National News

6:56 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Federal agents have used pepper spray to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis

6:38 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The U.S. military has flown a pair of fighter jets over the Gulf of Venezuela in what appears to be the closest American warplanes have come to the South American country’s airspace since the start of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign

6:26 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Florida has executed a man convicted of killing a woman during a home invasion

6:07 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee will not intervene to prevent the execution of Harold Wayne Nichols, who is scheduled to die on Thursday by lethal injection

5:50 PM on Tuesday, December 9

A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday refused to step aside as requested by President Donald Trump’s former attorney who faces felony forgery case related to the 2020 election in the battleground state

5:29 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The nation’s leading doctors groups are in a standoff with federal health officials over vaccines

5:21 PM on Tuesday, December 9

A federal judge has ordered Georgia's prison system to provide hormone therapy for transgender inmates

5:14 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Federal health officials are reviewing the safety of two injectable drugs used to protect babies and toddlers from the RSV virus

4:55 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The United Nations chief is calling on Yemen’s Houthi rebels not to prosecute detained U.N. personnel and to work “in good faith” to immediately release all detained staff from the U.N. and foreign agencies and missions

4:50 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Shooting at Kentucky State University leaves one dead, one critically hurt and a suspect in custody, officials say

4:43 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Cracker Barrel posted lower-than-expected sales in its fiscal first quarter and lowered its revenue forecast for the year as it continued to feel the fallout from a botched plan to revamp its logo and restaurants

4:30 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The Environmental Protection Agency has removed references to fossil fuels from its online page about climate change causes

4:05 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The Justice Department has challenged a court order that complicated efforts to seek a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey by making a trove of evidence off-limits to prosecutors

4:03 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Frustrated by the city’s slow progress in painting crosswalks at intersections they believe are unsafe, activists in Los Angeles have been picking up paint rollers and doing it themselves

3:57 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her country plans to send more water to the U.S., but not immediately

2:55 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn from an agreement with Houston to curb illegal dumping in Black and Latino neighborhoods

2:35 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Gov_ Ron DeSantis has labeled the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a "foreign terrorist organization."

2:30 PM on Tuesday, December 9

OpenAI has appointed Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its first chief of revenue

12:28 PM on Tuesday, December 9

A person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press that reliever Edwin Díaz has agreed to $69 million, three-year contract with the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers

4:14 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reaffirmed his refusal to cede territory, resisting U.S. pressure for compromise with Russia