National News

8:30 AM on Tuesday, August 12

A man admitted trying to smuggle protected turtles worth more than $1 million from New York City to Hong Kong

7:35 AM on Tuesday, August 12

YouTube is ready to start testing a new age-verification system in the U.S. using artificial intelligence to distinguish between adults and minors based on their viewing habits

7:35 AM on Tuesday, August 12

US inflation was unchanged last month, though core prices accelerated

7:04 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Investigators with a Native American community in New Mexico are trying to crack a cold case, one irreplaceable item at a time

6:13 AM on Tuesday, August 12

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has expressed pride in being part of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, a conservative Christian network

4:40 AM on Tuesday, August 12

A U.N.-backed investigator says his team has turned up significant evidence of “systemic torture” in Myanmar’s detention centers, including electric shocks, strangulations, gang rape and burning of sexual body parts

12:07 AM on Tuesday, August 12

11:56 PM on Monday, August 11

President Donald Trump has endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones for governor in Georgia

11:43 PM on Monday, August 11

Australia’s central bank cuts interest rate for third time this year to 3.6%

11:07 PM on Monday, August 11

FIFA is testing a new protocol for the 2026 World Cup in North America, requiring host committees to develop human rights action plans

9:46 PM on Monday, August 11

South Korea’s new President Lee Jae Myung will travel to Washington later this month to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, Lee’s office said Tuesday, for talks on trade and defense cooperation in the face of nuclear-armed North Korea and other threats

7:17 PM on Monday, August 11

President Donald Trump extended a trade truce with China for another 90 days Monday, at least delaying once again a dangerous showdown between the world’s two biggest economies

5:59 PM on Monday, August 11

School district officials have released text messages, personnel files and student records of the shooter from the 2022 attack at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 students and two teachers

5:07 PM on Monday, August 11

A small plane landing at a Montana airport has crashed into aircraft on the ground, causing a large fire but no serious injuries

4:53 PM on Monday, August 11

Soccer great Cristiano Ronaldo and his long-term partner Georgina Rodriguez are engaged

4:35 PM on Monday, August 11

Local rights groups say Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have attacked a displacement camp outside el-Fasher, killing 40 people

2:55 PM on Monday, August 11

President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law will result in less income for the poorest Americans while sending money to the riches, according to a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office

12:30 PM on Monday, August 11

Saving for the future can be difficult because of a cognitive bias known as hyperbolic discounting: our tendency to place greater weight on immediate satisfaction, even if focusing on the long term will have a greater payoff

8:42 AM on Monday, August 11

The Moomins, Finland’s most famous literary cartoon family, are celebrating their 80th birthday this year

5:51 AM on Monday, August 11

A Colombian senator and presidential hopeful has died after being shot at a political rally two months ago