National News

11:38 AM on Friday, October 10

A search is underway after a powerful explosion ripped through an explosives manufacturing plant in rural Tennessee

11:33 AM on Friday, October 10

Authorities in southeast Georgia have arrested a woman in connection with the death of an 86-year-old woman who was mauled by two dogs

11:21 AM on Friday, October 10

Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves multiple people dead and missing, sheriff says

11:04 AM on Friday, October 10

National Guard troops have started patrolling in Memphis, Tennessee

11:01 AM on Friday, October 10

Two young Republican groups have challenged the 2020 census results in a Florida federal court

10:53 AM on Friday, October 10

A retired Army officer has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for conspiring to transmit classified information about Russia’s war with Ukraine on a foreign dating platform

10:14 AM on Friday, October 10

First lady Melania Trump says eight children displaced by the Russia-Ukraine war have been reunited with their families after ongoing talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin

10:10 AM on Friday, October 10

First lady Melania Trump says 8 kids displaced by Russia-Ukraine war are reunited with families after ongoing talks with Putin (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported it was 8 Ukrainian children)

10:06 AM on Friday, October 10

President Donald Trump says “there seems to be no reason” to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as part of an upcoming trip to South Korea after China restricted exports of rare earths needed for American industry

10:02 AM on Friday, October 10

An explosion at a Tennessee military munitions plant has left multiple people dead and missing

9:41 AM on Friday, October 10

Maine’s two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins next year

7:26 AM on Friday, October 10

President Donald Trump says “there seems to be no reason” to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as part of an upcoming trip to South Korea after China restricted exports of rare earths needed for American industry

6:17 AM on Friday, October 10

A ceasefire has taken effect in Gaza under a breakthrough deal

4:31 AM on Friday, October 10

Tens of thousands of Palestinians headed back to the heavily destroyed northern Gaza Strip as a U.S.-brokered ceasefire came into effect on Friday

3:46 AM on Friday, October 10

A storm without a name is expected to bring flooding to the East Coast from South Carolina to New Jersey and high winds to New York City over the holiday weekend

12:24 AM on Friday, October 10

A monthslong calm on Wall Street is breaking, and U.S. stocks are falling after President Donald Trump threatened to crank tariffs even higher on China

12:12 AM on Friday, October 10

National Guard troops have been seen patrolling in Memphis for the first time, as part of President Donald Trump’s federal task force

11:06 PM on Thursday, October 9

President Donald Trump is at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for what he calls a “semiannual physical."

11:04 PM on Thursday, October 9

Federal judges in two states are considering challenges to the government’s treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

7:28 PM on Thursday, October 9

The U.N. Security Council has scheduled an emergency meeting at Venezuela’s request on U.S. military actions in recent weeks in the waters off the South American country against what Washington calls drug traffickers