National News

5:40 PM on Tuesday, December 2

James Solomon is elected Jersey City mayor, thwarting ex-NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey’s bid for a political comeback

4:32 PM on Tuesday, December 2

The West Virginia Supreme Court has paused a ruling that allowed parents to use religious beliefs to opt out of required school vaccines for their children

4:13 PM on Tuesday, December 2

Ole Miss rises a spot to No. 6 in College Football Playoff rankings despite losing its coach. Ohio State still No. 1

3:58 PM on Tuesday, December 2

A beloved albino alligator named Claude at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco has died at age 30

3:30 PM on Tuesday, December 2

Everything the Trump administration has done this year to strengthen and enforce the standards for truck drivers and the schools that train them after several deadly crashes may cause problems for some companies if immigrants continue to flee the profession rather than deal with the harassment and scrutiny

3:21 PM on Tuesday, December 2

The owners of Camp Mystic in Texas have announced new safety upgrades following a tragic July 4 flood that killed 25 campers and two counselors

3:17 PM on Tuesday, December 2

Prosecutors in western New York have dropped their efforts to retry a man whose murder conviction was overturned in the 1993 killing of a woman near Buffalo

3:15 PM on Tuesday, December 2

Protesters, journalists and faith leaders who sued over the aggressive tactics of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area are seeking to end their legal challenge

3:14 PM on Tuesday, December 2

Hopes for an extension of health care subsidies are dwindling in Congress

2:17 PM on Tuesday, December 2

An academic society says it has banned former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers from “attending, speaking at, or otherwise participating” at its events for life

12:52 PM on Tuesday, December 2

President Donald Trump announces National Guard troops will soon head to New Orleans

12:16 PM on Tuesday, December 2

12:05 PM on Tuesday, December 2

The Trump administration says it will withhold funds for administering SNAP food aid in most Democratic-controlled states starting next week unless they provide data about those receiving the assistance

11:31 AM on Tuesday, December 2

President Donald Trump says he does not want Somali immigrants in the U.S., saying residents of the war-ravaged eastern African country are too reliant on U.S. social safety net and add little to the United States

11:13 AM on Tuesday, December 2

A man accused of shooting two National Guard troops near the White House has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and assault charges

9:57 AM on Tuesday, December 2

Sheldon “Timothy” Herrington Jr. has been sentenced to 50 years in prison, with 10 years suspended, for killing University of Mississippi student Jimmie “Jay” Lee

3:01 AM on Tuesday, December 2

A Democrat who served four years as Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor and narrowly lost a 2022 U.S. Senate bid is running for governor in the battleground state

2:10 AM on Tuesday, December 2

Talks between Russia and the U.S. on ending the nearly four-year war in Ukraine were constructive, but much work remains

10:40 PM on Monday, December 1

Emergency crews are racing to reach survivors and recover bodies after catastrophic floods and landslides in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia

9:04 PM on Monday, December 1

Video played in a New York court shows how police approached, arrested and searched Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s