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Casa Ruby founder sentenced to 33 months, told to pay nearly $1M for 'diversion of COVID-relief funds' 01/14/2026 12:52pm • The founder of Casa Ruby, a D.C.-based nonprofit, has been sentenced to 33 months behind bars and ordered to pay almost $1 million to the Small Business Administration. A judge ordered Ruby Jade Corado, 56, of D.C., to pay $956,215 in restitution after she funneled at least $150,000 in COVID-19 r Trump threatens to halt federal money next month not only to sanctuary cities but also their states 01/13/2026 06:09pm • President Donald Trump said Tuesday that starting Feb. 1 he will deny federal funding to any states that are home to local governments resisting his administration's immigration policies, expanding on previous threats to cut off resources to the so-called sanctuary cities themselves. Such an action Clintons refuse to testify in House Epstein probe as Republicans threaten contempt proceedings 01/13/2026 02:24pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that they will refuse to comply with a congressional subpoena to testify in a House committee's investigation of Jeffrey Epstein even as Republican lawmakers prepare contempt of Congress proc Former Navy sailor sentenced to 16 years for selling information about ships to Chinese intelligence 01/12/2026 11:56pm • A former U.S. Navy sailor convicted of selling technical and operating manuals for ships and operating systems to an intelligence officer working for China was sentenced Monday to more than 16 years in prison, prosecutors said. A federal judge in San Diego sentenced Jinchao Wei, 25, to 200 months. A The Latest: Minnesota and the Twin Cities sue federal government to stop immigration crackdown 01/12/2026 08:27pm • The state of Minnesota and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are suing the federal government to stop an enforcement surge by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer. The state and cities filed a lawsuit in federal cour FBI says arson suspect targeted Mississippi synagogue because it's a Jewish house of worship 01/12/2026 06:42pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A suspect in an arson fire at a synagogue that was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan decades ago admitted to targeting the historic institution because it’s a Jewish house of worship and confessed what he had done to his father, who turned him in to authorities after observing bur Hearings on whether Myanmar committed genocide against the Rohingya opens at top UN court 01/12/2026 05:43am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Myanmar heard accusations that it is responsible for genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority at the top court of the United Nations, as long-awaited hearings began on Monday. The West African country of Gambia first filed the case at the International Court of Head of FBI's New York field office to serve as co-deputy director after Bongino's departure 01/09/2026 06:52pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the FBI's New York field office has been named co-deputy director of the bureau, replacing Dan Bongino following his recent departure, an FBI spokesperson said Friday. Christopher Raia, who helped lead the response to the deadly truck attack in New Orleans on New Y Anger and outrage spills onto Minneapolis streets after ICE officer's fatal shooting of Renee Good 01/09/2026 12:01am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As anger and outrage spilled out onto Minneapolis’ streets Thursday over the fatal shooting of a woman the day before by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, a new shooting by federal officers in Oregon left two people wounded and elicited more scrutiny of enforceme An Argentine court offers hope for Venezuelans seeking justice for abuses under Maduro 01/08/2026 10:45pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Venezuela's release of detainees Thursday briefly brought relief and guarded optimism to a country consumed by uncertainty. But it was another, less covered news event far afield that some Venezuelan advocates said offered their only real shot at justice as long as The Latest: House votes to extend health care subsidies in defiance of GOP leaders 01/08/2026 09:43pm • In a remarkable rebuke of Republican leadership, the House passed legislation Thursday, 230-196, that would extend expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act as renegade GOP lawmakers joined essentially all Democrats in voting for the measure. Forcing th Fatal ICE shooting sparks jurisdiction clash between state and federal authorities 01/08/2026 07:43pm • A day after a federal immigration officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, the case escalated sharply Thursday when federal authorities blocked state investigators from accessing evidence and declared that Minnesota has no jurisdiction to investigate the killing. Legal experts said the dispute h Vance calls killing of Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer 'a tragedy of her own making' 01/08/2026 06:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President JD Vance on Thursday blamed a federal immigration officer’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman on “a left-wing network,” Democrats, the news media and the woman who was killed as protests related to her death expanded to cities across the country. The vice Ohio man accused of driving 100 mph during I-495 Christmas crash that killed teen, grandmother 01/08/2026 04:58pm • An Ohio man is accused of traveling in excess of 100 mph along Interstate 495 when he slammed his Dodge Ram pickup into the back of a minivan on Christmas night, killing a 75-year-old Annandale woman and her 15-year-old granddaughter. Investigators have obtained warrants charging Devin Julian Harvey Weinstein weighs plea on rape charge but insists he 'never assaulted anyone' 01/08/2026 03:54pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein is weighing a potential guilty plea to resolve a rape charge and avoid going to trial for a third time in New York, his lawyer and a judge said Thursday, even as the disgraced movie mogul insisted he “never assaulted anyone.” For now, at least, Weinstein is on