National News

5:16 PM on Thursday, September 4

Ruth Paine, whose kindness to Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife as a young mother near Dallas would leave her inexorably linked to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has died

4:56 PM on Thursday, September 4

Jury convicts Florida matriarch in murder-for-hire killing of her former son-in-law

4:17 PM on Thursday, September 4

Gabriel Sterling, known for defending Georgia's 2020 election results, is running for the state's secretary of state

4:17 PM on Thursday, September 4

4:02 PM on Thursday, September 4

An FBI agent says data from a cellphone used by a Tennessee man accused of killing four members of the same family and kidnapping a baby showed he was in the vicinity of the wooded area where the bodies were found with gunshot wounds and covered with tarpaulins

4:02 PM on Thursday, September 4

A former Alaska Airlines pilot accused of trying to cut the engines of a passenger flight in 2023 has reached plea deals with federal and state prosecutors

3:55 PM on Thursday, September 4

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order to rebrand the Department of Defense as the Department of War

3:52 PM on Thursday, September 4

The Trump administration has sued the city of Boston and its leaders, aiming to invalidate policies seen as interfering with immigration enforcement

3:03 PM on Thursday, September 4

New Mexico’s governor is calling state lawmakers to a special legislative session in response to cuts to federal safety net programs enacted by President Donald Trump

2:42 PM on Thursday, September 4

Joe Biden recently underwent surgery to remove skin cancer lesions

2:11 PM on Thursday, September 4

Joseph McNeil, a key figure in the civil rights movement, has died at 83

1:48 PM on Thursday, September 4

Ten Alaska residents pleaded not guilty to voter misconduct or other charges

1:29 PM on Thursday, September 4

Some Missouri residents are denouncing a plan to redraw the state's congressional districts at the urging of President Donald Trump

1:08 PM on Thursday, September 4

Leaders of a Chicago suburb that houses a federal immigration processing center say they were told that the Trump administration's promised immigration enforcement surge will run for about six weeks

12:14 PM on Thursday, September 4

A man has been released from a Minnesota prison where he spent 27 years for a murder he did not commit

8:05 AM on Thursday, September 4

The District of Columbia is challenging President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard in Washington

7:56 AM on Thursday, September 4

Republican lawmakers in Congress are moving to eliminate limits on energy development in several Western states

6:00 AM on Thursday, September 4

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F

1:18 AM on Thursday, September 4

Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have pledged mutual support and enhanced cooperation during talks in Beijing

9:02 PM on Wednesday, September 3

A federal appeals court panel has put on hold a lower court judge’s order to wind down operations of the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”