National News

5:37 AM on Saturday, April 11

Britain has put its plan to transfer the Chagos Islands to Mauritius on hold after the U.S. administration withdrew support for the deal

1:35 AM on Saturday, April 11

Djibouti President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh has been reelected for a sixth term, winning 97.81% of the vote in Friday's election

1:15 AM on Saturday, April 11

A small but growing number of women in Sierra Leone are entering a male-dominated commercial transport sector

11:06 PM on Friday, April 10

Donald Trump has made a public flex of his political influence abroad on a scale that few, if any, U.S. presidents have, trying to marshal power he’s used domestically to sway races around the world

11:05 PM on Friday, April 10

Democratic presidential prospects touted the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion policies as a way to advance American values during the National Action Network conference in New York

7:43 PM on Friday, April 10

The gap between rich and poor nations is growing even wider as actions agreed to by many countries last year, including overhauling the major global financial institutions, remain unfulfilled promises

6:33 PM on Friday, April 10

Prominent supporters of California Rep. Eric Swalwell's bid for governor are withdrawing their support Friday in a stunning political reversal

6:15 PM on Friday, April 10

Singer-songwriter Bruno Mars was honored with a parade and a street named after him near the Park MGM in Las Vegas

6:14 PM on Friday, April 10

The developer of a major Massachusetts offshore wind farm is suing its turbine manufacturer seeking to force it to stay with the project

6:13 PM on Friday, April 10

A judge has temporarily barred Arizona from enforcing its gambling laws against predictive market operators like Kalshi

5:50 PM on Friday, April 10

Bill Mann, a reporter and editor who covered the Philippines, Egypt, India, Scandinavia and Washington, D.C. over a nearly 50-year career at The Associated Press, died Thursday in Reston, Virginia

5:31 PM on Friday, April 10

Former U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel, a New York Democrat who chaired the Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, has died at 79

3:45 PM on Friday, April 10

A Michigan couple who used social media to chronicle their sailing adventures had a history of contention, including claims of assault on each other

3:12 PM on Friday, April 10

A tangled political fight over whether Chicago’s public schools will hold classes on May Day has unraveled in the nation’s third-largest city

2:03 PM on Friday, April 10

President Donald Trump’s plans for a new triumphal arch in the capital, unveiled Friday, include a towering winged figure with a Lady Liberty-like torch and crown, flanked by two eagles and guarded by four lions — all gilded

2:01 PM on Friday, April 10

President Donald Trump has shared a video of a deadly attack at a Florida gas station, using it to justify his mass deportation agenda

6:52 AM on Friday, April 10

Democrats are grappling with a surge of outside spending in their primaries

5:07 AM on Friday, April 10

The first astronauts to visit the moon in more than a half-century are home

12:46 AM on Friday, April 10

Rory McIlroy is turning the Masters into a victory lap

11:31 PM on Thursday, April 9

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is heading to Pakistan for high-level talks with Iranian officials, as Israel and Hezbollah traded fire and Tehran maintained its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz