National News

4:03 PM on Thursday, May 21

Florida officials will pay nearly half a million dollars to a biologist who was fired by a state agency for criticizing conservative activist Charlie Kirk on social media after his death

3:37 PM on Thursday, May 21

All charges against four activists who protested outside a federal building during last year’s immigration crackdown in Chicago have been dropped in an unusual hearing where a top federal prosecutor appeared to acknowledge grand jury misconduct by his office

3:03 PM on Thursday, May 21

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is warning people to avoid buying gas from Chevron stations over Memorial Day weekend because of the high price at the pump

2:24 PM on Thursday, May 21

A Texas board has suspended the nursing license of Camp Mystic’s co-director in a scathing order that accuses her of not helping children evacuate during last year’s catastrophic floods

2:15 PM on Thursday, May 21

Federal judges in Maine and Wisconsin have dismissed lawsuits filed by the U.S. Department of Justice seeking to compel the states to hand over voter registration information to the federal government

12:33 PM on Thursday, May 21

The official overseeing the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza is urging the U.N. Security Council to use “every means at its disposal” to press Hamas to disarm

11:43 AM on Thursday, May 21

The Department of Health and Human Services is boosting its use of artificial intelligence to monitor audits from federal grant recipients

11:40 AM on Thursday, May 21

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said that she and the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin agreed to maintain bilateral cooperation rooted in mutual respect

10:49 AM on Thursday, May 21

Howard Fendrich, a longtime national sports writer for The Associated Press, has died at 55

8:17 AM on Thursday, May 21

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin has released a critical study of the party’s performance in the 2024 campaign

8:04 AM on Thursday, May 21

Former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan says he is suspending his campaign for Michigan governor, citing an increasingly “toxic” political climate due to President Donald Trump’s war with Iran and skyrocketing gas prices

6:58 AM on Thursday, May 21

The Trump administration is loosening a federal rule that requires grocery stores and air-conditioning companies to reduce greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment

5:24 AM on Thursday, May 21

President Donald Trump on Thursday said past U_S_ presidents have mulled intervening in Cuba for decades, but “it looks like I’ll be the one that does it.”

4:05 AM on Thursday, May 21

President Donald Trump says it’s “fantastic” that a key federal agency approved the design for the triumphal arch he wants to build at an entrance to the nation’s capital

2:12 AM on Thursday, May 21

Israel says it has released and deported hundreds of activists who took part in a flotilla attempting to breach Israel's naval blockade of Gaza

9:11 PM on Wednesday, May 20

Senate Republicans have departed Washington for the Memorial Day recess without voting on a roughly $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies

9:10 PM on Wednesday, May 20

Tennessee officials have called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994, after his executioners tried and failed for over an hour to establish an intravenous line

9:04 PM on Wednesday, May 20

The former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit has been sentenced to nearly 42 years in prison for her role in a staggering $250 million fraud case

9:01 PM on Wednesday, May 20

A Tennessee judge has set a $1 million bond for a white livestreamer charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting and wounding a Black man

7:24 PM on Wednesday, May 20

U.S. stocks ticked higher following the latest reversal for oil prices