National News

9:00 AM on Saturday, October 11

Former first lady Michelle Obama is putting new force behind efforts to ensure girls overcome educational barriers in some of the world’s most economically disadvantaged areas

7:36 AM on Saturday, October 11

Before white settlers came to Onondaga Lake and the city of Syracuse grew along its shore, it was a sacred place for the Onondaga Nation

7:27 AM on Saturday, October 11

7:24 AM on Saturday, October 11

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so

7:12 AM on Saturday, October 11

Visitors to Athens can now enjoy an unobstructed view of the Parthenon

6:55 AM on Saturday, October 11

Wolfgang Bivour, a renowned fungi expert in Germany, leads mushroom hunting tours near Potsdam

2:12 AM on Saturday, October 11

The most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader — Marwan Barghouti — is not among the prisoners Israel intends to free in exchange for hostages held by Hamas under the new Gaza ceasefire deal

12:08 AM on Saturday, October 11

Venezuelans in the U.S. are welcoming the news that opposition leader leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Price

10:23 PM on Friday, October 10

Las Vegas Aces win their third WNBA title in four seasons, beating Phoenix Mercury 97-86 for 4-game sweep

8:26 PM on Friday, October 10

Two jurors who voted in June to convict Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault said they regret the decision and only did so because others on the panel bullied them, the former movie mogul’s lawyers said in a newly public court filing

8:04 PM on Friday, October 10

The Trump administration has provided a $300 million infusion to a food aid program for low-income mothers and children, easing concerns about funding during the government shutdown

5:41 PM on Friday, October 10

A lawyer in Portland, Oregon, says he is representing a U.S. citizen who was detained and held at the city's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building for hours before being released

5:20 PM on Friday, October 10

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the U.S. military is moving forward with plans to build a dedicated facility in Idaho to train pilots from Qatar, an important U.S. ally in the Middle East

11:02 AM on Friday, October 10

Officials say an explosion at a Tennessee explosives plant has left 18 people missing and feared dead

8:26 AM on Friday, October 10

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues

5:31 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

12:06 AM on Friday, October 10

President Donald Trump is in "exceptional health," according to his physician, who evaluated him Friday

10:10 PM on Thursday, October 9

Philippine seismologists say that a new offshore earthquake with a preliminary 6.8 magnitude hit the same southern region struck earlier by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4

8:28 PM on Thursday, October 9

The United States has clashed with Venezuela and its allies at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council

4:56 PM on Sunday, September 14