National News

7:01 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Netanyahu says, 'With God's help we will bring them all home,' after Trump announces first phase of Israel-Hamas deal

6:54 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Israel, Hamas reach agreement on 'first phase' of plan to stop fighting, release hostages and prisoners, Trump says

6:13 PM on Wednesday, October 8

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo says he wants to save Rikers Island, the notorious jail complex that has become a symbol of dysfunction in the city's criminal justice system

5:30 PM on Wednesday, October 8

5:25 PM on Wednesday, October 8

A New York county’s law banning transgender women from playing on female sports teams at county-run parks and recreational facilities has been halted for now

5:08 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy says he is troubled that partisanship seemed to be “creeping its way into the court,” and that the state of political discourse in the country has gotten so vulgar and vile that he worries for the country

5:03 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Journalists who cover the U.S. military appear headed toward a showdown with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

3:33 PM on Wednesday, October 8

The Supreme Court seemed ready to revive a Republican challenge to an Illinois law that allows the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, which have been a target of President Donald Trump

3:10 PM on Wednesday, October 8

The leader of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is set to join the state legislature

2:36 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff says he raised more than $12 million from July through September

2:07 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Most members of the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate setting committee supported further reductions to its key interest rate this year, minutes from last month’s meeting showed

1:50 PM on Wednesday, October 8

The IRS will furlough nearly half of its workforce as part of a new contingency plan

1:39 PM on Wednesday, October 8

A New York City judge has dismissed a civil summons against Alex O’Keefe, a former writer for FX’s “The Bear.”

11:15 AM on Wednesday, October 8

President Donald Trump says the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops for his immigration and crime crackdown in the nation’s third-largest city

10:00 AM on Wednesday, October 8

Authorities say 13 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested in Boston after a clash with police that resulted in four officers being sent to hospitals for non-life-threatening injuries

8:29 AM on Wednesday, October 8

President Donald Trump said Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, both Democrats, should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago

12:04 AM on Wednesday, October 8

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program

12:02 AM on Wednesday, October 8

As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight

11:12 PM on Tuesday, October 7

Wall Street’s pause from its record-breaking rally didn’t last long

10:18 AM on Tuesday, October 7

A Miami activist alleges that officials at a local college violated Florida’s open government law when they gifted a sizable plot of prime downtown real estate to the state, which then transferred it to the foundation for Donald Trump’s future presidential library