National News

4:49 PM on Friday, January 9

A lawyer squabble over who gets to represent former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in his New York drug case has erupted, with an ex-Justice Department official asking a judge to let Maduro settle the dispute

4:44 PM on Friday, January 9

The Heritage Foundation think tank is urging the federal government “to save and restore the American family,” kicking off the midterm election year with a call for conservatives to focus on domestic issues

4:39 PM on Friday, January 9

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up an appeal from tech giant Cisco seeking to shut down a lawsuit claiming that the company’s technology was used to persecute members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China

3:32 PM on Friday, January 9

Opening statements began Friday in the trial of five current and former Stanford students who overtook a university building during 2024 pro-Palestine protests

3:17 PM on Friday, January 9

U.S. stocks rose to more records following a mixed report on the U.S. job market

3:09 PM on Friday, January 9

The wife of the woman shot and killed by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis says the couple had stopped their car to support their neighbors and they had whistles, while the masked agents had guns

2:45 PM on Friday, January 9

Lyft and Uber drivers protested Waymo’s self-driving taxis in San Francisco

2:29 PM on Friday, January 9

A federal judge is expected to temporarily block efforts by the Trump administration to end a program that offered legal protections for more than 10,000 relatives of citizens and green card holders

2:03 PM on Friday, January 9

State health officials in South Carolina have confirmed 99 new cases of measles since Tuesday

1:10 PM on Friday, January 9

A judge who ruled a Trump administration prosecutor was serving unlawfully also rejected his bid to obtain tax return information in a criminal investigation

12:43 PM on Friday, January 9

A use-of-force review board has cleared an Ohio police officer who shot and killed Ta’Kiya Young, a pregnant Black mother accused of shoplifting

12:13 PM on Friday, January 9

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration says Friday the state is facing a $2.9 billion budget deficit

11:38 AM on Friday, January 9

Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has expressed alarm that a man who worked as his family’s bodyguard is facing federal drug trafficking charges

10:25 AM on Friday, January 9

A huge black bear has finally been evicted from a crawl space under a Los Angeles area house where it had been living since Thanksgiving

8:30 AM on Friday, January 9

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty has asked the public to send any video or other evidence in the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis directly to her office

7:57 AM on Friday, January 9

Facebook parent Meta has reached nuclear power deals with three companies as it continues to look for electricity sources for its artificial intelligence data centers

10:41 PM on Thursday, January 8

U.S. stocks rose to more records following a mixed report on the U.S. job market

7:29 PM on Thursday, January 8

CES 2026 showcased futuristic tech, from paper-thin screens to AI-driven gadgets

4:56 PM on Thursday, January 8

Police say a Pennsylvania man who had about 100 sets of human remains is charged with stealing from a graveyard at the edge of Philadelphia

12:13 PM on Wednesday, January 7