National News

4:59 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Secretary of State Marco Rubio passed President Donald Trump a note during a White House event hinting that a Mideast peace deal was close

4:57 PM on Wednesday, October 8

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law phasing out certain ultraprocessed foods from school meals

4:30 PM on Wednesday, October 8

4:25 PM on Wednesday, October 8

A New York county’s law banning transgender women from playing on female sports teams at county-run parks and recreational facilities has been halted for now

4:10 PM on Wednesday, October 8

The Trump administration hasn't provided evidence to lawmakers that recent U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats were justified

4:08 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy says he is troubled that partisanship seemed to be “creeping its way into the court,” and that the state of political discourse in the country has gotten so vulgar and vile that he worries for the country

4:03 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Costa Rica has put forward diplomat and former Vice President Rebeca Grynspan as a candidate for the United Nations secretary-general position

3:16 PM on Wednesday, October 8

The Senate is voting on legislation to put a check on President Donald Trump’s ability to use deadly military force against drug cartels

1:36 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff says he raised more than $12 million from July through September

1:26 PM on Wednesday, October 8

The U.S. Marshals say the only escaped inmate who remained on the run after breaking out of a New Orleans jail in May has been captured

12:50 PM on Wednesday, October 8

The IRS will furlough nearly half of its workforce as part of a new contingency plan

12:39 PM on Wednesday, October 8

A New York City judge has dismissed a civil summons against Alex O’Keefe, a former writer for FX’s “The Bear.”

9:52 AM on Wednesday, October 8

Authorities have charged a 29-year-old man with igniting the January fire that destroyed Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades neighborhood

9:00 AM on Wednesday, October 8

Authorities say 13 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested in Boston after a clash with police that resulted in four officers being sent to hospitals for non-life-threatening injuries

7:59 AM on Wednesday, October 8

Priscilla has lost hurricane strength as it churns off Mexico's western Pacific coast ever closer to the Baja California peninsula

7:29 AM on Wednesday, October 8

President Donald Trump said Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, both Democrats, should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago

5:06 AM on Wednesday, October 8

Senior officials from the United States, Qatar and Israel have joined the third day of talks between Israel and Hamas in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh

12:33 AM on Wednesday, October 8

The governor of Illinois says he’s still in the dark about where the Trump administration will send National Guard troops who have reported to an Army training site southwest of Chicago

11:02 PM on Tuesday, October 7

As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight

10:12 PM on Tuesday, October 7

Wall Street’s pause from its record-breaking rally didn’t last long