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Mexico boasts sharp decline in homicides, but analysts urge caution 01/08/2026 03:37pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government boasted Thursday a sharp decline in homicide rates, presenting the figures as evidence that its security strategy is working, while analysts cautioned that the numbers may not fully reflect the country’s violence. During President Claudia Sheinbaum's dai M23 rebel group holds a symbolic funeral for victims of drone strike in eastern Congo 01/08/2026 01:26pm • GOMA, Congo (AP) — The Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group on Thursday held a symbolic burial for 22 people killed in a drone strike earlier this month in the North Kivu province in eastern Congo. M23 claimed that the attack, which targeted their military positions in the Masisi territory on Jan. 2, was Spanish bishops will allow government to oversee compensation for sexual abuse victims 01/08/2026 10:54am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s Catholic bishops agreed Thursday to let the Spanish government’s ombudsman have the final say in the church’s compensation of victims of sexual abuse by clergy members who have died or whose possible crimes are too old to be prosecuted. The agreement, which e President Petro's clash with Trump over Venezuela backs Colombia into a corner 01/08/2026 12:22am • BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — An “abhorrent” violation of Latin American sovereignty. An attack committed by “enslavers.” A “spectacle of death” comparable to Nazi Germany’s 1937 carpet bombing of Guernica, Spain. There is perhaps no world leader criticizing the Trump administration’s a Venezuela's military buries soldiers killed in US operation to capture Maduro 01/07/2026 09:48pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's military held a funeral in the capital Wednesday for some of the dozens of soldiers killed during the U.S. operation that captured then-President Nicolás Maduro. Music from a military orchestra echoed over the cemetery as family members and soldiers marched b Minneapolis shooting by ICE agent brings debate over police force and moving vehicles back in focus 01/07/2026 09:17pm • The fatal shooting of a woman by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday has thrust a long-running and deeply contested question back into the national spotlight: When is a law enforcement officer justified in using lethal force against someone in a moving vehicle? The killing, cap The Latest: ICE officer shoots and kills a woman during Minneapolis immigration crackdown 01/07/2026 08:14pm • An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis motorist on Wednesday during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown in a major U.S. city — a shooting that federal officials claimed was an act of self-defense but that the city’s mayor described as � Man who held himself out as Native American activist sentenced to 46 years for serial rapes 01/07/2026 07:01pm • SEATTLE (AP) — A man who held himself out as a Native American activist was sentenced Wednesday to 46 years in prison for drugging and raping women in a case that inspired calls for changes in Washington state law to prohibit defendants who represent themselves from directly questioning their accu Homicides continue to fall in Detroit as city mirrors national trend on violent crime 01/07/2026 02:48pm • DETROIT (AP) — Murders in Detroit continue to tumble as the city recorded its lowest number of criminal homicides since at least the early- to mid-1960s. For all of 2025, 165 homicides were committed in the Motor City, Police Chief Todd Bettison told reporters Wednesday. That is 38 fewer than the US Christian leaders minister to an anxious diaspora with Venezuela's future in flux 01/07/2026 07:01am • Faith leaders who minister to Christians in Venezuela and the Venezuelan diaspora in the United States are urging prayers for peace as they attend to congregations roiled by uncertainty and high emotions following the U.S. capture of deposed leader Nicolás Maduro. In Venezuela, initial statements f Trump says US to get 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil from Venezuela at market price 01/06/2026 08:28pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Venezuela would be providing 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the U.S., and he pledged to use proceeds from the sale of this oil “to benefit the people” of both countries. The White House is organizing a meeting Frida WTOP reporter recounts the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, five years later 01/06/2026 04:01am • Five years ago, on Jan. 6, I was inside the U.S. Capitol as a large mob started breaking windows and climbing inside the building to try to prevent the certification of the 2020 presidential election results. A fierce battle began raging on the West Front of the Capitol between supporters of The Latest: Rubio suggests US won't run Venezuela day-to-day 01/04/2026 09:34pm • Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Sunday that the U.S. would not take a day-to-day role in governing Venezuela, a turnaround after President Donald Trump announced a day earlier that the U.S. would be running Venezuela following its ouster of leader Nicolás Maduro. Rubio’s statements seeme Maduro's ouster sparks celebrations among Venezuelans in South Florida 01/04/2026 12:59am • DORAL, Fla. (AP) — Revelers chanted “liberty” and draped Venezuelan flags over their shoulders in South Florida on Saturday to celebrate the U.S. military operation to capture Nicolás Maduro and remove him from the country — a stunning outcome they had longed for but left them wondering wha Venezuelans wonder who's in charge as Trump claims contact with Maduro's deputy 01/04/2026 12:57am • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans on Saturday scrambled to understand who was in charge of their country after the U.S. military captured President Nicolás Maduro, ousting the strongman who had outlasted a botched coup attempt, several army mutinies, mass protests and economic sanctions in th