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

6:49 PM on Thursday, December 4

A pup that was swept out to sea by a rip current must be feeling doggone lucky after her unlikely rescue off the San Diego coast

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

5:03 PM on Thursday, December 4

Police have recovered a James Bond-inspired Fabergé pendant after six days of waiting for it to exit a suspect's gastrointestinal tract

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

4:29 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

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

2:36 PM on Thursday, December 4

8:48 AM on Thursday, December 4

The Trump administration has signed the first in what are expected to be dozens of “America First” global health agreements that prioritize combating infectious diseases in countries deemed to be aligned with the president’s broader foreign policy goals

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

1:12 AM on Thursday, December 4

Russian President Vladimir Putin says some proposals in a U.S. plan to end the war in Ukraine are unacceptable to the Kremlin

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

10:02 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

8:13 AM on Wednesday, December 3

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have released 11 mariners held since a July attack on the ship Eternity C in the Red Sea, an assault that killed four on board and sank the vessel

2:11 AM on Monday, December 1