National News

2:51 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Guatemala judge convicts 6 former officials in deaths of 41 girls in 2017 fire at state-run facility

2:45 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao’s status as a powerhouse couple was on display as they attended a ceremony in Kentucky for the archives that will catalogue their careers

2:45 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Former U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, Ohio’s best-known Democrat, is expected to make another run for the Senate next year as Democrats wage an uphill fight to win control of the chamber

2:42 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Former Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio is expected to run for the US Senate in 2026, giving Democrats a likely boost

2:28 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Attorneys for grassroots campaigners are again asking a judge to halt enforcement of parts of a new Florida law that restricts the state’s process to get citizens’ initiatives on the ballot

2:12 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Man who opened fire at a Texas Target shot randomly, killing a grandfather and his 4-year-old granddaughter, police say

2:09 PM on Tuesday, August 12

As he seeks to boost his campaign for New York City mayor, Andrew Cuomo is proposing an overhaul to New York City’s rent laws and escalating his attacks on the frontrunner, Zohran Mamdani

1:31 PM on Tuesday, August 12

A basin of water dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, threatening parts of Juneau with flooding

1:07 PM on Tuesday, August 12

President Donald Trump is taking a new look at reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug

12:54 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Israel is in talks with South Sudan about the possibility of resettling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the war-torn East African country

12:50 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Two more Republicans have joined the growing list of candidates vying to become Georgia lieutenant governor in next year's election

12:42 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Water pressure is starting to improve for thousands of frustrated residents in a northern New Jersey city

12:28 PM on Tuesday, August 12

A manatee was recently spotted off the coast of Massachusetts for the first time in almost a decade

12:16 PM on Tuesday, August 12

Zelenskyy says Russia wants a Ukrainian withdrawal from Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region as part of a ceasefire deal

12:04 PM on Tuesday, August 12

A man who fired a shotgun outside a New York synagogue shortly after the Israel-Hamas war began has been sentenced to 10 years in prison

11:32 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Police say four people have been arrested in connection with a burglary earlier this summer at a Los Angeles home reportedly owned by actor Brad Pitt

9:59 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Tuesday is World Elephant Day

8:43 AM on Tuesday, August 12

The more than 130-year-old Eastman Kodak Co. is cautioning on its business operations, but says it is confident it will be able to work out upcoming debt obligations

12:03 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Pakistani officials have welcomed the U.S. State Department's decision to designate the separatist Balochistan Liberation Army as a foreign terrorist organization

7:28 PM on Monday, August 11

Delivery drones are supposed to be fast, yet the long-promised technology has been slow to take off in the United States