National News

6:47 PM on Friday, August 22

New York tour bus crash on interstate highway killed 5 passengers, authorities say

6:41 PM on Friday, August 22

President Donald Trump was quick to declare “TOTAL VICTORY” after a New York appeals court threw out a civil fraud penalty that stood to cost him more than a half-billion dollars

6:32 PM on Friday, August 22

President Donald Trump visited a gift shop near the White House and stopped by the Kennedy Center on Friday, all while his federal takeover of Washington is keeping residents on edge

6:21 PM on Friday, August 22

The Trump administration's decision to review the visas of more than 55 million people is leading to false reports on social media for the number of noncitizens living in the U.S., with claims as high as 70 million to 100 million people

6:00 PM on Friday, August 22

Lawyers for the wife of former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez say she should be sentenced to a year and a day in prison rather than the eight years recommended by the federal court's probation office

5:35 PM on Friday, August 22

The Justice Department has released interview transcripts with Ghislaine Maxwell, where she speaks positively about Donald Trump, calling him a “gentleman in all respects.”

5:22 PM on Friday, August 22

A Wisconsin judge has declined to dismiss felony charges against two attorneys and a former aide to President Donald Trump who advised Trump in 2020 as part of a plan to submit paperwork falsely claiming that the Republican had won the battleground state that year

5:16 PM on Friday, August 22

An explosion and fire at an automotive supply company in southeast Louisiana forced nearby residents and an elementary school to evacuate

5:14 PM on Friday, August 22

The Trump administration says it will not defend a decades-old grant program for heavily Hispanic universities that is being challenged in court, declaring that the government believes the funding is unconstitutional

5:09 PM on Friday, August 22

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has moved to strip thousands of federal health agency employees of their collective bargaining rights

4:40 PM on Friday, August 22

The North Carolina Supreme Court has issued favorable rulings for bars seeking compensation from the state for COVID-19 restrictions

3:19 PM on Friday, August 22

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of U.S. damage to Iran nuclear sites angered President Donald Trump

3:08 PM on Friday, August 22

A jail release order from a Tennessee court requires Kilmar Abrego Garcia to travel directly to Maryland, where he'll be in home detention with his brother as his custodian

3:04 PM on Friday, August 22

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and a local sheriff are calling for a county coroner to resign after state inspectors found about 20 decomposing bodies behind a hidden door in a funeral home he owned

1:48 PM on Friday, August 22

A federal judge has halted further expansion of the immigration detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Florida Everglades

10:48 AM on Friday, August 22

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered National Guard troops to start carrying firearms while patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump’s law enforcement crackdown

8:32 AM on Friday, August 22

Millions of Americans are facing record heat with temperatures frequently over 90 degrees Fahrenheit

8:11 AM on Friday, August 22

Finnish air guitarist Aapo “The Angus” Rautio has plucked victory from thin air, grabbing the world championship title for his homeland for the first time since 2000

5:54 AM on Friday, August 22

President Donald Trump started the week declaring a diplomatic breakthrough in his bid to get Russia and Ukraine closer to making peace, announcing he had begun arranging for direct talks between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy

1:11 AM on Friday, August 22

Wall Street rallied to its best day in months after the head of the Federal Reserve hinted that cuts to interest rates may be on the way