National News

9:30 AM on Tuesday, August 12

A man admitted trying to smuggle protected turtles worth more than $1 million from New York City to Hong Kong

8:35 AM on Tuesday, August 12

YouTube is ready to start testing a new age-verification system in the U.S. using artificial intelligence to distinguish between adults and minors based on their viewing habits

8:35 AM on Tuesday, August 12

US inflation was unchanged last month, though core prices accelerated

8:04 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Investigators with a Native American community in New Mexico are trying to crack a cold case, one irreplaceable item at a time

7:13 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has expressed pride in being part of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, a conservative Christian network

5:40 AM on Tuesday, August 12

A U.N.-backed investigator says his team has turned up significant evidence of “systemic torture” in Myanmar’s detention centers, including electric shocks, strangulations, gang rape and burning of sexual body parts

1:07 AM on Tuesday, August 12

12:56 AM on Tuesday, August 12

President Donald Trump has endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones for governor in Georgia

12:43 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Australia’s central bank cuts interest rate for third time this year to 3.6%

12:07 AM on Tuesday, August 12

FIFA is testing a new protocol for the 2026 World Cup in North America, requiring host committees to develop human rights action plans

10:46 PM on Monday, August 11

South Korea’s new President Lee Jae Myung will travel to Washington later this month to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, Lee’s office said Tuesday, for talks on trade and defense cooperation in the face of nuclear-armed North Korea and other threats

9:58 PM on Monday, August 11

A second person has died in an explosion at a U.S. Steel plant in Pennsylvania, authorities say

9:00 PM on Monday, August 11

U.S. lawmakers are urging the Trump administration to maintain a security partnership with Australia and the United Kingdom to supply nuclear-powered submarines

8:41 PM on Monday, August 11

8:17 PM on Monday, August 11

President Donald Trump extended a trade truce with China for another 90 days Monday, at least delaying once again a dangerous showdown between the world’s two biggest economies

8:09 PM on Monday, August 11

Trump extends trade truce with China for another 90 days, delaying a showdown between the world’s two biggest economies

8:05 PM on Monday, August 11

American teen influencer Ethan Guo has been stuck in a remote part of Antarctica since June

7:50 PM on Monday, August 11

Additional employees at an Arkansas prison have been disciplined for not following procedures at a prison where an inmate known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” escaped earlier this summer