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PHOTOS: National Guard, federal law enforcement descend on DC in White House effort to tamp down on crime 08/22/2025 06:15pm • On Aug. 11, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to federalize the D.C. police force. Since then, the city has seen the deployment of the National Guard, a sandwich-throwing Department of Justice worker, bulldozers tearing down homeless encampments and much more. See pictures of the law DC mayor responds to criticism that city crime data is inaccurate 08/22/2025 05:32pm • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is responding to criticisms about crime data in the city and reacting to a plan for National Guard members to start carrying weapons. Speaking exclusively to WTOP at a back-to-school event at the RFK Campus, Bowser said city leaders have been reporting data that the Justi National Guard troops on DC streets for Trump's crackdown will start carrying guns 08/22/2025 05:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered National Guard troops to start carrying firearms while patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump���s law enforcement crackdown, the Pentagon said Friday. The Defense Department didn���t offer any other details ab Argentina investigates alleged kickback scheme entangling President Milei's inner circle 08/22/2025 04:55pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ��� Argentine police on Friday raided over a dozen luxury homes and offices including the headquarters of a national agency charged with providing disability benefits, an official said, escalating a corruption investigation that threatens to ensnarl the closest advisers Deadly attacks in Colombia cast a shadow on the president's peace-with-guerrillas policy 08/22/2025 04:49pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ��� Colombia's anti-government guerrillas have grown stronger under President Gustavo Petro���s three years in office. That strength was on display in brazen attacks this week that included a car bombing and the downing of a police helicopter ��� violence that left at least 19 2026 World Cup draw will be held at Washington's Kennedy Center, Trump says 08/22/2025 04:23pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump said Friday that the draw for the 2026 World Cup will take place on Dec. 5 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, and didn't rule out that he himself might oversee the event. ���It���s the biggest, probably the biggest event in sports, I guess,��� said Trump Former Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe arrested on allegations of misusing state funds 08/22/2025 03:06pm • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) ��� Police in Sri Lanka arrested former President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday over allegations that the senior opposition politician misused public funds during his presidency, police said. Wickremesinghe, who was president from 2022 to 2024, is accused of using the funds Body cam footage shows Milwaukee judge denying she hid an immigrant wanted by ICE 08/22/2025 02:57pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� A Milwaukee judge charged with obstructing a federal agency and concealing a wanted person who was in the country illegally told police days after the incident in her courtroom that ���I didn't do anything that they're saying.��� The comments were captured on body camera footage b Police say multiple people have died in a tour bus crash in New York state 08/22/2025 02:43pm • PEMBROKE, N.Y. (AP) ��� Police say multiple people have died in a tour bus crash in New York state. Kurdish political figure arrested in Iraq, sparking clashes that leave 5 dead 08/22/2025 01:24pm • IRBIL, Iraq (AP) ��� At least five people were killed and 18 others wounded in the city of Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq���s semiautonomous Kurdish region in clashes after the arrest of a prominent Kurdish political figure, officials said Friday. Security forces launched a major overnight operation Trump embraces tough-on-crime mantra amid DC takeover as he and Democrats claim political wins 08/22/2025 12:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� President Donald Trump stood among several hundred law enforcement officers, National Guard troops and federal agents at a U.S. Park Police operations center in one of Washington, D.C.'s most dangerous neighborhoods. As the cameras rolled, he offered a stark message about crime, an Violence erupts in a Copa Sudamericana match so what happens next? 08/22/2025 12:26pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ��� In one of the most violent episodes in recent South American football history, hooligans from Argentina���s Independiente and visiting Universidad de Chile attacked each other in the Copa Sudamericana. The ferocity of the stadium fighting with sticks and sharp object Fight at Dutch holiday park injures 2 Israeli tourists 08/22/2025 11:21am • AMSTERDAM (AP) ��� A fight over a paintball match at a holiday park in the Netherlands left two Israeli tourists injured, Dutch police said Friday. The two Israeli men, one of whom had a serious head injury, were treated by paramedics after a brawl between the Israelis and a group of Dutch tourists Trump's death penalty push faces setbacks as judges block attempts to reverse prior decisions 08/22/2025 10:02am • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� President Donald Trump's administration is faltering in its aggressive pursuit of the death penalty as it revisits cases in which predecessors explicitly decided against seeking capital punishment. Since taking office in February, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has authorized Gunmen kill 5 police officers in southeastern Iran 08/22/2025 08:09am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ��� Gunmen on Friday killed five police officers in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, state media reported. The officers were patrolling in two police cars when they were attacked on the road near the city of Iranshahr, some 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) south