National News

4:40 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Three family members face charges for allegedly assaulting a journalist who writes for a conservative organization during a protest in Minnesota

4:14 PM on Wednesday, April 29

A Romanian man has been sentenced to four years in prison for organizing a wave of swatting calls and bomb threats against dozens of U.S. government targets, including members of Congress, cabinet-level officials, federal judges and the heads of federal law-enforcement agencies

4:11 PM on Wednesday, April 29

A grand jury indicted Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson on 30 felony counts Wednesday following a state probe into one of the largest jailbreaks in the nation’s history that occurred under her watch last year

4:10 PM on Wednesday, April 29

The USS Gerald R

3:23 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Several states already are taking steps to respond to a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana

3:13 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Cultural and historic preservation groups are urging a federal judge to block President Donald Trump from renovating the Kennedy Center

3:07 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Minnesota has been dealing with overlapping fraud investigations involving potentially billions of dollars in wasted federal funds

2:55 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Federal investigators say the man who carried out a mass shooting at Brown University and later killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor did not act randomly, but targeted places and people that held symbolic meaning tied to his perceived failures

2:46 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Animal refuge groups say they have agreed to buy nearly 1,500 beagles at a Wisconsin dog breeding and research business that was the site of a violent clash earlier this month between activists trying to break in and police who repelled them with tear gas and pepper spray

2:38 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Meta Platforms Inc. reports strong first-quarter results, surpassing expectations with significant earnings growth, but the stock slipped in after-hours trading

2:27 PM on Wednesday, April 29

A father and daughter in New Jersey have pleaded guilty to running a years-long counterfeiting scheme to trick art galleries and auction houses into buying forged paintings

1:59 PM on Wednesday, April 29

The Onion is taking another stab at getting control of Alex Jones’ Infowars platforms and turning them into comedy sites spoofing the conspiracy theorist

1:53 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Justice Department officials are moving to roll back and modify a slate of gun regulations in a dramatic shift in firearm policy pushed by Second Amendment supporters in President Donald Trump’s base

1:48 PM on Wednesday, April 29

One of the worst hailstorms to hit Missouri killed an emu at the Springfield zoo, injured drivers, knocked out power to thousands, and damaging hundreds of vehicles and even some aircraft

1:21 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Amazon is reporting increased profits and net sales during its fiscal first quarter, helped by surging growth in its prominent cloud computing unit

12:54 PM on Wednesday, April 29

Family members say the behavior of a suspect in the murders of two University of South Florida students worsened over time because of marijuana use

7:27 AM on Wednesday, April 29

The man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and kill President Donald Trump took a picture of himself in his hotel room just minutes earlier, outfitted with an ammunition bag, a shoulder gun holster and a sheathed knife

3:47 AM on Wednesday, April 29

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced nearly six hours of questioning Wednesday from House lawmakers for the first time since President Donald Trump’s administration launched the war against Iran

9:01 PM on Tuesday, April 28

Singer D4vd, pronounced “David,” is charged with killing and dismembering 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez

8:17 PM on Tuesday, April 28

Officials have confirmed a tornado with winds of at least 120 mph tore through a small Texas city where manufacturing buildings got flattened and roofs were torn from homes