Category Archives: National News

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Biden administration on Friday urged a federal judge to block the nation's most restrictive abortion law, which has banned most abortions in Texas since early September and se...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced the nation's first coronavirus vaccination mandate for schoolchildren, requiring that all elementary through high school students ...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - Pat Robertson, who turned a tiny Virginia television station into a global religious broadcasting network, is stepping down after a half-century running the "700 Club" on daily TV,...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court says Justice Brett Kavanaugh has tested positive for COVID-19.The high court said in a press release Friday that Kavanaugh has no symptoms and has been fully vaccin...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Drugmaker Merck said Friday that its experimental COVID-19 pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus, potentially a leap forwa...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The newly installed chief of the U.S. Capitol Police says the force, still struggling six months after an insurrection that left its officers battled, bloodied and bruised, "cannot a...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Acknowledging the limits of her own influence on the law as a member of the Supreme Court's liberal minority, Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday encouraged citizens to work to chan...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senior Pentagon officials said Wednesday the collapse of the Afghan government and its security forces in August could be traced to a 2020 U.S. agreement with the Taliban that promis...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pressure mounting but with signs of progress, President Joe Biden is hunkering down at the White House to try to strike a deal and win over two holdout Democratic senators whose supp...

Bridgeport — (CNN) A convenience store robbery suspect was arrested after the gun he was carrying went off and struck him in the leg.Bridgeport police said it happened after Steven Nieves held u...