National News

5:32 PM on Tuesday, December 2

The West Virginia Supreme Court has paused a ruling that allowed parents to use religious beliefs to opt out of required school vaccines for their children

5:13 PM on Tuesday, December 2

Ole Miss rises a spot to No. 6 in College Football Playoff rankings despite losing its coach. Ohio State still No. 1

4:58 PM on Tuesday, December 2

A beloved albino alligator named Claude at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco has died at age 30

4:30 PM on Tuesday, December 2

Everything the Trump administration has done this year to strengthen and enforce the standards for truck drivers and the schools that train them after several deadly crashes may cause problems for some companies if immigrants continue to flee the profession rather than deal with the harassment and scrutiny

4:21 PM on Tuesday, December 2

The owners of Camp Mystic in Texas have announced new safety upgrades following a tragic July 4 flood that killed 25 campers and two counselors

4:17 PM on Tuesday, December 2

Prosecutors in western New York have dropped their efforts to retry a man whose murder conviction was overturned in the 1993 killing of a woman near Buffalo

4:15 PM on Tuesday, December 2

Protesters, journalists and faith leaders who sued over the aggressive tactics of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area are seeking to end their legal challenge

4:14 PM on Tuesday, December 2

Hopes for an extension of health care subsidies are dwindling in Congress

3:17 PM on Tuesday, December 2

An academic society says it has banned former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers from “attending, speaking at, or otherwise participating” at its events for life

1:52 PM on Tuesday, December 2

President Donald Trump announces National Guard troops will soon head to New Orleans

1:05 PM on Tuesday, December 2

The Trump administration says it will withhold funds for administering SNAP food aid in most Democratic-controlled states starting next week unless they provide data about those receiving the assistance

12:24 PM on Tuesday, December 2

Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S. The operation, which could begin soon, targets people in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area with final deportation orders

12:13 PM on Tuesday, December 2

A man accused of shooting two National Guard troops near the White House has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and assault charges

11:14 AM on Tuesday, December 2

Costco is joining other companies that aren’t waiting to see whether the Supreme Court strikes down President Donald Trump’s most sweeping import taxes

10:57 AM on Tuesday, December 2

Sheldon “Timothy” Herrington Jr. has been sentenced to 50 years in prison, with 10 years suspended, for killing University of Mississippi student Jimmie “Jay” Lee

7:00 AM on Tuesday, December 2

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday over a peace plan to end the war with Ukraine

4:01 AM on Tuesday, December 2

A Democrat who served four years as Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor and narrowly lost a 2022 U.S. Senate bid is running for governor in the battleground state

11:40 PM on Monday, December 1

Emergency crews are racing to reach survivors and recover bodies after catastrophic floods and landslides in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia

10:17 PM on Monday, December 1

The first major winter storm has hit the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, covering the area with snow and ice

10:04 PM on Monday, December 1

Video played in a New York court shows how police approached, arrested and searched Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s