National News

7:49 PM on Friday, March 13

A strong chemical smell has forced a temporary halt to flights at four major airports near Washington, D.C. The FAA says air traffic controllers cannot manage traffic safely during the incident

7:23 PM on Friday, March 13

The White House wants to build an underground center to provide security screening before visitors access the grounds

6:19 PM on Friday, March 13

An Oregon Army National Guard helicopter rescued an injured logger from Mount Hood National Forest after rough terrain blocked other options

5:24 PM on Friday, March 13

A Georgia prosecutor has dropped a vehicular homicide charge against a teen who police say was driving the truck that struck and killed a beloved high school teacher when a prank turned deadly, his lawyer says

4:53 PM on Friday, March 13

Wall Street’s losses deepened as the ongoing fallout from the war in Iran keeps pushing oil prices higher, ratcheting up inflationary pressure on the global economy

4:50 PM on Friday, March 13

Georgia lawmakers pressed former special prosecutor Nathan Wade about contact his team had with federal investigators while pursuing an election interference case against President Donald Trump

4:46 PM on Friday, March 13

California election officials are investigating whether signature collectors in San Francisco illegally offered to pay people to sign ballot petitions using false names

4:28 PM on Friday, March 13

Richard Grenell is stepping down as president of the Kennedy Center after leading changes that drive artists away

4:02 PM on Friday, March 13

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed weakening air pollution limits for a chemical used to sterilize medical equipment

3:19 PM on Friday, March 13

President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders that aim to make housing and mortgages more affordable

1:09 PM on Friday, March 13

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has revoked the visa of a U

10:04 AM on Friday, March 13

A man has been charged with selling a stolen gun to Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former member of the Army National Guard who used it to kill one person and wound two others at Old Dominion University

7:47 AM on Friday, March 13

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says his government has held recent talks with the U.S. His comments on Friday mark the first time the Caribbean country has confirmed speculation about active communication with the Trump administration which has been openly hostile toward the communist government

7:13 AM on Friday, March 13

Thousands of snow geese touch down at a Pennsylvania reservoir each spring, turning sunrise into a loud, swirling liftoff that draws big crowds

3:18 AM on Friday, March 13

The U.S. military says a KC-135 refueling aircraft supporting operations against Iran crashed in western Iraq, killing all six crew members

12:03 AM on Friday, March 13

The United States is getting slammed by a stretch of weather extremes, from flooding rain to record heat and late-season snow

12:03 AM on Friday, March 13

A Lebanese-born man who had learned a week earlier that four of his family members were killed in an Israeli airstrike in his native country, waited in his car outside a Detroit-area synagogue for two hours before ramming into the building

12:02 AM on Friday, March 13

The man accused of killing Charlie Kirk on an Utah college campus was in court as a state judge denied some defense efforts to limit public access to certain documents

12:01 AM on Friday, March 13

The man who opened fire in a classroom at Virginia’s Old Dominion University completed a drug treatment program that allowed him early release from federal prison, even though he was convicted of a terrorism charge that should have disqualified him from that benefit

10:56 PM on Thursday, March 12

Wall Street’s losses deepened as the ongoing fallout from the war in Iran keeps pushing oil prices higher, ratcheting up inflationary pressure on the global economy