National News

6:32 PM on Tuesday, October 7

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed into law a new 24% tax on marijuana to create new revenue that will help fund long-promised major road repairs

6:23 PM on Tuesday, October 7

The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to fill a critical vacancy at the top agency for worker rights, restoring it to the full power needed to deepen his overhaul of civil rights enforcement

6:00 PM on Tuesday, October 7

The attorney of the late Kyren Lacy, a former LSU football player who was accused of negligent homicide for his alleged role in a fatal car crash last year, is questioning his involvement in the deadly wreck

5:28 PM on Tuesday, October 7

President Donald Trump’s efforts to send National Guard troops into U.S. cities — including Los Angeles; Portland, Oregon; and Chicago — over the objections of Democratic mayors and governors have prompted a host of questions about the president’s authority and who controls the Guard

5:28 PM on Tuesday, October 7

George Legere, charged last month in a 1973 Connecticut cold case murder, has died

5:16 PM on Tuesday, October 7

Planned Parenthood officials say in court filings that Missouri's Republican attorney general is trying to get the medical records of patients who’ve had abortions

5:12 PM on Tuesday, October 7

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman says the online gaming platform Roblox has become a “playground for predators.”

4:54 PM on Tuesday, October 7

A 2-year-old boy in south Georgia has died after being attacked by two Rottweilers at an unlicensed daycare

4:29 PM on Tuesday, October 7

Democrats say fallout from the Trump administration’s aggressive tactics on the government shutdown could give them a welcome boost in the only two governors’ races on the ballot this year

4:23 PM on Tuesday, October 7

A prosecutor told a jury that three former upstate New York prison guards on trial in the fatal beating of Black handcuffed inmate were part of a “gang” that took part in an act of of “sheer, unimaginable brutality.”

2:36 PM on Tuesday, October 7

Francine the cat is back home at a Lowe’s store in Virginia after going missing for a few weeks

10:00 AM on Tuesday, October 7

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

5:10 AM on Tuesday, October 7

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Jerry has strengthened in the Atlantic Ocean on a path toward the Caribbean

2:16 AM on Tuesday, October 7

Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize in physics for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling

12:09 AM on Tuesday, October 7

A majority of Supreme Court justices seem to be leaning in favor of a Christian counselor who is challenging bans on LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy” for kids as a violation of her First Amendment rights

12:04 AM on Tuesday, October 7

Attorney General Pam Bondi has repeatedly deflected questions while seeking to defend herself during a combative congressional hearing in the face of growing criticism that she's turning the law enforcement agency into a weapon to seek vengeance against President Donald Trump’s political opponents

12:01 AM on Tuesday, October 7

U.S. stocks sank to their first loss in eight days

11:34 PM on Monday, October 6

Federal health officials have issued a public health alert for certain Hello Fresh subscription meals containing spinach that may be contaminated with listeria

12:19 AM on Monday, October 6

The fight for control of the U.S. House is underway in California

1:26 PM on Friday, October 3

Federal officials have reported the arrests of 13 people protesting near an immigration facility outside Chicago