National News

1:42 PM on Wednesday, May 20

President Donald Trump's legal team has reached a deal with the Justice Department to drop tax claims against him, his family and associates

1:16 PM on Wednesday, May 20

The U.S. stock market bounced back after pressure eased on Wall Street from the bond market and oil prices gave back some of their big gains

12:56 PM on Wednesday, May 20

A federal judge has refused to postpone a trial next month for civil claims stemming from the 2024 collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge

12:01 PM on Wednesday, May 20

The U.N. courts set up to prosecute the atrocities committed during the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and the 1994 Rwandan genocide have held their final session

11:17 AM on Wednesday, May 20

The runoff field for a U.S. Senate seat has been set in Alabama, a state that also will have a high-profile race for governor this fall and congressional seats that could be scrambled amid a wave of Republican redistricting

11:01 AM on Wednesday, May 20

Neptune's mysterious, far-flung moon Nereid may be the last of the planet's original companions

10:46 AM on Wednesday, May 20

A federal judge has ruled that attorneys for the man accused of sparking last year’s deadly Palisades Fire in and around Los Angeles can’t introduce evidence or arguments at his arson trial about alleged negligence by the fire department in responding to an earlier blaze

10:36 AM on Wednesday, May 20

When Cuban government fighter jets shot down two small planes flown by members of a Cuban exile group from Miami 30 years ago, The Associated Press was there

10:31 AM on Wednesday, May 20

A lawsuit filed on behalf of students and community organizations in Massachusetts argues the state is illegally maintaining schools that are racially segregated, concentrating Black and Latino students in high-poverty districts with fewer opportunities

10:23 AM on Wednesday, May 20

Nine migrants deported from the United States have landed in Sierra Leone, according to the West African country

10:06 AM on Wednesday, May 20

Barney Frank has died

9:36 AM on Wednesday, May 20

President Donald Trump has returned to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy to give the commencement address at the Connecticut school

6:58 AM on Wednesday, May 20

Barney Frank has died

6:01 AM on Wednesday, May 20

Tennessee officials will pay $835,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was jailed for more than a month over a Facebook post he made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk

4:44 AM on Wednesday, May 20

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has released its annual list of the most endangered historic places in the United States

4:20 AM on Wednesday, May 20

Stephen Colbert's run on “The Late Show” ends Thursday, marking the conclusion of his on-air feud with President Donald Trump

2:56 AM on Wednesday, May 20

Single Gen Z women are outpacing the men of their generation when it comes to buying a home

2:27 AM on Wednesday, May 20

Lithuania's president and prime minister have been taken to safe locations after a suspected drone was detected near the country's border with Belarus

9:01 PM on Tuesday, May 19

Thomas Massie, a Republican congressman from Kentucky, has lost his primary bid for reelection

9:06 PM on Monday, May 18

The possibility that the Justice Department could indict former Cuban leader Raúl Castro is pushing U.S. relations with the communist-run island to the foreground