National News

8:13 PM on Monday, October 6

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has asked Pope Leo XIV to help maintain peace in Venezuela

7:49 PM on Monday, October 6

A former member of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ senior staff has been sentenced to a year of probation for reporting a fake bomb threat to City Hall while attending a virtual meeting in 2024

6:43 PM on Monday, October 6

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyers want the hip-hop mogul sent to a low-security federal prison in New Jersey to serve his four-year, two-month prison sentence

6:08 PM on Monday, October 6

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to protect Google from a year-old order requiring a major makeover of its Android app store

6:02 PM on Monday, October 6

A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year

6:01 PM on Monday, October 6

Eleven pro-Palestinian demonstrators who were arrested at Stanford University last year after they occupied the president’s office building and allegedly caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage have been arraigned a second time in Northern California

5:55 PM on Monday, October 6

The United Nations chief is lamenting that 25 years after a landmark U.N. resolution demanded equal participation for women in all efforts to promote peace, far too often women remain absent

5:33 PM on Monday, October 6

An intruder broke into the Washington state Capitol and smashed a glass door, set fire to a rug and flag, knocked over busts of George Washington and Martin Luther King Jr. before he was taken into custody by state troopers

5:14 PM on Monday, October 6

The FBI in 2023 analyzed phone records of more than a half dozen Republican lawmakers as part of an investigation into efforts by Donald Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election

4:58 PM on Monday, October 6

President Donald Trump on Monday ordered approval of a proposed 211-mile road through an Alaska wilderness to allow mining of copper, cobalt, gold and other minerals

3:06 PM on Monday, October 6

The Wisconsin Department of Justice is asking a judge to immediately put on hold his order that would require elections officials to verify the citizenship of all 3.6 million registered Wisconsin voters before the next statewide election in February

2:01 PM on Monday, October 6

President Donald Trump's plan to deploy the military on U.S. soil is sparking conflict with blue state governors that is playing out in the courts

1:44 PM on Monday, October 6

Five years after their influential drummer Neil Peart died of glioblastoma, the Canadian band Rush have announced a reunion tour Monday

1:28 PM on Monday, October 6

12:47 PM on Monday, October 6

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a network of companies and their affiliates on allegations that they supplied precursor chemicals for fentanyl production to a faction of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel

12:34 PM on Monday, October 6

The Los Angeles Angels are facing a court trial over whether the team is responsible for the drug overdose death of one of its star pitchers

7:34 AM on Monday, October 6

It’s now Day 6 of the shutdown, and the Democratic minority leader has challenged the Republican House speaker to a televised debate on the impasse over reopening the federal government

6:12 AM on Monday, October 6

President Donald Trump cracked the door slightly to negotiations with Democrats on the health care subsidies they’ve made central to the shutdown fight, then abruptly closed it Monday, leaving the two sides once again at a seemingly intractable impasse

5:03 AM on Monday, October 6

British author Jilly Cooper, known for her bestselling novels, including “Rivals” and “Riders,” has died

5:10 AM on Saturday, October 4