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How the Trump administration erased centuries of Justice Department experience 01/16/2026 05:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Michael Ben'Ary was driving one of his children to soccer practice on an October evening last year when he paused at a red light to check his work phone. He was in the middle of a counterterrorism prosecution so important that President Donald Trump highlighted it in his address National Guard troops to stay on Washington, DC, streets through 2026 01/16/2026 05:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� National Guard troops will be on the streets of Washington, D.C., until the end of the year, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press. The memo, signed by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and dated Wednesday, said ���the conditions of the mission��� warranted an extension State lawsuit claims New Jersey town's former mayor directed police to keep minorities out 01/16/2026 04:24pm • CLARK, N.J. (AP) ��� A New Jersey town whose former mayor was once heard denigrating Black people on secret recordings made by a whistleblower is now facing a state lawsuit that claims he and local police officials directed officers to keep minorities out of the community. The complaint, filed by st Man who killed Delaware state trooper at DMV office had said he was being harassed by police 01/16/2026 04:22pm • The man who fatally shot a Delaware State Police trooper at a DMV office believed he was being monitored and harassed by law enforcement but had no prior interaction with the officer he killed, investigators said Friday. State Police Cpl. Matthew Snook was working an overtime assignment at the New C Supreme Court will decide on use of warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users 01/16/2026 03:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide the constitutionality of broad search warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users to find people near crime scenes. The case involves what is a known as a ���geofence warrant��� that was served on Google in a police hunt Ex-husband indicted by grand jury in slaying of couple found in their Ohio home 01/16/2026 02:19pm • Columbus, OHIO (AP) ��� An Ohio grand jury has indicted a man in the double homicide of his ex-wife and her husband who were killed in their Columbus home last month. Court records show a Franklin County grand jury charged Michael David McKee on Jan. 16, with aggravated murder and aggravated burgla Uganda's president leads in tense election marred by internet shutdown and voting interference 01/16/2026 02:17pm • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ��� Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled the country for 40 years, had an early lead Friday in a tense presidential election marred by an internet shutdown, voting delays and opposition allegations of ballot stuffing and detentions by security forces. Provisional re UK police chief who recommended ban of soccer fans of Israeli team Maccabi retires 01/16/2026 01:06pm • LONDON (AP) ��� The chief of the British police force that recommended that fans from Israeli soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv be banned from attending a football match against English Premier League club Aston Villa in Birmingham last year retired Friday following criticism of that decision. Craig Guil Pakistan security forces kill 12 militants, thwarting attempted hostage-taking in southwest 01/16/2026 12:49pm • QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) ��� Pakistani security forces killed at least 12 militants and thwarted an attempted hostage-taking in southwestern Pakistan after assailants attacked a police station, the military said Friday. In a statement, it said the attackers also targeted two banks and looted millions o Kurdish separatist group claims to have mounted ���armed operations' in Iran to defend protesters 01/16/2026 12:08pm • IRBIL, Iraq (AP) ��� An Iranian Kurdish separatist group in Iraq said it has launched attacks on Iran���s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in recent days in retaliation for Tehran���s violent crackdown on protests. Members of the National Army of Kurdistan, the armed wing of the Kurdistan Freedom Pa Inside a year of firings that have shaken the Trump Justice Department: 'A great deal of fear' 01/16/2026 11:24am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Michael Ben'Ary was driving one evening last October when he paused at a red light to check his work phone. He was in the middle of a counterterrorism prosecution so important that President Donald Trump highlighted it in his address to Congress. Ben'Ary said he was shocked to se A South Korean court sentences Yoon to 5 years in prison on charges related to martial law decree 01/16/2026 09:05am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison Friday in the first verdict from eight criminal trials over the martial law debacle that forced him out of office and other allegations. Yoon was impeached, arrested and dismissed as pre Fire breaks out in one of Seoul's last-remaining shanty towns 01/16/2026 06:58am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� A fire on Friday in one of Seoul's last-remaining shanty towns burned makeshift houses and forced about 260 residents to flee, but no casualties were reported. The fire was completely contained more than eight hours after it broke out in Guryong village in southern Seoul, South Korean authorities summon a civilian over alleged drone flights toward North Korea 01/16/2026 06:45am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� South Korean authorities have summoned a civilian to investigate if the person sent drones toward North Korea, police said Friday, days after North Korea threatened responses to what it called drone flights from South Korea. North Korea's military said on Saturday that it Today in History: January 16, Bush announces Operation Desert Storm 01/16/2026 04:10am • Today is Friday, Jan. 16, the 16th day of 2026. There are 349 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 16, 1991, in a televised address to the nation, U.S. President George H.W. Bush announced the start of Operation Desert Storm, a combat operation that drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. Also