National News

4:41 PM on Wednesday, October 29

The Trump administration has restored a memorial to Confederate General Albert Pike in Washington, D.C. Demonstrators took it down during racial justice protests in the summer of 2020

4:39 PM on Wednesday, October 29

A South Texas city has removed a mural protesting the border wall along the southern border with Mexico following a threat by Gov. Greg Abbott to withhold up to $1.6 billion in road funding

4:07 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Immigration authorities say they did not receive word of a court order blocking the removal of an Alabama father until after he had been deported to Laos

3:57 PM on Wednesday, October 29

A coalition of news organizations is suing Tennessee’s top prisons official and a warden, alleging that state execution protocols unconstitutionally limit the media’s access to the entire process when inmates are put to death

2:41 PM on Wednesday, October 29

The Senate is passing legislation that would nullify U.S. tariffs on Canada

2:39 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Colorado officials say the relocation of U.S. Space Command to Alabama was illegally motivated by President Donald Trump’s desire to punish Colorado for allowing mail-in voting

1:29 PM on Wednesday, October 29

1:21 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Microsoft has reported an 18% increase in quarterly sales, reaching $77.7 billion, surpassing Wall Street expectations

1:10 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Food aid for more than 40 million Americans is at risk of expiring at week's end

12:23 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has called on Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, to apologize to Ontario’s representative in Washington

11:24 AM on Wednesday, October 29

Shutdown

10:02 AM on Wednesday, October 29

A federal appeals court has blocked an order that required a senior Border Patrol official to brief a judge on Chicago immigration sweeps

9:39 AM on Wednesday, October 29

The U.N. General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba for a 33rd year

9:14 AM on Wednesday, October 29

Russian President Vladimir Putin is claiming that Ukrainian forces are surrounded by the Russian army in two key eastern cities and is offering to negotiate a deal for their surrender

7:38 AM on Wednesday, October 29

A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left at least 119 people dead is drawing protests for excessive force and calls for the Rio de Janeiro’s governor to resign

6:24 AM on Wednesday, October 29

The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Melissa has begun affecting the southeastern Bahamas

4:17 AM on Wednesday, October 29

8:41 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Mountaineer Jim Morrison has skied the last un-skied route on Mount Everest

6:06 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Relief organizations are mobilizing to help across the Caribbean after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm, tying for the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane in history

7:34 AM on Friday, October 24

The Department of Justice is preparing to send federal election observers to California and New Jersey next month, targeting two Democratic states holding off-year elections following requests from their state Republican parties