National News

2:45 PM on Friday, August 21

A Massachusetts charter fishing captain and a client have caught what they believe is the largest Atlantic blue marlin in U.S. East Coast history

2:40 PM on Friday, August 21

The Trump administration has notified Congress of its plans to pay more than $800 million of the several billion it owes to the United Nations

2:09 PM on Friday, August 21

California workplace safety officials have fined Blackbird Mountain Guides after an avalanche killed three guides and six skiers in February

1:52 PM on Friday, August 21

The 250th anniversary of U.S. independence was just months away when National Park Service employees received a directive from Washington

1:33 PM on Friday, August 21

Ed Martin, a loyal White House ally who held multiple Justice Department posts despite unconventional tactics that sometimes rankled his superiors, is leaving President Donald Trump’s administration

1:23 PM on Friday, August 21

U.S. stocks rose and trimmed their losses from a shaky week

1:19 PM on Friday, August 21

In his most recent challenge to the results of the 2020 U.S. election, President Donald Trump this week cited a report claiming to show that thousands of noncitizens voted, a practice studies have found to be extremely rare

1:05 PM on Friday, August 21

A new Pentagon report says that more U.S. troops are reporting unwanted sexual contact to authorities

12:12 PM on Friday, August 21

U.S. health officials say a food-poisoning outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts has sickened people in 15 states

10:11 AM on Friday, August 21

Nearly 200 activists in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s “Make America Healthy Again” movement are criticizing President Donald Trump's promotion of coal to power artificial intelligence data centers

9:20 AM on Friday, August 21

President Donald Trump has announced his administration will temporarily allow more beef imports into the U.S. without triggering higher tariffs

9:20 AM on Friday, August 21

Ukrainian officials say Russian drones have hit a shopping mall in Kryvyi Rih, killing at least 15 people and wounding scores more

9:02 AM on Friday, August 21

Federal investigators have pulled intact data cards from a state police helicopter and Cessna aircraft that collided near a runway in central Pennsylvania

8:20 AM on Friday, August 21

A federal appeals court has temporarily halted a court order that would have granted thousands of athletes an extra year of eligibility

7:33 AM on Friday, August 21

Cleanup efforts and damage assessment are underway in Delaware's capital and on Long Island, New York, after tornadoes touched down

6:51 AM on Friday, August 21

An 18-year-old with a sword attacked a school Friday in central Sweden, killing one person and seriously injuring two others

9:46 PM on Thursday, August 20

U.S. stocks rose and trimmed their losses from a shaky week

9:01 PM on Thursday, August 20

Vice President JD Vance has returned to his hometown to campaign for Republican candidates at a steel plant where his grandfather worked

4:03 PM on Thursday, August 20

Two former organizers of Hong Kong’s decades-old vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have been convicted in a national security case

4:41 AM on Thursday, August 20

The premier of a Canadian province launched a blistering attack on U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, calling him a “bad person” and “not to be trusted” and urging Canada to keep fighting rather than rush to make concessions in trade talks with Washington