National News

7:57 AM on Saturday, March 7

The long-held practice of faith leaders ministering to detained migrants has become far more contentious — and consequential — as detention numbers soar across the country during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown

7:10 AM on Saturday, March 7

Pope Leo XIV named a veteran Vatican diplomat as his new ambassador to the United States

1:15 AM on Saturday, March 7

A subsidiary of a Hong Kong-based company that has lost control of two critical ports on the Panama Canal says it is seeking $2 billion of compensation in damages from Panama over its “illegal” takeover of the ports

1:04 AM on Saturday, March 7

Newly released videos showing the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by a federal immigration agent in Texas last year call into question assertions by the Department of Homeland Security that a driver intentionally rammed an agent with his car

12:08 AM on Saturday, March 7

Strict citizen voting requirements sought by President Donald Trump have stalled in the U.S. Senate

12:05 AM on Saturday, March 7

A deluge of misrepresented or fabricated videos has spread widely online since the Iran war began last weekend, fueled in part by state-linked propaganda influence campaigns — particularly around who is winning the war and how bad casualties have been

11:48 PM on Friday, March 6

Charles “Sonny” Burton is scheduled to be executed March 12 for his role in a 1991 robbery in which a man was fatally shot

11:11 PM on Friday, March 6

The travel chaos from the war in the Middle East has ensnared many of the Muslims who have converged on Saudi Arabia for the Umrah pilgrimage, leaving them stranded and scrambling to find other ways home

9:04 PM on Friday, March 6

California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa is retiring, just three months after declaring, “I can hold this seat

8:58 PM on Friday, March 6

A woman has sued memoir author Amy Griffin, saying Griffin stole descriptions of childhood sexual abuse from incidents in her life

8:40 PM on Friday, March 6

President Donald Trump says questions about the war in Iran are “easy” compared to efforts to better regulate college sports

8:14 PM on Friday, March 6

Affordable housing residents near a federal immigration building in Portland, Oregon, have won a court order limiting federal officers’ use of tear gas during protests at the facility

7:31 PM on Friday, March 6

A Bangladeshi man accused of using social media to trick teenage girls into sending him sexually explicit images — and then threatening to share them with their friends and family if they didn’t send more — has been transported to Alaska to face federal charges

6:11 PM on Friday, March 6

A preliminary report shows that a private jet that crashed in Maine in January remained on the ground 8 minutes longer than it should have after receiving a deicing treatment during a snowstorm

4:54 PM on Friday, March 6

Court documents show that a man accused of killing three women in Utah was already known to police in Iowa

2:48 PM on Friday, March 6

Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore has pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors in a criminal case that arose immediately after he was fired for having an inappropriate relationship with his executive assistant

2:13 PM on Friday, March 6

Russia has provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region

1:18 PM on Friday, March 6

Court documents say immigration authorities arrested a reporter for a Spanish-language news outlet in Tennessee without a warrant

12:39 AM on Friday, March 6

Israeli airstrikes are pounding the capitals of Iran and Lebanon as the U.S. apparently struck an Iranian drone carrier at sea

10:10 PM on Thursday, March 5

Explosions are sending up plumes of smoke in Iran's capital city as the United States says the most intense bombing of the weeklong campaign is coming