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US government warns it will take action if Haitian politicians destabilize country 01/22/2026 05:49pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� The U.S. warned the transitional council in charge of Haiti against making changes to the troubled country���s government late Wednesday, as pressure mounts for the unelected body to move toward elections for the first time in a decade. In a statement posted on X, the FBI raid at Haymarket chicken farm stretches to second day 01/22/2026 05:03pm • An FBI investigation into an alleged drug and gun trafficking conspiracy, with significant activity at Haymarket's Rancho Los Cerritos farm, culminated in Wednesday���s raid on the property and several arrests, according to a��criminal complaint affidavit��filed in U.S. District Court. The affida 'Sinners' makes history, setting Oscars nomination record 01/22/2026 04:47pm • Ryan Coogler���s blues-steeped vampire epic ���Sinners��� led all films with 16 nominations to the 98th Academy Awards on Thursday, setting a record for the most in Oscar history. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters showered ���Sinners��� with more nominations than they had ever besto After presidential election, Ugandan police detain a key ally of opposition figure Bobi Wine 01/22/2026 03:07pm • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ��� Police on Thursday detained a key ally of opposition figure Bobi Wine, accusing him of participating in bouts of violence in a remote part of central Uganda during last week's election. Muwanga Kivumbi, a lawmaker who is a deputy president of Wine's National Unity Platform p LISTEN: Donald Trump's second first term's theme is 'determination,' AP reporters say 01/22/2026 02:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� In the year since President Donald Trump���s second inauguration, he���s made sweeping policy changes, eliminated hundreds of government jobs, battled dozens of cases in courts and most recently, deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to major American cities in an Death toll in Pakistan shopping plaza fire rises to 67, officials say 01/22/2026 12:54pm • KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) ��� The death toll from a devastating fire at a shopping plaza in Pakistan���s southern port city of Karachi jumped to 67 on Thursday after police and a hospital official confirmed that the remains of dozens more people had been found. Police surgeon Dr. Summaiya Syed said re Death toll from Karachi shopping plaza fire rises to 67 after more bodies are found, police and hospital officials say. 01/22/2026 11:29am • KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) ��� Death toll from Karachi shopping plaza fire rises to 67 after more bodies are found, police and hospital officials say. Death toll in South Africa school bus crash rises to 14 as the driver is charged with murder 01/22/2026 11:16am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) ��� Two teenage girls died Thursday of their injuries in this week���s school bus crash in South Africa ���s Gauteng province, raising the death toll to 14, authorities said, as the bus driver was charged with murder. The private minibus was transporting 16 students to various pri Moore���s 4th budget uses cuts, fund shifts to close $1.5 billion budget gap 01/22/2026 10:04am • Gov. Wes Moore (D) unveiled a $70.8 billion fiscal 2027 budget proposal Wednesday that he said increases funds for education, housing and police initiatives, while closing a $1.5 billion budget gap without increased taxes or fees. The budget, the last of Moore���s curent term, comes as the state Gunman at large in Australia after leaving 3 dead and 1 wounded 01/22/2026 08:58am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� A gunman was at large after a shooting in a town in Australia's New South Wales state on Thursday left three people dead and another wounded, police said. Emergency services were called to two locations at Lake Cargelligo, a town of around 1,500 people, after 4 p.m. Two Homicide rate declines sharply in dozens of US cities, a new report shows 01/22/2026 08:46am • Data collected from 35 American cities showed a 21% decrease in the homicide rate from 2024 to 2025, translating to about 922 fewer homicides last year, according to a new report from the independent Council on Criminal Justice. The report, released on Thursday, tracked 13 crimes and recorded drops Interpol-backed police make nearly 200 arrests in Amazon region gold mining sweep 01/22/2026 07:09am • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ��� Police and prosecutors from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first-ever joint cross-border operation targeting illegal gold mining in the Amazon region, authorities said Thursday. The operation was backed by Interpol ��� th 2 Tiananmen vigil organizers plead not guilty in Hong Kong national security trial 01/22/2026 03:25am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Two organizers of Hong Kong's long-running vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown pleaded not guilty Thursday, while a third pleaded guilty before the trial brought under a national security law that has largely erased dissent in the city. Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheu Philippine court convicts journalist of terror financing charge in ruling condemned by media groups 01/22/2026 03:16am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� A Philippine court Thursday found a Filipina journalist guilty of financing terrorism in a verdict that was condemned by press freedom watchdogs but welcomed by anti-communist insurgency officials. Presiding Judge Georgina Perez of the Regional Trial Court in central Tac Police say 3 people were killed and another was wounded in a shooting in a town in Australia's New South Wales state 01/22/2026 02:44am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Police say 3 people were killed and another was wounded in a shooting in a town in Australia's New South Wales state.