National News

11:22 PM on Tuesday, October 21

A man convicted of raping and fatally beating his former manager at a Florida convenience store is scheduled to be put to death in November

11:09 PM on Tuesday, October 21

Leaders at the Pentagon have significantly altered how military officials will speak with Congress after a pair of new memos issued last week

11:03 PM on Tuesday, October 21

An Alabama board is considering a proposal stating that the youth sections of public libraries cannot contain books that “positively” depict transgender themes and topics

7:27 PM on Tuesday, October 21

Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died at the age of 29

7:24 PM on Tuesday, October 21

Thousands of sea cucumbers have washed up on the beach in the Oregon coastal town of Seaside thanks to a combination of heavy surf and low tide

7:16 PM on Tuesday, October 21

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead a federal watchdog agency has withdrawn from consideration after his offensive text messages were made public and GOP senators revolted

7:08 PM on Tuesday, October 21

During an annual fall event where giant elephants smash massive pumpkins, a baby elephant was too small to crush the largest gourds, which weigh around 1,000 pounds

6:49 PM on Tuesday, October 21

President Donald Trump says the federal government owes him “a lot of money” for prior Justice Department investigations into his actions and insists that any decision on a payout would “have to go across my desk.”

6:13 PM on Tuesday, October 21

New Jersey Republicans have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to send election monitors to oversee the handling of mail ballots in a county that is key to the state’s Nov. 4 governor’s race between Republican Jack Ciattarelli and Democrat Mikie Sherrill

6:05 PM on Tuesday, October 21

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has revealed in a podcast that he was tattooed years ago with an image widely recognized as Nazi symbol

5:11 PM on Tuesday, October 21

Authorities say a person found a suspected explosive device in front of the Wyoming Capitol building in Cheyenne and brought it inside, causing the building to be evacuated

3:36 PM on Tuesday, October 21

Democrats have rallied against a proposed U.S. House map by North Carolina Republicans in Raleigh

3:36 PM on Tuesday, October 21

11:27 AM on Tuesday, October 21

New York City police released images of a woman wanted for questioning after an infant girl with her umbilical cord still attached was abandoned at a busy midtown Manhattan subway station

9:02 AM on Tuesday, October 21

Senate Republicans projected a unified front at the White House Rose Garden Tuesday, arriving at President Donald Trump’s invitation as they refuse to yield to Democratic demands for health care funds into the fourth week of the government shutdown

8:03 AM on Tuesday, October 21

Nicolas Sarkozy, once France's most powerful figure, is now in Paris' La Santé prison

4:58 AM on Tuesday, October 21

President Donald Trump says his plan for a swift meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin is on hold because he doesn’t want it to be a “waste of time.”

3:31 AM on Tuesday, October 21

A court in Slovakia has convicted a man of a terror attack and sentenced him to 21 years in prison over last year’s attempted assassination of Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico

2:11 AM on Tuesday, October 21

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and other envoys projected optimism about Gaza’s fragile ceasefire agreement during a visit to Israel even as they acknowledged significant challenges remain

12:20 AM on Tuesday, October 21

Prosecutors are backing off after getting a misdemeanor conviction against a record-setting mountain runner in a national park