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Chicagoans change routines as immigration crackdown looms. Some carry passports and avoid stores 09/09/2025 09:11pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� The streets in some of Chicago's liveliest neighborhoods are quiet these days. Public schoolteachers want online learning for families scared to venture out. And houses of worship are urging people to carry identification everywhere they go. As the nation's third-largest city await Macron appoints Defense Minister Lecornu as France's latest prime minister 09/09/2025 08:14pm • PARIS (AP) ��� French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday appointed Defense Minister S��bastien Lecornu as new prime minister and tasked him with immediately trying to get the country's fractious political parties to agree on a budget for one of the world's biggest economies. Lecornu, 39, was the y Sen. Ruben Gallego seeks to block Ashli Babbitt from military funeral honors 09/09/2025 07:50pm • Sen. Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, will seek to block the Pentagon from offering full military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, a member of the crowd that rioted at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) listens during a town hall at NOAH Cholla Health Center on Marc Tampa Bay Rays' Wander Franco has been detained and admitted into a clinic for mental health issues 09/09/2025 05:56pm • SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) ��� Suspended Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco, who was found guilty earlier this year of sexually abusing a minor, was detained by police on Tuesday and admitted into a clinic in the Dominican Republic for mental health issues, according to authorities. Police say they seized 23 guns from the home of a 13-year-old who appeared to idolize mass shooters 09/09/2025 05:25pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� A 13-year-old boy who police said appeared to be fixated on school shooters was arrested on charges of unlawful firearms possession and making a threat after they say they found social media posts about intentions to kill and seized 23 guns and ammunition from his home. The boy ple What to know about the Israeli strike aimed at Hamas leaders in Qatar 09/09/2025 05:13pm • An Israeli strike that targeted top Hamas leaders Tuesday as they gathered in the Gulf nation of Qatar marked a major escalation against the militant group and could upend negotiations aimed at ending the war in Gaza and returning Israeli hostages. It could also spark a diplomatic crisis with Qatar, Top US immigration official defends rule targeting 'anti-American' views in green card, visa process 09/09/2025 04:48pm • CAMP SPRINGS, Maryland (AP) ��� A new rule allowing a U.S. immigration agency to scrutinize a person's ���anti-American��� views when applying for a green card or other benefits isn't designed to target political beliefs, but to identify support for terrorist activity, the organization's director to Georgia judge to toss landmark racketeering charges against 'Cop City' protesters 09/09/2025 03:36pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� A Georgia judge on Tuesday said he will toss the racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility that critics pejoratively call ���Cop City.��� Fulton County Judge Kevin Farmer sa Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show 09/09/2025 03:30pm • BEIJING (AP) ��� The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks. By then, surveillance was nothing new for the Yang family in rural China, snared in an intrica Takeaways from Trump's federal law enforcement surge in DC as his emergency order is set to expire 09/09/2025 03:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� One month after President Donald Trump's law enforcement surge in the nation's capital, there may be less crime. There are fewer guns on the streets and fewer homeless encampments, according to official figures. But for some who work or live in Washington, D.C., the operation has 'Block Everything' protests and pigs' heads roil France as Macron installs new PM 09/09/2025 02:40pm • PARIS (AP) ��� French authorities say they're bracing for possible acts of sabotage and other violence when tens of thousands of protesters are expected to respond to online calls to disrupt the country on Wednesday, potentially compounding France's latest political crisis triggered by the governmen Pro-Palestinian protests at Spanish Vuelta force organizers to cut short another stage 09/09/2025 01:18pm • POIO, Spain (AP) ��� The 16th stage of the Spanish Vuelta was cut short Tuesday after pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the road a few kilometers from the finish line. It was the second time a stage was cut short because of the protests at the three-week Grand Tour race in Spain. Race organizers to US military contractor argues against $42 million awarded to Abu Ghraib detainees who were tortured 09/09/2025 01:15pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Appellate judges heard arguments Tuesday in an appeal brought by a U.S. military contractor ordered to pay $42 million for contributing to the torture of three former detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, with judges questioning the accuracy of some legal filings by the contr France's prime minister is ousted as the nation drifts into turmoil 09/09/2025 01:02pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Another prime minister gone. Another crisis unfolding. In France, what once shocked is now routine. Prime Minister Fran��ois Bayrou submitted his resignation Tuesday after losing a crushing confidence vote in parliament. The third toppling of a head of government in 14 months leaves P Man arrested for suspected tear gas incident that caused partial evacuation at Heathrow Airport 09/09/2025 12:29pm • LONDON (AP) ��� A 57-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly possessing tear gas that is believed to have caused the partial evacuation of a terminal at Heathrow Airport. About 20 people treated by paramedics were not seriously injured in the incident that closed the departures area of Termi