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Failed Afghan asylum seekers need to go back home, Sweden's migration minister urges 01/22/2026 03:37pm • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Sweden’s migration minister on Thursday urged the European Union to come up with a common procedure to issue ID and travel documents to Afghan nationals whose asylum applications have either been rejected or who have committed crimes in their host countries. Minister Johan LISTEN: Donald Trump's second first term's theme is 'determination,' AP reporters say 01/22/2026 02:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — In the year since President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, he’s made sweeping policy changes, eliminated hundreds of government jobs, battled dozens of cases in courts and most recently, deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to major American cities in an Homicide rate declines sharply in dozens of US cities, a new report shows 01/22/2026 08:46am • Data collected from 35 American cities showed a 21% decrease in the homicide rate from 2024 to 2025, translating to about 922 fewer homicides last year, according to a new report from the independent Council on Criminal Justice. The report, released on Thursday, tracked 13 crimes and recorded drops Former DEA agent sentenced to 5 years in prison for using badge to protect drug trafficking friends 01/21/2026 07:38pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — In two decades of kicking in doors for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Joseph Bongiovanni often took on the risks of being the “lead breacher," meaning he was the first person into the room. On Wednesday, he felt a familiar uncertainty awaiting sentencing for using Supreme Court seems inclined to keep Lisa Cook on Fed board despite Trump attempt to fire her 01/21/2026 05:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed inclined to keep Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook in her job, casting doubt on President Donald Trump’s bid to wrest control of the nation's central bank. The justices heard arguments over Trump’s effort to fire Cook based on allegation Mexico's president says it was 'sovereign decision' to send cartel members to US 01/21/2026 04:47pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico sent 37 cartel members to the United States at the request of the U.S. Justice Department, with President Claudia Sheinbaum saying Wednesday that it was a “sovereign decision” by her government. Sheinbaum responded to criticism from analysts and opponents who said tha Minneapolis turmoil has Democrats scrambling to figure out political strategy on immigration 01/21/2026 04:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats had planned to campaign in the midterm elections on affordability and health care, two issues where Americans are particularly unhappy with President Donald Trump. But the aggressive immigration crackdown in Minnesota, including the killing of Renee Good during a confr The Latest: Trump meanders through foreign policy ahead of Davos speech to global leaders 01/20/2026 10:03pm • President Donald Trump meandered through a list of his administration’s accomplishments before taking shots at the United Nations and doubling down on what he sees as a need for the U.S. to control Greenland while speaking at a White House press briefing Tuesday. The rare, nearly two-hour appearan A man pleads not guilty to setting fire to Mississippi synagogue 01/20/2026 05:25pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The man accused of setting fire to a Mississippi synagogue pleaded not guilty to a federal arson charge on Tuesday. The fire badly damaged the Beth Israel Congregation, a historic synagogue that was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 for the congregation's involvement in the Supreme Court takes up politically charged case with independence of the Federal Reserve at stake 01/20/2026 02:07pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's unprecedented bid to reshape the Federal Reserve board is putting the Supreme Court in a familiar position, weighing an emergency appeal from the president’s lawyers in a politically charged case. The court is hearing arguments Wednesday over Trump's ef Israeli crews target UN facilities for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem 01/20/2026 01:43pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces on Tuesday targeted at least two United Nations facilities, pushing forward with a crackdown against the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees tasked with delivering humanitarian services to millions of people across the region. Crews began bulldozing the United Nati Togo says it has extradited Burkina Faso's former junta leader 01/20/2026 10:29am • LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Togolese authorities said Tuesday they have extradited Burkina Faso's former leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba following a request by the military government there. The former junta leader has lived in Togo since his ouster in 2022. He is wanted in his country on suspicion o What to know about the Chagos Islands as Trump slams the UK's sovereignty deal 01/20/2026 06:37am • LONDON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has turned his fire on a deal between Britain and Mauritius to settle the future of the Chagos Islands, the contested Indian Ocean archipelago that is home to a strategic U.S. military base. Trump said on social media that a deal to transfer sovereignty of Editorial Roundup: United States 01/19/2026 08:28pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Jan. 19 The Washington Post says Congress has dropped the ball regarding oversight of ICE, DHS Geraldo Lunas Campos died at a Texas detention center on Jan. 3 while pleading for air as guards choked him, according to a fellow detai Former congressional staffer from Maryland charged with stealing 240 government cellphones 01/19/2026 11:07am • A former congressional staffer from Glen Burnie, Maryland, is accused of stealing 240 government cellphones from the U.S. House of Representatives. Christopher Southerland, 43, was arrested earlier this month and charged with stealing cellphones worth more than $150,000, according to a news relea