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Police deploy chemical irritants at protesters gathered outside Texas detention center, in photos 01/28/2026 06:15pm • DILLEY, Texas (AP) ��� Texas state police deployed pepper balls to disperse protesters outside the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, where 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, are being held. Demonstrators against the Trump adminis Rubio defends Trump on Venezuela while trying to allay fears about Greenland and NATO 01/28/2026 05:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a full-throated defense Wednesday of President Donald Trump's military operation to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicol��s Maduro, while explaining to U.S. lawmakers the administration���s approach to Greenland, NATO, Iran and China. As Rep Chinese national who exposed human rights abuses in his homeland is granted asylum to remain in US 01/28/2026 05:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� An immigration judge on Wednesday granted asylum to a Chinese national who he said had a ���well founded fear��� of persecution if sent back to China after exposing human rights abuses there. Guan Heng, 38, applied for asylum after arriving in the U.S. illegally in 2021. He has Family of Alex Pretti retains lawyer who helped prosecute the George Floyd case 01/28/2026 04:59pm • The parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota���s attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd���s neck of murder. Pretti, an intensive care nurse at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, was shot multiple times on Saturday as he wa Rubio details how the Trump administration will control Venezuela's oil money 01/28/2026 03:53pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Trump administration soon will allow Venezuela to sell oil now subject to U.S. sanctions, with the revenue initially dedicated to basic government services such as policing and health care and subject to Washington's oversight, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday. T Nicaraguan man's death at troubled Texas detention camp was reported as a suicide, 911 records show 01/28/2026 03:18pm • Associated Press (AP) ��� A Nicaraguan man who died at a troubled Texas detention camp days after he was detained by immigration agents in Minnesota appeared to have died by suicide, according to a 911 call and records released Wednesday. Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, was found by guards on Jan. 14 in a r Assailant convicted after Barron Trump calls London police to report crime he saw on video 01/28/2026 02:08pm • LONDON (AP) ��� The crime was in London, the suspect was Russian and the witness who saw the beating on a video call was in the United States and happened to be the youngest son of U.S. President Donald Trump. Barron Trump called police in the British capital and his intervention more than a year ag South Korea's former first lady sentenced to 20 months in prison for corruption 01/28/2026 11:40am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� The wife of South Korea���s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 months in prison for corruption, as her husband awaits a verdict on a high-stakes rebellion charge that could result in the death penalty or life imprisonment. Seoul Central Distri Md. Senate panel advances bills to ban agreements with ICE, face coverings for law enforcement 01/28/2026 11:22am • The Maryland Senate could be taking up bills as early as this week to ban agreements between local police and federal immigration authorities and to prohibit masks on law enforcement agents, after the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee approved both Tuesday. The committee vote came less than a Maine plane crash victims include event planner and corporate pilot 01/28/2026 11:16am • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� As snow from a massive storm began to fall in Bangor, Maine, on Sunday night, six people who had stopped to refuel a Paris-bound luxury jet prepared for takeoff. None would survive the crash that followed, the cause of which remains unknown. A departing plane ahead of them Disaster on the Potomac, 1 Year Later: First responders to the crash recall 'devastating' recovery efforts 01/28/2026 10:27am • Nearly one year ago, on Jan. 29, 2025, the capital region and the nation watched with shock and confusion as an American Airlines regional jet collided midair with an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was on a training exercise. While most watched the tragedy in the aftermath from phone screens and Turkish authorities arrest 6 on suspicion of spying for Iran 01/28/2026 06:25am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ��� Turkish authorities have arrested six people, including an Iranian national, on suspicion of spying for Iran, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Wednesday. The arrests followed coordinated operations carried out by Turkey���s National Intelligence Organization and coun More 'No Kings' protests planned for March 28 as outrage spreads over Minneapolis deaths 01/28/2026 05:16am • A third round of ���No Kings��� protests is coming this spring, with organizers saying they are planning their largest demonstrations yet across the United States to oppose what they describe as authoritarianism under President Donald Trump. Previous rallies have drawn millions of people, and organi Israel marks the return of the final hostage's remains after more than 2 years of war and grief 01/28/2026 04:45am • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� For more than two years, Israelis wore yellow ribbons to remember the hostages abducted during the deadliest day in the country���s history. On Tuesday, they finally could remove those ribbons and shut down a haunting clock in Tel Aviv���s Hostages Square, marking the end of a pai Today in History: January 28, explosion of the space shuttle Challenger 01/28/2026 04:10am • Today is Wednesday, Jan. 28, the 28th day of 2026. There are 337 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida, killing all seven crew members including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.