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Federal judge issues order to prohibit immigration officials from detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia 12/12/2025 10:05am • BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge blocked U.S. immigration authorities on Friday from re-detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia, saying she feared they might take him into custody again just hours after she had ordered his release from a detention center. The order came as Abrego Garcia appeared at a sc Pope meets with Italian secret agents and urges them to be ethical 12/12/2025 10:01am • ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV met Friday with members of Italy’s intelligence services and warned them not to use confidential information for blackmailing or other nefarious purposes. Leo urged the 007s, as the Italian agents are popularly known, to do their work professionally and ethically, always A 6.9 magnitude earthquake causes small tsunami waves off northeastern Japan 12/12/2025 09:15am • TOKYO (AP) — A 6.9 magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Japan and caused small tsunami waves but no apparent damage Friday, days after a stronger quake in the same region. Friday's quake occurred off the east coast of Aomori prefecture, in the north of Honshu, the main Japanese island, at a dep Skydiver dangles at 15,000 feet after parachute catches on plane's tail in Australia 12/12/2025 08:35am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian accident investigators on Thursday released dramatic images of a skydiver’s parachute becoming entangled on an airplane’s tail, leaving him dangling at 4,500 meters (15,000 feet.) The skydiver, Adrian Ferguson, used a hook knife to cut himself free and su Italy's national strike called by main union disrupts transport and school services 12/12/2025 08:30am • ROME (AP) — A national strike called on Friday by Italy’s largest trade union in protest against the government’s budget plans widely disrupted transportation, health and school services across the country. The protest, which targets the 2026 budget bill proposed by the conservative government Puerto Rico sues Luma in first push to cancel contract with private power company 12/12/2025 07:41am • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government has sued Luma Energy in the first legal step to cancel its multimillion-dollar contract with the private power company as the U.S. territory battles chronic outages, increases in power bills and the slow reconstruction of a grid razed by Hurr Syrian-American Jews register first Jewish NGO in Syria to restore heritage 12/12/2025 07:07am • DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A group of Syrian-American Jews have registered a nongovernmental organization in Syria in a bid to restore Jewish heritage in a country where the once-sizable religious minority has shrunk to almost nothing. “Jewish Syrians are an integral part of the Syrian fabric,” Sy DC restaurant honors past presidents, East Wing with 2025 Christmas tree 12/12/2025 06:42am • Usually around August or September, Floriana owner James Branda starts receiving text messages about what the theme of the restaurant's annual Christmas tree will be. Branda and Dito Sevilla agonize over it during the summer. Sometimes, there's a theme set for a month or two, and then they have a Mexican devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe blends into national identity 12/12/2025 01:05am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — There’s a saying in Mexico: “Not all Mexicans are Catholic, but all are Guadalupan.” The phrase conveys the deep connection between Our Lady of Guadalupe and the country’s identity. In the nation of 130 million people — the majority of whom identify as Catholic — thi Immigration crackdown leaves teens to care for siblings after parents get detained 12/12/2025 12:05am • KENNER, La. (AP) — Vilma Cruz, a mother of two, had just arrived at her newly leased Louisiana home this week when federal agents surrounded her vehicle in the driveway. She had just enough time to call her oldest son before they smashed the passenger window and detained her. The 38-year-old Hondu Tens of thousands ordered to flee flooding after torrential rain in Pacific Northwest 12/11/2025 11:30pm • MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — Surging floodwaters turned farmland into vast pools, washed out bridges and stranded people Thursday, with evacuation orders issued for tens of thousands of Washington state residents and authorities hoping levees prevent far worse damage. “The flooding levels we’re Federal judge orders FEMA to restore billions in canceled disaster mitigation funding 12/11/2025 09:01pm • A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to restore billions of dollars in canceled FEMA disaster mitigation funding, siding with 22 states and the District of Columbia that sued over the canceled grants this summer. President Donald Trump's administration said i Broncos are underdogs at home against Packers despite 10-game win streak 12/11/2025 07:55pm • DENVER (AP) — For the first time in a decade, Denver Broncos (11-2) stand atop the AFC playoff race heading into the holidays. They're the league's only unbeaten team at home. They've won 10 consecutive games and they've saddled their last 11 visitors with a loss going back 14 months. And they are The Latest: Senate rejects legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits 12/11/2025 07:41pm • The Senate on Thursday rejected two partisan health bills on expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year. The failed Democratic bill would have extended the COVID-era subsidies for three years NASCAR settles federal antitrust case, gives all teams the permanent charters they wanted 12/11/2025 07:07pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Michael Jordan and NASCAR chairman Jim France stood side-by-side on the steps of a federal courthouse as if they were old friends following a stunning settlement Thursday of a bruising antitrust case in which the Basketball Hall of Famer was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit a