is a popular local TikTok streamer who documents police activity, immigration enforcement and daily neighborhood life

2:39 PM on Wednesday, October 22

A lawsuit by actor Alec Baldwin alleging malicious prosecution in the 2021 fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie has been reinstated and moved to federal court

1:46 PM on Wednesday, October 22

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he will deploy the National Guard to support food banks because of expected delays to federal food assistance amid the government shutdown

1:33 PM on Wednesday, October 22

Tesla, the car company run by Elon Musk, reported Wednesday that it sold more vehicles in the past three months after boycotts hit hard earlier this year, but profits still fell sharply

1:28 PM on Wednesday, October 22

President Donald Trump has suggested he’s entitled to compensation from the federal government over investigations he faced that he claims were politically motivated

1:25 PM on Wednesday, October 22

The U.S. Justice Department has announced an agreement with the University of Virginia to pause civil rights investigations

1:19 PM on Wednesday, October 22

8:40 AM on Wednesday, October 22

8:29 AM on Wednesday, October 22

Led by Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, Democrats have seized the Senate floor to protest President Donald Trump’s presidency amid the government shutdown and push for Republicans to negotiate with them on expiring health subsidies

7:01 AM on Wednesday, October 22

The American Civil Liberties Union is alleging that pregnant detainees being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in Louisiana and Georgia are being mistreated and receiving inadequate care

5:29 AM on Wednesday, October 22

North Carolina lawmakers have given final approval to a new U.S. House map backed by President Donald Trump

11:48 PM on Tuesday, October 21

Tropical Storm Melissa is dumping heavy rain on parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic

11:11 PM on Tuesday, October 21

At least 46 people have been killed in a highway crash in western Uganda

10:11 PM on Tuesday, October 21

President Donald Trump’s administration has announced new sanctions against Russia’s oil industry aimed at moving President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table