National News

7:32 PM on Friday, December 5

A New York City high school senior has been jailed on a federal arson charge days after authorities say he set a fire that severely burned a sleeping subway passenger

7:23 PM on Friday, December 5

The West Virginia National Guard member who survived last week’s shooting in Washington is slowly healing

7:16 PM on Friday, December 5

The Trump administration is bringing back dozens of Education Department staffers who were slated to be laid off

7:15 PM on Friday, December 5

The Federal Aviation Administration has launched an investigation into whether U.S. airlines complied with an emergency order to cut flights at 40 major airports during the recent government shutdown

6:52 PM on Friday, December 5

6:28 PM on Friday, December 5

The government picked a company with little experience working with the Federal Aviation Administration called Peraton to oversee the roughly $31.5 billion overhaul of the outdated air traffic control system

6:09 PM on Friday, December 5

US, Ukraine officials say they'll meet for 3rd day after progress on security framework, urge Russia to commit to peace

4:38 PM on Friday, December 5

Vanity Fair is parting ways with West Coast editor Olivia Nuzzi amid controversy over her past coverage of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A statement Friday from Nuzzi and the magazine says they have mutually agreed to let her contract expire at the end of the year

4:33 PM on Friday, December 5

Rep. Darrell Issa tells the Associated Press he isn’t moving to Texas to run for Congress

4:08 PM on Friday, December 5

A federal judge has questioned the Trump administration’s authority and need to maintain command of California National Guard troops it first deployed to Los Angeles in June following violent protests

3:14 PM on Friday, December 5

A former DEA agent and an associate have been charged with conspiring to launder millions of dollars and obtain weapons for a Mexican drug cartel

2:58 PM on Friday, December 5

The Social Security Administration plans to cut foot traffic to its field offices by 50% next year

2:23 PM on Friday, December 5

Massachusetts’ highest court heard oral arguments Friday in the state’s lawsuit arguing that Meta designed features on Facebook and Instagram to make them addictive to young users

2:19 PM on Friday, December 5

A Harvard visiting law professor from Brazil who told police he was shooting at rats when he fired a pellet gun near a synagogue on Yom Kippur has left the United States after his visa was revoked

1:36 PM on Friday, December 5

Newly released recordings of 911 calls show Texas residents and staffers at Camp Mystic caught up in the catastrophic flooding in July pleaded for help as rushing waters rise around them, stranding them in attics and on roofs

1:25 PM on Friday, December 5

A prosecutor says the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U.S. Capitol attack told investigators he was “disappointed” in the outcome of the 2020 presidential election

12:35 PM on Friday, December 5

FIFA gives its new peace prize to President Donald Trump

5:39 AM on Friday, December 5

President Donald Trump’s advisers and Ukrainian officials say they’ll meet for a third day of talks on Saturday after making progress on finding agreement on a security framework for postwar Ukraine

12:38 AM on Friday, December 5

The U.S. stock market rose to the edge of its all-time high

12:03 AM on Friday, December 5

Federal border agents have descended on a Hispanic enclave just outside New Orleans, and local business owners are suffering