National News

2:58 PM on Friday, March 20

The first of five high school protesters detained for days in Pennsylvania after a scuffle with a man who turned out to be the police chief entered a probationary program designed to spare him a criminal record

2:29 PM on Friday, March 20

2:05 PM on Friday, March 20

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order barring College Football Playoff and other postseason games from airing during the annual Army-Navy matchup in December

1:15 PM on Friday, March 20

Authorities say a man armed with a knife threatened to stab a bus driver at a Boston bus and subway station before being taken into custody by transit officers

12:47 PM on Friday, March 20

Georgia has become the first state in the U.S. to suspend fuel taxes after the war in the Middle East sent pump prices soaring

10:53 AM on Friday, March 20

Nearly 90,000 bottles of a children’s pain reliever have been recalled due to reports of particles and other possible contaminants

9:55 AM on Friday, March 20

Jehovah’s Witness leaders are modifying their rules on blood transfusions by letting members choose whether to store and reuse their own blood for medical care

9:14 AM on Friday, March 20

The Vatican has launched a campaign that urges Catholic institutions to divest from mining and align investments with church ecology teaching

9:08 AM on Friday, March 20

The death of U.S. college student James “Jimmy” Gracey in Spain was likely an accident, local authorities have said

7:41 AM on Friday, March 20

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian officials are helping five countries in the Middle East and Gulf region counter attacks on their territory by Iranian drones

7:23 AM on Friday, March 20

NASA's moon rocket is back at the launch pad following hangar repairs

7:08 AM on Friday, March 20

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brings Christian language into the Pentagon as the U.S. and Israel wage war against Iran

7:05 AM on Friday, March 20

More Democrats are openly running on faith, as progressive clergy and other religious candidates push back on the idea that Christianity belongs to the right

6:29 AM on Friday, March 20

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over a Mississippi law that allows counting late-arriving mail ballots after Election Day

4:49 AM on Friday, March 20

Israel has killed several top Iranian officials since the United States and Israel began strikes against Iran

1:25 AM on Friday, March 20

With U.S.-brokered Ukraine peace talks on hold due to the war in the Middle East, Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to try to expand his military gains via new offensives against his southern neighbor that will put even more pressure on Kyiv

1:11 AM on Friday, March 20

Residents in the Mexican central state of Guerrero are setting up self-defense patrols to keep a powerful cartel out of their mountain towns

12:22 AM on Friday, March 20

A federal judge has ruled that the government overreached when it declared certain types of gender-affirming care unsafe for young people

12:06 AM on Friday, March 20

Clergy will be allowed to minister to immigrants in a holding facility at the headquarters of the Trump administration’s enforcement surge in Minnesota

9:28 PM on Thursday, March 19

At least 48 boys and young men died during the latest round of initiation ceremonies in South Africa, which involve the highly secretive process of traditional circumcision to “become a man.”