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Argentina searches for a painting allegedly looted by a Nazi fugitive and spotted in an ad 08/27/2025 06:28pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine authorities said Wednesday they were pressing their search for a 18th-century Italian portrait believed to have been looted 80 years ago from a Jewish collector by a fugitive Nazi officer who settled in Argentina after World War II. The federal public prose Trump's push to oust Fed's Lisa Cook unites anti-DEI effort, bid to control independent institutions 08/27/2025 06:25pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's vow to fire Lisa Cook, an economist who is the first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve's board of governors, kicked off another tense debate and likely legal battle over a major institution's independence. It also marks another potential high-pr Editorial Roundup: United States 08/26/2025 10:44pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Aug. 26 The Washington Post on the precedent of politicizing the Federal Reserve It’s not hard to find mistakes in the Federal Reserve’s recent history, but Donald Trump’s latest attempt to erode the institution’s independe Local DC cases are landing in federal courts. A judge says the results are problematic 08/26/2025 08:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Citing “the most illegal search I have ever seen in my life,” a magistrate judge is upbraiding the federal government for the way it has handled arrests in the District of Columbia this month and says the possible effects — violations of rights and the potential for illicit Trump’s threat to deploy troops to Chicago sparks fear and defiance in a city on edge 08/26/2025 06:44pm • CHICAGO (AP) — President Donald Trump's threats to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago sent ripples through America's third-largest city as many residents defended their home against Trump's escalating rhetoric toward its violent crime, including claims it is a “killing field.” The threat The Latest: Fed governor to sue Trump, saying he can't legally fire her 08/26/2025 05:49pm • Financial markets worldwide have been rattled by President Donald Trump's announcement that he's firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, an unprecedented move and sharp escalation in his effort to exert greater control over what has long been considered an institution independent from day-to-day Trump's order on flag burning could return the question to the Supreme Court 08/26/2025 04:21pm • The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that if it were up to him, he would jail “every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag,” But the Constitution, the conservative hero noted in 2015, protects flag-burning as a form of free speech. And importantly: “I Democratic governors look to derail Trump's plan to send National Guard to Chicago and other cities 08/26/2025 03:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — JB Pritzker took a water taxi along the Chicago Riverwalk, past one of Donald Trump’s famous downtown towers. The gleaming and heavily trafficked tourist district was a deliberate backdrop on the day the Illinois governor directed a defiant message toward the White House: “Mr Men charged with hugging and kissing are among group publicly caned by Indonesian Islamic court 08/26/2025 07:37am • BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Two men in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were among a group of people publicly caned on Tuesday after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them of violating Islamic law by hugging and kissing, which the court ruled can lead to banned sexual relations. An audie The Latest: Trump fires Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook amid mortgage fraud allegations 08/25/2025 09:19pm • President Donald Trump says he’s firing Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, amid mortgage fraud allegations, opening a new front in the fight over America’s central bank. The president’s announcement came Monday night, days after Cook said she wouldn’t leave he What one expert says makes the deployment of the National Guard into DC different from other deployments 08/25/2025 09:01pm • The federal law enforcement surge in D.C. continues, and with new executive orders, President Donald Trump may be indicating that the deployment to fight crime could remain in the nation’s capital and soon stretch into other American cities. The White House declared a crime emergency in D.C. du Trump signs executive orders to end cashless bail in D.C. and ban flag burning 08/25/2025 07:10pm • ▶ Watch Video: Understanding cashless bail amid Trump's calls for its elimination Washington — President Trump on Monday signed an executive order to push Washington, D.C., and other localities to end cashless bail for arrested suspects, threatening Sole survivor of Australian mushroom poisoning grieves loss of wife and friends 08/25/2025 05:24pm • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The sole survivor of a deadly lunch laced with toxic mushrooms in Australia said on Monday he felt only half alive following the death of his wife and he continued to grieve the loss of his two closest friends. Ian Wilkinson read the first victim impact statement at a s What to know about Charles Kushner, the US diplomat summoned to Paris over Macron letter 08/25/2025 04:28pm • Paris' summoning of U.S. Ambassador to France Charles Kushner, following his allegations that the country had not done enough to combat antisemitism, indicates its formal displeasure with the diplomat. But Kushner — the father of Jared Kushner, son-in-law to President Donald Trump — did not resp What to know about cashless bail after Trump's executive order 08/25/2025 03:24pm • President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday threatening to withhold or revoke federal funding to local and state governments that offer cashless bail, arguing that it is a threat to public safety. “No cash. Come back in a couple of months, we'll give you a trial. You never see the p