National News

9:23 PM on Friday, September 26

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are “marching the country” into a government shutdown

8:59 PM on Friday, September 26

Sixteen states and the District of Columbia are suing the Trump administration over its threats to pull sexual education funding for curricula mentioning diverse gender identities

8:58 PM on Friday, September 26

It is now significantly harder for non-U.S. citizens to obtain a commercial driver’s license under new rules the Transportation Department has imposed

8:20 PM on Friday, September 26

A federal judge in Minnesota has ruled that MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed election technology company Smartmatic by falsely claiming its voting machines helped rig the 2020 presidential election

8:15 PM on Friday, September 26

The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say

7:34 PM on Friday, September 26

Austin police have identified a new suspect in the 1991 yogurt shop murders of four teenage girls

7:31 PM on Friday, September 26

Police say DNA evidence has linked a dead man to the killings of 4 girls at a Texas yogurt shop in 1991

7:30 PM on Friday, September 26

A 79-year-old man in Southern California has filed a $50 million claim against the federal government, alleging civil rights violations during an immigration raid

7:09 PM on Friday, September 26

President Donald Trump wants to send National Guard troops to Memphis, Tennessee, like he has in Washington, D.C. Early blueprints show key differences between the crime-centered operations

7:05 PM on Friday, September 26

The Congressional Black Caucus has gathered for its annual legislative conference in Washington this past week

5:45 PM on Friday, September 26

President Donald Trump says he has ordered the government to declassify and release all records on missing aviator Amelia Earhart

4:47 PM on Friday, September 26

Sara Jane Moore, who spent more than 30 years in prison for trying to shoot President Gerald Ford, has died

4:40 PM on Friday, September 26

Now that it’s secured an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, the Justice Department faces the significantly tougher task of building a case it can prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt

3:12 PM on Friday, September 26

A retired Wall Street financier has been arrested on charges that he lured dozens of women including former Playboy models to be sexually and physically assaulted during encounters in his Central Park penthouse

3:07 PM on Friday, September 26

A man admitted to killing and burying his parents eight years ago in the backyard of their upstate New York home during a television interview this week, then was arrested as he left the studio

2:12 PM on Friday, September 26

A group of former national park superintendents is calling on the Trump administration to close the parks to visitors in case of a government shutdown

12:32 PM on Friday, September 26

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died

11:09 AM on Friday, September 26

The U.S. Transportation Department has tightened requirements for noncitizens to get commercial driver's licenses after fatal crashes that officials say were caused by immigrant truck drivers

8:56 AM on Friday, September 26

The Supreme Court has extended an order allowing President Donald Trump’s administration to keep frozen nearly $5 billion in foreign aid

7:47 AM on Friday, September 26

Europe's top stars are playing like it in the Ryder Cup and the result was to be expected