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Man admits in TV interview to killing and burying his parents 09/26/2025 07:00pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A man admitted during a television interview to killing his parents and burying them in the backyard of their upstate New York home eight years ago, then was arrested as he left the studio. The stunning on-camera confession from Lorenz Kraus, 53, came Thursday, a day after poli Powerhouse attorney Robert B. Barnett, known for representing the Obamas and Clintons, dies 09/26/2025 04:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Robert B. Barnett, a powerhouse Washington attorney who became a fixture in the political and publishing worlds as the literary representative for Barack and Michelle Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton and dozens of other leaders, has died at age 79. One of Barnett's partners at Will Moldova bars 2 pro-Russian parties from tense parliamentary election 09/26/2025 04:13pm • CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldova’s electoral commission on Friday barred two pro-Russian parties from participating in this weekend's tense parliamentary election, which is beleaguered by widespread claims of Russian interference. The outcome of Sunday’s high-stakes vote could determine whethe Train stabbing spurs outcry over Black-on-white violence, but data shows such occurrences are rare 09/26/2025 01:48pm • After a Ukrainian woman who fled war in her home country was stabbed to death on a commuter train in North Carolina, the alarming act of violence ignited bitter racial and political rhetoric about crime victims and perpetrators in America. The fatal attack last month, in which the alleged perpetrato What we know about the indictment filed against ex-FBI chief James Comey 09/26/2025 01:45pm • President Donald Trump appears to be prodding his administration to seek criminal charges against more targets after a grand jury returned an indictment against foe and former FBI Director James Comey. “It’s not a list, but I think there’ll be others,” Trump told reporters on Friday as he de ACLU files lawsuit against Department of Homeland Security on behalf of DC residents 09/26/2025 12:21am • The American Civil Liberties Union of D.C. is suing the Department of Homeland Security, its director and other federal agencies charging that federal agents are illegally and indiscriminately arresting people in D.C. who are perceived to be Latino. The ACLU said in a 36-page lawsuit that the arr The Latest: Former FBI Director Comey indicted on charges of making a false statement, obstruction 09/25/2025 09:27pm • Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with making a false statement and obstruction in a criminal case filed days after President Donald Trump appeared to urge his attorney general to prosecute the former FBI director and other perceived political enemies. Prosecutors have been evaluating Texas man executed for the 'exorcism' killing of his girlfriend's 13-month-old daughter 09/25/2025 08:45pm • HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man was executed Thursday for killing his girlfriend’s 13-month-old daughter in a torturous ordeal the couple said was part of an “exorcism” to expel a demon from the child’s body. Blaine Milam, 35, was pronounced dead at 6:40 p.m. following a lethal inject Chicago approves $90M payout over disgraced ex-sergeant who framed hundreds for drug crimes 09/25/2025 08:42pm • CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago City Council on Thursday unanimously approved a $90 million settlement for nearly 200 civil rights violations involving a notorious former police sergeant who framed people for drug crimes they didn't commit in one of the biggest police misconduct scandals in the city's Protesters in Mexico ram gates of military base to protest 43 students who disappeared 09/25/2025 07:11pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Protesters who want justice in the case of 43 students who disappeared in 2014 rammed the gates of a military base in Mexico City with a truck Thursday and set the vehicle on fire. The protest came on the eve of the anniversary of the disappearance of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teache Greenspan, Bernanke and Yellen urge Supreme Court to let Lisa Cook keep her job as a Fed governor 09/25/2025 03:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen and other former top economic officials appointed by presidents of both parties urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to preserve the Federal Reserve's political independence and allow Lisa Cook to remain as a central bank governor for now 'Palestinians will not leave,' their president tells world leaders at UN in defiant, virtual speech 09/25/2025 02:46pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Speaking over video after the United States denied his visa, the Palestinian leader told world leaders Thursday that his people reject the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and pledged that the militant group would have no role in governing the Gaza Strip after war ends and must ha Israel is increasingly being treated as a global pariah. It's shielded by Trump, for now 09/25/2025 12:53pm • When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses world leaders at the United Nations on Friday, it will be at the helm of a country that is increasingly being treated as a pariah, even by some of its longtime allies. Western countries are outraged by Israel's intensifying offensive in the Ga The Latest: 1 detainee killed and 2 critically injured after shooting at ICE facility 09/24/2025 09:58pm • A shooter with a rifle opened fire from a nearby roof onto a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement location in Dallas on Wednesday, killing one detainee and wounding two others before taking his own life, authorities said. The exact motivation of the attack was not immediately known. The FBI said Black pastors say Charlie Kirk is not a martyr, while decrying racism and political violence 09/24/2025 01:10pm • How Charlie Kirk is being memorialized — with many conservatives and white Christians, particularly evangelicals, emphasizing his faith and labeling him a martyr — has sparked debate among Black clergy, who are trying to square a heroic view of the 31-year-old with insulting statements about peo