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Congress shielded gun companies from lawsuits. Some blue states think they've found a loophole 10/28/2025 11:47am • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Two decades after a Republican-controlled Congress gave gun manufacturers immunity from being sued over crimes committed with their firearms, blue state Democrats upset about gun violence think they’ve found a way to penetrate that legal shield. Since 2021, 10 states have Polish prosecutors seek charges against ex-justice minister for misuse of funds 10/28/2025 10:17am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish prosecutors on Tuesday requested lifting the parliamentary immunity of a former justice minister who is facing charges of abuse of power and mishandling funds including for buying Israeli spyware allegedly used against political opponents. Zbigniew Ziobro was alleged Fashion designer Kenneth Cole's brother claims vindication after criminal charges dismissed 10/27/2025 06:11pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The brother of designer Kenneth Cole says he was vindicated on Monday by a federal appeals court's decision to overturn his criminal fraud conviction. Neil Cole said he’s been fighting over a decade to clear his name after federal authorities claimed that he committed securities US warship docks in Trinidad and Tobago, putting more pressure on Venezuela 10/26/2025 07:33pm • PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago (AP) — A U.S. warship docked in Trinidad and Tobago 's capital Sunday as the Trump administration boosts military pressure on neighboring Venezuela and its President Nicolás Maduro. The arrival of the USS Gravely, a guided missile destroyer, in the capital of th Venezuela's Maduro says the US is fabricating a war and seeks to revoke citizenship of opponent 10/25/2025 08:51pm • CARACAS (AP) — Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro said the U.S. government is “fabricating” a war against him as the world's biggest warship approached the South American country, while moving to revoke the citizenship of an opponent he accuses of egging on an invasion. Maduro said in DC, Trump administration clash in court over National Guard deployment in the District 10/25/2025 08:50am • Over two months after the deployment of the National Guard into D.C., attorneys representing the District and President Donald Trump's administration spared in U.S. District Court on Friday over the Guard's continued stay in the nation’s capital. By the end of the over two-and-a-half-hour h National Guard deployments in DC and Portland, Oregon, are focus of court hearings 10/24/2025 08:09pm • No National Guard troops are expected to be deployed in Portland, Oregon, for at least several days, after a temporary federal appeals court decision Friday. Meanwhile, a judge in Washington, D.C., is weighing whether to pull more than 2,000 troops off the streets of the nation's capital. The develo UK police hunt for an imprisoned asylum-seeker who was released in error 10/24/2025 04:22pm • LONDON (AP) — An asylum-seeker sentenced to 12 months in a British prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl was mistakenly released Friday, prompting an urgent police search for a man whose case had prompted anti-migrant protests. Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, the cataly Mafia returns to center stage in NBA betting scandal that included rigged poker games 10/24/2025 03:00pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Decades after a crackdown by prosecutors decimated the ranks of the New York Mafia, the indictment of an NBA coach, a player and nearly three dozen others in a betting scandal highlighted the mob's persistence and adaptability to changing times and technology. Four of New York's fi How a 2018 Supreme Court decision paved the way for meteoric growth in legal sports betting 10/24/2025 09:49am • WASHINGTON (AP) — A 2018 Supreme Court decision opened the floodgates to legalized sports-betting industry, now worth billions of dollars a year, even as it recognized that the decision was controversial. That high-court ruling is back in the spotlight after the arrests on Thursday of more than 30 International Criminal Court judges reject jurisdiction challenge in Duterte case 10/24/2025 06:34am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — International Criminal Court judges on Thursday rejected a challenge to jurisdiction in the case of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who is accused of involvement in dozens of killings as part of his so-called war on drugs when in office. Defense lawyers The Latest: Trump pardons Binance founder Changpeng Zhao 10/23/2025 08:56pm • President Donald Trump on Thursday pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who created the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and pled guilty in 2023 to enabling money laundering. Zhao served prison time for failing to stop criminals from using the platform to move money connected to child s The Latest: NBA coaches and player charged in sports betting and Mafia-backed poker schemes 10/23/2025 07:11pm • Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and former Cleveland Cavaliers assistant Damon Jones are among 34 people charged in connection with schemes involving illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by the Mafia, authorities said on Thursday. Roz Trump backs off planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after talking to the mayor 10/23/2025 05:19pm • ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco to quell crime after speaking to the mayor and several prominent business leaders who said they're working hard to clean up the city. Trump had been threatening Trump pardons Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, high-profile cryptocurrency figure 10/23/2025 05:13pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who created the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and served prison time for failing to stop criminals from using the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking and terrorism. T