National News

8:09 AM on Friday, April 17

Ford is recalling almost 1.4 million of its F-150 pickup trucks in the U.S. because of a gearshift issue that may lead to drivers losing control of their vehicles and increase the risk of a crash

8:00 AM on Friday, April 17

Ecuador’s Constitutional Court has opened the door for transgender adolescents to change their name and sex in official records

6:42 AM on Friday, April 17

A controversy has erupted over prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi

1:08 AM on Friday, April 17

The Iran war’s global energy shock is causing some nations in Asia and Africa to boost nuclear power generation and spurring atomic energy plans in non-nuclear countries on both continents

12:56 AM on Friday, April 17

Australia’s most decorated living veteran has walked free on bail from a Sydney prison 10 days after he was charged with committing war crimes in Afghanistan

12:54 AM on Friday, April 17

The South Korean internet as erupted in celebration as a 2-year-old wolf that escaped from a zoo in South Korea was safely captured Friday after a nine-day search that drew national attention

12:05 AM on Friday, April 17

Friday, April 17

President Donald Trump is more overtly leaning into some of the spoils of his office in his second term, drawing comparisons to French Queen Marie Antoinette from political opponents

11:53 PM on Thursday, April 16

In September 1963, before Beatlemania, George Harrison visited his sister in the southern Illinois town of Benton

9:26 PM on Thursday, April 16

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Todd Lyons, a key executor of President Donald Trump’s mass deportations agenda, will resign at the end of May, federal officials announced Thursday

9:04 PM on Thursday, April 16

President Donald Trump has offered Cameron Hamilton the role of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's permanent administrator

8:56 PM on Thursday, April 16

Singer D4vd has been arrested on suspicion of killing of a 14-year-old girl whose decomposing and dismembered body was found in his Tesla

8:15 PM on Thursday, April 16

About 300 flights per day must be cut from the schedule at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on the busiest days this summer in an effort to reduce flight delays, The U.S. Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration order said Thursday the airlines scheduled more flights than O'Hare could handle, so the government told the airlines to make cuts

4:45 PM on Thursday, April 16

Minnesota officials are pushing forward with investigations of federal law enforcement officers involved in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities

2:29 PM on Thursday, April 16

Authorities say a man accused of fleeing to Hong Kong after his wife’s body was found in a freezer in their Virginia apartment has been apprehended

12:11 PM on Thursday, April 16

President Donald Trump has railed against a federal judge’s decision that continues to block above-ground construction of a $400 million White House ballroom

1:03 AM on Thursday, April 16

A 10-day ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump and agreed on by Lebanon and Israel has started

12:14 AM on Thursday, April 16

A 10-day ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump and agreed on by Lebanon and Israel has started

12:02 AM on Thursday, April 16

New Jersey Democrat Analilia Mejía has won a special election to fill the U.S. House seat that was vacated by Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill after she was voted into that office

11:13 PM on Wednesday, April 15

A man who served in the U.S. Navy after immigrating from Britain has been charged in a string of deadly attacks in the Atlanta suburbs that quickly drew the attention of President Donald Trump’s administration