National News

8:45 PM on Wednesday, February 4

Taiwan’s ties with the United States are “rock solid,” the island’s president said Thursday, hours after President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke on the phone, including about the self-ruled island’s future

6:03 PM on Wednesday, February 4

'Today Show' host Savannah Guthrie posts message to her mother‘s kidnapper asking to provide proof she is alive

5:57 PM on Wednesday, February 4

A judge says U.S. immigration agents in Oregon must stop arresting people without warrants unless they are likely to escape

5:51 PM on Wednesday, February 4

US judge blocks immigration agents from arresting people in Oregon without warrants unless there's a risk of escape

5:38 PM on Wednesday, February 4

Authorities say the parents of a 16-year-old boy who wounded two students at a Colorado high school with an old revolver won't be charged

5:14 PM on Wednesday, February 4

Health officials in New Mexico have said a newborn baby died from a listeria infection likely linked to the child's mother drinking raw milk during pregnancy

4:28 PM on Wednesday, February 4

A Texas A&M University professor who was fired last year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature lesson about gender identity has sued the school

3:46 PM on Wednesday, February 4

Trump administration officials traveled to Los Angeles to outline the president’s plan to override state and local rules and speed up the permitting process for reconstruction of tens of thousands of homes destroyed by last year’s wildfires

3:23 PM on Wednesday, February 4

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3:00 PM on Wednesday, February 4

President Donald Trump is taking steps toward installing a statue of Christopher Columbus near the White House

9:53 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Mickey Lolich, who earned three complete-game wins for the Detroit Tigers in the 1968 World Series, has died

7:53 AM on Wednesday, February 4

President Donald Trump says he and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the situation in Iran in a wide-ranging call as the U.S. administration pushes Beijing and others to further isolate Tehran

6:44 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Officials in Georgia’s Fulton County have asked a federal court to order the FBI to return ballots and other documents from the 2020 election that it seized last week, The move escalates a voting battle as President Donald Trump says he wants to “take over” elections from Democratic-run areas with the November midterms on the horizon

6:27 AM on Wednesday, February 4

The Washington Post has laid off one-third of its staff, eliminating its sports section, several foreign bureaus and its books coverage

5:48 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has confirmed that Iran and the United States will hold nuclear talks in Oman’s capital, Muscat, on Friday

5:38 AM on Wednesday, February 4

The Angel Meloni is no more

5:08 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Border czar Tom Homan said the Trump administration is reducing the number of immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota after state and local officials agreed to cooperate by turning over arrested immigrants

4:06 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Democrats are threatening to block funding for the Homeland Security Department when it expires in two weeks unless there are “dramatic changes” and “real accountability” for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement agencies who are carrying out President Donald Trump’s campaign of federal immigration enforcement

2:59 AM on Wednesday, February 4

The former Prince Andrew has moved out of his longtime home on crown-owned land near Windsor Castle earlier than expected, after the latest release of documents from the U.S. investigation of Jeffrey Epstein revived questions about his friendship with the convicted sex offender

2:02 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Russian President Vladimir Putin has discussed the burgeoning economic cooperation between Moscow and Beijing and their relations with the United States in a video call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping