National News

1:26 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Oil prices plunged below $95 per barrel, and stock markets surged worldwide after President Donald Trump pulled back from his threat of devastating attacks against Iran

1:07 PM on Wednesday, April 8

A Wyoming judge has sentenced a man to 18 months of probation for hitting a wolf with a snowmobile and bringing the hurt animal into a bar before killing it

12:56 PM on Wednesday, April 8

An uncertain ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. and Israel may do little to stop cyberattacks from hackers allied with Tehran

12:52 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Longtime media executive Jeff Shell is leaving Paramount

12:36 PM on Wednesday, April 8

To end the war with the United States and Israel, Iran is demanding the right to collect tolls in the Strait of Hormuz as a precondition for reopening the waterway vital to world oil supplies

12:27 PM on Wednesday, April 8

11:09 AM on Wednesday, April 8

More Federal Reserve policymakers were willing to consider an interest rate hike this year at their March meeting than in January, as higher gas prices stemming from the Iran war threatened to worsen inflation in the coming months

11:01 AM on Wednesday, April 8

A ceasefire deal between the United States and Iran appears to be in jeopardy

10:58 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Health Secretary Robert F_ Kennedy Jr_ is launching a new podcast called “The Secretary Kennedy Podcast.”

10:48 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Southwest Airlines said Wednesday it is raising its checked baggage fees by $10 less than a year after ending its famous “bags fly free” policy

10:47 AM on Wednesday, April 8

The mother of an freelance American journalist who was released from captivity in Iraq says she hopes her daughter will finally return home to rural Wisconsin after living abroad for decades

10:15 AM on Wednesday, April 8

A British pastor faces manslaughter charges in the drowning of a 61-year-old man during a backyard baptism

10:13 AM on Wednesday, April 8

The California Supreme Court has ordered a Republican county sheriff who seized more than half a million 2025 election ballots to pause his probe into election fraud allegations while the judges review the legal challenge against it

9:00 AM on Wednesday, April 8

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday defended his decision to repeal the legal determination that serves as the basis for federal rules to slow climate change

2:08 AM on Wednesday, April 8

A federal judge has handed down a sentence of 15 years in prison to a woman who pleaded guilty to selling “Friends” star Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him in a 2023 overdose

12:14 AM on Wednesday, April 8

9:04 PM on Tuesday, April 7

A Long Island architect has pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and admitted he killed an eighth in a string of long-unsolved crimes known as the Gilgo Beach killings

9:02 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Route 66 turns 100 this year, making the legendary road ripe for an American road trip

9:02 PM on Tuesday, April 7

In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz

9:07 PM on Monday, April 6

Republican Clay Fuller has won Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former U.S. House seat in Georgia