National News

7:20 PM on Thursday, April 23

President Donald Trump is having the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool coated in a swimming pool surface hued in “American flag blue,” covering a decades-old granite surface that he said was “leaking like a sieve” and would take years to replace

6:11 PM on Thursday, April 23

Federal prosecutors have charged Edwin Brant Frost IV with wire fraud for allegedly running a $156 million Ponzi scheme

5:50 PM on Thursday, April 23

The new U.N.-backed international force charged with combating Haiti’s violent gangs has received more pledges than the 5,500 military and police it is seeking, and Chadian troops have already deployed in the capital, Port-au-Prince

5:40 PM on Thursday, April 23

President Donald Trump's “gold card” visa program, which allows foreigners to live and work in the U.S. for at least $1 million, has approved just one person since December, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced this Thursday

5:20 PM on Thursday, April 23

Amnesty International and U.S. civil rights groups have issued a “World Cup travel advisory," warning visitors about “rising authoritarianism and increasing violence" in the U.S. under President Donald Trump's immigration policies

4:23 PM on Thursday, April 23

President Donald Trump says he is weighing a taxpayer takeover of Spirit Airlines and would aim to resell the troubled carrier after oil prices drop

4:09 PM on Thursday, April 23

Offshore wind turbines roughly three times the height of the Statue of Liberty were spinning far off the coast of Rhode Island on Thursday, sending clean electricity to the region

3:50 PM on Thursday, April 23

Three professors at Emory University have filed a lawsuit claiming the school violated its free speech policies during a 2024 campus protest over the Israel-Hamas war

3:35 PM on Thursday, April 23

In the latest round of tech industry job cuts, Meta is laying off about 8,000 workers and Microsoft is offering buyouts to a similar number

2:42 PM on Thursday, April 23

The National Transportation Safety Board says a firefighter whose truck collided with an Air Canada jet last month on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing both pilots, heard an air traffic controller warn “stop, stop, stop” but didn’t know who it was for

2:14 PM on Thursday, April 23

The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday that all new school buses should be equipped with alcohol detection systems to ensure drivers are not intoxicated

2:09 PM on Thursday, April 23

Authorities have arrested two young people in an alleged plot to attack a Texas synagogue

2:08 PM on Thursday, April 23

Michigan regulators have been cleared of liability in a 2020 dam failure that flooded communities, destroyed more than 100 homes and drained a popular summer lake

12:24 PM on Thursday, April 23

The Department of Justice’s internal watchdog is reviewing the department’s compliance with the law mandating the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files

12:23 PM on Thursday, April 23

For the first time as president, Donald Trump is planning to attend the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington this weekend

11:00 AM on Thursday, April 23

A Florida county sheriff's office says they arrested a former law enforcement officer whom federal authorities say planned a mass shooting targeting Black people at a large festival in New Orleans

4:41 AM on Thursday, April 23

President Donald Trump says Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend a ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group by three weeks after talks at the White House

12:09 AM on Thursday, April 23

Wrestler and actor Andre The Giant is being honored with a roadside marker in a small town in North Carolina that was once his home

12:08 AM on Thursday, April 23

Millions more Americans might qualify for dual Canadian citizenship under a recent change to Canada’s requirements that has led to a surge in applications from its southern neighbor

5:15 PM on Wednesday, April 15