National News

6:13 PM on Thursday, February 26

US military uses laser to take down Border Protection drone, lawmakers say, and FAA closes airspace near El Paso, Texas

6:03 PM on Thursday, February 26

Relatives of a boat captain from the eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia tell The Associated Press that he is missing after a recent U.S. strike on a suspected drug vessel in the region

4:44 PM on Thursday, February 26

A Bible-infused curriculum that Texas approved for public schools over pushback in 2024 will undergo corrections to fix hundreds of errors caught by teachers and education officials after the material was introduced to classrooms

4:08 PM on Thursday, February 26

The United States signs a $1.2 billion health partnership with Congo that ties new funding to Congo spending more at home

3:53 PM on Thursday, February 26

Canada’s minister for U.S. trade says the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement could be subject to annual review and that uncertainty could be the objective of the Trump administration

3:51 PM on Thursday, February 26

Cuba’s deputy foreign minister says the island’s government is communicating with American officials following the fatal shooting of a U.S. boat in Cuban waters

3:47 PM on Thursday, February 26

Election-year legislation to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements on voting appears stalled in the Senate, for now, despite President Donald Trump’s call in his State of the Union speech that Republicans in Congress pass the bill “before anything else.”

3:39 PM on Thursday, February 26

One of the best-known umpires in Major League Baseball history has died

3:34 PM on Thursday, February 26

Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable major medical advancements, including the polio vaccine

2:48 PM on Thursday, February 26

The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday it’s misleading for members of the House to say their package of aviation safety reforms would address the recommendations that her agency made in January to prevent another midair collision like the one last year near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people

2:25 PM on Thursday, February 26

An Oregon jury has ordered PacifiCorp to pay $305 million to 16 victims of the state's devastating 2020 wildfires

2:14 PM on Thursday, February 26

Word from the Cuban government of a deadly encounter between its troops and a boat carrying armed expatriates is casting a spotlight on Cubans living in the U.S. who still harbor aspirations of a counter-revolution 67 years after a guerrilla uprising ushered in communism

2:10 PM on Thursday, February 26

A Tennessee law that threatens local officials with felony charges and possible imprisonment if they vote for so-called “sanctuary policies” on immigration has been ruled unconstitutional

1:38 PM on Thursday, February 26

A 20-year-old woman is seeking to hold social media companies responsible for harms to children who use their platforms

1:36 PM on Thursday, February 26

Netflix is declining to raise its offer to buy Warner Bros

12:59 PM on Thursday, February 26

11:25 AM on Thursday, February 26

A New Orleans judge has ordered actor Shia LaBeouf to return to drug and alcohol rehabilitation and set a $100,000 bond after the film star was charged with two counts of battery

9:36 AM on Thursday, February 26

Federal immigration agents have detained a Columbia University student in her campus apartment

8:38 AM on Thursday, February 26

Pakistan has carried out airstrikes in Kabul and two other Afghan provinces, Afghanistan’s government spokesperson says

4:10 AM on Thursday, February 26

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told members of Congress she had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and didn't recall ever meeting him