National News

1:49 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Crowds gathered at Mount Holyoke College’s Talcott Greenhouse to witness the rare bloom of “Pangy,” a corpse flower known for its powerful odor resembling decaying flesh

1:36 PM on Wednesday, April 15

State Auditor Shad White says a private prison company must pay $7.4 million to Mississippi for not maintaining enough staff for safety

12:45 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Manuel Portuondo was a teenager when his family fled Cuba for Miami in 1960

11:35 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Maine’s legislature has passed the nation’s first statewide moratorium on energy-hungry data centers

11:22 AM on Wednesday, April 15

As WWE gears up for WrestleMania this weekend, the biggest annual event for the professional wrestling organization, data shows that its appearance in Las Vegas last year had an economic impact worth hundreds of millions of dollars

10:57 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The next president at the University of Michigan says he can’t take the job because of brain cancer

10:07 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Lebanon and Israel have started direct talks for the first time in decades, driven by the recent war involving Hezbollah

10:02 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Pope Leo XIV is again emphasizing the need for peace and dialogue despite criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump

9:32 AM on Wednesday, April 15

New York launched ambitious goals to cut its long-term greenhouse gas emissions with clarion calls about saving the future

9:31 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Federal prosecutors made an unannounced visit this week to a construction site at Federal Reserve headquarters that is the focus of an investigation into a $2.5 billion renovation project, according to two people familiar with the visit

9:01 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the same strict air pollution standards as incinerators

9:00 AM on Wednesday, April 15

House Democrats are launching what they call an anti-corruption task force in an attempt to strengthen ethics rules and protect voting access

8:03 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The tax filing deadline for most Americans is Wednesday, and President Donald Trump's administration is highlighting the impacts of Republicans' massive tax and spending law

7:16 AM on Wednesday, April 15

A student has opened fire on two classrooms at a middle school in Turkey, killing nine people and wounding 13 others

7:02 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Two decades after Steve Jobs premiered the iPhone, a small but intensely passionate movement is rebelling against the omnipresent screen

1:04 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Of more than 2,000 people killed in Lebanon since Israel's current war with Iran-backed Hezbollah began, 172 are children

12:38 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Chinese President Xi Jinping has praised the stability and certainty of China-Russia relations, calling them precious in the face of an international landscape intertwined with changes and chaos

12:22 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Resignations came quickly this week from two congressmen accused of sexual misconduct toward staff members

5:57 PM on Tuesday, April 14

Walmart is redesigning the packaging of its Great Value products to make them more appealing to customers and to help shoppers spot nutritional information more quickly

8:05 PM on Saturday, April 11