National News

7:31 PM on Thursday, December 4

Two New York City police officers won't be charged in the shooting death of a 19-year-old during a mental crisis last year

6:55 PM on Thursday, December 4

Democratic Governor Tim Walz has denounced former President Donald Trump for his comments about Minnesota’s Somali community

6:49 PM on Thursday, December 4

Researchers have confirmed a new jaguar in southern Arizona, marking what they say is the fifth big cat over the last 15 years to be spotted in there after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border

6:43 PM on Thursday, December 4

A U.S. District Court decision to end the deployment of National Guard members to Washington, D.C., is on hold

6:29 PM on Thursday, December 4

The Justice Department has failed to secure a new indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James after a judge dismissed the previous mortgage fraud prosecution encouraged by President Donald Trump

6:27 PM on Thursday, December 4

Grand jury rejects new mortgage fraud indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James, AP source says

6:06 PM on Thursday, December 4

The Supreme Court is allowing the challenged Texas congressional redistricting plan to be used in next year’s election, despite a lower-court ruling that the map likely discriminates on the basis of race

6:03 PM on Thursday, December 4

Supreme Court allows Texas to use a congressional map favorable to Republicans in 2026

5:59 PM on Thursday, December 4

A Missouri appeals court panel has ordered new wording for a ballot measure seeking to roll back abortion rights in the state

5:35 PM on Thursday, December 4

A defense lawyer has cited President Donald Trump's recent pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández as she asked a judge who once presided over a civil case against Trump to treat her client lightly for his drug conspiracy conviction

5:04 PM on Thursday, December 4

On a jagged coastline in Central California, brown pelicans take flight to feed on a vast school of fish just offshore

4:00 PM on Thursday, December 4

A special congressional election in Tennessee this week highlights the power and consequences of partisan gerrymandering

3:49 PM on Thursday, December 4

Georgia’s Ethics Commission says Lt. Gov. Burt Jones can loan $10 million loan to his campaign committee

2:23 PM on Thursday, December 4

The playing surfaces at every NFL stadium will have to meet new enhanced standards set through lab and field testing by the start of the 2028 season

2:02 PM on Thursday, December 4

A California animal welfare activist who took four chickens from a major Perdue Farms poultry plant has been sentenced to 90 days in jail

8:28 AM on Thursday, December 4

The FBI has arrested a man accused of placing two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U.S. Capitol attack

8:19 AM on Thursday, December 4

A Navy admiral has told lawmakers that there was no “kill them all” order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as Congress scrutinizes an attack that killed two survivors of an initial strike on an alleged drug boat in international waters near Venezuela

3:07 AM on Thursday, December 4

At least four countries have announced they are pulling out of next year’s Eurovision Song Contest

12:03 AM on Thursday, December 4

Minutes after police approached Luigi Mangione in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, he told an officer he didn’t want to talk

12:01 AM on Thursday, December 4

A Navy admiral has told lawmakers that there was no “kill them all” order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the boat attack in the Caribbean, but the video of survivors being killed has alarmed lawmakers, That disclosure Thursday comes as Congress scrutinizes an attack on an alleged drug boat in international waters near Venezuela