National News

7:48 PM on Thursday, October 23

A 29-year-old man accused of sparking the deadly Palisades Fire, one of the most destructive wildfires in California history, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges

7:42 PM on Thursday, October 23

Alabama executes man with nitrogen gas for helping to burn a man alive in 1993 over a $200 drug debt

7:34 PM on Thursday, October 23

Democrats in Virginia are joining the national redistricting battle over U.S. House seats

7:21 PM on Thursday, October 23

6:39 PM on Thursday, October 23

Anthropic has signed a multibillion-dollar deal with Google to boost computing power for its chatbot, Claude

5:30 PM on Thursday, October 23

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services says it will temporarily bring all its furloughed employees back to work starting Monday to manage health insurance open enrollment

5:25 PM on Thursday, October 23

California voters could decide next year whether to impose a one-time tax on billionaires to backfill federal funding cuts to health care

5:14 PM on Thursday, October 23

The Trump administration has finalized a plan to open the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, renewing long-simmering debate over whether to drill in one of the nation’s most sensitive wilderness areas

4:52 PM on Thursday, October 23

An indictment says gambling money flowed after NBA player Terry Rozier told a pal that he would be exiting early from a game with the Charlotte Hornets in 2023

4:18 PM on Thursday, October 23

Principals in Ohio will vote next month on a referendum that could clear the way for name, image and likeness agreements for high school athletes in the state

3:46 PM on Thursday, October 23

President Donald Trump has approved major disaster declarations for Alaska, Nebraska, North Dakota and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe

2:06 PM on Thursday, October 23

U.S. President Donald Trump has done a turnaround on sanctions against Russia, taking aim at Russia's two biggest oil companies and the billions of dollars they reap for Moscow's war against Ukraine

2:05 PM on Thursday, October 23

Members of Congress are divided largely along party lines on the demolition of the East Wing of the White House to make room for a 90,000-square-foot ballroom that President Donald Trump wants to build

1:36 PM on Thursday, October 23

Investigators say they have video evidence suggesting two people may have been involved in moving and burying the body of Kada Scott, a Philadelphia woman who disappeared Oct. 4

12:38 PM on Thursday, October 23

A man suing the District of Columbia claims police officers violated his free speech rights when they detained him for following an Ohio National Guard patrol while playing Darth Vader’s theme song from “Star Wars” on his phone

12:31 PM on Thursday, October 23

The state of Michigan has acquired a life ring that washed ashore 50 years ago from the Edmund Fitzgerald

12:15 PM on Thursday, October 23

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has endorsed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the city’s mayoral race

11:40 AM on Thursday, October 23

An Associated Press analysis finds that the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions

10:17 AM on Thursday, October 23

Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and former Cleveland Cavaliers assistant Damon Jones are among 34 people charged in connection with schemes involving illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by Mafia, authorities said on Thursday

7:04 AM on Thursday, October 23

The hundreds of National Guard troops still deployed to Washington, D.C., have unnerved some residents