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Former interior minister arrested upon arrival in Bolivia after deportation from US 09/04/2025 08:55pm • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s incendiary former interior minister was arrested at the airport Thursday after being deported from the United States to face a litany of charges, including crimes against humanity for ordering a deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters in 2019. The deporta DC leaders react to lawsuit aimed at ending National Guard deployment 09/04/2025 08:50pm • As legal and political tensions escalate over federal intervention in the District, Mayor Muriel Bowser is turning her attention toward the end of President Donald Trump's declared crime emergency — while council members rally behind a lawsuit challenging the continued deployment of the National G Ruth Paine, who opened her Texas home to Lee Harvey Oswald and shooed away conspiracies, dead at 92 09/04/2025 08:16pm • DALLAS (AP) — Ruth Paine, whose kindness to Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife as a young mother near Dallas would leave her inexorably linked to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has died. She was 92. Paine died on Sunday in a senior living facility in Santa Rosa, California, her d Clergy members gather in DC to pray and protest federal law enforcement surge 09/04/2025 07:56pm • On Thursday, members of D.C.'s faith community gathered on Freedom Plaza, just steps from the White House and the Wilson Building, to both pray and protest the federal law enforcement surge in the nation’s capital. The gathering comes amid a growing national debate over federal intervention in DC lawsuit challenges Trump's National Guard deployment as a forced 'military occupation' 09/04/2025 07:38pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia on Thursday challenged President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard in Washington, asking a federal court to intervene even as he plans to send troops to other cities in the name of driving down crime. Brian Schwalb, the district's elected attorne A Minnesota man imprisoned for 27 years is free after a key witness says she committed the murder 09/04/2025 07:34pm • A Minnesota man wrongly convicted of murder who spent nearly three decades in prison after being falsely implicated by a woman who has since confessed to the crime was released Thursday. State District Court Judge Marta Chou had vacated Bryan Hooper Sr.'s first-degree murder conviction the day befor Ex-pilot accused of trying to cut a passenger flight’s engines reaches plea deals, his lawyer says 09/04/2025 07:20pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A former Alaska Airlines pilot accused of trying to cut the engines of a passenger flight in 2023 while riding off-duty in the cockpit has reached plea agreements with state and federal prosecutors, his attorney said Thursday. Attorney Noah Horst declined to discuss details o Republican Gabriel Sterling, defender of 2020 Georgia election, runs for secretary of state 09/04/2025 07:17pm • ATLANTA (AP) — A former top elections official who made a name for himself defending Georgia's 2020 presidential election tally against threats from supporters of President Donald Trump is now running to be the state's elections chief. Republican Gabriel Sterling, 54, filed paperwork Tuesday to ru Joseph McNeil, who helped spark a protest movement at a North Carolina lunch counter, dies at 83 09/04/2025 07:10pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Joseph McNeil, one of four North Carolina college students whose occupation of a racially segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter 65 years ago helped spark nonviolent civil rights sit-in protests across the South, died Thursday, his university said. He was 83. McNeil, who late Trump's promised immigration crackdown in Chicago could last about six weeks, suburban official says 09/04/2025 07:07pm • CHICAGO (AP) — The Trump administration has informed Chicago-area officials that its promised immigration enforcement surge will run for about six weeks, according to the mayor of a suburb that houses an immigration processing center. Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson said in a letter to the villag Police in Rio de Janeiro raid a drug trafficking ring and kill 8 gang members 09/04/2025 06:54pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police in Rio de Janeiro freed two hostages including a child during a raid Thursday on a drug trafficking ring that prompted an intense shoot-out in a low-income neighborhood, leaving eight gang members dead, authorities said. The operation targeted the criminal organization Northwestern University president says he will resign following tenure marked by White House tension 09/04/2025 06:28pm • Northwestern University President Michael Schill said Thursday that he will resign, ending a three-year tenure marked by the freeze of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding by the Trump administration and heated criticism from House Republicans over the university's response to campus p Woman wrongly accused of carjacking loses lawsuit against Detroit police who used facial tech 09/04/2025 06:13pm • DETROIT (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Detroit police in the wrongful arrest of a pregnant woman who was charged in a carjacking partly because of facial recognition technology. Porcha Woodruff, who was eight months pregnant, spent 10 hours in jail after she was arrested at her sub Cold case breakthrough in Maryland reunites siblings who've been separated for more than 70 years 09/04/2025 05:28pm • The woman at the center of what police in Howard County, Maryland, have for decades simply called "The Jane Doe Case" has finally been identified, and that breakthrough has reunited two of her children, who hadn't seen each other for more than 70 years. Sarah Belle Sharkey, whose name at birt Police kill a man in a burning Georgia house, finding a woman dead and others trapped 09/04/2025 05:07pm • LOCUST GROVE, Ga. (AP) — Police in an Atlanta suburb say they shot and killed a man inside a burning house early Thursday, then found a woman dead with burns and rescued two other women and a child who were inside a bedroom. Officers responded around 3:40 a.m. to a report of a house fire with peop