National News

6:51 PM on Wednesday, September 3

As Congress returns for a busy fall stretch, President Donald Trump is reaching into the affairs of the legislative branch, chiseling away at the separation of powers

6:34 PM on Wednesday, September 3

A jail document says an ex-Kentucky sheriff charged with killing a county judge remained in an active state of psychosis days after the shooting

6:33 PM on Wednesday, September 3

A judge has sentenced four former Milwaukee hotel workers charged with killing a man by piling on top of him to a mix of probation and time already served, allowing them to avoid spending any more time behind bars

5:57 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The Transportation Department is going to train 163 track inspectors to dramatically increase the number of people who know how to spot critical problems with railroad bridges, but the railroads themselves will still be responsible for inspecting their own bridges and the results will still be kept confidential

5:50 PM on Wednesday, September 3

A federal judge has returned full control of policing practices to the Seattle Police Department

5:44 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Marine biologists on Florida's Space Coast have released June Cleaver, a 230-pound loggerhead turtle, back into the ocean

5:42 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The deadly U.S. military attack on a boat accused of carrying drugs in the Caribbean is the latest in a series of extraordinary measures that President Donald Trump has taken to combat the threat he sees from the Tren de Aragua gang

5:30 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Four Idaho police officers who fatally shot an autistic, nonverbal teenage boy who was holding a knife on the other side of a chain-link fence in April were justified in their actions and will not face criminal charges, according to the state attorney general

5:24 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Investigators have concluded that two experienced racing pilots deviated from their expected flight paths and never saw each other before a fatal midair collision in 2023 at the National Championship Air Races

4:57 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Hurricane Kiko intensifies to a Category 4 major hurricane in the Pacific Ocean, the National Hurricane Center says

4:41 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Judge reverses Trump administration's cuts of billions of dollars to Harvard University

4:37 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Republican state Sen. Bobby Hanig has announced his bid for a U.S. House seat in North Carolina

2:47 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The House has rejected a resolution to censure Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey

2:45 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy’s support was crucial to Robert F

12:09 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California have created an alliance to safeguard health policies, believing the Trump administration is putting Americans’ health and safety at risk by politicizing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

10:28 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Mexico and the United States have agreed to continue collaborating on cross-border security issues like fighting the trafficking of drugs, guns and fuel

3:27 AM on Wednesday, September 3

1:12 AM on Wednesday, September 3

A quick-moving wildfire has burned homes in a California Gold Rush town settled around 1850 by Chinese miners who were driven out of a nearby camp

12:05 AM on Wednesday, September 3

President Donald Trump has affirmed that the United States will keep a robust military presence in Poland as he held a warm meeting with Karol Nawrocki, the new president of the American ally in Europe

11:30 PM on Tuesday, September 2

Wall Street steadied itself after Alphabet and other technology stocks rose