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Fugees rapper Pras Michel sentenced to 14 years in prison over illegal donations to Obama campaign 11/21/2025 03:27pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the Fugees was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in prison for a case in which he was convicted of illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to former President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. South African women stage lie-down protest against gender-based violence ahead of G20 summit 11/21/2025 10:57am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Hundreds of women wearing black gathered in a Johannesburg park on Friday, one day before the start of the Group of 20 summit, to stage a 15-minute lie-down protest symbolizing the 15 lives lost daily to gender-based violence in South Africa. South Africa, while putting forward Russian hacking suspect wanted by the FBI arrested on Thai resort island 11/21/2025 06:24am • BANGKOK (AP) — Police have arrested a suspected Russian hacker on the Thai resort island of Phuket who was wanted by the FBI on allegations he was behind cyberattacks on U.S. and European government agencies, officials said. The 35-year-old, who entered Thailand on Oct. 30 at Phuket Airport, was The Latest: Trump administration plans for new oil drilling off California and Florida coasts 11/20/2025 09:02pm • The Trump administration announced on Thursday new oil drilling off the California and Florida coasts for the first time in decades, advancing a project that critics say could harm coastal communities and ecosystems, as President Donald Trump seeks to expand U.S. oil production. The oil industry has Judge criticizes federal prosecutors for relying on testimony by officer with credibility concerns 11/20/2025 08:34pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Thursday that police in the nation’s capital illegally seized a gun from a man they stopped outside a laundromat, blasting the officers’ account as unreliable and sharply criticizing Justice Department prosecutors for relying on testimony from an officer Nigerian court sentences separatist Nnamdi Kanu to life in prison on terrorism charges 11/20/2025 06:20pm • ABUJA, NIGERIA (AP) — A court in Nigeria on Thursday convicted separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu of all seven terrorism-related charges brought against him and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Kanu founded the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), which has been accused of terrorism and extra-judicia Trump says Democrats' video message to military is 'seditious behavior' punishable by death 11/20/2025 05:51pm • President Donald Trump on Thursday accused half a dozen Democratic lawmakers of sedition “punishable by DEATH” after the lawmakers — all veterans of the armed services and intelligence community — called on U.S. military members to uphold the Constitution and defy “illegal orders.” The 9 Judge orders Trump administration to end National Guard deployment in DC 11/20/2025 04:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to end its monthslong deployment of National Guard troops to help police the nation’s capital. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb concluded that President Donald Trump’s military takeover in Washington, D.C., illegally Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns 11/20/2025 04:27pm • The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found. The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some Ex-top prosecutor who resigned rather than drop Adams case defends her integrity in court testimony 11/20/2025 04:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The former interim U.S. attorney who quit rather than drop the criminal case against New York Mayor Eric Adams defended her integrity during testimony Thursday in Manhattan federal court. Danielle Sassoon testified for more than an hour as a defense lawyer tried to convince a judge Multicultural New Orleans awaits arrival of 'Swamp Sweep' immigration crackdown 11/20/2025 04:00pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans, the laid-back city known as the Big Easy and the birthplace of jazz, where lavish parades, bead-throwing debauchery and Creole cuisine attract tourists from around the globe, is about to become the next staging ground for the Trump administration’s mass deportatio Montgomery County man who threw ex-girlfriend's body off ICC bridge sentenced in her murder 11/20/2025 03:10pm • A man has been sentenced in the December 2022 murder of a young woman in Montgomery County, Maryland, whose remains were thrown off an Intercounty Connector bridge. Keylin Chavez-Dominguez, 20, was killed by her ex-boyfriend following an argument inside of the pair's apartment in Rockville on Dec Bangladesh Supreme Court restores nonpartisan caretaker system but not for next elections 11/20/2025 01:55am • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Thursday restored a nonpartisan caretaker government system for national elections but said it won't apply to the polls being held early next year. The caretaker system was introduced in 1996 and widely accepted by Bangladesh's people and by Trump signs bill to release Jeffrey Epstein case files after fighting it for months 11/20/2025 12:11am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday that compels his administration to release files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, bowing to political pressure from his own party after initially resisting those efforts. Trump could have chosen to release many of the An anti-migrant group in South Africa is blocking foreigners from health clinics 11/19/2025 10:49pm • MUSINA, South Africa (AP) — It's 6 a.m. and Tholakele Nkwanyana is one of the first people to arrive at the Diepsloot public health clinic in Johannesburg, not to seek medical attention but to stop foreigners from getting care. She and fellow members of South Africa's anti-immigrant group Operatio