National News

12:03 AM on Tuesday, August 19

The top U.N. human rights body has accused both the Sudanese armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces of detaining tens of thousands of people without charge since Sudan’s civil war began in 2023

11:50 PM on Monday, August 18

The Menendez brothers are set to make their cases for parole this week

9:14 PM on Monday, August 18

9:04 PM on Monday, August 18

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

8:42 PM on Monday, August 18

Alabama has scheduled an October execution using nitrogen gas

8:39 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

8:28 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

8:13 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

7:38 PM on Monday, August 18

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

7:24 PM on Monday, August 18

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says a truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people in Florida was in the country illegally, fueling a verbal tussle with California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office over immigration

6:51 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

6:32 PM on Monday, August 18

An American Orthodox archbishop exchanged warm greetings and gifts of holy icons with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska

6:12 PM on Monday, August 18

Trump says he has begun arrangements for face-to-face meeting between Russia's Putin and Ukraine's Zelenskyy

5:51 PM on Monday, August 18

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

5:47 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

5:25 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

4:32 PM on Monday, August 18

A federal agent fired three shots at a moving vehicle after the driver sped off following an immigration stop in Southern California

4:24 PM on Monday, August 18

President Donald Trump is vowing more changes to the way elections are conducted in the U.S., but based on the Constitution there is little to nothing he can do on his own

4:06 PM on Monday, August 18

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

3:40 PM on Monday, August 18

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