National News

8:01 PM on Tuesday, September 23

A senior U.S. Justice Department official has sent a letter to a lawyer for relatives of victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, asking pointed questions about a retired FBI agent’s involvement in a defamation lawsuit against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

7:58 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Typhoon Ragasa, one of the strongest in years, whipped waves taller than lampposts onto Hong Kong promenades and halted life on the southern Chinese coast early Wednesday after leaving destruction in Taiwan and the Philippines

7:55 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Taiwan reports 14 deaths as Typhoon Ragasa approaches China's southern coast, where 1 million have been relocated

7:41 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Camp Mystic has announced that it plans to reopen one of its Texas sites, where 27 girls and counselors died in a July flood

7:36 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Camp Mystic in Texas where 27 people died in a July flood will reopen next year, leaders say

7:05 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Officials say storms carrying heavy rain and damaging winds ripped part of the roof off a hospital in eastern Oklahoma, forcing some patients to be evacuated

6:39 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner has won a decade-long court battle against being extradited to the U.S. to face corruption charges in a bribery scandal involving soccer’s world governing body

6:27 PM on Tuesday, September 23

A New York man accused of plotting an attack on behalf of the Islamic State group in 2019 has been sentenced to nine years in prison

5:04 PM on Tuesday, September 23

A former Tennessee House speaker has received a three-year prison sentence over a scheme with a onetime aide to win taxpayer-funded mail business from lawmakers after they left their top leadership roles due to scandals

4:51 PM on Tuesday, September 23

President Donald Trump's Tylenol and vaccine warnings have left some pregnant women angry and others with questions

4:49 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Acclaimed Italian actor Claudia Cardinale has died at the age of 87, according to AFP

4:12 PM on Tuesday, September 23

President Donald Trump has become the latest in a long line of men to opine on women's pain when he told expectant moms to “tough it out” without Tylenol

4:06 PM on Tuesday, September 23

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has announced that the Stargate AI data center in Texas will be joined by five more across the U.S. This expansion is part of a $500 billion infrastructure investment promoted by President Donald Trump

4:01 PM on Tuesday, September 23

A former Omega Psi Phi pledge who alleges he was so severely beaten during the Nu Eta chapter’s “Hell Night” that he had to relearn how to walk is now suing the fraternity, the University of Southern Mississippi and multiple other people and organizations

1:41 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Ryan Routh has been found guilty of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at a Florida golf course last year

10:07 AM on Tuesday, September 23

Palestinians across the Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied West Bank are welcoming news that some Western countries have recognized a Palestinian state

9:29 AM on Tuesday, September 23

Jimmy Kimmel is set to return to late-night television after a nearly weeklong suspension

7:17 AM on Tuesday, September 23

President Donald Trump says Ukraine can win back all territory lost to Russia

4:50 AM on Tuesday, September 23

President Donald Trump says be believes Ukraine can win back all territory lost to Russia

11:02 PM on Monday, September 22

President Donald Trump has returned to the United Nations to boast of his second-term foreign policy achievements and lash out at the world body as a feckless institution