National News

4:24 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Florida man executed for the killing of a woman abducted from an insurance office in 1982

4:20 PM on Tuesday, August 19

President Donald Trump is willing to “crush” Russia's economy with sanctions if Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

3:46 PM on Tuesday, August 19

A dozen newspapers in Wyoming and South Dakota are set to publish again after buyers stepped in to keep the communities from becoming news deserts where little or no local media remains

3:34 PM on Tuesday, August 19

President Donald Trump has been projecting himself as a global peacemaker since returning to the White house in January, claiming to have ended seven wars during the first months of his second term

3:23 PM on Tuesday, August 19

National Guard troops from West Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana have begun arriving in Washington

3:20 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Syrian state media say that Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani held a rare meeting with an Israeli delegation in Paris

3:02 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Nebraska’s governor announces plan for an immigration detention center in a farming area in the state’s southwest corner

2:46 PM on Tuesday, August 19

A veterinary hospital under construction exploded after a car hit the gas line that fed into the building in Wilmington

2:33 PM on Tuesday, August 19

2:18 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Wall Street fell further from its records

1:06 PM on Tuesday, August 19

A panel of federal appellate judges has ruled that New Mexico’s seven-day waiting period on gun purchases likely infringes on citizens’ Second Amendment rights

12:28 PM on Tuesday, August 19

A U.S. appeals court has put the brakes on the transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a company that plans to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America

8:41 AM on Tuesday, August 19

Health officials have uncovered another death in connection with a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in New York City

5:43 AM on Tuesday, August 19

A federal judge in Miami has dismissed part of a lawsuit that claimed detainees were denied access to the legal system at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”

12:42 AM on Tuesday, August 19

Wall Street fell further from its records

11:15 PM on Monday, August 18

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Tuesday confirmed the U.S. government is vying for a 10% stake in Silicon Valley pioneer Intel in an unusual deal that would deepen the Trump administration’s financial ties with major computer chip manufacturers and punctuate a dramatic about-face from the president’s recent push to oust the company’s CEO

10:07 PM on Monday, August 18

A coach at a center in Iowa that has trained Olympic champions is facing allegations that he abused young female gymnasts and secretly photographed others undressing at a prior job in Mississippi

10:01 PM on Monday, August 18

A California hearing on Democrats' redistricting effort turned into a shouting match Tuesday

9:32 PM on Monday, August 18

Jury selection began in the trial of the matriarch of a South Florida family on charges of orchestrating the hit-man murder of her ex-son-in-law

5:27 PM on Monday, August 18

Oklahoma will require applicants for teaching jobs from California and New York to pass an exam that the state’s top education official says is designed to safeguard against “radical leftist ideology.”