National News

12:45 PM on Friday, October 17

New York City’s mayoral candidates have duked it out in their first general election debate, with contenders Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa sparring over everything from the Israel-Hamas war to the city’s education system

12:39 PM on Friday, October 17

Los Angeles County has reached a tentative $828 million agreement to settle more than 400 additional sexual abuse claims against county employees that were not included in an earlier settlement that was the largest sexual abuse settlement in U.S. history

12:33 PM on Friday, October 17

A nonprofit in rural Alaska is working to rescue dogs from Kipnuk, a village hit hard by Typhoon Halong

12:19 PM on Friday, October 17

Hamas military wing says it will hand over the remains of another hostage later Friday evening

12:16 PM on Friday, October 17

Prosecutors have dropped charges against a Florida man accused of abandoning his dog during Hurricane Milton

11:59 AM on Friday, October 17

Current and former FEMA staff have gathered for a “FEMA Solidarity Rally” outside the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Friday

11:48 AM on Friday, October 17

The former superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district has been indicted by a federal grand jury after authorities say he falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen who was eligible to work

11:10 AM on Friday, October 17

Prince Andrew says he is giving up his royal title of the Duke of York after his friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein returned to the headlines

10:25 AM on Friday, October 17

New York’s Republican State Committee has suspended a Young Republican organization following the release of a group chat that included jokes about rape and flippant commentary on gas chambers

9:44 AM on Friday, October 17

Wall Street is concerned about the health of the nation’s regional banks, after a few of them wrote off bad loans to commercial customers in the last two weeks

9:18 AM on Friday, October 17

Barack Obama has endorsed Democratic candidates Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger for governor in New Jersey and Virginia

9:04 AM on Friday, October 17

Former national security adviser John Bolton has turned himself in to federal authorities in Maryland and pleaded not guilty after being indicted on charges of keeping top secret documents at his home and sharing classified information with family members

8:46 AM on Friday, October 17

The U.S. has seized survivors after a strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean, the first since President Donald Trump began launching deadly attacks in the region this summer

7:03 AM on Friday, October 17

The U.S. has blocked a global fee on shipping emissions as an international maritime meeting ended Friday without adopting new regulations

4:54 AM on Friday, October 17

President Donald Trump is hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for talks at the White House

4:39 AM on Friday, October 17

John Bolton has pleaded not guilty in the Justice Department case accusing him of sharing classified information

4:10 AM on Friday, October 17

A new AP-NORC poll finds that more U.S. adults support President Donald Trump’s handling of the conflict in Israel after he brokered a ceasefire deal in Gaza, but his approval ratings on domestic issues remain weak

3:45 AM on Friday, October 17

The military wing of Hamas says it will hand over the remains of a hostage late Friday

9:03 PM on Thursday, October 16

President Donald Trump has signaled to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that he’s leaning against selling long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to Kyiv

9:02 PM on Thursday, October 16

An Arizona man has been executed in the killing of four members of a family in Phoenix over 30 years ago