National News

6:55 PM on Thursday, September 4

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order to rebrand the Department of Defense as the Department of War

6:43 PM on Thursday, September 4

A reconstruction of the aborted deportation of dozens of Guatemalan children on Labor Day weekend illuminates the latest clash between the administration’s desire for mass deportations and longstanding legal protections for migrants

6:14 PM on Thursday, September 4

A suburban New York school district has agreed to change its “Thunderbirds” nickname to simply the “T-Birds” in order to comply with the state’s mandate to retire all Native American sports names and mascots

6:13 PM on Thursday, September 4

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Detroit police in the wrongful arrest of a pregnant woman who was charged with carjacking partly because of facial recognition technology

5:42 PM on Thursday, September 4

Joe Biden recently underwent surgery to remove skin cancer lesions

5:31 PM on Thursday, September 4

5:17 PM on Thursday, September 4

A woman who worked as a hairstylist for Fox Sports has resolved most of a lawsuit that alleged former host Skip Bayless made unwanted advances toward her

4:45 PM on Thursday, September 4

Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. faced bipartisan questioning over recent changes to health agencies, vaccine approvals and other priorities at a contentious three-hour Senate hearing

4:17 PM on Thursday, September 4

Hikers who climbed one of Colorado's tallest mountains got more than a sweeping view at the top

4:12 PM on Thursday, September 4

Immigration agents are conducting a raid at the sprawling industrial site where Hyundai makes electric vehicles in southeast Georgia

3:34 PM on Thursday, September 4

The shooter who killed two children and injured 21 others at a Minneapolis church was seen on video visiting a suburban gun shop the weekend before the attack

2:59 PM on Thursday, September 4

New York’s attorney general is moving to have the state’s highest court reinstate President Donald Trump’s staggering civil fraud penalty

2:47 PM on Thursday, September 4

Florida is set to become the first state in the nation to remove vaccine mandates

2:30 PM on Thursday, September 4

A federal jury has ordered Google to pay $425.7 million for improperly snooping on people’s smartphones during a nearly decade-long period of intrusions

2:20 PM on Thursday, September 4

The Justice Department has issued subpoenas as part of an investigation into mortgage fraud allegations against Lisa Cook, who is fighting a Trump administration effort to remove her from her role as a Federal Reserve governor

1:49 PM on Thursday, September 4

Northwestern University President Michael Schill announced Thursday that he will resign, ending a three-year tenure marked by the freeze of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding by the Trump administration and heated criticism from House Republicans over the university’s response to campus protests

10:57 AM on Thursday, September 4

Rhode Island, Connecticut and the developer of an offshore wind farm that would power 350,000 homes in the two states are suing the Trump administration for stopping the nearly completed project

10:56 AM on Thursday, September 4

Republican lawmakers in Congress are moving to eliminate limits on energy development in several Western states

9:57 AM on Thursday, September 4

Shares of American Eagle Outfitters spiked 34% Thursday after the teen clothing retailer said the frenzy surrounding its Sydney Sweeney ad campaign drew new customers during its most recent quarter

12:02 AM on Thursday, September 4

A federal appeals court panel has put on hold a lower court judge’s order to wind down operations of the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”