National News

6:22 PM on Thursday, August 21

A World War II veteran from Nebraska believed to be America’s last surviving “ace” pilot because he shot down five enemy planes has died

6:15 PM on Thursday, August 21

California Legislature votes to set November special election on new US House map favoring Democrats

6:14 PM on Thursday, August 21

Villanova University president says report of a campus shooter that sent students scrambling was a "cruel hoax"

6:11 PM on Thursday, August 21

New York City officials have discovered a sixth death linked to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Central Harlem, where more than 100 people have been diagnosed with the ailment

5:34 PM on Thursday, August 21

Elon Musk’s X has reached a tentative settlement with former employees of the company then known as Twitter who’d sued for $500 million in severance pay

5:26 PM on Thursday, August 21

Before his return to the White House this year, President Donald Trump faced a slew of criminal charges and lawsuits that threatened his finances and freedom

5:20 PM on Thursday, August 21

Villanova University reports an active shooter on campus, tells students to lock and barricade doors

4:44 PM on Thursday, August 21

Supreme Court lets Trump administration cut nearly $800 million in health research funding in anti-DEI push

4:32 PM on Thursday, August 21

Wall Street fell to a fifth straight loss

4:09 PM on Thursday, August 21

President Donald Trump is blaming renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power for skyrocketing energy costs

1:51 PM on Thursday, August 21

Authorities say the body of a missing woman has been found in a Southern California forest days after her husband was recorded on surveillance video dragging something heavy out of their apartment complex north of Los Angeles

1:46 PM on Thursday, August 21

Orlando officials have denounced the removal of a rainbow-colored crosswalk outside the Pulse nightclub

1:46 PM on Thursday, August 21

The former singer-guitarist for the Grammy-winning band Mastodon, Brent HInds has died in a motorcycle accident in Atlanta

11:56 AM on Thursday, August 21

A jury found a man not guilty of organizing the daytime ambush killing of rapper Young Dolph at a Memphis bakery in November 2021

10:43 AM on Thursday, August 21

President Donald Trump is declaring victory after an appeals court threw out the massive civil fraud penalty against him

10:09 AM on Thursday, August 21

A former top aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams is among seven people facing new charges in the corruption investigation that has swirled around City Hall for two years

10:03 AM on Thursday, August 21

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in July as homebuyers were encouraged by a modest pullback in mortgage rates, slowing home price growth and more properties on the market

7:16 AM on Thursday, August 21

Some voices on the Christian right are arguing the virtue of empathy has become a vice

3:20 AM on Thursday, August 21

Uganda's foreign ministry says the African country has agreed to a deal with the United States to take deported migrants as long as they don’t have criminal records and are not unaccompanied minors

12:57 AM on Thursday, August 21

Wall Street fell to a fifth straight loss