National News

7:19 PM on Thursday, May 14

U.S. President Donald Trump wraps up his visit to Beijing with a private meeting at Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s official residence before he departs for Washington

5:00 PM on Thursday, May 14

President Donald Trump is insistent that U.S.-China relations are good and getting better despite deep differences on key issues

3:25 PM on Thursday, May 14

A police officer in the Salt Lake City area is charged with manslaughter for allegedly using unreasonable force when he shot an unarmed man

3:19 PM on Thursday, May 14

A man who experts said was intellectually disabled has become the 600th person executed in Texas since the state resumed carrying out the death penalty in 1982

2:55 PM on Thursday, May 14

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged Americans to mark the nation’s 250th anniversary by defending deeply held beliefs and protecting free speech rather than relying on patriotic slogans or celebrations

2:31 PM on Thursday, May 14

The Supreme Court has preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues

2:21 PM on Thursday, May 14

Cuban and U.S. officials say that CIA Director John Ratcliffe has met with Cuban officials including Raul Castro’s grandson during a high-level visit to the island

2:18 PM on Thursday, May 14

Lawmakers are working to raise the retirement age for U.S. Capitol Police officers

12:16 PM on Thursday, May 14

A top California Democratic political aide has pleaded guilty in a scheme to steal campaign funds from Xavier Becerra when he served as the federal health secretary

11:52 AM on Thursday, May 14

Government emails obtained by The Associated Press show that FBI Director Kash Patel went on a “VIP snorkel” session last summer at the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor

9:32 AM on Thursday, May 14

An Oklahoma man who has narrowly avoided execution three separate times could walk free from a county jail after a judge agreed to grant him bond while awaiting retrial

7:08 AM on Thursday, May 14

The Justice Department is challenging efforts to sanction attorneys from the first and second Trump administrations, asserting in a lawsuit that the District of Columbia Bar is unfairly playing politics with the legal disciplinary process

5:32 AM on Thursday, May 14

Pope Leo XIV has denounced investments in AI and high-tech weaponry, warning they lead to a “spiral of annihilation.”

4:25 AM on Thursday, May 14

The PGA Championship has its biggest logjam after one round in 57 years

3:51 AM on Thursday, May 14

Two Democrats competing to become Iowa's next senator are making their pitch to voters in the final debate

12:33 AM on Thursday, May 14

Tensions are escalating again near the Strait of Hormuz after a ship anchored off the United Arab Emirates was seized and taken toward Iran and another was attacked and sank near the coast of Oman

12:25 AM on Thursday, May 14

Efforts to unseat British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have erupted into open rebellion within his party

7:31 PM on Wednesday, May 13

Authorities say a massive Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine has demolished an apartment block in Kyiv, killing nine and wounding dozens

6:34 PM on Wednesday, May 13

4:41 PM on Tuesday, May 12