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PHOTO ESSAY: Liberia's largest gold miner and community tensions 01/30/2026 01:28am • JIKANDOR, Liberia (AP) ��� The announcement posted in the village has a cheerful tone: ���BMMC is pleased to inform you that there will be a blast��� at a mining pit nearby. Residents told visiting journalists with The Associated Press and The Gecko Project that such explosions have cracked or crumb Takeaways from AP report on toxic spills from gold mining in Liberia 01/30/2026 01:24am • JIKANDOR, Liberia (AP) ��� An investigation by The Associated Press and The Gecko Project has found that the largest gold mining company in Liberia repeatedly spilled toxic chemicals such as cyanide in levels that environmental authorities in the West African nation said were above legal limits. Vil Venezuelan prisoners' families and other top photos from Latin America and the Caribbean 01/30/2026 12:13am • Jan. 23-29, 2026 Relatives of prisoners who are considered political detainees held a vigil outside the Rodeo I prison in Guatire, Venezuela. A police helicopter landed at an Air Force base in Guatemala City carrying a shipment of drugs seized at a Guatemalan Pacific port. People caught fish during Through the eyes of Iranian protesters, glimpses of disorder, disarray and death 01/30/2026 12:10am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� This time felt different. The 25-year-old Iranian fashion designer hoped that mass protests nearly four years ago would improve civil rights in the Islamic Republic. Not much changed, though. Being on those streets, she felt, may have been for nothing. But in early January, she prot Democrats, White House strike spending deal that would avert government shutdown 01/29/2026 11:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Democrats and the White House struck a deal to avert a partial government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security as they consider new restrictions for President Donald Trump���s surge of immigration enforcement. But passage was delayed late Thursday as New cold snap adds urgency to winter storm recovery across the South 01/29/2026 10:06pm • BELZONI, Miss. (AP) ��� Hundreds of National Guard troops in ice-stricken Mississippi and Tennessee mobilized Thursday to clear debris and assist people stranded in cars or stuck at homes still without electricity as Southern states raced to recover from a crippling winter storm before another blast Seattle ordered to pay over $30 million for fatal shooting of teen in 2020 protest 01/29/2026 08:24pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� A jury on Thursday ordered the city of Seattle to pay more than $30 million over the unsolved, fatal shooting of a teenager at the ��� Capitol Hill Occupied Protest " zone, which arose in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd. The King County jury returned the verdict following A man impersonating an FBI agent tried to get Luigi Mangione out of jail, authorities say 01/29/2026 08:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A man claiming to be an FBI agent showed up to a federal jail in New York City on Wednesday night and told officers he had a court order to release Luigi Mangione, authorities said. He's now locked up there too. Mark Anderson, a 36-year-old Minnesota native who has a history of dru Haiti faces a sexual violence and abuse crisis as gang violence spreads, health charity warns 01/29/2026 08:16pm • HAVANA (AP) ��� The number of sexual abuse cases being treated at a clinic in Haiti���s capital has tripled in the past four years as gang violence surges across the troubled Caribbean country, a health charity warned Wednesday. Doctors Without Borders said it was ���alarmed and outraged��� by the o Klobuchar will run for Minnesota governor after Walz ends bid. Democratic senator is a Trump critic 01/29/2026 08:09pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Thursday she is running for governor of Minnesota, promising to take on President Donald Trump while unifying a state that has endured a series of challenges even before the federal government's immigration crackdown. Klobuchar's decision gives Demo Immigration raids, election office search stir midterm concerns for Democratic election officials 01/29/2026 07:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Aggressive immigration enforcement in Minnesota, which resulted in the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens by federal agents, and this week's FBI search of the election office in Georgia's most populous county have Democratic election officials concerned about what could be in s UN criticizes Haiti for lack of progress on a political transition 01/29/2026 07:34pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� The U.N. Security Council criticized Haitian authorities Thursday for the lack of progress in achieving a political transition and called for urgent security sector reforms to tackle increasing violence by gangs and criminal groups. The council condemned the upsurge in violen The Latest: Democrats and White House reach deal to avert shutdown and fund Homeland Security 01/29/2026 07:24pm • Democrats and White House have struck a deal to avert a partial government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security as they negotiate new restrictions for President Donald Trump ���s surge of immigration enforcement. As the country reels from the deaths of two protesters at How to Stop Online Health Care Scams: 9 Critical Ways to Protect Older Adults 01/29/2026 07:00pm • Older adults lost $2.4 billion in scams in 2024, four times higher than the $600 million lost in 2020, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Online scams, or cyber scams, are one common way that fraudsters will try and get money from seniors. This can include lottery, tech support or romance sc Jury finds Wisconsin man guilty of forging threat against Trump to get witness deported 01/29/2026 06:57pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� A jury found a Wisconsin man guilty Thursday of forging threats against President Donald trump in an attempt to get the victim in a robbery case against him deported. Online court records show the Milwaukee County jury found 52-year-old Demetric Scott guilty of felony identity