National News

2:02 AM on Monday, March 30

In a tribal battle fought over a century ago, according to oral history, a prophet in South Sudan raised his stick and summoned a thunderbolt that killed a crowd of fighters from a rival tribe

1:34 AM on Monday, March 30

Australian police have shot dead a man seven months after he was suspected of killing two police officers and seriously wounding a third in a remote forest region

1:08 AM on Monday, March 30

Two weeks before pivotal elections, Hungary’s young voters are rallying behind Péter Magyar’s Tisza party and posing the strongest challenge to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in years

12:52 AM on Monday, March 30

China’s flag carrier has resumed direct flights between Beijing and North Korea’s capital of Pyongyang not long after the restoration of passenger train services between the capitals

9:34 PM on Sunday, March 29

President Donald Trump says he has “no problem” with a Russian oil tanker off the coast of Cuba delivering relief to the island, which has been brought to its knees by a U.S. oil blockade

8:49 PM on Sunday, March 29

7:37 PM on Sunday, March 29

Braylon Mullins sank a desperation 3-pointer with 0.4 seconds left to give UConn an astonishing 73-72 victory over top-seeded Duke, earning the Huskies a spot in the Final Four after they rallied from a 19-point first-half deficit

5:55 PM on Sunday, March 29

A young man who moved from Connecticut to Israel last year to join the military was killed Saturday during a combat operation in southern Lebanon

4:46 PM on Sunday, March 29

Yaxel Lendeborg scored 27 points, Elliot Cadeau had 10 assists and Michigan rolled into the Final Four by overwhelming Tennessee for a 95-62 victory in the NCAA Tournament

4:35 PM on Sunday, March 29

Chesney the kangaroo jumped an eight-foot fence to escape his petting zoo in Wisconsin, spending three days on the lam

2:10 PM on Sunday, March 29

Long security lines at airports are driving people crazy as Congress and President Donald Trump try to work out a budget stalemate

11:42 AM on Sunday, March 29

11:04 AM on Sunday, March 29

Igor Tudor has left his role as Tottenham interim coach after seven matches and 44 days in charge

10:55 AM on Sunday, March 29

Israeli police have blocked top Catholic leaders from entering Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre for a private Palm Sunday Mass

12:08 AM on Sunday, March 29

Regional powers met in Pakistan to discuss how to end the fighting in the Middle East after about 2,500 U.S. Marines arrived in the region and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels entered the monthlong war

12:08 AM on Sunday, March 29

Pakistan’s foreign minister says Islamabad will soon host talks between the U.S. and Iran

11:41 AM on Saturday, March 28

Heading into the weekend, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to pay the tens of thousands of TSA officers who have been working without pay for over a month during a partial government shutdown

8:03 AM on Saturday, March 28

The USS Massachusetts has joined the Navy fleet

10:26 PM on Thursday, March 26

Farmers around the world are facing fertilizer shortages and rising costs after the war in Iran disrupted shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, which handles a third of global fertilizer trade

12:05 PM on Monday, March 16