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Lawyers ask judge to order ICE to free Spanish-language journalist from immigration detention 08/21/2025 01:37pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for a Spanish-language journalist who has been held in federal immigration detention since June argue in a court filing that the government is retaliating against him for his news coverage and is holding him in violation of his constitutional rights. Local police in DeKalb C Reporter says former aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams gave her a chip bag filled with cash 08/20/2025 11:02pm • A longtime adviser to New York City Mayor Eric Adams who resigned from his administration while under FBI scrutiny gave a reporter a potato chip bag filled with cash Wednesday following a campaign event, a gift her lawyer later insisted wasn’t an attempted bribe. The local news site The City repor The Latest: Texas House approves new congressional maps that favor GOP in 2026 midterms 08/20/2025 09:37pm • The Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives passed Wednesday a redrawn congressional map that creates up to five new winnable GOP seats in Congress, further deepening a national redistricting battle between states. Republicans want to make it easier for the GOP to hold on to its slim U. Mayor says there's no 'federal takeover' as National Guard troops expand in DC 08/20/2025 05:51pm • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser took exception to a reporter's reference to the increased federal presence in the District as a "takeover" and told a reporter, "There has been no takeover." But when asked about the increase in the number of National Guard troops in the District Wednesday, she said, "I d US attorney will no longer bring felony charges against people for carrying rifles or shotguns in DC 08/20/2025 03:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors in the nation's capital will no longer bring felony charges against people for possessing rifles or shotguns in the District of Columbia, according to a new policy adopted by the leader of the nation’s largest U.S. attorney’s office. That office will co US sanctions more ICC judges, prosecutors for probes into alleged American, Israeli war crimes 08/20/2025 01:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is ramping up pressure on the International Criminal Court for pursuing investigations into U.S. and Israeli officials for alleged war crimes. The State Department on Wednesday announced new sanctions on four ICC officials, including two judges and two pr Book Review: 'High Season' is a twisty thriller about the murder of a teenage girl in paradise 08/20/2025 11:15am • Katie Bishop finds heart and poignancy at the center of her artfully crafted thriller, “High Season,” setting it apart from other by-the-numbers beach reads. At the center of the story is Nina Drayton, who, 20 years ago at age 5, was the sole witness to the murder of her sister, Tamara, by Josie Villagers offer harrowing accounts of one of the deadliest attacks in Sudan's civil war 08/20/2025 06:00am • CAIRO (AP) — When Ahlam Saeed awoke last month to the sound of gunfire and roaring vehicle motors, the 43-year-old widow rushed outside her home in war-torn Sudan to find a line of at least two dozen vehicles, many of them motorcycles carrying armed fighters. “They were firing at everything and White House says many arrests are being made in DC's Wards 7 and 8 08/20/2025 05:07am • The White House is pushing back against criticism that the federal takeover of D.C.'s police department, along with the growing number of National Guard personnel, is not focusing enough on the high-crime areas of D.C. Democratic members of Congress, as well as community activists, have accused P Abrego Garcia's lawyers want smuggling charges dismissed on grounds of 'vindictive prosecution' 08/19/2025 10:59pm • Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia asked a federal judge on Tuesday to dismiss a human smuggling case against him, saying the government was prosecuting the Maryland construction worker to punish him for challenging his removal to El Salvador. Their motion filed in court said attempts to dismiss indic The Latest: Trump says no to US troops in Ukraine 08/19/2025 06:49pm • President Donald Trump on Tuesday offered his assurances that U.S. troops would not be sent to Ukraine to defend against Russia, after seeming to leave open the possibility the day before. Trump also said in a morning TV interview that Ukraine’s hopes of joining NATO and regaining the Crimean Peni Trump's Justice Department is investigating whether DC police officials falsified crime data 08/19/2025 04:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether police officials in Washington, D.C., have falsified data to make crime rates appear lower than they are, according to two people familiar with the probe who weren't authorized to publicly discuss an open investigati Trump's Justice Department is investigating whether DC police officials falsified crime data, AP source says 08/19/2025 02:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump's Justice Department is investigating whether DC police officials falsified crime data, AP source says. Kohberger's sexist, creepy behavior alarmed university faculty and students before Idaho murders 08/18/2025 08:13pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Bryan Kohberger developed a reputation for being sexist and creepy while attending a criminal justice program in the months before he killed four University of Idaho students in 2022, fellow grad students told investigators. His behavior was so problematic that one Washington 20 states and DC sue DOJ to stop immigration requirements on victim funds 08/18/2025 04:37pm • A coalition of attorneys general from 20 states and Washington, D.C., is asking a federal judge to stop the U.S. Department of Justice from withholding federal funds earmarked for crime victims if states don't cooperate with the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts. The lawsuit fil