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Jurors are deliberating in murder trial of Brian Walshe, whose wife disappeared 2 years ago 12/12/2025 04:41pm • BOSTON (AP) — Jurors began deliberating Friday in the murder trial of Brian Walshe, the Massachusetts man accused of killing and dismembering his wife more than two years ago. Ana Walshe’s body has never been found since she disappeared on New Year’s Day 2023. The same day his wife was last s Man who opened fire outside his former Jewish school in Memphis avoids prison with guilty plea 12/12/2025 03:05pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man who was shot by police after he fired a gun at a contractor outside his former Jewish school in Memphis in 2023 pleaded guilty on Friday and was sentenced to eight years’ probation. Joel Bowman, 35, entered guilty pleas to aggravated assault and aggravated b FEMA to send Georgia more than $300 million in Hurricane Helene relief after accusations of delays 12/12/2025 02:50pm • ATLANTA (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday announced it would send $350 million in funding to localities and electric cooperatives for relief efforts following Hurricane Helene and Tropical Storm Debby. The announcement comes two months after Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warn Oscar winner Morricone’s lost opera debuts in Naples after 30 years 12/12/2025 02:44pm • NAPLES, Italy (AP) — At long last, vindication has arrived for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was just as capable of breathing life into Italy’s grand theaters as into gritty Hollywood films. On Friday night, Naples’ Teatro San Carlo staged Ennio Morricone’s only opera, “ Trump administration says sign language services 'intrude' on Trump's ability to control his image 12/12/2025 02:08pm • The Trump administration is arguing that requiring real-time American Sign Language interpretation of events like White House press briefings “would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative to control the image he presents to the public," part of a lawsuit seeking to require the White Hou In reversal, Moore funds climate change study he previously vetoed 12/12/2025 01:54pm • Gov. Wes Moore (D) will announce Friday that he is allocating nearly $500,000 to study the costs of climate change in the state — just months after he cited cost concerns as he vetoed a bill to spend almost the same amount of money for the same study. Friday’s expected announcement comes jus EU indefinitely freezes Russian assets so Hungary and Slovakia can't veto their use for Ukraine 12/12/2025 01:32pm • BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Friday indefinitely froze Russia’s assets in Europe to ensure that Hungary and Slovakia, both with Moscow-friendly governments, can’t prevent the billions of euros from being used to support Ukraine. Using a special procedure meant for economic emergencies A Chinese official exposed his boss. Now in Texas, he’s hunted by Beijing - with help from US tech 12/12/2025 01:25pm • MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — Retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang was recuperating from cancer on a Korean resort island when he got an urgent call: Don’t return to China, a friend warned. You’re now a fugitive. Days later, a stranger snapped a photo of Li in a cafe. Terrified South Korea would sen Germany summons Russian ambassador over alleged sabotage, cyberattacks and election interference 12/12/2025 01:10pm • BERLIN (AP) — Germany summoned Russia's ambassador Friday following accusations of sabotage, cyberattacks and election interference, an official said. The German government has also accused Moscow of perpetrating disinformation campaigns. “The goal of these Russian cyber and disinformation attac Chileans are divided in a presidential runoff tilted toward the far right 12/12/2025 12:39pm • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Ask many Chileans how their country fared in the past several years and they'll describe a descent into disaster: Venezuelan gangs surged across porous borders, bringing unprecedented kidnappings and contract killings to one of the region’s safest nations. A social uprisin Promising results emerge from blood tests that screen for 50 cancers at once 12/12/2025 11:45am • Finding the perfect early screening test for cancer remains a persistent challenge for the health industry. But new findings suggest that blood tests still being assessed are showing promising results when it comes to detecting cancers at earlier stages. Multi-cancer early detection tests are blo Building under construction collapses on temple in South Africa, leaving 1 dead 12/12/2025 11:21am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A multistory building being constructed on top of a Hindu temple collapsed Friday in the South African town of Verulam, killing at least one person and leaving several others trapped under the rubble and concrete, local authorities said. The authorities did not immediately say Thailand's parliament is dissolved for a new election early next year 12/12/2025 11:12am • BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s parliament was dissolved Friday for a new election early next year as the country engaged in deadly fighting with Cambodia. Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul dissolved the House of Representatives after getting approval from King Maha Vajiralongkorn, whose endorsement New permanent exhibition at Auschwitz museum uses personal objects to show daily life of prisoners 12/12/2025 11:09am • OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Animal-shaped stencils a mother made from a concentration camp shoe and gave to her son for Christmas are among items in a new permanent exhibition at the Auschwitz museum, located on the site of the largest Nazi death camp. Other items on display as officials unveiled the Hunger and makeshift shelters persist in north Caribbean nearly 2 months after Hurricane Melissa 12/12/2025 10:30am • PETIT GOÂVE, Haiti (AP) — Amizia Renotte sat on a broken piece of concrete and pointed to a large pile of dirt where her house once stood before the outer bands of Hurricane Melissa crumpled it as the storm lashed Haiti’s southern region. The Atlantic hurricane season may be over, but thousands