National News

6:04 PM on Monday, August 18

Missouri's attorney general is resigning to take a leadership position with the FBI

5:42 PM on Monday, August 18

Alabama has scheduled an October execution using nitrogen gas

5:39 PM on Monday, August 18

Jules Witcover, who cowrote one of the nation’s leading political columns for nearly three decades, died Saturday at the age of 98

5:28 PM on Monday, August 18

A sheriff says a shooting in southern West Virginia has left two people dead, include a suspected gunman, and three others have been wounded

5:13 PM on Monday, August 18

Fellow grad students told investigators that Bryan Kohberger developed a reputation for being sexist and creepy while attending a criminal justice program in the months before he killed four University of Idaho students in 2022

4:38 PM on Monday, August 18

The late President Jimmy Carter is being honored with a commemorative Forever stamp

3:51 PM on Monday, August 18

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has taken emergency action to ban the sale of a synthetic drug known as “designer Xanax” in his state

2:51 PM on Monday, August 18

North Carolina election officials have successfully amended over 20,000 voter registration records

2:47 PM on Monday, August 18

The judges of the Southern District of New York have approved Jay Clayton to remain as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan

2:25 PM on Monday, August 18

One candidate is Rodrigo Paz, a conservative centrist senator and son of a neoliberal ex-president who is pitching himself as a moderate reformer

1:06 PM on Monday, August 18

The Justice Department has agreed to provide to Congress documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation

12:40 PM on Monday, August 18

A woman charged with selling Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him has agreed to plead guilty

11:41 AM on Monday, August 18

10:57 AM on Monday, August 18

Three more Republican governors have authorized the deployment of National Guard troops to Washington

5:28 AM on Monday, August 18

U.S. President Donald Trump says he has called Russian President Vladimir Putin and begun to arrange a meeting between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

3:53 AM on Monday, August 18

Authorities say two police officers were shot and killed in Utah and a man was taken into custody after bystanders persuaded him to drop the gun

3:39 AM on Monday, August 18

President Donald Trump says the U.S. could support a European force in Ukraine to maintain a lasting peace in Russia's war

3:35 AM on Monday, August 18

Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 was quick and bloodless, and it sent Moscow’s relations with the West into a downward spiral unseen since the Cold War

9:09 PM on Sunday, August 17

President Donald Trump has started arranging a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

8:54 PM on Sunday, August 17

Texas Democrats have ended a two-week walkout that stalled efforts to redraw congressional districts as part of a national partisan brawl over President Donald Trump’s desire to reshape U.S. House maps to his advantage