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The Latest: Grand jury transcripts from abandoned Epstein investigation in Florida ordered released 12/05/2025 09:40pm • A federal judge in Florida ordered the release of grand jury transcripts from the federal sex trafficking cases of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell on Friday. U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith said a recently passed law ordering the release of records related to the cases overrode a federal rule 911 calls from Texas floods reveal chaotic and desperate pleas for rescues 12/05/2025 07:51pm • KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) ��� In an instant, frantic voices overwhelmed the two county emergency dispatchers on duty in the Texas Hill Country as catastrophic flooding inundated cabins and youth camps along the Guadalupe River. A firefighter clinging to a tree who watched his wife be swept away. A famil West Virginia National Guard member who survived DC shooting is slowly healing, governor says 12/05/2025 07:28pm • INWOOD, W.Va. (AP) ��� The West Virginia National Guard member who survived last week's shooting in Washington is slowly healing, West Virginia's governor said Friday. Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe's head wound is slowly improving and ���he's beginning to ���look more like himself,������ Gov. Patrick M Father says ex-wife didn't supervise son who's the focus of a probe into stepsister's cruise death 12/05/2025 05:10pm • TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) ��� A 16-year-old boy being investigated in the death of his stepsister on a Carnival cruise ship last month didn't have his father's permission to go on the trip, the dad said in family court papers accusing his ex-wife of failing to supervise the teen. The teenager and his 18 What to know about the hepatitis B shot ��� and why Trump officials are targeting it 12/05/2025 04:23pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The U.S. government has long advised that all babies be immunized against hepatitis B right after birth. But on Friday, a federal vaccine advisory committee voted to do away with that recommendation. The group, whose current members were all appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. The Supreme Court will decide whether Trump's birthright citizenship order violates the Constitution 12/05/2025 02:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. The justices will hear Trump's Around the world, refugees are shut out of the US by Trump's new policies 12/05/2025 01:57pm • When President Donald Trump suspended the refugee program on day one of his current administration, thousands of people around the world who had been so close to a new life in America found themselves abandoned. Many had already sold possessions or ended leases in preparation for travel. They had su Day 4 of Luigi Mangione's pretrial hearing is postponed because he's sick, judge says 12/05/2025 12:55pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A pretrial hearing on Luigi Mangione���s bid to exclude evidence from his state murder case was postponed Friday because the defendant is sick, his lawyers and the judge said. The hearing is slated to resume Monday. Mangione is seeking to exclude a gun, notebook and other items pol Ukraine condemns Olympic diver Lyskun's switch to Russia 12/05/2025 09:19am • Ukraine has condemned two-time Olympic diver Sofiia Lyskun's switch to represent Russia amid the ongoing war and will try to strip her of awards. The 23-year-old Lyskun told the Russian newspaper Izvestia this week that ���coaches��� incompetence��� was a factor in her decision. ���Most of our coach Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, actor who performed in 'Mortal Kombat,' has died at 75 12/05/2025 08:01am • SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) ��� Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, a Tokyo-born actor known for his roles in the film ���Mortal Kombat��� and TV series "The Man in the High Castle" has died. He was 75. Tagawa died surrounded by his family in Santa Barbara from complications due to a stroke, his manager, Margie We Around the world, refugees are shut out of the US by Trump's new policies 12/05/2025 07:36am • When President Donald Trump suspended the refugee program on day one of his current administration, thousands of people around the world who'd been so close to a new life in America found themselves abandoned. As part of Trump's crackdown on legal and illegal migration, the Republican president has Hong Kong holds a legislative election Sunday after a fire raised governance concerns 12/05/2025 06:15am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� The deadliest fire in Hong Kong in decades is piling pressure on Beijing���s ���patriots-only��� governance system, casting a shadow on elections widely seen as a further step to tighten control over the city's legislature. Sunday's vote to elect new lawmakers to Hong Kong's 90-me Trump ventures deeper into anti-immigrant language by calling people from Somalia 'garbage' 12/05/2025 03:18am • He said it four times in seven seconds: Somali immigrants in the United States are ���garbage.��� It was no mistake. In fact, President Donald Trump���s rhetorical attacks on immigrants have been building since he said Mexico was sending ���rapists��� across the border during his presidential campa DC urges families to make sure kids are up to date on vaccines with deadline looming 12/04/2025 10:48pm • D.C. leaders are urging families to make sure their kids are caught up on back-to-school vaccines, or they'll risk missing class until they are. About 85% of students across the city are in compliance with the requirements, according to D.C. Health Director Ayanna Bennett. But those who aren���t Melania Trump lights the National Christmas Tree after president counts down 12/04/2025 08:52pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� First lady Melania Trump lit the National Christmas Tree on a chilly Thursday night in the nation's capital. At the annual tree lighting on the Ellipse, just south of the White House, President Donald Trump told the crowd, ���The first lady is going to do the honors.��� He count