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The Latest: Longest government shutdown in US history ends after 43 days as Trump signs funding bill 11/12/2025 10:38pm • President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill Wednesday night, ending a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, stranded scores of travelers at airports and generated long lines at some food banks. Before signing the legislation, Epstein email says Trump 'knew about the girls' as White House calls its release a Democratic smear 11/12/2025 10:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein wrote in a 2019 email to a journalist that Donald Trump “knew about the girls,” according to documents made public Wednesday, but what he knew — and whether it pertained to the sex offender’s crimes — is unclear. The White House quickly accused Democrats Trump urges Israel to pardon Netanyahu in corruption case, sparking concerns over US influence 11/12/2025 09:25pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday sent a letter to Israel's president asking him to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a long-running corruption trial that has bitterly divided the country. It was the latest attempt by Trump to intervene in the case on behalf of Ne Judge signals hundreds of people detained in Chicago immigration crackdown could be released on bond 11/12/2025 05:48pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of people who have been arrested and detained in the Chicago area during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown could soon be released on bond while they await immigration hearings, a federal judge signaled Wednesday. During a hearing in Chicago, U.S. District Jud Trial of former Congolese rebel leader Lumbala over wartime atrocities opens in Paris 11/12/2025 10:02am • PARIS (AP) — The trial of Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala began Wednesday in Paris over atrocities committed two decades ago during the Second Congo War. Lumbala has been charged with “criminal conspiracy to prepare crimes against humanity” and “complicity of crimes against humanity” Trump pardons the husband of Republican supporter Rep. Diana Harshbarger of Tennessee 11/11/2025 01:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has pardoned Tennessee Republican Rep. Diana Harshbarger's husband, who pleaded guilty more than a decade ago to health care fraud and other crimes and served time in federal prison. Robert Harshbarger Jr. was a licensed pharmacist in 2013 when he admitted South Carolina court rejects final death row appeal focused on brain damage from mother's drinking 11/11/2025 01:03pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's highest court has refused to stop the execution of a man who killed three people over five days more than 20 years ago while leaving taunting messages for police in the blood of one of his victims. Stephen Bryant, 44, is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. Friday by f Editorial Roundup: United States 11/11/2025 11:02am • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Nov. 9 The Washington Post says TrumpRx isn't the best way to lower prices In a landmark deal announced Thursday, President Donald Trump negotiated dramatically lower costs for weight-loss drugs produced by pharmaceutical giants El Exiled Syrian opens up about death-defying smuggling operation that showed proof of Assad's cruelty 11/11/2025 07:13am • He waited for his brother-in-law to cross the front line smuggling documents stolen from the Syrian dictatorship’s archives. Detection could mean dismemberment or death, but they were committed to exposing the industrial-scale violence used to keep President Bashar Assad in power. Ussama Uthman, n New Zealand will remove police from gun licensing but near-total semiautomatics ban to remain 11/10/2025 09:12pm • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government will end the involvement of police officers in regulating gun ownership, an official said Tuesday as she announced sweeping firearms law reforms. The move is intended to ease tensions between the gun regulator and firearms owners, which hav 'Identify the worst of the worst': How DNA helped solve a cold case in Prince George’s County 11/10/2025 09:01pm • It took nearly 28 years for police in Prince George’s County, Maryland, to determine the identity of the man detectives say killed 50-year-old Sherry Crandell back in 1998. The case had gone cold until a few years ago, when the department turned to what’s known as "genetic genealogy" in the Deployment of West Virginia National Guard members in nation’s capital can continue, judge rules 11/10/2025 05:03pm • A judge on Monday allowed the continued deployment of more than 300 West Virginia National Guard members to patrol the streets of Washington, D.C., as part of President Donald Trump’s push to send the military into Democratic-run cities. Kanawha County Circuit Judge Richard D. Lindsay made the rul Drug dealer granted clemency by Trump sent back to prison for violating terms of his release 11/10/2025 03:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A convicted drug dealer who had been granted clemency by President Donald Trump was sent back to federal prison on Monday for violating the terms of his release after being charged with several new crimes. Jonathan Braun was sentenced to 27 months behind bars. The Long Island man Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others who backed efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss 11/10/2025 01:53pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has pardoned his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his onetime chief of staff Mark Meadows and others accused of backing the Republican's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The “full, complete, and unconditional" pardon for dozens of Trump allies South Africa's apartheid-era crimes inquiry is delayed over legal objections 11/10/2025 01:00pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An inquiry into allegations that South Africa's Black-led governments interfered with investigations into apartheid-era crimes was postponed on its first day Monday over objections to one of the inquiry's lawyers. President Cyril Ramaphosa ordered the inquiry in April after dec