National News

7:24 PM on Monday, August 18

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says a truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people in Florida was in the country illegally, fueling a verbal tussle with California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office over immigration

6:32 PM on Monday, August 18

An American Orthodox archbishop exchanged warm greetings and gifts of holy icons with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska

6:12 PM on Monday, August 18

Trump says he has begun arrangements for face-to-face meeting between Russia's Putin and Ukraine's Zelenskyy

6:11 PM on Monday, August 18

A second airman at Wyoming's F

6:05 PM on Monday, August 18

Louisiana becomes sixth GOP-led state to authorize troop deployment to DC as part of Trump show of force

5:45 PM on Monday, August 18

A Virginia man convicted of shooting a New Jersey pastor to death outside her home in 2023 has been sentenced to life in prison

5:29 PM on Monday, August 18

An Iowa Democratic state lawmaker is bowing out of the 2026 U.S. Senate primary race and endorsing a colleague as the “best hope” to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst

4:56 PM on Monday, August 18

A walkout by Democratic legislators in Texas has ended, and Republicans are arranging to push a plan for redrawing the state’s congressional districts through the GOP-controlled Legislature

4:37 PM on Monday, August 18

A federal appeals court has upheld a law strengthening the rights of pregnant workers, vacating a judge’s earlier order that had stripped those protections from Texas state employees

4:34 PM on Monday, August 18

A judge for the U.S. District Court in Washington has issued an injunction preventing the Trump administration's Federal Trade Commission from investigating Media Matters for America, the liberal media watchdog organization

4:32 PM on Monday, August 18

A federal agent fired three shots at a moving vehicle after the driver sped off following an immigration stop in Southern California

4:17 PM on Monday, August 18

The nation’s largest public utility plans to buy power from an upcoming advanced nuclear plant to help fuel Google data centers in Tennessee and Alabama

2:51 PM on Monday, August 18

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says a Maine police officer arrested by immigration authorities has agreed to voluntarily leave the country

2:27 PM on Monday, August 18

A coalition of attorneys general from 20 states and Washington, D

2:21 PM on Monday, August 18

The trial of a man charged with organizing the daytime ambush killing of rapper Young Dolph at a Memphis bakery in 2021 is underway

12:00 PM on Monday, August 18

No. 1 Texas and No. 2 Penn State each had three players selected for the preseason AP All-America team

6:50 AM on Monday, August 18

The Cambridge Dictionary has added over 6,000 new words including slang terms like “skibidi,” pronounced SKIH-bih-dee, "tradwife" and "delulu."

4:55 AM on Monday, August 18

Anguished Pakistanis are searching remote areas for bodies swept away by weekend flash floods as the death toll has reached 277

12:37 AM on Monday, August 18

Wall Street held near its records

11:53 PM on Sunday, August 17

The California Legislature comes back from a summer recess and is slated to vote on a partisan plan to redraw congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms