National News

4:12 AM on Saturday, October 11

Visitors to Athens can now enjoy an unobstructed view of the Parthenon

11:12 PM on Friday, October 10

The most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader — Marwan Barghouti — is not among the prisoners Israel intends to free in exchange for hostages held by Hamas under the new Gaza ceasefire deal

9:08 PM on Friday, October 10

Venezuelans in the U.S. are welcoming the news that opposition leader leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Price

7:23 PM on Friday, October 10

Las Vegas Aces win their third WNBA title in four seasons, beating Phoenix Mercury 97-86 for 4-game sweep

5:26 PM on Friday, October 10

Two jurors who voted in June to convict Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault said they regret the decision and only did so because others on the panel bullied them, the former movie mogul’s lawyers said in a newly public court filing

5:16 PM on Friday, October 10

New York Attorney General Letitia James has battled big tech, opioid manufacturers and the National Rifle Association

5:04 PM on Friday, October 10

The Trump administration has provided a $300 million infusion to a food aid program for low-income mothers and children, easing concerns about funding during the government shutdown

2:41 PM on Friday, October 10

A lawyer in Portland, Oregon, says he is representing a U.S. citizen who was detained and held at the city's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building for hours before being released

2:20 PM on Friday, October 10

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the U.S. military is moving forward with plans to build a dedicated facility in Idaho to train pilots from Qatar, an important U.S. ally in the Middle East

9:42 AM on Friday, October 10

Mass firings of federal workers have begun

8:06 AM on Friday, October 10

President Donald Trump says he hasn't canceled a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping planned for late October in South Korea after earlier expressing anger about export controls China has placed on rare earths

8:02 AM on Friday, October 10

Officials say an explosion at a Tennessee explosives plant has left 18 people missing and feared dead

7:41 AM on Friday, October 10

Maine’s two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins next year

5:26 AM on Friday, October 10

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues

2:31 AM on Friday, October 10

Tens of thousands of Palestinians headed back to the heavily destroyed northern Gaza Strip as a U.S.-brokered ceasefire came into effect on Friday

2:17 AM on Friday, October 10

The White House is responding bitterly to President Donald Trump being passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize despite efforts from Republicans and world leaders

10:24 PM on Thursday, October 9

A monthslong calm on Wall Street shattered, and U.S. stocks tumbled after President Donald Trump threatened to crank tariffs higher on China

9:06 PM on Thursday, October 9

President Donald Trump is in "exceptional health," according to his physician, who evaluated him Friday

7:10 PM on Thursday, October 9

Philippine seismologists say that a new offshore earthquake with a preliminary 6.8 magnitude hit the same southern region struck earlier by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4

5:28 PM on Thursday, October 9

The United States has clashed with Venezuela and its allies at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council