National News

12:01 AM on Friday, April 3

After Pam Bondi became U.S. attorney general last year, conservative influencers, online sleuths and others who wanted the government to disclose all it knew about Jeffrey Epstein thought they might have a champion in the Department of Justice

8:59 PM on Thursday, April 2

Bahrain has significantly watered down a proposed U.N. resolution on reopening the Strait of Hormuz

8:45 PM on Thursday, April 2

Amazon is slapping a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge on third-party sellers that sell on its platform starting later this month amid a spike in fuel prices since the war in Iran

8:02 PM on Thursday, April 2

Before picking Todd Blanche to help lead and now run the Justice Department, President Donald Trump was his client

7:52 PM on Thursday, April 2

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he will allow service members to carry personal weapons onto military installations

7:48 PM on Thursday, April 2

A former law enforcement officer for the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs Officer has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing an intoxicated 14-year-old girl on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana

7:35 PM on Thursday, April 2

The federal government is suing Connecticut, Arizona and Illinois, challenging their efforts to regulate prediction market operators such as Kalshi and Polymarket

7:32 PM on Thursday, April 2

Federal officials have arrested eight people they say were involved in various health care fraud schemes totaling $50 million in and around Los Angeles

5:25 PM on Thursday, April 2

The North Carolina Supreme Court has thrown out longtime litigation over education funding in the state

4:52 PM on Thursday, April 2

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ousted the Army’s top uniformed officer and two other generals as the U.S. wages a war against Iran

4:02 PM on Thursday, April 2

Sarah Strong of UConn is The Associated Press women’s basketball Player of the Year

3:40 PM on Thursday, April 2

Federal prosecutors have accused rapper Pooh Shiesty and eight others of robbing three men at gunpoint and kidnapping them in Texas following a contract dispute in January involving rapper Gucci Mane’s record label

3:02 PM on Thursday, April 2

Shea Ralph of Vanderbilt has been named The Associated Press women's basketball Coach of the Year

2:01 PM on Thursday, April 2

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed Thursday to include microplastics and pharmaceuticals on a list of contaminants in drinking water for the first time, a step that could eventually lead to new limits on those substances for water utilities

1:59 PM on Thursday, April 2

Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth

10:58 AM on Thursday, April 2

NASA’s Artemis II astronauts have fired their engines and are blazing toward the moon

8:18 AM on Thursday, April 2

Dutch authorities have recovered a priceless ancient golden helmet from Romania stolen last year from a museum in the Netherlands

7:09 AM on Thursday, April 2

President Donald Trump's new White House ballroom has gotten final approval from a key commission

3:44 AM on Thursday, April 2

There has been little sign Friday of the war in the Mideast winding down as Israel says it faced incoming fire from Iran, and Kuwait and Bahrain also reported being under attack

12:09 AM on Thursday, April 2

The U.S. Army’s top uniformed officer has been asked to step down by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth