National & World

• Federal Reserve hikes key rate for 1st time in 3 years, defying Trump demands for a cut
• Los Angeles reporter and pilot among 3 dead after news helicopter crashes
• Kennedy Center board votes to close for renovations after chaotic call with Trump
• Nick Reiner will not face death penalty in killings of his parents, prosecutor says
• Trump says Canada becoming ‘associate member’ of EU could be a ‘hostile act’
• Mitch McConnell returns to the Senate after three-month absence due to health issues
• Trump lashes out at Supreme Court justices, saying his appointees ‘are not the people I interviewed’
• Supreme Court rejects Trump’s plan to limit mail-in voting in midterms
• Probe into Hayden Panettiere’s death examining whether she got counterfeit drugs from Southern California dealer, source says
• Iran reports commercial vessel struck in Strait of Hormuz
• Kennedy Center faces ‘fiscal collapse’ unless Trump’s name returns, board of trustees claims
• Exclusive: Tense phone call and resignation upend Justice Department probe into Trump’s top foes
• Trump says Ukraine and Russia agreed to stop targeting energy sites, but Kyiv calls it a ‘proposal for a mutual halt’
• Tennessee officials moving forward with renaming Nashville International Airport after Dolly Parton
• Trump says oil prices that spiked because of Iran war likely won’t come down until after midterms
• Scores wounded as Iran-backed Houthis attack Saudi Arabia in major regional escalation
• Massive disruption hits UK airports after air traffic control issue
• Trump gave Natalie Harp and two other aides $45,000 each in cash gifts for holidays
• New black box data shows alarms sounded as pilot warned of plane’s excessive speed before it overran Miami runway, killing 5
• Russia pounds Kyiv one day after visit by Witkoff and Kushner
• Ex-Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky withdraws petition for new sex abuse trial in state court
• NYC Mayor Mamdani releases 9/11 records showing officials misled New Yorkers about air quality around Ground Zero
• UK, France and Canada sanction Israeli settlements in West Bank as Britain accuses settlers of ‘ethnic cleansing’
• Four bodies recovered after plane carrying US family lost contact off Bahamas coast
• Stevie Wonder to bring "Songs in the Key of Life" anniversary tour to Chicago
• US military strikes three Iranian tankers in retaliation for missile attacks
• Pilots applied full power seconds before Amazon cargo plane overran Miami runway, killing 5 in cleaning van, officials say
• Jerry Sandusky changes his legal strategy to try to overturn his sex abuse convictions. A judge wants him to explain why
• Judge in Lindsay Clancy case officially declares mistrial
• WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert to retire, sources tell ESPN
• ICE officer federally charged in Minneapolis shooting lied to investigators 6 times, indictment says
• GOP lawmaker gives expected timeline for Mitch McConnell’s return
• Elon Musk’s super PAC starts spending to help GOP in midterms, including Texas’ Ken Paxton
• Federal judge blocks Trump’s newest attempt to crack down on birthright citizenship
• Gloria Steinem, feminist icon and founder of Ms. Magazine, dies at 92