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The Latest: Federal offices reopen as the government shutdown ends 11/13/2025 06:23pm • President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill Wednesday night, ending a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, stranded scores of travelers at airports and generated long lines at some food banks. The signing ceremony came just h US aircraft carrier nears Venezuela in flex of American military power 11/13/2025 06:15pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The most advanced U.S. aircraft carrier is expected to reach the waters off Venezuela in days, a flex of American military power not seen in Latin America for generations. Experts disagree on the possibility that American warplanes will catapult off the USS Gerald R. Ford to bom Turkey-registered plane crashes in Croatia reportedly killing the pilot 11/13/2025 05:29pm • ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A Turkey-registered plane crashed in western Croatia on Thursday, police said, with local media reporting that the pilot had died. The Air Tractor AT-802 disappeared from the radar shortly before 5 p.m. local time, an Interior Ministry statement said. Some 20 minutes later As part of safety push, motor assist on DC e-bikes is slowing down 11/13/2025 05:28pm • In response to community concerns and police observations, the motor assist feature on Lime and Veo e-bikes in D.C. is slowing down. The city's thousands of undocked e-bikes will have a limit on how fast they can go. Now, the boost feature on Lime e-bikes won’t be able to go faster than 18 US proposal at the UN for Gaza stabilization force faces concerns from Russia, China and Arabs 11/13/2025 05:06pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.S. proposal to provide a United Nations mandate for an international stabilization force in Gaza is facing opposition from Russia, China and some Arab countries, which have expressed unease about a yet-to-be established board that would temporarily govern the territory an Small alligator rescued in Boston after slithering into the city's heart on social media 11/13/2025 04:52pm • BOSTON (AP) — It wasn’t a croc — there really was an alligator on the loose in Boston. And the story of the city's slithering saurian appears to have a happy ending. The small alligator, spotted along the Charles River in Boston multiple times this week, has been rescued and delivered to safet Trial continues for officer charged with shooting pregnant Black woman accused of shoplifting 11/13/2025 04:41pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The murder trial of an Ohio police officer continued Thursday in the 2023 shooting death of a pregnant Black mother he and another officer confronted about an accusation of shoplifting. Connor Grubb is charged with murder, involuntary manslaughter and felonious assault in th Syria reopens embassy in London after more than a decade 11/13/2025 04:18pm • BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s foreign minister officially reopened the country’s embassy in London on Thursday after more than a decade-long closure, the latest step in Syria's reintegration into the international community after the ouster of former President Bashar Assad. The visit by Foreign Minist Judge denies New Jersey Rep. McIver's request to dismiss Trump administration charges 11/13/2025 04:03pm • TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A judge declined Thursday to throw out the criminal case against U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver, who was charged with assaulting federal agents during a chaotic visit last spring to an immigration detention center in New Jersey. McIver’s lawyers had argued that the prosecution wa AP Interview: Security guard who foiled Stade de France bomber recounts traumatic night 11/13/2025 03:53pm • PARIS (AP) — Salim Toorabally's mental scars from the Paris terror attacks 10 years ago have not healed with time and the images of that night at Stade de France remain indelible. The November 2015 attacks began at France's national stadium and spread across the city in assaults that killed 132 pe Trump administration designates 4 left-wing European networks as terrorist organizations 11/13/2025 03:27pm • President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday designated four European left-wing groups as terrorist organizations, following through on his vow to crack down on leftists after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The networks targeted by Trump's Republican administration a Relic from the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is returned, plus $600,000 from Michigan 11/13/2025 03:04pm • DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan is giving up ownership of a rare relic from the famous Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck, just weeks after it strangely obtained it through a settlement in a lawsuit that was completely unrelated to the doomed freighter. Larry Orr is getting one of the ship's life ri A truck hits pedestrians at a market in South Korea, killing 2 and injuring 18 11/13/2025 01:57pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A truck plowed into pedestrians at an outdoor market in South Korea on Thursday, killing two people and injuring 18, officials said. The two people were pronounced dead at a hospital following the incident shortly before 11 a.m. in Bucheon city, near the capital of Seoul. Kevin Mackey, who led Cleveland State to a historic NCAA upset over Indiana, dies at 80 11/13/2025 01:49pm • CLEVELAND (AP) — Kevin Mackey, who coached Cleveland State to an improbable victory over Bob Knight-led Indiana in the 1986 NCAA Tournament on the way to a berth in the Sweet 16 but whose college coaching career ended abruptly under the cloud of drug abuse, has died. He was 80. Mackey died of a su A judge said Luigi Mangione could have a laptop to view evidence in jail. He still hasn't gotten it 11/13/2025 01:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione is still waiting to log in. Months after a judge said he could have a laptop in jail to review evidence, lawyers for the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson say the device has yet to be delivered. The delay, Mangione’s lawyers said in a court