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Maine police officer arrested by ICE agrees to voluntarily leave the country 08/18/2025 04:34pm • OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine (AP) ��� A Maine police officer arrested by immigration authorities has agreed to voluntarily leave the country, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday. ICE arrested Old Orchard Beach Police Department reserve Officer Jon Luke Evans, of Jamaica, on July 25, as 'It doesn't make sense': Bowser on deployment of National Guard to DC 08/18/2025 04:28pm • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser reiterated Monday that her police chief is still in charge, even as several states have committed to sending members of the National Guard to support President Donald Trump's administration's crackdown on crime. "Let me correct you, there is no takeover," Bowser said Editorial Roundup: United States 08/18/2025 02:25pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Aug. 14 The New York Times says shrinking crime rate is encouraging America is in the midst of a historic decline in crime. In 2023, murders fell 10 percent, which was then the largest annual drop since reliable records began in 19 The story behind Devo���s ���Whip It��� and their misunderstood legacy 08/18/2025 02:24pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� You know the band Devo, right? The guys with the funny red plastic hats and jumpsuits? The New Wave musicians behind the silly ���Whip It��� video? They had that odd, spiky '80s vibe? Well, it turns out you may not know as much as you think. The new Netflix documentary ���Devo��� i Republican Stacy Garrity seeks to challenge Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro���s reelection bid 08/18/2025 11:37am • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ��� Stacy Garrity, Pennsylvania���s two-term elected state treasurer, said Monday that she will seek the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro ���s reelection bid, setting up what could be a contest between a low-profile officeholder and a potential Whi FIFA President Gianni Infantino condemns 'unacceptable' racism after incidents at German Cup games 08/18/2025 10:19am • ZURICH (AP) ��� FIFA President Gianni Infantino says that two incidents of alleged racist abuse which marred German Cup games are ���unacceptable��� as German police investigate. Infantino's comments came a day after Schalke's Christopher Antwi-Adjei said he was subjected to racist abuse in a cup ga Bolivia heads to a presidential runoff as 2 decades of left-wing dominance ends 08/18/2025 07:33am • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) ��� Bolivia's presidential vote headed to an unprecedented runoff after elections Sunday that ended more than two decades of left-wing dominance in the Andean nation but signaled voters' trepidation about a major lurch to the right. A dark horse centrist, Sen. Rodrigo Paz, drew Man arrested for allegedly racially abusing Semenyo has been given conditional bail 08/18/2025 06:04am • LIVERPOOL, England (AP) ��� A man arrested on suspicion of racially abusing Bournemouth forward Antoine Semenyo during a Premier League game has been released on conditional bail, police said Monday. Merseyside Police said the 47-year-man from Liverpool cannot attend a soccer match in Britain or go Marshals arrest alleged felon in Maryland for ATV assault on DC police officer 08/18/2025 04:16am • The U.S. Marshals Service announced on Sunday the arrest of 30-year-old Gerard Stokes in Greenbelt, Maryland, as part of the ���Making D.C. Safe and Beautiful��� public safety surge ordered by the White House. Stokes was wanted by D.C. police on a felony charge of assaulting a police officer duri 'It's not a war zone': DC residents say activities for youth would help crime 08/18/2025 04:01am • It���s been nearly a week since President Donald Trump announced his administration was taking over the 3,100-member Metropolitan Police Department. Trump said the reason for the takeover was to combat crime that he described as ���very out of control��� ��� and that has headlined newscasts acros Hong Kong pro-democracy activists granted asylum in Australia and Britain 08/18/2025 03:47am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ��� A Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and a former lawmaker who are wanted by the city���s authorities have been granted asylum in Great Britain and Australia, respectively. Tony Chung, an activist who was imprisoned under Hong Kong���s sweeping national security law, and Ted Hu Ethiopian migrants face kidnappings and death, leaving behind heartbroken families 08/18/2025 01:27am • ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) ��� When 19-year-old Nigus Yosef told his parents he was going to leave home in Ethiopia���s Tigray region and try to get to Saudi Arabia, they begged him not to go. Two of their children had already made the crossing, via the Gulf of Aden and then war-torn Yemen. Yosef��� Israel's growing frustration over the war in Gaza erupts in nationwide protests 08/18/2025 12:48am • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Israeli protesters demanding a deal to free hostages in Gaza attempted to shut down the country Sunday in one of the largest and fiercest protests in 22 months of war. Organizers, representing the families of hostages, asserted that hundreds of thousands of people took part. Frust Photos of the National Guard and federal agents in Washington 08/17/2025 10:34pm • After President Donald Trump's announcement that his administration would take over Washington���s police department for at least a month, hundreds of members of the National Guard began to arrive in the capital. The federalization push, Trump said, includes clearing out encampments for homeless pe Putin agrees that US, Europe could offer NATO-style security guarantees to Ukraine, Trump envoy says 08/17/2025 09:55pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump that the United States and its European allies could offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO���s collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the war, a U.S. official said Sun