National News

6:39 PM on Friday, August 28

A former White House teleprompter operator accused of using inside knowledge to make bets on the prediction market Kalshi has been ordered to turn over more than $100,000 in profits and pay a $65,000 penalty as part of a federal settlement

6:06 PM on Friday, August 28

Canada’s public broadcaster is making an exception to its policy of not labeling specific attacks as terrorism for the 9/11 attacks after coming under fire over a memo restating it

5:29 PM on Friday, August 28

The United States Southern Command says that Colombian security forces captured a suspected senior leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua

4:12 PM on Friday, August 28

The recent announcement of Pennsylvania’s first measles-related deaths in decades has ignited a public feud among politicians and health officials who disagree over the role of the contagious disease in the fatalities

4:10 PM on Friday, August 28

The leader of the Seneca Nation in upstate New York is criticizing President Donald Trump’s decision to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” saying it violates a more than 225-year-old treaty and shows a “blatant disrespect” for the Indigenous people who gave it its name in the first place

4:04 PM on Friday, August 28

President Donald Trump says his administration has entered a sweeping agreement with Venezuela that, if realized, could give the U.S. access to vast amounts of the South American country’s untapped oil reserves, at cost

3:27 PM on Friday, August 28

President Donald Trump says he will mark the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon

3:05 PM on Friday, August 28

The federal government has agreed to extend the pause on border construction in Big Bend National Park until mid-September

1:57 PM on Friday, August 28

The Commonwealth of Virginia is removing three Confederate memorials from a public park and civic campus in Richmond

1:23 PM on Friday, August 28

A new National Park Service report backs President Donald Trump’s proposed arch, despite what it says are adverse effects on a host of Washington’s iconic landmarks, including the Washington Monument and Lincoln and Jefferson memorials

12:41 PM on Friday, August 28

The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s decision that blocked an executive order limiting mail voting before the midterm elections

11:04 AM on Friday, August 28

The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon earlier this year have received the nation's highest space honor

10:33 AM on Friday, August 28

Amy-Jill Levine, a Jewish scholar of Christian Scriptures, has faced antisemitic backlash after being elected the first Jewish president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America

8:28 AM on Friday, August 28

A judge has granted a hearing to explore claims that a man wants to recant allegations of sexual abuse years ago by Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky

5:45 AM on Friday, August 28

President Donald Trump on Friday said the U.S. has entered an agreement with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of the South American country’s oil reserves

5:24 AM on Friday, August 28

Jurors have been excused for the day after not yet reaching a verdict in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial

3:52 AM on Friday, August 28

Israeli airstrikes have killed five people in Gaza and three in the West Bank, despite a fragile ceasefire brokered by the United States

9:04 PM on Thursday, August 27

The bond market swung as investors built bets that the Federal Reserve may hike interest rates soon to get the nation’s high inflation under control

9:02 PM on Thursday, August 27

Hundreds of protesters have rallied on the National Mall for a march in support of voting rights and racial justice ahead of the midterm election

8:23 PM on Thursday, August 27

Rescuers on the Nepal-China border are pulling out flood survivors caked in dark brown mud while helicopters lift stranded people to safety