National News

9:06 PM on Friday, August 28

Canada’s public broadcaster is making an exception to its policy of not labeling specific attacks as terrorism for the 9/11 attacks after coming under fire over a memo restating it

8:29 PM on Friday, August 28

The United States Southern Command says that Colombian security forces captured a suspected senior leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua

7:12 PM on Friday, August 28

The recent announcement of Pennsylvania’s first measles-related deaths in decades has ignited a public feud among politicians and health officials who disagree over the role of the contagious disease in the fatalities

7:10 PM on Friday, August 28

The leader of the Seneca Nation in upstate New York is criticizing President Donald Trump’s decision to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” saying it violates a more than 225-year-old treaty and shows a “blatant disrespect” for the Indigenous people who gave it its name in the first place

6:27 PM on Friday, August 28

President Donald Trump says he will mark the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon

6:05 PM on Friday, August 28

The federal government has agreed to extend the pause on border construction in Big Bend National Park until mid-September

4:57 PM on Friday, August 28

The Commonwealth of Virginia is removing three Confederate memorials from a public park and civic campus in Richmond

4:41 PM on Friday, August 28

American diplomats and at least some of their family members are beginning to return to U.S. embassies in the Middle East

4:23 PM on Friday, August 28

A new National Park Service report backs President Donald Trump’s proposed arch, despite what it says are adverse effects on a host of Washington’s iconic landmarks, including the Washington Monument and Lincoln and Jefferson memorials

3:41 PM on Friday, August 28

The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s decision that blocked an executive order limiting mail voting before the midterm elections

3:26 PM on Friday, August 28

Wyoming's attorney general is investigating how two U.S. Department of Justice officials questioned poll workers in the state during its Aug. 18 primary

2:04 PM on Friday, August 28

The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon earlier this year have received the nation's highest space honor

1:33 PM on Friday, August 28

Amy-Jill Levine, a Jewish scholar of Christian Scriptures, has faced antisemitic backlash after being elected the first Jewish president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America

1:00 PM on Friday, August 28

A federal judge has again blocked President Donald Trump’s bid to erase his hush money conviction in New York

11:28 AM on Friday, August 28

A judge has granted a hearing to explore claims that a man wants to recant allegations of sexual abuse years ago by Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky

8:45 AM on Friday, August 28

President Donald Trump on Friday said the U.S. has entered an agreement with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of the South American country’s oil reserves

8:24 AM on Friday, August 28

Jurors have been excused for the day after not yet reaching a verdict in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial

6:52 AM on Friday, August 28

Israeli airstrikes have killed five people in Gaza and three in the West Bank, despite a fragile ceasefire brokered by the United States

12:04 AM on Friday, August 28

The bond market swung as investors built bets that the Federal Reserve may hike interest rates soon to get the nation’s high inflation under control

11:23 PM on Thursday, August 27

Rescuers on the Nepal-China border are pulling out flood survivors caked in dark brown mud while helicopters lift stranded people to safety