National News

7:39 PM on Wednesday, October 29

A South Texas city has removed a mural protesting the border wall along the southern border with Mexico following a threat by Gov. Greg Abbott to withhold up to $1.6 billion in road funding

7:07 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Immigration authorities say they did not receive word of a court order blocking the removal of an Alabama father until after he had been deported to Laos

6:57 PM on Wednesday, October 29

A coalition of news organizations is suing Tennessee’s top prisons official and a warden, alleging that state execution protocols unconstitutionally limit the media’s access to the entire process when inmates are put to death

5:41 PM on Wednesday, October 29

The Senate is passing legislation that would nullify U.S. tariffs on Canada

5:39 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Colorado officials say the relocation of U.S. Space Command to Alabama was illegally motivated by President Donald Trump’s desire to punish Colorado for allowing mail-in voting

4:50 PM on Wednesday, October 29

A North Dakota judge has ordered Greenpeace to pay damages of $345 million, reducing an earlier jury award after it found the environmental group and others liable for defamation and other claims brought by a pipeline company in connections with protests of an oil pipeline nearly a decade ago

4:37 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Google’s corporate parent on Wednesday announced its first-ever quarter with more than $100 billion in revenue

4:21 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Microsoft has reported an 18% increase in quarterly sales, reaching $77.7 billion, surpassing Wall Street expectations

4:10 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Food aid for more than 40 million Americans is at risk of expiring at week's end

4:08 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Starbucks halted a long sales slide in its fiscal fourth quarter as fall drinks and improved service brought customers back to its stores

3:23 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has called on Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, to apologize to Ontario’s representative in Washington

2:24 PM on Wednesday, October 29

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2:19 PM on Wednesday, October 29

A Democratic congressional candidate in Illinois has been accused of blocking a federal agent's vehicle during September protests outside a federal immigration building near Chicago

1:02 PM on Wednesday, October 29

A federal appeals court has blocked an order that required a senior Border Patrol official to brief a judge on Chicago immigration sweeps

12:39 PM on Wednesday, October 29

The U.N. General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba for a 33rd year

9:24 AM on Wednesday, October 29

The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Melissa has begun affecting the southeastern Bahamas

11:41 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Mountaineer Jim Morrison has skied the last un-skied route on Mount Everest

9:06 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Relief organizations are mobilizing to help across the Caribbean after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm, tying for the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane in history

12:49 PM on Tuesday, October 28

The death toll is growing as Hurricane Melissa crosses Cuba and heads for the Bahamas a day after making landfall in Jamaica as one of the region’s strongest storms on record

10:34 AM on Friday, October 24

The Department of Justice is preparing to send federal election observers to California and New Jersey next month, targeting two Democratic states holding off-year elections following requests from their state Republican parties