National News

12:33 AM on Wednesday, October 8

National Guard troops are positioned outside Chicago and they could soon be in Memphis as the Trump administration pushes ahead with an aggressive policy toward big-city crime whether local leaders support it or not

12:03 AM on Wednesday, October 8

A suburban Detroit haunted house prepares its scare actors for the Halloween season by sending them to school

11:19 PM on Tuesday, October 7

A down-ballot race for New Orleans clerk of criminal court has turned personal and contentious, as candidate Calvin Duncan faces attacks over whether he was truly exonerated for murder

11:11 PM on Tuesday, October 7

Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli will go head-to-head in their final debate for New Jersey governor

11:07 PM on Tuesday, October 7

The federal judge overseeing the Justice Department’s prosecution of former FBI director James Comey has already handled cases in President Donald Trump’s orbit

11:07 PM on Tuesday, October 7

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program

11:05 PM on Tuesday, October 7

Former FBI Director James Comey is set to make his first court appearance in a Justice Department criminal case accusing him of having lied to Congress five years ago

11:04 PM on Tuesday, October 7

The white sandy beaches along a swath of Florida’s Gulf Coast were battered by three hurricanes last year, leading to a multimillion-dollar effort to repair a coastline that is the region’s economic engine

11:04 PM on Tuesday, October 7

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program

11:02 PM on Tuesday, October 7

Robert Roberson hopes he will again avoid becoming the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome

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

Shares are mostly lower in Asia after Wall Street snapped a long streak of records

9:17 PM on Tuesday, October 7

7:47 PM on Tuesday, October 7

9:00 AM on Tuesday, October 7

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

4:10 AM on Tuesday, October 7

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Jerry has strengthened in the Atlantic Ocean on a path toward the Caribbean

11:17 PM on Monday, October 6

It’s been two years since thousands of Hamas-led militants poured into southern Israel after a surprise barrage of rockets

11:01 PM on Monday, October 6

Matt Van Epps, a former commissioner in Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s administration, has won a crowded Republican primary in the special election to replace a GOP congressman who left office this summer

9:10 PM on Monday, October 6

Israelis are mourning the dead and fearing for the remaining hostages as they mark two years since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack plunged the region into a devastating war

2:31 AM on Monday, October 6

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