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The Latest: Trump addresses the American public in a live speech from the White House 12/17/2025 09:53pm • President Donald Trump delivered a speech live from the White House on Wednesday night where he discussed his achievements and touched on some of his agenda for next year and beyond. The president’s predecessor, whom Trump continues to lambaste regularly, figured prominently at the start of his ad Trump demands Venezuela pay for seized US oil assets after calling for 'blockade' 12/17/2025 09:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump demanded Wednesday that Venezuela return assets that it seized from U.S. oil companies years ago, justifying anew his announcement of a “blockade” against oil tankers traveling to or from the South American country that face American sanctions. Trump ci Myanmar declares a 'zero tolerance' policy for cyberscams. But the fraud goes on 12/17/2025 11:38am • It looked like a turning point in the global fight against scams. Myanmar’s military leadership, under growing international pressure, vowed to wipe out the industrial-scale cyberscam centers that have taken root in the country. They started by raiding and then bombing KK Park — a notorious comp The Latest: Hegseth and Rubio brief lawmakers on US military escalation 12/16/2025 09:45pm • President Donald Trump’s top Cabinet officials overseeing national security are back on Capitol Hill on Tuesday as questions mount over the swift escalation of U.S. military force and deadly boat strikes in international waters near Venezuela. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Prosecutors charge Rob Reiner’s son Nick with 2 counts of murder in killing of his parents 12/16/2025 08:18pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rob Reiner’s son Nick Reiner was charged Tuesday with two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents, which stunned their communities in Hollywood and Democratic politics, where both were widely beloved. Nick Reiner, 32, is charged with killing the 78-year-old Cannabis entrepreneur Duke Rodriguez joins the race for New Mexico governor 12/16/2025 01:40pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Duke Rodriguez, one of New Mexico's most successful cannabis entrepreneurs and a former state cabinet secretary, has officially announced he's seeking the Republican nomination for governor. Rather than hosting a big party, Rodriguez made the announcement in newspaper adve Sydney taekwondo instructor gets life sentence for murdering student and parents 12/16/2025 03:55am • SYDNEY (AP) — A judge sentenced a Sydney taekwondo instructor on Tuesday to life in prison without possibility of release for murdering a 7-year-old student and the boy’s parents. Kwang Kyung Yoo, 51, sat with his head bowed as Justice Ian Harrison said he would never be eligible for parole. Har The Latest: Trump sues BBC for defamation, asks for $10 billion in damages over Jan. 6 speech edit 12/15/2025 09:47pm • President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices. The lawsuit accuses the BBC of broadcasting a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and mal Brian Walshe found guilty of murdering his wife, who disappeared nearly 3 years ago 12/15/2025 07:35pm • BOSTON (AP) — Brian Walshe was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder in the grisly death of his wife, whom he was accused of killing and dismembering nearly three years ago while he awaited sentencing in an art fraud case relating to the sale of two fake Andy Warhol paintings. Ana Walshe, a r Wisconsin judge rules Trump aides must face trial in 2020 fake elector scheme 12/15/2025 05:05pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge ruled Monday there is enough evidence to proceed to trial in a felony forgery case against an attorney and an aide to President Donald Trump for their role in the 2020 fake elector scheme. The charges relate to attempts by the former aides to present a slate DC police chief accused of manipulating crime data in new House Oversight Committee report 12/15/2025 02:43pm • D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith has been accused of manipulating crime data to "maintain the appearance of low crime" in a new report released Sunday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The interim staff report came from transcribed interviews with the commanders of all seve Austrian court rules against extradition of Ukrainian businessman to US over alleged bribery 12/15/2025 10:31am • VIENNA (AP) — An Austrian appeals court has rejected a request to extradite Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash to the United States in a case of alleged corruption through a plot to pay bribes in India. The Vienna high regional court dismissed the appeal of a lower court ruling last year in the Brazilians protest a bill that would reduce former president Bolsonaro’s time in jail 12/14/2025 07:04pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Tens of thousands of Brazilians demonstrated Sunday against a bill that advanced in Congress this week which would reduce the time former President Jair Bolsonaro spends behind bars following his sentence of more than 27 years for attempting a coup. Protests took place in the Anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies intensify across Europe 12/14/2025 04:16am • LONDON (AP) — In the past year, tens of thousands hostile to immigrants marched through London, chanting “send them home!” A British lawmaker complained of seeing too many non-white faces on TV. And senior politicians advocated the deportation of longtime U.K. residents born abroad. The overt Morocco aims to boost legal cannabis farming and tap a global boom 12/14/2025 01:55am • BAB BERRED, Morocco (AP) — Since he started growing cannabis at 14, Mohamed Makhlouf has lived in the shadows, losing sleep while bracing for a knock on his door from authorities that could mean prison or his entire harvest confiscated. But after decades of operating in secret, Makhlouf finally ha