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Death toll from Rio de Janeiro police raid on drug gang rises to 121 10/30/2025 04:49pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The death toll in a massive police raid targeting a drug trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro rose to at least 121 people, authorities said Thursday. An operation launched Tuesday in two of the city’s favelas sparked intense gunbattles that left at least four police officers Justice Department strips Jan. 6 references from court paper and punishes prosecutors who filed it 10/30/2025 04:17pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has stripped references to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack from court papers and punished two federal prosecutors who filed the document seeking prison time at sentencing Thursday for a man arrested with guns and ammunition near former President Barack Obama’s h Satellite images show Jamaica before and after Hurricane Melissa 10/30/2025 03:14pm • ▶ Watch Video: Hurricane Melissa rescue and recovery efforts ongoing after storm pummels Jamaica, Cuba Communities across the Caribbean are reeling in the wake of Hurricane Melissa, which ripped through Jamaica, Cuba and Hispaniola, the island comprising H 5 more arrests as Louvre jewel heist probe deepens and key details emerge 10/30/2025 02:26pm • PARIS (AP) — The dragnet tightened around the Louvre thieves on Thursday. Five more people were seized in the crown-jewels heist — including a suspect tied by DNA — the Paris prosecutor said, widening the sweep across the capital and its suburbs. Authorities said three of the four alleged mem Protests in Tanzania spread after a disputed election, with the military on the streets 10/30/2025 02:13pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Hundreds of protesters took to the streets for a second day of demonstrations in Tanzania on Thursday after a disputed election, while Amnesty International reported that two people have died. After the protests broke out on Wednesday, the government shut down the internet, i US government allowed and even helped US firms sell tech used for surveillance in China, AP finds 10/30/2025 01:51pm • U.S. lawmakers have tried four times since September last year to close what they called a glaring loophole: China is getting around export bans on the sale of powerful American AI chips by renting them through U.S. cloud services instead. But the proposals prompted a flurry of activity from more th Takoma Park man accused of disguising himself to film women in gym locker rooms 10/30/2025 01:38pm • A Takoma Park man is facing multiple charges after police say he disguised himself as a woman to secretly record women inside gym locker rooms across Montgomery County, Maryland. Montgomery County police arrested 44-year-old Tshikundi Taty on Wednesday after following him to a Planet Fitness in W Ex-South Carolina sheriff pleads guilty to drug-related crimes and stealing from benevolence fund 10/30/2025 01:02pm • ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — A former South Carolina sheriff pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges that he helped steal about $80,000 from his force's benevolence fund and took pain medication that was supposed to be destroyed as part of a pill take-back program. Chuck Wright, the former Spartanburg Beverly Hills man sentenced to 146 years for overdose deaths of 2 women dumped at hospitals 10/30/2025 12:56pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Beverly Hills man has been sentenced to 146 years to life in prison for the drug overdose deaths of two women who were dumped at two hospitals in Southern California, prosecutors said. David Brian Pearce, 42, was convicted in February of first-degree murder for the deaths of C Russia blasts Ukraine's power grid again, causing outages across the country and killing 6 10/30/2025 12:24pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The latest in a sustained Russian campaign of massive drone and missile attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure brought power outages and restrictions in all the country’s regions Thursday, officials said, with the Ukrainian prime minister describing Moscow’s tactic a What to know about the Louvre heist investigation 10/30/2025 12:23pm • PARIS (AP) — More than 100 investigators are racing to piece together how thieves pulled off the brazen heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris, working to recover the stolen gems and bring those responsible to justice. The daytime theft of centuries-old jewels from the world’s most-visited museum, Where the jewels stolen from the Louvre Museum might end up 10/30/2025 06:39am • NEW YORK (AP) — Seven people have been arrested in the investigation of a stunning heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris, but the lavish, stolen jewels that once adorned France's royals are still missing. In the days after the theft, a handful of experts warned that the artifacts valued at more than A timeline of the jewel heist at the Louvre in Paris 10/30/2025 05:33am • PARIS (AP) — Seven people have been arrested so far in the investigation into the theft of crown jewels from the Louvre Museum, but the jewels haven't been found. Here’s what we know about the timeline of what happened: Oct. 10 Thieves use a false pretext to steal a basket lift from the town of Michael Vick sparked protests when he joined the Eagles in '09. Some fans can't forgive his cruelty 10/30/2025 05:10am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Debbie Sanville and her husband say they tore up their season tickets in 2009 and refused to watch Eagles games once the team signed convicted felon Michael Vick. Nancy Harrold said she became physically ill and has friends to this day so traumatized by the quarterback's arriva Hurricane Melissa leaves trail of destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica 10/29/2025 11:30pm • SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (AP) — Hurricane Melissa left at least dozens dead and caused widespread destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica, where roofless homes, toppled utility poles and water-logged furniture dominated the landscape Wednesday. A landslide blocked the main roads of Santa Cruz in