National News

9:18 PM on Tuesday, April 7

President Donald Trump over the course of a day went from threatening Iran with “annihilation” to proclaiming that the battered Islamic Republic’s leadership had presented a “workable” plan that led him to agree to a two-week ceasefire

9:14 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Bahrain sounded its missile alert siren Wednesday morning, hours after the U.S. and Iran said they reached a two-week ceasefire in the war

9:05 PM on Tuesday, April 7

A wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the Los Angeles Police Department for an officer’s fatal shooting of a 14-year-old in a clothing store is set to begin trial

9:04 PM on Tuesday, April 7

A Long Island architect accused in a string of long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings is expected to plead guilty, closing a case that bedeviled investigators, agonized victims’ relatives and tantalized a true-crime obsessed public for years

9:03 PM on Tuesday, April 7

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

9:01 PM on Tuesday, April 7

One of the world's most famous highways marks its centennial this year

8:17 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Asian shares are surging as oil prices plunged after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire that includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz

5:12 PM on Tuesday, April 7

South Korea’s military says it detected North Korea firing several ballistic missiles toward its eastern seas in its second launch event in two days

4:25 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Biblical stories like Jonah and the whale would be required reading for Texas public schools students under proposals that are putting the state at the center of another contentious wrangling over the role of religion in classrooms

3:00 PM on Tuesday, April 7

A judge has ordered a wounded North Carolina Marine veteran charged with murder to undergo psychiatric treatment

2:34 PM on Tuesday, April 7

A high school principal in Oklahoma is in stable condition after being shot in the leg inside the school's lobby

1:05 PM on Tuesday, April 7

9:36 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Progressive Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is teaming up with online streamer Hasan Piker for campus events that are already sparking backlash

9:55 PM on Monday, April 6

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council says it has accepted a two-week ceasefire in the war

9:20 PM on Monday, April 6

U.S. President Donald Trump pulls back on his threats to launch devastating strikes on Iran, swerving to deescalate the war less than two hours before the deadline he set for Tehran to capitulate

9:08 PM on Monday, April 6

Democratic-backed candidate Chris Taylor has won election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court

9:07 PM on Monday, April 6

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

8:25 PM on Monday, April 6

Oil prices plunged below $100 a barrel and Asia markets and U.S. stock futures jumped after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire that includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz