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Today in History: September 16, Cherokee Strip Land Run 09/16/2025 04:10am • Today is Tuesday, Sept. 16, the 259th day of 2025. There are 106 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 16, 1893, the largest land run in U.S. history occurred as more than 100,000 white settlers rushed to claim overmore than 6 million acres of land in what is now northern Oklahoma. Als Virginia's US Rep. Subramanyam boosts security after August threat to Leesburg office 09/16/2025 04:01am • U.S. Rep. Suhas Subramanyam revealed Monday that he received an email in August threatening violence against his district office in Leesburg, Virginia. Speaking to WTOP, Subramanyam said that in the email, the person, whom he said was a constituent, threatened to bring a gun to that office. Ex-British soldier goes on trial for 1972 Bloody Sunday killings in Northern Ireland 09/16/2025 03:20am • LONDON (AP) ��� The only British soldier to be prosecuted in the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland went on trial Monday in Belfast on murder charges in a case that has come to symbolize the three decades of sectarian violence known as ���The Troubles.��� The ex-paratrooper, a lance cor Utah campus where Charlie Kirk was shot provided less security than other venues as he toured nation 09/16/2025 02:29am • OREM, Utah (AP) ��� Less than two weeks before Charlie Kirk's assassination in Utah, a sheriff's department in central California conducted three days of reconnaissance to prepare for a speech by the conservative firebrand at a local church in politically friendly territory. Officials researched pot Trump administration joins Republicans' campaign to police speech in reaction to Kirk's killing 09/15/2025 10:27pm • Vice President JD Vance on Monday jumped onto the conservative movement demanding consequences for those who have cheered Charlie Kirk's killing, calling on the public to turn in anyone who says distasteful things about the assassination of his friend and political ally. ���When you see someone cele British politicians condemn Elon Musk's comments at anti-migrant rally 09/15/2025 08:57pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday condemned ���dangerous��� comments by Elon Musk after the X and Tesla owner told an anti-immigration rally that violence is coming to Britain and they must fight or die. But the U.K. government resisted opposition calls to sanction Musk for the r The Latest: Rubio will head to Qatar after meeting with Netanyahu in Israel 09/15/2025 08:57pm • The U.S. State Department says Secretary of State Marco Rubio will head to Qatar after meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. The visit announced Monday comes as the region is still reeling from Israel���s strike targeting Hamas leaders in the Qatari capital, Doha. The U.S. has so Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, calling it a 'replica' of his crackdown on Washington 09/15/2025 07:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump signed an order Monday sending the National Guard into Memphis to combat crime, offering another major test of the limits of presidential power by using military force in American cities. With Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee visiting the Oval Office, Tru Fingerprint on rifle scope matches man accused of trying to assassinate Trump, FBI analyst testifies 09/15/2025 06:35pm • A fingerprint on the scope of a rifle found near where President Donald Trump was playing golf last year matches that of a man accused of trying to assassinate Trump that day, an FBI analyst testified Monday in a Florida courtroom. Monday was the third day of testimony in the trial of Ryan Routh, w Trump threatens to take over DC police again over immigration enforcement 09/15/2025 05:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to once again federalize Washington, D.C.'s police force, in what he suggested could come in response to the city's mayor's stated refusal to cooperate with immigration enforcement. Trump's emergency order, which took over the local pol Activists say immigration enforcement increased as Chicago waits for promised federal intervention 09/15/2025 05:17pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Activists in Chicago���s well-connected immigrant rights network say there���s been a noticeable uptick in immigration enforcement agents in recent days, deepening the dread in communities already fearful of the large-scale arrests or aggressive tactics used in other cities targeted The Boys & Girls Clubs of America are still benefiting from Nate Bargatze's controversial Emmys bit 09/15/2025 04:59pm • The Boys & Girls Clubs of America may end up being the biggest winner of Sunday night's Emmy Awards. The afterschool youth programming nonprofit is now seeing a donation surge after a controversial fundraising bit at the center of television's biggest night. Emmys host Nate Bargatze pledged $100 Suspect in Seattle home invasions of Macklemore and celebrity athletes pleads not guilty 09/15/2025 04:01pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� A man accused of breaking into the homes of Seattle-area celebrities, including baseball Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki and hip-hop artist Macklemore, and pepper-spraying people he encountered inside pleaded not guilty Monday to multiple charges. Patrick Maisonet, 29, was arrested at h 2 men sentenced to prison in Zambia for plotting to kill the president with witchcraft 09/15/2025 03:55pm • LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) ��� A judge in Zambia on Monday sentenced two men to two-year terms in prison with hard labor after they were convicted of plotting to kill the president using witchcraft. The men, a Zambian and a Mozambican national, were convicted under a colonial-era witchcraft law last week. Gang attack on armored vehicle in Haiti leaves 2 police officers injured and 1 driver dead 09/15/2025 03:26pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Gunmen attacked an armored vehicle in a community near Haiti's capital, leaving two police officers injured and one driver dead, authorities said Monday. The attack occurred over the weekend in the once peaceful farming community of Kenscoff, which heavily armed gangs