National News

11:11 PM on Monday, September 8

Two former executives for the now-shuttered classified site Backpage

11:08 PM on Monday, September 8

An appeals court is set to hear oral arguments from a U.S. military contractor ordered to pay $42 million for contributing to the torture and mistreatment of three former detainees of Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison two decades ago

11:05 PM on Monday, September 8

Home Depot stores in Southern California have long been an informal hub for day laborers in the country both legally and illegally who are seeking work

11:04 PM on Monday, September 8

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known

11:02 PM on Monday, September 8

A decade-long slide in high school students’ performance in reading and math persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years

11:01 PM on Monday, September 8

A new AP-NORC poll finds that most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, while fewer blame a lack of government support

11:00 PM on Monday, September 8

A firefighter has died after suffering a cardiac emergency while working at the site of a wildfire at the Grand Canyon

10:50 PM on Monday, September 8

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is expected to take a crucial step to securing a second term when voters go to the polls

10:48 PM on Monday, September 8

Virginia voters are set to choose their congressional candidate to succeed the late U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly

9:45 PM on Monday, September 8

Asian shares are mostly higher as hopes grow, also on Wall Street, that U.S. data reports set for release later in the week will lead the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates at its next meeting

9:29 PM on Monday, September 8

An initial United Nations assessment of the impact of Afghanistan’s recent deadly earthquake has found that 5,230 homes were destroyed and 672 were damaged in 49 villages — but the U.N. hasn’t been able to get to the vast majority of the remote villages

8:54 PM on Monday, September 8

Nepal lifts the ban on on social media platforms a day after violent protests in which at least 19 people died

8:34 PM on Monday, September 8

At 66 years old, Kent Broussard, is the oldest member of the Louisiana State University marching band

7:45 PM on Monday, September 8

U.S. and European officials have met at the U.S. Treasury Department to discuss economic pressure on Russia, including new sanctions and tariffs on Russian oil

7:32 PM on Monday, September 8

Authorities say a retired veterinary professor was attacked and killed in a park in Auburn, Alabama

7:18 PM on Monday, September 8

A former leprosy settlement in a remote part of Hawaii that’s been closed to tours and religious pilgrimages is reopening this month

4:28 PM on Monday, September 8

The Department of Homeland Security is trumpeting the start of a new immigration operation in Chicago that's stirring up fresh confusion and anxiety

3:13 PM on Monday, September 8

A U.S. metals company has signed an agreement with Pakistan, pledging to invest an initial $500 million in the country’s largely untapped critical minerals sector

3:00 PM on Monday, September 8

Officials in Charlotte, North Carolina, are facing sharp criticism over the fatal stabbing of a young Ukrainian refugee on a commuter train last month

9:24 AM on Monday, September 8

Inter Miami’s Luis Suárez further damaged his reputation