National & World

• Manhattan DA agrees to postpone Donald Trump’s sentencing in hush money case but opposes dismissal
• Netanyahu offers $5 million and safe passage out of Gaza to anyone returning a hostage
• Accident or sabotage? American and European officials disagree as key undersea cables are cut
• Susan Smith, who killed her 2 young children 30 years ago, denied parole
• Trump’s influence already generating drama among world leaders as G20 gets underway
• Pope Francis calls for investigation into Gaza genocide allegations
• Biden authorizes Ukraine to use long-range US weapons in Russia
• Trump’s team skips FBI background checks for some Cabinet picks
• Texas Supreme Court clears way for new execution date for Robert Roberson in 2-year-old daughter’s death
• 15 Salisbury University students charged with hate crimes after they allegedly beat a man they lured to an apartment
• Evidence in trial of man accused of killing Laken Riley will show the Georgia student ‘fought for her life,’ prosecutors say
• Trump picks Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his Department of Health and Human Services secretary
• Fifteen killed in Israeli strikes on Damascus, Syrian state media say
• What we know about the deadly factory explosion in Louisville, Kentucky
• Thousands evacuated as parts of Spain hit with nearly a month’s rainfall in one hour
• Trump picks Rep. Matt Gaetz to serve as attorney general
• Trump picks Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence
• The US says Israel is doing enough to bring aid into Gaza. On the ground it is a different story
• Homes of Kansas City Chiefs stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce were burglarized last month, according to local reports
• Trump picks Fox News host and Army veteran Pete Hegseth to serve as secretary of defense
• Trump chooses John Ratcliffe to serve as his CIA director
• Trump picks Bill McGinley to serve as his White House counsel
• First on CNN: Trump picks Kristi Noem to serve as his Homeland Security secretary
• Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead new ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ in Trump administration
• 2 dead and others hurt after explosion at a business in Louisville, Kentucky, neighborhood
• Decision on whether to overturn Trump’s New York hush money conviction is delayed
• Trump’s Cabinet picks could be complicated by GOP math in the House
• Archbishop of Canterbury resigns over handling of church child abuse case
• Ukraine is fighting 50,000 troops in Russia’s Kursk region, Zelensky says
• Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to remain at post as some call for her to step down
• Trump’s 2024 victory revealed voter shifts that could reshape America’s political landscape
• Racist texts about slaves and ‘picking cotton’ sent to Black people as state AGs, colleges and police probe their origins
• Monkey mayhem in South Carolina after 43 primates escape research facility