National News

7:00 PM on Tuesday, January 6

CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed US agents to Moscow, dies in prison at 84

6:51 PM on Tuesday, January 6

6:23 PM on Tuesday, January 6

The political fortunes of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz were looking bright in the summer of 2024, when Kamala Harris chose him as her running mate

5:56 PM on Tuesday, January 6

Trump says US to get 30 million to 50 million barrels of 'sanctioned' oil from Venezuela at market price

5:54 PM on Tuesday, January 6

Nine crew members of a commercial crab boat were hoisted to safety after the boat named the Arctic Sea grounded on an Alaska island

4:41 PM on Tuesday, January 6

The Noquisiyi Mound in Franklin, North Carolina, is close to being returned to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

3:52 PM on Tuesday, January 6

Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela's interim president, has risen to prominence through strategic moves and political savvy

3:16 PM on Tuesday, January 6

The Department of Homeland Security says it has launched in Minnesota what it's calling the largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out by the agency

3:06 PM on Tuesday, January 6

Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband by her teenage student in 1990, is seeking to overturn her conviction over what her lawyers claim were several constitutional violations

1:24 PM on Tuesday, January 6

The Alaska Airlines pilot who was praised as a hero for safely landing a plane after a door plug panel flew off shortly after takeoff in 2004 is suing Boeing because he believes the plane maker wrongly tried to blame him and the rest of the crew in past legal filings

12:06 PM on Tuesday, January 6

President Donald Trump says Venezuela will be providing 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the U.S., and he pledges to use proceeds from the sale of this oil “to benefit the people” of both countries

11:32 AM on Tuesday, January 6

Israel has cleared the final hurdle before starting construction on a controversial settlement project near Jerusalem that would effectively cut the West Bank in two

10:27 AM on Tuesday, January 6

Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Baird of Indiana is recovering from a car crash and expected to make a full recovery, A statement from Baird's office says he is recovering, but details of the crash are not immediately clear

7:16 AM on Tuesday, January 6

Venezuela's military says the U.S. operation to capture Nicolás Maduro resulted in dozens of casualties

5:58 AM on Tuesday, January 6

The White House says the U.S. military is “always an option” for acquiring Greenland, despite European leaders rejecting President Donald Trump's comments about taking over the island

4:13 AM on Tuesday, January 6

11:10 PM on Monday, January 5

On the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, there is no official event to memorialize what happened

11:02 PM on Monday, January 5

A former Republican lawmaker in Arizona has been sentenced to probation and a five-year ban on running for public office

11:01 PM on Monday, January 5

A Texas prosecutor says a school police officer made no attempt to distract or stop the gunman during the school shooting in Uvalde in 2022

6:38 PM on Monday, January 5

Protesters angry over Iran's ailing economy have conducted a sit-in at Tehran's Grand Bazaar