National News

3:52 PM on Thursday, May 14

Voting rights groups are arguing that a federal judge should stop President Donald Trump's executive order restricting mail voting because he doesn’t have the authority to do so

3:25 PM on Thursday, May 14

A police officer in the Salt Lake City area is charged with manslaughter for allegedly using unreasonable force when he shot an unarmed man

3:19 PM on Thursday, May 14

A Texas man deemed intellectually disabled by experts for both prosecutors and defense attorneys is facing a scheduled evening execution for the death of a retired college professor decades ago

3:03 PM on Thursday, May 14

The House Ethics Committee is investigating Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina over allegations that he created a hostile work environment and engaged in sexual harassment

2:59 PM on Thursday, May 14

Republican U.S. Rep. Max Miller of Ohio has filed a defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife and her legal team

2:55 PM on Thursday, May 14

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged Americans to mark the nation’s 250th anniversary by defending deeply held beliefs and protecting free speech rather than relying on patriotic slogans or celebrations

2:31 PM on Thursday, May 14

The Supreme Court has preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues

2:21 PM on Thursday, May 14

Cuban and U.S. officials say that CIA Director John Ratcliffe has met with Cuban officials including Raul Castro’s grandson during a high-level visit to the island

1:47 PM on Thursday, May 14

Former death row inmate Richard Glossip has been granted bond by an Oklahoma judge who ruled Thursday that Glossip could be freed from jail while awaiting a new trial for a 1997 killing

1:32 PM on Thursday, May 14

The Justice Department is accusing Yale University of illegally considering race in its medical school admissions

1:13 PM on Thursday, May 14

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to relax limits that require coal-fired power plants to prevent the release of toxic heavy metals into streams and rivers

12:16 PM on Thursday, May 14

A top California Democratic political aide has pleaded guilty in a scheme to steal campaign funds from Xavier Becerra when he served as the federal health secretary

10:59 AM on Thursday, May 14

A tourist from Washington state is facing federal charges after a witness recorded what prosecutors say was a video of him hurling a coconut-sized rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal

10:33 AM on Thursday, May 14

Xavier Becerra, a Democrat running for California governor, is propping up his decades-long career in public office as proof he can succeed in the state's highest office

9:55 AM on Thursday, May 14

Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI made their final arguments Thursday in the landmark trial whose outcome could shape the future of artificial intelligence

9:32 AM on Thursday, May 14

An Oklahoma man who has narrowly avoided execution three separate times could walk free from a county jail after a judge agreed to grant him bond while awaiting retrial

9:25 AM on Thursday, May 14

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to bring a Colombian woman back to the U.S. from Congo

7:48 AM on Thursday, May 14

State senators in Louisiana have passed a new congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the previous one

9:03 PM on Wednesday, May 13

A global oil bottleneck in the Strait of Hormuz has created a financial windfall on the other side of the world in New Mexico that is both enviable and politically sensitive in a Democratic-dominated state

5:14 PM on Wednesday, May 13

President Donald Trump is in Beijing for key meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping