National News

10:44 AM on Friday, May 29

The White House is moving to give political appointees more control over federal grants

9:10 AM on Friday, May 29

Americans long have leavened their powerful global image with goofiness

8:54 AM on Friday, May 29

Musical artists' cancellations from a Donald Trump-linked U.S. celebration in Washington continue the Republican president’s tense history with the entertainment industry

5:26 AM on Friday, May 29

A fire on an Amtrak maintenance train near New York’s Penn Station has injured five people and disrupted service for many commuters

5:14 AM on Friday, May 29

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has cast Pope Leo XIV as a global ally on social justice, migration and reparations after meeting the Chicago-born pontiff at the Vatican

3:33 AM on Friday, May 29

A residential treatment center in Missouri advertises to adoptive parents that it can help heal struggling children

3:31 AM on Friday, May 29

Many for-profit residential facilities in the so-called troubled teen industry nationwide that claim to treat severe mental and behavioral health issues in children and teens are deftly tapping into taxpayer money meant for students with disabilities

3:29 AM on Friday, May 29

A residential treatment center in Missouri advertises to adoptive parents that it can help heal struggling children

3:04 AM on Friday, May 29

Sue Tilley was working in an unemployment office when she met artist Lucian Freud

3:03 AM on Friday, May 29

The war in Gaza and the mass displacement of Palestinians have helped fuel an increase in marriages of young girls

2:33 AM on Friday, May 29

11:03 PM on Thursday, May 28

President Vladimir Putin is facing a battlefield stalemate in Ukraine and growing war fatigue among Russians and appears ready to change the narrative around the conflict

7:17 PM on Thursday, May 28

Shrey Parikh has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee, beating Ishaan Gupta in a lightning-round tiebreaker

3:08 PM on Thursday, May 28

Prices for tomatoes are up 40% over the past year, the biggest increase tracked among products in the Consumer Price Index

12:55 PM on Thursday, May 28

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo denies an agreement with the U.S. for anti-drug trafficking operations in Guatemala

10:04 AM on Thursday, May 28

A man wanted in connection with the killings of three men has been apprehended after a massive search of Hawaii’s Big Island

8:22 PM on Wednesday, May 27

U.S. and Iranian negotiators have reached a tentative agreement to extend the ceasefire by 60 days and start a new round of talks on Iran’s nuclear program

11:27 AM on Wednesday, May 27

12:27 AM on Monday, May 25

The United States and Iran appear to be closing in on a deal to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz

11:30 AM on Monday, May 11