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Louisiana authorities launch search after 8 inmates escape from rural jail 01/30/2026 06:49pm • LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. (AP) ��� Louisiana authorities said Friday that eight inmates escaped from a rural jail, including some facing murder charges, setting off another manhunt in a state where bold jail breakouts over the past year have exposed security breakdowns. Officials have not said how the es Mayors warn that Trump's hardline immigration tactics could dent trust in law enforcement 01/30/2026 06:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Elizabeth Kautz says she now carries her passport around the Minneapolis suburb where she's been the mayor since 1995. ���Those ICE agents don't know that I'm the mayor of the city of Burnsville,��� Kautz, a Republican who has occasionally diverted from the Trump administration's 'Not acceptable': Northwest DC residents frustrated it took days to plow their street 01/30/2026 05:26pm • As last weekend's snowstorm dumped several inches of snow and sleet onto D.C. streets, Susan Oakley watched as her Northwest neighborhood became covered. A plow didn't pass through the area, near Sibley Memorial Hospital on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday, Oakley said. She and several neighbors called Judge bars federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against Luigi Mangione 01/30/2026 05:06pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Federal prosecutors can���t seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a federal judge ruled Friday, foiling the Trump administration���s bid to see him executed for what it called a ���premeditated, cold-blooded assassinati Judge hears testimony from DNA expert as man convicted of killing Laken Riley seeks new trial 01/30/2026 04:13pm • ATHENS, Ga. (AP) ��� A judge considering whether to grant a new trial to the Venezuelan man convicted of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley heard testimony Friday from a DNA expert retained by his attorneys to analyze evidence in his murder case. Jose Ibarra's trial attorneys had asked the 200 chickens euthanized, other animals recovered by Prince William police after Haymarket FBI raid 01/30/2026 03:56pm • Prince William County police euthanized approximately 200 chickens earlier this week due to poor health and contagious upper respiratory infections following the FBI's��Jan. 21 raid��at��Haymarket's Rancho Los Cerritos farm that led to the arrests of the farm's manager and owner on drug and gun traf Jury in Virginia 'au pair affair' double murder must now decide husband's guilt 01/30/2026 03:44pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Jurors began deliberating Friday on whether a former IRS law enforcement officer in Virginia conspired with his family���s Brazilian au pair, with whom he was having an affair, to kill his wife and pin it on a stranger. Brendan Banfield allegedly spent months plotting to get r DC's winter restaurant week extended through first week of February 01/30/2026 03:21pm • If you're dug out of the snow, hundreds of D.C.-area restaurants are inviting you to explore their menus with discounted prices through Feb 8. The D.C.-area winter restaurant week has been extended once again due to disruptions from the recent cold weather. The original restaurant week ended Polygamous sect's sway has dwindled in twin towns on Arizona-Utah line. Residents enjoy new freedoms 01/30/2026 01:37pm • COLORADO CITY, Ariz. (AP) ��� The prairie dresses, walled compounds and distrust of outsiders that were once hallmarks of two towns on the Arizona-Utah border are mostly gone. These days, Colorado City, Arizona, and neighboring Hildale, Utah, look much like any other town in this remote and pictures Florida sets up a third execution in 2026 as state leads US death penalty surge 01/30/2026 12:19pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop is set to be Florida���s third execution of 2026, keeping the state on pace to match or possibly exceed last year���s record 19 executions. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a dea Syria's Kurdish-led force and the Damascus government reach a new agreement to stabilize ceasefire 01/30/2026 11:30am • QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) ��� The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces announced a new agreement on Friday with the country's central government in Damascus to stabilize a ceasefire that ended weeks of fighting and to lay out steps toward integrating the two sides. The development is the latest as Syria� The Westminster dog show is turning 150. Here's what has ��� and hasn't ��� changed over time 01/30/2026 09:15am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� When some Gilded Age gentleman hunters organized a New York event to compare their dogs, could they have imagined that people would someday call it the World Series of dogdom or the Super Bowl of dog shows? Of course they couldn't. The World Series and the Super Bowl didn't exist. Cut off from most communication, Iranian protesters share rare stories of determination and dissent 01/30/2026 08:25am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� This time felt different. The 25-year-old Iranian fashion designer hoped that mass protests nearly four years ago ��� the ones that erupted after a young woman was arrested and died in custody for not wearing the hijab properly ��� would improve civil rights in the Islamic Republic. A timeline of two towns on the Arizona-Utah border once controlled by a polygamist sect 01/30/2026 07:03am • HILDALE, Utah (AP) ��� The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints settled in a remote area along the Arizona-Utah border in the 1930s after the polygamist sect broke away from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the mainstream Mormon church that renounced plural marr Uganda's army chief accuses US Embassy officials of aiding opposition figure who went into hiding 01/30/2026 04:04am • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ��� Uganda���s army chief accused U.S. Embassy officials of helping opposition leader Bobi Wine as he went into hiding, in an escalation of political tensions that have alarmed Ugandans days after a disputed presidential election. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, President Yoweri Musev