National News

6:23 PM on Friday, September 26

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are “marching the country” into a government shutdown

5:59 PM on Friday, September 26

Sixteen states and the District of Columbia are suing the Trump administration over its threats to pull sexual education funding for curricula mentioning diverse gender identities

5:58 PM on Friday, September 26

It is now significantly harder for non-U.S. citizens to obtain a commercial driver’s license under new rules the Transportation Department has imposed

5:20 PM on Friday, September 26

A federal judge in Minnesota has ruled that MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed election technology company Smartmatic by falsely claiming its voting machines helped rig the 2020 presidential election

5:18 PM on Friday, September 26

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said she will not call a special session to draw new Alabama Senate districts

5:18 PM on Friday, September 26

The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers

5:15 PM on Friday, September 26

The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say

4:34 PM on Friday, September 26

Austin police have identified a new suspect in the 1991 yogurt shop murders of four teenage girls

4:30 PM on Friday, September 26

A 79-year-old man in Southern California has filed a $50 million claim against the federal government, alleging civil rights violations during an immigration raid

1:47 PM on Friday, September 26

Sara Jane Moore, who spent more than 30 years in prison for trying to shoot President Gerald Ford, has died

1:40 PM on Friday, September 26

Now that it’s secured an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, the Justice Department faces the significantly tougher task of building a case it can prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt

12:12 PM on Friday, September 26

A retired Wall Street financier has been arrested on charges that he lured dozens of women including former Playboy models to be sexually and physically assaulted during encounters in his Central Park penthouse

11:33 AM on Friday, September 26

Federal immigration agents have arrested the leader of Iowa’s largest school district in a targeted enforcement action that shocked students and educators

11:12 AM on Friday, September 26

A group of former national park superintendents is calling on the Trump administration to close the parks to visitors in case of a government shutdown

9:36 AM on Friday, September 26

Federal health officials are warning consumers not to eat certain pasta meals sold at Walmart and Trader Joe's stores nationwide

9:32 AM on Friday, September 26

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died

9:14 AM on Friday, September 26

Iran’s president is calling the expected reimposition of sanctions over its nuclear program “unfair, unjust and illegal” as the U.N. Security Council rejected a last-ditch effort to delay them

8:09 AM on Friday, September 26

The U.S. Transportation Department has tightened requirements for noncitizens to get commercial driver's licenses after fatal crashes that officials say were caused by immigrant truck drivers

5:56 AM on Friday, September 26

The Supreme Court has extended an order allowing President Donald Trump’s administration to keep frozen nearly $5 billion in foreign aid

4:47 AM on Friday, September 26

Europe's top stars are playing like it in the Ryder Cup and the result was to be expected