National News

1:09 PM on Tuesday, March 17

The Iran war has scrambled the Federal Reserve’s outlook on inflation and unemployment and will likely further delay interest rate cuts this year, putting off any relief for consumers struggling with high borrowing costs for home and car purchases

1:00 PM on Tuesday, March 17

Bank of America has tentatively settled a lawsuit claiming it ignored suspicious financial transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein while he was sexually abusing hundreds of girls and women

12:21 PM on Tuesday, March 17

President Donald Trump is delaying a diplomatic trip to China that was planned for months but began to unravel as he pressured Beijing and other world powers to form a military coalition to protect the vital Strait of Hormuz

11:28 AM on Tuesday, March 17

College Republicans at the University of Florida are suing the school president over what they call an unlawful crackdown on free speech

11:02 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Japanese atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori has died at age 88

10:29 AM on Tuesday, March 17

A man charged with planting pipe bombs near the U.S. Capitol on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot claims he's covered by President Donald Trump's blanket pardons

10:05 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Iranian American social media creators are helping lead the online conversation about the war in Iran

9:55 AM on Tuesday, March 17

The Vatican appeals tribunal has declared a mistrial in the Holy See’s big “trial of the century.”

9:04 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Warming winters are making ice thinner and less predictable, leading to more drownings as people fall through while fishing, hunting and recreating on frozen waters

8:08 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Millions more Americans will likely donate to nonprofits as a result of changes to tax laws, but those changes will also likely reduce the overall amount of money given to charity

6:59 AM on Tuesday, March 17

The U.N. human rights office has expressed concerns about possible “ethnic cleansing,” warning of an acceleration of Israeli settlements and displacements of thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank

3:13 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Rescue crews are digging bodies from the rubble of a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul

2:48 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Police in Nigeria say suspected suicide bombings have killed at least 23 people and wounded 108 others in Maiduguri

12:11 AM on Tuesday, March 17

An advocacy group is providing support to candidates who want to expand support for child and elder care in the midterm elections

12:02 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Two Massachusetts brothers have built a fleet of miniature Irish pubs on wheels

11:58 PM on Monday, March 16

The escalating Iran war is pushing parts of the world into energy triage

8:59 PM on Monday, March 16

President Donald Trump says a former president has told him that he now wishes he had attacked Iran when he occupied the Oval Office

6:12 PM on Monday, March 16

Amazon says it has started offering faster U.S. deliveries of selected products for a fee

3:29 PM on Monday, March 16

The Supreme Court will hear arguments over the Trump administration’s push to end legal protections for people fleeing war and natural disaster from countries around the world, including Haiti and Syria

12:04 PM on Monday, March 16

The NBA may move a step closer to adding teams in Seattle and Las Vegas next week when expansion will be again discussed by the league’s board of governors, two people with knowledge of the matter tell The Associated Press