National News

9:20 AM on Monday, March 23

Arrivals and departures were temporarily paused at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey after air traffic controllers evacuated the tower due to a burning smell coming from an elevator

8:09 AM on Monday, March 23

Use of blockbuster anti-obesity drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound is growing, with about 1 in 8 adults in the U.S. saying they currently take the medications

8:02 AM on Monday, March 23

Israel’s use of Tehran street cameras to help kill Iran’s supreme leader shows how everyday surveillance can turn into a wartime weapon

7:53 AM on Monday, March 23

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says that a summit between her brother and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi won’t happen if Japan sticks to “its anachronistic” approach

7:07 AM on Monday, March 23

Slovenia’s president is urging the country’s political parties to start talks on forming a new government as soon as possible after the country's two main parties were practically tied in a weekend election

7:04 AM on Monday, March 23

Democrats are pushing new tax-cut plans to ease voters’ affordability worries and blunt Republicans’ advantage on the issue

2:15 AM on Monday, March 23

The head of the International Energy Agency says the global economy faces a “major, major threat” because of the Iran war

1:54 AM on Monday, March 23

Emmanuel Grégoire has won the Paris mayoral race and takes over from fellow Socialist Anne Hidalgo

10:10 PM on Sunday, March 22

A statue of Christopher Columbus been placed on the grounds of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House

10:01 PM on Sunday, March 22

A new AAPI Data/AP-NORC poll finds that most Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders believe President Donald Trump has done more harm than good on the issue of immigration and border security in his second term so far

9:59 PM on Sunday, March 22

Rahm Emanuel is proposing a far-reaching measure to crack down on betting in predictive markets in Washington as part of an effort to call attention to what he sees as a culture of corruption gripping the nation’s politics

7:52 PM on Sunday, March 22

Dylan Darling hit a driving layup as time expired for his only bucket of the game, and St. John’s blew a 13-point lead in the final minutes before advancing to its first Sweet 16 since 1999 with a 67-65 victory over Kansas

3:05 PM on Sunday, March 22

President Donald Trump is cycling through what seems to be an increasingly desperate list of options as he searches for a solution to the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz

12:19 PM on Sunday, March 22

President Donald Trump’s decision to order federal immigration agents to U.S. airports to help with security is drawing concerns that their presence may escalate tensions among air travelers and screeners

5:53 AM on Sunday, March 22

At least 10 Palestinians were injured Sunday night in attacks in the occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers, who rampaged through nearby villages after holding a funeral for a settler killed in a car crash a day earlier

3:20 AM on Sunday, March 22

Socialist candidate Emmanuel Grégoire has won the Paris mayoral race, succeeding fellow party member Anne Hidalgo as the French capital’s mayor

12:53 AM on Sunday, March 22

The United States and Iran are threatening to target critical infrastructure as the war in the Middle East puts lives and livelihoods at risk

12:24 AM on Sunday, March 22

President Donald Trump has warned that the U.S. will “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if it doesn’t fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, prompting Tehran to say it would respond to any such strike with attacks on U.S. and Israeli energy and infrastructure assets

12:08 AM on Sunday, March 22

Early results of Slovenia’s highly contested parliamentary election show governing liberals and opposition right-wing populists neck and neck, heralding a period of political uncertainty in the small European Union country

9:05 PM on Saturday, March 21