National News

8:20 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Plunged into a government shutdown, the U.S. is confronting a fresh cycle of uncertainty after President Donald Trump and Congress failed to strike an agreement to keep government programs and services running by Wednesday’s deadline

8:17 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Walmart says it plans to remove synthetic dyes and 30 other food additives from its store brands sold in the United States by January 2027

8:05 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Activists on board a flotilla of vessels sailing toward Gaza say they are prepared for the Israel navy to intervene as they approach the coastal territory

8:00 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Italy’s art police say they seized 21 artworks purportedly by Salvador Dalí on suspicion they were forgeries

8:00 AM on Wednesday, October 1

A panel of three federal judges will begin considering whether Texas can use a redrawn congressional map that boosts Republicans and has launched a widening redistricting battle ahead of the 2026 midterm elections

7:57 AM on Wednesday, October 1

The U.S. government is taking a minority stake in Lithium Americas, a company that is developing one of the world’s largest lithium mines in northern Nevada

7:50 AM on Wednesday, October 1

The U.S. military has begun reducing its mission in Iraq under an agreement made with Iraqi officials last year

7:11 AM on Wednesday, October 1

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6:56 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church

6:02 AM on Wednesday, October 1

A conservative Wisconsin appeals court judge is running for an open seat on the battleground state’s Supreme Court

5:47 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Israeli forces are pressing their offensive in Gaza, with at least 16 Palestinians reported killed across the strip as the world awaited Hamas’ response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the embattled territory that Israel has accepted

4:38 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Police in Germany have closed the Oktoberfest fairgrounds following a bomb threat linked to an explosion in northern Munich

1:31 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Rescuers are using backhoes and sniffer dogs to look for survivors in collapsed houses and other damaged buildings in the central Philippines, a day after an earthquake killed at least 69 people

12:05 AM on Wednesday, October 1

The government shutdown means further disruption for the U.S. Education Department, which has seen half of its employees laid off by the Republican Trump administration

12:01 AM on Wednesday, October 1

The government shutdown has begun

11:30 PM on Tuesday, September 30

Wall Street was veering toward losses before the opening bell as a U.S. government shutdown went into effect

8:30 PM on Tuesday, September 30

Five unoccupied houses along North Carolina’s Outer Banks have collapsed into the Atlantic ocean

12:04 AM on Tuesday, September 30

A lot of government continues during a federal shutdown

11:23 PM on Monday, September 29

8:26 AM on Monday, September 29

Electronic Arts, the maker of video games like “Madden NFL,” “Battlefield,” and “The Sims,” is being acquired by an investor group including Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund in the largest private equity-funded buyout in history