National News

6:03 PM on Thursday, February 26

Relatives of a boat captain from the eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia tell The Associated Press that he is missing after a recent U.S. strike on a suspected drug vessel in the region

5:33 PM on Thursday, February 26

The U.S. State Department says it will pay up to $10 million for information leading to the arrests or convictions of two brothers identified as leaders of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel in the state of Baja California, which includes Tijuana

5:20 PM on Thursday, February 26

The chief federal judge for Minnesota has issued a stern warning to the chief federal prosecutor for the state, as well as to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, warning them that they must comply with court orders or they risk criminal contempt charges

4:44 PM on Thursday, February 26

A Bible-infused curriculum that Texas approved for public schools over pushback in 2024 will undergo corrections to fix hundreds of errors caught by teachers and education officials after the material was introduced to classrooms

4:08 PM on Thursday, February 26

The United States signs a $1.2 billion health partnership with Congo that ties new funding to Congo spending more at home

3:53 PM on Thursday, February 26

Canada’s minister for U.S. trade says the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement could be subject to annual review and that uncertainty could be the objective of the Trump administration

3:51 PM on Thursday, February 26

Cuba’s deputy foreign minister says the island’s government is communicating with American officials following the fatal shooting of a U.S. boat in Cuban waters

3:47 PM on Thursday, February 26

Election-year legislation to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements on voting appears stalled in the Senate, for now, despite President Donald Trump’s call in his State of the Union speech that Republicans in Congress pass the bill “before anything else.”

3:34 PM on Thursday, February 26

Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable major medical advancements, including the polio vaccine

2:25 PM on Thursday, February 26

An Oregon jury has ordered PacifiCorp to pay $305 million to 16 victims of the state's devastating 2020 wildfires

2:14 PM on Thursday, February 26

Word from the Cuban government of a deadly encounter between its troops and a boat carrying armed expatriates is casting a spotlight on Cubans living in the U.S. who still harbor aspirations of a counter-revolution 67 years after a guerrilla uprising ushered in communism

2:10 PM on Thursday, February 26

A Tennessee law that threatens local officials with felony charges and possible imprisonment if they vote for so-called “sanctuary policies” on immigration has been ruled unconstitutional

1:38 PM on Thursday, February 26

A 20-year-old woman is seeking to hold social media companies responsible for harms to children who use their platforms

12:59 PM on Thursday, February 26

11:32 AM on Thursday, February 26

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the artificial intelligence company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Pentagon’s demands to allow wider use of its technology

10:29 AM on Thursday, February 26

Police in New York state are investigating how a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar died after U.S. Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a doughnut shop in Buffalo

9:36 AM on Thursday, February 26

Federal immigration agents have detained a Columbia University student in her campus apartment

8:38 AM on Thursday, February 26

Pakistan has carried out airstrikes in Kabul and two other Afghan provinces, Afghanistan’s government spokesperson says

7:49 AM on Thursday, February 26

A social media content creator has been arrested after New York City police said officers were hurt when they were pelted with snow and ice during a massive snowball fight in Washington Square Park this week

4:10 AM on Thursday, February 26

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told members of Congress she had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and didn't recall ever meeting him