National News

3:04 PM on Tuesday, March 24

The group Everytown for Gun Safety used court records to trace more than 250 guns bought at nearly two dozen Academy Sports + Outdoors chain stores that had been trafficked over three years in a handful of federal straw purchasing prosecutions

2:16 PM on Tuesday, March 24

Jeff Webb, the founder of Varsity Spirit who helped turn cheerleading into a sport recognized by the International Olympic Committee, has died

1:44 PM on Tuesday, March 24

The Grammy-award winning South African composer of the iconic chant that opens “The Lion King” is suing a comedian, saying he's denigrated the “Circle of Life” song with an intentional mistranslation

1:40 PM on Tuesday, March 24

Fortnite publisher Epic Games said Tuesday it is laying off 1,000 employees to save money as it grapples with industry-wide and company-specific challenges

1:03 PM on Tuesday, March 24

Managers have less to argue about as Major League Baseball starts ball-and-strike challenges this season with so-called robot umpires

12:46 PM on Tuesday, March 24

Georgia lawmakers may require that every public school student be checked for weapons each day

12:35 PM on Tuesday, March 24

A Georgia judge has granted a bond of just $1 for a murder charge faced by a woman accused by police of taking pills to induce an illegal abortion

12:30 PM on Tuesday, March 24

Melania Trump is calling on nations to work together to improve access to education and technology for children

12:05 PM on Tuesday, March 24

The nonprofit that controls the artificial intelligence maker OpenAI pledged Tuesday to grant out $1 billion over the next year and to build up its capacity as a philanthropic funder

11:01 AM on Tuesday, March 24

Cyprus has raised concerns that it was kept in the dark when a Shahed drone struck a hangar at a British air base on the island’s southern coastline minutes after midnight on March 2

10:31 AM on Tuesday, March 24

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to France this week to try to sell America’s skeptical Group of Seven allies on the Iran war that has sent global fuel prices soaring

8:36 AM on Tuesday, March 24

Afghanistan’s Taliban government says that authorities have released American academic Dennis Coyle, held in Afghanistan since January 2025

5:24 AM on Tuesday, March 24

Rescue teams in northern Germany are working to refloat a humpback whale stranded in shallow water in the Baltic Sea

5:18 AM on Tuesday, March 24

A veil of blossoming trees unfolds each spring across the plains of Greece’s largest peach-producing region

1:48 AM on Tuesday, March 24

Scientists at CERN took some antiprotons out for a spin in a never-tried-before test drive

12:08 AM on Tuesday, March 24

A new Gallup survey finds that Americans’ outlook on the job market is increasingly pessimistic

12:01 AM on Tuesday, March 24

Lawmakers in states where abortion is already banned are focusing on measures intended to crack down on abortion pills

5:35 PM on Monday, March 23

The worst flooding to hit Hawaii in two decades swept homes off their foundations, floated cars out of driveways and left floors, walls and counters covered in thick, reddish volcanic mud

3:54 PM on Monday, March 23

Within a given year, is there any advantage to taking your required minimum distributions as soon as you can, or taking it down to the wire and pulling the distribution in late December

11:31 AM on Monday, March 9