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GOP lawmakers both critical and cordial with Charlotte leaders after high-profile crime 02/09/2026 10:31pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican lawmakers pressed Charlotte-area leaders on Monday about crime-fighting efforts following recent light-rail stabbings in the Democratic-led city, with a committee head citing failures in carrying out criminal justice functions. The August fatal stabbi China critic and former media tycoon Jimmy Lai is sentenced to 20 years in a Hong Kong security case 02/09/2026 07:32pm • HONG KONG (AP) — Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison in the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city’s dissent. Lai, 78, wa Gabbard's office warns attorney against sharing classified complaint with Congress 02/09/2026 05:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The general counsel for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Monday warned the attorney for an anonymous government employee not to directly share a top-secret complaint about Gabbard's handling of classified material with members of Congress. The letter to attorney The Latest: Ghislaine Maxwell avoids answering questions in House deposition 02/09/2026 04:34pm • Lawmakers tried Monday to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, but the former girlfriend and confidante of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering questions that would be incriminating. Maxwell was questioned during a video call to the federal prison camp in Texas where she’s Armchair detectives flood social media as search for Savannah Guthrie’s missing mom continues 02/09/2026 03:11pm • Moments after the news broke about the apparent abduction of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother, the floodgates opened on social media. Influencers relayed the timeline from the hours after Nancy Guthrie was last seen and posted photos of the blood found on her front porch that later Less than 14% of those ICE arrested had violent criminal records, data show 02/09/2026 12:17pm • ▶ Watch Video: Less than 14% of immigrants arrested by ICE last year had violent criminal records, data show Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump's first year back in the White House Migrants languish in US detention centers facing dire conditions and prolonged waits 02/09/2026 11:35am • MIAMI (AP) — Felipe Hernandez Espinosa spent 45 days at “ Alligator Alcatraz,” an immigration holding center in Florida where detainees have reported worms in their food, toilets that don't flush and overflowing sewage. Mosquitoes and other insects are everywhere. For the past five months, th The US said a Marine could not adopt an Afghan girl. Records show officials helped him get her 02/08/2026 12:58pm • 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 FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show 02/08/2026 11:43am • NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s bank records and emails. It searched his homes. It spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world’s most influential people. But while investigators collected ample proof that Epstein sexually abused Takeaways from what the Epstein files show about the FBI investigation of possible sex trafficking 02/08/2026 10:41am • NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI collected ample proof that Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused underage girls but found scant evidence the well-connected financier led a sex trafficking ring serving powerful men, an Associated Press review of internal Justice Department records shows. Videos and photos seized Epstein revelations have toppled top figures in Europe while US fallout is more muted 02/07/2026 08:31am • LONDON (AP) — A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians. All brought down by the Jeffrey Epstein files. And all in Europe, rather than the United States. The huge trove of Epstein documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice has sent shock waves through Europe’s politica Ex-MLB player Yasiel Puig found guilty of obstruction and lying to federal officials 02/07/2026 06:37am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury has found former major league outfielder Yasiel Puig guilty of obstruction of justice and lying to federal officials investigating an illegal gambling operation, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Friday. The verdict came after a multiweek trial that featured testimony fro The Latest: Trump’s racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash 02/06/2026 07:13pm • President Donald Trump’s social media post featuring a video about election conspiracy theories and a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle has been deleted. The Republican president’s Thursday night post was deleted Friday and bl Government must reach agreement on right to counsel for people at Minnesota ICE facility, judge says 02/06/2026 06:57pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys for the federal government have until next Thursday to reach an agreement with human rights lawyers who are seeking to ensure the right to counsel for people detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Minnesota, a judge said Friday. Advocates said p Justice Department will allow lawmakers to see unredacted versions of released Epstein files 02/06/2026 06:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Justice will allow members of Congress to review unredacted files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein starting on Monday, according to a letter that was sent to lawmakers. The letter obtained by The Associated Press says that lawmakers will be able to