National News

5:43 PM on Wednesday, March 11

A U_N_-backed panel of independent experts focusing on racial discrimination says racist hate speech by U_S_ President Donald Trump and other American political leaders, along with a crackdown on immigration in the United States, have led to “grave human rights violations.”

5:41 PM on Wednesday, March 11

A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an “anxiety attack” took the first one

5:07 PM on Wednesday, March 11

President Donald Trump is weighing an endorsement in the Texas Republican Senate runoff, and some state party members say he risks backing the wrong candidate

4:56 PM on Wednesday, March 11

Southern California is seeing a burst of summerlike heat, and forecasters warn that it raises the risk of heat illness

3:44 PM on Wednesday, March 11

President Donald Trump and members of his administration are claiming that former President Jimmy Carter was against the use of mail-in and absentee ballots, citing a bipartisan 2005 report from the Commission on Federal Election Reform co-chaired by Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker

3:42 PM on Wednesday, March 11

Police are investigating the death of a 12-year-old girl who was hospitalized after a fistfight near a school bus stop in her neighborhood

3:28 PM on Wednesday, March 11

Social Security’s internal watchdog is investigating a whistleblower complaint that a former DOGE worker misused sensitive agency data

3:25 PM on Wednesday, March 11

The widow of Haiti’s last elected president described being shot and wounded during the 2021 assassination of her husband Jovenel Moïse

3:19 PM on Wednesday, March 11

Most U.S. stocks fell, but the market remained calm, even as the price of oil got back to rising

3:13 PM on Wednesday, March 11

Lyft has agreed to protect the rights of blind and disabled riders to travel with service animals under a Minnesota settlement that applies nationwide

3:11 PM on Wednesday, March 11

Newly released surveillance video appears to show a man buying a fuse at a fireworks store days before authorities say he and another man brought homemade bombs to a protest outside the New York City mayor’s residence

3:01 PM on Wednesday, March 11

Authorities say a former NFL player who is charged with murder in his girlfriend’s death in Tennessee asked an AI bot for advice before he called 911

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Ecuador's interior minister says the country is preparing a major crackdown on criminal groups set to begin this weekend with logistical support from the United States

12:29 PM on Wednesday, March 11

Iowa has barred cities and counties from adding local protections for gender identity

11:51 AM on Wednesday, March 11

Democratic-led states alarmed by the prospect of federal immigration officers patrolling the polls during this year’s midterm elections are taking steps to counter what they see as a potential tactic to intimidate voters

11:50 AM on Wednesday, March 11

South Africa says the new U.S. ambassador has been summoned to explain his criticism of the country’s policies

11:35 AM on Wednesday, March 11

Nathan Chasing Horse’s sentencing for sexual assaults against Indigenous women and girls has been pushed back by a week

6:02 AM on Wednesday, March 11

When it comes to the war with Iran, President Donald Trump has cycled from calls for “unconditional surrender” to sounding amenable to an end state in which Iran trades one hard-line ayatollah for another