National News

1:18 AM on Saturday, August 22

Somali pirates have hijacked an oil tanker off Yemen, marking a resurgence in piracy

11:09 PM on Friday, August 21

The wildfires burning across Europe this summer have exposed a potentially deadly threat lurking beneath the blackened landscape: rusty bombs and mines from World War I and II

9:02 PM on Friday, August 21

Alex Jones won a Texas court ruling that reduced one of the defamation lawsuit judgments against him for calling the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting massacre a hoax by more than $40 million

5:08 PM on Friday, August 21

TikTok has reached a $400 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, ending a 2024 lawsuit alleging the company violated federal children’s privacy laws

5:00 PM on Friday, August 21

Federal officials have announced sharp water cuts for the next two years for three Western states that rely on the imperiled Colorado River

3:17 PM on Friday, August 21

President Donald Trump is threatening to sue a left-leaning think tank unless it retracts a report that said his National Guard deployments to various cities did not reduce crime as he said

2:45 PM on Friday, August 21

A Massachusetts charter fishing captain and a client have caught what they believe is the largest Atlantic blue marlin in U.S. East Coast history

1:59 PM on Friday, August 21

The bond market is one of the few forces in the world strong enough to get politicians to snap to attention

12:12 PM on Friday, August 21

The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired him as well as its publisher and a reporter

12:02 PM on Friday, August 21

State prosecutors declined to file criminal charges against Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs over allegations that she took part in a pay-to-play scheme with a group home company

11:13 AM on Friday, August 21

Karmelo Anthony’s bid for a retrial after his murder conviction in the stabbing death of an athlete at a high school track meet has resumed

11:10 AM on Friday, August 21

President Donald Trump has expressed his gratitude to the Supreme Court for allowing the White House to continue construction for now on his $400 million White House ballroom project

9:14 AM on Friday, August 21

The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Moke has formed in the Pacific Ocean

9:01 AM on Friday, August 21

The defense has rested its case in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial after eliciting more testimony about her mental state before she strangled her three young children in 2023

8:03 AM on Friday, August 21

A Texas court has slashed a $50 million judgment against Infowars founder Alex Jones to about $6 million over falsely calling the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings a hoax

6:42 AM on Friday, August 21

Authorities say a plane that crashed at a remote military site in Alaska, killing all eight people on board, was making its second runway approach in heavy fog when it lost contact

6:29 AM on Friday, August 21

President Donald Trump is in South Carolina making a last-minute appeal for Sen. Darline Graham

4:01 AM on Friday, August 21

Starting a new school can be daunting for students, but parents can help ease the transition

9:46 PM on Thursday, August 20

U.S. stocks rose and trimmed their losses from a shaky week

9:02 PM on Thursday, August 20

President Donald Trump says the first step toward keeping Darline Graham as a U.S. senator from South Carolina involves helping her win a Republican runoff next week