National News

2:29 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Pennsylvania regulators are seeking $2.6 million in penalties from UGI because of a gas leak and deadly explosion at a chocolate factory

2:27 PM on Wednesday, March 18

A man has been sentenced to at least four years in prison for an election petition scandal that spoiled the candidacies of five Republicans who were running for Michigan governor in 2022

1:25 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Shaquille O'Neal is offering to pay for the funeral of a 12-year-old Georgia girl who died days after she collapsed following a fight after school

1:20 PM on Wednesday, March 18

A landmark new WNBA collective bargaining agreement was reached in principle early Wednesday morning that will give the league its first million dollar players

1:08 PM on Wednesday, March 18

A new study says the early U.S. COVID-19 death toll is much higher than official counts, and that there were disparities in which deaths were missing from those tallies

1:01 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Marshall has dropped plans to eliminate its women's swimming and diving program

12:52 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Officials say more than two dozen cars of a Union Pacific train derailed Wednesday morning in a Texas town near Houston, causing an ethanol leak from two of the cars that didn’t pose a threat to the public

11:49 AM on Wednesday, March 18

A year after the actor’s death, a generative AI version of Val Kilmer will co-star in an independent film

11:45 AM on Wednesday, March 18

Rocks from outer space are constantly hurtling toward Earth, slamming into the atmosphere and often exploding into fireballs that both delight and alarm people

11:28 AM on Wednesday, March 18

Air traffic controllers will now use radar to ensure that helicopters maintain a safe distance from arriving and departing airplanes in the wake of last year’s fatal midair collision near Washington, D.C. The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that recent near-misses show that previous guidelines for pilots to maintain visual separation between helicopters and airplanes have failed to provide adequate protection around busy airports

8:17 AM on Wednesday, March 18

A meningitis outbreak in southeast England has led to the deaths of a university student and a pupil from a nearby school

8:07 AM on Wednesday, March 18

Pakistan and Afghanistan have declared a temporary pause in escalating fighting

4:58 AM on Wednesday, March 18

Former reality TV star Jessie Holmes cruised to a repeat victory in the Iditarod, the roughly 1,000-mile sled dog race in Alaska

12:15 AM on Wednesday, March 18

A new trade pact between the United States and Indonesia binds the Southeast Asian nation’s resource wealth and energy future more closely to Washington’s strategic needs

11:03 PM on Tuesday, March 17

There’s a growing body of data showing the tariffs President Donald Trump said would help American factories are, in fact, squashing many of them

6:21 PM on Tuesday, March 17

A judge threw a government attorney out of a hearing and ordered the three officials in charge of New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney’s office to answer his questions under oath

4:16 PM on Tuesday, March 17

The Iran war has rattled the global flow of oil, with steeper fuel costs already straining households worldwide

11:05 PM on Sunday, March 15

Extreme weather conditions from coast to coast put more than half the U.S. in the path of rough conditions

4:04 PM on Friday, March 13

As the U.S. and Israel’s war against Iran continues to upend energy markets and supply chains worldwide, the Trump administration says it will temporarily waive maritime shipping requirements under a more than century-old law known as the Jones Act

3:03 PM on Friday, March 13

The State Department has slashed by about 80% the fee for Americans to formally renounce their U.S. citizenship