National News

3:46 PM on Wednesday, May 27

A federal judge has given a onetime truck and bus driver charged in an assassination plot against an Iranian American writer a 10-year prison sentence

3:27 PM on Wednesday, May 27

Former first lady Jill Biden feared her husband was having a stroke as she watched him stumble through his disastrous June 2024 debate performance

3:09 PM on Wednesday, May 27

Residents were back in their homes near a chemical tank that overheated in Southern California

2:17 PM on Wednesday, May 27

FIFA is under fresh scrutiny for sky-high World Cup ticket prices and sales tactics that fans say left them with worse deals than they wanted

1:48 PM on Wednesday, May 27

SpaceX Starship launches are on hold pending an investigation into last week's test flight

1:37 PM on Wednesday, May 27

Attorneys for former CNN host turned independent journalist Don Lemon argue in a new court filing that recent examples of grand jury misconduct by the U.S. Department of Justice across the country warrant the release of transcripts from the normally secretive proceedings in his case

1:00 PM on Wednesday, May 27

Many kids who've won the Scripps National Spelling Bee have taken a comprehensive approach to their preparation

12:20 PM on Wednesday, May 27

Democratic members of Congress are describing dire conditions within a federal immigration detention center in New Jersey where protesters have been demonstrating and asserting that detainees inside are on a hunger strike

10:12 AM on Wednesday, May 27

The Israeli military has told residents across southern Lebanon to leave as it expands its operations there

9:49 AM on Wednesday, May 27

The U.S. Supreme Court has adopted a settlement designed to end a long-running feud over management of one of North America’s longest rivers

8:51 AM on Wednesday, May 27

Alabama is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections, despite a lower court's ruling the map intentionally discriminates against Black people

6:53 AM on Wednesday, May 27

Uganda has ordered the closure of its border with Congo, where suspected Ebola cases are surging

5:33 AM on Wednesday, May 27

President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet on Wednesday at a precarious moment for talks aimed at ending the Iran war, saying “things are going very well” days after insisting a settlement was “largely negotiated.”

3:03 AM on Wednesday, May 27

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has written to U.S. President Donald Trump and Congress asking for more air defense ammunition

2:02 AM on Wednesday, May 27

Hamas is confirming that Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City killed the new leader of Hamas' military wing

10:53 PM on Tuesday, May 26

Matthew Perry's personal assistant has been sentenced to three years and five months in prison for his role in the drug death of the “Friends” star

9:06 PM on Tuesday, May 26

Win or lose, billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer will leave a mark in the history books in his bid to become California’s next governor

9:04 PM on Tuesday, May 26

A federal judge has allowed a teenager charged with sexually assaulting and killing his 18-year-old stepsister on a Carnival Cruise ship to remain free for now

9:02 PM on Tuesday, May 26

A tourist from Washington state is pleading not guilty to charges of throwing a rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal

8:31 PM on Tuesday, May 26

U.S. stocks inched to more records after oil prices fell back to where they were in mid-April