National News

8:27 PM on Wednesday, March 18

The first oil and gas lease sale held in years in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska has been touted by officials as the strongest to date

7:15 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is condemning special interest money that poured into the state ahead of this week’s primary, including from a pro-Israel political group that the billionaire and potential 2028 presidential contender once supported

7:04 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Military officials say a shooting that left one person dead and another injured on a U.S. Air Force base in New Mexico was an isolated domestic incident

7:02 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Video game fans are responding with criticism and comedy to Nvidia's latest version of its AI technology that boost performance and graphics

6:44 PM on Wednesday, March 18

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has given an ousted federal prosecutor a new title, allowing him to remain in charge of cases in the eastern half of Wisconsin

6:25 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Firefighters are battling huge wildfires in western and central Nebraska, as driving winds and dry grass keep the danger high

6:16 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Democratic lawmakers have stormed out of a closed-door briefing on the Jeffrey Epstein files by Justice Department leaders, and say they will push to force Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer questions under oath about the case

6:13 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Lawmakers appear far from ending a funding lapse at the Department of Homeland Security

5:57 PM on Wednesday, March 18

The U.S. national debt has hit a record $39 trillion

5:50 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Spring break travelers are facing unpredictable lines at airport security as the partial U.S. government shutdown strains TSA staffing

5:32 PM on Wednesday, March 18

The FBI says a suspicious package found at MacDill Air Force Base contains possible energetic materials, and the investigation is ongoing

5:13 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Attorneys for former FBI agent John Connolly have filed a new motion seeking to overturn his murder conviction, citing newly disclosed evidence tied to mobster James “Whitey” Bulger

5:08 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Senator Rand Paul has made it clear he has little regard for President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, fellow Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin

4:52 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Rapper Mystikal has pleaded guilty to raping a woman at his Louisiana home nearly four years ago

2:35 PM on Wednesday, March 18

A Georgia effort to dump voting machines that Donald Trump hates may get derailed by fear of a chaotic last-minute shift in election methods

2:15 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Luigi Mangione’s lawyers have asked a judge to postpone his federal trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson until early next year and say they will seek to have his state murder trial delayed until September

1:34 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare has sued a patient who refuses to leave a hospital room, even though doctors discharged her more than five months ago

1:20 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Demolition began at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub as the city clears the site for a permanent memorial to the 49 people killed there

12:18 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Cuba’s president has lashed out after the latest threat from the Trump administration after President Donald Trump said he can do “whatever he wants” with the island

6:39 PM on Tuesday, March 17

The Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday and Chair Jerome Powell highlighted the increasingly uncertain outlook for the U.S. economy and inflation in the wake of the Iran war, suggesting the Fed could stand pat for an extended period