National News

4:24 PM on Thursday, April 30

The U.N. Security Council has voted to reduce the ceiling for the peacekeeping force in conflict-torn South Sudan to 12,000 troops, down from 17,000

3:49 PM on Thursday, April 30

A massive, fiery explosion at a house in Queens sent several New York City police officers flying through the air as they were responding to a call of a man inside armed with a knife and the smell of gas

3:48 PM on Thursday, April 30

Meta is raising the prospect of shutting down social media services in New Mexico in response to a push by state prosecutors for fundamental changes to platforms, including Instagram, to protect the mental health and safety of children

2:47 PM on Thursday, April 30

The wreckage of a U.S. Coast Guard ship lost in a deadly attack more than a century ago, during World War I, was been discovered off the coast of England

2:32 PM on Thursday, April 30

Amtrak is considering allowing people to store guns in lockboxes on most of its trains, which critics say would weaken security measures that instead should be strengthened in light of the shooting at last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner

2:26 PM on Thursday, April 30

Fourteen FEMA employees who signed a public letter criticizing the nation's disaster preparedness have been reinstated after eight months on paid leave

2:20 PM on Thursday, April 30

Apple has posted strong quarterly earnings, beating out Wall Street expectations

2:19 PM on Thursday, April 30

President Donald Trump has granted a key approval to a major new pipeline that would move oil from Canada into the central U.S. The three-foot-wide Bridger Pipeline Expansion would carry up to 550,000 barrels of oil a day from the Canadian border with Montana down through eastern Montana and Wyoming, where it would link up with another pipeline

1:26 PM on Thursday, April 30

Britney Spears has been charged in California with driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol

11:08 AM on Thursday, April 30

Camp Mystic officials have withdrawn their application for a license to operate this summer, a year after devastating floods tore through the river-side camp site, killing 25 young campers and two teenage counselors

10:16 AM on Thursday, April 30

President Donald Trump has signed a bill funding much of the Department of Homeland Security and ending the longest agency shutdown in history

9:57 AM on Thursday, April 30

President Donald Trump says he's nominating former Fox News Channel contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier for surgeon general after Dr. Casey Means’ path forward stalled in the Senate

9:00 AM on Thursday, April 30

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says she won't let the U.S. meddle in the country's affairs

8:19 AM on Thursday, April 30

Michigan State University scrambled to relocate some final exams after police said they discovered a man inside an academic building with household substances that could make methamphetamine

8:05 AM on Thursday, April 30

The pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in the U.S. has launched a campaign for the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Kansas

7:52 AM on Thursday, April 30

Court ended early for the day at Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial after his accuser struggled on the witness stand

5:56 AM on Thursday, April 30

Democratic Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner says he hopes to work with Gov. Janet Mills to turn Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ seat “blue again” now that Mills has dropped out of their primary

5:09 AM on Thursday, April 30

President Donald Trump has signed legislation funding much of the Department of Homeland Security, but not its immigration enforcement operations, ending the longest shutdown in the agency’s history

9:03 PM on Wednesday, April 29

A North Texas man who claimed he wasn’t the shooter in a fatal robbery that killed two people nearly 18 years ago and who says prosecutors misused rap lyrics he wrote to secure his death sentence has been executed

9:03 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has appeared before Congress at a pair of hearings this week for the first time since the Trump administration started the Iran war