Nation and World
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Trump asks the Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case in New York
Jan 08, 2025 7:51 am - President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday's sentencing in his hush money case in New York.
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Jimmy Carter continues to lie in state at Capitol Rotunda ahead of his state funeral
Jan 08, 2025 6:58 am - President Jimmy Carter will continue to lie in state Wednesday after his remains arrived in Washington a day earlier as part of state funeral rites.
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US Justice Department accuses six major landlords of scheming to keep rents high
Jan 08, 2025 6:53 am - The U.S. Justice Department is suing several large landlords for allegedly coordinating to keep Americans’ rents high by using both an algorithm to help set rents and privately sharing sensitive information with their competitors to boost profits.
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CNN defamation trial comes at a rough time for legacy media — and for the struggling network
Jan 08, 2025 6:11 am - At a particularly inopportune time for legacy media and CNN, the news outlet is on trial in Florida this week, accused of defaming a Navy veteran involved in rescuing endangered Afghans from that country when the U.S. ended its involvement there in 2021.
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Los Angeles residents flee fire as potentially ‘life-threatening, destructive’ winds gain strength
Jan 07, 2025 5:42 pm - LOS ANGELES — Firefighters scrambled to corral a fast-moving wildfire in the Los Angeles hillsides dotted with celebrity homes as a potentially “life-threatening, destruc...
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Analysis: Trump just left open using military force against a NATO ally
Jan 07, 2025 4:56 pm - President-elect Donald Trump is the king of not ruling things out. It’s his default response when a possibility, no matter how far-fetched, gets floated, both because he ...
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Takeaways from Trump’s news conference at Mar-a-Lago
Jan 07, 2025 3:27 pm - PALM BEACH, Florida — Less than two weeks before taking office, President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday took some of his most audacious claims and promises of the transit...
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Appeals court rejects Trump's latest attempt to get Friday's hush money sentencing called off
Jan 07, 2025 12:53 pm - A New York appeals court judge on Tuesday denied President-elect Donald Trump's latest bid to delay this week’s sentencing in his hush money case.
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Trump refuses to rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal
Jan 07, 2025 11:50 am - President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national security.
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Peter Yarrow of folk-music trio Peter, Paul and Mary dies at 86
Jan 07, 2025 11:40 am - Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against war, has died. He was 86.