National News

12:32 AM on Sunday, April 19

Iran has doubled down on its pledge to restrict ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz as long as the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports remains in place

9:47 PM on Saturday, April 18

Iran has reversed its decision to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and has warned that it would continue to block transit through the strait as long as the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports remained in effect

9:11 PM on Saturday, April 18

In the wide-open race for California governor, billionaire Tom Steyer is on a spending binge

9:05 PM on Saturday, April 18

A U.S.-backed project in South Africa aims to extract rare earth minerals from industrial waste as part of a Trump administration priority to reduce reliance on China

5:00 PM on Saturday, April 18

South Korea says North Korea has launched multiple ballistic missiles toward the North’s eastern waters

4:49 PM on Saturday, April 18

3:41 PM on Saturday, April 18

A U.S. appeals court is allowing construction to continue on President Donald Trump's $400 million ballroom

2:33 PM on Saturday, April 18

The U.S. Coast Guard says an airplane search crew has spotted an overturned ship matching the description of a cargo vessel that went missing with six people on board near the western Pacific territory of Saipan

2:15 PM on Saturday, April 18

About 1,000 animal welfare protesters who tried to gain entry to a beagle breeding and research facility in Wisconsin have been turned back by police who fired rubber bullets and pepper spray into the crowd and arrested the group’s leader

1:17 PM on Saturday, April 18

Former President Barack Obama has met privately with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani before joining together to read to preschoolers at a child care center in the Bronx

6:20 AM on Saturday, April 18

Iran is not ready for new face-to-face talks with the U.S., according to a senior Iranian official

4:37 AM on Saturday, April 18

President Donald Trump's influence on the Republican Party is facing a test in Indiana's upcoming primary

2:24 AM on Saturday, April 18

Pope Leo XIV has challenged Angola's leaders to “break the cycles of interests” that have plundered and exploited Africa for centuries

9:56 PM on Friday, April 17

Iran has reversed course on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and fired on a tanker attempting to pass the waterway

9:05 PM on Friday, April 17

The stories of Black and Indigenous men who fought during the American Revolution are sometimes overlooked

8:32 PM on Friday, April 17

A series of reported tornadoes has torn through the U.S. Midwest, ripping roofs off homes and leaving roads impassable

4:17 PM on Friday, April 17

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3:10 PM on Monday, April 6