National News

5:00 PM on Monday, May 11

President Donald Trump claims America is profiting from trade with China despite tensions over rare earth minerals, tariffs and emerging technologies like AI

4:39 PM on Monday, May 11

A Montana judge has blocked the state from limiting voter registration on Election Day

4:18 PM on Monday, May 11

A Southern California mayor has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government and has resigned from her city position

4:02 PM on Monday, May 11

The Interior Department is canceling a rule that put public lands conservation on equal footing with development

3:01 PM on Monday, May 11

The U.S. Supreme Court has set the stage for Alabama to get rid of one of two largely Black congressional districts before this year’s midterm elections

1:46 PM on Monday, May 11

A man in Michigan who got married and then ran over his best friend that same day has been sentenced to at least 30 years in prison

1:44 PM on Monday, May 11

President Donald Trump is nominating David Cummins to lead the Transportation Security Administration

1:32 PM on Monday, May 11

President Donald Trump has nominated Cameron Hamilton to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency

1:19 PM on Monday, May 11

Oil prices rose as the war with Iran threatens to drag on, but U.S. stocks nevertheless inched to more records

1:04 PM on Monday, May 11

The Alabama attorney general has announced a civil investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center’s fundraising practices

12:58 PM on Monday, May 11

Democrats have filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to halt a redistricting rule by Virginia’s top court

12:51 PM on Monday, May 11

Federal authorities have apprehended a teenager in Georgia who is accused of opening fire near a popular University of Iowa nightlife district

12:49 PM on Monday, May 11

The Supreme Court is leaving women’s access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, mifepristone, to take effect

7:39 AM on Monday, May 11

Federal agents are investigating the death of six people thought to be immigrants found inside a shipping container at a Union Pacific rail yard near the Mexico border in Laredo, Texas on Sunday as a “potential human smuggling event.”

7:01 AM on Monday, May 11

Indigenous organizations from across the Amazon and Latin America have sent a letter to the United Nations warning that organized crime — including illegal mining, drug trafficking and logging — is driving violence and environmental destruction in Indigenous territories

5:23 AM on Monday, May 11

Iran and the United States have reached an impasse again over how to end their war while their ceasefire grew increasingly shaky

3:31 AM on Monday, May 11

Republican state officials are confusing voters and creating logistical headaches for local election officials across the South by redistricting U.S. House seats as primary season is underway

2:11 AM on Monday, May 11

Senate Republicans say they will move forward with a proposal to give the Secret Service up to $1 billion for security upgrades to Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project

10:24 PM on Sunday, May 10

Oil prices rose as the war with Iran threatens to drag on, but U.S. stocks nevertheless inched to more records

10:07 PM on Sunday, May 10