National News

8:55 AM on Friday, March 20

Jehovah’s Witness leaders are modifying their rules on blood transfusions by letting members choose whether to store and reuse their own blood for medical care

8:14 AM on Friday, March 20

The Vatican has launched a campaign that urges Catholic institutions to divest from mining and align investments with church ecology teaching

8:08 AM on Friday, March 20

The death of U.S. college student James “Jimmy” Gracey in Spain was likely an accident, local authorities have said

6:08 AM on Friday, March 20

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brings Christian language into the Pentagon as the U.S. and Israel wage war against Iran

6:05 AM on Friday, March 20

More Democrats are openly running on faith, as progressive clergy and other religious candidates push back on the idea that Christianity belongs to the right

5:39 AM on Friday, March 20

Iranian Kurdish families living in a camp in Iraq hold on to one hope: that the U.S.–Israeli war with Iran weakens Iran’s theocracy and lets go back home

3:52 AM on Friday, March 20

Hours after Israel killed the top commander of Iran’s Basij, it struck again -- this time at the rank and file of the feared force that helped crush widespread protests this year

3:49 AM on Friday, March 20

Israel has killed several top Iranian officials since the United States and Israel began strikes against Iran

1:30 AM on Friday, March 20

A video taken by tiny drones sent into one of three damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant shows a gaping hole in the thick-walled steel container of the core, with lumps of likely fuel debris hanging from it, in a first sighting of a pressure vessel bottom since the meltdown 15 years ago

12:11 AM on Friday, March 20

Residents in the Mexican central state of Guerrero are setting up self-defense patrols to keep a powerful cartel out of their mountain towns

11:49 PM on Thursday, March 19

Kuwait said Friday its Mina Al-Ahmadi oil refinery again came under attack by Iranian drones, which sparked a fire at several of its units

11:22 PM on Thursday, March 19

A federal judge has ruled that the government overreached when it declared certain types of gender-affirming care unsafe for young people

11:09 PM on Thursday, March 19

The Iran war is exposing how much the global economy still depends on fragile fossil fuel supplies

11:05 PM on Thursday, March 19

Democrats running for governor across the country are making tariffs a central element of their political message this year

11:03 PM on Thursday, March 19

Three teenagers in Tennessee have sued Elon Musk’s xAI, claiming the company’s image-generation tools were used to morph real photos of them into explicitly sexual images

10:51 PM on Thursday, March 19

8:28 PM on Thursday, March 19

At least 48 boys and young men died during the latest round of initiation ceremonies in South Africa, which involve the highly secretive process of traditional circumcision to “become a man.”

3:46 PM on Thursday, March 19

The NCAA Tournament brackets have already been busted for millions of college basketball fans

9:10 AM on Thursday, March 19

All-Star guard Cade Cunningham of the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons has a collapsed lung and is expected to miss at least two weeks and possibly more

12:26 AM on Thursday, March 19

Israel has pounded Tehran with airstrikes as Iranians mark Nowruz, or the Persian New Year