National News

8:28 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Hurricane Melissa is close to making landfall on Jamaica as the strongest storm to hit the island in the 174 years since records began

8:19 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Conservative voters in Northern California are alarmed that a ballot measure designed to diminish Republican representation could pass in November

8:01 AM on Tuesday, October 28

A coalition of seven charitable foundations has established a Literary Arts Fund to support independent publishers and nonprofit organizations

7:57 AM on Tuesday, October 28

A federal agent had a daring plan: persuade Nicolas Maduro's chief pilot to surreptitiously divert the Venezuelan president’s plane to a place where U.S. authorities could nab the strongman

7:39 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Actor Prunella Scales has died at 93

7:18 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Sherry Jenkins lives in Blairstown, New Jersey, where the first “Friday the 13th” was mostly filmed

7:14 AM on Tuesday, October 28

The new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has been making the case that the United States will no longer be footing the bill the way it has since the world body’s founding eight decades ago

6:21 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Israel says hostage remains returned by Hamas overnight are body parts of a hostage troops previously recovered in Gaza

6:08 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Some Chicago parents and teachers say children were traumatized by a recent immigration enforcement action involving tear gas

6:07 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Amazon will cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as the online retail giant ramps up spending on artificial intelligence

6:06 AM on Tuesday, October 28

In Chicago, children and families have been traumatized by an immigration enforcement action involving tear gas

6:00 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Amazon to cut 14,000 corporate jobs as it ramps up spending on artificial intelligence

4:12 AM on Tuesday, October 28

A plane crash killed 11 people, mostly foreign tourists, in Kenya’s coastal region of Kwale

3:13 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Freddie Freeman homered leading off the bottom of the 18th inning, Shohei Ohtani went deep twice during another record-setting performance and the Los Angeles Dodgers outlasted the Toronto Blue Jays 6-5 in a World Series classic

12:20 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Hurricane Melissa is set to pummel Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest to lash the island since recordkeeping began 174 years ago

12:10 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Wall Street was leaning toward modest gains as more companies report their latest earnings ahead of a planned meeting later this week between President Donald Trump and China’s top leader

12:01 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Food banks and pantries are preparing for a surge in demand if federal food aid is paused this weekend from the government shutdown

10:46 PM on Monday, October 27

U.S. President Donald Trump has met with Japan’s newly elected, ultraconservative leader in Tokyo during one of the busiest days of his Asia trip

4:59 PM on Monday, October 27

President Donald Trump has met with Japan's new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, during his trip to Asia

4:08 PM on Monday, October 27

The Federal Reserve will almost certainly cut its key interest rate on Wednesday and could signal it expects another cut in December as the central bank seeks to bolster hiring