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Colombian ex-leader known for contentious war on rebels pays tribute to slain presidential hopeful 08/23/2025 03:49pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe on Saturday paid tribute to slain presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay at a Bogotá park where he was gunned down, calling for a stronger security crackdown as violence surges nationwide. The 39-year-old politician was shot in th Railroad companies fail to join safety program after toxic Ohio derailment 08/23/2025 12:52pm • Two and a half years after a derailed train spewed toxic gases across eastern Ohio, none of the nation’s largest freight railroads have fulfilled promises to join a voluntary federal close call program designed to reduce rail hazards and prevent accidents. Two railroads — BNSF and Norfolk Southe Weekly breakdown: How much control does President Trump have over DC police? 08/23/2025 12:24pm • It's the second full week of a federal law enforcement surge ordered in D.C. by the administration of President Donald Trump and it's still only just the beginning. This week has seen everything from a Humvee crushing a commercial vehicle, to "Biggest Loser" trainer Jillian Michaels igniting a fires Meet the officer behind Fairfax Co. police’s viral ‘Tappy’ social media videos 08/23/2025 05:08am • Fairfax County police's social and public affairs division was struck by a recent social media trend they came across while monitoring it for relevant information. Other police agencies had been using a pointer stick to highlight key moments in an officers’ dash camera footage in the seconds be Lyle and Erik Menendez have been denied parole. What to know about their case 08/22/2025 11:39pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lyle Menendez was denied parole Friday, a day after his younger brother Erik received the same recommendation by a California state board. Their separate hearings this week come nearly 30 years after the brothers were convicted of first-degree murder for the 1989 killings of the Rural Colorado mourns 6 who died from suspected gas exposure at dairy farm 08/22/2025 11:14pm • Six workers who died in what authorities suspect was exposure to gas at a dairy farm include a 50-year-old father and two sons, an incident that left rural Colorado communities in mourning. Weld County Chief Deputy Coroner Jolene Weiner on Friday confirmed the identities of the deceased — all Hisp ‘Militarization of politics’: How bucolic Bethesda woke up to FBI search on John Bolton 08/22/2025 07:55pm • (CNN) — Robert Hill called in sick to work when he heard about what was happening in his Bethesda, Maryland neighborhood. Every major cable news network was broadcasting from a house just a few streets away, but Hill had to see it for himself. When he got to the street where President Donald Tr Lawyers for wife of former US Sen. Bob Menendez request 1-year prison sentence 08/22/2025 06:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for the wife of former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez say she should be sentenced to a year and a day in prison rather than the eight years recommended by the federal court’s probation office for her conviction on bribery charges. Nadine Menendez, 58, is scheduled to be sentenced Kilmar Abrego Garcia is freed from Tennessee jail so he can rejoin family in Maryland to await trial 08/22/2025 05:34pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia was released from jail in Tennessee on Friday so he can rejoin his family in Maryland while awaiting trial on human smuggling charges. The Salvadoran national’s case became a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda after he was mis Judge blocks Rick Ware Racing from selling NASCAR team amid charter dispute 08/22/2025 05:34pm • DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A North Carolina judge on Friday granted Legacy Motor Club a preliminary injunction blocking Rick Ware from selling his NASCAR team during a battle over one of his charters. Legacy and Rick Ware Racing agreed earlier this year that Ware would sell one of his two Cup Seri Erin weakens to post-tropical cyclone, moving out to sea as it batters East Coast with wind, waves 08/22/2025 05:15pm • RODANTHE, N.C. (AP) — Strong winds and waves battered Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard and dangerous rip currents threatened from the Carolinas to New England as Hurricane Erin made its way farther out to sea. The storm was forecast to cause possible coastal flooding into the weekend along the Ea Deadly attacks in Colombia cast a shadow on the president's peace-with-guerrillas policy 08/22/2025 04:49pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's anti-government guerrillas have grown stronger under President Gustavo Petro’s three years in office. That strength was on display in brazen attacks this week that included a car bombing and the downing of a police helicopter — violence that left at least 19 Being Muslim and American in the nation's heartland 08/22/2025 04:42pm • CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — The oldest surviving place of worship for Muslims in the United States is a white clapboard building on a grassy corner plot, as unassumingly Midwestern as its neighboring houses in Cedar Rapids – except for a dome. The descendants of the Lebanese immigrants who constru NASCAR's Daytona race to finalize playoff lineup with 2 spots up for grabs 08/22/2025 03:11pm • DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — NASCAR returns to Daytona International Speedway to finalize its 16-car playoff lineup, with two spots up for grabs and a win-and-you’re-in opportunity for any driver yet to visit victory lane this season. Tyler Reddick and Alex Bowman hold the final two tenuous positi Powell signals Fed may cut rates soon even as inflation risks remain 08/22/2025 02:57pm • JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday opened the door ever so slightly to lowering a key interest rate in the coming months but gave no hint on the timing of a move and suggested the central bank will proceed cautiously as it continues to evaluate the impact of ta