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How will DC’s law enforcement surge be remembered? 12/26/2025 07:19am • During a news conference on Aug. 11, President Donald Trump vowed to address crime in D.C. He promised to get rid of what he described as the city’s "slums," activated hundreds of National Guard members to patrol D.C. streets and told Attorney General Pam Bondi she had control of the city's police Public release of Epstein records puts Maxwell under fresh scrutiny amid her claims of innocence 12/25/2025 12:06am • NEW YORK (AP) — Days after Ghislaine Maxwell asked a judge to immediately free her from a 20-year prison sentence, the public release of grand jury transcripts from her sex trafficking case returned the spotlight to victims whose allegations helped land her behind bars. The disclosure of the tr After missing deadline, DOJ says it may need a 'few more weeks' to finish releasing Epstein files 12/24/2025 07:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Wednesday that it may need a “few more weeks" to release all of its records on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after suddenly discovering more than a million potentially relevant documents, further delaying compliance with last Friday’s congr Supreme Court keeps Trump’s National Guard deployment blocked in the Chicago area, for now 12/23/2025 07:07pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area to support its immigration crackdown, a significant defeat for the president's efforts to send troops to U.S. cities. The justices declined the Republican a Trump approves deployment of 350 National Guard members to New Orleans 12/23/2025 06:51pm • The Trump administration is deploying 350 National Guard troops to New Orleans ahead of the New Year, launching another federal deployment in the city at the same time that an immigration crackdown led by Border Patrol is underway. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said Tuesday that Guard members, as Voluminous new Epstein document release includes multiple Trump mentions, but little revelatory news 12/23/2025 06:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has released tens of thousands more documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, a tranche that included multiple mentions of President Donald Trump but added little new revelatory information to the long-anticipated public file on the late financier and conv DOJ sues Illinois' governor over laws protecting immigrants at courthouses and hospitals 12/23/2025 04:58pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday fired back against a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit over state protections of immigrants from federal arrest at courthouses, hospitals and day cares. Justice officials filed suit on Monday, claiming new Illinois measures prohibiting detention DC's new interim police chief on what's next in crime data tampering investigation 12/22/2025 07:02pm • Jeffery Carroll has always wanted to be a police officer. Growing up, he was a Law Enforcement Explorer, a program that allows young people to learn about career possibilities by working with local law enforcement. For three summers in college, he worked for Ocean City’s police department as a Colombia will use drones to destroy coca crops as it grapples with record cocaine production 12/22/2025 05:47pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia will use drones to resume spraying of coca crops with a weed killer, the government announced on Monday as authorities grapple with record levels of cocaine production that have fueled tensions with the Trump administration. The South American country banned aeria 'I'm proud of our city': DC Mayor Muriel Bowser reflects on 11 years as city's top leader 12/22/2025 04:57pm • Approaching her final year as mayor of D.C., Muriel Bowser spoke with WTOP to discuss the successes of 2025, and the outside challenges she has navigated during the first year of President Donald Trump's second administration. In the face of criticism from the White House about the city's handlin The Trump administration is suing the District of Columbia over its gun laws 12/22/2025 04:39pm • The Trump administration is suing the local government of Washington, D.C., over its gun laws, alleging that restrictions on certain semiautomatic weapons run afoul of Second Amendment rights. The U.S. Department of Justice filed its lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, Ecuadorian court hands down max sentences to 11 soldiers in case of 4 disappeared minors 12/22/2025 01:16pm • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A court in Ecuador handed lengthy prison sentences Monday to a group of eleven soldiers who were responsible for the abduction and torture of four children last year — a case that has rattled the South American nation and raised questions about President Daniel Noboa’s ef Car bomb kills Russian general in Moscow 12/22/2025 12:30pm • MOSCOW (AP) — A car bomb killed a Russian general on Monday, the third such killing of a senior military officer in just over a year. Investigators said Ukraine may be behind the attack. Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces' General Sta NYC Mayor Eric Adams once called himself the 'future of the Democratic Party.' What went wrong? 12/22/2025 12:21pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Four years ago, New York City Mayor Eric Adams swept into office with swaggering confidence, pledging to lead a government unlike any other in history and declaring himself the “future of the Democratic Party.” On the first promise, the mayor more than delivered. But as his tum Top Trump administration official defends partial release of Epstein files as Democrats cry foul 12/21/2025 01:45pm • WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Justice Department’s decision to release just a fraction of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the congressionally mandated deadline as necessary to protect survivors of sexual abuse by the disgraced financier. Bl