National News

2:03 AM on Wednesday, September 23

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar are introducing legislation that would ban artificial superintelligence, pause development of advanced AI systems and create a new Department of Artificial Intelligence

12:17 AM on Wednesday, September 23

Artificial intelligence researchers have warned for years of ways the technology could wipe out humanity: AI bots could design an unstoppable disease, unleash a nuclear war, or transform all of Earth into paper clip factories, as one thought experiment goes

12:03 AM on Wednesday, September 23

Taiwan is expressing confidence that U.S. arms sales to the island will continue despite China's pressure as China’s Xi Jinping arrives in Washington to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump

9:00 PM on Tuesday, September 22

In a summer filled with revelations about artificial intelligence’s rapid development, researchers were especially alarmed by runaway bots finding their way onto the internet and, in at least one instance, coordinating there with one another

8:55 PM on Tuesday, September 22

The fight over Missouri's congressional map has returned to the U.S. Supreme Court for the third time

6:12 PM on Tuesday, September 22

Former President Bill Clinton opened this year’s Clinton Global Initiative conference, calling on attendees to promise to “step into the void created by retreating governments” following cuts by the United States and other nations to foreign assistance

5:17 PM on Tuesday, September 22

President David Adeang has reiterated his island nation’s name change before the world’s largest gathering of leaders at the United Nations

3:57 PM on Tuesday, September 22

A Homeland Security official says the Trump administration’s whole-of-government effort to find and prosecute noncitizens illegally on state voter rolls has resulted in about 1,600 voter fraud cases

2:45 PM on Tuesday, September 22

A tense moment between President Donald Trump and CNN's Kaitlan Collins is a stark reminder of how the conflict between the administration and some news outlets has escalated in just a few days

2:26 PM on Tuesday, September 22

The Justice Department says a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier in Utah threw out more than 300 mail ballots that were being sent to voters for the state’s June primary

1:40 PM on Tuesday, September 22

A Canadian provincial premier has called a snap election, saying U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on Canada are threatening jobs, businesses and the country’s ability to determine its own future

1:08 PM on Tuesday, September 22

NATO's deputy commander in Europe is warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin is becoming increasingly reckless as the war in Ukraine drags on and as he seeks to divide Western allies

12:48 PM on Tuesday, September 22

The attorney for a Venezuelan man shot by a federal immigration officer in Texas says he's back in an ICE detention center after being taken to a hospital for a second time

8:40 AM on Tuesday, September 22

The United States, Denmark and Greenland have signed an agreement to strengthen security in the Arctic and North Atlantic

4:04 AM on Tuesday, September 22

Former Vice President Kamala Harris says the midterm elections offer a potential “stopgap” halfway through Donald Trump’s turbulent second presidency

1:00 AM on Tuesday, September 22

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has had a strong start with U.S. President Donald Trump at their first meeting

11:39 PM on Monday, September 21

Hurricane Polo is gaining strength as it moves along Mexico's southwestern coast as a Category 5 cyclone

10:13 PM on Monday, September 21

President Donald Trump’s interest in taking control of Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark, first became publicly known in 2019, but was dismissed as absurd by Denmark's leader

9:03 PM on Monday, September 21

President Donald Trump says U.S. and Iranian officials met for about three hours Tuesday, shortly after he threatened in his address to the U.N. General Assembly that he may “annihilate” the Islamic Republic if a deal isn’t reached soon to end the nearly seven-month war

12:40 PM on Wednesday, September 9