National News

10:45 PM on Friday, April 17

The U.S. Treasury Department has extended its pause on sanctions on Russian oil shipments to ease shortages from the Iran war, days after Secretary Scott Bessent ruled out such a move

9:53 PM on Friday, April 17

The city of Los Angeles must pay $11.8 million to a 27-year-old who was blinded by a projectile fired by police officers while he was celebrating the Dodgers 2020 World Series win

9:41 PM on Friday, April 17

An American delegation has met recently with Cuban government officials in the island nation

9:16 PM on Friday, April 17

The pope’s planned visit to a Catholic chapel in Angola that was connected to the slave trade is seen as a symbolic moment by some Africans

9:01 PM on Friday, April 17

A federal judge has blocked the $6.2 billion merger between local television giants Nexstar Media Group and Tegna until an antitrust lawsuit is resolved

8:59 PM on Friday, April 17

Costa Rica has received a second group of migrants deported from the United States

8:23 PM on Friday, April 17

A lead prosecutor in the John Brennan investigation has been removed from the case after expressing concerns to Justice Department officials about the viability of a potential criminal prosecution of the former CIA director

7:52 PM on Friday, April 17

Authorities have charged Olaolukitan Adon Abel with killing two people and injuring another in the Atlanta area

5:49 PM on Friday, April 17

Two U.S. Army soldiers have been injured after encountering a brown bear during training in Anchorage

5:06 PM on Friday, April 17

Natalie Portman is expecting her third child at age 44

3:04 PM on Friday, April 17

The murder case surrounding the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz is on track for a third trial

2:30 PM on Friday, April 17

Relatives of a jail inmate whom investigators determined died after a Kansas sheriff’s deputy shoved his knee into the cuffed man’s back for one minute and 26 seconds have filed a federal lawsuit

2:08 PM on Friday, April 17

The family of late San Diego Padres owner Peter Seidler is nearing a sale of the team, a person with knowledge of the negotiations tells The Associated Press

12:37 PM on Friday, April 17

Seven months after a 14-year-old girl’s body was found in D4vd’s towed SUV, authorities say the alt-pop singer has been arrested on suspicion of killing her

12:34 PM on Friday, April 17

A man charged with burglarizing grave sites and accumulating more than 100 bodies from Pennsylvania cemeteries has waived his right to an evidentiary hearing on Friday

8:55 AM on Friday, April 17

France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot says the 85-year-old French widow of an American military veteran has returned home from U.S. immigration custody

6:03 AM on Friday, April 17

Cameras in U.S. courtrooms have offered the world a portal into the inner workings of notorious criminal proceedings

3:04 AM on Friday, April 17

Some new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers started working before passing background checks and had problems in their past

1:45 AM on Friday, April 17

U.S. President Donald Trump and Iran’s foreign minister say the Strait of Hormuz is now fully open to commercial vessels

Friday, April 17

Defense witnesses in the prosecution of the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk say conjecture about the case is making it impossible to have a fair trial