National News

6:52 PM on Thursday, December 4

First lady Melania Trump has lit the National Christmas Tree on a chilly night in the nation’s capital

5:52 PM on Thursday, December 4

U.S. Southern Command says it has conducted another strike against a small boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean, following a pause of almost three weeks

5:31 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

4:55 PM on Thursday, December 4

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

4:49 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

4:43 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

4:29 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

4:11 PM on Thursday, December 4

The FBI has arrested a suspect five years after an unidentified person placed two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington, D.C. The mystery behind the person’s identity has bedeviled law enforcement and helped fuel conspiracy theories about Jan. 6, 2021, and the Capitol riot by a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters

4:06 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

3:59 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

3:17 PM on Thursday, December 4

Jo Ann Allen Boyce, who helped integrate one of the first public schools in the South, has died at 84

2:00 PM on Thursday, December 4

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

6:43 AM on Thursday, December 4

U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell to their lowest level in more than three years last week, potentially complicating the Federal Reserve’s upcoming decision on interest rates

6:19 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

5:53 AM on Thursday, December 4

4:03 AM on Thursday, December 4

From the election of Zohran Mamdani to the intrigue surrounding the jewel heist at the Louvre, keeping up with this year’s news also left some Americans struggling with pronunciations

1:07 AM on Thursday, December 4

President Donald Trump praised the leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda for their courage as they signed onto a deal aimed at ending the conflict in eastern Congo

10:03 PM on Wednesday, December 3

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

10:02 PM on Wednesday, December 3

New York Attorney General Letitia James is challenging the authority of an acting U.S. attorney in Albany who is investigating her

10:01 PM on Wednesday, December 3

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