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No sign of new protests in Iran as a hard-line cleric calls for executions and threatens Trump 01/16/2026 07:40pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� As Iran returned to uneasy calm after a wave of protests that drew a bloody crackdown, a senior hard-line cleric called Friday for the death penalty for detained demonstrators and directly threatened U.S. President Donald Trump ��� evidence of the rage gripping a Brazil���s Lula hails historic EU-Mercosur deal ahead of no-show at its signing 01/16/2026 07:35pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� Brazilian President Luiz In��cio Lula da Silva and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Friday celebrated the expected signing of the free trade agreement between the EU and four South American countries the following day at a ceremony that Lula will not atte All systems go for rollout of 11-million-pound stack containing rocket for Artemis II mission 01/16/2026 07:31pm • Hundreds of NASA employees and contractors are working the three-day holiday weekend in an effort to attempt something that hasn���t happened since December 1972: sending astronauts to the moon. During a news conference Friday, NASA officials said all systems are go, and the 11-million-pound Mother of Elon Musk's child sues his AI company over sexual deepfake images created by Grok 01/16/2026 07:01pm • The mother of one of Elon Musk's children is suing his AI company, saying its Grok chatbot allowed users to generate sexually exploitive deepfake images of her that have caused her humiliation and emotional distress. Ashley St. Clair, 27, who describes herself as a writer and political strategist, a White House names some leaders with roles in next steps in Gaza, while Palestinian committee meets 01/16/2026 06:59pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� The White House released the names of some of the leaders who will play a role in overseeing next steps in Gaza after the Palestinian committee set to govern the territory under U.S. supervision met for the first time Friday in Cairo. The committee's leader, Ali Shaath, an engineer an A mistakenly deported Babson College student tells AP how her life turned upside down 01/16/2026 06:35pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� As she sat on a deportation flight headed to Texas, Any Lucia Lopez Belloza kept asking herself why. She was a college student with no criminal record and no reason to believe she was at risk of being sent back to her native Honduras. ���It just shocked me. I don���t know, like I was Judge allows a third offshore wind project to resume construction as the industry challenges Trump 01/16/2026 06:32pm • A federal judge ruled Friday that work on a Virginia offshore wind project could resume, the third project this week to successfully challenge the Trump administration in court. The administration announced last month it was suspending leases for at least 90 days on five East Coast offshore wind pro 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 Golden Knights' Marner booed at home by Maple Leafs fans, setting stage for hostile trip to Toronto 01/16/2026 06:14pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� There were all sorts of signs this wasn't a typical January NHL game. Mitch Marner was featured prominently in the Golden Knights' pregame video, and when his picture was shown on the large video boards as Vegas' starting lineup was announced Thursday night, the large contingent o No. 1 Indiana looking for a storybook ending to complete this real-life Hollywood script at Miami 01/16/2026 06:09pm • Long before Angelo Pizzo penned the scripts for two of America's most iconic sports movies, he and his father would make the one-block walk from their home to Indiana's football stadium. The strolls home usually seemed to take a bit longer because even then, in 1955, losses were the norm. Eventually USWNT's Rose Lavelle and Lilly Reale earn US Soccer honors as best players of 2025 01/16/2026 06:05pm • National team midfielder Rose Lavelle has been named the 2025 U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year. Lavelle, who also plays for Gotham FC in the National Women's Soccer League, returned to the national team in June after recovering from ankle surgery and appeared in six matches with three goals an Trump isn't waiting for future generations to name things after him. It's happening now 01/16/2026 06:00pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Most American presidents aspire to the kind of greatness that prompts future generations to name important things in their honor. Donald Trump isn't leaving it to future generations. As the first year of his second term wraps up, his Republican administration and allies have put How the Trump administration erased centuries of Justice Department experience 01/16/2026 05:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Michael Ben'Ary was driving one of his children to soccer practice on an October evening last year when he paused at a red light to check his work phone. He was in the middle of a counterterrorism prosecution so important that President Donald Trump highlighted it in his address The Education Department is opening fewer sexual violence investigations as Trump dismantles it 01/16/2026 05:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Before President Donald Trump's administration started dismantling the Education Department, the agency served as a powerful enforcer in cases of sexual violence at schools and universities. It brought the weight of the government against schools that mishandled sexual assault co National Guard troops to stay on Washington, DC, streets through 2026 01/16/2026 05:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� National Guard troops will be on the streets of Washington, D.C., until the end of the year, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press. The memo, signed by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and dated Wednesday, said ���the conditions of the mission��� warranted an extension