National News

12:13 AM on Sunday, July 19

In Japan, the Gion Matsuri festival brings towering floats to the streets in Shinto religious processions that are rooted in rituals dating back more than 1,000 years and that were intended to ward off epidemics

11:36 PM on Saturday, July 18

Rescue crews are using excavators on Sunday to search the rubble for survivors of a landslide in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing that killed at least eight people and left another 34 missing

4:51 PM on Saturday, July 18

Taylor Farms has expanded a voluntary recall of its iceberg lettuce products sourced from central Mexico because of a potential link to the multistate cyclospora outbreak that has sickened people across the U.S. The California-based company said products with the potential to be contaminated with the diarrhea-causing parasite were shipped to 27 states including Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania and Illinois

4:20 PM on Saturday, July 18

4:01 PM on Saturday, July 18

Bukayo Saka scored three goals to lead England to a 6-4 win over France for third place in the World Cup, while Kylian Mbappé surpassed Lionel Messi’s career World Cup scoring record and took the lead in the Golden Boot race with a pair of second-half goals

12:12 PM on Saturday, July 18

Rory McIlroy has saved one of his best shots at the British Open for Bryson DeChambeau

11:55 AM on Saturday, July 18

A father and son are expected to face federal kidnapping charges after they zip-tied two U.S. Forest Service employees and held them at gunpoint inside a trailer in Northern California near Mt

11:10 AM on Saturday, July 18

Authorities report at least a dozen attacks on health facilities and workers during Congo's Ebola outbreak

10:33 AM on Saturday, July 18

David Crowley has reentered Wisconsin's Democratic primary for governor, two weeks after suspending his campaign

10:31 AM on Saturday, July 18

Israeli strikes in Gaza City have killed at least nine Palestinians, including three children, according to hospital officials

9:29 AM on Saturday, July 18

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff has attracted national attention and praise from across the political left with his sweeping indictments of President Donald Trump

8:15 AM on Saturday, July 18

Donald Trump has shifted his tone on former President Jimmy Carter, whom he once sharply criticized

4:00 AM on Saturday, July 18

Authorities say the largest residential fire in modern Norwegian history has destroyed over 100 homes

3:56 AM on Saturday, July 18

Russian officials report that Ukrainian drone attacks overnight and later on Saturday have killed nine people and wounded more than 80 others

2:31 AM on Saturday, July 18

The U.S. military says it has carried out new airstrikes against Iran to “swiftly punish” the country’s Revolutionary Guard for an attack in Jordan that killed two American service members, left one more missing and four requiring hospitalization

12:26 AM on Saturday, July 18

Mount Olympus, the mythological home of ancient Greece’s 12 Olympian gods, may soon join UNESCO’s World Heritage List

12:09 AM on Saturday, July 18

Rescue crews are racing against the clock to find survivors after a landslide in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing killed at least eight people and left 34 missing

9:46 AM on Friday, July 17

U.S. inflation cooled last month as the cost of gas, clothes, and used cars fell, providing some relief to consumers, while underlying price pressures also cooled more than expected

11:34 PM on Thursday, July 16

The sell-off for AI winners deepened and yanked stock markets lower worldwide

9:44 PM on Thursday, July 16