National News

9:01 PM on Wednesday, October 15

President Donald Trump is embracing tough-on-crime policies in his second term

6:43 PM on Wednesday, October 15

Uruguay passes a law allowing euthanasia, the first such law in Latin America

6:34 PM on Wednesday, October 15

President Donald Trump has welcomed nearly 130 donors, allies and representatives of major companies for a dinner at the White House to reward them for their contributions to a new $250 million ballroom project

6:14 PM on Wednesday, October 15

One of the largest airlifts in Alaska history is underway to evacuate hundreds from storm-devasted coastal towns

6:03 PM on Wednesday, October 15

Authorities say they have identified the remains of 14 of the 16 people killed last week in a massive blast at a Tennessee explosives plant

4:35 PM on Wednesday, October 15

President Donald Trump has confirmed that he authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela

3:18 PM on Wednesday, October 15

A University of Southern California graduate student who police say is a serial sexual predator has been charged with drugging and raping multiple women

1:27 PM on Wednesday, October 15

Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power

1:16 PM on Wednesday, October 15

11:44 AM on Wednesday, October 15

Andry Rajoelina, once a young mayor who led protests against Madagascar's government, has been ousted as president

11:42 AM on Wednesday, October 15

A federal judge in Montana has dismissed a lawsuit from young climate activists seeking to block President Donald Trump’s executive orders promoting fossil fuels

11:13 AM on Wednesday, October 15

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11:13 AM on Wednesday, October 15

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from firing workers during the government shutdown, saying the human cost "cannot be tolerated.”

10:53 AM on Wednesday, October 15

Cook County’s top judge has signed an order barring ICE from arresting people at court

6:40 AM on Wednesday, October 15

Cambodia's government says it hopes the U.S. and Britain have enough evidence in their pursuit of Cambodia’s Prince Holding Group and its Chairman Chen Zhi

6:17 AM on Wednesday, October 15

Dozens of reporters have turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon rather than agree to restrictions on their work

11:51 PM on Tuesday, October 14

Israel has received the remains of two more hostages after they were transferred by the Red Cross from Hamas

10:51 PM on Tuesday, October 14

Officials say one of the “most significant” airlifts in Alaska history is underway to evacuate hundreds of people from storm-devastated coastal towns

9:05 PM on Tuesday, October 14

One of California’s worst oil spills occurred off the Santa Barbara coast in 2015, when a corroded pipeline burst

9:02 PM on Tuesday, October 14

A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student was put to death Wednesday evening at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman