National News

4:26 PM on Monday, December 22

Stocks closed higher on Wall Street at the start of what’s expected to be a relatively calm holiday week

4:16 PM on Monday, December 22

A jury has deadlocked in the trial of a former New York governors’ aide charged with selling her influence to China and profiting from a medical equipment scheme during the pandemic

4:13 PM on Monday, December 22

Waymos stopped in the middle of intersections during a mass power outage in San Francisco over the weekend, causing the robotaxi company to suspend service for a day

4:11 PM on Monday, December 22

Chiefs announce intent to leave their Missouri home of 50-plus years at Arrowhead Stadium and relocate to Kansas

3:45 PM on Monday, December 22

The White House is expected to announce plans to build a new, large warship that President Donald Trump is calling a “battleship” as part of a larger vision to create a “Golden Fleet."

3:37 PM on Monday, December 22

The Powerball jackpot now stands at an estimated $1.6 billion and is one of the largest lottery prizes in U.S. history

3:34 PM on Monday, December 22

The Trump administration is suing the local government of Washington, D.C., over its gun laws, alleging that restrictions on certain semiautomatic weapons run afoul of Second Amendment rights

3:32 PM on Monday, December 22

3:14 PM on Monday, December 22

Four Illinois members of Congress have been allowed into a suburban Chicago immigration processing center that’s been at the forefront of an immigration crackdown

3:05 PM on Monday, December 22

Lawyers for former CIA Director John Brennan want the Justice Department to be prevented from steering an investigation of him and other former government officials to a “favored” judge in Florida who dismissed the classified documents case against President Donald Trump

2:49 PM on Monday, December 22

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky

12:18 PM on Monday, December 22

President Donald Trump is gathering with top national security officials

11:58 AM on Monday, December 22

A transgender employee of the National Security Agency is suing the Trump administration and trying to block enforcement of a presidential executive order and other policies the employee says violate federal civil rights law

11:31 AM on Monday, December 22

The Senate’s top Democrat is urging his colleagues to take legal action over the Justice Department’s incremental and heavily redacted release of records pertaining to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

10:16 AM on Monday, December 22

The Trump administration is suspending leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction on the East Coast due to what it said were national security risks identified by the Pentagon

7:02 AM on Monday, December 22

A new AP-NORC poll finds that most Americans aren’t making end-of-year charitable giving plans, despite the many fundraising appeals made by nonprofits that rely on donation surges in the calendar’s final month to reach next year’s budget targets

1:51 AM on Monday, December 22

The Kansas City Chiefs have announced they will relocate across the Kansas-Missouri border in a new domed stadium that will be ready by the 2031 season

12:37 AM on Monday, December 22

Stocks closed higher on Wall Street at the start of what’s expected to be a relatively calm holiday week

12:05 AM on Monday, December 22

A federal judge says Kilmar Abrego Garcia should remain free for now while she considers the government's arguments for detaining him in immigration custody

8:03 AM on Tuesday, December 16

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