National News

3:52 PM on Friday, March 20

The Chicago Transit Authority has filed a federal lawsuit seeking the restoration of $2 billion in commuter rail expansion funding that President Donald Trump’s administration stopped last fall

3:51 PM on Friday, March 20

Noah Wyle says his Emmy-winning show “The Pitt” is a domestic success story

3:45 PM on Friday, March 20

The former counterterrorism director who resigned this week in protest of the Iran war is denying allegations that he improperly shared classified information

3:22 PM on Friday, March 20

A Georgia appeals court says Fulton County doesn't have to seat two Republican picks to its election board

2:59 PM on Friday, March 20

The Treasury Department will take over the management of student loans whose borrowers are in default, according to a new agreement announced Thursday

2:30 PM on Friday, March 20

A Missouri judge has struck down the ballot summary for a potential referendum on a congressional redistricting plan backed by President Donald Trump

2:18 PM on Friday, March 20

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a policy limiting news reporters’ access to the Pentagon, ruling that key portions of the new rules are unlawful

2:03 PM on Friday, March 20

2:01 PM on Friday, March 20

A bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security has failed to advance in the Senate amid growing concerns about long lines to get through screening at some of the country’s biggest airports

1:59 PM on Friday, March 20

The State Department is setting up 12 regional hubs to coordinate disaster and emergency humanitarian responses under the auspices of a new bureau that will oversee some of the functions that had been handled by the now-dismantled U.S. Agency for International Development

1:41 PM on Friday, March 20

Another climb for oil prices sent the U.S. stock market sharply lower, as hopes collapsed for a possible cut to interest rates by the Federal Reserve

1:04 PM on Friday, March 20

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced a public-private partnership with SoftBank and AEP Ohio to develop a massive artificial intelligence data center and power complex at a former uranium enrichment site in southern Ohio

12:20 PM on Friday, March 20

The public is experiencing the consequences of a partial U.S. government shutdown in long wait times at some airports as Transportation Security Officers take time off to manage the financial strain

11:24 AM on Friday, March 20

Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to drop the charges against two Louisville officers tied to the 2020 raid that killed Breonna Taylor

8:20 AM on Friday, March 20

The U.S. military says it attacked an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged traffickers

7:47 AM on Friday, March 20

The Justice Department has filed a new lawsuit against Harvard University, accusing it of failing to address antisemitism on campus

6:04 AM on Friday, March 20

The White House is laying out a new framework that it wants Congress to use to shape national rules for artificial intelligence without curbing growth in the sector

2:23 AM on Friday, March 20

Iranians abroad and in Tehran are approaching Persian new year with grief and fear as war and a crackdown cut them off from loved ones

10:06 PM on Thursday, March 19

Another climb for oil prices shook stock markets, as hopes collapsed for a possible cut to interest rates this year by the Federal Reserve

3:01 PM on Thursday, March 19

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says a 19-year-old Mexican migrant has died at a county jail in Florida that has been holding immigrant detainees