National News

2:25 PM on Monday, August 17

The Justice Department has finalized a rule that will pave the way for people who’ve been barred from owning firearms because of criminal convictions to apply to have their gun rights reinstated

12:17 PM on Monday, August 17

The Associated Press has released its preseason Top 25 rankings for college football

11:59 AM on Monday, August 17

Ohio State and Oregon give the Big Ten Conference the top two teams in The Associated Press Top 25 preseason rankings for the first time in 65 years

11:08 AM on Monday, August 17

11:05 AM on Monday, August 17

Hayden Panettiere, who died Sunday at 36, spent her life in front of the camera

9:00 AM on Monday, August 17

The number of people worth more than $100 million whom President Donald Trump has appointed to his administration is more than four times the combined total of the three previous presidents

8:55 AM on Monday, August 17

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has reportedly exchanged messages with an impostor posing as U.S. President Donald Trump's chief of staff

7:41 AM on Monday, August 17

Italian firefighters say an American tourist was killed by a lightning strike on Mount Etna while hiking

7:12 AM on Monday, August 17

Ukraine’s state energy company says Russia has attacked its facilities 13 times over the past week, with nearly 300 attacks this year

6:44 AM on Monday, August 17

South Korea has expressed hopes for resumption of diplomacy between the U.S. and North Korea to ease animosities on the Korean Peninsula

3:03 AM on Monday, August 17

The Trump administration says it is seeking to expand its lethal campaign of bombing boats off Latin America’s Caribbean and Pacific coasts onto land

12:07 AM on Monday, August 17

Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is running for reelection in a new Florida district after Republicans redrew the congressional map

12:07 AM on Monday, August 17

12:05 AM on Monday, August 17

Day after day over recent weeks, Ukrainian drones have pummeled giant depots belonging to Wildberries, the country’s biggest online retailer, burning estimated billions of dollars’ worth of merchandise and bringing the war home to the broad public

12:02 AM on Monday, August 17

Of the thousands of lawsuits Meta faces over child safety on its platforms, none may be more consequential than one going to trial this week in California

11:43 PM on Sunday, August 16

Hayden Panettiere has died at age 36

10:17 AM on Sunday, August 16

An extremist official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet has advocated for killing “30 to 40” people in Gaza each night

3:53 AM on Sunday, August 16

The top U.S. military commander in the Middle East has visited the long-deployed USS Lincoln in the Arabian Sea

2:13 AM on Sunday, August 16

Authorities have lifted a U.S. security alert that halted avocado exports from Michoacán, Mexico's main avocado-producing state

10:48 PM on Saturday, August 15

Rescue teams in eastern Indonesia recovered six more bodies a day after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake