National News

3:30 AM on Friday, March 20

Iran's supreme leader says enemies' 'security must be taken away' after intelligence minister's killing

3:07 AM on Friday, March 20

Scientists say a record-smashing March heat wave in the U.S. Southwest shows climate change is already driving more dangerous weather extremes

2:45 AM on Friday, March 20

Spokesman for Iran's Revolutionary Guard, responding to Israeli premier, insists Tehran still building missiles

2:30 AM on Friday, March 20

A video taken by tiny drones sent into one of three damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant shows a gaping hole in the thick-walled steel container of the core, with lumps of likely fuel debris hanging from it, in a first sighting of a pressure vessel bottom since the meltdown 15 years ago

2:17 AM on Friday, March 20

Israel says it struck a Syrian 'commander center' and weapons depots after attacks on Druze

2:00 AM on Friday, March 20

A fire at an auto parts factory in South Korea has left 53 people injured and more than a dozen missing, officials says

1:34 AM on Friday, March 20

Iran’s war with Israel has spread across the Gulf and hit key energy sites, raising fresh fears about global oil supplies

1:25 AM on Friday, March 20

With U.S.-brokered Ukraine peace talks on hold due to the war in the Middle East, Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to try to expand his military gains via new offensives against his southern neighbor that will put even more pressure on Kyiv

1:11 AM on Friday, March 20

Residents in the Mexican central state of Guerrero are setting up self-defense patrols to keep a powerful cartel out of their mountain towns

1:06 AM on Friday, March 20

Asian shares have been mostly lower following losses on Wall Street, and oil prices have pared earlier gains on the intensifying Iran war, falling back to around $108 per barrel after briefly surging to about $119 a barrel on Thursday

12:49 AM on Friday, March 20

Kuwait said Friday its Mina Al-Ahmadi oil refinery again came under attack by Iranian drones, which sparked a fire at several of its units

12:42 AM on Friday, March 20

Kuwait says its Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery again hit in Iranian drone attacks, starting a fire at some its units

12:33 AM on Friday, March 20

The spokesman for Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard insisted Friday that Tehran was still building missiles

12:22 AM on Friday, March 20

A federal judge has ruled that the government overreached when it declared certain types of gender-affirming care unsafe for young people

12:09 AM on Friday, March 20

The Iran war is exposing how much the global economy still depends on fragile fossil fuel supplies

12:06 AM on Friday, March 20

Clergy groups in Minnesota are asking a federal judge to order ICE to allow in-person pastoral visits for immigrants held in a Minneapolis federal building

9:28 PM on Thursday, March 19

At least 48 boys and young men died during the latest round of initiation ceremonies in South Africa, which involve the highly secretive process of traditional circumcision to “become a man.”

4:46 PM on Thursday, March 19

The NCAA Tournament brackets have already been busted for millions of college basketball fans

10:10 AM on Thursday, March 19

All-Star guard Cade Cunningham of the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons has a collapsed lung and is expected to miss at least two weeks and possibly more

1:26 AM on Thursday, March 19

Israel has pounded Tehran with airstrikes as Iranians mark Nowruz, or the Persian New Year