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Families of 2 killed in Minneapolis school shooting issue statements 08/28/2025 07:35pm • ��� Watch Video: Father of boy killed in Minneapolis church shooting asks others to "give your kids an extra hug and The families of the two children who were��shot and killed early Wednesday morning at Annunciation Catholic Church in southwest Minneapolis��spoke out for the first time Thursd DC man seen throwing sandwich at agent charged with misdemeanor after grand jury declines indictment 08/28/2025 07:19pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A man captured on camera hurling a sandwich at a federal agent in D.C. has been charged with a misdemeanor offense after prosecutors failed to convince a grand jury to return a more serious felony indictment, according to court papers filed Thursday. The move is a blow to the The Latest: RFK Jr. adviser will serve as acting CDC leader after director���s firing, AP source says 08/28/2025 07:14pm • Jim O���Neill, a top deputy to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will serve as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official who requested anonymity to discuss a personnel change that has not been formally announced. The director of Man convicted of triple murder put to death in record 11th execution in Florida this year 08/28/2025 07:11pm • STARKE, Fla. (AP) ��� A man convicted of killing his girlfriend, her mother and a man he claimed owed him $2,000 was put to death Thursday in a record 11th execution this year by the state of Florida. Curtis Windom, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. following a lethal injection at Florida State P What we know about the shooter who killed 2 and wounded 18 in Minneapolis 08/28/2025 06:34pm • The shooter who killed two children and injured 18 worshippers attending Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school was quiet and seemed to resent school as an eighth grader there seven years ago, a former classmate said. Officials identified the shooter as Robin Westman, 23, and said Thursday that Westm Former Colts owner Irsay continued battling addiction relapses prior to death in May, report says 08/28/2025 06:22pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Former Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay continued to suffer setbacks from a longtime addiction to painkillers prior to his death in May, the Washington Post reported Thursday. The Post cites five people who had direct knowledge of Irsay���s relapses but who requested anony Montgomery County watching for ripple effects from DC law enforcement surge 08/28/2025 05:55pm • A law enforcement surge in D.C. has led to the clearing of homeless encampments and an alleged reduction in crime, but it is also raising concerns in neighboring communities, including Montgomery County, Maryland, about possible spikes in crime and homelessness as a result. ���All of our district A former Dominican prosecutor and 8 others are sentenced in a scheme to erase criminal records 08/28/2025 05:19pm • SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) ��� A court in the Dominican Republic on Thursday sentenced nine suspects for helping erase criminal records of thousands of people, including convicted rapists and hitmen, to between six and 10 years in prison. The group, which includes a former prosecutor, ha Minneapolis Catholic schoolchildren listened to a prayer, then ducked for cover from gunfire 08/28/2025 04:59pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� In the vaulted church of a Catholic school in Minneapolis, the pews were packed with teachers, parents and schoolchildren listening to a psalm on the third day of the new school year. ���For you darkness itself is not dark, and night shines as the day," a church member read to Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO has inspired followers, prosecutors say 08/28/2025 04:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Prosecutors say Luigi Mangione, accused of killing the CEO of UnitedHealthcare on a Manhattan sidewalk, has inspired others to embrace violence over reasoned debate. As evidence of Mangione's growing influence, prosecutors cited the last month's deadly mass shooting at the Nationa Today in History: August 28, MLK delivers ���I Have a Dream��� speech 08/28/2025 03:43pm • Today is Thursday, Aug. 28, the 240th day of 2025. There are 125 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 28, 1963, during the March on Washington, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his ���I Have a Dream��� speech before an estimated 250,000 people in front of the Lincoln Memorial Cold-case killer sentenced to 22 years in prison for 2001 murder of Montgomery Co. mother 08/28/2025 03:17pm • It took investigators two decades to solve the cold-case murder of a mother attacked inside her Montgomery County, Maryland, home in May 2001. Family members of the murder victim, Leslie Preer, shouted, "Yes," inside the courtroom Thursday as the 30-year sentence was handed down. A judge sente Shooter fired 116 rounds from a rifle into a Minneapolis church, police chief says 08/28/2025 03:14pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Shooter fired 116 rounds from a rifle into a Minneapolis church, police chief says. Republican proposal could extend federal law enforcement surge in DC for 6 months 08/28/2025 02:02pm • For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at Today on the Hill. Republican members of Congress are proposing several bills that back President Donald Trump's federal law enforcement surge, including a measure that would extend it for six m What polling shows about Trump's pivot from immigration to crime 08/28/2025 01:49pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump���s recent focus on crime in Washington and other big cities came as views of his handling of immigration ��� the early focus of his second term ��� had been souring, a new analysis by The Associated Press shows. Trump's approach to crime is now a clear str