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Thousands of arrests by Trump's crime-fighting task force in Memphis strain crowded jail and courts 11/24/2025 07:28pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A task force ordered by President Donald Trump to combat crime in Memphis, Tennessee, has made thousands of arrests, compounding strains on the busy local court system and an already overcrowded jail in ways that concerned officials say will last months or even years as cases One of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre's last survivors, Viola Ford Fletcher, dies at age 111 11/24/2025 06:49pm • DALLAS (AP) — Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving Black community where she lived as a child, has died. She was 111. Her grandson Ike Howard said Justice Department renews bid to unseal Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury materials 11/24/2025 05:39pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department on Monday renewed its request to unseal grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking cases, arguing they should be made public under a new law requiring the government to open its files on the late financier and his lo Things to know about the growing pressures facing Zelenskyy during a crucial week of diplomacy 11/24/2025 11:46am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy faces a crucial week of diplomacy, testing his abilities to stand his ground while demonstrating to the United States that he is willing to compromise. Since a draft of a 28-point U.S.-Russia brokered peace plan was leaked to the press o UK leader suggests former Prince Andrew should testify in US investigation into Jeffrey Epstein 11/23/2025 10:36pm • LONDON (AP) — Pressure is increasing for the former Prince Andrew to give evidence to a U.S. congressional committee investigating the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after Britain’s prime minister suggested he should testify. Keir Starmer declined to comment directly about King Charles I Ukraine peace plan darkens the mood across a war-torn nation 11/23/2025 09:24pm • Mass graves and bullet-scarred churches mark the torment of past Russian occupation in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, where traumatized residents now face a new anguish: a U.S.-led peace proposal that would offer a blanket post-war amnesty for the perpetrators of atrocities. For the survivors of Bucha, w Bolsonaro's conviction brings vindication for some Brazilians who lost loved ones to COVID-19 11/23/2025 12:04am • SAO PAULO (AP) — Simone Guimarães, a retired 52-year-old teacher in Rio de Janeiro, lost at least five relatives to COVID-19: her husband, sister, two brothers-in-law and the godfather of her grandchild. She also lost friends and neighbors. She woke to the news on Saturday that Brazil's Supreme C On paper, a California city bans the sale of comic books to kids. Officials want to change that 11/22/2025 03:50pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — On a recent day at Sacramento native Lecho Lopez's comic shop in the city, his 5-year-old nephew read his first word aloud: “bad.” It was from a graphic novel. There was irony in that being his first word, because Lopez credits comic books with many positive things in Thousands march in Marseille to denounce drug violence after killing of activist's brother 11/22/2025 12:19pm • PARIS (AP) — Thousands of people marched Saturday in the French southern port city of Marseille to denounce drug trafficking after the killing last week of an activist's brother shocked the country. Mehdi Kessaci, 20, was killed in Marseille last week in a shooting officials have described as orde The fallout of Epstein's crimes spans the globe. Here's a look at some of those paying the cost 11/22/2025 09:44am • The fallout from Jeffrey Epstein's transgressions spans oceans and continents, from the vulnerable girls he exploited to the privileged people and institutions that chose to associate with him, cover up his activities — or look away. No one has paid a higher cost than Epstein's victims, who number The Latest: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, former Trump loyalist, says she will resign from Congress 11/21/2025 10:01pm • Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a once-loyal supporter of President Donald Trump who has become a critic, said Friday that she is resigning from Congress in January. In a more than 10-minute video posted online, Greene explained her decision and said she has “always been despised in Washin Ex-University of Virginia student gets five life sentences for fatally shooting 3 football players 11/21/2025 09:36pm • CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A former University of Virginia student was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for fatally shooting three football players and wounding two other students on the campus in 2022. Judge Cheryl Higgins gave Christopher Darnell Jones, Jr., who had been on the football Authorities arrest 7 bodyguards in connection with a Mexican mayor's assassination 11/21/2025 09:30pm • URUAPAN, Mexico (AP) — Authorities on Friday arrested seven bodyguards suspected of being involved in the assassination earlier this month of a popular mayor in west-central Mexico who they were supposed to be protecting. The Associated Press saw at least five of the suspects arrested by state an Abortion is illegal again in North Dakota after court reverses a judge's earlier decision 11/21/2025 07:56pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Abortion is again illegal in North Dakota after the state's Supreme Court on Friday couldn't muster the required majority to uphold a judge's ruling that struck down the state's ban last year. The law makes it a felony crime for anyone to perform an abortion, though it specif Oakland's new mayor Barbara Lee fights high crime and tells federal law enforcement to stay away 11/21/2025 04:43pm • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Last week, Oakland’s new mayor found herself consoling the friends and family of a beloved community college football coach who was shot on campus. The day after her visit, Barbara Lee sat with The Associated Press for an hour at her downtown Oakland office. A veteran stat