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Jury deliberates in assault case against DC man who threw sandwich at federal agent in viral video 11/05/2025 06:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A jury began deliberating Wednesday in the Justice Department's assault case against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent, turning him into a symbol of resistance to President Donald Trump���s law-enforcement surge in the nation's capital. Jurors deliberated for rough Ecuadorian soccer player, 16, killed by stray bullet in Guayaquil 11/05/2025 06:20pm • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) ��� A 16-year-old soccer player from the youth academy of Independiente del Valle was fatally shot when he was struck by a stray bullet at home in the port city of Guayaquil, police said Wednesday. Miguel Nazareno was at home ���when he unfortunately became a victim of the insecu Powerful Iowa judge charged with OWI after witnesses say she drove wrong way on highway 11/05/2025 05:42pm • IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) ��� A powerful Iowa judge has been charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated after witnesses say she drove the wrong way on a highway Tuesday night while passed out behind the wheel. Adria Kester, chief judge of the state���s Second Judicial District, was released from Mamdani announces veteran transition team as he makes plans to carry out an ambitious agenda for NYC 11/05/2025 04:34pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Fresh off his historic victory in New York City���s mayoral election, Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday announced a slate of seasoned officials to help lead his transition to City Hall, offering an early glimpse at how he intends to turn his ambitious campaign promises into reality. ���I Virginia Democrats expand majority in House of Delegates, win key Northern Va. seats 11/05/2025 04:30pm • Stay with WTOP on air, online and on our news app for team coverage, live results and analyses of election night in Virginia. Listen live. Hanging on to a slim majority in Virginia's House of Delegates headed into Tuesday's election, Democrats held on to two tightly contested seats in Northern Vi Rescuers in Nepal search for climbers' bodies in an avalanche 11/05/2025 04:01pm • KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) ��� Rescuers dug through ice and snow on a mountain in Nepal on Tuesday to look for the bodies of seven climbers who were killed by an avalanche, officials said. The avalanche pounded the base camp at Mount Yalung Ri, located at 4,900 meters (16,000 feet), on Monday morning. Sn Noteworthy and influential people who've died this year 11/05/2025 03:56pm • Known around the world for her groundbreaking research on chimpanzees, conservationist Jane Goodall was among a number of noteworthy people who died in October. Her immersive chimpanzee field research documented the primates��� personalities and use of tools. And she became a household name through Jacob Frey fends off democratic socialist's challenge to win 3rd term as Minneapolis mayor 11/05/2025 03:25pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Minneapolis Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey defeated democratic socialist Omar Fateh and 13 other challengers Wednesday during the final round of counting in the city's ranked-choice voting election. Frey, who secured a third term, led Fateh by about 10 percentage points after Tuesd UK police hunt for 2 more wrongly released prisoners, just days after new measures brought in 11/05/2025 01:21pm • LONDON (AP) ��� British police were undertaking two more searches Wednesday, following the news that two prisoners had been mistakenly released from prison over the past week, just days after the government had brought in more stringent checks. Police said the two were wrongly freed from Wandsworth Racking up the miles: DC runner adds a mile for each day of government shutdown 11/05/2025 01:01pm • A federal contractor, D.C. runner and content creator has been racking up the miles and documenting the shutdown, which has now become the longest in U.S. history as it entered its 36th day on Tuesday. Running long distances is normal for Rob Perez. He has run countless races, including ultramara North Carolina���s largest city reelects mayor after fallout over train stabbing 11/05/2025 12:48pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� Voters in North Carolina's largest city reelected their Democratic mayor, keeping her in place even as safety concerns in Charlotte have risen since the August stabbing death of a young Ukrainian woman on a commuter train. Vi Lyles won comfortably on Tuesday over Republican Interpol announces a new global fight against illegal deforestation 11/05/2025 11:50am • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ��� Interpol and partners launched a global law enforcement effort Wednesday aimed at dismantling criminal networks behind illegal logging, timber trafficking and gold mining, which drive large-scale deforestation and generate billions in illicit profits each year. The effort a New film 'Nuremberg' highlights psychiatrist who analyzed Hermann G��ring 11/05/2025 11:27am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A once-overlooked army psychiatrist tasked with analyzing Hermann G��ring and other Nazis accused of war crimes is getting the kind of attention that he had sought in his lifetime. ���Nuremberg,��� starring Russell Crowe as G��ring, centers on the Nazi military commander's conversa Motorist 'deliberately' hit 5 people in car ramming on French Atlantic island 11/05/2025 11:11am • SAINT-PIERRE-D'OLERON, France (AP) ��� A motorist ���deliberately��� hit five people over 35 minutes on ��le d���Ol��ron, a quiet French island popular with summer tourists off the Atlantic coast, two of them seriously, Interior Minister Laurent Nu��ez said Wednesday. Speaking from the scene, Nu��e Mysterious drone flights in NATO airspace have caused alarm across Europe. Here's what we know 11/05/2025 10:15am • BERLIN (AP) ��� Mysterious drone flights over the airspace of European Union member countries in recent months have alarmed the public and elected officials. Intrusions into NATO���s airspace, some of them blamed on Russia, reached an unprecedented scale in September. Some European officials describ