National News

1:31 AM on Tuesday, November 4

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has praised South Korea’s plans to raise its military spending, saying the Asian ally will take a larger role in defending itself from North Korean threats

12:49 AM on Tuesday, November 4

11:22 PM on Monday, November 3

California voters are deciding whether to change their state’s congressional district boundaries to favor Democrats

11:17 PM on Monday, November 3

New York City voters are choosing their next mayor, as Zohran Mamdani faces former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a generational battle between Democrats while Republican Curtis Sliwa tries to land a massive upset

11:14 PM on Monday, November 3

New Jersey voters are electing their next governor in a race that will reveal whether Democrats still have a grip on a state that has been reliably blue in recent years but has shown signs of shifting toward Republicans

11:08 PM on Monday, November 3

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey faces a challenge in Tuesday’s election from a democratic socialist

11:08 PM on Monday, November 3

Voters in Maine and Texas are deciding whether to enact new Republican-backed measures that supporters say would help safeguard elections, but which opponents believe are intended to make voting more difficult

11:07 PM on Monday, November 3

Democrat Abigail Spanberger is facing Republican Winsome Earle-Sears in the Virginia race for governor

11:07 PM on Monday, November 3

Two years after the deadliest mass shooting in Maine's history, voters are considering whether to make it easier for family members to petition a court to restrict a potentially dangerous person’s access to guns

11:04 PM on Monday, November 3

Asian shares have retreated despite the big lift in overseas markets from optimism over AI technology

11:04 PM on Monday, November 3

Voters are deciding if three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices get another term

11:01 PM on Monday, November 3

Voters head to polls Tuesday in America’s first major election day since President Donald Trump returned to the White House

10:57 PM on Monday, November 3

A federal judge is expected to hear arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit against the federal government by advocates who describe conditions at a Chicago-area immigration facility as inhumane

10:36 PM on Monday, November 3

A fast-moving typhoon is barreling across the central Philippines after slamming ashore overnight, leaving at least two people dead, setting off flash floods that trapped residents on roofs and engulfed cars in two villages, and displacing tens of thousands of people

9:46 PM on Monday, November 3

Victor Conte has died at 75 years old

9:33 PM on Monday, November 3

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says he plans to take a “ringside seat” at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday

7:19 PM on Monday, November 3

4:45 PM on Monday, November 3

North Korea says its longtime ceremonial head of state Kim Yong Nam has died at age 97

4:39 AM on Monday, November 3

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has visited the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea

2:05 AM on Monday, November 3

Israel has returned the bodies of 45 Palestinians, according to the Red Cross