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Prosecutors already have dropped nearly a dozen cases from Trump's DC crime surge, judge says 09/17/2025 12:18am • WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 50 people have faced federal charges in Washington, D.C., since President Donald Trump’s emergency law-and-order surge began last month. Already, prosecutors have dropped at least 11 of those cases, an unusually high collapse rate that judges say is wasting court reso UN commission of inquiry accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza and urges global action 09/16/2025 09:27pm • GENEVA (AP) — A team of independent experts commissioned by the United Nations' Human Rights Council has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, issuing a report Tuesday that calls on the international community to end the genocide and act to punish those responsible for it. The deep Suspect left note saying he planned to kill Charlie Kirk, later confessed in texts, prosecutor says 09/16/2025 09:16pm • PROVO, Utah (AP) — Prosecutors brought a murder charge Tuesday against the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk and outlined evidence, including a text message confession to his partner and a note left beforehand saying he had the opportunity to kill one of the nation’s leading conservative FBI Director Kash Patel clashes with skeptical Democrats at contentious Senate hearing 09/16/2025 09:12pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Kash Patel clashed with skeptical Democrats at a contentious Senate oversight hearing Tuesday, defending his record amid criticism that he has politicized the nation's premier federal law enforcement agency and pursued retribution against perceived adversaries of Pre The Latest: FBI Director Kash Patel clashes with Democrats at congressional hearing 09/16/2025 08:48pm • FBI Director Kash Patel clashed with skeptical Democrats at a contentious Senate oversight hearing Tuesday, defending his record amid criticism that he has politicized the nation’s premier federal law enforcement agency and pursued retribution against perceived adversaries of President Donald Trum ICE crackdowns intensify across Boston as sanctuary cities face Trump’s latest operation 09/16/2025 04:44pm • BOSTON (AP) — Immigrants are being detained while going to work, outside courthouses, and at store parking lots in Metro Boston as President Donald Trump targets so-called sanctuary cities in his effort to ramp up immigration enforcement. As families hole up in homes — afraid to leave and risk d ‘Big, beautiful bill’ fallout: At forum, Spanberger and Earle-Sears clash over Medicaid 09/16/2025 04:24pm • Virginia Republican gubernatorial hopeful Winsome Earle-Sears downplayed possible cuts to health care caused by President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” Monday evening in a rare face-off with her rival, Democrat Abigail Spanberger, ahead of this fall’s statewide elections. Speaking The Latest: Israeli strikes pummel Gaza City as a new ground offensive gets underway 09/16/2025 03:55pm • Palestinian residents reported heavy strikes across Gaza City on Tuesday and Israel’s defense minister said “Gaza is burning” as a new Israeli ground offensive targeted the city. Israel had been pounding the city with airstrikes in the lead-up to the operation. At least 69 Palestinians have be Why prosecutors charged Luigi Mangione with terrorism and a judge said no 09/16/2025 02:09pm • NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors tried to use a 9/11-era terrorism law in their case against Luigi Mangione. But a judge ruled Tuesday that the state anti-terror statute doesn't apply to the killing of UnitedHealthcare's chief executive on a midtown Manhattan street last year. The judge let m Senate Democrats raise concerns over Pentagon plan to use military lawyers as immigration judges 09/16/2025 01:13pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Democratic senators say they are deeply concerned that a Pentagon plan to allow military lawyers to work as temporary immigration judges will violate a ban on using service members for law enforcement and affect the military justice system. The letter, sent to the military s Waldorf man sentenced in fatal shooting of girlfriend's husband 09/16/2025 12:44pm • A Waldorf man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for the 2022 killing of his girlfriend's husband, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for D.C. On Dec. 5, 2022, prosecutors said Keyon Slaughter, now 28, shot and killed Dana Bailey Jr. in Bailey's apartment in Southeast D.C., fled the sc US designates Colombia as failing to cooperate in the drug war for first time in nearly 30 years 09/16/2025 12:54am • MIAMI (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday added Colombia to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war for the first time in almost 30 years, a stinging rebuke to a traditional U.S. ally that reflects a recent surge in cocaine production and fraying ties between the White House a Japan and South Korea show enduring rift over sexual slavery issue in letters to UN 09/15/2025 09:25pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japan’s government on Monday defended its stance on wartime sexual slavery and described South Korean court rulings ordering Japanese compensation as violations of international law, after U.N. investigators criticized Tokyo for failing to ensure truth-finding and repar Appeals court rules felony offenders can't be prosecuted for voting unlawfully by mistake 09/15/2025 02:19pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that a North Carolina law that made it a crime for felony offenders who vote before they have completed their sentences without knowing they were breaking the law is unconstitutional. A panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday Blame game after acts of political violence can lead to further attacks, experts warn 09/14/2025 11:49am • DENVER (AP) — From the moment conservative activist and icon Charlie Kirk was felled by an assassin’s bullet, partisans began fighting over which side was to blame. President Donald Trump became the most prominent to do so, tying the attack to “the radical left” before a suspect was even ide