National News

3:57 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The Transportation Department is going to train 163 track inspectors to dramatically increase the number of people who know how to spot critical problems with railroad bridges, but the railroads themselves will still be responsible for inspecting their own bridges and the results will still be kept confidential

3:50 PM on Wednesday, September 3

A federal judge has returned full control of policing practices to the Seattle Police Department

3:44 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Marine biologists on Florida's Space Coast have released June Cleaver, a 230-pound loggerhead turtle, back into the ocean

3:30 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Four Idaho police officers who fatally shot an autistic, nonverbal teenage boy who was holding a knife on the other side of a chain-link fence in April were justified in their actions and will not face criminal charges, according to the state attorney general

3:24 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Investigators have concluded that two experienced racing pilots deviated from their expected flight paths and never saw each other before a fatal midair collision in 2023 at the National Championship Air Races

2:57 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Hurricane Kiko intensifies to a Category 4 major hurricane in the Pacific Ocean, the National Hurricane Center says

2:41 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Judge reverses Trump administration's cuts of billions of dollars to Harvard University

2:37 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Republican state Sen. Bobby Hanig has announced his bid for a U.S. House seat in North Carolina

2:33 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Wall Street steadied itself after Alphabet and other technology stocks rose

2:12 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Investigators say two more people have been charged with helping a Tennessee man evade authorities after he was accused of fatally shooting four people

2:07 PM on Wednesday, September 3

South Carolina's top attorneys say family leave after childbirth should include at least six weeks of paid leave for stillbirths

2:04 PM on Wednesday, September 3

A federal appeals court has approved Illinois’ ban on carrying firearms on public transit, reversing a lower court decision that found the prohibition violated the Second Amendment

12:47 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The House has rejected a resolution to censure Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey

12:08 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse have gathered on Capitol Hill to demand the release of the sex trafficking investigation into the late financier

10:09 AM on Wednesday, September 3

The Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California have created an alliance to safeguard health policies, believing the Trump administration is putting Americans’ health and safety at risk by politicizing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

8:28 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Mexico and the United States have agreed to continue collaborating on cross-border security issues like fighting the trafficking of drugs, guns and fuel

8:14 AM on Wednesday, September 3

A bitcoin treasury and mining company linked to the Trump family saw its stock rise more than 16% on its first day of trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange

1:27 AM on Wednesday, September 3

11:12 PM on Tuesday, September 2

A quick-moving wildfire has burned homes in a California Gold Rush town settled around 1850 by Chinese miners who were driven out of a nearby camp

9:30 PM on Tuesday, September 2

Wall Street steadied itself after Alphabet and other technology stocks rose