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Wildfires race across Chile, leaving 18 dead and forcing thousands to flee 01/18/2026 10:35pm • PENCO, Chile (AP) — Wildfires raging across central and southern Chile on Sunday left at least 18 people dead, scorched thousands of acres of forest and destroyed hundreds of homes, authorities said, as the South American country swelters under a heat wave. Chilean President Gabriel Boric declare 'A great start': Montgomery Co. firefighter helps woman pregnant with twins deliver baby on side of I-270 01/18/2026 03:14pm • A Montgomery County firefighter helped a local woman pregnant with twins deliver a baby girl Friday morning while parked on the side of I-270 in Rockville after she and her husband were unable to get to the hospital in time, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service (MCFRS) spokesperson David Pazos Justice Department investigating whether Minnesota's Walz and Frey impeded immigration enforcement 01/18/2026 01:56pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Justice Department is investigating whether Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have impeded federal immigration enforcement through public statements they have made, two people familiar with the matter said Friday. The investigation, which both Walz an Video shows fires in Palestinian village in West Bank during Israeli settler attack 01/18/2026 12:23pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli settlers rampaged through a Palestinian village in the West Bank, setting fire to a series of structures, according to security camera footage obtained by The Associated Press on Sunday, in an overnight onslaught that has become a common phenomenon in the occupied territor Counterprotesters chase off conservative influencer during Minneapolis immigration crackdown 01/18/2026 11:21am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Hundreds of counterprotesters drowned out a far-right activist’s attempt to hold a small rally in support of the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown in Minneapolis on Saturday, as the governor’s office announced that National Guard troops were mobilized and Ice dancer Allison Reed returns to Olympics after 16 years, skating for Lithuania 01/18/2026 04:10am • From being treated like “cattle” as a young girl to sleeping in her car off a Polish highway, Allison Reed has taken a long, hard road to follow her Olympic ice dance dream. Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Reed has traveled the world just for a chance to compete. After representing Georgia and Isra European Union and Mercosur bloc of South American nations sign landmark free trade agreement 01/17/2026 08:25pm • ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — The European Union and the Mercosur bloc of South American countries formally signed a long-sought free trade agreement on Saturday, strengthening commercial ties in the face of rising protectionism and trade tensions around the world. The signing ceremony in Paraguay’s Trump's Twin Cities immigration crackdown has made chaos and tension the new normal 01/17/2026 06:24pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Work starts around sunrise for many of the federal officers carrying out the immigration crackdown in and around the Twin Cities, with hundreds of people in tactical gear emerging from a bland office building near the main airport. Within minutes, hulking SUVs, pickup trucks and Why US cities are reverting 1-way streets back to their original 2-way design 01/17/2026 12:05pm • Excessive speeding was so common on parallel one-way streets passing a massive electronics plant that Indianapolis residents used to refer to the pair as a “racetrack” akin to the city's famous Motor Speedway a few miles west. Originally two-way thoroughfares, Michigan and New York streets switc Benavides rides to smallest Dakar Rally win margin and Al-Attiyah confirms sixth car title 01/17/2026 11:45am • YANBU, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Luciano Benavides exploited a navigation blunder by Ricky Brabec minutes from the finish of the Dakar Rally to sensationally win the motorbike title on Saturday by two seconds — the smallest margin ever. Meanwhile, Nasser Al-Attiyah safely secured his sixth car title o Car chase across Northern Virginia ends with driver in custody, Va. trooper with minor injuries 01/17/2026 10:09am • A chaotic two‑county pursuit that stretched across Northern Virginia ended Friday afternoon with a driver in jail and a Virginia State Police trooper recovering from minor injuries. Matthew Demlein, a spokesman for the Virginia State Police, told WTOP that the incident started at about 3 p.m. Climate activist predicts high electricity prices and Trump's attacks on green energy will hurt GOP 01/17/2026 09:12am • RIPTON, Vermont (AP) — At a time when the Trump administration rolled back numerous environmental regulations while global temperatures and U.S. carbon pollution spiked, longtime climate activist Bill McKibben finds hope in something that didn't seem that strong on a recent single-digit-temperatur Trump's protectionist trade policies allow China to swoop in 01/17/2026 06:00am • WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s top trading partners are responding to President Donald Trump’s belligerent and unpredictable trade policies by trying to take their business elsewhere. Canada broke with the United States Friday, slashing its 100% import tax on Chinese electric vehicles in return f Analysis: Canada's leader leaves China pronouncing success, but Trump lurks in the background 01/17/2026 04:34am • BEIJING (AP) — Canadian leader Mark Carney met China's Xi Jinping this week. The two statesmen talked. Fractured relationships began to heal. And a third man, though he wasn't in the room, nevertheless made his presence clearly known: Donald Trump. The American president — his policies, his appr 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