National News

12:48 AM on Wednesday, April 8

California Rep. Eric Swalwell is vowing to aggressively push back on federal immigration officers if elected governor

12:33 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Iran, the United States, and Israel have reached a deal for a two-week ceasefire

12:18 AM on Wednesday, April 8

President Donald Trump over the course of a day went from threatening Iran with “annihilation” to proclaiming that the battered Islamic Republic’s leadership had presented a “workable” plan that led him to agree to a two-week ceasefire

12:14 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Iran, the United States and Israel reached a two-week ceasefire in the war that tore across the Middle East and disrupted the global energy market, with U_S_ President Donald Trump pulling back from his threats to destroy Iranian “civilization.”

12:05 AM on Wednesday, April 8

A wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the Los Angeles Police Department for an officer’s fatal shooting of a 14-year-old in a clothing store is set to begin trial

12:04 AM on Wednesday, April 8

A Long Island architect accused in a string of long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings is expected to plead guilty, closing a case that bedeviled investigators, agonized victims’ relatives and tantalized a true-crime obsessed public for years

12:03 AM on Wednesday, April 8

12:02 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Route 66 turns 100 this year, making the legendary road ripe for an American road trip

12:02 AM on Wednesday, April 8

In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz

12:01 AM on Wednesday, April 8

One of the world's most famous highways marks its centennial this year

11:17 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Asian shares are surging as oil prices plunged after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire that includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz

8:12 PM on Tuesday, April 7

South Korea’s military says it detected North Korea firing several ballistic missiles toward its eastern seas in its second launch event in two days

7:25 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Biblical stories like Jonah and the whale would be required reading for Texas public schools students under proposals that are putting the state at the center of another contentious wrangling over the role of religion in classrooms

6:00 PM on Tuesday, April 7

A judge has ordered a wounded North Carolina Marine veteran charged with murder to undergo psychiatric treatment

4:05 PM on Tuesday, April 7

12:36 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Progressive Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is teaming up with online streamer Hasan Piker for campus events that are already sparking backlash

12:55 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council says it has accepted a two-week ceasefire in the war

12:20 AM on Tuesday, April 7

U.S. President Donald Trump pulls back on his threats to launch devastating strikes on Iran, swerving to deescalate the war less than two hours before the deadline he set for Tehran to capitulate

12:08 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Democratic-backed candidate Chris Taylor has won election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court

12:07 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Republican Clay Fuller has won Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former U.S. House seat in Georgia