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New US Capitol Police chief says increased law enforcement in DC 'benefits everybody' 08/13/2025 05:58pm • The new chief of U.S. Capitol Police, Michael Sullivan, was sworn in a little over a month ago. Now that he's got his footing, he's been subject to rapid-fire changes from President Donald Trump's administration. Amid a shifting landscape in law enforcement in the nation's capital, Sullivan told Colombians bid farewell to presidential hopeful Uribe after shooting at political rally 08/13/2025 04:45pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ��� Colombians on Wednesday bid farewell to senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay, who died more than two months after being shot during a political rally in the South American country���s capital. Family, friends, members of Congress and a delegation of governme Memphis man who killed 3 in livestreamed shooting rampage pleads guilty 08/13/2025 04:42pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� A Tennessee man avoided a trial and possible death sentence by pleading guilty Wednesday to fatally shooting three people and wounding three others in a daylong series of shootings that was livestreamed on social media in 2022. Ezekiel Kelly, 22, pleaded guilty to first-degre Norwegian police say pro-Russian hackers were likely behind suspected sabotage at a dam 08/13/2025 04:05pm • Russian hackers are likely behind suspected sabotage at a dam in Norway in April that affected water flows, police officials told Norwegian media on Wednesday. The director of the Norwegian Police Security Service, Beate Gang��s, said cyberattacks are increasingly being carried out against Western n Prosecutors won't charge Chicago officers who fired nearly 100 times during a deadly traffic stop 08/13/2025 04:05pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Chicago police officers from a tactical unit who fired their guns nearly 100 times during a 2024 traffic stop that killed a 26-year-old man won't face criminal charges, prosecutors announced Wednesday. ���The decision is not reached lightly nor does it diminish the tragedy that occu Prosecutors clear Florida deputy in arrest of a Black man punched and dragged from his car 08/13/2025 03:54pm • Prosecutors will take ���no further action��� against a Florida sheriff's deputy in the arrest of a Black college student pulled from his car and beaten by officers during a February traffic stop. The actions of Officer D. Bowers of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office did not constitute a crime, accor A tale of two Chief Pams: Federal takeover brings confusion over command of DC police 08/13/2025 03:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Attorney General Pam Bondi is effectively in charge of the police department in Washington, D.C. ��� so says the White House. But the city's police force already has a Pam at the helm ��� Chief Pamela Smith ��� and she says she only reports to the mayor. D.C. and federal official Gangs in Haiti kill 2 elite police officers in latest attack against law enforcement 08/13/2025 03:34pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Heavily armed gang members killed two Haitian police officers in the latest deadly attack on law enforcement in the troubled Caribbean country, officials said Wednesday. The officers attacked late Tuesday were members of a new specialized unit tasked with patrolling Ke Armed robbers in latest Philadelphia-area Brinks truck heist took $700,000 or more, police say 08/13/2025 03:34pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Police are investigating whether the armed robbery of a Brinks truck on Tuesday outside a Philadelphia-area store is related to four other attacks on armored vehicles in and around the city this summer. Two armed males got away with between $700,000 and $800,000 in the midday T Browns All-Pro DE Myles Garrett ticketed after police say he drove 100 mph in Cleveland suburb 08/13/2025 12:24pm • STRONGSVILLE, Ohio (AP) ��� Browns All-Pro defensive end Myles Garrett has been accused of driving a Ferrari 100 mph on a suburban Cleveland interstate. The Strongsville Police Department stopped Garrett just after 2 a.m. Saturday in a 60 mph zone on Interstate 71 near the Ohio Turnpike, according t A $200 million endowment focused on Black Americans is taking shape 08/13/2025 12:21pm • Started in 2020 as a five-year initiative inspired by the racial justice outcry following the police murder of George Floyd, the California Black Freedom Fund plans to expand to a $200 million endowment. The move is both rare in the world of philanthropy and politically bold, given the Trump adminis Movie Review: Bob Odenkirk's assassin sequel 'Nobody 2' fails to hit the mark 08/13/2025 12:05pm • The workaholic assassin Hutch Mansell is in a funk as ���Nobody 2��� opens. He's sick of the daily grind, by which we mean he spends hours a day grinding people's skulls into mush. What about a family vacation? ���You need to have happy memories,��� he tells his wife and kids. Unfortunately, no one DC still waits for Congress to restore $1 billion in funding during crime crackdown 08/13/2025 11:59am • For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at Today on the Hill. D.C. leaders and supporters say the city could do more to address public safety in the midst of the federal crime crackdown if House Republicans would restore $1 billion that Police free 11 guards held hostage in Guatemalan prisons 08/13/2025 11:28am • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) ��� Anti-kidnapping teams freed 11 guards overnight after they were held hostage by gang members for most of a day in two Guatemalan prisons, demanding that authorities move their imprisoned leaders to other facilities. Deputy Security Minister Jos�� Portillo confirmed the guards Analysis: Europe���s diplomatic choreography aims to preempt Alaska summit risks 08/13/2025 10:50am • The diplomatic timetable unfolding in Berlin today is no accident. It is a deliberately staged sequence designed to send a political signal as much as to set policy. It is a clear reminder that the war is between Russia and Ukraine, and Russia can���t reach a ceasefire deal in a meeting with U.S.