National News

1:09 PM on Friday, August 29

A Florida man who fatally stabbed a married couple during a robbery is scheduled for execution in Florida under a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis

12:51 PM on Friday, August 29

Black descendants of Freedmen seeking Muscogee Nation citizenship will have to keep waiting to receive tribal citizenship

12:04 PM on Friday, August 29

Delta Air Lines has agreed to pay $79 million to settle a lawsuit filed in 2020 after one of its airplanes experiencing engine trouble dumped fuel over schoolyards and densely populated neighborhoods east of Los Angeles

12:01 PM on Friday, August 29

The Transportation Department has canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects

11:49 AM on Friday, August 29

A grand jury refused to indict a man who was captured on video hurling a sandwich at a federal agent

11:30 AM on Friday, August 29

President Donald Trump's administration has told 40 states to remove references to what it calls “gender ideology” from federally funded sex education materials

11:25 AM on Friday, August 29

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has called a special election for a state Senate seat that has been vacant for nearly nine months

10:47 AM on Friday, August 29

Lebanon’s army chief says the military will soon carry out “sensitive missions,” in an apparent reference to the Lebanese government’s U.S.-backed plan to disarm the Hezbollah militant group by the end of the year

10:28 AM on Friday, August 29

A bookmaker of the former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani has been sentenced to just over a year in prison

9:43 AM on Friday, August 29

Since sending the National Guard to Los Angeles and Washington, President Donald Trump has openly mused about sending troops to some of the nation’s most Democratic cities — including Chicago and Baltimore — where he claims they are needed to crack down on crime

9:43 AM on Friday, August 29

US Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa is expected to announce next month that she won't run for reelection in 2026, AP sources say

9:42 AM on Friday, August 29

A federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration’s plans to end protections for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have had permission to live and work in the United States

9:39 AM on Friday, August 29

Federal appeals court blocks Trump’s decision to end legal protections for 600,000 Venezuelans

7:32 AM on Friday, August 29

Concerns about a banned gymnastics coach arrested amid allegations he abused girls he coached surfaced years before police or sports authorities took action

6:14 AM on Friday, August 29

New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani is out courting Black voters, trying to do better with them in the general election than he did in the primary

5:39 AM on Friday, August 29

The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge mostly held steady last month despite President Donald Trump’s broad-based tariffs, but a measure of underlying inflation increased

2:36 AM on Friday, August 29

Two U.S. senators have visited Taiwan, drawing criticism from China, which claims Taiwan as its own and opposes official contact between the two sides

9:16 PM on Thursday, August 28

Trading Micah Parsons is a bold move only a general manager who happens to be the team owner can make

2:39 PM on Thursday, August 28

A case that could provide the Trump administration with new and expansive power over the traditionally independent Federal Reserve got its first court hearing Friday

10:20 AM on Wednesday, August 27

A decade after 2005's Hurricane Katrina, one Mississippi city began offering property tax breaks to encourage building near the waterfront