National News

12:42 PM on Wednesday, October 29

The Federal Reserve has cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point for the second time since September

12:30 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Illinois deputy found guilty of murder in the shooting of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 asking for help

12:12 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Federal regulators are trying to make it easier to develop cheaper alternatives to powerful drugs that many Americans depend on to treat autoimmune diseases or cancers

12:04 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Israel’s intense bombardment of the Gaza Strip this week marked the most serious challenge yet for a fragile, U.S.-brokered ceasefire

11:26 AM on Wednesday, October 29

A national battle over redistricting is advancing in more states

11:24 AM on Wednesday, October 29

Shutdown

10:53 AM on Wednesday, October 29

Attorneys for Sami Hamdi, a British political commentator being held by immigration authorities in California, are challenging his detention in court

9:57 AM on Wednesday, October 29

Microsoft says users of its Azure cloud portal may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to issues with its global content delivery network services

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

9:36 AM on Wednesday, October 29

Authorities are searching for three monkeys that escaped when the truck that was transporting them overturned on a Mississippi highway but it remains unclear who owns the monkeys, who was transporting them and where they were being taken

8:32 AM on Wednesday, October 29

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog says Iran doesn’t appear to be actively enriching uranium but that the agency has recently detected renewed movement at the country’s nuclear sites

7:38 AM on Wednesday, October 29

Sudan's paramilitary forces have reportedly killed hundreds at a hospital, including patients, after seizing the provincial capital of North Darfur

5:35 AM on Wednesday, October 29

The U.S. confirms it will reduce its troop presence on NATO’s borders with Ukraine

4:06 AM on Wednesday, October 29

A Paris prosecutor says two suspects in the Louvre jewel heist have admitted their involvement in the theft

11:18 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Israel’s military says the ceasefire is back on in Gaza after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight across the Palestinian territory

9:06 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Two Russian mobsters have each been sentenced to 25 years in prison for agreeing to try to assassinate Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad for $500,000

3:54 PM on Tuesday, October 28

2:13 PM on Tuesday, October 28

The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate Wednesday for a second time this year as it seeks to shore up economic growth and hiring even as inflation stays elevated

9:49 AM on Tuesday, October 28

The death toll is growing as Hurricane Melissa crosses Cuba and heads for the Bahamas a day after making landfall in Jamaica as one of the region’s strongest storms on record

1:31 PM on Sunday, October 26