National News

12:51 PM on Monday, October 6

President Donald Trump is considering admitting far fewer refugee into the U.S. this year – as few as 7,500, and mostly white Afrikaners

12:45 PM on Monday, October 6

Weather service confirms a 210 mph tornado in North Dakota was first with EF5 classification in a dozen years

12:01 PM on Monday, October 6

U.S. government lawyers say detainees at the Florida Everglades immigration detention center, known as "Alligator Alcatraz," likely include people who have never been in removal proceedings

11:38 AM on Monday, October 6

Here’s a question submitted by an Associated Press reader: Is it legal to fire furloughed federal workers during a shutdown

11:28 AM on Monday, October 6

President Donald Trump has tapped a career government attorney as the next independent watchdog of the Justice Department

11:04 AM on Monday, October 6

Illinois governor and Chicago mayor sue to block Trump administration's plan to deploy National Guard troops to the city

10:55 AM on Monday, October 6

Democrat and retired Marine aviator Amy McGrath has entered the Senate campaign in Kentucky

10:54 AM on Monday, October 6

The head of a nonpartisan agency tasked with finding a new prosecutor for the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump is asking for more time

10:13 AM on Monday, October 6

The Kremlin has welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments about Russia’s offer to extend the last remaining nuclear arms treaty with the United States, saying it raises hope for keeping the pact alive after it expires in February

9:56 AM on Monday, October 6

The Supreme Court is refusing to revive a controversial Missouri gun law that bans police from enforcing some federal firearm laws

9:34 AM on Monday, October 6

9:33 AM on Monday, October 6

Fishermen in Trinidad and Tobago are fearing that a U.S. military strike in the Caribbean could kill them and their livelihoods

9:32 AM on Monday, October 6

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned ex-girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein

9:29 AM on Monday, October 6

American distillers have gotten a costly cold shoulder from Canada

9:20 AM on Monday, October 6

Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francis’ more questionable financial reforms and decisions

7:38 AM on Monday, October 6

Experts say a food aid program that helps 6 million low-income mothers and young children will run out of federal money unless the government shutdown ends within two weeks

6:56 AM on Monday, October 6

An Associated Press tally shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on TV recruitment ads targeting officers frustrated by local restrictions on immigration enforcement

5:58 PM on Sunday, October 5

Authorities say a Texas mother shot her four children, killing two of them, and is now facing murder charges

11:40 AM on Saturday, October 4

Authorities in the Houston suburb of Angleton, Texas, say two children have died and two more have been critically injured in a shooting

12:04 AM on Saturday, October 4

Bad Bunny kicked off the 51st season of “Saturday Night Live” with a few timely jokes about his next high-profile gig: the Super Bowl