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A war on drugs or a war on terror? Trump's military pressure on Venezuela blurs the lines 10/17/2025 01:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Under President Donald Trump, the drug war is looking a lot like the war on terror. To support strikes against Latin American gangs and drug cartels, the Trump administration is relying on a legal argument that gained traction after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, which allowed U.S. DNA from discarded cup leads to Georgia man's arrest in 1990s sexual assaults in New York 10/17/2025 01:14pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A Georgia man accused of sexually assaulting five women during a New York City crime spree in the early 1990s was linked to the cases by DNA authorities obtained from a discarded cup, prosecutors said. Michael Benjamin, 57, of Conyers, was arraigned Thursday after being extradited Putin is expected to meet Trump in Hungary despite ICC arrest warrant for the Russian president 10/17/2025 06:21am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Vladimir Putin is expected to travel to Hungary soon for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump on ending the war in Ukraine — despite the Russian leader facing an International Criminal Court arrest warrant. Putin is wanted by the court on a warrant dating back to The Latest: Indicted ex-Trump adviser John Bolton accused of sharing 1K+ docs on government info 10/16/2025 08:22pm • Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton was charged Thursday with 18 counts of retention and transmission of national defense information, according to unsealed court documents. Bolton is accused of sharing more than 1,000 pages of information about government activities wi Ex-Trump national security adviser Bolton charged with storing and sharing classified information 10/16/2025 08:09pm • GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — John Bolton, who served as national security adviser to President Donald Trump during his first term and later became a vocal critic of the Republican leader, was charged Thursday with storing top secret records at home and sharing with relatives diary-like notes about his ti Takeaways: Trump's conditional loyalty, new warning for left 10/16/2025 05:54pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican who was backed by Donald Trump at the last minute prevailed on Tuesday in an Alabama Senate runoff. But in neighboring Georgia, the former president's losing streak deepened. Meanwhile, moderate Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser won her Democratic primary, offeri Trump's push for law and order shows he's no longer encumbered by government guardrails 10/16/2025 10:35am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was telling a Rose Garden audience about his efforts to quell violence in the nation's capital when, as if on cue, his words were drowned out by the wail of sirens from passing vehicles. “Listen to the beauty of that sound,” Trump said, grinning. “The The Latest: Journalists leave Pentagon rather than agree to Trump administration’s reporting rules 10/15/2025 10:42pm • Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to restrictions on their work imposed by President Donald Trump ’s administration, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power. News outlets were nearly una Guatemala's president accepts resignations of top security officials after gang escape 10/15/2025 06:50pm • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo accepted the resignations of three top security officials Wednesday as the fallout from Sunday’s admission that 20 gang members had escaped from prison continued. The prisoners, all members of the Barrio 18 gang, had apparently escaped A discarded straw leads to murder charges in 1984 killing of New York teen 10/15/2025 05:33pm • MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Four decades after prosecutors sent the wrong men to prison for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old Long Island girl, DNA obtained from a discarded straw has led to the indictment of a new suspect. Richard Bilodeau, 63, of Center Moriches, was arraigned Wednesday on two count Starved for justice: 2 DC men arrested, charged after multiple pizza shop robberies 10/15/2025 01:27pm • It was the last slice — and the price has to be paid. Two D.C. men are accused of robbing a pizza shop last week in Montgomery County, Maryland. For one of them, police said it wasn't his first pizzeria heist. Montgomery County police said 22-year-old Terrance Barfield and 18-year-old Jay Trump's approval on immigration drops among AAPI adults, new AAPI Data/AP-NORC poll finds 10/15/2025 12:04am • WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of aggressive immigration enforcement measures from the Trump administration, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults are more likely to hold a negative view of President Donald Trump's handling of immigration, a new AAPI Data/AP-NORC poll finds. The Latest: Trump awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom 10/14/2025 09:00pm • President Donald Trump awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously to Charlie Kirk on Tuesday. Kirk was an activist who inspired a generation of young conservatives and helped push the nation’s politics further to the right; he was killed last mon Editorial Roundup: United States 10/14/2025 11:21am • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Oct. 11 The Washington Post on the revival of the U.S.-China trade war The United States and China, inveterate rivals yet inextricably interlinked, are once again barreling into a trade war nobody wants. Tit-for-tat tariffs and exp South Florida matriarch sentenced to life in prison for hired killing of her ex-son-in-law 10/13/2025 06:09pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Donna Adelson, the matriarch of a wealthy South Florida family who was convicted in the hired killing of her former son-in-law, was sentenced Monday to life in prison for her role in the 2014 murder-for-hire of Daniel Markel. A prominent Florida State University law profe