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'Bizarre nightmare': DC judges react to cases from Trump's DC federal intervention 08/29/2025 02:51pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A grand jury refused to indict a man who was captured on video hurling a sandwich at a federal agent. Prosecutors dropped another case after complaints that police illegally searched a man’s satchel and found a gun. Judges, too, have balked at keeping several defendants in jail Abrego Garcia's lawyers seek gag order on Trump administration officials after perp walk video 08/29/2025 12:36pm • Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national who was erroneously deported to El Salvador earlier this year, have asked a federal judge to order Trump administration officials to stop making negative comments about him that they say could jeopardize his right to a fair trial on human s Abrego Garcia's lawyers worry he can't get a fair trial and request gag order for top US officials 08/29/2025 12:12pm • Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia say they are concerned he can't get a fair trial in his human smuggling case because Trump administration officials keep attacking him with “highly prejudicial, inflammatory, and false statements.” The attorneys are asking a federal judge in Tennessee to order U. Trump suggests more US cities need National Guard but crime stats tell a different story 08/29/2025 11:07am • President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, New York, Seattle, Baltimore, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, to fight what he says is runaway crime. Yet data shows most violent crime in those places and around the country has declined in recent years. Homicides th 'This can be replicated': White House touts 30% drop in DC crime as mayor says federal surge is helping 08/29/2025 08:02am • President Donald Trump's law enforcement surge is helping combat crime in D.C., as recent White House figures indicate a notable drop. Numbers released by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday indicate that total crime in the nation's capital is down by 19%, as violent crimes s Canada and India name new top envoys as they restore relations after a dispute 08/28/2025 09:32pm • OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — India and Canada named new high commissioners to each other's capitals Thursday as they restored relations 10 months after expelling the top envoys in a dispute over an alleged political assassination. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Christopher Cooter will be Cana New trial ordered for 3 Memphis ex-officers in connection with the beating death of Tyre Nichols 08/28/2025 08:32pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A judge ordered a new trial Thursday for three former Memphis police officers who were convicted of federal charges in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, after defense lawyers argued that another judge who presided over their trial was biased in his belief that at least one o The Latest: RFK Jr. adviser will serve as acting CDC leader after director’s firing, AP source says 08/28/2025 07:14pm • Jim O’Neill, a top deputy to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will serve as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official who requested anonymity to discuss a personnel change that has not been formally announced. The director of Prosecutors suddenly drop case against Miami attorney accused of bribing DEA agents 08/28/2025 04:42pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors have agreed to drop criminal charges against a prominent Miami defense attorney accused of orchestrating a bribery conspiracy involving two former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration supervisors who leaked confidential information. Charges will be dismissed against Dav Brazil's crackdown on criminal links to fuel supply chain nets $220M in assets 08/28/2025 04:33pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil on Thursday said it seized 1.2 billion reais (about $220 million) in assets linked to a sprawling criminal network as part of a nationwide investigation into a money laundering scheme involving investment funds and the fuel sector. Officials executed 14 search and seizure w A 'sea war' brews off Gambia as desperate local fishermen attack foreign vessels, and each other 08/28/2025 02:15pm • BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — Kawsu Leigh writhed in pain on the fishing boat, his burned skin as mottled as the paint on the deck beneath him. Raw and slick, the burns covered large parts of his upper body. His day began as normal, with a shift on one of the foreign-owned vessels that carry out commercia ‘Living in this terror’: DC mayor shares message to anxious residents during law enforcement surge 08/28/2025 04:11am • As President Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge approaches the end of its third week, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is working to quell the fear and anxiety it has created for some city residents. In one case, The Associated Press reported, officers made an arrest in the Mount Pleasant neighborhoo Former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez pleads guilty to campaign finance violation 08/27/2025 10:48pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez pleaded guilty Wednesday to a campaign finance violation in a federal case that authorities say also involved a former FBI agent and a Venezuelan banker. Vázquez, an attorney, became the U.S. territory’s first former governor t The Latest: Trump effort to control US capital expands to Union Station 08/27/2025 10:02pm • As President Donald Trump asserts his power to control the nation’s capital, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that his department will manage Union Station, taking control away from Amtrak. Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, now the face of Trump’s hardline immigration agen Woman seeks compensation from South Korea over her forced adoption to France in 1984 08/27/2025 06:33pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A 52-year-old woman who was adopted to a French family in 1984 without her biological parents’ consent has filed for compensation from South Korea’s government, citing how authorities at the time fraudulently documented her as an orphan although she had a family. The