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Former congressional staffer from Maryland charged with stealing 240 government cellphones 01/19/2026 11:07am • A former congressional staffer from Glen Burnie, Maryland, is accused of stealing 240 government cellphones from the U.S. House of Representatives. Christopher Southerland, 43, was arrested earlier this month and charged with stealing cellphones worth more than $150,000, according to a news relea Five face trial in Peru in rare prosecution over the killing of an Amazon defender 01/19/2026 10:21am • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The trial is due to start Tuesday for five men over the killing of an Indigenous Amazon leader, in a rare legal case that prosecutors and advocates say could test whether Peru can hold perpetrators accountable for violence linked to illegal logging and drug trafficking in o AP obtains documents showing Venezuelan leader Delcy Rodríguez has been on DEA's radar for years 01/17/2026 04:59pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump announced the audacious capture of Nicolás Maduro to face drug trafficking charges in the U.S., he portrayed the strongman’s vice president and longtime aide as America’s preferred partner to stabilize Venezuela amid a scourge of drugs, corruption The Latest: Trump thanks Iran for halting executions as allies discourage US from striking 01/16/2026 09:10pm • President Donald Trump took the unusual step on Friday of thanking the Iranian government for not following through on executions of what he said was meant to be hundreds of political prisoners. “Iran canceled the hanging of over 800 people,” Trump told reporters while leaving the White House to Man found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in 2021 death of San Francisco Thai grandfather 01/16/2026 06:28pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of an older Thai man whose 2021 killing in San Francisco helped spark a national movement against anti-Asian American violence. A jury did not find Antoine Watson, 24, guilty of murder when it returned a ver DC man gets 40 years for 'sadistic' killing of Virginia woman 01/16/2026 04:53pm • It has taken nearly three years for an Arlington, Virginia, family to get justice in the murder of their loved one at a Northeast D.C. motel in 2023. It was back in April 2023 that 31-year-old Christy Bautista was stabbed over 30 times, her body battered by 46-year-old George Sydnor. During h Trump to pardon ex-Puerto Rico governor Vázquez in campaign finance case, official says 01/16/2026 03:09pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to pardon former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez, a White House official said Friday. Vázquez pleaded guilty last August to a campaign finance violation in a federal case that authorities say also involved a former FBI agent and a Venezuelan banker. Trump says he wants to keep Hassett in White House, clouding Fed chair selection 01/16/2026 02:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday said he would like to keep his top economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, at the White House rather than potentially nominate him to replace Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve. “I actually want to keep you where you are, if you want to kno FACT FOCUS: Former Proud Boys leader falsely identified as an ICE officer 01/16/2026 02:15pm • As protests continue in Minneapolis after the fatal shooting of Renee Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, social media users are falsely claiming that Enrique Tarrio, a former Proud Boys leader, is working for the federal agency. President Donald Trump pardoned Tarrio in a sw At top UN court, Myanmar denies deadly Rohingya campaign amounts to genocide 01/16/2026 08:45am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Myanmar insisted Friday that its deadly military campaign against the Rohingya ethnic minority was a legitimate counter-terrorism operation and did not amount to genocide, as it defended itself at the top United Nations court against an allegation of breaching the gen Criminal investigation raises key question: Whether Chair Powell leaves Fed in May 01/16/2026 12:01am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department’s investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has brought heightened attention to a key drama that will play out at the central bank in the coming months: Will Powell leave the Fed when his term as chair ends, or will he take the unusual step o Brazil's Supreme Court moves Bolsonaro to larger cell with outdoor area 01/15/2026 05:52pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court Justice on Thursday ordered the transfer of former President Jair Bolsonaro from the federal police headquarters in Brasilia to a much bigger cell with an outside area in the Papuda Penitentiary Complex, also in the capital. The transfer was describe What to know about UK legal changes aiming to regulate AI-generated nude images 01/15/2026 01:14pm • LONDON (AP) — Laws that will make it illegal to create online sexual images of someone without their consent are coming into force soon in the U.K., officials said Thursday, following a global backlash over the use of Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok to make sexualized deepfakes of House GOP's new Jan. 6 committee questions what happened that day 01/14/2026 08:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — One week after the nation marked the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, the history of what happened that day is being reconsidered, revised and reassessed by the party in power. The House GOP's new Select Committee on the Jan. 6 attack held its first hearing Julio Iglesias accused of sexual assault in Caribbean as Spanish prosecutors study the allegations 01/14/2026 08:13pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish prosecutors are studying allegations that Grammy-winning singer Julio Iglesias sexually assaulted two former employees at his residences in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas. The Spanish prosecutors’ office told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the alle