National News

2:10 PM on Wednesday, April 15

For months, New York Gov_ Kathy Hochul has resisted calls to increase taxes on the wealthy, beating back progressives who have hounded her from Manhattan to San Juan bellowing chants of “tax the rich.”

1:46 PM on Wednesday, April 15

President Donald Trump’s budget director is telling Congress that it'll take a massive upfront investment to ramp up U.S. weapons production and build more ships, planes and drones

12:49 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Crowds gathered at Mount Holyoke College’s Talcott Greenhouse to witness the rare bloom of “Pangy,” a corpse flower known for its powerful odor resembling decaying flesh

12:36 PM on Wednesday, April 15

State Auditor Shad White says a private prison company must pay $7.4 million to Mississippi for not maintaining enough staff for safety

11:46 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Newly released video shows a high school principal in Oklahoma tackling and disarming a former student who entered the lobby of the school and began firing a pistol

11:45 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Manuel Portuondo was a teenager when his family fled Cuba for Miami in 1960

10:35 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Maine’s legislature has passed the nation’s first statewide moratorium on energy-hungry data centers

10:35 AM on Wednesday, April 15

A lawyer says guards severely beat and pepper-sprayed detainees at a state-run immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades

10:22 AM on Wednesday, April 15

As WWE gears up for WrestleMania this weekend, the biggest annual event for the professional wrestling organization, data shows that its appearance in Las Vegas last year had an economic impact worth hundreds of millions of dollars

9:57 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The next president at the University of Michigan says he can’t take the job because of brain cancer

9:02 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Pope Leo XIV is again emphasizing the need for peace and dialogue despite criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump

8:32 AM on Wednesday, April 15

New York launched ambitious goals to cut its long-term greenhouse gas emissions with clarion calls about saving the future

8:31 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Federal prosecutors made an unannounced visit this week to a construction site at Federal Reserve headquarters that is the focus of an investigation into a $2.5 billion renovation project, according to two people familiar with the visit

8:00 AM on Wednesday, April 15

House Democrats are launching what they call an anti-corruption task force in an attempt to strengthen ethics rules and protect voting access

7:03 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The tax filing deadline for most Americans is Wednesday, and President Donald Trump's administration is highlighting the impacts of Republicans' massive tax and spending law

6:48 AM on Wednesday, April 15

It’s officially Tax Day in the U.S. And if you’ve waited till the last minute to file your taxes, don’t panic

6:02 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Two decades after Steve Jobs premiered the iPhone, a small but intensely passionate movement is rebelling against the omnipresent screen

12:04 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Of more than 2,000 people killed in Lebanon since Israel's current war with Iran-backed Hezbollah began, 172 are children

11:22 PM on Tuesday, April 14

Resignations came quickly this week from two congressmen accused of sexual misconduct toward staff members

4:57 PM on Tuesday, April 14

Walmart is redesigning the packaging of its Great Value products to make them more appealing to customers and to help shoppers spot nutritional information more quickly