National News

6:31 PM on Wednesday, May 13

Authorities say a man who livestreams himself saying racially derogatory statements to Black people in public settings has been taken into custody after being involved in a shooting during a confrontation outside a Tennessee courthouse

6:30 PM on Wednesday, May 13

A former New York City judge who resigned last year while under investigation for professional misconduct has been charged with abusing his position to swindle real estate investors out of at least $5 million and then using some of the loot to pay his own bills

6:29 PM on Wednesday, May 13

The U.S. military says the remains of the second U.S. Army soldier who went missing during military exercises in Morocco have been recovered

6:23 PM on Wednesday, May 13

A man accused of running a secret Chinese spy outpost in New York City has been convicted of acting as an illegal foreign agent and destroying text messages from a Chinese government handler

6:02 PM on Wednesday, May 13

An oncologist traveling on a cruise ship amid a hantavirus outbreak says he's the lone American isolated at a special biocontainment unit in Nebraska

5:16 PM on Wednesday, May 13

4:54 PM on Wednesday, May 13

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Kevin Warsh to lead the Federal Reserve

4:40 PM on Wednesday, May 13

Safety experts recommended Wednesday that airlines develop realistic training to prepare their pilots to deal with smoke filling the cockpit, like what happened on a Southwest Airlines plane after a bird strike in 2023

3:56 PM on Wednesday, May 13

Official figures show that the number of people deported to El Salvador from the United States nearly doubled in the first months of 2026

2:18 PM on Wednesday, May 13

Christie's says a 5.5-carat triangular-cut diamond billed as the largest fancy vivid blue-green diamond known to exist has sold for more than 13.5 million Swiss francs or $17.3 million

1:45 PM on Wednesday, May 13

The former mayor of Coldwater, Kansas, is in the custody of federal immigration authorities, a possible step toward deportation

12:28 PM on Wednesday, May 13

Four Memphis residents say they have been harassed, arrested and physically mistreated for engaging in activities protected by the First Amendment such as observing and recording law enforcement personnel in their city

11:41 AM on Wednesday, May 13

Harvey Weinstein's lawyers say their client felt chest pains as jurors deliberated in his rape retrial

10:41 AM on Wednesday, May 13

The Trump administration is expanding its fraud-busting initiative in federal health programs

9:54 AM on Wednesday, May 13

Republican senators in Louisiana have advanced a plan to eliminate one of two majority-Black U.S. House districts for this year's elections

8:03 AM on Wednesday, May 13

U.S. President Donald Trump has arrived in Beijing for his highly anticipated summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a restless moment for a world worried about war, trade and artificial intelligence

7:10 AM on Wednesday, May 13

Senate Republicans have blocked Democrats' efforts to reverse Trump-era changes to consumer protection laws

12:36 AM on Wednesday, May 13

A licensed drug addiction counselor who delivered the ketamine that killed “Friends” star Matthew Perry has been sentenced to two years

12:03 AM on Wednesday, May 13

A Utah mother who wrote a children’s book about grief after her husband’s death will serve life in prison without parole for his murder

10:49 PM on Tuesday, May 12

A rebound for technology stocks led Wall Street to records, even though the majority of U.S. stocks fell following another discouraging update on inflation