National News

8:01 PM on Friday, August 8

Texas Republicans have escalated the penalties against Democrats as they enter a second week camped out in states across the country to block new U.S. House maps pushed for by President Donald Trump to win more seats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections

7:35 PM on Friday, August 8

Louisiana officials have agreed to pay $9 million to a man who was partially paralyzed after a state trooper shot him in the back during a 2018 traffic stop in Baton Rouge

6:43 PM on Friday, August 8

The NFL preseason game between Detroit and Atlanta has been stopped with 6:19 left after a serious injury

5:46 PM on Friday, August 8

A police officer has died after he was shot responding to call of man who opened fire at CDC complex in Atlanta

3:54 PM on Friday, August 8

The Sunday streets of the borough of churches still vibrate with gospel chords, yet inside many of Brooklyn’s storied Black sanctuaries, the choir lofts have thinned dramatically

3:52 PM on Friday, August 8

Police say a suspect is dead and a police officer has been injured after active shooter reported at Emory University

3:16 PM on Friday, August 8

The man who oversees the nation’s military has reposted a video on X, formerly Twitter, about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to vote and should “submit” to their husbands

3:12 PM on Friday, August 8

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3:07 PM on Friday, August 8

Trump says he will meet with Putin on Aug. 15 in Alaska

3:04 PM on Friday, August 8

William H. Webster, the former FBI and CIA director who helped restore public confidence in those agencies, dies at 101

2:45 PM on Friday, August 8

Police say a suspected shooter and a police officer are dead after law enforcement responded to an active shooter near the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Emory University

2:42 PM on Friday, August 8

Police are responding to a report of an active shooter on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, authorities say

2:34 PM on Friday, August 8

A man suspected of killing 4 people at a Montana bar is in custody after a weeklong search, authorities say

2:33 PM on Friday, August 8

The city of Portland, Oregon, is set to pay $3.75 million to the estate of an unarmed man shot and killed by police in 2022

1:38 PM on Friday, August 8

A Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in North Carolina next year has ended his campaign now that Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley has entered the race with President Donald Trump's endorsement

1:17 PM on Friday, August 8

Residents and officials in Juneau are preparing for the possibility of glacial flooding that in past years has swept away houses and eroded the river fed by the popular Mendenhall Glacier

12:31 PM on Friday, August 8

President Donald Trump has removed former U.S. Rep. Billy Long as IRS commissioner less than two months after his confirmation

12:22 PM on Friday, August 8

A White House official says the Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles

12:17 PM on Friday, August 8

Astronaut James Lovell, who was commander of the 1970 Apollo 13 mission that managed to get back to earth safely after an oxygen tank explosion, has died

11:26 AM on Friday, August 8

A man previously convicted of sexual assault who killed a Connecticut visiting nurse at a halfway house has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder