National News

3:46 PM on Tuesday, November 18

The U.S. Department of Energy says it's loaning $1 billion to help finance the restart of the nuclear power plant on Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island to supply power to data centers for tech giant Microsoft

3:36 PM on Tuesday, November 18

The Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator on Tuesday released new guidelines for the agency’s supervision of the financial system, earning praise from industry trade groups and criticism from her predecessor

2:56 PM on Tuesday, November 18

Rapper Nicki Minaj says she wants to shine a spotlight on “the deadly threat” to Christians in Nigeria

2:48 PM on Tuesday, November 18

President Donald Trump continues to call on Indiana lawmakers to redraw the state's congressional boundaries, even as state senators do not have enough votes to do so

2:42 PM on Tuesday, November 18

Both Democrats and Republicans alike readied for a unanimous House vote to pass a bill to force the release of the case files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

2:38 PM on Tuesday, November 18

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's office says the National Guard will continue supporting a crime-fighting task force ordered by President Donald Trump in Memphis while state lawyers appeal a judge's order that blocked the troops from operating in the city

2:32 PM on Tuesday, November 18

Legal filings show Florida elections officials have taken early steps under pressure from activists to advance a proposed initiative to legalize recreational marijuana to next year’s ballot

2:28 PM on Tuesday, November 18

Senate agrees to pass bill to force release of Epstein files, sending Trump legislation he initially opposed

2:25 PM on Tuesday, November 18

The Education Department is breaking off several of its main offices and giving their responsibilities to other federal agencies, an early look at how President Donald Trump could fulfill his campaign pledge to close the department entirely

2:22 PM on Tuesday, November 18

Federal agents are set to conduct a major immigration crackdown called “Swamp Sweep” in New Orleans in the coming weeks

2:12 PM on Tuesday, November 18

A Georgia man has been shot and killed by police after he shot at them and killed his stepchildren

11:40 AM on Tuesday, November 18

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has firmly rejected the possibility of U.S. intervention against drug cartels a day after President Donald Trump again said he would support it

10:49 AM on Tuesday, November 18

South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden says he's running to remain in office next June

9:41 AM on Tuesday, November 18

The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department

5:05 AM on Tuesday, November 18

Federal investigators say the loss of electrical power from a loose wire caused a huge cargo ship to lose propulsion and steering before crashing into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse last year and killing six construction workers

10:06 PM on Monday, November 17

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary and current Harvard professor Larry Summers says he'll step back from public commitments after the release of emails showing he maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein long after the financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl

9:35 PM on Monday, November 17

U.S. stocks fell again following a sell-off that swept Europe and Asia

9:16 PM on Monday, November 17

A South Carolina bill that could sentence women who get abortions to decades in prison has stalled in South Carolina

9:09 PM on Monday, November 17

Both the House and Senate have acted decisively to pass a bill to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

11:16 AM on Monday, November 17

U.S. Border Patrol agents carrying out immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina’s largest city have arrested more than 130 people and are moving into the state’s capital city