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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 Five face trial in Peru in rare prosecution over the killing of an Amazon defender 01/19/2026 10:21am • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The trial is due to start Tuesday for five men over the killing of an Indigenous Amazon leader, in a rare legal case that prosecutors and advocates say could test whether Peru can hold perpetrators accountable for violence linked to illegal logging and drug trafficking in o AP obtains documents showing Venezuelan leader Delcy Rodríguez has been on DEA's radar for years 01/17/2026 04:59pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump announced the audacious capture of Nicolás Maduro to face drug trafficking charges in the U.S., he portrayed the strongman’s vice president and longtime aide as America’s preferred partner to stabilize Venezuela amid a scourge of drugs, corruption 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 Man found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in 2021 death of San Francisco Thai grandfather 01/16/2026 06:28pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of an older Thai man whose 2021 killing in San Francisco helped spark a national movement against anti-Asian American violence. A jury did not find Antoine Watson, 24, guilty of murder when it returned a ver DC man gets 40 years for 'sadistic' killing of Virginia woman 01/16/2026 04:53pm • It has taken nearly three years for an Arlington, Virginia, family to get justice in the murder of their loved one at a Northeast D.C. motel in 2023. It was back in April 2023 that 31-year-old Christy Bautista was stabbed over 30 times, her body battered by 46-year-old George Sydnor. During h Trump to pardon ex-Puerto Rico governor Vázquez in campaign finance case, official says 01/16/2026 03:09pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to pardon former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez, a White House official said Friday. Vázquez pleaded guilty last August to a campaign finance violation in a federal case that authorities say also involved a former FBI agent and a Venezuelan banker. Trump says he wants to keep Hassett in White House, clouding Fed chair selection 01/16/2026 02:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday said he would like to keep his top economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, at the White House rather than potentially nominate him to replace Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve. “I actually want to keep you where you are, if you want to kno FACT FOCUS: Former Proud Boys leader falsely identified as an ICE officer 01/16/2026 02:15pm • As protests continue in Minneapolis after the fatal shooting of Renee Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, social media users are falsely claiming that Enrique Tarrio, a former Proud Boys leader, is working for the federal agency. President Donald Trump pardoned Tarrio in a sw At top UN court, Myanmar denies deadly Rohingya campaign amounts to genocide 01/16/2026 08:45am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Myanmar insisted Friday that its deadly military campaign against the Rohingya ethnic minority was a legitimate counter-terrorism operation and did not amount to genocide, as it defended itself at the top United Nations court against an allegation of breaching the gen Criminal investigation raises key question: Whether Chair Powell leaves Fed in May 01/16/2026 12:01am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department’s investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has brought heightened attention to a key drama that will play out at the central bank in the coming months: Will Powell leave the Fed when his term as chair ends, or will he take the unusual step o