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Crime victims' families say Chicago violence is a problem, but sending in troops isn't the answer 09/20/2025 10:40am • Delphine Cherry knows as well as anyone how intractable violent crime is in Chicago. In 1992, her teenage daughter was gunned down in one of the city's toniest neighborhoods ��� a bystander caught up in a gang shootout. Twenty years later in a suburb just south of the city, it claimed her son. ���Yo Luigi Mangione's lawyers want death penalty off the table in UnitedHealthcare CEO murder case 09/20/2025 10:18am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Luigi Mangione���s lawyers urged a judge on Saturday to bar federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, arguing that authorities prejudiced his case by turning his arrest into a ���Marvel movie��� spectacle and by public Members of Congress take steps to tighten their own security after Kirk's killing 09/20/2025 10:01am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� As House Speaker Mike Johnson gathered lawmakers this week to mourn Charlie Kirk, he summed up the grief felt by many on Capitol Hill ��� and the pervasive fear. ���For so many of us, it has felt as if the ground was shaken,��� said Johnson, R-La. The killing of Kirk, the promin Pakistani court charges man with murder of teenage TikTok influencer 09/20/2025 08:55am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� A Pakistani court charged a man on Saturday with murder for shooting a teenage social media influencer outside her home earlier this year after refusing his offer of friendship. Judge Mohammad Afzal Majoka in the capital, Islamabad, indicted Umar Hayat for killing 17-year-old San Serbia stages a large military parade to showcase tanks, jets and missile systems 09/20/2025 08:47am • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ��� Serbia on Saturday staged a large-scale military parade in the capital Belgrade, showcasing tanks, missile systems and fighter jets in what officials described as the country���s biggest display of army strength in its history. President Aleksandar Vucic reviewed the parade Zohran Mamdani's been called a communist who'll defund the police. Here's where he actually stands 09/20/2025 08:17am • President Donald Trump calls him a ���communist." His critics say he wants to defund the police. Zohran Mamdani insists he's just a guy trying to make New York City more affordable. Mamdani 's meteoritic rise to become the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor has put his past and present polic Thousands evacuated in Hong Kong after discovery of large WWII-era bomb 09/20/2025 07:59am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Thousands of people were evacuated from their homes in Hong Kong overnight so experts could defuse a large U.S.-made bomb left over from World War II that was discovered at a construction site. Police said the bomb was 1.5 meters (nearly 5 feet) in length and weighed about 1,00 After explosive revelations, Vatican trial heads to appeals phase 09/20/2025 06:41am • VATICAN CITY (AP) ��� The Vatican���s ��� trial of the century ��� had it all: part Dan Brown thriller, part John Grisham legal drama, part low-brow Shakespeare tragicomedy. The financial whodunnit about the Holy See���s bungled 350 million euro investment in a London property was notable for its s 'Freedom': Why 40 people marched from Philadelphia to the Capitol 09/20/2025 04:41am • Some 40 people spent the last 14 days on foot carrying a giant copy of the U.S. Constitution from Philadelphia to the nation's capital. The 160-mile pilgrimage ended Friday with a crowd cheering as the "We Are America" marchers made their way to the stage in the shadows of the U.S. Capitol. Am Texts reveal behind-the-scenes maneuvering of the Vatican���s ���trial of the century��� 09/20/2025 02:08am • VATICAN CITY (AP) ��� In the last two years, defense lawyers have acquired 3,225 pages of WhatsApp messages between two women who were tangential to the Vatican's ���trial of the century,��� but were actually intimately aware of the investigation and in some ways involved. Their four years of conver Protesters arrested as demonstrators block vehicles at key immigration building near Chicago 09/20/2025 01:25am • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Protesters tried to block vehicles Friday outside a federal immigration enforcement building in suburban Chicago, leading to a confrontation with authorities who arrested multiple people and used a chemical agent to disperse the crowd. The protest is part of steady pushback against University where Charlie Kirk was shot confronts unwanted infamy 09/20/2025 12:03am • OREM, Utah (AP) ��� It took two decades for Utah Valley University to evolve from a small community college into the state's largest school, boasting of having one of the safest campuses in the nation. It took only seconds for that image to be shattered by the assassination of right wing activist Ch Estonia says 3 Russian fighter jets entered its airspace in 'brazen' incursion 09/19/2025 10:59pm • Estonia summoned a Russian diplomat to protest after three Russian fighter aircraft entered its airspace without permission Friday and stayed there for 12 minutes, the Foreign Ministry said. It happened just over a week after NATO planes downed Russian drones over Poland and heightened fears that th Man accused of trying to kill Trump says prosecutors haven't proven assassination attempt 09/19/2025 08:51pm • FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) ��� A man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course last year told a federal judge on Friday that prosecutors haven't proven that an assassination attempt occurred. But the judge denied his motion for acquittal, meaning jurors will even Virginia US attorney under pressure to charge Letitia James in mortgage fraud case has resigned 09/19/2025 08:16pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A federal prosecutor in Virginia whose monthslong mortgage fraud investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James has not resulted in criminal charges resigned Friday under pressure from the Trump administration. Erik Siebert confirmed his departure in an email to co