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Accused militant is taken into custody in the deadly 2012 Benghazi attack 02/06/2026 03:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� An alleged participant in the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, has been taken into custody to face prosecution for the rampage that killed four Americans and emerged as a divisive political issue, the Justice Department said Friday. Zubayar Al-Bakoush, Leadership changes in Minnesota follow tensions among agencies over immigration enforcement tactics 02/06/2026 01:24pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� White House border czar Tom Homan's announcement that enforcement in Minnesota was being unified under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement followed months of internal grumbling and infighting among agencies about how to carry out President Donald Trump's mass deportation cam In Minnesota, sending a child to school is an act of faith for immigrant families 02/06/2026 12:59pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� In some ways, 10-year-old Giancarlo is one of the lucky ones. He still goes to school. Each morning, he and his family bundle up and leave their Minneapolis apartment to wait for his bus. His little brother hefts on his backpack, even though he stopped going to day care weeks ag 'Mountains of ice': Leftovers from winter storm continue to slow travel for DC-area commutes 02/06/2026 12:56pm • Lots of commutes have been longer than usual in the D.C. region since a winter storm dropped snow and sleet nearly two weeks ago, leaving behind thick ice on roadways. Among those drivers spending some extra time on the road is a commuter who takes the Beltway; she said ice is covering the lanes This year���s Super Bowl commercials feature AI, weight-loss drugs and celebrities galore 02/06/2026 12:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� As Super Bowl Sunday approaches, the battle off the field for advertisers to win over 120 million-plus viewers will be just as heated as the rivalry between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks. Dozens of advertisers are pulling out all the stops for Super Bowl 60, airing Facing high Trump tariffs, Africa's leading economy says it's close to a new trade deal with China 02/06/2026 11:20am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ��� China and South Africa signed a framework agreement for a new trade deal on Friday as Africa's leading economy looks to other options following the high import tariffs imposed on it by the U.S. and its diplomatic fallout with the Trump administration. South Africa's The US said a Marine could not adopt an Afghan girl. Records show officials helped him get her 02/06/2026 09:43am • The judge wanted everyone in the courtroom to know that when he���d signed a war orphan over to an American Marine he thought it was an emergency ��� that the child injured on the battlefield in Afghanistan was on death���s door, with neither a family nor a country to claim her. A lawyer for the fed NASCAR Hall of Famer Tony Stewart is back at Daytona. This time, Smoke is bringing his family 02/06/2026 09:22am • Tony Stewart gave a shoutout to his bachelor days when he was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. He thanked ���all the girlfriends��� in that early 2020 speech that were along for the ride with him as he grew from Indiana dirt racer to a three-time Cup champion and eventually a successful NASCAR A deputy chief of Russia's military intelligence service is shot and wounded in Moscow 02/06/2026 08:48am • MOSCOW (AP) ��� A deputy chief of Russia's military intelligence agency was shot and wounded in Moscow on Friday in an attack that follows a series of assassinations of senior military officers that Russia has blamed on Ukraine. Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev was hospitalized after being shot several t Some DC-area residents are taking dramatic steps to ���reserve��� their parking spots 02/06/2026 08:40am • It���s been nearly two weeks since the snow and sleet storm came through the D.C. region, causing traffic problems, school closures and delays that are still lingering. As part of the cleanup process, cities have plowed public roads and families had to clear the ���snowcrete��� mixture from the a Takeaways from AP's report on a woman whose body was among 189 left to decay in a funeral home 02/06/2026 05:47am • COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) ��� A Colorado funeral home owner will be sentenced Friday for stashing nearly 200 decaying human bodies in an office building over four years. One of the bodies was the mother of Derrick Johnson. The 45-year-old learned from the FBI that the ashes he had buried behind h Is Mazda's mini-SUV too small or just right? 02/06/2026 04:22am • It���s been a few weeks since I’ve had a cement gray car in the driveway. This week’s example is an “Aero Gray” Mazda: the CX���30 SUV, which is called “compact” by Mazda and “subcompact” by others. This one is the Turbo Aire Edition, which features bl Freight train derails in Connecticut, sending cars carrying liquid propane into river 02/05/2026 10:02pm • MANSFIELD, Conn. (AP) ��� A freight train derailed Thursday in Connecticut, sending cars carrying flammable liquid propane into the water, though officials say they don't appear to be leaking. Local and state officials said the derailment happened around 9 a.m. in Mansfield, near where Eagleville L Storm Leonardo slams Spain and Portugal, leaving 1 dead and a girl missing 02/05/2026 08:44pm • MADRID (AP) ��� A man died from rising floodwaters in Portugal, while a girl remained missing after she was swept away by a swollen river in Spain as Storm Leonardo brought more heavy rain and winds Thursday to the Iberian Peninsula. In Spain's southern Andalusia region, close to 4,000 people evacua The highlight of Super Bowl 60 may not come from the game itself 02/05/2026 05:44pm • If you don't tune into the Super Bowl performances and commercials in between the plays, this may be a great year to start. A big reason has to do with the halftime show, during which Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny is set to sing entirely in Spanish. He'll be the first solo headliner to do that