National News

7:05 PM on Tuesday, October 28

A former New York state trooper is on trial for murder after a high-speed chase that left an 11-year-old girl dead in 2020

6:47 PM on Tuesday, October 28

A former Massachusetts police officer, who earlier pleaded not guilty to killing a woman he is accused of sexually exploiting when she was underage, faces an additional charge of causing the death of her unborn son

6:20 PM on Tuesday, October 28

North Korea says it test-fired a cruise missile ahead of Trump’s visit to South Korea

6:19 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Man convicted of raping and killing his neighbor is put to death in record 15th execution this year in Florida

6:07 PM on Tuesday, October 28

A federal appeals court has overturned a landmark decision in an opioid lawsuit in West Virginia

5:52 PM on Tuesday, October 28

MacKenzie Scott has donated $60 million to the Center for Disaster Philanthropy

5:49 PM on Tuesday, October 28

The Senate approved a resolution Tuesday evening that would nullify President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, including oil, coffee and orange juice, as Democrats test GOP senators’ support for Trump’s trade policy

5:42 PM on Tuesday, October 28

The Trump administration is moving to overrule state laws that protect consumers’ credit reports from medical debt

5:17 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Two Florida college students and an advocacy group for retirees are asking a federal judge to let them intervene in a lawsuit to defend census methods used to protect privacy and fill in missing data

5:00 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Trial has begun in a $40 million lawsuit accusing a former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school of ignoring multiple warnings that a 6-year-old student had a gun hours before he shot his teacher

4:48 PM on Tuesday, October 28

U.S. immigration officials have deported a man to Laos despite a federal court order blocking his removal

4:28 PM on Tuesday, October 28

A federal agent fired shots at an unarmed Black man during a recent traffic stop while patrolling the nation’s capital for President Donald Trump’s law-enforcement surge

2:55 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Brazilian police and soldiers have launched a massive raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro, arresting 81 suspects

2:35 PM on Tuesday, October 28

An autumn heat wave accompanied by gusty winds raised the wildfire risk for Southern California, with forecasters warning that grass and brush are still dangerously dry despite recent rains

2:19 PM on Tuesday, October 28

A North Carolina man who told authorities he had killed his children and that his children's bodies were in the trunk of a vehicle at his home has been charged with four counts of murder

8:19 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Conservative voters in Northern California are alarmed that a ballot measure designed to diminish Republican representation could pass in November

12:10 AM on Tuesday, October 28

The U.S. stock market pushed further into record heights

12:02 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Vice President JD Vance says that he believes U.S. military members will be paid at the end of the week as the Trump administration reconfigures funding in the second-longest government shutdown

12:02 AM on Tuesday, October 28

A man convicted of raping and killing his neighbor has put to death in a record 15th execution this year in Florida

10:46 PM on Monday, October 27

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis has ordered a senior U.S. Border Patrol official to meet with her daily “to hear about how the day went” after weeks of confrontations between immigration agents and the public in the Chicago area