National News

1:49 AM on Saturday, September 27

The U.N. cultural agency UNESCO has designated 26 new biosphere reserves

1:20 AM on Saturday, September 27

Iran recalls its ambassadors from France, Germany and the United Kingdom ahead of U.N. nuclear sanctions being reimposed

11:05 PM on Friday, September 26

Golden lion tamarins and Hoffman's two-toed sloths have become roommates at the Palm Beach Zoo in Florida

11:02 PM on Friday, September 26

Alaska plans to start distributing to residents the annual dividend payment derived from the state’s $83 billion oil wealth fund

11:02 PM on Friday, September 26

As Congress confronts a possible government shutdown, it's also weighing the Trump administration's willingness to simply halt federal spending — even when it's against the law

11:01 PM on Friday, September 26

Private investment firms that are helping finance America’s artificial intelligence race and the huge buildout of energy-hungry data centers are getting interested in the local utilities that deliver electricity to regular customers — and the servers that power AI

11:01 PM on Friday, September 26

American soybean farmers are worried about where they're going to sell their crops and whether they'll lose money this year because China hasn't bought any for months

10:01 PM on Friday, September 26

Humberto is now a Category 4 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean and is expected to continue strengthening, forecasters say

9:59 PM on Friday, September 26

9:29 PM on Friday, September 26

South Korea’s top diplomat says his boss has asked President Donald Trump to become “a peacemaker” and use his leadership to get North Korea to talks to reduce military tensions on the Korean Peninsula

8:23 PM on Friday, September 26

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are “marching the country” into a government shutdown

7:18 PM on Friday, September 26

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said she will not call a special session to draw new Alabama Senate districts

5:18 PM on Friday, September 26

President Donald Trump is planning big tariffs on pharmaceuticals, kitchen counters, bathroom vanities, upholstered furniture and heavy trucks

3:40 PM on Friday, September 26

Now that it’s secured an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, the Justice Department faces the significantly tougher task of building a case it can prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt

1:33 PM on Friday, September 26

Federal immigration agents have arrested the leader of Iowa’s largest school district in a targeted enforcement action that shocked students and educators

11:32 AM on Friday, September 26

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died

11:14 AM on Friday, September 26

The U.N. Security Council on has rejected a last-ditch effort to delay reimposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program

7:56 AM on Friday, September 26

The Supreme Court has extended an order allowing President Donald Trump’s administration to keep frozen nearly $5 billion in foreign aid

4:04 AM on Friday, September 26

Hurricane Humberto strengthened into a powerful Category 4 hurricane in the Atlantic while a disturbance dubbed Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine is striking the Caribbean and taking aim a the Southeast United States

11:05 PM on Thursday, September 25

Surrounded by critics and protesters at the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders that Israel “must finish the job” against Hamas in Gaza