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The Latest: Trump signs bill to release the Epstein files after months of political pressure 11/19/2025 09:08pm • President Donald Trump signed a bill Wednesday to compel the Justice Department to make public its case files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a potentially far-reaching development in a yearslong push by survivors of Epstein���s abuse for a public reckoning. The president���s signing Brooklyn driver who killed a mother and two children is sentenced to 3 to 9 years in prison 11/19/2025 07:48pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A Brooklyn wigmaker and social media influencer who raced through a red light and plowed into a mother and two children, killing them, was sentenced Wednesday to 3 years to 9 years in state prison. Miriam Yarimi, 33, pleaded guilty last month in state court in Brooklyn to three cou Nigeria's president postpones G20 trip, vowing to step up efforts to rescue abducted schoolgirls 11/19/2025 07:43pm • SOKOTO, Nigeria (AP) ��� Nigeria's president postponed his trip to this weekend's Group of 20 summit after promising to intensify efforts to rescue 24 schoolgirls who were abducted by gunmen earlier this week in a northwestern region of the country. Civil society leaders have accused security forces 5 accused of supporting antifa plead guilty to terrorism-related offense after Texas shooting 11/19/2025 07:05pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� Five people pleaded guilty Wednesday to terrorism-related charges after they were accused of supporting antifa in a July shooting that wounded a police officer outside a Texas immigration detention center. The charges brought by the Justice Department followed President Donald Trump Federal terrorism charge filed against a man who allegedly set a woman on fire on Chicago train 11/19/2025 06:31pm • Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a man with committing a terrorist attack, alleging he poured gasoline on a woman and chased her through a Chicago train car before setting her on fire. Lawrence Reed was sitting at the back of a car on a Blue Line L train on Monday night when he approached th Judge hears arguments in a lawsuit to halt ICE arrests without a warrant in DC 11/19/2025 06:10pm • Some D.C.-area residents shared their stories about being arrested without a warrant by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a hearing Wednesday in��U.S. District Court for a lawsuit aimed at stopping illegal arrests of people perceived to be immigrants. "I was detained by D.C. pol Post on Kris Boyd's Instagram account says Jets cornerback has started breathing on his own 11/19/2025 05:19pm • FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) ��� A post on New York Jets cornerback Kris Boyd's Instagram account on Wednesday said he has started to breathe on his own after being shot in midtown Manhattan early Sunday morning. Boyd's Instagram Stories feature a picture of the special teams standout lying down and smil Gangs expand to nearly half the towns in the Brazilian Amazon, report finds 11/19/2025 05:00pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� Criminal gangs expanded their presence in the Brazilian Amazon last year and are now operating in nearly half of the region���s municipalities, according to a report published Wednesday by a prominent nonprofit organization. The growth of these crime groups in the region, whe Jury acquits ex-youth center worker on 3 sex assault charges, deadlocks on 5 others 11/19/2025 04:40pm • MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) ��� One of the first men charged with abusing children at New Hampshire���s state-run youth detention center was acquitted of three sexual assault charges Wednesday by a jury that was unable to reach a verdict on five other charges. Stephen Murphy, 56, of Danvers, Massachusetts GOP House lawmakers pass bills targeting DC crime-fighting policies 11/19/2025 04:39pm • Congressional Republicans have renewed their focus on D.C. crime with legislation aimed at changing police oversight and the District's cashless bail system. The U.S. House voted to pass two bills Wednesday night, despite the objection of D.C. leaders. The introduction of the legislation conti New York Mayor-elect Mamdani says the city's current police commissioner will stay on the job 11/19/2025 02:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday that the city's current police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, has agreed to remain in the post, a major coup for the incoming mayor as he moves to assuage concerns over his past criticism of the police department. For Mamda Texas man indicted on murder charge in shooting of 'King of the Hill' voice actor Jonathan Joss 11/19/2025 02:12pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� A grand jury in Texas has indicted the man accused of killing ���King of the Hill��� voice actor Jonathan Joss on a murder charge. But it is unclear whether Joss��� killing will be considered a hate crime. Police in San Antonio did not immediately return an email seeking comment Wed Jurors hear closing arguments in trial of Ohio officer charged in the killing of Ta'Kiya Young 11/19/2025 02:04pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� Jurors at the murder trial of an Ohio officer charged in the death of a pregnant Black mother who had been accused of shoplifting were asked Wednesday to focus on answering one question: Was it ���reasonable��� for him to fatally shoot her? A prosecutor said in her closing ar Judge acquits Nokesville, Virginia, native Timothy Hickerson in 2010 murder of Shane Donahue 11/19/2025 01:30pm • A Prince William County judge on Tuesday acquitted Timothy Hickerson of murder in connection with the disappearance of Shane Donahue in Nokesville more than 15 years ago. Hickerson, 44, stood trial this week in Prince William County Circuit Court, but at the end of the testimony, Hickerson's defe Md. lawmakers look to make old laws on recording relevant in a world of Ring cameras, cellphones 11/19/2025 10:57am • For Del. N. Scott Phillips (D-Baltimore County), the debate over Maryland���s wiretapping law boiled down to one question. ���We don���t require consent for video, but we do require consent for audio. Does that make sense?��� Phillips asked. That was just one of the questions during a two-hour