National News

2:50 PM on Tuesday, December 9

A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday refused to step aside as requested by President Donald Trump’s former attorney who faces felony forgery case related to the 2020 election in the battleground state

2:29 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The nation’s leading doctors groups are in a standoff with federal health officials over vaccines

2:14 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Federal health officials are reviewing the safety of two injectable drugs used to protect babies and toddlers from the RSV virus

1:55 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The United Nations chief is calling on Yemen’s Houthi rebels not to prosecute detained U.N. personnel and to work “in good faith” to immediately release all detained staff from the U.N. and foreign agencies and missions

1:50 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Shooting at Kentucky State University leaves one dead, one critically hurt and a suspect in custody, officials say

1:43 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Cracker Barrel posted lower-than-expected sales in its fiscal first quarter and lowered its revenue forecast for the year as it continued to feel the fallout from a botched plan to revamp its logo and restaurants

1:30 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The Environmental Protection Agency has removed references to fossil fuels from its online page about climate change causes

1:22 PM on Tuesday, December 9

U.S. stocks largely held in place as Wall Street waits to hear what the Federal Reserve will say Wednesday about where interest rates are heading

1:05 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The Justice Department has challenged a court order that complicated efforts to seek a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey by making a trove of evidence off-limits to prosecutors

1:03 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Frustrated by the city’s slow progress in painting crosswalks at intersections they believe are unsafe, activists in Los Angeles have been picking up paint rollers and doing it themselves

12:57 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her country plans to send more water to the U.S., but not immediately

12:37 PM on Tuesday, December 9

San Diego officials OK $30 million for family of teen killed by police in one of the largest such settlements in U.S.

11:55 AM on Tuesday, December 9

The U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn from an agreement with Houston to curb illegal dumping in Black and Latino neighborhoods

11:35 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Gov_ Ron DeSantis has labeled the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a "foreign terrorist organization."

11:30 AM on Tuesday, December 9

OpenAI has appointed Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its first chief of revenue

7:43 AM on Tuesday, December 9

A federal judge has allowed a Tufts University student from Turkey to resume research and teaching while she challenges her arrest and detention by the Trump administration

6:26 AM on Tuesday, December 9

A federal judge in New York has granted the Justice Department’s request to publicly release grand jury transcripts and other material from Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking case, citing a new law that requires the government to open its files on Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime confidant

4:22 AM on Tuesday, December 9

A new study says that more than two-thirds of women journalists, rights defenders and activists report online violence and over 40% of them have faced real-world attacks linked to digital abuse

4:10 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Hundreds of Nicaraguans caroled the Virgin Mary at flower-and-light-filled altars set up in church parking lots as well as the back of vehicles on the streets of Miami to mark the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception

1:14 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reaffirmed his refusal to cede territory, resisting U.S. pressure for compromise with Russia