National News

11:53 AM on Thursday, February 5

Two decades after Jeffrey Epstein was first reported to police, the Justice Department has started to publicly release investigative files on the late sex offender and his longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell

11:31 AM on Thursday, February 5

A new study reveals that cancer patients diagnosed during the early COVID-19 pandemic had worse short-term survival rates than a similar group before the pandemic

11:07 AM on Thursday, February 5

Company and federal officials said the Boar's Head deli meat plant tied to a deadly 2024 listeria food poisoning outbreak is back in business

11:02 AM on Thursday, February 5

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino says he hopes a legal battle with a Hong Kong firm over Panama Canal ports does not escalate

10:58 AM on Thursday, February 5

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10:41 AM on Thursday, February 5

In Venezuela, political critics are emerging from hiding following the U.S. ouster of President Nicolás Maduro

10:16 AM on Thursday, February 5

U.S. job openings fell to the lowest level in more than five years, another sign that the American labor market remains sluggish

10:11 AM on Thursday, February 5

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has endorsed Gov. Kathy Hochul for reelection, offering the moderate governor some progressive heft in her campaign for a second full term

8:12 AM on Thursday, February 5

Democrats are threatening to block funding for the Homeland Security Department when it expires in two weeks unless there are “dramatic changes” and “real accountability” for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement agencies who are carrying out President Donald Trump’s campaign of federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota and across the country

7:42 AM on Thursday, February 5

The Nigerian government has launched a military operation against Islamic militants after more than 160 people were killed in Muslim-majority villages

7:01 AM on Thursday, February 5

Malnutrition reaches famine levels in 2 towns in Sudan's Darfur, experts say but stop short of confirming a full famine (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported that the experts declared famine in those towns)

6:41 AM on Thursday, February 5

Keir Starmer never met Jeffrey Epstein

6:29 AM on Thursday, February 5

An Arizona Department of Public Safety helicopter responding to an active shooter situation has crashed, killing both the pilot and a trooper who was a paramedic

4:06 AM on Thursday, February 5

The U.S. and Russia have agreed to reestablish high-level, military-to-military dialogue for the first time in more than four years

2:45 AM on Thursday, February 5

The Kremlin says it views the expiration of the last remaining nuclear arms pact between Russia and the U.S. with regret, leaving no caps on the two largest atomic arsenals for the first time in over 50 years

2:44 AM on Thursday, February 5

Gunmen believed to be Islamic extremists have killed at least 162 people in western Nigeria

12:03 AM on Thursday, February 5

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is in Milan leading U.S. President Donald Trump’s delegation to the 2026 Winter Olympics

11:51 PM on Wednesday, February 4

Emergency crews battled a blaze and evacuated patients from a northeastern Pennsylvania hospital after a fire broke out

10:00 PM on Wednesday, February 4

A sharp drop for Google’s parent company is yanking the U.S. stock market lower, while prices for bitcoin, silver and gold weaken

6:45 PM on Wednesday, February 4

Penn State hockey star Gavin McKenna has been charged with felony assault for allegedly breaking a man’s jaw and knocking out a tooth in an altercation last weekend