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Argentina recovers long-lost Italian painting looted by Nazis during WWII 09/03/2025 06:27pm • MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (AP) ��� An Argentine federal court announced Wednesday that authorities had recovered the long-lost ���Portrait of a Lady,��� an 18th-century work by the Italian painter Giuseppe Ghislandi that was looted by the Nazis in World War II. Before the presentation of the giant g Federal judge ends 13-year oversight of Seattle Police Department after use-of-force reforms 09/03/2025 05:57pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� A federal judge returned full control of policing practices to the Seattle Police Department on Wednesday, after overseeing 13 years of reforms prompted by a U.S. Justice Department investigation that found the city's officers were too quick to use force. The city entered into a con House rejects effort to censure New Jersey congresswoman over actions at detention center 09/03/2025 05:35pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The House rejected a resolution to censure Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., and remove her from a committee that oversees immigration and national security as she faces federal charges stemming from a visit to an immigration detention facility. The House voted 215-207 to table the Idaho attorney general says officers who fatally shot intellectually disabled teen won't be charged 09/03/2025 05:30pm • Four Idaho police officers who fatally shot an autistic, nonverbal teenage boy who was holding a knife on the other side of a chain-link fence in April were justified in their actions and will not face criminal charges, the state attorney general said Wednesday. Victor Perez, 17, was in a coma for a DC Del. Norton, Democrats say National Guard deployment needs to end 09/03/2025 05:25pm • For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at��Today on the Hill. D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton on Wednesday called for an end to the deployment of 2,200 National Guard troops in the District, and Democrats spoke out against President Don Roy Jones Jr. given the 1988 Olympic gold medal by the boxer who got the controversial win over him 09/03/2025 05:00pm • Roy Jones Jr. has the gold medal from the 1988 Olympics ��� thanks to a gift from the South Korean fighter who defeated him in the controversial boxing match. Park Si-hun traveled to Jones' ranch in Pensacola, Florida, two years ago and gave the Hall of Famer the medal that Jones seemed to have earn Body found off Route 50 in Md. 'similar' to that of missing young woman from Prince George's Co. 09/03/2025 04:55pm • A body found in Maryland on Sunday has similar characteristics to a missing young woman from Prince George's County, according to police, who emphasized Wednesday they have not yet confirmed it is her body. Dacara Thompson, 19, was last seen Aug. 22 and reported missing the next day. Police found Spanish Vuelta stage cut short because of disruption by pro-Palestinian protesters near finish line 09/03/2025 04:47pm • BILBAO, Spain (AP) ��� The 11th stage of the Spanish Vuelta was cut short and finished without a winner because of a disruption by pro-Palestinian protesters near the finish line in the Basque Country city of Bilbao on Wednesday. The protesters appeared to be targeting riders from the Israel Premier DC police to get 13% pay raise 09/03/2025 04:35pm • Mayor Muriel Bowser and Council Chairman Phil Mendelson announced a new collective bargaining agreement with the D.C. Fraternal Order of Police Union. It includes a 13% pay raise for officers, sergeants, lieutenants and above in the D.C. police department. That raise is effective starting Oct. 1. Trinidad and Tobago leader praises strike and says US should kill all drug traffickers 'violently' 09/03/2025 03:44pm • PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) ��� Trinidad and Tobago���s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar praised a U.S. strike on a boat suspected of carrying drugs in the southern Caribbean and said that all traffickers should be killed ���violently.��� U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that 11 people NYC transit leaders investigating after video appears to show young people operating subway train 09/03/2025 02:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A video that appears to show young people operating an above-ground subway train while a transit worker stands by has drawn the ire of New York City transit leaders, who said Wednesday that an investigation is under way. The video posted to TikTok first shows one boy sitting at the Noteworthy and influential people who've died this year 09/03/2025 02:17pm • August saw the death of Stella Rimington, the first female head of Britain���s MI5 intelligence agency. Over the course of her time at MI5, Rimington overcame gender barriers and worked in each of the domestic security service's operational branches. She was also the inspiration for for Judi Dench�� Exhumation in Kenya cult site paused to allow DNA sampling on 34 bodies 09/03/2025 01:49pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� Exhumations at a site near where the bodies of more than 400 followers of a doomsday cult were found two years ago have been suspended so that DNA samples collected can be analyzed, authorities in Kenya said Wednesday. The latest exhumations, which lasted two weeks, uncovere Slushi bandit busted: Woman in Fairfax Co. accused of stealing $10K in Ninja blenders 09/03/2025 12:44pm • Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, say they���ve blended up the end of an unusual crime spree. An officer with the Mount Vernon Police District pulled over a suspicious rental van on Russell Road in Hybla Valley early on Aug. 24. Inside were two women, one of whom police said gave a fake name Chief of Japanese beverage giant Suntory claims innocence after resigning over CBD supplement 09/03/2025 05:23am • TOKYO (AP) ��� The former chief executive of Japanese beverage giant Suntory acknowledged he was investigated on suspicion of possessing an illegal drug but asserted his innocence despite resigning from his position. ���I have not broken the law. I believe I am innocent,��� Takeshi Niinami told repo