National News

9:10 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Two recent killings — one of an outspoken representative of the lime growers, the other a popular mayor standing up to the cartels — in Mexico's western Michoacan state have sent a clear message that organized crime is in charge, something residents have known for years

8:55 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Thai officials said remains from Gaza handed over to Israeli authorities have been identified as last Thai hostage

7:48 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Venmo says that an issue impacting the payment service has been fixed and it is “back up and running,” after users reported trouble sending and receiving money

7:41 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Honduras' former President Juan Orlando Hernández has thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for pardoning him in his first message after leaving prison

7:15 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Authorities say a U.S. Marine has died during a training exercise at Southern California's Camp Pendleton

6:21 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Connecticut police have found a decomposed body and numerous explosives inside a home after a standoff with a man who had barricaded himself and exchanged gunfire with officers

5:57 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Honolulu’s city council has authorized a $1 million settlement for the family of a 16-year-old boy shot and killed by police in 2021

4:40 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is making the rounds in Washington

3:58 PM on Wednesday, December 3

An upstate New York jury has convicted a man who wore a clown mask and brandished a chain saw during a menacing daytime walk through a neighborhood

3:37 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Three Omaha police officers have been wounded in an exchange of gunfire with a shooting suspect who was killed

3:20 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Even for a president who has long made clear he’s no fan of Somalia, the latest round of contempt from Donald Trump was a shock in the country’s largest Somali community in Minnesota

2:33 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Military officials say a fighter jet with the Air Force's Thunderbirds demonstration squadron has crashed in the Southern California desert

2:31 PM on Wednesday, December 3

The Pentagon knew there were survivors after a September attack on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea and the U.S. military still carried out a follow-up strike

2:06 PM on Wednesday, December 3

A dozen prior leaders of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have issued a scathing denunciation of an FDA memo to staff that made sweeping claims casting doubt on vaccine safety

1:56 PM on Wednesday, December 3

One of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s most vocal accusers is urging judges to grant the Justice Department’s request unseal to records from their federal sex trafficking cases, saying that “only transparency is likely to lead to justice.”

1:16 PM on Wednesday, December 3

9:37 AM on Wednesday, December 3

U.S. President Donald Trump has called Somali immigrants living in the United States “garbage” and wants them to leave

5:14 AM on Wednesday, December 3

The Pentagon’s watchdog has found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and their mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information about a military strike against Houthi militants in Yemen

12:18 AM on Wednesday, December 3

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 remains a mystery more than a decade later

3:04 PM on Tuesday, December 2

A raccoon broke into a closed Virginia liquor store and drank alcohol from the bottom shelves over the weekend